Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Trump Won’t Let Pinko Jerks Who Hate America Define American History

Trump Won’t Let Pinko Jerks Who Hate America Define American History

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President Trump was already scaring the hell out of the leftists, but they’re absolutely terrified now that he’s taking aim at their control of the institutions that manage our history; the skinsuit is coming off, and the castrated commie emperorhas been exposed as having no clothes. They hate America, and they hate our history, and they want to twist it into a garotte to strangle our patriotism. No thanks. Our history is our history, not theirs, and from here on in, we’re going to tell our story, not them. 

So, this obviously means that Trump loves slavery, or at least that’s obvious to people who are either stupid or think you are stupid. It’s amusing how the Democrats always make it all about slavery, since the Democrats were the sole cause and perpetrators of American slavery. You wouldn’t know it from the fake history you’ve been fed, but American slavery is but a small footnote in the history of human bondage; however, between America and formerly Great Britain, the actions of those two nations are practically the whole story of eliminating it for the first time since humans walked upright. 

But hey, we’ve got to talk about it all the time because Democrats think that helps them. It doesn’t matter that slavery ended 160 years ago; the only thing that matters to them is power, and they think non-stop slave talk gives them moral leverage. But what matters to us is the truth, and the truth is that there is more to American history than that. Infinitely more. But they don’t want to talk about anything else because they hate America, and they hate you.

Donald Trump‘s decision to intervene in how the government-supported Smithsonian Institution portrays America – as a cross between Hannibal Lecter and Democrat icon Robert Byrd back in his Grand Imperial Cyclops days – has drawn the drearily predictable complaints. They’re calling Trump a Nazi again, which is something they haven’t done for almost 15 minutes. He loves slavery because he thinks there’s more to history than slavery. 

What scares them is that the left thought it had a monopoly on how we see ourselves, and then President Trump came along and challenged their bogus narrative. Donald Trump noticed something that all of us have noticed going to America’s historic places and museums, which is that these institutions – like almost all institutions – have strayed from their proper roles and become commie conformity factories pumping out anti-American filth of the kind that you’d expect from the liberal white women and the male-identifying capons who run them. 

Their version of American history is all about slavery, and everything is all our fault. But that’s a lie. I wasn’t born until about a century after my ancestors helped end slavery by fighting the Democrats during the First (as opposed to the possible Second) Civil War, and I’ve never owned slaves, but I am supposed to bear responsibility for it because of the color of my skin? To which I say, check out the pale color of my rear end when you bend down to kiss it, you Marxist worms. 

No, America is more than slavery. It’s also more than fighting Indians, another favorite bugaboo. Here’s some real talk – the Indians lost fair and square. We won our homeland the way every people have won their homeland – through war. And we have nothing to apologize for. The conquest of North America by Europeans was a glorious chapter in human history, one in which Stone Age warring tribes were forced to become peaceful. The conquest stopped the raiding, raping, torture, and murder that characterized life among the Noble Savages. Like everything else about America, we’re supposed to be ashamed of how our ancestors conquered our land from people who had conquered it from someone else, but in fact, we should celebrate it. The settling of this continent was a great achievement and an unequivocal boon to humanity, and the European conquerors were the good guys. 

The Smithsonian Institution is currently not about teaching us about who we are, but about teaching us how we suck. That’s unacceptable. We’ve all seen the Smithsonian’s cartoonishly racist handout on the evils of whiteness, which includes such horrible attributes as competence and punctuality. Oh no, the evil people o’ pallor embrace that wicked Protestant work ethic, you know, the one that made America the most prosperous civilization ever! Left unspoken is what work ethic, or lack thereof, is supposed to replace it. This is typical of our garbage ruling class – score points among the hip crowd for trashing the very things that made their lives soft, comfortable, and prosperous. How about a little gratitude for the people who built and defended our country, you creeps? 

Their incessant trashing of America and its history is both ridiculous and morally illiterate, and frankly, I’m kind of tired of pointing it out. I don’t want to spend my time explaining such things as why their navel gazing over the righteous nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is bad – both my grandparents were in the Pacific, and the fact that college professors and historians don’t have the testosterone to do what’s necessary to win is no big revelation. Well, we’re past arguing and debating. We now have the political power to force the institutions to do their jobs, and we’re going to use it. We tried doing it the easy way, by talking about our concerns and asking the elite to reconsider, but the elite told us we were stupid racists and that we ought to shut up. Well, now we’re going to do it the hard way, and it’s going to hurt. Just ask the hacks from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 

This raises the question of who properly controls our history. The left assumes it does, but why is that? Don’t we citizens get a say on how we tell our own story, since we’re paying for it? Aren’t we citizens supposed to be able to govern ourselves? What happened to Our Democracy? The unspoken premise of the outraged elites is that history belongs to their preferred experts who have been carefully curated by the same institutions that the communists have long-marched through, and that we peasants have some moral obligation to defer to them because of their credentials. But their credentials are trash, and everything they say is a lie. These experts deserve our contempt, not our deference. These are academic hacks and DEI mediocrities trying to make their bones running down the United States of America. Like most other institutions, those that curate our history have been taken over by people who have absolutely no interest in honest history, but who see it as a propaganda cudgel they can use to club Americans into submission. They want Americans to hate America and themselves, because these pinko bastards hate America and Americans. 

Somebody’s got to decide how we present our history, and I say it should be the citizens through the guy who got elected by the American people. We decline to cede the ability to define who we are as a nation, and what we’ve done over our comparatively short history, to a bunch of screeching ninnies who would love nothing more than to see us disenfranchised, if not defenestrated. 

You don’t manufacture a history of a people that consists entirely of slanders, calumnies, and accusations if you love and respect that people. And no, I’m not going to include the hackneyed qualifier that “Oh my goodness, we have some dark things in our history, and we should be sad about them.” We’ve spent enough time on self-loathing. We’ve done enough self-flagellation. We will spend the foreseeable future talking about the glory of America, and it is glorious. When we walk into an institution that our taxpayers support with our dollars, we should see the historical evidence that conclusively demonstrates the indisputable truth – America is the greatest country in the history of humanity. 

There is no meritorious argument to the contrary. I’ve had the questionable opportunity to live on three continents in my life, spending my time overseas helping referee stupid arguments between garbage foreigners who are barely capable of running their own countries. Do I look down on foreigners? Oh yes, because I know them, and I’ve seen what they do, and how they are much, much worse than us. To trash America, as the exhibits in the Smithsonian currently do, is worse than a lie. It’s an attempt to destroy our morale, to undermine who we are as a country, to leverage the ignorance of young people who have been indoctrinated by a leftist public school system and a communist academia into hating what they should be proud of. 

No more. You leftist swine will not nag, browbeat, or whine us into giving you our legacy to treat like the prettiest new boy on the cellblock. 

America deserves better than the kind of cesspool history foisted upon us by alleged experts. The people making the decisions at the Smithsonian and in other institutions right now are not impressive, accomplished scholars. There are a bunch of pinko twerps who despise the very people who subsidize their pathetic lives. 

Enough. The Smithsonian belongs to us, and it’s going to do what we want – not vice versa. Donald Trump must aggressively and ruthlessly reassert the control of the American people over their own past. We’re no longer going to give it away to people who have squandered the trust we placed in them and manufactured a narrative of lies and slanders in an effort to make us hate ourselves. We shouldn’t hate ourselves. We should be proud of ourselves. We should be patriotic. We are the greatest people who have ever existed on Earth. We are smart, brave, courageous, and strong. What we conquered and built here is a testimony to our glory. We’re not going to dwell on errors or mistakes or when we fell short – that’s all been played out, and if you want to hate yourself, the leftists will always be happy to pass you the ammunition. The purpose of our historical institution should be to reaffirm and reassert what is an indisputable truth: America is the best, and the best is yet to come. 

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/08/25/trump-wont-let-pinko-jerks-who-hate-america-define-american-history-n2662231?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

As DoJ Will Reveal, America Endured an Insurrection, Undertaken by Democrats

As DoJ Will Reveal, America Endured an Insurrection, Undertaken by Democrats

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With all that we now know about Democrat's subterfuge leading up to Donald Trump’s first election and his second run in 2020, it becomes evermore likely that J6 was a major part of the effort to undermine him. The fakestream media still proclaims that Trump propagated an insurrection attempt, urged rally-goers to overthrow the U.S. government, and has sought along to become a dictator. 

Never Mind the Facts 

Independent journalist Kyle Becker observes that long before J6, the FBI illegally tracked ‘extremists’ intending to attend. Based on the Time magazine “shadow cabal” article, the phony narrative that Trump would incite a riot had been established as early as May 2020. 

Once the rally was scheduled, orchestrating a J6 riot and claiming “insurrection” became the Democrat’s grand strategy, straight from “Rules for Radicals,” the Democrat playbook, by Saul Alinsky for whom Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton became staunch advocates. 

Neither Trump nor any U.S. president, however, would ever attempt an insurrection because no one would to go down in history as having done so. Indeed, in a broadcast video, within hours of Biden’s certification, Trump said that he would step down. He called for peace, and law and order, in his speech and in his tweets to his supporters, who had no armaments and most of whom had plane reservations for that evening. Nevertheless, Leftist proclaimed that these actions meant “Overthrow the federal government, now.”

Finagling With Reality 

In advance of J6, Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops at the Capitol. D.C. Mayor Bowser, Pentagon brass, and then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi refused. Later, Pelosi lied about her denial. 

Nearly all J6 attendees who were rounded up or later indentified were charged, at the least, with non-violent crimes and misdemeanors. Concurrently, the J6 committee intentionally buried thousands of hours of public surveillance videos, including footage exonerating many J6 defendants. 

Kyle Becker notes that court documents reveal dozens of undercover officers and FBI operatives were onsite at the Capitol. Capitol police officers were filmed on video. They opened doors, removed barriers, and acted cordially with protesters inside the Capitol building. Undercover Metropolitan Police, on video, encouraged Trump supporters to “go to the Capitol.” 

Antifa members, on video, discarded their black clothing and ski masks and changed into garb to appear as Trump supporters and create havoc. 

Evacuation Creation 

Unbeknownst to many, Congress originally was evacuated over the RNC and DNC pipe bomb threats, and not the J6 riot -- a critical detail that you’re not supposed to know. After all this time, the pipe bomber has not been apprehended despite the FBI knowing the license plate and cell phone data of the suspect. 

Nancy Pelosi as the riot commenced, hearing that Trump wanted to come to the Capitol, said, “I hope he comes. I’m gonna punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this… I’m gonna punch him out” and send him to jail. Pelosi's staff was in communication with Secret Service on J6. Conveniently, the Secret Service texts from J6 went "missing." 

Don't attempt to enlighten anyone on the Left. They watched and re-watched the cherry-picked, highly orchestrated, J6 Committee video, complete with Emmy-level film editing and the ferocious added soundtrack. They’re not interested in the truth; they know what they feel and what the New York Times tells them

Part of the Playbook 

What would it take to overthrow the U.S. government? Trump had good approval ratings from U.S. military veterans. Trump also had high approval from police forces and first responders. With popularity among combat troops, he could have closed airports, surrounded the Capitol, blocked legislators, cut off communications of Democratic leaders, and ensured that no vote or certification could occur. 

He not did, of course, do anything of the sort. 

Trump issued a video reflecting his disappointment in the apparent fraudulent election. He clearly stated that he would step down on Jan. 20, 2021. Democrats hope that you never see this video, but the internet never forgets. 

Endless False Narratives 

The J6 narrative is another in a long line of hoaxes and false narratives against Trump. Leftists need to cling to something. Nothing else is working: slandering, impeaching, indicting, and seeking to remove Trump from ballots all increased his poll numbers and, arguably, catapulted him to a second term. 

Americans largely have contempt for today’s media, and now understand that the lies never end. The fakestream media is at its lowest credibility ever. If you want to detect an insurrection, look no further than when Biden was installed as president. As the DoJ and FBI are destined to reveal, the insurrectionists all vote Democrat.

https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/08/24/as-doj-will-reveal-america-endured-an-insurrection-undertaken-by-democrats-n2662244?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Democrats Seem To Love Black Death

Democrats Seem To Love Black Death

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is fat. I realize writing that is a lot like writing the sun rises in the east or water makes you wet, but sometime you simply have to state the obvious to make a point. As the billionaire edition of a grown-up version of the Big Boy statue eyeballs a run for president like he eyeballs whatever his favorite high-calorie snack is, it is important to remember that he is the Governor of a state the contains Chicago, and that Chicago has seen the murder of 6,518 people from 2015-2024. All the Democrats in that state could not muster a single damn about any of them. 

Why pick on Pritzker when the same can be said for pretty much every Democrat in the country and every generationally controlled Democrat city, especially when Democrats also control the state government? Because he is actively trying to draw attention to himself over it. 

JB is a billionaire, he was born into the family that owns Hyatt Hotels…then he ate them. Just kidding, probably. But he is fat. 

With his billions of un-earned money, this bipedal planet did what so many rich kids whose families don’t really like him do – looking at you, Levi’s heir Dan Goldman – he bought political power in the Democrat Party. It’s the only thing cheaper than the women Bill Clinton is attracted to, honestly. 

After President Donald Trump cut the murder rate in Washington, DC, to zero for a week, JaBba (be honest, that’s what you think when you hear it) took to his Twitter account not to celebrate the accomplishment, but to whine about it. His argument? The default position of every Democrat incapable of thinking for themselves: “Muh democracy!” 

Using what must either have been voice dictation, a staffer one-tenth his size, or the largest keyboard inherited wealth can buy, Pritzker wrote, “Donald Trump's threat to bring the National Guard to Chicago isn't about safety – it's a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Illinois has long worked with federal law enforcement to tackle crime, but we won't let a dictator impose his will.” 

He's presided over Murder Mecca for his entire purchased Governorship and he’s fine with it. That murder is down from a modern high of 805 in 2021 to the still above average 581 in 2024 is enough, it seems. 

You really have to ask Democrats how many murder they wouldn’t be cool with, because they seem to be cool with quite a lot of them. 

When talking about illegal aliens, Democrats will inevitably bring up the lie that “Migrants commit fewer crimes than Americans do.” Of course, they never mention the fact that Democrat-controlled states forbid the collection of citizenship and immigration status data because they do not want that information to be known (which should tell you everything you need to know about the lie). 

Democrats never get upset over illegal alien murder, they barely talk about it beyond the lie. But the lie begs the question, “How many Americans murdered by illegal aliens will it take to make you care?” The answer is the same as it is to the question, “How many murdered black people will it take to make you care?” 

That answer, just in case you were wondering, is there is no number. Democrats do not care about either or else they’d do something about it. They block action on it. They sue to prevent action on it. And they complain about Republicans taking action on it. 

The op-ed JB linked to starts off, “In just a few months, President Trump has managed to put at risk years of hard work underway in cities across America to bring down crime, restore trust in the police and expand proven approaches to public safety that can save lives and money.” 

The piece, written by Obama’s former Secretary of Education, is about how a non-profit he co- founded hires “trusted and respected community members, many with criminal backgrounds, to recruit these individuals into our program. We offer participants stipends, a life coach, trauma treatment, education and job training. Their coaches and therapists teach them strategies to regulate their emotions and handle conflict without escalating. We help them live safely and make better choices.” 

In other words, throw money at the problem and hope for the best. Honestly, if you need someone to tell you that you shouldn’t murder someone else, I’m not sure having the phone number of a life coach is going to be enough to stop you.

But the bigger point – that they’re pretending this stuff works to bring down murders – is just as insane of an idea. 

Crime being down from its all-time high is better than the alternative, but it’s not something to be proud of. There was nowhere to go but down, which is not an accomplishment. 

The bigger point, however, is the lengths to which Democrat will go to ignore or distract from the murders of black people, as the vast majority of those killed in Chicago are black, and as a percentage of the population (about 13 percent), black people make up a little more than half the victims. You have to really not care to look past all that and pretend everything is good. 

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/08/25/democrats-seem-to-love-black-death-n2662277?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT by Don Polson        Red Bluff Daily News 8/26/2025

    RV glitches, rent control, redistricting

There’s not much to report from the campgrounds this week. That’s aside from running out of propane (runs the frig but it stayed cold til we refilled, and we didn’t cook); the slide-out quit, well, sliding out (put us back to one of us sitting for the other to walk by, like our old ‘84 Southwind); the electric just quit, which meant no lights, water pump, or refrigeration due to the lack of sparking for the propane—or my CPAP for nighttime breathing. Omitting the details, all returned to normal functioning thanks to a mobile RV repairman, and remembering to push the button to re-engage the batteries—whew.

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It’s astounding to see “rent control” being considered for mobile home parks, aka “trailer parks” or “mobile estates.” Rent control has never, in all its iterations and locations, produced positive results on balance, for either property owners or renters. Owners have little incentive to increase supply of rental units, or to spend limited funds on upkeep; renters ultimately suffer from lack of supply and deteriorating conditions.

This is stated from some authority and experience in the real estate field, as well as “lived experience” working in SoCal’s Santa Monica in the 1980s. In one of the earliest misguided uses of rent control, all of the above predictable side effects occurred.

People started following moving vans to see if someone was vacating an apartment to get a heads-up that it might be available. Such are the perverse incentives when the “do-gooders,” the quasi-socialists, think they can succeed in allocating supplies of, well, anything better than the market system, rather than allowing those with the resources to build more housing at market rates.

Rather than try to put a cap on mobile home park rents, there might be locations for more “mobile estates” if there is sufficient demand. Could the problem be that doing anything having to do with housing in California is fraught with regulations, limitations, taxes, and the endless naysayers, busybodies and “NIMBY-ists” (Not In My Back Yard folks)? 

Would that Red Bluff and Tehama County still had good-paying timber and resource-related jobs providing workers with wages to afford existing housing—oh, that was decades ago when the fanatics deemed the spotted owl to be the only concern governing forest policy. Too bad.

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Congressman Doug LaMalfa has informed constituents of the need for all of us to weigh in and prepare to fight, and vote, against the wrong-headed, shamefully partisan and, basically, illegal redistricting scheme being pushed on voters for a special November election. Among objectionable aspects is the crass, self-serving way Democrats, including Gov. Newsom, have carved out districts blatantly designed to eliminate Newsom’s critics, and Republican congressional opponents like LaMalfa and Kevin Kiley.

This violates the California Constitution by 1) holding hearings on a bill less than 30 days after introduction; 2) drawing maps without authority and contrary to Constitutional requirements; 3) drawing mid-decade maps which are prohibited; and 4) changing the law requiring 131 days notice for special elections on Constitutional Amendments. (credit Mark Meuser)

Assembly and State Senate Republicans have written Attorney General Pam Bondi asking the DOJ to investigate “corruption and violation of federal law” tied to Newsom’s redistricting scheme:

“In recent days alarming allegations have surfaced that may explain why state legislators are proceeding forward with such a blatantly unconstitutional and politically unpopular proposal. Specifically, various media outlets are reporting that several members of the state legislature may have not only engaged in drawing the lines of these maps to benefit themselves politically but may be providing their vote for these proposals on the condition that the maps are drawn to benefit themselves.

“As just one example, KCRA reported that one powerful senator ‘had one of the new, targeted districts drawn specifically for him in exchange for his support of the redistricting plan.’”

You might rightly suspect that news coverage (that’s you, AP) has little interest in the above criticisms of the redistricting plot, while they engage in thinly-veiled booster-ism for Newsom’s national profile and presidential aspirations (See Saturday’s puff piece “Governor’s National Profile Soars With Latest Trump Fight”).

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Concerning Santa Monica where, as a restaurant manager, I had the first of numerous encounters with the homeless refuse of society depositing their filth and having to be physically thrown out: “A group of residents and business owners in a tony California beach enclave that’s been overrun by homeless junkies is paying to ship local vagrants out of town—and claims both sides are thrilled. 

"Sidewalks in the chic Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica have become riddled with tents while bums ransack its shops and boutiques and shoot up in the parks in broad daylight” (New York Post). Free bus and plane tickets may be just what many of LA’s homeless hordes prefer, compared to crime, drugs and squalor.

How Did the Left Mutate?

How Did the Left Mutate?

AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

If one looks at traditional American voters, he concludes that those on the left have mutated their way to positions that have no basis in reality.

A very disturbing incident has been recently reported. Rose Lubin was a 21-year-old Border Patrol officer in Israel. She was an American but knew that she was meant to move to Israel. She did so and actually fought Hamas during the original attack in 2023. Last year, she was stabbed during her patrol in the Old City of Jerusalem and died. My wife and I read about her and went to the mourning tent set up by the city in her honor. We heard from family and friends about an amazing young woman who knew what she wanted in life. She came to Israel alone but knew that she was meant to be here. Her death apparently was in part due to the failure of a colleague to alert others that he had gone to get food.

The incident in question concerns the Atlanta neighbors of Rose’s father. There are recordings of them screaming at him and saying that his daughter deserved to die. They additionally called him by Jewish slurs. How have we as an American society gotten to the point where people are happy to see the death of a fellow American? What did Rose do that would so enrage her neighbors that they would revel in her murder in front of her mourning father? When we look at a lot of the pathologies of those on the left, we have to ask how we got here. Let’s take some of the standard positions of a 2025 Democratic voter, as the party becomes unmoored and moves continually further to the left:

*Climate crisis means that life on this planet is in danger. They will block streets, glue themselves to priceless artworks, not bring children into the world, and try to destroy the energy underpinnings of modern society. There are many accomplished scientists who say that human production of carbon dioxide—which is a fraction of that produced by natural phenomenon—is no threat to mankind. They say that the stories of coastlines disappearing and a billion “climate refugees” are bunk and have no basis in honest scientific analysis.

*They have turned on Israel to the point that they are demanding the destruction of the Jewish state and the death of the millions of Jews who live there. They have been fed a steady Qatari/Muslim Brotherhood diet of Jews as colonialists and genociders when the realities of history and the current conflict support none of their contentions. The Gazan population has grown during the present conflict and Israel’s existence from Jewish purchase of land to defensive wars makes her little different than many other countries.

*They see America as evil. While the United States has given them a standard of living never seen before by mankind, they blithely call the country of their birth racist. They claim that whites are to blame for the poverty and failures of minority communities. They do not see the U.S. as a force for good—at all. They don’t connect the amazing electronics, clothes, cars, and lifestyles they have with the unique aspects of American freedoms. They may think that such things are everywhere, but they are not and what there is is more expensive, more limited and oftentimes of inferior quality.

*They fantasize about socialism and communism. Because for many on the left, especially younger members of the group, life isn’t going so well: they are barely getting by, not making enough to own a home or live the lifestyle that their parents had—they somehow think that failed social-economic systems will give them a better outcome. One can see in NY where the commie mayoral candidate doesn’t even try to pretend that he is anything else. People always look for alternatives when life is overcast, but there is enough historical evidence on the failures of socialism and communism that their appeal should not exist.

*They have abandoned traditional religion for a pseudoscientific alternative. Covid was super dangerous, the mRNA vaccines were outstanding, people can change gender on a dime, etc. Their “scientific beliefs”—as with climate change above—do not stand up under serious scrutiny. But that is not the point. Like in all religions, theirs is belief, even if “reality” says otherwise. One can bring a thousand studies about vaccine damage and the possible link between the untested vaccines and long Covid or excess deaths. It’s like telling a devoutly religious person that there is no God.

How did we get here? Where did we get such large numbers of people whose opinions are so different from the rest and detached from objective reality? The answer is education. When one looks at political maps, the blue areas are few and far between—but they are usually big cities that can throw a state for a Democrat even if the entire rest of the state voted for the Republican. Big cities are filled with college-educated workers, as well as traditionally pro-Democratic minorities.  K-12 and certainly college and graduate education are exercises in brainwashing. One can see that much of the new left is both young and actually college trained. One often sees professors or “scholars” praising the mass rapes and murders of Hamas. If these are their teachers, why should we be surprised that the product students come out are leftwing lunatics? One sees far fewer pro-Hamas protests in the south and most of those wearing keffiyehs have abandoned whatever religion they had when they lived at home. Because religion has been downgraded in the West, Marxist teachings and the appearance of unapologetic Muslims in large numbers have simply offered the disaffected something to latch on to—even when that action involves cheering people who burned families alive.

If one goes back through 250 years of American politics, there have always been differences in opinion and approach. Liberal politicians like George McGovern and Walter Mondale were crushed by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. They were liberals in their approach to taxes, social programs and foreign policies and the people did not want what they had to offer. They were not leftists and certainly not communists. But the left has been transmogrified into something unrecognizable from its liberal roots. It is totalitarian, highly antisemitic and anti-American. The desire for reparations from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves is an expression of America as an evil, racist country. The U.S. is not perfect, but it’s the best country out there. If you think otherwise, try living someplace else for a spell. You’ll be waiting for your return flight home.

The Lubin family has gone through hell, though the husband screamer has now been fired from his executive position. They lost their beloved and talented daughter to Islamic terror. Now they meet American terror in the form of their demented neighbors. The Democrats are polling like dog poop because they have lost their minds. Go watch an anti-Israel protest and see if you can find a single American flag. Listen to a Bernie Sanders rally and find if there is any praise for a country in which he has three homes.  As Israel has Arabs in the Knesset who hate the country that pays their salaries, the U.S. now has federal, state and local reps paid by the governments of places they loathe. Keep the Democrats away from the lever of powers unless you want to live in a third-world country. 

https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/08/24/how-did-the-left-mutate-n2662199?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Monday, August 25, 2025

Gavin’s Limpy Bluster

Gavin’s Limpy Bluster

AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom took to Instagram this week with his trademark smirk and a warning shot at Washington: maybe California should withhold resources from the feds. His boast rested on a well-worn talking point—that California pays more into the federal treasury than it gets back. Newsom postured as if this made him the master of the federal purse. In his mind, California can flip the switch and bring Washington to its knees.  

But peel back the slick delivery, and you find bluster as empty as the boarded-up storefronts of San Francisco. Yes, California’s taxpayers send more money to Washington than the state receives in federal spending. So do other states with large economies, like New York and New Jersey. That imbalance has existed for decades. But the claim that California can simply “withhold” those funds is constitutional nonsense. The Sixteenth Amendment provides for the collection of federal income taxes, not state discretion. Sacramento cannot hijack IRS collections. Newsom knows this. He also knows most viewers of his reel don’t.  

What California can do—and too often does—is obstruct cooperation with the federal government. By declaring California a “sanctuary state,” Newsom has already limited law enforcement collaboration on immigration and terrorism. In 2017, California withdrew from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, depriving local police of coordination with anti-terror specialists. That wasn’t about protecting civil liberties; it was about virtue-signaling to the far left. The cost was public safety.  

Newsom’s record at home makes the idea of him “teaching lessons” laughable. California once housed corporate giants by the dozens. Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, and hundreds of mid-sized firms have moved to Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. Why? Punitive taxes, suffocating regulation, and skyrocketing costs of living. The state bleeds talent and jobs because Newsom’s government views private enterprise as a piggy bank.  

Walk the streets of Los Angeles or San Francisco and you’ll find tents, open drug use, and human waste on sidewalks. Billions have been spent on “solutions,” yet the problem worsens each year. California’s urban centers now double as cautionary tales of progressive policy. Newsom famously locked down his citizens—shutting businesses, schools, and churches—while breaking his own rules for fine-dining at the French Laundry. He forced Californians to comply with “standards” he never followed himself. Worse, he embraced Anthony Fauci’s shifting advice as gospel, demanding masks long after evidence discredited their effectiveness.  

Despite its size and wealth, California can’t even keep the lights on. Rolling blackouts are now a way of life. Newsom insists on racing toward “green” goals, banning gas cars by 2035, while Californians already pay the nation’s highest gas prices and some of its highest utility rates. This is the résumé of the man claiming he can flex fiscal power against the federal government.  

Contrast Newsom’s record with states like Florida and Texas—two destinations for the millions fleeing California. In the past few years, more than half a million Californians have relocated, voting with their feet against high taxes, rampant crime, and eroding freedoms. The U-Haul index doesn’t lie: California residents are desperate to leave, while red states are overwhelmed by inbound demand. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis famously cleaned Newsom’s clock in their televised debate, hammering him on crime, education, and economic freedom. The numbers were not on Gavin’s side. Californians endure higher poverty rates than Floridians despite higher taxes and supposedly greater “investment.” Businesses and families simply thrive better elsewhere.  

So why does Gavin Newsom posture with threats he cannot deliver? Because bluster is all he has left. His presidential ambitions, once floated eagerly by the media, withered in the spotlight. Democrats didn’t see a charismatic alternative to Biden; they saw a West Coast politician presiding over dysfunction. The Instagram reels are attempts at relevance, a digital smirk to reassure himself he still matters.  

But Californians see through it. They see their paychecks devoured by Sacramento’s insatiable appetite. They see their streets unsafe, their kids’ schools failing, their bills rising. They see a governor more concerned with attacking Trump than fixing the Golden State.  

Newsom’s talk of withholding funds is the epitome of “limpy bluster”—loud enough to sound tough, empty enough to reveal impotence. California cannot bully Washington into submission, and Gavin Newsom cannot escape the wreckage his policies have created. The governor should spend less time posturing on Instagram and more time picking up the pieces of the state he has broken. Until then, Californians will keep leaving, corporations will keep fleeing, and Newsom will keep smirking for the cameras, hoping no one notices the truth: his threats carry no weight, his record carries no pride, and his state carries the burden of his failures.

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