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Thursday, September 10, 2026

Shavuah tov. May this week before Rosh HaShanah help us and the world see the real truths in life, and act righteously upon that awareness.

The weekend has been spent in more back-and-forth rhetoric and actions between Iran and the West, and between Israel and Hezbollah. After Hezbollah launched a drone attack from Lebanon, the Israelis responded by destroying more Hezbollah sites, some of which also had IRGC personnel. The IDF released an official statement that they are "operating now and will continue to operate forcefully against Hezbollah's repeated attempts to harm our forces.”

Iran's news service reported that Iran attacked American sites in Jordan on Friday night, which prompted the U.S. to increase both their words and actions. President Trump told reporters at the White House that "we may strike Mount Makhosh very soon. We know everyone who moves on Mount Makhosh. And if something goes wrong, we hit them hard." Iran then claimed to have attacked U.S. ships in the Strait.

This was followed up by CENTCOM reporting that forces struck three Iranian oil tankers carrying crude oil after the Revolutionary Guards had actually launched ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships patrolling regional waters. The American aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer successfully evaded several Iranian attacks with no casualties; but CENTCOM was clear that Iran's attacks will never go unanswered, and U.S. military intelligence reports that Iran's attacks are all with the intent of affecting the November elections, and will probably continue at least until then.

On Saturday night, Iran's emergency command released a statement threatening the U.S. military and stated that if attacks on Iranian ships and the naval blockade continue, "strikes on American military vessels in the region will be more severe than before, and the scope of these operations could expand. "

The Iranian Foreign Minister also met with his counterparts from Turkey and Saudi Arabia with the intent of "establishing stability in the region and ending insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz," which Iran attributed to "aggressive actions by the United States." For some reason, most media did not report the Saturday night meeting, which is extremely disturbing as Iran is a declared enemy of the U.S.; Turkey keeps demonstrating that they are an undeclared enemy of the U.S., Israel, and the West; and Saudi Arabia is a declared ally. And as we have discussed so many times, Turkey under the Erdogan regime is open about their desire to become the main power in the region (and according to Turkish theology, the world).

For those who idealize the Islamic regimes, this weekend was a demonstration of their actual values. In Egypt, considered a "moderate" Islamic nation, an Egyptian television personality, Sara Khalifa, was convicted of producing drugs with the intent to distribute. Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported that "Khalifa and 11 other defendants were sentenced to death by hanging, for establishing an organized crime gang specializing in obtaining materials used for drug production, with the intent to trade them.” Each and every American protesting for Islamic organizations, be they Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, or any Islamic nation, should remember the penalty for drugs: death.

According to data from the Prison Policy Initiative and federal agencies, approximately 360,000 to 362,000 people are incarcerated for drug offenses across all levels of the U.S. correctional system on any given day. If, God forbid, the U.S. followed "moderate" Islamic law, such as what is found in Egypt, over 300,000 people would have been sentenced to death. The next time that anyone tells you that Islamic law is harmonious with American values, remind them of what happened in the "moderate" nation of Egypt this weekend.

We are only a few days from Rosh HaShanah, the beginning of a new year. Our services are over capacity (we are the largest provider of no-cost High Holiday services in the nation), but if you would like to stream the services from outside the Los Angeles area, please email Events@NerSimcha.org to make arrangements to participate virtually.

May we all enter this upcoming year with honesty and integrity, purpose and passion, and with the personal self-reflection and commitment that will bring each of us meaning, growth, and inner peace.

Chazak u'Baruch

Rabbi Michael Barclay

September 6, 2026

24th of Elul, 5786

https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/09/06/moderate-islam-shows-its-true-colors-n4956957?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

You Don't Say: States Hiding Voter Rolls from Trump Admin Freely Shared Data with Activist Groups

You Don't Say: States Hiding Voter Rolls from Trump Admin Freely Shared Data with Activist Groups

Kyle Becker Follow @kylenabecker

The Trump administration has been engaged in numerous legal battles so that it can obtain and properly vet America’s voter rolls.

Dozens of states are fighting tooth-and-nail to keep the Dept. of Homeland Security and the Dept. of Justice from flagging non-citizens who are not eligible to vote in federal elections.

But many of these states had no problem participating in a system that supplied sensitive motor-vehicle information to a private nonprofit network involved in identifying eligible but unregistered voters.

That disconnect is drawing new scrutiny after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the Electronic Registration Information Center, better known as ERIC, improperly disclosed protected motor-vehicle information to activist organizations.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department has filed 31 lawsuits against 30 states and Washington, D.C., seeking complete statewide voter-registration lists. The requested records can contain information unavailable on public voter files, including birth dates, addresses, partial Social Security numbers and driver's-license numbers.

The administration says it needs the information to determine whether states are properly maintaining voter rolls under federal election laws, including the National Voter Registration Act and Help America Vote Act.

DOJ also argues that the Civil Rights Act of 1960 gives the attorney general broad authority to inspect statewide voter-registration records. Many states refuse to comply.

Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania were among six states sued by the Justice Department in September 2025 after refusing to produce the requested statewide lists. Massachusetts was subsequently sued as part of another round of litigation.

Those five states have something else in common: They have participated in ERIC, the interstate “nonprofit” created to help states compare voter-registration and motor-vehicle records.

ERIC's operation depends on states supplying information from their own government databases. Member states provide voter-registration information along with motor-vehicle licensing and identification records.

ERIC uses the data for several purposes, including identifying duplicate registrations, voters who have moved and deceased voters.

But ERIC also produces what it calls Eligible But Unregistered, or EBU, reports. It compares voter-registration records with Motor Vehicle Department data and identifies people who have a driver's license or state identification card but don't appear on the voter-registration list.

States can then use other government records to filter the resulting list before sending registration information to people believed to be eligible.

In 2020 alone, ERIC's system identified more than 17 million potentially eligible but unregistered people across participating states, according to records reviewed in the DHS investigation.

So, why the double standard? Blue states will send “sensitive” voter data to an activist group network but not to their own federal government?

According to Mullin's September 2 letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, sensitive motor-vehicle information provided by states to ERIC was subsequently shared with at least one other private organization: the Center for Election Innovation and Research, or CEIR.

The relationship between the organizations is eyebrow-raising.

David Becker helped establish ERIC and later founded CEIR. In 2020, CEIR became one of the nonprofit organizations that received enormous financial support from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, for election-related activities.

CEIR says it distributed nearly $65 million to 23 states for voter-education efforts during the 2020 election, with the money supplied by Zuckerberg and Chan. CEIR describes those programs as nonpartisan efforts designed to give voters accurate information about registration, voting methods, polling places and deadlines.

But DHS is now asking a different question: What data moved between the states, ERIC and CEIR in carrying out some of that work?

Mullin's letter specifically points to Pennsylvania. The Keystone State received roughly $13 million from CEIR in 2020. According to the DHS letter, the grant agreement required the state to “cooperate with CEIR, including providing data, as CEIR reasonably requests.”

DHS says the information requested included state motor-vehicle data originally supplied to ERIC and used in connection with producing EBU lists for outreach.

That raises a significant issue under the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act.

The DPPA generally restricts the disclosure and use of personal information obtained through state motor-vehicle agencies, subject to a series of statutory exceptions. Mullin is asking DOJ to determine whether the sharing and resharing of information through the nonprofit network fell within one of those permitted uses.

“This sharing and resharing of Motor Vehicle Agency data among NGOs may not qualify as a permissible use of motor-vehicle data identified in the DPPA,” Mullin wrote.

The secretary also noted the political value of such information: “This category of data regarding potential voters is incredibly valuable to political parties and campaigns.”

ERIC disputes allegations that it violated the law. Its current public materials also say the EBU reports supplied to member states do not themselves contain Social Security numbers, driver's-license numbers or state identification numbers. Instead, according to ERIC, the reports contain limited information necessary to identify and contact potentially eligible residents.

But the DHS inquiry concerns the underlying motor-vehicle information supplied by states and how that information may have moved through the system — particularly in connection with CEIR.

States participating in this voter data system have simultaneously been fighting the federal government's attempts to obtain unredacted voter-registration records.

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said his state wanted assurances from DOJ that residents' Social Security and driver's-license information would be protected before turning it over. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has similarly opposed federal access to sensitive voter information.

And the states have had considerable success in court keeping their voter rolls hidden from the federal government.

As of August 17, federal judges had rejected the Trump administration's demands in 23 cases, including lawsuits involving Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. DOJ has appealed many of those decisions. The Sixth Circuit has already upheld the dismissal of the government's case seeking Michigan's voter information.

The administration, however, has not abandoned its legal argument.

In May, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the Civil Rights Act authorizes DOJ to compel states to produce statewide voter-registration lists and permits the department to share those records with Homeland Security for comparison against federal databases. That is the administration's legal position; multiple federal

If sensitive state-held information could legally be supplied to private organizations for voter-registration and election-related activities, what precisely made those disclosures permissible?

Who received the underlying information? What restrictions governed its use? And were those restrictions actually followed?

Those questions are salient given the sheer scale of the 2020 operation.

Zuckerberg and Chan contributed roughly $400 million to election-related nonprofits during the 2020 cycle, principally CEIR and the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTLC). CEIR's share financed voter-education programs in nearly two dozen states.

The new DHS inquiry adds a different dimension to the long-running controversy over that private election funding.

For years, states supplied motor-vehicle and voter information to ERIC as part of an interstate data-sharing program. That information helped produce lists identifying millions of potentially eligible but unregistered Americans.

DHS now wants DOJ to determine whether protected motor-vehicle information was subsequently shared with another privately funded election nonprofit in violation of federal privacy law.

At the same time, states involved in that system are telling the federal government that some of their voter information is simply too sensitive to hand over.

Here is the biggest question: Why are states hiding voter roll data from the federal government, when they are already handing data over to election activist groups?

https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/09/06/you-dont-say-states-hiding-voter-rolls-from-trump-admin-freely-shared-them-with-activist-groups-n2206574?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The Real Reason Why the Democrat Party Won't 'Cancel' Hasan Piker

The Real Reason Why the Democrat Party Won't 'Cancel' Hasan Piker

Kyle Becker Follow @kylenabecker

The Democrat Party's silence about violent extremism in its party is damning. And when it comes to Islamo-communist streamer Hasan Piker, that silence is growing by the day.

Hasan Piker cannot cross a "red line" as far as radical Democrats are concerned. It's as if the old bromide that there can be "no enemies too far to the left" is on full display with modern Democrats.

And that should have Americans extremely concerned. Because the left's hypocrisy is not a bug, but a feature. It's a power play, meant to be a "humiliation" ritual.

It was not too long ago when Americans could be "cancelled" for saying the wrong things about the transgender movement. They were forbidden to voice their opinions about vaccine adverse effects. And told not to say critical things about funding Ukraine. And forget about objecting to the 2020 election — that was the Most Secure Election in the History of Elections™.

But there is nothing off-limits for Hasan Piker. He can imply that Trump should die. Advocate for conservatives being murdered. Hang a poster of 9/11 on his wall. Throw in lot with Islamist terrorists.

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And there are no consequences for him. Indeed, the left-wing keeps astro-turfing his violent rhetoric, and he is getting rich. Filthy rich.

Piker, a nepo baby, wears four-figure designer clothing, owns a $3 million Los Angeles home and drives a $200,000 Porsche.
While Sanders and Warren brush past their wealth, Piker makes it impossible to miss — all while streaming live on Twitch to preach that the rich and capitalists are the enemy.
His obsession with luxury goods is just as gaudy as President Donald Trump's obsession with gold. The difference is Trump doesn't claim excess capital is inherently immoral.

Not bad work for a "socialist," if you can get it. The point is that the American left luxuriates in hypocrisy. It's their favorite drug.

It also reveals that they don't care about the truth. The only thing that unites them is their lust for power.

House Dem. Jamie Raskin, a Trump-deranged, impeachment-obsessed, red diaper baby was asked point-blank about Hasan Piker. His response speaks volumes.

Raskin is first shown an April 12 clip from Pod Save America. Piker is asked about his prior comment that “Hamas is a thousand times better than a fascist settler colonial apartheid state.”

Piker stands by it and says: “I’ve also said I’m a harm-reduction voter. I’m a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time…”

“Is the Democratic Party tent big enough to include Hasan Piker?” Welker asks.

“I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction," Raskin replies.

This is the same Congressman who gave us a hoax impeachment against Donald Trump. Twice.

This is also the same deflection that was trotted out by Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has been photographed being cozy with Piker and has refused to distance himself

During a recent appearance Friday on MS NOW’s “The Moment,” El-Sayed tried repeatedly to steer the conversation away from Piker.

“This campaign is not about a streamer in California,” El-Sayed said. “This campaign is about affordability in Michigan. This campaign is about the ability to have healthcare.”

This is not going to cut it. That's because this guilt-by-association was virtually invented by Democrats.

Why is it that the American left freaked out when Nick Fuentes showed unannounced at Mar-a-Lago, but asking El-Sayed about his relationship with a Twitch streamer who indulges in politically violent language is off-limits?

The Woke left invented cancel culture. So, what is it really about? Imposing its social justice worldview onto Americans? Or simply creating double standards for its political opposition?

Obviously, it is the latter. If there were any moral compass in the Democrat Party, it would simply disavow Piker and condemn his language.

The American left refuses to do that. Is it for the same reason that Hollywood won't film movies that portray Joseph Stalin as a villain? Or Chairman Mao? Or Fidel Castro?

Because the few films that Hollywood has produced that vilify communists take a very sparing approach and pale in the number produced on Nazis and racists.

The bottom line is that there isn't an ethical bit of difference between these collectivist belief-systems, which drive people to impose their worldviews on others against their will.

Holding up the choice between communism and fascism is like asking people to choose their favorite flavor of "ice cream."

You can choose chocolate or vanilla. They're both evil. The only real difference is the form of propaganda.

That's really the meaning behind the media continuing to shove this lefty menace with a microphone into our faces. They are trying to normalize communism and political violence.

Meanwhile, conservatives don't even dare to advocate for political violence, nor should they. They would not only be canceled, they would be driven to the ends of the earth.

It's also very similar to our two-tiered justice system, left-wing institutions' enforcement of DEI while telling people that whites are implicitly racist, allowing males to invade girls' sports while feigning to champion "women's rights," and jet-setting around the globe to lecture people about the "climate crisis."

They know they are lying, they know that we know they are lying, and yet they persist in lying, to paraphrase a line often misattributed to Solzhenitsyn.

This is because lying demonstrates that their power is not based on us believing them. Their power is based on their control of our institutions, including our mass media. They do not benefit from us knowing the truth but from us arguing about the truth.

Thus, this double-standard is meant to be a "humiliation ritual." But it's not humiliating Americans, it's showing them how ugly and dangerous the Democrat Party has become.

If the American left can't cancel communist dictators who have killed tens of millions of people, who will it cancel? Hasan Piker? Don't make me laugh.

https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/09/06/hasan-piker-says-hed-vote-for-terrorists-every-time-jamie-raskins-reaction-is-damning-n2206576?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

I Lived Under a Red-Green Alliance. I Know What Comes Next Here.

by Michael Youssef

How could I know the army officers standing at the office door were harbingers of today’s Red-Green Alliance between socialists and radical Muslims?

My father had gone to work as he always did, providing for his family through a small oil distributorship in Egypt. That day he came home and shared that the company now belonged to the state. The officers had sent him and his colleagues home, a lifetime of labor erased by a government order.

In Egypt, shortly after 1948, when I was born into the Coptic Christian community, Gamal Abdel Nasser had informants everywhere: in workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, even among students. A careless word could travel faster than a child understood.

As a young man, I read about freedom of speech, freedom of religion in America, and the right to say what you believed without fearing the knock at the door, but I was afraid someone might report what I was reading. That is how oppression works. It only has to teach everyone to be afraid.

Banks were nationalized. Foreign commercial holdings were nationalized. Private companies and land were seized. Christians who had lived in Egypt for centuries became second-class citizens. Highly educated believers were pushed out of leadership and into menial work. Churches were restricted. Evangelism was confined.

Not all Muslims were hostile to me. I had Muslim friends from moderate, enlightened homes, and I thank God for them.

I left Egypt in my teens with the clothes on my back. Finally, in 1977, I moved to the United States from Australia. I became a citizen in 1984. I chose America because, in my heart, I had loved her freedoms long before I held her passport.

Americans do not think they are embracing socialism. The numbers bear that out. A Marquette Law School national poll released in August found the Democratic Socialists of America underwater with the public: 24 percent favorable, 54 percent unfavorable.

The poll split its sample. The organization stood at a net minus 30, while the candidates stood at a net minus 22. For scale, MAGA stood at a net minus 26. Not one name in that poll came out ahead. That reveals something serious.

Well-known socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stood at 45 favorable, 47 unfavorable, with 8 percent responding they needed more information. President Donald Trump stood at a net minus 22, and Vice President JD Vance, known to just as many people as Sanders, stood at minus 16. This demonstrates that an ideology can be rejected by name and still become normal through personalities people trust.

On August 4, Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed narrowly defeated Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (MI-11) in Michigan’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary. On August 11, Wisconsin Democrats almost nominated Francesca Hong for governor, a self-described socialist state legislator. And alarmingly, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are now the largest socialist organization in United States history, reporting more than 120,000 members as of July 4, up from roughly 5,000 a decade ago.

In an August 9 interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) spoke of “a time of renewal for the Democratic Party” and “an ascendance of a young, inspiring, exciting electorate.” Young people are carrying real economic pain, and she said plainly that many feel ignored, sidelined and burdened by decisions made before them.

That objection deserves to be heard honestly. But renewal of what, and toward what?

In an interview, Jonathan Karl read from the DSA’s own national platform: defunding the Department of Defense, closing overseas military bases, abolishing the police and prison system. AOC did not endorse those positions, but said, “I think that this is a free country. Everyone can have all sorts of beliefs,” and then she redirected to lowering bills and helping people afford a doctor.

That exchange is a warning. Radical content can be carried quietly inside a movement whose public face is compassion. The platform sets aside academic debate while the argument moves to affordability. Sometimes the most dangerous ideas are the ones we gloss over.

Earlier, Obama’s famous political guru David Axelrod asked AOC whether she would run for higher office. People “assume that my ambition is positional,” AOC said. “They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that… Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go. But single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights, all of that.”

I have never heard an American politician speak of “forever” this way. But I heard it from regimes and ideologies that believed they could own the future.

Only God owns forever. Nasser and his boasts are gone, but the Church in Egypt is still there.

Some Christians tell me political neutrality protects our Gospel witness, and I have seen believers confuse the Kingdom of God with earthly parties. That is a grave mistake, but silence in the face of evil is not faithfulness.

In my most recent book, “An Unholy Alliance,” I have warned that Marxists and Islamists may hate one another, but they can still work together when their common enemy is the biblical foundations of Western Civilization. I saw the Red-Green forces unite in the Egypt of my youth. We saw it again in Iran in 1979, when leftists and Islamists toppled the Shah; Khomeini destroyed the leftists once he held power. It makes me fear for America.

Our freedoms are not self-sustaining. They depend on moral foundations deeper than law, deeper than elections, deeper than slogans about renewal or forever. But they are in the crosshairs. When government becomes our provider, savior, parent, priest and judge, it does not merely mismanage the economy. It tries to replace God.

A nation that has forgotten God will not be brought back to faith in Him. He must draw her home. Our part is to speak and to ask.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Reporter Asks Admiral If the US Will Invade Canada. He Offers His Mars Battle Plans Instead.

Reporter Asks Admiral If the US Will Invade Canada. He Offers His Mars Battle Plans Instead.

streiff Follow @streiffredstate

Bashing Canada has become something of a pastime in the second Trump Administration and for very good reason. Canada is probably the most notorious free-loader in the West. Its military would have to up its game markedly to rise to the level of craptacular; see Canada's Latest Faceplant: Millions in Contracts to Iran VP's Son – RedState. The same nation that sent 14,000 soldiers ashore at Juno Beach on D-Day now has about 70K personnel in all three services; more if you count genders and tonnage. It has 12 surface combatants and four submarines designed in the 1980s, of which one is classed as "ready to sail"; see Bessent’s Brutal Mockery of Canada’s ‘Two Submarines’ Is Instant Legend – RedState.

Mocking Canada's military may seem cruel, like pushing someone out of a wheelchair, but Canada provides the raw material.

The hazing has reached the point where Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to tap out; see The Lake America Memes Are Coming in Fast and Furious, and They Are Laugh Out Loud Funny – RedState and Trump's Memes Have Apparently Broken Mark Carney – RedState.

“When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions” about trade, Carney said in Ottawa.
“But look, it’s not constructive, but that’s their democracy.”

But no one cares what he wants.

At this juncture, Canada is virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of China; indeed, the key factors in the recent breakdown of trade negotiations were that Canada insisted on being a pass-through for Chinese products, such as steel, while retaining Canadian duties on exports to the U.S.

We are constantly nagged online about Canada's healthcare system, where the fourth leading cause of death is medical euthanasia. It is so pervasive that Canada does not allow euthanasia to be listed as the cause of death, thereby preventing the country from being horrified.

President Trump has trolled Canada about becoming the 51st state and at least once referred to the Canadian prime minister as the "governor" of Canada. The truth is that most Canadian provinces would jump at the chance to become part of a real country but the cost of modernizing their broken economy, educational, and legal systems would be prohibitive.

Unable to feel shame, the Canadian elites have decided, à la DEI, that victimhood is the cloak they wish to wear. That brings us up to Wednesday.

Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, head of U.S. Pacific Command, was attending the 28th Indo-Pacific Chiefs of Defense Conference in Victoria, British Columbia. The conference featured a press availability with Admiral Paparo and Canada's chief of the defense staff, General Jennie Carignan.

It was pretty much a typical press gaggle up until time hack 7:23. At that point, Ben O'Hara-Byrne (aka Ben Two Dads) of Canada's Global News couldn't resist the opportunity to try to embarrass Admiral Paparo.

Reporter: So this is a question that is asked with all due respect. With all due respect, under what circumstances would you obey an order to launch military action against Canada?
Adm. Paparo: I find that—I find that scenario to be, uh, absolutely and utterly preposterous. And so, uh, I follow the... I follow the orders of the commander-in-chief, but, uh, that is a needlessly emotional question. I don't find... forgive me for saying it too, And Canada is a close ally.

[Paparo struggles to suppress a guffaw.]

Adm. Paparo: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you.
Reporter: You didn’t answer the question.
Adm. Paparo: I said I follow the orders of the president and I find it to be a, uh… Would you ask me, please, also, what my attack plans are for the Martians?
Reporter: If you want to dismiss it, by all means.
Adm. Paparo: Yes, sir. I don’t dismiss you, but I do dismiss the question.
Reporter: You belittle it, and I don’t think that’s the right approach at all. This is a serious question about a serious issue. We’ve had threats of annexation. I know it’s a hypothetical, but nonetheless if you’ve not thought about it, maybe you should.
(Moderator thanks the reporter and moves on to someone who doesn't appear to have suffered a psychotic break.)

I really don't know what answer this lackwit reporter was trying to elicit. Did he think Paparo was going to say, "Nah, dawg, if Trump tells me to invade Canada I'm totally not doing anything." Which would be true because U.S. Northern Command would probably have the lead on such an operation. Did he expect him to say, "you know how General Milley called the ChiComs and told them he'd let them know about any military moves in 2020, I've got the same arrangement with General Carignan." Or maybe, "If you want a real story, be awake at 0300 two weeks from today."

It is interesting that Global News's own site covers this press conference but doesn't mention the hard-hitting, tough, truth-seeking questions by one of its reporters.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/09/05/reporter-asks-admiral-if-the-us-will-invade-canada-he-offers-his-mars-battle-plans-instead-n2206563?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm