Saturday, May 30, 2026

The Newsom Nightmare: Why California’s Elites Refuse to Face Reality

  The Daily Signal and Victor Davis Hanson 

 "Amid the 2026 California gubernatorial race and the Los Angeles mayoral election, Democratic candidates seem determined to talk about anything except the problems facing the Golden State—an inadequate government response to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the highest income and gas taxes in the nation, and record-breaking homelessness.

Why? "For nearly two decades, Democrats have controlled almost every major center of power in California: the governor’s office, the state Legislature, and the state Supreme Court. "There is no one else to blame but themselves, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

No 'Autopsy' Is Going To Fix Democrats' Raging Anti-Americanism

 The Federalist

A real autopsy from the party would have concluded that voters rejected Democrats in the last election because of their anti-American policies.

"It was the anticlimax of the year when last week Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin finally released his party’s “autopsy” analyzing what led to its spectacular failure in 2024. It’s almost 200 pages long, but I’ll save you some time: There’s nothing in it about the Democrat Party’s fundamentally anti-American positions and therefore no indication that Democrats are interested in adapting to voters; rather, they’re still dead-set on physically eliminating their opposition.

"The report’s debut was bad enough. It only came months and months after prominent Democrats, including Kamala Harris (haha), called for its release. Then, when Martin did push it out, he warned everyone in advance that it was worthless and proceeded to annotate it to hell and back so as to make it painfully clear that he was not a co-signer of the document. “This document reflects the views of the author, not the DNC,” reads the top of every single page of the report. “The DNC was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or supporting data for many of the assertions contained herein and therefore cannot independently verify the claims presented.”

"To be fair to Martin and DNC leadership, it really is a woefully inadequate assessment of not just the 2024 election but the entire state of the Democrat Party. It spends most of its time chronicling results of past elections and contrasting Kamala’s performance with down-ballot candidates who were able to distinguish themselves from the party at large. The most useful portion comes on page 73, where the report suggests only a change in position would have blunted an attack from the Trump campaign.

"Well, yeah, except Kamala did change her position on several key issues, including energy production, immigration, and health care. And she did it with little to no explanation at all. The problem wasn’t that she refused to morph into something she wasn’t. It was that her boss was a terrible president and as his vice president, she bore every bit of responsibility for it. Just because she might have said the opposite of what she had done right up until it was time to get elected didn’t mean voters would buy it." . . .More...


Watch How a Hijab-Wearing AOC Is Treated by a Muslim Male Audience as She Tries Pandering to Them During Eid Celebration in New York City

 The Gateway Pundit  

While AOC was preaching “solidarity” in her hijab, the male-only crowd ignored her and spoke over her: pic.twitter.com/kyiOo9XZ2p



A Muslim male crowd gave AOC a rude welcome as she attempted to pander to them at a prominent Muslim holiday celebration in New York City.
"As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, AOC was seen wearing a hijab at an Eid Celebration in New York City, which was attended by Muslim men.
"Addressing a crowd on Wednesday, AOC called on people to “renew our commitments to one another” so together they “can bring light into the darkness.”
"Despite claiming to be a feminist who wants to dismantle the patriarchy, the hijab is widely seen as a symbol of female repression intended to prevent Islamic women from attracting the attention of men.
"Despite AOC’s pandering, the Muslim audience was unmoved.
"Instead of listening, the attendees ignored what she was saying and started speaking among themselves.
"In addition, the background noise completely muffled her speech.
"So much disrespect for AOC." . . . More...

Mr. President, Give The Iranian Regime Nothing

 Issues & Insights  

"In fact, that might be the best outcome of all possibilities. Exterminating the nest of some of the most wicked people on Earth would be a righteous act of humanity."

"If President Donald Trump is considering handing over billions to the terrorists of Tehran and leaving them in control of the Strait of Hormuz, as some news dispatches have indicated, he will have committed a blunder. The only choice they should be offered is to give up everything or lose it all to the almighty forces of the U.S. and Israeli militaries.

"If not, the Iranian threat will never be eliminated, only weakened for a time before returning to its demonic affairs, leaving a mess for someone else to clean up. Because Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had the courage to do what should have been done more than 45 years ago, the regime is staggering, and no lifeline should be tossed its way.

"Various reports indicate that the regime is unwilling to give up control of the Strait of Hormuz, wants as much as $120 billion in frozen assets released (and a $12 billion payment just to continue talks), is refusing to hand over its highly enriched uranium, and is demanding reparations and an end to the sanctions. It’s hard to know what are concocted narratives and what can be fully relied on. But if Trump is entertaining any of these conditions, he is contemplating a grave error.

"The president has no choice but to take a hard line as if the regime were the Nazis in 1945. The Allies then required Germany to “surrender unconditionally” the entirety of its “forces on land, sea and in the air who are at this date under German control.” Anything less would empower the depraved remnant in Tehran to start the cycle again.

"Then the trials must begin. Just as the Nazis were held accountable for their crimes, the remaining “leaders” of the regime must be brought to justice for the terrorism they’ve wrought abroad and the offenses, including tens of thousands of murders, they’ve committed at home. The best that any could hope for should be house arrest for life in a country far from the Middle East, which they should prefer over the obliteration they should be told they will receive if they don’t submit. We are dealing with tyrants, butchers of humans whose claim to absolute power justifies their evil acts. Extending mercy endangers hundreds of millions." . . .More... 

From Biden's mind and heart came these pleas to assassinate President Trump

 


'Dangerous': Biden delivers most 'divisive, hate-filled and fallacious' speech


Biden’s Toxic Nightmare of a Speech Made Americans Miss Trump  "President Joe Biden has always been a mean, self-serving, demagogic hack. Now he's a mean, self-serving, demagogic hack with clear cognitive issues, an extreme hatred for half of the country, a willingness to weaponize his government against his political opponents, and an easy fluency with lies. All of these dangerous elements were on obvious display during his malicious State of the Union address.
"Biden came off as an unstable, disturbed man who used a speech meant to be a unifying discussion on the state of the country as a launching pad for his re-election campaign, complete with vicious attacks on his predecessor and general election opponent, President Trump, and the tens of millions of Americans who support him. A ferocious attack on America First, the speech was also a tone-deaf celebration of Biden's historically catastrophic record.
"It was reminiscent of his September 2022 speech in Philadelphia, which was marked by a deep red, almost demonic backdrop and dark threats about going to war with "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans [who] represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." That unhinged language was resurrected in his State of the Union, reminding us that he has no intention of changing his destructive policy or rhetorical direction." . ..More...

George Floyd: the MPD maintains the lie

 Mike McDaniel - American Thinker  

"But their trials were political farces with predetermined verdicts, carried out under threat of mob violence."

All this for nothing? Schumer, Pelosi: all Democrats

"Katie Blackwell is the high-ranking Minneapolis Police Department administrator who arguably perjured herself in her testimony in the Derek Chauvin murder trial in the death of George Floyd. With the resignation of MPD Police Chief Brian O’Hara for alleged sexual improprieties, Blackwell finds herself acting chief.

"Many Americans recall the photo of Chauvin, apparently kneeling on Floyd’s neck. What the camera angle of that photo didn’t reveal was that he was actually kneeling on Floyd’s shoulder and upper back, a technique taught, sanctioned, and used for decades by the MPD. In fact, the local coroner determined the technique had nothing to do with Floyd’s death:  

On May 26, 2020, Senior Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Lofton documented a virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams on the cause of Floyd’s death. Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker told the participants, who included four FBI agents, ‘The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries or internal bleeding.’ In sum, there was no evidence of a homicide.

"Under intense racial and political pressure, he changed his tune to cover Floyd’s actual cause of death from fatal levels of illicit drugs and internal damage from decades of drug abuse. Floyd was a violent, convicted felon who once held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach during a home invasion robbery.

"Despite no fewer than 34 MPD officers testifying that the restraint technique was taught, routinely used, and MPD-sanctioned, and despite photographic and textual evidence from MPD training manuals, photographs of officers applying it in training, and even a photograph of Blackwell applying it in the field, Blackwell testified that the technique was never taught or sanctioned. That testimony was necessary to provide cover for a pre-determined verdict.

"Liz Collin of Alpha News produced the film “The Fall of Minneapolis,” which exposed Blackwell’s perjury. Blackwell sued Alpha News and Collin for defamation. It didn’t go well for Blackwell:" . . . More...

Look at this horrific street in a popular US city. American citizens aren't welcome...

 Revolver News  

"We know about the olden days. But the Ellis Island era worked because there was an expectation of assimilation. People came here, brought parts of their culture with them, and still understood they were joining something that already existed."

 There are some videos that stop you dead in your tracks and have you wondering what country you’re looking at.

"This is one of those clips.

When you first watch the video, you’d think this was some filthy, chaotic scene from Bangladesh.

But sadly, this isn’t Bangladesh.

It’s Canal Street in New York City.

Yep, the Big Apple looks downright rotten, folks. And the kicker is that this is basically a no-go zone for Americans.

And before the “refugee welcome” crowd starts screaming about how America was a nation shaped by immigrants. We know about the olden days. But the Ellis Island era worked because there was an expectation of assimilation. People came here, brought parts of their culture with them, and still understood they were joining something that already existed.

That’s not what this clip looks like.

This looks like a city that has stopped enforcing any American standards whatsoever. It looks like an illegal street economy operating out in the open, and it also looks like counterfeit goods, sidewalk chaos, territorial vendor control, illegals, foreigners, and Americans citizens being chased away from streets in their own country.

And all of that is a big problem.

Because there’s a big difference between “cultural flavor” and filthy, rage-fueled public disorder." . . .

Joe Biden Sues DOJ to Block Release of His Memoir Interviews (UPDATED)

 Biden and Bruce: America's best and brightest! Probably shouldn't trust Bruce's political judgement, you think?

Headline USA (Springsteen update)

"Former President Joe Biden has sued the Justice Department to prevent it from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews he conducted with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, for his 2017 memoir.   

"The DOJ obtained the interview materials in 2023 as part of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden for mishandling classified documents. Hur eventually declined to press charges, in part because he thought Biden would present himself to a jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

"Since the investigation is now closed, the House Judiciary Committee and the Heritage Foundation have both sought the transcripts and audio of Biden’s interviews with Zwonitzer. But Biden said in his lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, that disclosing those materials would violate his privacy.

"The conversations reflected in these audio recordings and transcripts were part of the writing process for President Biden’s 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, in which he recounted the politically consequential and personally painful year of his life that began on Thanksgiving in 2014,” Biden’s lawsuit says.

“The public and private dimensions of President Biden’s life have always been intertwined, but perhaps never more so than during that difficult year. President Biden and Zwonitzer recorded their conversations for use in writing Promise Me, Dad, and they both understood that they were speaking privately.”

"Even if Biden’s lawsuit is ultimately unsuccessful, it’s unclear how much material remains from his interviews with Zwonitzer. That’s because the ghostwriter destroyed recordings once he found out that Hur was investigating Biden, as Bloomberg revealed in June 2024.

"Indeed, according to a heavily redacted transcript of the FBI’s interview with Zwonitzer, agents accused him of obstruction because he destroyed recordings. But because of the heavy redactions of the FBI’s interview transcript, it’s unclear how exactly the line of questioning went, or what Zwonitzer destroyed.

"Hur said in a February 2024 report that he didn’t charge Zwonitzer, either, because “the ghostwriter offered plausible, innocent reasons for why he deleted the recordings.” . . .

F Around and Find Out: Hasan Piker Could Finally Be on His Way to Jail

 By Raw Egg Nationalist

"As we approach the one-year anniversary of that fateful day, there now appears to be some determined movement from the federal government with regard to violent activist groups, especially Antifa."


. . . "In the days since, Piker has sung like the proverbial little yellow songbird, in line with the imperatives of the extremely online influencer, for whom nothing, including self-incriminating statements, can be kept private. Indeed, Piker may already have put his foot in it long before the subpoena landed on his doorstep. In resurfaced footage, he talked about how the Cuban government reached out to his “middleman” with a special offer to bring him to the island, which included the promise of uninterrupted internet access so he could remain in contact with his retarded followers at all times.
"In a six-hour stream on Monday, Piker identified the multimillionaire Neville Roy Singham as the main target of the investigation. Piker described Singham as the “funding vehicle” for “a lot of political movements,” adding that it’s “like totally f-cking ridiculous to try and stop the political advocacy of an American citizen.”
"This is a crucial admission, because it’s the funding and logistics of the visit that the feds want to unravel. Piker’s claim he was part of a simple “humanitarian mission” to “deliver aid” won’t hold water now.
"Singham, an American-born businessman who currently lives in Shanghai with his wife, Jodie Evans, cofounder of activist group CODEPINK, is one of the most important big-money backers of left-wing activism in the U.S.—a homegrown George Soros. Since 2017, it has been estimated that Singham has paid close to $300 million to various left-wing groups in the U.S., including the People’s Forum in New York City, CODEPINK, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the ANSWER coalition. After October 7, he threw the weight of his wallet behind the pro-Palestinian protests and encampments, and more recently, as the threat of U.S. military action in Latin America has loomed larger, he’s done his best to support the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes against American “imperialism.”
"Like Soros, Singham uses a network of nonprofit organizations and “dark money” networks to funnel cash to activists. His ties to the Chinese Communist Party have come in for particular scrutiny from his critics. In his youth, Singham was a member of a black Maoist organization in Detroit, and his praise for Xi Jinping and his “new world order” has been fulsome and public. Of course, Singham and his supporters claim he’s just a philanthropist, a patron of noble causes. So far he’s escaped criminal investigation, but that may be about to change.
"Even if Piker isn’t the main target of the federal investigation, he’s still immensely valuable. As much as any other public figure, Piker is responsible for making left-wing violence “cool” for younger generations of Americans and for normalizing the now widespread sentiment that right-wingers, from the president all the way down to the dude with the MAGA-themed house, are fair game for murder.
"Want political change? Don’t wait for the politicians. Pick up a gun and make it happen, one bullet at a time.
"We can debate whether Piker actually believes anything he says. He doesn’t like to be reminded he was once a chubby “red pill” bro who dispensed nuggets of solid-gold dating advice like “Old enough to count, old enough to mount” and “Think with your d-ck.” But the performativity and the cynicism of his rebranding do nothing to detract from the force of his words and the nastiness they’ve helped inculcate, even if we can’t quantify the precise impact of his utterances." . . . More...

Friday, May 29, 2026

What If Nullification Was Constitutional?

American Free News Network

. . . "Minnesota Governor Walz declared his state at war with the federal government over immigration law. He even threatened to mobilize the national guard. Walz isn’t the only governor defying federal authority. He’s just the only one dumb enough to make such an outright declaration." . . ..

Uncle Paul's Parodies

 "At this point, it is beyond debate – we the people are losing our grip on the reigns of self-governance. Congress passes bills without reading them. Judges use “interpretation” to invalidate our electoral choices. Federal law enforcement applies criminal law in ways never intended. This is not how a representative republic is supposed to operate.

"Sir Isaac Newton’s 3rd law applies every bit as much to politics as it does to physics. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” As applied to our republic, when the federal government stops behaving as intended, so do we.

"Our executive branch has decided that protecting Constitutional liberties is optional. It has used social media to curtail free speech, law enforcement to surveil religious observance, and regulatory overreach to infringe on our property rights and right to bear arms.

"Our judicial branch has decided that the Constitution isn’t literal – it doesn’t say what it says. It has used the creative application of penumbras and emanations to “interpret” new definitions for words. Such interpretations allowed the Supreme Court to decide that interstate commerce isn’t limited to commerce which crosses state lines (the very definition of “interstate”). Just like that, with a stroke of a Justice’s pen, state rights disappeared.

"Those who swear an oath to enforce our laws, have decided that enforcement is discretionary. Immigration law can be ignored if politically expedient. Enforcement of the FACE act (which applies to abortion clinics and churches) can be selectively applied to benefit a preferred voting bloc. Laws can even be applied in ways never intended – as they were to prosecute the January 6 protesters.

"Any petty dictator wannabe with a robe and a gavel can defy the will of the voters by constraining our elected leadership from fulfilling campaign promises – the promises we elected them to keep. Yet, court decisions are infringing on everything from troop deployment to construction of a ballroom.

"It shouldn’t be surprising that when the federal government stopped behaving as intended, local jurisdictions have as well. After all, the federal government established the precedent – laws aren’t laws, merely suggestions.

"Now juries are nullifying criminal law if they rather like the defendant. Getting a conviction for government corruption in Washington D.C. – the center of our government universe – is a near impossibility.

"Sanctuary cities are nullifying immigration and firearms laws, simply because they can.

."District Attorneys are nullifying “equal justice under law” by selective prosecution. They are prosecuting political enemies, and excusing political benefactors with impunity.

"At both the federal and state level, these are instances of officials deciding that the laws of the land are optional. But it is also a breach of our most sacred contract." . . .More...

CBS News Chief Bari Weiss FIRES Far-Left '60 Minutes' Executive Producer and Anti-Trump Correspondents

 The Gateway Pundit  

"Nick Bilton is one of the most entrepreneurial and ambitious journalists working today. I am thrilled that he is the next executive producer of 60 Minutes. His note here:"


"CBS News Editor-in-Chief continues draining the woke swamp at the long-compromised Sunday news program, 60 Minutes.
"The Gateway Pundit has documented for years how ’60 Minutes’ repeatedly targeted conservatives and President Trump with one-sided hit pieces while giving Democrats and their allies soft-glove treatment.
"The show’s credibility collapsed further after the disastrous Kamala Harris interview that triggered a major lawsuit and exposed its activist bent
"Bari Weiss, who famously walked away from The New York Times over its radical leftward lurch and cancel culture, is now applying the same standards at CBS.
"Under the new Skydance/Paramount ownership, Weiss was brought in with a mandate for “actual viewpoint diversity.”
"Weiss announced Thursday that she is replacing veteran executive producer Tanya Simon — a 30-year fixture at the program and daughter of legendary correspondent Bob Simon — with Nick Bilton, a tech journalist, former New York Times columnist, and documentary filmmaker with zero experience in traditional broadcast news.
"Bilton issued the following statement:
My responsibility is not just technological transformation. It is also our trust with the public.
On the very first episode of 60 Minutes Mike Wallace said: “If this broadcast does what we hope it will do it will report reality.” I can’t think of a better north star for 60 Minutes than that. Above all, that means a commitment to fairness—in story selection, in the edit room, and in the broadcast.
Now, what happens next? I’m here to lead this show, not preserve it under glass. That means honoring what works and being honest about what doesn’t. I have a notebook full of ideas. Some are about the show itself. Some are about the next generation of correspondents. Some are about the strange fact that we produce one extraordinary hour for one night a week in a world that consumes content around the clock. I’m excited to share them, and I’m confident you’ll be excited by them, too.

A response to Graham Platner

 Power Line 

"A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as “relatable” to working-class Americans, but in reality he’s a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist." 

"Maine’s Graham Platner is one of the vile candidates for the United States Senate that the Democratic Party has vomited up and into public prominence. He recently attacked Army combat vet and Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels. I have posted a thumbnail photo of Daniels on the home page. Fox News caught up with Daniels for a video response to Platner that is posted here.

"The editors of the Wall Street Journal also reached out to Mr. Daniels for comment. Today’s Journal has published his column “I’m the Soldier Graham Platner Mocked.” Mr. Daniels writes at the top of his column:

Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans while his background screams the opposite and his offensive comments about fellow veterans—including me—speak poorly of his character.

The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans, but recent reporting relates that he comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private-school education and a lifestyle of privilege. He also plays up his job as an “oyster farmer,” but the only client mentioned in his federal financial disclosure was the restaurant his mother owns.

He concludes:

Mr. Platner has been caught disparaging the service of fellow veterans like decorated Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Vice President JD Vance. He also disparaged me while commenting on a viral video of a firefight in which I sustained numerous wounds from a Taliban ambush. I received a Purple Heart for my injuries, but Mr. Platner cheered for my death from behind a keyboard.

Kyle, Mr. Vance and I didn’t grow up privileged. Kyle’s father worked for the phone company. We all know Mr. Vance’s story from “Hillbilly Elegy.” I was the son of a brick-mason father and a mother who worked in a textile mill." . . More...

 I’m the Soldier Graham Platner Mocked - WSJ  "Democratic men are having an identity crisis. Maine’s Graham Platner, the party’s presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate, is a prime example. Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans while his background screams the opposite and his offensive comments about fellow veterans—including me—speak poorly of his character.

"The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans, but recent reporting relates that he comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private-school education and a lifestyle of privilege. He also plays up his job as an “oyster farmer,” but the only client mentioned in his federal financial disclosure was the restaurant his mother owns." . . . More behind a paywall...