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Monday, June 2, 2025

FDA Head Shuts Down CBS News' Brennan When She Tries to Push the 'COVID Shot for Young, Healthy Kids'

FDA Head Shuts Down CBS News' Brennan When She Tries to Push the 'COVID Shot for Young, Healthy Kids'

The past few days simply have not been the CBS network's best.

First, we saw President Trump reject the offer to settle the network's defamation lawsuit as my media-minded colleague Brad Slager wrote on Friday. That offer from CBS' parent company Paramount Global, by the way, was $15 million. That could come in handy on a rainy day, right?

Then earlier on Sunday, during CBS News' longtime news program, "Face The Nation," host Margaret Brennan faced off with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the status of the Trump economy in light of ongoing tariff negotiations. The host made a wan attempt to press Bessent on the "reality" of either fewer products for consumers to buy on store shelves or higher prices.

The secretary wasn't tripped up, and thus Brennan had to sit mutely as he chided her, "Margaret, when we were here in March, you said there was going to be big inflation. There hasn't been any inflation. Actually, the inflation numbers are the best in four years."

On 'Face the Nation,' Scott Bessent Delivered a Lesson on the Economy, With Receipts

Ouch. And things went only downhill from there for the host. Another person from the Trump administration to sit down with Margaret Brennan was the Food and Drug Administration's head, Dr. Martin Makary, and she asked him to clarify the "confusing" policy on COVID shots/boosters.

Watch:

Brennan began, “Can you clearly state what the policy is? Because this is confusing.”

MAKARY: Yeah, we believe the recommendation should be with a patient and their doctor. So we’re going to get away from these blanket recommendations in healthy, young Americans.
On the COVID vaccine schedule, we don’t want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12-year-old girl is not getting her fifth Covid booster shot.
We don’t see the data there to support a young, healthy child getting a repeat, infinite annual COVID vaccine.
There’s a theory that we should sort of blindly approve the new Covid boosters in young, healthy kids every year in perpetuity, and a young girl born today should get 80 Covid mRNA shots or other COVID shots in her average lifespan.
We’re saying that’s a theory, and we’d like to check in and get some randomized controlled data. It’s been about four years since the original randomized trials. So we’d like an evidence based approach.

He mentioned that he and Dr. Vinay Prasad (who leads the FDA's vaccines/biologics division) had published their approach "in the New England Journal of Medicine last week." He explained that the hope is to rebuild the confidence of the American people, after the repeated cajoling under the Biden administration about booster protocols under the prevailing "theory."

But Brennan stopped him, claiming that Dr. Makary's statement "wasn't about boosters," but that the vaccine isn't recommended for pregnant women and healthy children. He was more than ready for the trap question, telling the host that he and his colleagues at the FDA would "love to see the data" on what she was saying but "it doesn't exist."

Check out the rest of the interview in the clip. I loved this part the best, though, where Makary cited stats about how American families feel about the shots.

"I don’t know if you know these statistics, but 88 percent of American kids," he told Brennan, "their parents have said no to the COVID shot last season. So America, the vast majority of Americans are saying no.”

This is awesome to witness. It's beyond refreshing to see medical professionals in our government saying it loudly and proudly: We're going to put these products through testing, and American families are showing with their actions (not getting kids immunized/boosted against COVID) that maybe that's what they would like, too. No more herd mentality on unproven scientific theories, thanks be to God. It's about time someone started listening to the American people.

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/06/01/fda-head-shuts-down-brennan-when-she-tries-to-push-the-covid-shot-for-young-healthy-kids-n2189903?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Biden’s Autopen Scandal Grows As Watchdog Finds ‘No Evidence’ Former POTUS Knew About Signed Orders

Biden’s Autopen Scandal Grows As Watchdog Finds ‘No Evidence’ Former POTUS Knew About Signed Orders

By Rusty Weiss

A watchdog representing energy workers is raising red flags after conducting a review of significant executive orders signed by autopen under the previous administration and finding "no evidence" that President Biden was aware of them.

The startling revelations come as an official at the Department of Justice has reviewed potential "gatekeepers" controlling the White House during Biden's tenure, insiders have revealed a covert "Politburo" was running the country, and the cover-up of his cognitive decline is being unfurled in public at an accelerated pace.

The nonprofit organization Power the Future penned a letter to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-KY) outlining their findings and demanding a more thorough investigation. They want to know who was wantonly signing orders while Biden was safely tucked away for nap time.

"Power The Future remains concerned that key policies of major economic and national security significance directed by the White House during the Biden administration may have been undertaken without presidential awareness and approval, but perhaps instead by a small coterie of staff," the letter reads, according to Fox News Digital.

The group analyzed multiple executive orders involving climate policy dating back to 2021 and, according to Executive Director Daniel Turner, found "no evidence that Biden ordered it, directed it, or was even aware it was happening in his name."

"This autopen scandal is evidence that these green EOs are invalid, and the instigators should be thoroughly investigated by the DOJ for violating the trust of the American people and perpetuating a great fraud on the nation," asserted Turner.

President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., questioned the validity of these executive orders, and by extension, any others that may have involved the autopen, in a post on X.

"So how are any of these Executive Orders from Biden even legal?" he demanded to know.

President Trump Calls for ‘Treasonous Thugs’ Who Controlled Joe Biden to Pay

The group also notes an incident described by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in which President Biden reportedly had no idea he had signed a critical LNG executive order.

"I thought, ‘We are in serious trouble—who is running the country?’” Johnson said, recalling the shocking moment. "Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know (he had signed it)."

The Heritage Foundation in March found that a significant majority of official documents signed during Biden's term as President used the same autopen signature.

The former President signed pre-emptive pardons for family members and some of the most notorious individuals behind other scandals in the waning days of his presidency. Now, Power the Future is claiming these signatures were used to sign executive orders.

The watchdog's assertions mainly concern Biden's lack of public comment regarding the orders. However, it's not unheard of for a President not to issue public commentary on all orders they sign. But the whole of the story, encompassing Biden's head full of mush over the past several years, sets off alarm bells.

Or at least it should, and Congress needs to get on this.

Critics have speculated that someone or a group of someones advising Biden as he navigated his four years in the Oval Office while battling mental insufficiencies was controlling the autopen. Which means these individuals were effectively running the country.

Ed Martin, a pardon attorney and head of the Department of Justice’s weaponization task force, has been investigating the corrupt use of the autopen, naming a trio of "gatekeepers" who were controlling the White House during Biden's tenure.

President Trump has called for the "treasonous thugs" behind the controversy to pay for their actions. He railed against those individuals who "knew he (Biden) was cognitively impaired" and "took over the Autopen."

The problem, according to constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, is that Presidents have the right to use the autopen, and courts aren't necessarily going to buy into theories about someone using it on Biden's behalf.

All the more reason for Congress to start calling in witnesses and get to the bottom of this. If Biden legitimately signed them, case closed. If he didn't - a scandal beyond comprehension. Either way, the American people have a right to know. There surely must be an electronic paper trail showing who initiated these autopen signatures and when.

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/05/28/bidens-autopen-scandal-grows-as-watchdog-finds-no-evidence-former-potus-knew-about-signed-orders-n2189705?utm_source=rsafternoonbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Crushing Academia May Be the Best Thing About Trump 2.0

Crushing Academia May Be the Best Thing About Trump 2.0

Kurt Schlichter

AP Photo

We should be proud of destroying academia as it is currently constituted. This is one of the greatest achievements of the Trump revolution, perhaps the most important over the long-term, something so critical that it’s taking an inordinate amount of effort from the administration. It’s worth every bit of it. Academia is a poisonous redoubt where people who hate us are pampered and paid for by the tax money of decent Americans. Its purpose is to facilitate ruling class replication and spread its slimy tentacles into every part of our government, culture, and institutions. For too long, academia has succeeded in its Marxist mission. But we’re turning that around.

It’s been remarkably easy. Here’s something that academia doesn’t want you to know. The people involved with it are mostly unbelievably unaccomplished. Sure, there are some brilliant scientists here and there, but they’re not really academics. They’re doing stuff. When we talk about academia, we’re talking about the administrators, the DEI poohbahs, and the humanities faculty that doesn’t produce anything except books full of pinko nonsense. These are distinctly unimpressive people. They’re not geniuses. They’re certainly not plotting in a volcano lair. Academia got power not because of its efforts but because of other social pathologies. Because we got rid of IQ testing and because our high schools went to crap, a college credential became – for a long time – the only way for employers to ensure that an applicant could probably read, that he was not a drooling weirdo, and that he would show up on time wearing clothes.

Basically, a college diploma now does what a high school diploma should do, except unionized high school teachers are so grossly incompetent that you can’t rely on a kid coming out of high school being able to count past 21 with his pants on. And, of course, once credentials become currency, there was arbitrage – strivers seek the better credential and game the system to do it. That’s why the Ivy Leagues are so popular. It’s not that they’re great schools. I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Ivy League graduates as a lawyer and am distinctly unimpressed. It’s that they have a brand value disconnected from their objective value, and it’s the brand value that they’re selling.

But here’s the other thing – like every other institution, the colleges have decided to become political actors and not pursue their proper objective of producing educated citizens ready to take on important jobs in society. They want to turn out little activists. But they never counted on the fact that we would notice this; they assumed brand value would trump objective value, and for a while they were right. But not anymore.

They became convinced of their own superiority because they had invaded the institution and were pretending that the institution was what the institution had been when it earned its reputation. They got high on their own supply. But the rest of us were also sampling their supply, and we were getting repelled by what we were getting. They were providing us with exactly what they wanted to give us, which is a bunch of activists. But activists are only good at things like wrecking society. They’re good at pursuing a Marxist agenda. They are not good at doing actual work. You let a few of them into your company and pretty soon you’re having Maoist struggle sessions about the tyranny of the phallic patriarchy and everybody has pronouns in their email signature blocks. But you won’t have smart people who do a good job.

Bud Light is an example. They went out and got some chick with shiny creds to handle marketing, and she destroyed the brand. She insulted Bud Light drinkers as penis-wielding morons and then decided that what the brand needed was to identify with a perverted male freak who pretended to be a woman. If you’ve met beer drinkers you will see the problem with this strategy. But, of course, she hadn’t. She was of an entirely different class, one that looked down their rhinoplasty-sculpted noses at the hops-loving proles. Want to guess where she went to school? You know the answer. It’s almost too good to be true, but it is true. Yep, she’s a Harvard grad and also went to Wharton.

People in the real world have noticed that the alleged cream of the crop is really the cream of the crap. They’re just not very good at stuff. Some of them are very smart, but they were very smart before they ever got to college. They were smart enough to game the system to get through the admissions process. That is the thing about Harvard. It’s not going to Harvard that matters. It’s getting into Harvard. Once you get into Harvard, you’re done. It’s finished. No one fails. Everybody gets straight A’s. You’re going to walk out with that Harvard diploma, and you’ll be able to impress a declining number of stupid people who are still impressed by diplomas that say “Harvard.” Then you will spend your life dropping your Harvard affiliation thirty seconds into every single conversation you have for the rest of your life. It’s like being a Navy SEAL, except you’re from Cambridge and can’t do a push-up.

These subpar products of academia completely infiltrated our government, corporations, and cultural institutions. The leftists love academia because, through it, the left can self-select our elite. But our elite is not elite. Academia masquerades as an educational enterprise. In reality, colleges are just a collection of forward operating bases in the culture war. And we’re tired of it. We’re tired of subsidizing them to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, especially when a third of their students are anti-American foreigners who come here to figuratively defecate on our country while taking full advantage of its largesse.

In a parallel development, tech is disrupting academia’s cushy scam. It’s not just that students can AI their assignments. It’s that AI makes universities redundant. The idea of hundreds of people sitting in a large auditorium, listening to some professor drone on and on, is a 20th-century notion. It’s now the 21st century. Online learning doesn’t have the intimacy of sharing a giant lecture hall with 500 of your closest friends while you flick through your phone as the non-binary weirdo at the front of the hall up-talks on and on about indigenous trans decolonialization. But, for someone who wants to learn, it can teach cheap and fast.

That’s another thing. Academia has priced itself out of existence. You can easily spend $100,000 a year at one of these Ivy League schools. A lot of that is subsidized by taxpayers, but not for long. Normal Americans are now aware that normal Americans can’t get in, and that colleges are actively anti-white, anti-Asian, and anti-Jewish. You can get in only if you have some special something that ignites a tingle up the leg of the admissions officer – and every admissions officer is a Democrat woman on SSRIs. Maybe you don’t know what gender you are. Maybe your great-great-great-great-grandfather came from Uganda. Perhaps you’re some sort of communist punk. The regular Americans understand that this gateway to success (allegedly) is closed to them. And they’re tired of paying for it.

Academia is all out of friends on the right. There was a time when a Republican could stand up for colleges and not be crushed by the movement, but that time is long gone. It’s our enemy. We should make an example of it. And as we do that, there’s an immeasurable benefit to be had. We’ll get the left out of the business of choosing America’s elite.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/05/28/crushing-academia-may-be-the-best-thing-about-trump-20-n2657656?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Erasing All Doubt Dems Fully Intend to Restrict You to Their Plantation the Second They Can

Erasing All Doubt Dems Fully Intend to Restrict You to Their Plantation the Second They Can

Beege Welborn

Such happy little authoritative Malthusians.

The living, breathing adherents and practitioners of the ideology are particularly interesting in localities and states where, for some reason known only to God, they've managed to accrue power and wield it with a fierce, unmerciful intensity over their increasingly helpless peasant flock.

Conditions are especially egregious in states like Michigan or California, where the baser dictatorial impulses of the petty tyrants elected by duped, compliant, or seriously demented voters are enabled by toady legislatures codifying edicts that wouldn't even be broached in saner states.

Everyone's on the latest cult bandwagon, cost be damned, and who needs stinkin' inherent natural rights when the progressives are on a regulatory rampage?

For instance, Coloradans as a whole now get to foot the bill for transforming the homeliest of men into the woman of his deviant dreams.

Wave a magic wand and disenfranchise every normal voter who doesn't believe in your fantasy world, and then force them to subsidize the ongoing mental illness of others.

These progressive governments have that power.

In Massachusetts, what used to be considered the home of the American Revolution, that fighting spirit has lately been gradually whittled away by repeated, repressive Democratic governors, each a smidge more loony than the last.

The latest is Maura Healey, a climate cultist of the first order, who has committed her state to living in the Dark Ages in a fast and furious rush to decommission as much fossil-fuel, reliable, base power generation as she can in favor of unstable, unreliable, and extraordinarily expensive renewables.

The push is on to switch every MA home over to electrical utility appliances, but the state is in no shape to support it. And when consumers bite on the sales pitch, they wind up getting bit themselves.

Massachusetts is pushing homeowners to switch from oil or gas heat to electric heat pumps, but several people who have made that switch said they have buyer's remorse.
They said they were shocked at how expensive it was this winter to heat their homes with electricity and believe the state should have done more to lower the cost sooner, especially if it wants everyone to adopt electric heat pumps.
Laura and Joe Stephens could not believe their electric bills this winter. It was the first season after they scrapped their old furnace for a new air source electric heat pump that is supposed to be highly efficient.
"It's unaffordable," Laura Stephens said. "I thoroughly regret it."
Enticed by a rebate from Mass Save — the state's energy efficiency program — and facing an aging natural gas furnace, the Stephenses thought they were going green and would save some green by installing the heat pump.

What does the state care if you can 'afford it' or not?

That's not their problem. Gov Healey wants the state to be all-electric, period.

Sometimes other states and even the federal government do get in the way, which is what recently happened with MA's mandated switch to EVs statewide.

The state was going to start enforcing an expanding EV sales quota on auto manufacturers in 2026. That would gradually have increased to a total ban on gasoline-powered car sales in the state by 2035. However, the U.S. Senate's recent action blocking the EV mandate, which was part of a Green death pact with California and ten other states, has forced Massachusetts to push back its timeline by a year or two.

The internal combustion engine (ICE) and freedom of choice have a brief reprieve. Gov Healey framed it as her magnanimity allowing the pause.

One day after the U.S. Senate blocked California's plan to phase out gas-powered cars by 2035, Massachusetts is pausing enforcement of its own electric vehicle requirements, which were supposed to start next year.
Massachusetts is one of 11 states that followed California's lead and plan to ban new gas-powered cars by 2035.
As part of that plan, the state will require manufacturers to sell an increasing number of EVs each model year, which was supposed to start in 2026.
On Friday, Gov. Maura Healey announced the state Department of Environmental Protection will not enforce those requirements in 2026 and 2027, giving manufacturers more time to come into compliance.

I believe they are going to try to ride Trump out.

In the meantime, being foiled by a Republican controlled Senate that sometimes acts on promises hasn't stopped the scheming of the Green grifters and ardent authoritarians in the Bay State.

Strict as any Puritan town father who had stocks to clap miscreants into, members of the MA legislature are hard at work trying to make life more unbearable for residents, while keeping them from escaping.

A delightful older legislative harridan has come up with a plan to augment what she is sure will eventually be a preponderance of EVs on state roads. She is equally sure the EVs won't be enough to ease traffic.

Traffic must really annoy the crap out of her, because she wants to take cars away from citizens completely.

Ride a bike, Granny says. Or walk. You don't need to be anywhere that bad.

Or she'll make them so expensive to operate, you'll voluntarily give yours up.

(That's democracy in action right there to progressives - 'Oh, I didn't take it away from him. He GAVE IT UP!')

And if you feel like going because 'Murica, well...

The state will be tracking you to make sure you don't overdo whatever limits they set on you.

I didn't see a 'for the children,' but I'm sure it's in there somewhere.

Discussion continues on ways to reduce motor vehicle traffic on Massachusetts's overcrowded roadways while at the same time tending to environmental concerns, real or perceived.
At least one prominent state lawmaker is proposing that the state set limits on the use of private vehicles.
Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Stone Creem, whose district includes Brookline, Newton and Wellesley, has filed legislation based on laws she says have been adopted in Colorado and Minnesota that reduce vehicle miles while addressing environmental concerns.

She seems nice.

It's plain as the nose on her face what the plan is and what the fraudulent excuse to do so is.

But they'd have to stop voting for these people first.

Find that tea dumping spirit again.

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/27/erasing-all-doubt-dems-fully-intend-to-restrict-you-to-their-plantation-the-second-they-can-n3803178?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The Collapse of the Old Guard: How Obama, Pelosi, and the Press Finally Lost Control

The Collapse of the Old Guard: How Obama, Pelosi, and the Press Finally Lost Control

David Manney

For more than a decade, the Democratic Party operated like a palace, ruled not by consensus but by decree. Its monarchs were familiar: President Barack Obama with his golden tongue and cool detachment, Nancy Pelosi with her iron gavel, and a press corps that never met a Democrat it couldn’t describe as “historic.”

Together, they built something. Not a movement but an illusion.

Now, in the wake of President Joe Biden’s implosion and Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the spell has broken. What was once ironclad unity has dissolved into whispered recriminations, panicked donor calls, and a leadership vacuum the size of Pennsylvania Avenue. The old guard, who orchestrated Biden’s rise and propped up his administration long after the engine failed, is learning what all empires do: illusions cannot govern forever.

Obama’s Aura Fades

There was a time when Barack Obama could end primary campaigns with a sentence and turn congressional tides with a smirk. His approval alone anointed candidates, even as his own policy legacy, Obamacare, Iran, and record-setting deficits, faded into dysfunction.

But in 2024, the man who once promised that oceans would stop rising could not even convince Joe Biden to step aside.

Reports now confirm Obama privately urged Biden not to run again. But he lacked either the courage or the leverage to say it publicly. He blinked. He defaulted to the back-channel whispering and careful leaks. And that hesitation was costly.

Biden stayed. The campaign withered. The debate disaster happened. Trump’s victory followed. Obama’s influence didn’t just wane; it evaporated.

This was no accident. It was the culmination of a post-presidency spent giving Netflix notes and convention speeches rather than confronting his party’s descent into elite detachment and Silicon Valley groupthink. His legacy now includes handing the White House to President Donald Trump. Twice.

Pelosi’s Empire Cracks

Nancy Pelosi, too, tried to assert her will. The grand tactician of Capitol Hill privately warned Biden not to run, worried that his continued presence would sink House Democrats. But the same machine she helped build, she could no longer command. Her call was ignored.

Once feared as a legislative assassin, Pelosi was reduced to the role of elder stateswoman, respected, yes, but irrelevant. She, like Obama, had failed to groom successors with enough spine or savvy to take command.

Instead, she left behind Kamala Harris: historically unpopular, politically tone-deaf, and ultimately unelectable. It was Pelosi, remember, who forced Harris onto the ticket in 2020, bowing to pressure from intersectional activists rather than merit. And it was Pelosi who cheered as Biden coasted to the nomination while others whispered his time had passed.

By the time the alarms were sounding, her party had no escape route.

The Biden Mirage

The 2024 presidential debate wasn’t just a debacle. It was a reckoning. Joe Biden, once the “bridge to the next generation,” stood exposed: confused, fragile, and glaringly unfit.

Gone were the teleprompters, the stage-managed interviews, and the smiling staffers ready to usher him offstage. For ninety televised minutes, Americans saw the reality that had been hidden, downplayed, or outright denied for years.

Worse still, it wasn’t new. The signs were everywhere: fumbling speeches, bizarre anecdotes, extended absences, declining energy. The problem wasn’t just Biden. It was the network of enablers who knew and said nothing.

Dubbed the “politburo” by staff, Biden’s inner circle, Ron Klain, Anita Dunn, and Mike Donilon, operated like the last loyalists in a collapsing Soviet regime. They suppressed challengers, controlled press access, and silenced staffers who raised concerns. Their loyalty wasn’t to the country. It was to the myth.

Down-Ballot Casualties

As Biden faltered, he pulled others down with him. Democrats who spent years dodging questions about Biden’s condition were suddenly forced to answer for him and themselves.

In swing states, candidates found themselves tied to a president they dared not criticize. In blue states, enthusiasm cratered. Independents bolted. Latinos shifted right. Even union households, long considered reliable Democrats, gave Trump a second look.

The result? A GOP House majority. Republican gains in the Senate. And the end of the narrative that Democrats alone represented the “future.”

Down-ballot races suffered because the top of the ticket was a sandbag tied to their ankles. And the party that once claimed to be the voice of youth, working families, and change now looked like a dusty museum exhibit of bad ideas.

A New Generation or Just New Faces?

With the old guard exposed and the Biden era finished, a new class of Democrats has tried to seize the reins. But instead of boldness or vision, they’ve offered little more than selfies and soundbites.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom fancies himself the heir apparent, but his California is bleeding population, businesses, and tax revenue. He lectures red states while managing one of the nation’s highest crime rates and most unlivable cities.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commands social media but not swing voters. Her faction trades in moral absolutism and economic fantasy but has yet to pass a meaningful piece of national legislation.

Even Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the relatively most palatable of the bunch, still carries baggage from her pandemic power grabs and inconsistent policies.

These are not reformers. They are climbers. The slogans have changed, but the playbook remains: scapegoat the right, reward coastal donors, and hope the media stays friendly.

The Press: Last Bastion of the Deluded

If the Democratic Party has suffered a fall, the media has orchestrated its own slow suicide. Once the proud champions of the First Amendment, legacy outlets like NPR, CNN, and The New York Times now act as apologists, archivists, and airbrush artists.

They didn’t just miss the Biden story. They buried it.

Rather than investigate the President’s cognitive issues, they mocked those who did. Rather than cover the laptop scandal, they called it Russian disinformation. When Biden froze, stammered, or wandered off stage, they called it “elder statesmanship.”

Now that the truth is unavoidable, they pivot, not out of courage, but necessity. They don’t admit guilt. They just quietly change the headlines.

These institutions don’t believe in the First Amendment. They believe they are the First Amendment. NPR’s editorial board declared itself the standard-bearers of truth, mere days before being exposed for internal censorship, narrative policing, and ideological echo chambers.

Real journalism happens now on Substack, Rumble, podcasts, and independent platforms. The bravery that once defined war correspondents now lives in citizen reporters who risk cancellation, demonetization, and legal threats for saying out loud what Americans already know.

The establishment press didn’t just lose its way. It gave up the map.

A Reckoning, Long Overdue

The Democratic Party is not dying. But the version built by Obama, enforced by Pelosi, and protected by the media is collapsing. It survived on control, not consent. Illusion, not honesty. And when pressed by the weight of its own contradictions, it buckled.

This is not just the end of a presidency. It is the end of a pantomime, where elites pretended to lead, the press pretended to question, and voters pretended not to notice the decline.

But America noticed. And America voted.

In 2025, the reckoning isn’t just political. It’s moral. It’s historical. It’s long overdue. And it is, at last, underway.

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/27/the-collapse-of-the-old-guard-how-obama-pelosi-and-the-press-finally-lost-control-n4940192?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl