Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Protect the public by releasing 3,500 violent criminals.

 Roy Cooper Released Thousands of Violent Criminals and Claimed Doing So Was About 'Public Safety'   

"Public safety means keeping violent, dangerous criminals behind bars where they cannot hurt innocent people. Roy Cooper failed to do that, and he wants to take his pro-criminal policies to the U.S. Senate."

That worked so well over the border in South Carolina.

"During his tenure, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper freed thousands of violent criminals including murderers, rapists, and child predators. Many of those criminals went on to reoffend, including Tyrell Brace who killed 23-year-old Elante' Thompson and Brandy Kachelle Wilson, who stabbed 36-year-old Scott Stroup to death after her release.

"Cooper also vetoed legislation that would have required North Carolina Sheriffs to cooperate with ICE. Because of that, Fletcher Harris and Skylar Provenza are dead. They were killed by illegal alien Juan Alvarado Aguilar, who also had a lengthy criminal record when he hit the car in which Harris and Provenza were traveling. Harris was 20 years old; Provenza was 19.

"With the election nearing and polls showing Michael Watley gaining on Cooper, Cooper is now trying to frame his soft-on-crime record as a public-safety issue. That's what Cooper is saying now of his decision to release thousands of murderers." . . . More.

Philly DA Larry Krasner, Who Threatened to Jail ICE Agents, Slapped With DOJ Criminal Referral  

"Krasner is a left-wing nutjob who pushes soft-on-crime, pro-criminal policies. He even threatened to jail federal immigration officers because he’s opposed to President Trump’s deportation agenda. He’s a self-described progressive prosecutor, which should be an oxymoron. His lack of candor and professionalism has been documented. 

 George Soros-backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner referred for DOJ probe 

 "A Philadelphia federal judge referred the City of Brotherly Love’s George Soros-backed District Attorney Larry Krasner to the Justice Department Tuesday for investigation into whether he violated the law while trying to protect the reputation of his top underling."

Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Leaders Meet to Plot Break-Up of the United Kingdom

 The Daily Sceptic

"All three parties will agree that their nations should be in the EU, Scotland and Wales as new members and Northern Ireland as part of the Republic of Ireland."

Great Britain Maps

"The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are set to gather on Monday to sign a deal aimed at kick-starting the break-up of the United Kingdom. The Telegraph has the story:

At an unprecedented summit in Cardiff, the three first ministers will put pen to paper on a joint declaration demanding the right to hold independence referendums.

The meeting comes after Andy Burnham suggested to MPs that he would authorise another Scottish referendum if there were a “clear consensus” in favour of one. …

John Swinney, the SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, claimed Mr Burnham was “facing up to the idea that he will go down in history as the final prime minister of the United Kingdom”.

Labour’s rout in Wales at May’s elections means there are now pro-independence parties in power in all three devolved nations for the first time.

Plaid Cymru surged to become the largest party in the Cardiff Senedd, with Rhun ap Iowerth, its leader, taking over as the country’s First Minister.

Meanwhile, the SNP fortified its position as the dominant power in Scotland, despite losing six Holyrood seats as Reform and the Greens made gains.

Sinn Fein won the Stormont elections in 2022, though a walkout by the DUP meant that Michelle O’Neill had to wait until 2024 to become First Minister. Sinn Fein is widely expected to hold on to power when the nation votes again next year." . . .

Full article here

"Ed Sheeran's tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday"

"The moves by his fellow artists put enormous pressure on Sheeran, who has tried to avoid politics and taking a side in the Gaza conflict, arguing that his fans don't come to his shows to hear politics.

Ed Sheeran's tour in trouble after opening acts drop out : NPR   . . . "Ed Sheeran's tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore's ouster and attributed the decision to the tour's promoters, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, the Danish band Lukas Graham, and Finneas posted on Instagram that they were leaving the tour.

Rowe and Lukas Graham would have been replacements for Macklemore on Sheeran's remaining U.S. dates, while Beoga had been performing several songs — including some the Irish folk band co-wrote — with Sheeran around the middle of each set. Finneas, who is Billie Eilish's brother and musical collaborator, was due to tour with Sheeran in South America later this year.

"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed," Finneas said on Instagram. "I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people."

UK Daily Mail

. . . "So which is it, net contributors who 'build' New York and other cities, or an imported underclass?

"Obviously, he hopes to conflate the immigrants of the late 19th century, who came from Southern and Eastern Europe and took no government aid, with today's third- and fourth-world welfare seekers who poured in during the Obama and Biden administrations.

"Some of his lugubrious speech is here:

Dead-eyed Commie Mamdani is trying to bankrupt America. You cannot import people into your country who drain your taxes. Normal countries do not allow immigrants to be dependent on taxpayer $$ without paying in first. This isn't cruel, it's just math. pic.twitter.com/gLleG87A7F

"In his romanticization of all migrants as one and the same, he ignored that the productive immigrants who came from Southern and Eastern Europe of the 19th and early 20th centuries had all been screened. Here's a sign of what the rules were on Ellis Island dating from 1882: . . ."

Bill Maher DESTROYS Woke Celebrities for Trashing America On LIVE TV!

"I was never afraid to have Trump re-elected, but I was afraid of the left." Comment to this video

Assemblyman Warns the 'Free State of California' Is Laying Groundwork for Gas Appliance Ban

California Restaurant Association says Berkeley will halt ban on natural gas piping in new buildings | AP News

"The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt enforcement of a ban on natural gas piping in new homes and buildings that was successfully opposed in court by the California Restaurant Association, the organization said.
"The settlement follows the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to reconsider a 2023 ruling that the ban violates federal law that gives the U.S. government the authority to set energy-efficiency standards for appliances, the association said in a statement last week.
"“While the Ninth Circuit’s ruling renders this particular ordinance unenforceable, Berkeley will continue to be a leader in climate action,” Berkeley City Attorney Farimah Faiz Brown said in an email to The Associated Press.
"The restaurant association said Berkeley agreed to settle the case by taking steps to repeal its ordinance, but because the process will take several months, the city will immediately stop enforcing the ban to comply with the court ruling.
"In 2019, Berkeley became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on natural gas in new homes and buildings, starting a climate change-driven move in many other cities and counties that morphed into a culture war over the future of gas stoves..
"The California Restaurant Association filed suit in federal court to overturn Berkeley’s ban."  

Assemblyman Warns the 'Free State of California' Is Laying Groundwork for Gas Appliance Ban

"Not long ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom touted his state as "free" in a failed attempt to attack the Trump administration. California is anything but free, of course. Newsom has been handed multiple losses in courts over unconstitutional laws that violate Californians' right to free speech and guns, he's poised to sign more unconstitutional legislation that would unfairly punish federal ICE agents and bar them from state jobs, and Democrats in Sacramento want to limit what sort of tires you can buy for your car, which they're also imposing a mileage tax on.

"Free."

"Sure, Gavin.

"The state is also on the brink of banning all natural gas appliances in the state, in every single home. This will cost the average California homeowner tens of thousands of dollars to remove gas connections and install electric. On a grid that's notoriously unreliable anyway. Imagine not being able to cook during rolling brownouts.

"Carl DeMaio, a member of the state assembly, is sounding the alarm." . . .

Parody*: Sydney Sweeney Tries To Gain Support Of Liberal Women By Murdering Multiple Children

* Labelled for those who need instructions on their shampoo bottles. TD

Babylon Bee


LOS ANGELES, CA — Scandal struck Hollywood this week, as actress and businesswoman Sydney Sweeney attempted to gain support among liberal women by murdering multiple children.
"After facing increasing backlash from progressive women due to her overtly sexualized public image, Sweeney opted to curry their favor by engaging in one of the activities they are most passionate about, namely child murder.
'"It's a gruesome way to do it," Sweeney admitted. "But I really want them to like me, and that seems to be what they're really into. I feel bad doing it, but I need to capture every demographic I can."
"Following news of the killings, liberal women flocked to Sweeney's website to buy clothes and lingerie and started following the actress on social media.
""I didn't like that she coded sort of right-wing," leftist Clarissa Maloy said. "But when I found out she murdered some kids, I realized the two of us probably have a lot in common."
"Sweeney came under fire this week after she posed in the nude for an online advertising campaign, prompting critics to rail on the actress for supposedly objectifying women.
"'We can get behind women who murder their own kids but not behind women who show their bodies to the world," Maloy explained.
"At publishing time, liberal women had announced that they were withdrawing their support from Sweeney after reports surfaced that she had lied about killing any kids."

The Left Is Having a Meltdown Over Sydney Sweeney Again  

"Oh my god, everyone, shut up. It was an ad, and she was naked in it. Given the Left’s tolerance for depravity, which has now seeped into child murder, why is everyone guffawing over Sydney Sweeney’s ad for Novig, a sports-betting app? I was going to write about this as a joke, but I decided to shelve it. Now, stupid white liberal women are whining about it, as they did with Sweeney’s jeans ad for American Eagle, so here we go again." . . .

Support AI or learn Mandarin

"Developing artificial intelligence is the 21st century’s moon race. This time, the stakes are survival itself."

Don Surber  

"It comes down to whom you trust: Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon, or Donald Trump?"


. . . "President Trump told reporters in Ireland this weekend, “We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins.”

"He also said, “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”

"Followed by, “The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’—and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BEWARE!”

"And he said, “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX.”

"And “I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another hoax that AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all! This is even wilder than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam.”

"Still not convinced? Obama is calling for guardrails. He’d put training wheels on a tricycle.

"Growing up in the 1960s, we were in a race against Russia to get to the moon first. I had no doubt we would because JFK told us when I was nine that we would get to the moon by the end of the decade.

"We did." . . .  More...

The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd › American Greatness   (And women with bullhorns)

"Which brings me to my concluding thought, courtesy of Ronald Reagan. “Government’s view of the economy,” he noted in the mid-1980s, “could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” St. Paul told us that when we were children, we had to do with childish things, but that when we grew up, we should put aside childish things. It is childish to let our enemies define our fears. China and others, abetted by our own administrative state, have been assiduous about doing so. Let us hope we have put such juvenile susceptibilities behind us."

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

AOC, meet Senator Kennedy

Just In: AOC Calls Kennedy "Stupid" for 2 Minutes - Then He DESTROYS Her Career   "In the hearing, AOC calls Senator Kennedy stupid for two minutes — and he doesn't argue back. Instead, he asks her one simple economics question, and then he reads her own records back to her, one by one. The Met Gala moment, with AOC in "Tax the Rich" at the table while her own staff were paid. The $885,000 that moved through the PAC. The $127,000 in campaign payments. The $6,000 paid to the company of her fiancé, Riley Roberts. And the Amazon HQ2 timeline through her finance records.

"As her own records are read out on the record, AOC is left without an answer — her career is on the line."


Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy: AOC Single-Handedly Put An End To Dumb Blonde Jokes    "The political battle to reopen the federal government intensified dramatically Friday, as Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy launched a scathing, personal attack on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), accusing her and the "Socialist Wing" of the Democratic party of forcing the shutdown to restore a list of "wasteful" foreign projects.

"Senator Kennedy took to the Senate floor to detail projects—including "pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti"—that Republicans had stripped from the budget. He stated that the "Loon Wing" of Democrats is now demanding their return before agreeing to a short-term funding bill.

Shutdown Over 'Crazy' Demands

"Kennedy claimed the current shutdown boils down to Democrats, galvanized by Ocasio-Cortez's objection, demanding $1.5 trillion in spending and the reinstatement of these specific, controversial items.

"Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez got very, very upset, as did the socialist wing of her party, when the President sent over what was called a rescission package," Kennedy said, referring to a request by President Trump to cut what he deemed wasteful spending. "And that upset the congresswoman... and so we took it out. And here's what they want us to put back in."

The rest of this article is questionable or false.

AOC’s faux lynching panic exposes the left’s poisonous racial delusions

 NY Post  

"Pressley & Co. clearly hoped to stir up a social panic. But the weakness and irrationality of their argument serves only to underline their own profound and disturbing racial paranoia." 

"Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say — but sometimes they’re just paranoid.

Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of The Squad, organized 59 Democrats to co-sign her letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened. 

The document pronounced its signatories “extremely alarmed by reports of Black people found hanging from trees in numerous states throughout our country.“

“The series of deaths,“ the letter continues, “raises significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation’s history.”

Pressley and her colleagues call for a federal investigation of every hanging death of a black person in the United States, insisting that “inaction by the federal government is tantamount to complicity.“

The letter deems all of this “a national crisis.”

In a post on X, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said how proud she was to sign the missive.

She noted that “this year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the US,” and how we must “address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.”

It apparently didn’t occur to AOC or any of the other signers to do Google searches of local-news stories about the hangings.

If they had, they would have learned that almost all of them were acts of suicide — awful in their own right, but hardly evidence that we are once again living in the Deep South circa 1892. 

These news stories invariably recount how the local police have concluded a person found hanging on a tree killed him- or herself — as well as all the speculation on social media that something more insidious must have been at play.

In one horrifying case, a young African-American woman was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Miss., and her death was indeed ruled a murder.

""A CNN report several days ago related the heightened scrutiny around the crime given “Mississippi’s long history of racial violence involving hangings.”

"The police have now arrested a 51-year-old suspect and charged him with murder.

"But he doesn’t advance the Pressley letter’s narrative — since he, too, is African American. " . . .   More.

Yet another Dem ripped online for 'inventing racism' as lawmakers peddle debunked 'lynching' claims   "An Ohio congresswoman is facing major blowback online after suggesting that lynchings are on the rise in the United States, despite that claim being widely debunked last week.

"In the last year, there’s been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees. We know what that has meant throughout our history," said Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, on X. "That’s why I’ve joined [Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.] to demand a federal investigation into possible lynchings." . .  .

She must be a disciple of Joy Reid, desperately wanting lynchings of blacks to be true. TD

The Rise of the Pathological Female

Sen. John Fetterman's isolation from Democrats grows stark in Pennsylvania

 SFGATE   

"While Fetterman has insisted he won't change parties, he hasn't ruled it out, saying the Democratic Party becoming anti-Israel would be a “red line" that would force him out."



"HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot.
Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's priorities, he's nowhere on the stump.
No Democrat in the state wants to be seen with him. His approval ratings are better with Republicans — far better — than they are with Democrats. And a shadow primary of sorts is taking shape for Fetterman’s Senate seat in 2028, even if he runs again.
Fetterman has acknowledged his increasing isolation in the party as he maintains staunch support of Israel's war in Gaza and criticizes left-wing candidates who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. He's often gone his own way in the Senate, voting repeatedly with Republicans to end the shutdown last year while supporting multiple Trump nominations and opposing efforts to end the war in Iran. He cemented that isolation with a video appearance at Wednesday night’s Republican Party convention in Dallas, praising his Republican counterpart, Pennsylvania Sen. David McCormick, and saying he’d work with Trump to “defend the steel way of life.”
“Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well, I’m a common-sense Democrat. I’m always going to stand with America,” Fetterman said, in a video showing him on the roof of his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, with U.S. Steel's hulking Edgar Thomson steel mill visible over his shoulder. “I’m going to reject the extremes in socialism and that anti-American way of life.” . . . More.

In my personal Tunnel Wall survey, I find four out of four Democrats hate Fetterman and support Hamas. TD


Make that five of five:   


Macklemore Gets Brutal Reality Check After 'Free Palestine' Stunt Blows Up in His Face

RedState

"Music industry professionals warn that Macklemore's increasingly unhinged radical political rants aren't good for business. Publicist Michael Levine, who has worked with dozens of Grammy-winning musicians, remarked, “Macklemore turned Ed Sheeran’s concert into a political rally. Apparently, the one thing the crowd wanted freed was the stage.'”

"You could say one concert tour currently making its way across the United States is now "Mackle-less." And that's because "rapper" Macklemore (real name: Benjamin Haggerty) has been yanked off of mega-star Ed Sheeran's sold-out tour for subjecting audiences to anti-Israel political rants, graphic images from Gaza, and chants of “Free Palestine” during his opening sets – all while wrapped in a keffiyeh.

"RedState's Brad Essex revealed all the ugly details last week, writing:

Wearing a keffiyeh, he told the crowd of more than 80,000 that he wanted people in Gaza and the West Bank to know they had not been forgotten. He led chants of “Free Palestine,” performed his song “Hind’s Hall,” and put Gaza footage and political images on the big screens. He tied the message to his own daughter and then expanded it to free America, Cuba, the Congo, Sudan, Iran, and people living in fear of ICE.

"This led to backlash from Sheeran's fans, who certainly hadn't paid good money to hear a political rant from the opening act, and prompted the Israeli-American Council to launch a petition asking both Sheeran and the tour organizers to remove Macklemore from the remaining U.S. dates.

And it sounds like they listened.

On Monday, Messina Touring Group, promoters of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, told Rolling Stone magazine, “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans." . . .

More.

Massachusetts: School Secretly Transitioned Girl, State Seized Her From Parents

Massachusetts Family Loses Custody of Daughter After Refusing to Affirm Her “Gender Identity” | WLT Report


"A family in Massachusetts is fighting to regain custody of their teenage daughter Sophie after the state took her away from them in 2024.

The reason?

Sophie’s parents, devout Catholics Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, refused to affirm her “gender identity” after her school — without their knowledge — brainwashed her into believing she is a boy.

On her Lighthouse Faith podcast, Fox News correspondent Lauren Green described this family’s nightmare situation:

Devout Catholic parents are fighting in court to regain custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Sophie, and stop Massachusetts authorities from medically transitioning her with high-dose testosterone. In December 2024, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed the then 15-year-old from her home because her parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, would not recognize their daughter as a boy due to their faith–an identity change they allege staff at Algonquin Regional High School initiated in secret. Although physical abuse claims against Joseph were deemed unfounded, a permanent restraining order was issued against the family, and DCF cut off contact after the Kutzkos would not call Sophie by a male name or pronouns.

These devastated parents, who have not spoken to their daughter in nearly two years, are suing to bring her back home.

Meanwhile, she is being housed in a boys’ dormitory and has been put on birth control and psychiatric drugs.

The only silver lining is that a judge has temporarily blocked the state from giving her “gender-affirming” testosterone treatment, which would have lifelong, damaging effects." . . .

This Fox News clip dove deeper into the story:  

More.