Conservative Article Reference List

December 3, 2024 – Update In Process

Epoch Times: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law – A member of the country’s People Power party said martial law was necessary because his political opposition, which controls South Korea’s national assembly, had paralyzed government work. – The South Korean president further accused his political opposition of sympathizing with North Korea.

Zero Hedge: As Many As 200,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Have Deserted – Ukrainian officials and soldiers told the AP that “Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity.” – The report adds, “Entire units have abandoned their posts…

Real Clear Defense: Yes, the President Can Deploy Troops To Enforce US Immigration Law – The issue hinges on two 19th-century laws: the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and the Insurrection Act of 1807. – When properly understood, both allow the President to use active-duty military forces to support the deportation of illegal immigrants.

The Federalist: Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His Son, Hunter – By pardoning his son for more than a decade of potential crimes, the president is protecting himself above all. – After all, President Biden is the one at the center of the influence-peddling and bribery schemes that Hunter ran while Biden was vice president…

Geller Report: In Trump’s first term, Jews were declared to be a minority group protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. – Just weeks away from his second term, Trump laid down the law in a speech he gave at a rally against antisemitism in DC. – “American universities that fail to combat antisemitism on their campuses should expect severe repercussions, including the loss of accreditation and federal research contracts.”…

Zero Hedge: Leftist “news” channel MSNBC is facing a ratings crisis, with some of its advertiser-coveted viewership dropping to a two-decade low, according to Nielsen data. – During the week of Nov. 6, MSNBC averaged just 38,000 viewers among adults 25-54, its lowest-rated non-holiday weekday since July 19, 2004.

American Thinker: The ‘Woke’ Awakening – The list of companies and individuals dialing back from and/or disavowing DEI- and CRT-related initiatives has taken a sharp uptick, with Walmart the latest to join the list. – Now, with President Trump’s decisive victory, it is as though a once-silent majority feels unmuzzled concerning DEI and CRT…

American Thinker: Will Big Food Be The Next Big Tobacco? – Among Americans, but particularly among children, obesity is endemic. – Kennedy’s primary target is ultra-processed foods, which are chockful of sugars, salt, and saturated fats — though, worse, are additives, chemicals, and preservatives…

December 2, 2024

Western Journal: Two US Navy Destroyers Come Under Attack While Escorting American Ships – U.S. Navy destroyers USS Stockdale and the USS O’Kane successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden, Nov. 30 — Dec. – The destroyers were escorting three U.S. owned and operated flagged merchant vessels…

Front Page: Biden’s Lebanon Ceasefire Already Fell Apart, lasting approximately four days. – During that time, Hezbollah began advancing back to its old positions, setting up rocket launchers, fortifying, and preparing to launch new attacks, all in violation of the ceasefire. – Israel responded by taking out the incoming forces, and Hezbollah is back to firing rockets into Israel. – So much for the ceasefire.

Fox News: Karine Jean-Pierre faces press grilling after Biden pardons his son Hunter – KPG previously insisted 6 times that Biden had no plans to pardon Hunter – This time, she maintained that Hunter was targeted “because his last name was Biden and because he was the president’s son.”

American Spectator: The Biden Corruption – It is a well-documented historical fact that presidential historians have consistently rated Buchanan, the 15th president, and Harding, the 29th, as two of the worst presidents in American history. – An investigation into Biden family activities was held by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee. – The Biden family business model is built on Joe Biden’s political career and connections…

Just The News: An influential retired FBI leader says agents back Kash Patel as the next director,  ‘He’s the right fix.’ – After President Biden pardoned his son because of the “politicization” of the FBI, Kash Patel’s nomination may very well justify Team Trump’s approach to cleaning house at the revered agency that allowed “politics to usurp crime fighting,” says a former FBI Special Agent and Supervisor Jeff Danik.

Slay News: Lame-duck President Joe Biden’s administration has announced that the key coal-producing Wyoming’s Powder River Basin has been blocked from conducting any new mining to comply with the Democrats globalist green agenda. – The mining block impacts a region producing nearly half of America’s coal supply. – However, it could be short-lived as President Donald Trump prepares to make U.S. energy dominance a key focus of his incoming administration.

Center Square: The federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled. – The 29-page ruling was written by Judge Daniel Bress, with judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton concurring.

Washington Examiner: The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a landmark case that could set a pivotal precedent on states’ authority to regulate transgender hormone therapy procedures for minors. – At the heart of the set for oral arguments, Wednesday is whether Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, a law barring puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Updates For This Date Are Above This Note

New York Post: Elon Musk gloats as X “Community Notes” fact-check an old Biden tweet that ‘no one is above the law’ after his Hunter pardon – “By pardoning his son Hunter, not merely for a single crime, but for actual or potential crimes he may or may not have created over eleven years, Joe Biden has made clear that some people are, in fact, above the law.”

Zero Hedge: Democrats Are In Disarray Over Joe’s Hunter Pardon As Their ‘Rule Of Law’ Narrative Implodes – Hunter was simply the Biden family bag-man: In 2013-2014, the US orchestrated a violent coup that toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected government, ousting of President Yanukovych. – April 16, 2014: VP Biden meets with Devon Archer at the White House. – April 21, 2014: VP Biden visits Ukraine and becomes U.S. policy face. – April 22, 2014: Archer joins Burisma’s board. – April 28, 2014: British officials seized $23M from Burisma’s owner. – May 12, 2014: Hunter Biden joins Burisma’s board, and both were paid millions…

Slay News: Joe Biden Pardoned Hunter to Save Himself – As soon as the news was announced, speculation raged as to what made Biden change his mind. – According to Jack Posobiec, a White House insider has alleged that Hunter Biden forced his father to issue a pardon by giving him an ultimatum. – Jack Posobiec, “Over Thanksgiving, Hunter told his father about a book he was writing that would go public disclosing everything.”

The Federalist: After Hunter’s Pardon, It’s Time To Prosecute The Rest Of The Biden Crime Family – If the Bidens want to escape legal accountability for their pay-for-play operation, Joe had better be ready to pardon the whole family because other family members also received a piece of the pie.

American Wire: ‘Absolute sh*t bag’ – Hunter Biden allegedly owes a California family $300K in back rent – It’s kind of a scary family to go after. – The family could not access the property because Biden changed the locks and had Secret Service guarding him at the property.

Front Page: The Media Will Never Stop Covering for Biden – Much like Biden’s senility, the only problem with Biden’s corruption is he got caught. – The problem is not that Joe Biden all but admitted to the accusations of foreign influence peddling with that 11-year pardon, it’s that Republicans have noticed and that this damages Democrats in general.

The Federalist: Joe Biden Tries To Justify Hunter Pardon By Peddling Another Round Of Lies – Americans would be much more understanding of the pardon had Joe just played the fatherly love card instead of treating us as a bunch of dullards ready to accept his latest lie. – Joe Biden’s claim of justification for the pardon that his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” runs up against reality…

American Thinker: Kash Patel is exactly the right man for today’s FBI – FBI Associate Director Mark Fell, playing the role of Deep Throat, took down a duly elected President of the United States, Richard Nixon. – Comey and his gang tried to do the same thing to President Trump, but they couldn’t pull it off. – Now Trump is back, and he’s loaded for bear.

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – All twenty-four cabinet positions have been announced, with eight of them being women.

American Conservative: Trump’s Coming Immigration Showdown – Blue states are preparing to confront the federal government over enforcing American immigration laws. – Their anti-populist Democratic effort will rely on the work of hundreds of lawyers being recruited to combat Trump policies. Advocacy groups are workshopping cases and recruiting potential plaintiffs to challenge expected regulations, laws, and administrative actions.

Breitbart: Two migrants with violent criminal records were included among a host of migrants removed by ICE during the Thanksgiving holiday week. – According to ICE, the violent offenders were wanted in their home countries for murder and attempted murder in Honduras and Ecuador. – The pair of violent offenders were among hundreds removed during the holiday weekend.

American Thinker: Regarding Birthright Citizenship, The 14th Amendment Does Not Apply to Illegal Aliens – Once one understands English common law, the intention behind the 14th Amendment, and subsequent case authority, it’s not even close.

Victor Davis Hanson: Yes, Mexico Knows Exactly What It Is Doing – Mexico understands that an open border, the destruction of U.S. immigration law, illegal immigration, and the emigration of millions of its citizens to America are entirely in its best interests. – Mexico would face insolvency if it did not receive its current $63 billion in U.S. remittances, largely sent by its people who crossed into the U.S. illegally. – An additional lever would perhaps be to slap a tax on all remittances sent from the U.S. to Mexico…

American Thinker: The other huge budget deficit is at the Fed! – How is it possible for the Federal Reserve to owe the government $210 billion? – The blame is not just on Powell. The incompetence at the Fed began in 2010 when Ben Bernanke was Fed chair. – Bernanke’s predecessor, Alan Greenspan, had done a good job of keeping the economy on an even keel. – When Powell’s current term ends in May 2026, Trump will have the opportunity to replace him with someone competent…

Breitbart: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declared Monday that American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra, who was thought to have been taken alive to Gaza, was killed during the October 7 terror attack and his body abducted by Hamas. – Omer, who was 21 years old when he was killed, immigrated to Israel and joined the IDF as a “lone solder,” a term referring to those who join the military without any immediate family in Israel.

Slay News: Major Car Manufacturer Nissan Is On ‘Brink of Collapse,’ With Thousands Of Jobs At Risk – The Japanese auto firm that employs 17,000 people in the US and tens of thousands more around the world has embarked on a huge cost-cutting program. – Many of Nissan’s rivals have pushed ahead more successfully with popular hybrid cars. – CEO Uchida told reporters: “We weren’t able to foresee that hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids would be so popular.”

New York Sun: California’s Attorney General Wants Holiday Shoppers To Report Stores Lacking ‘Gender-Neutral’ Toy Options – Even the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times says the legislation ‘represents nannyish overreach. – As of January 1, 2024, large retail department stores that sell childcare items or toys must maintain a gender-neutral section for these items,” California AG Rob Bonta’s office said in a recent memo.

FAR: California Fleein’ (Beach Boys Parody) – I’ve lived here my entire life and have sadly observed why what was once referred to as the “Golden State” deserves a new title as “The Turd Capitol Of America.”

December 1, 2024

Western Journal: Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden after the first son was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year. – The pardon applies to offenses against the U.S. that Hunter Biden “has committed or may have committed” from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024.

Western Journal: Here Are Six Times Karine Jean-Pierre Said President Biden Wouldn’t Pardon His Son Hunter – President Biden officially pardoned his son Sunday night.

Western Journal: Trump asks about the ‘J-6 Hostages’ in response to Biden’s pardon of Hunter – “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?” Trump wrote. “Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” – The Trump transition team also reacted to the pardon for Hunter Biden.

American Thinker: The Kash Patel nomination is making all the right people very nervous – This is a brilliant nomination for people who believe in truth, justice, and the American way. – Kash has made clear that his goal is to shut down the FBI as it exists today and return the good agents to work on actual federal crimes rather than persecuting the Democrat party’s ideological enemies.

The Daily Fetched: Donald Trump’s s nominee to head up the FCC, Brendan Carr, had outlined plans to crush the “censorship cartel” and rein in biased media networks and social media giants. – Carr, who currently serves as the senior Republican on the commission, has endorsed a series of plans to reign in the biased use of public broadcasting licenses by left-leaning major networks.

Trending Politics: Pelosi is reportedly leading an effort to replace longtime Representative Jerry Nadler as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee with Representative Jamie Raskin. – Raskin is a far-left radical who sat on the January 6 Committee that defied House rules when Pelosi refused to allow Republicans to appoint their representatives, which broke decades of House precedent.

American Spectator: The Indefatigable California Vote Factory – Manufactured mail-in votes cost the GOP at least three House seats. – It is likely answer is that Democrat vote counters in Merced, Stanislaus, San Joaquin, and Orange counties mined their caches of defective ballots and “fixed” enough to put their candidates over the top. – California is a universal mail-in state where Voter ID is illegal, and every person listed on its voter rolls is automatically sent a postage-paid ballot.

Breitbart: Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired another ballistic missile at Israel on Sunday morning, in a gesture of defiance against President-elect Donald Trump and despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. – IDF stated, “Following the sirens that sounded between 06:21-06:22 in the areas of the Shfela, Lakhish, and the Yarkon, one projectile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF [Israeli Air Force] before its crossing into Israeli territory.”

Breitbart: Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising Russia’s 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine. – Around 32.5% of the budget posted on a government website Sunday has been allocated for national defense, amounting to 13.5 trillion rubles (over $145 billion), up from a reported 28.3% this year.

Zero Hedge: The Mainstream Media Admits Zelensky Is More Unpopular Than Ever After Nearly 3 Years Of War – Just 16% would vote to re-elect him for a second term, according to an opinion poll of 1,200 Ukrainians published this week by the Social Monitoring Centre in Kyiv. – The poll, the most comprehensive study of electoral preferences since the invasion began in 2022, also found that about 60% would prefer Zelensky not even stand for re-election.

Just The News: Kash Patel’s Prescription For An Ailing FBI, Accountability And House Cleaning – Patel, “The folks in power at the FBI and the intelligence community making these leadership decisions are terrified that their corruption, not the Bidens, and certainly not Donald Trump, but their corruption in government in senior positions will be exposed and subject to law enforcement.”…

Townhall: Meet Trump’s DEA Pick – In addition to selecting Kash Patel to head the FBI, he also selected Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister to be the next administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration. – The DEA is part of the DOJ. It has approximately 10,000 employees and is tasked with enforcing America’s drug laws. – Among its major edicts has been addressing the opioid crisis.

InfoWars: “How Many FBI Agents Were Present for J6?” – Kash Patel will finally reveal how many FBI agents were present at the Capitol, according to Representative Mike Collins – This week, Ray Epps lost a defamation battle against Fox News, which labeled him an undercover agent. – Since the events at the Capitol on 6 January 2021, there has been intense interest in the possibility that agents provocateurs were at the Capitol, guiding protesters to enter the building and encouraging them to commit vandalism and violence.

American Greatness: What is the Administrative State? – Simply stated, ‘The administrative state’ is that quota of political power that covertly fills the vacuum left by the failure of the legislative branch to discharge its obligations. – No longer are the people sovereign. The bureaucracy is. – The administrative state violates any number of Constitutional norms, not least its being a sort of “fourth branch” of government when the Constitution provides for only three…

Front Page: Trump’s Mandate is Being Stolen in California – It’s 26 days since the election, and 90,000 ballots are still to be counted. – Beyond flipping House seats, California Democrats are trying to flip the popular vote so that they can argue that Trump doesn’t have a mandate.

American Thinker: Control The Food And Control The MAHA – Abandon food production to globalist profiteers, then all is lost, as there is no MAHA and no MAGA. – What good is liberty without health? – The merging of the Kennedy platform with Trump’s offered Americans a dual vision, not just for economic growth and safer streets, but safer meals and a shift toward reducing illness, especially for children…

Washington Examiner: Four big deadlines in 2025 that will put Congress and Trump on a collision course – 1. Debt Ceiling – 2. Sequestration Cuts – 3. The Trump Tax Cuts – 4. The Obamacare subsidies…

Washington Examiner: Trump can axe entrenched DEI frameworks during his first week back in the White House – The fight against ‘wokeness’ is only just starting – Day 1 executive orders and agency overhaul – A shoulder tap on corporate America – Reforms in education and beyond – Litigation as a policy tool…

Washington Free Beacon: Hong Kong Hero And Troublemaker – How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic. – The thuggish CCP viewed Lai as a unique and unusual threat given his wealth, ownership of a media company, deep Catholic faith, and commitment to democracy and free enterprise. – Lai’s downfall began in 2014 when he was one of the pro-democracy leaders arrested during the Umbrella Movement, a mass protest against the CCP’s interference in how Hong Kong elects its chief executive…

November 30, 2024

Liberty Daily: Elon Musk Reveals the Very Moment He Decided To Endorse President Trump – When you are under actual fire, you show whether you are brave or a coward – Fight, Fight, Fight…

Fox News: Donald Trump has named longtime ally Kashyap “Kash” Patel, who has been a frequent and harsh critic of the FBI, to serve as the bureau’s next director in the new administration. – Patel, 44, is an attorney with experience in national security, intelligence, and counterterrorism and helped uncover the bureau’s surveillance of the Trump campaign during his first term.

Liberty Daily: Kash Patel’s Qualifications Are Beyond Impressive – Kash Patel is arguably the MOST qualified FBI Director nominee in history, – Here’s his background: Kash served as the Chief of Staff to the DoD and Deputy Assistant to President Trump. – He served as Deputy Director of National Intelligence, where he oversaw all 17 Intelligence Community agencies. – Kash led President Trump’s counterterrorism mission as Deputy Assistant to the President on the National Security Council, and this long list goes on…

Slay News: The DOJ has just arrested and charged multiple new January 6 defendants despite promises of leniency from incoming President Donald Trump. – Trump has pledged to end what he calls “political prosecutions” when he takes office in less than two months. – Rather than halting their crusade against the people in and around the Capitol that day, Biden’s DOJ and FBI have doubled down on their pursuit…

Epoch Times: Donald Trump has nominated Charles Kushner, a prominent real estate developer and father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the next U.S. ambassador to France. – Trump described Kushner as “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our country & its interests.”

One America News: Donald Trump’s campaign has dismissed claims that he plans to discharge members of the military who are transgender. – Trump’s incoming White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, recently said that “no decisions on the issue have been made.” – This comes after reports this week said Trump plans to reinstate and expand a ban on transgender military service members and discharge active personnel.

Slay News: Biden’s Education Department Targeted Christian Schools – A new report by the American Principles Project showed that nearly 70% of fines and enforcement by the DOE were against Christian colleges, even though less than 10% of all students attend these schools. – Two of the largest and most prominent Christian universities, Liberty University and Grand Canyon University, faced “larger fines than all of the past seven years combined.”…

Powerline: Is It Still a Conspiracy Theory If It’s True? – I had never listened to or watched a Joe Rogan podcast, mostly because they are three hours long. – But on Tuesday, Rogan interviewed billionaire tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, and I was intrigued by this very short clip…

American Thinker: Profits in Child-Trafficking – The outsourcing of duties to private contractors allows the government to distance itself from the child-trafficking operation, proliferating right under its nose. – The common thread of these programs is they are being outsourced from the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to contractors…

Townhall: Joe Biden Rushes to ‘Loan’ $6 Billion To The Failing EV Company Rivian – The loan is to enable Rivian to build a factory a new factory in Georgia. – The project has been paused because the startup struggles to get its feet on the ground. – As of September, the EV company’s debt had reached $5.46 billion, a 100 percent increase from the previous year…

American Greatness: Al Gore’s Climate Alarmism: A Political Agenda Masked as Science – Al Gore’s climate movement is built on a foundation of political manipulation and scientific misrepresentation. – It was at Vanderbilt Divinity School that Gore studied with radical environmental preachers and where the reading list included a popular 1940s environmental cataclysm book called Our Plundered Planet…

American Thinker: Climate Initiatives Change Nothing in the Real World – The UN created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 to acquire the authority to run the global economy to supposedly “save the planet” and “equitably” share the benefits of “sustainable” development. – There are no UN mandates. – This concept was formally eliminated at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Annual Tryptophan Hangover Edition – The Week in Pictures: Annual Tryptophan Hangover Edition – So it’s Thanksgiving Weekend when we work off our tryptophan hangovers and calorie overdoses and wonder why the Chicago Bears are trying to make the Dallas Cowboys look good…

November 29, 2024

New York Post: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to hand over territory to Russia in exchange for NATO protection if it means ending the war. – “If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under [the] NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelensky said through a translator in an interview with Sky News Friday.

Slay News: Federal authorities have arrested a suspected terrorist from the Middle East who illegally crossed the Northern Border from Canada. – Jordanian “migrant” caught trying to enter the U.S. is a known terrorist. – According to ICE Enforcement Removal Operations in Seattle, Mohammed Hasan Abdellatif Albana, 41, was captured near the northern border of Lynden, Washington.

Western Journal: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago Amid Steep Tariff Threats – A person familiar with the matter said Trudeau will have dinner with Trump. – The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.

American Thinker: Jack Smith’s Bitter’s Last Stand – There are multiple accounts that Smith is preparing a smear report on Trump that Garland will release publicly sometime before the inauguration. – This stinks to high heaven, but then Jack Smith isn’t a legitimate prosecutor, as a judge has ruled. – Therefore, he sees no reason to act like professional prosecutors do. – The gross thing here is that this just isn’t done, except for President Trump…

Zero Hedge: Democrat Mayors Say They Will Use Police To Obstruct Trump’s Deportation Of Illegals – There are only two issues that Democrats might care more about than the national legalization of abortion: Blocking the passage of voter ID laws and blocking the mass deportation of illegal immigrants. – The reason should be relatively obvious – Keeping the border open and illegal immigrants flowing into the US is the key to election victory for progressives in the long run.

American Thinker: The ICC arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are an Insult To Biden And America. – Imagine what the world would look like if, after WWII, foreign judges took it upon themselves to issue arrest warrants for Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman. – Unsurprisingly, Canada announced its willingness to honor the warrants, and the European Union is urging member states to do the same…

Zero Hedge: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte admitted this week that Ukraine is not in a strong enough position to negotiate an end to the war, observing that they don’t have enough battlefield leverage to “prevent the Russians from getting what they want.” – Even more revealing, “We have to make sure that Ukraine is in a position of more strength than they are at the moment,” Rutte continued, “so that a deal can be struck which is favorable not to the Russians — and therefore to China, North Korea and Iran — because they all will be watching.”

Breitbart: Donald Trump’s vow to dismantle the censorship cartel of “misinformation” researchers and media blacklisters like NewsGuard and Big Tech has sent shivers through the academic community that has dedicated itself to censoring conservatives. – Researchers and academics who study alleged digital “misinformation” are growing increasingly worried that the new administration will follow through on campaign threats to crack down on their work…

Issues & Insights: Election Be Damned, Google’s Anti-Trump Bias Is Alive And Well – According to Google, our article “Unburdened By What Has Been, Trump Is Poised To Deliver Bigly” was “unreliable and harmful. – It makes demonstrably false claims that could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process. – Promotes harmful health claims or relates to a major health crisis and contradicts authoritative scientific consensus...

The Daily Fetched: Justin Trudeau made some panicked moves after President-elect Donald Trump recently promised he would impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods and services entering the U.S. – Trudeau appeared to downplay any disagreement with Trump, telling reporters he has a “good” conversation with Trump…

Zero Hedge: Satellite Analysis Shows The Enormity Of The Secretive Oil Shipping Hub That Is Funneling Crude From Iran To China. – Trump’s pledged ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran is likely to have huge repercussions for Beijing because China, the world’s biggest buyer of oil, would face a squeeze on its flow of cheap Iranian crude to its shores.

American Thinker: Peggy Noonan’s Downfall – Like most mainstream conservative commentators of that era, Peggy Noonan abandoned both her conservative and journalistic principles to devolve into a rabid hater of President Trump. – As always, consumers must be deeply skeptical while consuming any content from any media and treat everything as false until proven true after appropriate due diligence.

Geller Report: New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the end of a program that provided prepaid debit cards worth up to $18,500 annually to migrant families, so the illegals are protesting widely. – Who is organizing these mass protests, and who is paying for them? – This speaks to something much larger: the destruction of our country…

Breitbart: The International Court of Justice in The Hague will begin consideration Monday of a host of proposed penalties the U.N. can implement against countries that defy its proclamation on protecting the environment. – The hearings at the Peace Palace come days after a bitterly negotiated climate deal at the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, which decreed that developed countries must provide at least $300 billion a year by 2035 for climate finance.

American Thinker: Eighty Years Is Enough – The UN was founded on noble principles, but its presence in the U.S. has come at a significant cost to American taxpayers, New Yorkers, and our national priorities. – The US pays more than its fair share, a whopping 22% of its regular budget and 25% of its peacekeeping costs, while many member states contribute far less. – At the same time, the UN often acts against U.S. interests…

New York Sun: Budget Hawks Say Trump Could Slash up to $1.4 Trillion in Federal Spending Just by Reversing Some of Biden’s Executive Actions – A report from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is laying out ‘easy’ ways to slash spending. – The most significant opportunity for slashing spending, according to the CRFB, is Mr. Biden’s student debt cancelation policies, assuming courts do not strike them down…

November 28, 2024

Washington Examiner: Putin’s first remarks since Trump beat Kamala Harris in November – “As far as I imagine the again-elected president, he is an intelligent person, already quite experienced, and I think he will find a solution.” – “He behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man.”

Fox News: Putin mulls striking Kyiv with its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile that has a range of between 310 miles and 3,100 miles. – The Oreshnik can be outfitted with a non-nuclear or nuclear warhead. – Russia has not been able to strike government buildings in Kyiv, but Putin says Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile cannot be intercepted…

Washington Examiner: Trump transition will continue to run on private donations despite striking a deal with the Biden administration – The Trump transition said its decision will “save taxpayers’s hard-earned money,” and Republicans previously argued that rejecting the federal funds was warranted, given prior reports on anti-Trump actions taken by the GSA.

New York Post: There Were Mass Arrests at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade As Anti-Israel Protesters Block The Procession – NYPD officers quickly descended upon the group as they were tackled to the ground and placed in handcuffs. – Cops cuffed about 25 protesters “without incident” and hauled them away to face pending charges…

Resist The Mainstream: Texas Troopers Discover 10-Year-Old Boy Abandoned at the Border on Thanksgiving – The boy, who had been abandoned by human smugglers, was left vulnerable and frightened in unfamiliar territory. – The boy explained that he had been traveling with a larger group of migrants but was left behind. – The child only had a phone and stated his parents were in the US.

American Conservative: Congress Dozes as Biden Dangerously Escalates in Ukraine – It is the legislature’s constitutional duty to keep a leash on American war powers. – The dangerous situation in Ukraine demonstrates the need for war powers reform. – What if Russia retaliates against Ukraine for striking targets within Russia and accidentally or intentionally kills an American contractor?…

Slay News: Russia Launches ‘Massive’ Missile Strike Against Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure – Thursday’s evening strike involved more than 200 missiles and drones and knocked out power for more than a million households. The areas affected include the Lviv region in western Ukraine, the northwestern Rivne region, the bordering Volyn region, and the west Ivano Frankivsk region…

Geller Reports: It appears TREASON Was Committed As A Declassified Susan Rice Email Confirms Michael Flynn Was Personally Targeted In An Oval Office Meeting – The newly declassified portions of the Jan. 5 Rice email confirm that the targeting of Flynn was coordinated within the inner sanctum of the White House and that both Obama and Biden were deeply involved in the campaign to take down Flynn…

American Thinker: Hell May Have Just Frozen Over because META’s Mark Zuckerberg appears to be climbing aboard the Trump train! – Incoming WH Deputy Chief of Policy, Stephen Miller, said, “Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing in America and all around the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.”…

The Federalist: 40 Things To Be Grateful For After Donald Trump’s Historic Win – 1. A coalition of married, working-class, religious, suburban, exurban, and rural voters stood up for the America they remember, which isn’t quite lost. 2. Black and brown citizens flocked to Trump, thereby putting to bed the idiotic smear that MAGA is a “white” movement. 3. Americans rejected a near-decade of lawfare, fake dossiers, wokeness, DEI, soft coups, and conspiracy theories…

Washington Post: Election Day was nearly one month ago, yet Harris is still asking for cash – Her campaign spent $ 1 billion and is in the hole for $ 20 million, so she is using a variety of tactics to rake in donations, ranging from shaming supporters for allegedly emboldening President-elect Donald Trump to claiming that the funds will be used to fund recounts, even though organizations like the Associated Press have already called control of the White House and Congress.

American Thinker: Western Europe’s Muslim Problem – The streets of major Western European cities are occupied territories. – In Europe today, Islamists and the radical left have allied themselves in the Green-Red alliance with a common antisemitic agenda under the guise of anti-Israelism. Their vocal demonstrations in the streets of Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, London, and Paris have intimidated the governments, who have done little to stem the gushing hate displayed and the violence accompanying such events…

FAR: Happy Thanksgiving – I hope everyone enjoys this special day. Here is a cheerful video to get things started. – On a more serious note, The late conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh delivered his final annual rendition of the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020. – The Real Story of Thanksgiving, going back to the very first early days of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock, is that socialism failed”…

New York Post: Mass arrests at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as anti-Israel protesters block the procession – Anti-Israel protesters tried to ruin the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for the second year running Thursday, with cops quickly swarming in to make mass arrests. – NYPD officers quickly descended upon the group, who shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as they were tackled to the ground and placed in handcuffs.

Breitbart: Eat less meat, Stop flying, Use public transport, Buy an electric vehicle, And Start Walking. – These are just some of the edicts the left-wing UK Labour Government’s main “climate-change” advisers insisted Wednesday are needed to impose on the general public to hit Net Zero goals.

Victor Davis Hanson: Universities Have a 2025 Rendezvous With Reality – Public confidence in universities has sharply declined due to rising costs, administrative bloat, ideological bias, student debt issues, and discrimination concerns. – Only 36% of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once. – Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years, and there is zero intellectual diversity on most university campuses…

November 27, 2024

True Jersey: Trump MAGA Loyalist Steve Bannon Explains ‘The Reason We Won’ – Elon Musk provided the vast majority of the money to America PAC, which focused on low-propensity and first-time voters. – It wasn’t just Musk’s money that helped Trump. The billionaire businessman became one of Trump’s highest-profile surrogates in the final months of the campaign, often joining the former president onstage. – His support gave Trump a clear opening into the universe of younger men who look up to Musk…

One America News: Trump Taps Former Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg To Serve As Special Envoy To Russia And Ukraine – Donald Trump, “I am very pleased to nominate General Keith Kellogg to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. – Keith has led a distinguished Military and Business career, including serving in highly sensitive National Security roles in my first Administration…

Associated Press: A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private consultations, said Wednesday that the outgoing Democrat administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilization age to 18 from the current age of 25 to expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia.

Western Journal: The Trump transition team is reportedly using a list of people vetted by the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 to help staff the incoming administration. – The conservative think tank has put together a database of thousands of potential candidates from which to draw.

Western Journal: Tom Homan, Trump Are About to Mount a Daring Rescue of 300,000 Missing Children – While the left ignores gang violence, illegals voting in our elections, and the most heinous crimes, including murder, there’s another dimension to President Joe Biden’s border policy that Trump and Homan will be forced to address is missing children. – Homan, “Some of these children are in forced labor, we already found some in forced labor. – Some are involved in forced sex trafficking. – Some of them are with pedophiles. – We need to save these children!”

Epoch Times: In Response To Trump’s Tariff Threats, Mexico’s President Notified Trump That ‘Migrant Caravans’ Are No Longer Arriving in US – For the federal government’s fiscal year ending Sept. 30, the Border Patrol made 1.53 million arrests of illegal immigrants after topping 2 million in each of the previous two years for the first time, according to CPB figures.

Fox News: Appeals court rules Texas has right to build razor wire border wall to deter illegal immigration – Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee during the president-elect’s first term, wrote for Wednesday’s majority that Texas was trying only to safeguard its property, not “regulate” U.S. Border Patrol, and was likely to succeed in its trespass claims. – Wednesday’s 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals clears the way for Texas to pursue a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of trespassing without having to remove the fencing.

Powerline: The Daily Chart, A California Exodus Update – California is no longer attractive to people to stay or come, except, of course, to foreign “migrants.” – Recent PPIC data suggest that every income class is now leaving the state. – Good sources say that Kamala Harris and her team are contacting leading Democratic donors and party leaders around California, asking that they prepare to clear the field for her to run for governor in 2026. Surely, it’s just what California needs.

Western Journal: Musk And Ramaswamy Signal Cuts –  “DOGE will help end federal overspending by aiming the $500 billion-plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”

Breitbart: “Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent threats to their lives and those who live with them.” – “These attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting.’” – “In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted,” said incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt…

The Guardian: What are the terms of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, and will it succeed? – A truce between Israel and the Lebanese militant group has come into effect after 14 months of fighting – The agreement follows the contours of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the 36-day Israel-Hezbollah war of 2006 but was never fully implemented…

Front Page: The Biden Administration Used An Israeli Arms Embargo Threat to Save Hezbollah – The Biden administration, the media, and the rest of the political infrastructure are billing this as a ‘ceasefire’ deal. – In reality, it’s a worthless agreement with Lebanon’s puppet regime, which is controlled by Hezbollah. – Hezbollah has made it clear that it’s going to continue attacking Israel and is claiming victory…

Breitbart: The Israeli Government Spox: – Israeli Government Spokesman David Mencer, “One reason for the ceasefire deal was to replenish weapons supplies, and there have been big delays in weapons and munitions deliveries from the U.S., but Israel also wanted to focus on Iran and isolate Hamas.” – “If Hezbollah violates the agreement and tries to re-arm, we will attack.”…

Geller Report: Muslim Schoolgirl Admits Lying That Her Teacher Showed Students Muhammad Cartoons, Which Led to Him Being Beheaded By Jihadi – She stuck to her story even after Paty’s death. – Only following her arrest and 30 hours of interrogation did she admit to investigators that she had made it all up.

Townhall: After completing the selection process of his incoming Cabinet, President-elect Trump entered the next phase of his administration’s transition by executing a Memorandum of Understanding with President Joe Biden’s White House. – This engagement allows his intended Cabinet nominees to begin critical preparations, including the deployment of landing teams to every department and agency, and to complete an orderly transition of power…

Epoch Times: Trump Completes His Cabinet, 10 Key Highlights – Transition chief of staff Susie Wiles announced the Cabinet was complete on Nov. 26. – Look for shake-ups on energy, health, and more, along with battles in the Senate absent recess appointments. – The faces of Trump 2.0 are young, with heavy representation from the business world. They also show less influence of the pre-Trump GOP establishment than his first Cabinet…

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – All twenty-three cabinet positions have been announced, with eight of them being women.

Zero Hedge: ‘Disheveled,’ ‘Drunk?’ Kamala Speaks For The First Time Since Conceding To Trump – It wasn’t her words that were of note (as usual), it was her appearance as many wondered why Harris looked so haggard and tired given that she has had the last three weeks off, with a lavish vacation in Hawaii.

Slay News: Jack Smith’s Anti-Trump Cases Cost Taxpayers $50 Million – Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith in November 2022 to launch two “investigations” into Trump. – One case was the federal Jan. 6 investigation into Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. – The other was related to Trump’s handling of sensitive classified documents, which Democrats claim was improper.

Townhall: Trump Gives a Massive Middle Finger to the FBI – Donald Trump’s transition team is planning for all political appointees to receive sweeping security clearances on the first day and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its officials are installed in key positions. – Trump’s team has regarded the FBI background check process with contempt for months…

Revolver: Trump stunned the ‘disinformation’ cartel with his pro-free speech FCC nominee. – Trump has tapped First Amendment champion Brendan Carr for the top FCC spot, and this guy is poised to dismantle the censorship industry with the force of a thousand suns. – ‘I’m pretty f****** scared,’ said one censor…

Breitbart: President-elect Donald Trump is being honored with a larger-than-life two-story tall bronze statue, which is being shaped to capture his iconic defiance in the wake of the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July. – Here are several photos of the statue, which is still under construction. – Backers behind the project hope to unveil the finished product at Trump’s inauguration.

Powerline: A Message From Kamala Harris – Democrats released a message from Kamala Harris. – As posted on X, it runs 29 seconds and is illustrative of Harris’s vacuity and weakness as a national candidate. It’s so bad it makes you wonder what they are thinking.

American Thinker: Having Learned About The Human Carnage Wrought By Biden’s Border Fiasco, Silence Is No Longer An Option – The testimony before Congress of the horrors transpiring primarily along our southern border is shocking. – More than half a million children have entered the US without parents and been sent to live with unvetted “sponsors.” – Criminal sponsors are defrauding the U.S. government by using this government program as a logistical chain in their trafficking operation.”…

Washington Free Beacon: Trump’s Border Czar Is Not Kidding – Tom Homan Prepares For A Deportation War With Blue City Mayors – Homan’s toolbox includes two provisions in the federal code. – Federal law prohibits an individual from knowingly harboring any illegal aliens from law enforcement. – It’s also a felony to hinder any law enforcement investigation—a charge Homan is likely to call for should any local or state leader attempt to slow down deportations.

American Thinker: Trump’s Necessary War On The Pro-Marxist College Accreditation System – When the new accreditors take office, their mission will be two-fold: political and academic. – Their political component will be to eliminate the Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and antisemitism that have lately run riot on our college campuses. – The academic component of the accreditors’ mission has, so far, received relatively less attention than the political component, but that oversight should be corrected.

Times Now World: Donald Trump appoints health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and co-author of “The Great Barrington Declaration,” to lead the National Institutes of Health, which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services. – Bhattacharya’s selection aligns with Trump’s broader health policy strategy, particularly following his recent nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr as secretary of HHS.

American Thinker: Do We Still Have to Pretend the 2020 Election Was ‘Free and Fair’? – In 2020, Joe Biden’s 81 million votes broke Barack Obama’s 2008 record of 69 million votes by 12 million votes or roughly 17 percent. – In 2024, Harris was denied the performance-enhancing juice that propelled Biden in 2020. – That juice was formidable. – The convenient arrival of COVID gave the Democrats a rationale for dismantling the safeguards against voter fraud in state after state…

Real Clear Politics: Once again, California is the last state to finish its vote counting, thanks to a set of vote-by-mail election laws the Democrat’s supermajority in the state legislature passed beginning last decade, supposedly to encourage more voter participation. – It has come with a cost: The state is now a national punchline for election inefficiency, and critics assail it as rife for fraud.

American Thinker: Trump Derangement Syndrome Saved America – TDS that caused this cabal to foolishly throw caution to the wind, then overtly and massively engage in voter fraud in 2020 to elect a senescent mannequin in Joe Biden, which then permanently alienated nearly half the electorate. – They then stupidly acquiesced to disastrous left-wing ideology in governing the nation. – Then, in 2023-24, they used lawfare in an attempt to imprison Trump, thus increasing his popularity among the bulk of the citizenry…

Zero Hedge: Billionaire Marc Andreessen Describes His “Alarming” Meeting With The Biden Administration To Joe Rogan That Prompted His Abandonment Of The Democrat Party And Endorsement Of Trump – They were taking us through their plans, and it was full government control. – There would be a small number of large AI companies that would be completely regulated and controlled by the government. – Rogan, “When you leave a meeting like that, what do you do?” – Andreessen, “You endorse Donald Trump.”

The Populist Times: Pete Hegseth’s Accuser “Obsessed” Over Him Until 2 am, Discussing his Ring and Women Drooling Over Him – A text exchange between Pete Hegseth’s accuser and her “close male associate” shows she was obsessing over him on the night she questionably claims he sexually assaulted her. – The 30-year-old, who was also married when she alleged she got drunk, ended up in Hegseth’s room, and “things got fuzzy.” – An obvious contradiction to her narrative is her admission to asking Hegseth if he had a condom.

Slay News: The attorneys general of 24 Republican states have called on the US Supreme Court to protect women’s and girls’ sports from radical leftist ideology by asking the high court to stop allowing males in female sports. – The move is just the latest shot in a culture war that appears to be finally breaking in the favor of conservatives.

American Thinker: The Electric Vehicle Doom Loop Is Almost Closed – The Big Three need to remember to relearn the basic economic principle of building products people want to buy at prices they can afford. – Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 EVs it sold in the first three months of the year – GM has been more secretive about its EV losses, though GM admits its EVs have not been “profitable…

November 26, 2024

The Center Square: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been appointed to lead a subcommittee dedicated to working with DOGE. – The Republican firebrand and close ally of Trump has already set her sights on rooting out “every penny of waste and abuse.” – “We’ll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda, we’ll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia and toilets in Africa,” among other things…

Revolver: Congress just put Ashli Babbitt’s killer on notice, and he’s got 1 week – Capitol Police Captain Michael Byrd is back in the crosshairs, and this time, he won’t have the Biden regime’s DOJ to protect him. – Investigative reporter Paul Sperry revealed that House Oversight investigators have set a deadline of December 12th for Capitol Police to hand over three years’ worth of electronic correspondence from Michael Byrd…

Zero Hedge: The Israeli Cabinet Has Approved A Ceasefire In Lebanon – In announcing the ceasefire, Netanyahu called out both Iran and Syria’s Assad. He stressed that Israel is “Determined to prevent Iran from having nuclear arms” and that Assad is “playing with fire” in his coordination with the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah…

Zero Hedge: More than 9,000 buildings and 7,000 vehicles have been damaged or destroyed by Hezbollah operations against the Israeli north since the start of the war, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday, highlighting the “unimaginable” losses ahead of the ceasefire deal with Lebanon. – “In the conflict line settlements, there is almost no building that does not require renovation, or demolition and rebuilding.”

American Greatness: Risking Nuclear War With Russia – Escalating brinkmanship might be justified if victory were in sight or if any of this contributed to American security, but none of these things are true. – Having provided Ukraine with the Storm Shadow and ATACMS medium-range missiles, we have now authorized their use against Russian territory despite increasingly desperate Russian warnings. – Regardless of anyone’s feelings about the war, Ukraine is not winning, and it will not recover its lost territories…

American Thinker: Congress Dithers While Putin and Biden Play Nuclear Chicken – Is President Joe Biden out to start a war? – Or are his shadow warmongers Anthony Blinken and Jake Sullivan responsible? – Is Russia’s recent missile launch a gambit toward a negotiated peace with a future President Trump? – Perhaps, but remember that chess is a national pastime in Russia, with constant moves and countermoves. – Chess, however, is played with wooden pieces on a small board, not with the threat of nuclear weapons…

Washington Examiner: The DOJ has brought new charges against several Jan. 6 defendants in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.  – This was done even as the president-elect signals that his DOJ will take a sharp turn away from prosecutions related to the riot when he takes office in less than two months.

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 23 of 25 position selections have been announced.

Resist The Mainstream: Donald Trump is considering inviting independent figures like Megyn Kelly and Mike Rogan to participate in White House press briefings, in a move that would “blow some heads.” – Donald Trump Jr. recently announced it on an episode of his podcast “Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.” while speaking with Michael Knowles.

Revolver: George Santos exposes what’s going on in Congress with members boozing, selling votes, and more. – I have co-colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they’re gonna screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on and sell off the American people. – They are not showing up to vote because they’re too hungover or whatever the reason is…

Gateway Pundit: A Missouri court sided with Attorney Andrew Bailey on Monday and kept the voter ID law intact in the Show Me State. – Missouri, a former battleground state in 2008, has grown more conservative over the years. – This year, President Trump won Missouri by over 18 points, 58.4% to 40% for Kamala Harris.

The Federalist: Just About Everyone Outside DC Supports Trump’s Plan To ‘Wreck’ Government Bureaucracy – Not only do federal employees get paid much more than the average American, they also have a much better chance of keeping their jobs and, thus, their paychecks, in perpetuity. – On the other hand, private-sector employees are three times more likely to be terminated than their federally-employed counterparts…

Zero Hedge: The Biden-Harris administration is rushing to spend taxpayer funds before President-elect Trump takes office. – To start the week, the administration directed nearly $8 billion to Intel and now billions more to save struggling electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian Automotive. – The Trump administration may claw back the money the Biden team is dishing out as lifelines to struggling companies.

Not The Bee: More than 96% of all new jobs in California in the last two years have been government work! – Between January 2022 and June 2024, total California jobs grew by about 156,000, with government jobs accounting for 96.5% of that growth. – Businesses are fleeing California due to insane taxes, political lawfare, and over-the-top regulation…

The Federalist: The Biden Administration’s ‘Woke’ Housing Agenda Faces A Rude Awakening Under Republican Control – DEI programs masquerade as fairness while instead fostering division, inefficiency, and discrimination. – Corporations backed by left-leaning private equity groups such as Blackstone, Starwood Capital Group, and others have been feasting on real estate in recent years, buying up single-family homes, turning them into rental properties, and keeping them off the market. – Reduced inventory drives up prices…

Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services paid  Drexel University researchers $389,087 to interview transgender people in India. – Additionally, they provided the researchers with federal funding to distribute online surveys to 300 transgender men living in those cities.

Washington Free Beacon: MSNBC was “unaware” that Kamala Harris’s campaign paid Al Sharpton’s nonprofit $500,000 shortly before Harris sat for a softball interview with the cable host. – The network’s spokesperson wouldn’t say, though, whether the left-wing network is taking any action against Sharpton for a move that appears to violate network policy.

November 25, 2024

Epoch Times: Donald Trump named three more people who will serve in his White House. – He has selected James Braid, a close ally of Vice President-elect JD Vance, as director of legislative affairs in his White House. – He also chose Matt Brasseaux as director of the Office of Political Affairs and Alex Latcham as director of the Office of Public Liaison. – These three will also be deputy assistants to the president.

American Conservative: A Majority of Americans Back Ending Military Aid to Ukraine – Almost 80 percent would like Trump to make limiting Ukraine aid a priority. – The CBS News/YouGov poll, conducted November 19–22, found that 51% of Americans believe that the United States should not send further weapons or military aid to Ukraine, and 79% believe that finding ways to limit aid to Ukraine should be a priority for Trump.

Vigilant News: Tucker Carlson Issues a Chilling Warning About The Washington Establishment’s Next Big Move – He asserted that the Deep State has made a calculated decision that plunging the world into World War III is their last chance to stop Trump from exposing their crimes. – He explained that Iran is now aligned with some of the world’s largest economies, so “A war with Iran means a war, in effect or by proxy, with Russia, China, Turkey, and much of the rest of the world. So that’s a world war.”

Daily Signal: This Office of Management and Budget Trump Pick Can Silently Strangle the Deep State – Trump, “I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought as the Director of OMB. – He did an excellent job serving in this role in my First Term – We cut four Regulations for every new Regulation, and it was a Great Success!

Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump said that on the first day of his presidency, he will charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the U.S. – “This Tariff will remain in effect until Drugs, in particular, Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

Geller Report: The President of Mexico Announced She Is Stopping All Migrant Caravans As A Result Of Trump’s Tariff Threat – Her announcement came a mere twelve hours after Trump’s tariff announcement.

Front Page Magazine: Open Borders Tripled Child Prostitution – Biden’s open borders policy led to 8-year-olds being sold for sex. – “Children, boys, and girls are being sold for sex,” Tara Rodas, a whistleblower from the Department of Health and Human Services, told Congress. – “Just last month, I spoke with a care provider in Florida who told me about cases of migrant children as young as 8 with sexually transmitted diseases.”

City Journal: The Sanctuary City of Los Angeles – City leaders pledge to defy Trump’s immigration policies, even as they rely on federal funding to stay afloat. – Its new ordinance prohibits the use of city resources and personnel to aid in federal enforcement of US immigration laws. – It’s unclear what additional protections a city ordinance would grant beyond those already provided by California, which declared itself a “sanctuary state” in 2017.

City Journal: Trump’s Minority Shift – His performance on November 5 seems to herald a new era in which blacks and Hispanics, who tend to be working class, vote more like blue-collar whites. – According to exit polls, Trump carried 46% of the Latino vote, a 14-point increase from 2020. – Asian support rose to 39% from 34% four years ago. – Black support for Trump ticked up by only a point, but his gains among subsets of black voters were notable.

City Journal: DEI Corrupted Education Research – Government agencies should choose which research projects to fund based on merit, not ideology. – U.S. Department of Education administrators prioritized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) when evaluating grant applications. – In some cases, reviewers even considered the racial make-up of research personnel when assessing applicants’ qualifications.

Washington Examiner: Walmart is the latest to join Lowe’s, Toyota, and Ford, among others, to roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. – The retailer employs 1.6 million people and will become the largest company in the United States to eliminate its DEI programs. – Walmart will no longer refer to a prominent LGBT rights index to help with hiring decisions, it will stop prioritizing suppliers based on diversity, and it won’t continue to use the phrase “DEI.”

The Daily Fetched: Georgia Universities to Cease DEI Their Initiatives Following Trump’s Victory – DEI initiatives, institutional neutrality, and compulsory education in the US founding documents will be subject to sweeping new changes instigated by the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents. – The new changes will impact 26 colleges and universities across the state, including the Georgia Archives and the Georgia Public Library Service.

Breitbart: The Crescent Dunes Fiasco – Biden’s DOJ Moved on Election Night to Cover Up An Alleged Solar Energy Scandal that Cost Taxpayers $737 Million – This story begins back during Obama’s administration, when leftists and environmentalists supercharged a crazed push towards so-called renewable energy sources. – Investigating uncovered major concerns concerning how the Obama administration awarded these grants and other taxpayer-funded benefits, which are the basis for the qui tam lawsuit…

Zero Hedge: Oil & Gold Prices Slump As Israel’s Netanyahu Approves A Lebanon Ceasefire Deal ‘In Principle’ – Israel is expected to send its review of the deal on the table, including its reservations on some key details, to the Lebanese government on Monday. – Any implementation of a ceasefire would need the approval of the Israeli cabinet…

ABC Action News: Special counsel Jack Smith has moved to dismiss his federal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump due to a long-standing DOJ policy that bars the prosecution of a sitting president. – Nearly 16 months after a grand jury first indicted Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Smith has asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to throw out the case ahead of Trump’s impending inauguration.

Daily Caller: CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten broke down Americans’ historically high optimism and approval for President-elect Donald Trump throughout his transition period during a Monday segment. – A CBS News/YouGov poll found on Sunday that Americans have high hopes about Trump’s upcoming second term, with 59% of voters approving of how the president-elect is handling his transition of power and 50% believing America’s best days are ahead.

American Conservative: Trump v. the Bureaucrats – The opening salvos in Trump’s war on the fourth branch of government, unelected bureaucrats, have been fired. – Despite the Biden administration OPM’s efforts to protect the federal workforce from any upcoming Schedule F changes, analysts say there may be little the bureaucracy can do to stop them.

American Thinker: The 2024 Presidential Election Landslide – The death of P’Nut the Squirrel highlighted that the Deep State is all about power. With the election over, we can look back at its corruption and hope it’s reaching its end. – Biden’s Stasi agents (the DOJ, FBI, DHS, CIA, et al.) egregiously violated the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and used lawfare to abuse the rule of law and due process in politically targeted prosecutions…

SARA: Elon Musk Fires Off A Warning Shot At Dirty Senate RINOs – “Whoever thwarts the will of the people will lose either their primary or the mid-term election itself because the people have made their will crystal clear.” – It should be noted, as Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) reminded the American people last week. NOT ONE SINGLE DEMOCRAT voted against ANY of Joe Biden’s radical America-hating nominees in 2020!

American Conservative: Trump’s Pardons Could Foster National Unity – Cities burned during 2020’s “summer of love,” yet almost no one faced criminal charges, much less prison. – Months later, the DOJ hired slews of new lawyers to prosecute January 6 protestors and make an example of Trump supporters. – Trump’s commitment to pardoning “political prisoner[s]” likely extends beyond January 6 prisoners to other people unfairly imprisoned by the Biden-Harris regime, such as pro-life activists…

Geller Report: Officer Michael Byrd, Who Killed Ashli Babbitt, Had A Long History Of Disciplinary And Training Problems, Yet Democrats Rewarded Him With a Promotion And A $36,000 Bonus – The January 6th cover-up is much bigger than Babbitt’s cold-blooded murder. – Liberal politicians and pundits often refer to multiple deaths from the Jan. 6th riot. In reality, only one person died that day, and that was Babbitt…

Gateway Pundit: A New Video Shows DC Metro Officer Lila Morris After She Repeatedly Beat Trump Supporter Rosanne Boyland. – It’s difficult to determine whether Officer Morris’s brutal beating directly caused Rosanne Boyland’s death or was merely a contributing factor. – What is clear, however, is that the mainstream media has consistently failed to report honestly on Rosanne Boyland’s story, just as they have with so many other accounts from that tragic day.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Immorality of Illegal Immigration – Democrat leaders are facing backlash over the Biden administration’s handling of illegal immigration, leading to a surge in crime, strained services, and a Trump victory focused on border security. – The defeat of left-wing candidates was a result most prominently of the Biden administration’s deliberate destruction of the southern border and the illegal welcoming of some 12 million foreigners without legal sanction or health and criminal background audits…

New York Sun: Democrats at the local, state, and federal levels are planning to push back against President Trump’s planned mass deportation operation, which the president-elect has promised will be the largest since the 1950s. – Polls have shown, however, that support for such a deportation scheme has increased significantly and played a major role in voters’ decisions this year…

Townhall: Trump’s Border Czar Reveals He’s Getting Death Threats – Tom Homan, “So all of a sudden, the guys who want to enforce the law are the bad guys, the guys who break the law are the victims.” – He urged every Democrat leader who has vowed to resist Trump’s mass deportation plan to listen to the Laken Riley tape.

Real Clear Investigations: They Say Illegal Migrants Are Less Likely to Commit Crime, Well, Guess Again. – An RCI analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024, cost the country some $166.5 billion. – These criminals disproportionately entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.

Just The News: Tom Homan warns sanctuary cities of dire consequences if they refuse to turn over illegal immigrants. – “They need to be aware that impeding a federal law enforcement officer is a crime, and if you knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal alien from ICE, that is also a crime.” – He will seek DOJ authority to charge officials with obstruction and harboring if they don’t turn over illegal border crossers in their custody.

Zero Hedge: The latest YouGov/CBS News poll on immigration, policy, and the US economy shows 57% of Americans approve of the deportation of all illegal immigrants. – If the Trump administration does start a mass deportation program, most of the public want it carried out by law enforcement or current immigration agencies as most would not want the U.S. military to do it.

American Thinker: Trump will issue an executive order banning transgender individuals from military service – The coming order makes sense because some people are just not suited to military service. – The order could come on January 20. There are believed to be about 15,000 active service personnel who are transgender. – It would also lead to a ban on trans people joining the military and would come at a time when almost all branches of the American armed forces are failing to meet recruitment targets…

American Thinker: Parents vs. LGBTQ+ Ideology – Parents need to reclaim our schools from those activists who are imposing harmful agendas. – It’s deeply upsetting when kids come home from college spouting rhetoric that would have once been unthinkable for them. It’s worse when they come home from high school, middle school, or even elementary school with such ideas. – The sudden rise in young people with gender identity (GI) issues has been startling, to say the least…

Modernity: Newsweek reported that 57% of Americans aged 18 to 29 now hold a favorable view of Trump, marking a net favorability increase of 19 points in that demographic since the YouGov poll on November 9 and 12. – This segment of the demographic represented 16% of the 2024 voting electorate.

Breitbart: Most Americans reject celebrity endorsements of political candidates, which is a blow to Democrats who have come to increasingly rely on Hollywood influencers to sway young voters and amplify left-wing talking points on social media. – For the recent presidential election, a full 75% of survey respondents said a celebrity’s endorsement of a candidate made no difference or not much of a difference on how they voted, according to a new Rasmussen poll.

Revolver: The DOGE report, Elon and Vivek seek to defund NPR – This move comes after a damning moment for NPR, fresh off a scandal where they suspended a journalist for daring to call them out for their radical left-wing agenda. – It doesn’t matter whether NPR is liberally biased or conservatively biased, the bottom line is that if politicians/bureaucrats control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.

Washington Free Beacon: These Four Consulting Firms Raked in $600 Million (Nearly 70% Of Campaign Spending) Running Ads for Kamala’s Failed Campaign. – Here is background information on well-connected Media Buying & Analytics, Gambit Strategies, Bully Pulpit Interactive, and Dupont Circle Strategies…

November 24, 2024

GENERAL FLYNN: “The Deep State Cannot Afford to Allow President Trump to Implement His Plans to Reform America,” – There is good reason to believe the Deep State has been involved in frustrating or overriding critical decisions made by American Presidents for at least three decades. – Nearly eight years ago, Senator Schumer told then-incoming President Trump not to criticize the Intelligence Community because “they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.” This threat has even greater relevance for his second term…

Gateway Pundit: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Folds After Just One Phone Call with Donald Trump – Sheinbaum is considering border adjustments in direct response to the incoming Trump administration. – Tariffs floated by Trump would target Mexican exports. The automotive industry alone, an important sector in the country, could be among the most bloodied…

Epoch Times: Trump Could Prompt Supreme Court Ruling on Birthright Citizenship – If so, the justices would likely revisit a precedent from the 19th century. – Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced legislation that would end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. – Immigration Reform Law Institute director of litigation Chris Hajec indicated, however, that a Supreme Court decision will be necessary to effect long-term change.

The Daily Signal: Pro-Trump Influencers Are Disrupting Political Media – Donald Trump‘s victory in the 2024 presidential election proved that a candidate could win without catering to the legacy media. – Parallel media now stands poised to challenge the left-of-center establishment, with Corporate Media Being This Election’s Big Loser – Trump’s interviews with these influencers accumulated more than 100 million views and reached voters who don’t get their news from traditional media sources…

One America News: Incoming First Lady Melania Trump has announced her longtime aide, Hayley Harrison, will be her chief of staff. – Melania, “Harrison has a “strong understanding of White House operations, and in her new role will oversee and manage the East Wing’s team while strategically liaising with other parts of government.”

Resist The Mainstream: A Celebrity Chef Reports A Shocking Restaurant Business Surge Linked to Trump’s Election Victory – Celebrity chef Andrew Gruel suggested that sales trends in the restaurant industry can serve as barometers for overall public sentiment. He observed that the uptick in the restaurant business may signify a widespread sense of relief among consumers regarding the election outcome.

Townhall: Trump to Create A New Position to Deal With Ukraine – He is reportedly considering tapping former acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenelle for the position. – Currently, there is no special envoy tasked with bringing the ongoing war in Eastern Europe to an end.

Zero Hedge: Admiral Sam Paparo of US Indo-Pacific Command has warned this week that the recent move of Washington to give advanced long-range weapons to Ukraine is depleting US missile stocks. – He recently told a Brookings Institution audience that earlier in the war, the US was shipping less valuable weaponry to Ukraine, which didn’t deeply impact readiness for big global threats like China.

American Thinker: Trump’s win signals the end of the left’s control of the mainstream media, starting with MSNBC and CNN. – The fall of NBC, ABC, and CBS should follow. – Each of these so-called news outlets has betrayed their viewers for as long as they have been on the air. – The leftist media, all three networks, most cable outlets, and the mainstream press have long simply been arms of the Democrat party, which has become a Marxist/communist version of its former self.

American Thinker: The Many Reasons Kamala Lost – The economy, Uncontrolled spending, No border control, BLM/Antifa rioting, DIE/CRT, Preferred pronouns, Transgender policy madness, Males in female sports, COVID policies, Woke education, Pro-Hamas campuses unsafe for Jews, Censorship, Climate change agenda, J6 exploitation, Lawfare against Trump, and the list goes on…

American Greatness: Inside Trump’s Second-Term Mission to Dismantle the Administrative State – The second time around, Trump plans to accomplish more with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy leading the efforts, as described in their brief but scintillating January 20th essay in The Wall Street Journal. – Musk and Ramaswamy began by noting that “most supposed government legal edicts” in America today are NOT…

Real Clear Politics: Trump and Congress Gear Up To Fight Campus Antisemitism – Donald Trump, “My first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support.” he stated. – Trump’s words are heartening, considering the blatant upsurge of antisemitism on campus and off since Oct. 7, 2023.

November 23, 2024

Slay News: Former Polish Deputy Minister Piotr Kulpa Says Ukraine Is Stealing U.S Aid And Laundering The Money Back to Democrats – According to Kulpa, Ukraine did not receive as much foreign aid as claimed by Joe Biden’s administration because up to half of the funds were embezzled and funneled back to U.S. Democrats…

Townhall: Disturbing Truths About The Biden-Harris Parole Pipeline – This parole program for nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela enabled at least 30,000 illegal immigrants monthly with violent records to bypass coming into the U.S. through the southern border and instead fly into domestic U.S. airports

Epoch Times: Trump Selects Brooke Rollins to Lead Agriculture Department – The agency has 100,000 employees and a $25 billion proposed budget for the fiscal year 2025. – Rollins grew up in a farming family in Glen Rose, Texas, and participated in Future Farmers of America. – She studied agriculture development at Texas A&M University and worked on Trump’s 2016 Economic Advisory Council.

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 23 of 27 position selections have been announced.

Zero Hedge: A Terrifying Infographic Shows The Reach Of Russia’s New Hypersonic Missile, ‘London In 20 Minutes’ – Soon after warning that Russia’s newly deployed ‘Oreshnik’ nuclear-capable hypersonic missile can reach any European capital at a top speed of Mach 10+, which is significantly faster than a bullet, Russian state media issued the below ominous infographic.

Breitbart: NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war. – In a stark warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said in a nationally televised speech that the attack with the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile was in retaliation for Kyiv´s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles capable of striking deeper into Russian territory.

American Thinker: Eliminating Biden’s EV mandate – Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promise of discarding Biden’s EV mandate and fuel-efficiency requirement. – Trump’s transition team has announced that it is planning to eliminate the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle (EV) purchases as well as relaxing the standards on fuel efficiency for automobile makers as part of the incoming administration’s reform agenda.

Center Square: House Oversight Chair James Comer has opened an investigation into FEMA over reports that it discriminated against supporters of Donald Trump. – Comer said whistleblower reports suggest anti-Trump discrimination is rampant and has been going on for years. – A FEMA official stated that avoiding ‘white or conservative-dominated’ areas is an ‘open secret at the agency that has been going on for years.’”

Washington Free Beacon: Oregon Is Poised To Force Health Insurers To Cover Trans Genital Surgeries for Children, or Risk Losing Their Licenses – The proposed rule from Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services relies on the latest standards of care developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which called transgender genital surgeries and other procedures “medically necessary” to justify expanding insurance coverage.

Western Journal: Daniel Penny’s Defense Rests After Pointing Out The Subway ‘Victim’ Should Not Have Been There In The First Place – New York court clerk Brian Kempf told the court that authorities had an open warrant for Neely’s arrest related to a previous assault conviction in 2021. – As part of a plea deal, Neely had agreed to participate in intensive outpatient therapy to avoid prison time, but Neely left treatment, and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

Daily Caller: Witnesses Told Cops The Alleged Pete Hegseth Victim Didn’t Appear Drunk Before Or After The 2017 Sexual Encounter – The alleged victim, referred to throughout the redacted report as “Jane Doe,” said that she did not remember details of how she returned from a bar to a hotel room with Hegseth or much of their tryst, possibly because she may have been drugged or because she had been drinking, the police report states…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Dance Craze Transition Edition – It is transition week everywhere, it seems. – There’s the Trump transition, of course. – Then there’s Jaguar’s bizarre decision to transition from a luxury car brand to a Teletubbies car company…

November 22, 2024

Breitbart: The Trump Transition Is Winning Good Marks – American households and businesses are much more serene, joyful, and hopeful this time around. -Polling released by Pew Research on Friday shows that 70 percent of Americans are very or somewhat confident that the transition to the Trump administration will go smoothly. – Similarly, a majority of Americans say they have a positive evaluation of Trump’s post-election conduct.

Washington Examiner: A Friday night flurry as Trump dumped a new list of nominees – Scott Bessent for secretary of the treasury – Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer for secretary of labor – Scott Turner for secretary of housing and urban development – Russ Vought for director of the Office of Management and Budget – Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general – Marty Makary for FDA commissioner – Former Representative Dave Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Alex Wong to be deputy national security adviser – Sebastian Gorka to be senior director for counterterrorism

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 22 of 27 position selections have been announced.

Fox News: Trump nominates Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer as secretary of labor – Her candidacy was backed by the Teamsters Union, which Trump allies had been trying to court earlier this year in their bid to broaden the Republican base ahead of the 2024 election. – Chavez-DeRemer’ is the fourth current House Republican selected for the new Trump administration.

2nd Smartest Guy: The Truth About The Demonization Of Matt Gaetz – Prepare to have your mind warped.- The real reason for that dirty “investigation” of Gaetz, despite his unassailable innocence, was due to the Intelligence Industrial Complex — the current 4th branch of government that rules the other three branches, being utterly terrified of him…

Washington Examiner: President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly set to fire the entirety of special counsel Jack Smith’s team as well as use the DOJ to investigate the 2020 election. – Most of Smith’s team are mid- and upper-level career staffers on detail to the special counsel’s team from divisions within the main Justice Department in Washington, D.C., or from U.S. attorneys’ offices throughout the country.

The Federalist: The Oregon DMV Has Been Busted For Allowing People Of ‘Unknown Citizenship’ To Register To Vote – The Oregon DMV directed its employees to process voter registrations of those with “unknown citizenship” status, simply requiring they claim eligibility – Under this system, the Oregon DMV has processed more than 54,600 voter registrations for individuals who have not proven citizenship.

New York Post: The Biden administration blew more than $127 million in 2021 alone on grants to “study” the spread of supposed “misinformation,” much of which was healthy skepticism of government-sponsored falsehoods. – As we’ve warned before, the entire “anti-disinformation” project boils down to progressive elites redefining their viewpoints as objective truth while repressing contrary views, including outright satire and even actual proven facts that might lead people to conclusions they don’t want.

Washington Free Beacon: IT BEGINS, As Rachel Maddow’s Massive Salary Slashed at MSNBC – Rachel Maddow reportedly agreed to reduce her annual salary from $30 million to $25 million over the next three years. – More cutbacks are imminent as Comcast cuts ties with the liberal propaganda network.

American Greatness: Russia and Ukraine Are Likely to Ignore Biden’s Attempts to Sabotage Trump’s Ukraine Peace Effort – Given the havoc that Biden’s post-election Ukraine policy decisions have caused, Donald Trump cannot return to the Oval Office fast enough. – Trump has made it clear that one of his top priorities is swiftly ending the war in Ukraine.

Zero Hedge: Russia Provided Missiles And Oil To North Korea In Exchange For Sending Troops – This appears based on the defense pact signed between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un this summer, which requires both nations to provide military assistance to the other “without delay” if their territory comes under attack.

Newsmax: GOP Senators Say Hegseth’s DoD Nomination Is In ‘Pretty Good Shape’ – Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who is set to become the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, told reporters that Hegseth is a “strong nominee” to head the Pentagon.

Resist The Mainstream: Matt Gaetz announced on Friday that he will not be joining the new Congress when it convenes early next year, despite winning re-election earlier this month – With Gaetz stepping down, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis must now set a date for special elections to fill both Gaetz’s seat and that of Representative Michael Waltz, who Trump has chosen to serve as his national security adviser.

The Gateway Pundit: The Oversight Subcommittee Finds The Pentagon Deliberately Delayed Deployment Of The National Guard on January 6 – The Cover-Up by The Department of Defense Inspector General Is Exposed – “Thousands of National Guard personnel were ready and equipped to respond yet were left waiting for orders due to “unnecessary bureaucracy and mismanagement.”

The Gateway Pundit: President Trump Weighs In on Mike Rogers Leading the FBI Following A Strong Grassroots Uproar – Dan Scavino. “I just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI, and it’s not happening. — In his words, “I have never even given it a thought.” It’s Not happening.

Fox News: Judge Juan Merchan on Friday granted President-elect Trump’s request to file a motion to dismiss the charges in New York v. Trump and removed the sentencing date for the president-elect from the schedule. – Merchan said Trump’s attorneys have until Dec. 2 to file their motion for dismissal. Merchan said Bragg has until Dec. 9 to respond. 

Zero Hedge: Trump’s Return Means The Death Of Globalism – Here is why, by each topic of discussion: Trump is a Corporatist – The End of Reaganomics – From Supply-Side Liberalization to Economic Domestication – Tariff Timing and Strategic Objectives – Tax Policy and Fiscal Trade-Offs – Monetary Policy and the Weak Dollar Strategy – The Consequences of Disruption, Both Risks and Rewards – The Bottom Line Means The End of Neo-Liberalism…

The Daily Fetched: Marjorie Taylor Green Will Work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy In Her New Role as ‘Delivering on Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) Subcommittee Chair – DOGE will focus on eliminating government waste, streamlining federal operations, and cutting red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people…

Zero Hedge: In the wake of Thursday’s International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to issue formal arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza, the White House says it “fundamentally rejects” the move and won’t recognize it. – But the reaction in Europe has been mixed…

Breitbart: A Trump Team Is Already Preparing Steps to Challenge ICC After It Initiated Arrest Warrants against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. – Sources in DC say, “There is a possibility of imposing personal sanctions not only on the prosecutor or the court but also on the judges themselves who issued the order.”

American Thinker: The Lethal Legacy of Alejandro Mayorkas – This man cannot be booted from the Cabinet soon enough – The murderous Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is now in 16 states in the U.S., committing crimes openly. – These gang members’ many horrific acts include robbery and murder, gang rape, assaults, shakedowns, burying people alive, and even beheadings and public executions…

Revolver: We now know who killed the Gaetz nomination: Mitt Romney’s replacement, John Curtis. – And the kicker is that Curtis was a Democrat who switched to Republican to get elected. – In his own words, John Curtis proudly admits he’s a uni-party puppet, eager to “work with” the very people who have driven this country into the ground. – Folks in Utah say Curtis only won that Senate seat because his opponent was somehow even worse.

Zero Hedge: Death Certificates Reveal The FBI’s ‘Revised’ Murder Stats Are Still Bogus – Death certificates have always provided broader and more accurate data than the FBI’s figures, but the gap between them has grown sharply under the Biden administration. This may indicate that local law enforcement agencies, states, and/or the FBI are undercounting murders. – Furthermore, the Biden administration FBI inexplicably revised its pre-Biden murder data back to 2003...

The Federalist: The GOP Establishment Is A Greater Threat To Trump’s Agenda Than Democrats – The defeat of Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general shows that this time, Trump does have to drain the swamp. – The entire campaign to smear Gaetz as a “child sex trafficker” was, from the outset, a giant psy-op and fraud. – After an 18-month investigation by the Biden Justice Department, no charges were filed against Gaetz because the two central witnesses in the probe had serious credibility problems…

Powerline: Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey Finally Concedes To GOP Challenger Dave McCormick – The concession comes days into a pricey recount that Casey could have waived. – He gained just four votes from the first wave of recounts, which were completed on Wednesday. – By Thursday afternoon, McCormick had gained seven votes, according to his campaign.

Zero Hedge: What Are the Implications of DOGE? – All told, over 23 MILLION people are now employed by the Federal Government, up from 4 MILLION in 1943 in the U.S., as shown in this chart. – Of these, ~3 million are federal employees. – Would President Trump be willing to stomach a technical recession if it was triggered by delivering a campaign promise to shrink the government? – It is clear, however, that DOGE would improve the U.S. fiscal situation…

Washington Examiner: Meet the charities spending millions to stop illegal immigrants from being deported – La Raza Community Resource Center based out of San Francisco – Legal Services of New Jersey – Pangea Legal Services, located in San Francisco – NGOs are motivated by ideology and, increasingly, by the massive income they now get from government-funded illegal immigration…

Breitbart: UK Lawmakers To Summon Elon Musk Over The Alleged Role of His “X” Platform in Anti-Mass Migration Riots – The political establishment in Britain appears intent on pinning the blame for the riots on social media while devoting comparatively little public attention to the mass stabbing attack which sparked the outrage.

The Daily Fetched: Elon Musk Fired Back at The British Government After Their “Summons” to A “Disinformation” Hearing – Musk was not fazed and fired back that British MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.’”

Slay News: Foreign bureaucrats at the unelected United Nations are demanding that governments around the world begin rolling out the globalist organization’s global “climate tax” before President Donald Trump is sworn back into power in January. – The UN’s plan involves funneling billions of dollars in taxpayer money from member nations, including the United States, to third-world countries. –
The tax dollars will supposedly be used to “fight climate change” in the developing world.

California Globe: Gov. Newsom Brags on His ‘Economic Blueprint’ While CA Businesses Get Hit with Higher Payroll Taxes – Hey Governor Gaslight, Isn’t this taxation without representation? – California has a budget shortfall, and the federal government wants money back that it lent California for UI that it “lost due to fraud.” – They are making up for it by having business owners pay for it…

November 21, 2024

Washington Examiner: President-elect Donald Trump tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next pick for Attorney General following Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal earlier in the day. – Bondi served as attorney general of Florida from 2011 to 2019. However, she is best known for serving as one of Trump’s defense lawyers during his first impeachment.

American Thinker: The Biden-Harris HHS secretary testified about missing illegal migrant children, and his admissions will sicken you – When Texas’s Chip Roy quizzed Becerra on whether or not he could account for the roughly 400,000 UACs whose whereabouts are reportedly unknown, requiring he respond with either a “yes” or a “no,” Becerra sidestepped and launched into a filibustering word salad...

Townhall: Disgraced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray were set to testify Thursday in front of the Senate Homeland Committee, but they didn’t show up. – “Americans deserve transparent, public answers about the threats we face. – Mayorkas and Wray’s refusal to speak publicly about their department’s work will only increase the concerns that many Americans have about our nation’s security at a challenging time…

American Spectator: Draining the D.C. Swamp Picks Up Steam – Long ago in American history, Theodore Roosevelt realized the problems inherent to ever-growing government. – Since then, there has been an increasing recognition that, in the words of Ronald Reagan, “a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have.” – the danger of sprawling Washington bureaucracies has been growing for a very long time…

Just The News: Mitch McConnell announces next steps after leaving Senate leadership post – McConnell said that he now plans to chair the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and lead the Senate Rules Committee. – The senator also remarked that he remains committed to “protecting the right to political speech in our elections” as leader of the Rules Committee…

Just The News: Post-election, some states have already started focusing on election integrity – Republicans in Ohio, North Carolina, and Arizona are all zeroing in on election integrity ahead of newly-elected officials taking office next year. – Election Integrity Network Founder Cleta Mitchell says she was looking forward to the work that the election integrity movement still has to do…

Center Square: Trump’s creation of a DOGE has galvanized lawmakers to clean out DEI policies, staff, and programs that ballooned under the Biden administration. – The Flexibility in Housing Act of 2024 would block an administration rule at HUD about to be finalized requiring HUD grant recipients to implement “equity-driven housing plans.” – Another, the “No Discrimination in Housing Act” would prevent large corporations from using DEI programs to get federal tax credits in buying up single-family American homes…

Just The News: Republican Senator Mike Rounds introduced a measure that would abolish the Department of Education amid Donald Trump’s promise to send education back to the states. – The legislation is titled “Returning Education to Our States Act.” – His legislation is a roadmap to eliminating the federal DOE by practically rehoming the federal programs to the state departments where they belong.

Breitbart: 15 Times Liberals Became Dangerous and Unhinged After Donald Trump’s Landslide Victory – Acts of Murder: It appears one woman, a so-called “power lesbian” named Corey Burke, committed the worst of acts by allowing Trump’s election to drive her to allegedly murder her father with an ice ax. – Anthony Nephew allegedly murdered his entire family, then committed suicide days after the 2024 elections…

Epoch Times: Matt Gaetz Is Withdrawing From Trump Attorney General Consideration – Gaetz stated, ‘It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work’ of the Trump administration, Gaetz says. – Trump and his campaign have not released any public statements on Gaetz’s decision to withdraw himself from consideration.

American Thinker: Is The Deep State Pushing Nuclear War To Prevent A Trump Presidency? – The Biden decision is best explained by what appears to be a preemptive military coup in which U.S. generals fearing prison terms and possible convictions for treason prefer the risk of triggering a global thermonuclear war rather than allowing Donald Trump to take office on January 20, 2024 – With Putin having promised to retaliate with a tactical nuclear strike against Ukraine, President-Elect Trump risks catastrophe if he fails to somehow communicate with Putin.

Breitbart: Russia has allegedly launched an ICBM at a Ukrainian city for the first time, an expensive but potentially potent reminder by the Kremlin that it has a large reserve of nuclear-capable weapons that can strike from thousands of miles away. – The central Ukrainian city of Dnipro was struck by a single ICBM missile in the early hours of Thursday morning, Ukraine claims, part of a broader air raid that state media said also saw one air-launched ballistic missile and seven air-launched cruise missiles fired at the city…

Vigilant News: US Officials Say Russia Fired a New “Experimental” Missile at Ukraine, Not an ICBM – Assuming Washington is correct and that it wasn’t an ICBM, this suggests Zelensky’s hasty verdict is all about threat inflation coming at a time he’s desperately trying to get the West’s attention, arguing in favor of greater NATO military intervention against Russia.

American Conservative: Ukraine Should Have Heeded Milley’s Warning in 2022 – The only plausible reason for the latest massive surge is to sabotage the president-elect’s desire to deescalate the conflict, which is the mandate of the American people, if not the intentions of Biden’s coterie of uber-hawks. – The responsibility for this conflict falls squarely on those who ignored Russia’s redlines about Ukraine joining NATO.

Zero Hedge: Is this admission a prelude to near-future negotiations under the Trump administration? – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has, for the first time, expressly admitted in a Fox News interview that Ukraine will never be able to take back Crimea by force. – He said that Ukraine could not afford to lose the number of lives that would perish in undertaking a military invasion of Crimea, saying that it would only be restored to Ukrainian sovereignty through diplomatic means.

Breitbart: The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for supposed war crimes committed in Gaza. – ICC prosecutor Karim Khan brought the application for the warrants earlier this year, along with applications for warrants against Palestinian terrorists, all of whom have since been killed by the Israel Defense Forces.

Sharyl Attkisson: US Senator Lindsey Graham sent an open letter to the 51 former intelligence officials who, in October 2020, signed a public statement characterizing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. – Now, more than four years later, it has been confirmed that the laptop and its contents did belong to Hunter Biden and were not part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

New York Post: The Biden administration is quietly loosening immigration policies before Trump takes office, which includes letting migrants skip ICE check-ins in NYC – The outgoing administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office. – Even when it’s working correctly, the new app doesn’t check for past arrests or outstanding warrants — something the current system tied to in-person appointments does, sources said.

The Daily Signal: Kamala Harris Raises Money for A Recount As The Deadlines Pass To Seek One – Raising money for a recount without any apparent intent to ask for one is likely acceptable under campaign laws, according to the Federal Election Commission. – Perhaps they want the money to offset the campaign’s $20 million in debt.

Zero Hedge: Drill, Baby, Drill Is A Pragmatic Approach To Energy Independence – Firstly, let us confront the elephant in the room: energy is the lifeblood of modern economies. – The energy sector doesn’t just mean rig workers; it involves entire supply chains and the people they employ. – The environmental narrative around drilling often overlooks advancements in technology. – Most importantly, energy independence isn’t merely an economic issue; it’s a matter of national security…

Townhall: Sorely Needed Legislation: On Wednesday, Senator Roger Marshall introduced the “Defining Male and Female Act of 2024.” – It does exactly as its name suggests, noting that “every individual is either male or female” and that “in no case is an individual’s sex determined by stipulation or self-identification.”

Victor Davis Hanson: The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity – It challenges entrenched elites, bureaucracies, and progressive ideologies in favor of restoring traditional values, government accountability, and national identity. – Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College. – Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won polled landslide public approval.

American Thinker: Overcoming The Tyranny Of Over-Regulation – Regulation overreach can be remedied quickly by using what is called “confessing error,” which would not involve new legislation, partisan politics, or radical changes in philosophy. – In “a confession of error,” government attorneys simply inform a court that the state has legally erred in some aspect of the law, requiring an annulment or reconsideration of a rule…

Epoch Times: What to Expect From DOGE – The project plans to cut roughly $2 trillion from the federal budget, or 30% of annual government spending. – Trump said that DOGE will make “changes to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency” to “drive out the massive waste and fraud” in the federal government. – Although it has the word “department” in its name, DOGE is not a federal agency but rather an advisory board to weed out things like HHS’s vastly increased spending for DEI programs with an annual cost of $38.7 million to employ 294 DEI staffers…

California Globe: The Numbers Driving California vs. Washington on Energy, Water & Forestry – California was once home to six nuclear power plants, generating over 50,000 gigawatt-hours per year. – some numbers-based arguments in an attempt to explain how California’s current regulatory environment puts unrealistic expectations on the industry and sets unrealistic environmental goals that, in many cases, are unhelpful or even counterproductive. – Read it and weep…

November 20, 2024

Wall Street Journal: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government, by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decades-long executive power grab. – Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. – Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats…

The Populist Times: Both Senator John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson Signal Support For Recess Appointments – The Senate must confirm (or deny) all presidential appointments as part of their “advise and consent” role as outlined in the Constitution. – There is a clause in the Constitution, however, that states a president may approve his appointments while the Senate is at recess.

Western Journal: Speaker Mike Johnson Announces Official Bathroom Rules for Capitol – “All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings, such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms, are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.” – The speaker continued: “It’s important to note that each Member office has its a private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”

Breitbart: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will funnel an additional 65,000 H-2B foreign visa workers into blue-collar jobs, even as Americans continue losing out in the labor market to an increasing flow of migrant workers. – Specifically, 20,000 of the 65,000 H-2B visas will go to Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Hondurans, Haitians, Colombians, Ecuadorians, or Costa Ricans. – In contrast, the other 45,000 visas will go to foreign workers who previously arrived in the U.S. on H-2Bs.

Real Clear Politics: Former Trump OMB Director Russ Vought Explains How Intel Agencies Overrule The President – Russ Vought, Trump’s former Office of Management and Budget Director, told Tucker Carlson why it is so difficult for any president to change the momentum of policies pushed by the “administrative state.” – Yes, there is now Schedule F, but it’s not that simple to fire government employees…

Trending Politics: Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan teared up while discussing the brutal murder of University of Georgia nursing Student Laken Riley, who an illegal alien killed. – Riley, 22, was out for a jog when she was abducted, assaulted, and killed. Her body was discovered hours later in a wooded area near the trail she frequented. – The murdered student fought back against her killer for 18 minutes, leaving behind critical forensic evidence that led to Ibarra’s conviction.

Liberty Daily: ICE Boston announced the arrests of two illegal immigrants charged with the brutal rape of children in this sanctuary state, alongside a third individual who fled justice after being convicted in Brazil. – This harrowing situation raises serious questions about the priorities of local leaders and their willingness to protect their citizens since Governor Maura Healey made it clear that her state will refuse to collaborate with President Trump’s federal immigration efforts upon his return to office…

Vigilant News: Bill O’Reilly Drops A ‘Meteor Story’ That LeavesThe NewsNation Panel Speechless – MSNBC is “vapor” or on the verge of collapse, and Comcast is eager to toss the left-wing propaganda outlet “overboard” to save face for NBC. – Their ‘uncoupling’ means MSNBC doesn’t have the resources to pay big salaries. – Half the country equates NBC News with MSNBC and won’t watch it. – So NBC is desperately trying to save the mothership of information, and they have to throw MSNBC overboard,” O’Reilly explained.

City Journal: The DEI Cash Cow – The White House’s equity agenda was a boon to consulting firms. – There is an old saw that, in America, every great cause begins as a movement and eventually degenerates into a racket. – This is certainly true of the past decade’s most fashionable cause: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” – What might have begun as a social movement has now become a business—and not just in the United States.

Vigilant News: Joe Rogan EXPLODES on The New York Times’s Crazy “Fact-Check” on Froot Loops – People are “spitting out their coffee” over this. – It all started when The New York Times claimed RFK Jr. was “wrong” about differences in Froot Loops’ ingredients between Canada and the United States. – The U.S. version of Fruit Loops contains harmful chemicals like Red Dye 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), while the Canadian version uses “natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots.”

Epoch Times: The United States closed its embassy in Kyiv on Nov. 20 and warned American citizens in Ukraine to be ready to swiftly seek shelter after receiving “specific information of a potential significant air attack.” – The warning comes one day after Russia said that Ukraine used U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike its territory.

American Thinker: Biden’s Venal and Dangerous Exit Gambit Authorizing Ukraine to Launch U.S. Missiles Into Russia – Joe and his party abhor Donald Trump so much they are willing to usher in a possible war out of sheer pique just to FUBAR Trump’s second presidency. – This move reveals sheer hatred, which is the fuel on which the Democrats and the Marxists left power themselves. Joe & Co. are telling the American landslide “garbage” voters to get lost…

Glenn Greenwald And Tucker Discuss The Dangerous New Escalation in Russia & Our Blackmailed Politicians – Greenwald, “This is something that some NATO countries, including the UK, have been pressuring the Biden administration to do for quite a long time.” – It’s not just giving them the missiles, their use requires the direct involvement of the United States and or a major country like France or the U.K. or Germany because the Ukrainians don’t have the guiding capability needed to launch these missiles…

Epoch Times: The Biden Administration Has Reversed Policy And Is Now Approving The Use Of Anti-Personnel Mines for Ukraine – The Pentagon said the administration has approved transfers of non-persistent landmines, ‘which become inert after a preset period.’ – In a June 2022 policy announcement, the Biden administration committed to limiting the use of anti-personnel mines and vowed not to export such weapons “except when necessary for activities related to mine detection or removal, and for destruction.”

Breitbart: Ukrainian forces have attacked targets inside Russia with British-made Storm Shadow missiles for the first time, according to the Times of London. – The use of long-range British missiles against targets inside Russia comes after lame-duck U.S. President Joe Biden approved the use of 190-mile range ATACMS missiles for similar strikes over the weekend after months of refusals over concern of escalating the conflict.

Breitbart: Top Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that Vladimir Putin is “ready for talks” to end the Ukraine war with American President-elect Donald Trump. – Peskov was responding to questions about a report published by Reuters on Wednesday citing anonymous officials, claiming that Putin may be open to ending the ongoing invasion of Ukraine if Russia can keep control of much of the territory he has seized from the anonymous sources claimed that Putin “could broadly agree to freeze the conflict along the front lines.”

Zero Hedge: The Danish Navy Hunted Down The Chinese Ship Suspected Of ‘Sabotaging’ The Baltic Sea Cables – The Finland National Bureau of Investigation stated that, based on a preliminary investigation, it has “decided to open a criminal investigation into the damage caused to the sea cable.”…

Real Clear Politics: Trump Is Taking His Time With His Secret Service Director Choice – The top two names circulating are Sean Curran, the leader of Trump’s protection detail, and Dan Bongino, former Secret Service agent, conservative commentator, and former Fox News host. Bongino has a popular podcast and a large following among retired Secret Service agents and officers who argue that he would go to the mat to overhaul the agency and end DEI and other non-meritocracy hiring priorities.

Tipp Insights: The Gray Lady’s Hypocrisy Runs Deep On Loyalty – The NYT Slams Trump’s Picks While Turning A Blind Eye to Biden’s Bungling Coterie – Presidential appointments are different from traditional employment in government because they require the Senate’s consent, which has historically shown extraordinary deference to presidents in their choices. – During the last 35 years, there have been only three prominent cases when the United States Senate scuttled cabinet nominations…

Breitbart: The chances that Donald Trump’s nominees are confirmed by the Senate are quite good. – Big media outlets have been claiming for days the three have almost a zero chance of confirmation, but Yale-trained lawyer and former speechwriter of President John F. Kennedy, Jeff Greenfield, informed Politico Magazine readers that history supports the confirmation of Trump’s nominees, who he characterized as “the most unqualified individuals ever to be nominated.”

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 18 of 27 position selections have been announced.

Epoch Times: Donald Trump Names Former Attorney General Matthew Whitaker As The US Ambassador to NATO – President-elect Trump says Whitaker was selected because he is a “strong warrior and loyal patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended.” – “A former acting attorney general during his first term in office, Whitaker will also “strengthen relationships with our NATO allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to peace and stability.”

The Center Square: Jose Ibarra, a suspected member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and in America illegally since 2022, according to immigration officials, has been found guilty on all counts related to the murder of Laken Riley. – Judge H. Patrick Haggard gave the ruling on Wednesday morning shortly after testimony and closing arguments had closed. Ibarra’s defense attorneys waived the right to a jury trial in opting for a bench trial.

Townhall: Laken Riley’s Killer Has Been Sentenced – Ibarra will not face the death penalty, as Judge Haggard sentenced Ibarra to life in prison without the chance of parole. – Western Judicial District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez only sought a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. – Georgia is a death penalty state. However, Gonzalez said she did not think that pursuing the death penalty was in the interest of “justice.”

Gateway Pundit: – Texas has offered Donald Trump over 1,400 acres to conduct its mass deportation operation. – The land is available to be used for “processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history,” according to the Texas Land Commissioner. – The 1,402 acres are in the Rio Grande Valley sector near the border.”

Breitbart: Florida Formally Certifies Their 2024 Presidential Election Results – According to the final results, Trump-Vance received 6,110,125 votes, compared to 4,683,038 for Harris-Walz, a difference of 1,427,087 votes. – The Trump-Vance ticket garnered 56.09 percent of the vote, 13.1% higher than Harris-Walz’s 42.99%.

American Thinker: Donald Trump Can End Socialism In America – What has enabled him to accomplish so much and have such a unique story? – It started in 2016 when he pulled off the greatest political upset in history with no prior political experience. – Five reasons Trump is the perfect man to bring about the change he promises: Trump’s energy has enabled him to be as successful as he is. – Trump has psychological resilience. – Trump is an independent thinker. – Trump has a strong moral compass. – Trump genuinely understands people…

FAR: Kash Patel For FBI Director – Last week, the media speculated that Kash Patel, a former Defense Department official and author of what Trump called a “roadmap to end the Deep State’s reign,” could be considered to replace Christopher Wray as Trump’s FBI Director. – Patel appears to still be under consideration, which has a lot of people worried. – Remember this: The stronger the resistance put forth by the left, the better the decision…

Townhall: How Lindsey Graham’s Statement After Meeting With Matt Gaetz – I am committed to allowing the process to go forward in a manner consistent with past practices and fundamental fairness. – This process will not be a rubber stamp, nor will it be driven by a lynch mob.” – “I fear the process surrounding the Gaetz nomination is turning into an angry mob, and unverified allegations are being treated as if they are true. – I would urge all of my Senate colleagues, particularly Republicans, not to join the lynch mob and give the process a chance to move forward.

Trending Politics: House Speaker Mike Johnson took a decisive step on Wednesday by announcing a new policy barring transgender women from using women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing facilities within the Capitol complex. – In a public statement, Johnson confirmed the rule would apply across the Capitol, including House office buildings, changing rooms, and locker rooms.

Powerline: Schumer’s Golden Rule – This soon-to-be Senate “Minority” Leader faces stiff competition, but Schumer must be one of the vilest and conscienceless Democrats in contemporary politics. – Some of these actions would be sufficient to trigger a visit from the FBI if Schumer were an average working stiff. – Now that the Senate’s evil clown is about to exercise his leadership in the minority, he has formulated Schumer’s golden rule: “Please don’t do to us what we were going to do to you.”

Epoch Times: The Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance on Tuesday to prohibit the use of city resources and personnel for federal immigration enforcement in the wake of Trump’s pledge to initiate mass deportations of illegal immigrants. – The ordinance was passed unanimously with a 13-0 vote on Nov. 19 and will now move to Mayor Karen Bass for signature. – Bass had called for swift action to protect illegal immigrants ahead of the council meeting.

Blaze Media: Two Mysterious Ashli Babbitt shooting witnesses that incited rioters met secretly with Capitol Police on January 6 – Dubbed ‘Frick and Frack,’ the men stood feet from Ashli Babbitt among more than a dozen other unidentified material shooting witnesses. – They have been the subject of intense social media speculation for some time, yet warranted just a few paragraphs in the now-closed Babbitt shooting investigation conducted by DC’s Metropolitan Police Department…

California Globe: Voters Hand Governor Newsom His First Statewide Minimum Wage Ballot Failure in California History – Voter rejection of Proposition 32 reflects Californian’s resentment resulting from the impacts of the $20 fast food minimum wage law. – After the implementation of the $20 minimum wage law, an EPI survey found that a majority of restaurants raised menu prices (98%), reduced employee hours (89%), limited employee shift pick-up or overtime opportunities (73%), and reduced staff or consolidated positions (70%) as a result of the minimum wage law…

Zero Hedge: Comcast on Wednesday announced that it would move forward with plans to spin off its NBC/Universal cable TV networks – including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, E!, Syfy, and the Golf Channel. – The company will keep Bravo – known for the “Real Housewives,” as well as the Peacock streaming service and NBC broadcast network. Executives are betting that their remaining assets – including in broadcast TV, sports, movies, and theme parks, will be better positioned for growth.

November 19, 2024

Revolver: Trump pulled out his ACE card on Thune – Trump made it clear to Thune that if Matt Gaetz isn’t confirmed, he’ll use the Federal Vacancies Reform Act to appoint him anyway. – He’s coming in with a historic mandate, and he’s not afraid to use it. – The Deep State and establishment elites better take note—this is a Trump they’ve never faced before.

Revolver: The Most Chilling Moment From Dinner With Donald Trump – Trump got out his iPad and began to DJ, as he is known to do, and the first song Trump played gave the entire club chills. – Trump played “Justice For All, ” a defiant message from Trump to January 6th political prisoners: ‘We have not forgotten you. Hold on. Justice is coming…’

New York Post: Even Biden’s Homeland Security admits that violent migrant crime is exploding – So much for the countless claims from Biden and Mayorkas that the border is secure or at least “under control. – Now, even DHS itself admits (to itself, anyway) that migrant crime and violence are exploding. – “As the population of Venezuelan nationals continues to increase, the potential for violent TdA migrants is highly probable,” frets a memo…

Spiked: Why They Are So Terrified Of Trump’s Cabinet Picks – Because they know the president-elect’s band of rogue outsiders really could pose a threat to the cozy DC establishment as it currently exists. – The main criticism leveled at Trump is that his selections are unqualified. – But for the most part, that is another way of saying that they are outside the traditional political establishment, which is a plus in Trump’s and many voters’ eyes. – Democrats can screech about Trump’s cabinet nominees, but it seems few Americans are listening.

Fox News: President-elect Trump announced on Tuesday night that he intends to appoint Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, to lead the Department of Education. – “It is my great honor to announce that Linda McMahon, former Administrator of the Small Business Administration, will be the United States Secretary of Education,” Trump’s statement read.

One America News: GOP Congress Members Back Gaetz For AG, Stating “He’s A Warrior.” – Congressman James Comer KY) says the Senate should confirm Gaetz because the American people voted for change. – Congressman Brian Babin (TX) says the country needs someone like Gaetz, who will change the trajectory the country is moving in. – Congressman Ben Cline (VA) explained that Gaetz knows exactly how to fix the Justice Department…

One America News: Marjorie Taylor Greene issued a stern warning to her Republican colleagues targeting Matt Gaetz. – She warned that if the House Ethics Committee publishes their report on Gaetz, then she will reveal other such “sexual harassment and assault claims” that have been brought against her fellow Republican colleagues as well.

Breitbart: A paper shredding truck was spotted on Tuesday outside the Justice Department, according to this photo from the Oversight Project. – The truck’s appearance suggests the agency is destroying sensitive paperwork before the Trump administration takes power. – The sighting comes after President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Representative Matt Gaetz last week as attorney general to clean up the bureaucracy…

One America News: Trump Appoints Dr. Oz To Lead Centers for Medicare And Medicaid Services In His New Cabinet – On Tuesday, Trump released a statement announcing his nomination. – “America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again.”

American Spectator: The Time Is Just Right for Trump’s Reciprocal Zero-for-Zero Tariff Plan – Trump can leave a lasting legacy by pursuing reciprocal zero-for-zero trade deals that extend our commerce abroad and combat high prices at home. – There is ample precedent in U.S. history for Trump’s reciprocal zero-tariff approach. Our country’s first commercial treaties with France and Great Britain called for equality, reciprocity, and the avoidance of burdensome preferences…

American Thinker: As Democrats lick their wounds, there’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around. – But it’s not hard to argue that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bears the most blame of all. – Her machine-politics manipulations made the Democrat party a stagnant pool, a Jurassic repository, a place where people like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could become their nominees, and outsiders could only wonder why this was the best America could do.

One America News: Manhattan DA Bragg Agrees To Postpone Trump’s Sentencing, But Is ‘Not Dropping’ Case And Doesn’t Plan To. – Trump had been scheduled to be sentenced on November 26th, but last week, Merchan put all proceedings in the case on pause at the request of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.

Zero Hedge: Ukraine’s ATACMS Strike On Russia Comes After Putin Lowers Threshold For Nukes – About a day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use the long-range US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System to strike deeper into Russian territory, a new report suggests that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have hit a military installation in the western Bryansk region. – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey said Russia will “react accordingly” to Ukraine firing a US long-range missile…

Geller Report: Two undersea fiber-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries, and companies involved. – The Chinese ship Yi Peng is the main suspect in the investigation into who cut two undersea telecom cables between Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania. – The ship sailed right over the cables when they were cut at 8 am GMT on Sunday and 2 am GMT on Monday.

Epoch Times: President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Howard Lutnick as the commerce secretary in his incoming administration. – Trump said in a statement that Lutnick would “lead our Tariff and Trade agenda, with additional direct responsibility for the Office of the United States Trade Representative.”

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 17 of 27 position selections have been announced.

Zero Hedge: It was recently reported that corrupt Pentagon officials are “scrambling” to wipe all evidence of DEI before President-elect Donald Trump steps back into the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025. – One source compared the organization’s situation to a hornet’s nest being kicked over, with “DEI pages starting to disappear off their main websites.” – “They’re being archived as we speak and are full-bore focused on cleaning up anything DEI-related.”

Breitbart: Multiple former and current DOJ and FBI officials are considering hiring lawyers “in anticipation of being criminally investigated” by the incoming Trump administration, according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations. – Their actions underscore a serious belief that President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to purge the federal government of rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state.

The Populist Times: The DNC is receiving backlash for terminating not just temporary employees but also permanent workers who believed they had job security. – Shortly after Trump’s landslide victory, DNC employees were informed they would no longer have jobs on a day’s notice with no severance. – The union claims that terminated employees were left struggling to pay rent, medical expenses, and childcare costs, especially those with newborns and single parents.

Gateway Pundit: Judge Juan Merchan Adjourns President Trump’s November 26 Sentencing Date – He will decide where this lawfare case heads later on. – The entire case was a setup to get Trump. – At some point, Judge Merchan and Alvin Bragg need to be investigated for this egregious abuse of the judicial system.

New York Post: The Tren de Aragua has already set up shop in multiple states, according to Homeland Security – The gang already has footholds in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. – Tren de Aragua’s arrival in the nation’s capital and nearby Virginia coincided with “increases in migrant populations” there…

America Conservative: Trump And the Storm of the Century – The U.S. is sleepwalking into disaster in the Middle East. – What Trump will or will not do is unknown. – But one thing is certain: If America joins Israel in its war against Iran, the outcome will be a geopolitical showdown that could dramatically alter the world as we know it. – At a minimum, Trump should demand answers from his civilian and military advisors to four important questions…

Axios: President-elect Trump will nominate billionaire Howard Lutnick as Commerce secretary – Lutnick, co-chair of Trump’s transition, was hoping to become Treasury secretary, but Trump recently soured on the finalists and is considering other options. – Lutnick is currently the chairman and chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment firm he joined after graduating college in the 1980s.

Zero Hedge: – Musk Goes All In On ‘Judge Dredd’ Matt Gaetz, Noting ‘Douchebag’ Garland Never Brought Charges – “Matt Gaetz has three critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel, and an axe to grind,” Musk wrote in a Tuesday post on X. “He is the Judge Dredd America needs to clean up a corrupt system and put powerful bad actors in prison,” Musk continued, adding “Gaetz will be our Hammer of Justice.”

Resist The Mainstream: The MAGA Community Erupts Over Now-Deleted X Post Revealing Mitch McConnell’s Secret Plot to Thwart Trump’s Agenda – The McConnell statement directly challenges Trump’s stated strategy to bypass Senate confirmation processes for his administration appointments. – The controversy ignited when New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer posted, then deleted, a social media post claiming McConnell had declared “there will be no recess appointments.”

Washington Examiner: These senators pose a threat to Trump’s Cabinet members getting confirmed – President-elect Donald Trump is facing a tough battle getting his Cabinet picks approved, with the primary obstacle being four Republican senators. – Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins. Based on history, this is what we know about them…

Gateway Pundit: It’s Time to Clean Up The Senate, So Here Are The RINOs That Need To Go in 2026 — The Republican senators running for reelection in 2026 who allegedly did NOT vote for Rick Scott and are most likely to obstruct Trump’s cabinet appointments are: Dan Sullivan (AK) – Tom Cotton (AR) – Jim Risch (ID) – Joni Ernst (IA) – Roger Marshall (KS) – Bill Cassidy (LA) – Susan Collins (ME) – Steve Daines (MT) – Thom Tillis (NC) – James Lankford (OK) – Lindsey Graham (SC) – Mike Rounds (SD) – John Cornyn (TX) – Shelley Moore Capito (WV)

America Thinker: Democrats’ Frowns Brought Americans No Joy – But MAGA, on the other hand, makes people happy. – It is no coincidence that Kamala Harris’s campaign avoided real policy issues and concentrated on selling “joy” because polling consistently shows that Americans have never been so unhappy. – This is the Marxist Democrat party that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder built. – President Trump’s political movement is changing the world for the better…

America Thinker: Why The DOGE Initiative Makes Sense – From reining in spending to creating transparency in government, DOGE is a clarion call for a revolution in governance that every citizen should get behind. – Conservatives have long argued for a government that does less but does it better via Fiscal Responsibility, Reducing Bureaucratic Overreach, Accountability and Transparency, and Empowering the Private Sector…

The Federalist: Americans Can’t Trust Mike Rogers To Give The FBI The Reckoning It Needs – While Rogers regularly cast himself as an “America First” candidate willing to buck the establishment during his failed Senate bid, the Michigan Republican has spent his entire political career empowering the very federal agencies being weaponized against the American people.

America Thinker: The Benefits Of Universal School Choice – Donald Trump wants to dismantle the Department of Education and turn things over to state-run departments. – U.S. students continue to score low in reading, math, and science compared to other countries. Additionally, the DOE pushes critical race theory, and transgenderism, along with its support for biological boys competing with girls in sports and invading girl’s spaces…

America Conservative: They’re Lying About Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Contrary to what is being widely said, RFK Jr. is anything but a health extremist. – Virologists have specifically targeted Kennedy’s belief that the unprecedented surge of autism rates in American children is connected to vaccines. In 1997, one in 2,500 children were diagnosed with autism. By 2017, that number had exploded to one in 68.

America Conservative: Trump’s Silver Bullet – Increasing American energy production is the single most significant step the incoming administration can take toward delivering on its mandate. – Trump’s choice of Chris Wright, the CEO of Liberty Energy, to lead the Interior and Energy Departments underscores the incoming administration’s commitment to a unified, pro-fossil-fuel energy strategy.

Epoch Times: Trump May Not Need To Pull The Trigger on Tariffs, A Think Tank Economist Says – The president-elect’s campaign pledges are a ‘negotiating tactic’ for leverage in trade talks, and they may already be working. – Japan, South Korea, the UK, Canada, “and maybe some others, are likely lining up offers.” – “These offers will be in the form of, ‘We promise to buy more natural gas from the US or promise to move more production to the U.S.’ – EU President Ursula von der Leyen already suggested EU nations buy more liquified natural gas from the US to avoid tariffs.

America Thinker: Laken Riley’s Accused Killer Was Given A Free ‘Humanitarian’ Flight To Georgia –The details of her murder while on a campus jog keep getting worse and worse. – Jose Ibarra, an illegal from Venezuela, was a Tren de Aragua member, which is the same criminal crew that took over a string of apartment complexes in Colorado. – His brother, who’s also here, has also been identified as a member of the same gang…

The Daily Fetched: Google Is Hosting A Party For Leftists Plotting to Derail Trump’s MAGA Agenda – Priorities USA, which has received millions of dollars from George Soros, spent $75 million on digital mobilization efforts to support Harris’s campaign. – A Google spokesman confirmed that the company will host the happy hour for Priorities USA but stated it did not participate in creating the content of the meeting.

California Globe: How Did California Governor Gavin Newsom Acquire a $9.1 Million Home on a Public Servant Salary? – The Newsom’s now have two multi-multi-million dollar homes, which appear to not belong to them, and if they don’t, who owns them? – This is one way to make investments (campaign contributions) to a future presidential candidate. – Here is a partial list of what Gavin Newsom has accomplished since being elected governor in 2019, and it is not a complete list by any stretch…

November 18, 2024

Fox News: Trump nominates former Wisconsin Representative Sean Duffy for Secretary of Transportation – Duffy served nearly nine years as a U.S. congressman for Wisconsin’s Seventh Congressional District, the state’s largest district. – During his time in office, he was on the Financial Services Committee and served as the chairman of the Sub-Committee on Insurance and Housing…

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 16 of 27 position selections have been announced.

Breitbart: The soon-to-be-formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, shared some examples of obscene government waste so Americans can have some clear examples of what needs to be cut. – Nearly $1 Million to See if Cocaine Makes Japanese Quail More Sexually Promiscuous – About $100,000 went toward seeing what makes a sunfish more aggressive: Gin or tequila. – $1.5 million to encourage video gaming in New York…

America Conservative: What Has Changed? – Things don’t usually happen overnight, but Donald Trump’s re-election is a watershed moment. The permanence of Trumpism has been established. – Identity politics seems to have run its course. – There’ll be changes in the bureaucracy of DC, either via Elon Musk, RFK Jr., or the use of Schedule F, which stripped firing protections from many civil servants…

America Spectator: Trump vs. The Washington Establishment – The main question as Trump preps to take office is, when will this routine way of doing business in Washington be put to an end? – That is the central challenge for Trump, his Cabinet nominees, and his government efficiency appointees Musk and Ramaswamy. – They are dealing in Washington with a Big Government mentality that is reinforced by countless special interests that make piles of money influencing that government…

Fox News: FEMA Director Deanne Criswell vowed to request an inspector general investigation into orders that FEMA employees avoid homes of Trump supporters during relief efforts for Hurricane Milton. – Criswell committed during her testimony before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday, insisting that orders to avoid pro-Trump homes originated from a lone employee and were not part of a wider directive.

Epoch Times: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Counties Not to Count Ballots With No Dates – Multiple counties had decided to count the ballots despite a previous state Supreme Court ruling on the issue.

Epoch Times: Senate Leader-Elect John Thune Urges The International Criminal Court To Drop Its Israel Arrest Warrants or Face Sanctions – Thune said he would make the sanction legislation ‘a top priority’ in the next Congress should the current Senate majority leader fail to act on it.

Breitbart: The lame-duck Biden-Harris administration is slapping new sanctions on Israelis while sending nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in additional funding to the Palestinians, adding insult to injury in the closing weeks of its failed foreign policy. – The new sanctions are the broadest to date, imposing unprecedented punitive measures on three Israeli organizations the administration accuses of fomenting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank

America Spectator: The Real Climate Change Disaster – Creating immediate disasters to avoid highly speculative ones in the distant future makes no sense whatsoever. – Climate activists seem oblivious to the disasters their policy proposals will plunge huge parts of the world into, not in 50 years, but in five. – The first indication of climate policy-induced disasters occurred in Sri Lanka, which cratered food production, spiking food prices, famine, and a great deal of social and political unrest…

Dallas Ludlum: Elon Musk’s Ultimate Mission – The ‘Not So’ Hidden Plan Behind His Empire – From rockets to brain implants, every move Elon Musk makes is part of a grand strategy to secure humanity’s future, and it’s bigger than you think. – Here are his current pieces for the foundation of a multi-planetary civilization. – SpaceX Is The Obvious First Step – Tesla Technology For Powering the Red Planet – The Boring Company For Building Underground on Mars…

Zero Hedge: Donald Trump Jr. Warns That The White House Will Get “WW3 Going Before My Father Has Chance To Create Peace.” – The Kremlin has issued an initial response to reports saying the Biden administration will now allow Ukraine to target Russia with US-supplied long-range missiles. – A popular Russian newspaper, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, had this to say: “The madmen who are drawing NATO into a direct conflict with our country may soon be in great pain.”

American Conservative: Trump’s Opportunity in Lebanon – Prioritizing peace in Lebanon would serve American interests and be consistent with an America First foreign policy insofar as it could dramatically reduce tensions in the Middle East and especially with Iran. – This would allow Trump 2.0 to focus on more pressing issues like competition with China.

American Thinker: The Tren De Aragua Gang Is Terrorizing American Cities – A minimum of 10.8 million illegal aliens have entered America since the start of FY2021. – Embedded in those historical numbers are criminal gangs like Tren de Aragua, whose members have taken root in communities nationwide, such that the US Treasury states it has “opportunistically infiltrated local criminal economies.” – Texas Governor Abbott released this PowerPoint showing their expansion and operational activities…

Breitbart: The New York Times is admitting illegal migration has a big pocketbook impact on Americans and their politics, just two weeks after Donald Trump used the issue to win the 2024 election. – The admission is a win for ordinary Americans because the newspaper’s reluctant and late admission may open the way for many establishment outlets to show how migration shifts wealth and power from ordinary Americans to coastal elites.

Geller Report: President-elect Trump has confirmed that he is prepared to declare a national emergency and deploy military assets to reverse the border crisis through a mass deportation program. – He promised, and he’s delivering. – America is back.

The Daily Fetched: Haitian Migrants Are Already FLEEING Springfield, Ohio – Reports are surfacing of Haitians fleeing the city of 60,000 people in recent days for fear of being rounded up and deported after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election.” – Co-founder of the Haitian Community Alliance, Jacob Payen, “People are fully aware of the election result, and that is why they are leaving; they are afraid of a mass deportation.”

Tom Klingenstein: America’s Verdict On the Culture War – To discover the most important reason Trump won, one needs to focus only on each campaign’s closing messages. – Trump and Republicans highlighted Harris’s radical record on transgender issues, which turned out to be a brilliant move. – Meanwhile, Harris’s campaign focused its efforts in the closing days on highlighting her obsession with preserving abortion.

The Daily Signal: A Napolitan News Service poll found almost 75% of voters say it should be illegal to subject children to transgender medical interventions. – The percentage of voters surveyed who oppose child sex changes—which include so-called puberty blockers, hormone regimens, and irreversible surgeries—increased by 10 points since August. – The majority of those in both major political parties say they oppose allowing minors to attempt to change their gender, the poll found.

Gateway Pundit: More Evidence of Dirty Leaker inside Trump Transition Team – It is clear from the Vanity Fair hit piece that someone inside the Trump Transition team has a personal gripe against Pete Hegseth and is leaking information to the press to ruin Pete’s nomination. – As far as we are concerned, the only villain in this hit piece is the Trump Transition Team leaker.

Slay News: The Supreme Court Dealt A Major Blow to Biden-Harris Admin’s Pro-Immigration Agenda – “Parole-in-Place” was a key component of the administration’s “Keeping Families Together” initiative. – Their scheme sought to help noncitizen spouses of U.S. citizens secure parole as a precursor to eventually achieving citizenship themselves. – This SCOTUS decision could be just the tip of the iceberg in a seismic shift when it comes to immigration.

American Thinker: The Trump Dream Team – A Dream Team is being assembled in Washington, D.C., under Coach Donald Trump. – It is arguably the best (or worst) administration ever built, depending on one’s political persuasion and whether one might be in the crosshairs – Unlike in 2016, President-elect Trump now knows the players, both good and bad, and has a plan.- As Trump builds his Dream Team, one can gauge how dreamy this team is by watching the reaction from the left…

Breitbart: Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to serve as Chairman of the FCC. – Nominated by Trump in 2017 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate unanimously three times, Carr currently serves as the senior Republican member of the FCC. – In his announcement, Trump said he is designating him as permanent chairman due to his term.

Revolver: The Swamp’s Worst Nightmare, Or How AG Matt Gaetz Can Make the DOJ Great Again – With all of the corruption and political weaponization exposed throughout our national security bureaucracies, there is something uniquely significant and dangerous about the corruption at the Department of Justice. – No one better combines utter loyalty to Trump and the MAGA movement, exceptional legal expertise, and demonstrated bravery for the difficult task ahead than Congressman Matt Gaetz…

Trending Politics: House Speaker Mike Johnson is fully endorsing Matt Gaetz for attorney general and is urging his senate colleagues to confirm his appointment in January. – “The reason that Matt Gaetz is such an exciting pick to so many people is that he will go in and reform the Department of Justice. – It desperately needs it,” Johnson said during a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News. 

Townhall: Will Entire Agencies Be ‘Deleted’ Under DOGE? – Here’s What Ramaswamy Had to Say. – ” I think we’re going to build the consensus to make the kind of deep cuts that haven’t been made for most of our history.” – When asked whether entire agencies will be closed, Ramaswamy said “mass reductions” will be made. – “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.”

American Thinker: A Deal The Media And Other Democrats Should Not Be Able To Refuse – The House will release the Gaetz ethics report on the same day… – The January 6th committee releases all the information and recordings from witnesses that they hid from the public – The FBI gives a full record of all the lies told to the FISA court to spy on President Trump – The FBI hands over all the information that they hid about Joe and Hunter Biden…

American Spectator: We Need National Election Reform NOW! – Republicans must pass legislation with stiff penalties to ensure genuine integrity in all federal elections. – It is no coincidence that most of the states that Kamala Harris won in 2024 have weak or nonexistent voter ID laws. – This is why the Republicans must get national election reform passed and signed into law before the end of 2026.

Slay News: Jen Psaki Observes That Democrats Are Now Lost in the ‘Wilderness’ with ‘No Clear Leader’ After Trump’s Victory – “Joe Biden is going to be out of office shortly. – “Kamala Harris just lost the election.” – “There are a lot of governors and other people who might emerge maybe that we don’t know about yet, but there is no clear leader of the party right now.”

Resist The Mainstream: Trump Surpasses Taylor Swift in X Followers to Become Eighth Most Followed Account in the World – Trump’s return to the digital platform marks a significant comeback after his 2021 suspension following the 2020 presidential election. – His reemergence strategically coincides with the 2024 presidential election campaign, providing a direct communication channel to American voters.

American Greatness: A Post-Mortem On The Failure Of Our Mainstream Media In The 2024 Election – The failure was so pronounced that, in many instances, it was necessary to watch the Australians on Sky News to see what was happening here. – Will the media learn from its 2024 debacle? – Possibly, but don’t count on it. – To start with, mass layoffs are coming for CNN and MSDNC (we mean MSNBC)…

Washington Free Beacon: Advocacy Workshops And Anti-Racist Audits Inside This Top Medical School’s Radical Curriculum – ‘Justice and Advocacy in Medicine’ is a mandatory course at the University of California, San Francisco, medical school, and the contents are hair-raising. – Held the first week of October 2024, a workshop referred students to the “Queering Reproductive Justice Toolkit,” promoted an “abolitionist approach to antiracist medical education,” and referenced the “Settler-Colonial Determinants of Health.”…

American Thinker: Identity Politics Blows Up in the Democrats’ Face – The plain fact of the matter is that the progressive left’s habit of politicizing everything, dividing people up into victimhood groups, and then making policy based on the (imagined) interests of whoever sits at the intersection of the most victimhood groups is widely unpopular. – Today’s Democrat party is one of those cases where the fish rotted from the head down…

Washington Examiner: Over 800 Internal Revenue Service employees still owe millions in back taxes despite heavy criticism from Senator Joni Ernst, who is hoping the level of tax waste will be squashed by the Department of Government Efficiency. – “We haven’t seen a tax revolt like this since the Boston Tea Party,” Ernst said in a statement. “If hardworking Americans dodge taxes, they are faced with steep fines and imprisonment, but it appears that tax collectors in DC believe those rules are for thee but not for me.”

Front Page” Kamala Spent $100 Million a Week – “We had so much money it was hard to get it out the door.” – “Kamala demands a life of luxury,” a former aide revealed. “She treats the campaign like a personal checking account to fund a lifestyle she aspires to,” another aide warned. – “Staff has always worried about Kamala’s spending, but she is adamant about using campaign money as she wants,” that aide on her former Senate campaign said.

The Daily Fetched: A New York Times Investigation Finds Harris Campaign Paid Oprah Twice as Much As Initially Reported – Everyone who accused Oprah of getting paid $1,000,000 to support Kamala must immediately retract, issue a correction, and apologize. The total cost was, in fact, $2,500,000.

Zero Hedge: Nearly 40% Of Cars Financed Since 2022 Are Underwater – Bloomberg Intelligence provided clients with this chart pack that shows the negative equity storm brewing for Americans will only worsen. – 84-Month Auto Loans With 114% Loan-to-Value Scream Risk…

Zero Hedge: The Wall Street Journal has issued a scathing postmortem analysis of how the Biden administration completely botched the economy and supercharged inflation. – White House and Democrat officials argued that overall U.S. economic outcomes were better than those achieved in nearly every other advanced economy. – But politically, those arguments fell flat and gave Trump his opening. – It comes off as cold comfort to say people have it worse in Germany, the UK, and France…

Cal Matters: Covered California starts offering health care to DACA immigrants, but will Trump’s win deter them? – Covered California officials and immigration attorneys say that while it is difficult to predict what will happen in the coming months, those eligible should take the opportunity and get health insurance as soon as possible.

Cal Matters: Is California Turning Purple? – Newsom could have a fight on his hands with the many Californians who are tired of Newsom and his fellow leftists’ “values.” – Almost across the board, California voters rejected leftist ballot initiatives, and often by wide margins. – “State voters took a hammer to the most progressive propositions.” – Consider that Trump made big gains among Hispanics in the state by definitively winning three of the four counties with the biggest share of Hispanics…

Washington Free Beacon: Why Comcast May Cut Ties With MSNBC – Ratings are down, and the partisan hosts are increasingly unhinged. – Comcast’s recent comments that it’s considering spinning off its portfolio of cable channels suggest that the company’s owners, the billionaire Roberts family, would like to rid themselves of MSNBC and the accompanying bad publicity once and for all.

November 17, 2024

American Conservative: Biden Permits Ukraine to Use Our Long-Range ATACMS Missile System Against Russian Territory – This move represents a significant escalation a mere two months before it is set to leave office. – The decision, which has allegedly divided President Joe Biden’s advisors, is supposed to assist the ongoing Ukrainian incursion in Russia’s Kursk region in response to the alleged deployment of North Korean troops by Russia.

Gateway Pundit: Senator Mike Lee Has an Excellent Idea to Stop Democrat Bob Casey From Stealing Pennsylvania’s Senate Race – “If Bob Casey doesn’t concede, Pennsylvania keeps counting illegal votes, then Casey relies on those votes to claim victory, the Senate could refuse to seat him.” – “A constitutional clause states: “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its Members.”

The Federalist: The House Probe Into Matt Gaetz Relies On Witnesses The DOJ Found Lacked Credibility – The report comes years after the DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims because the two central witnesses had serious credibility issues. – Yet these are the same two central witnesses the House Ethics Committee has relied on for its critical report of Gaetz—the same report it is leaking to compliant reporters…

Breitbart: Current Governor Gavin Newsom cannot seek reelection because of term limits. – A poll co-sponsored by the left-leaning Los Angeles Times propped up failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris as a front-runner for the 2026 California gubernatorial race.  – The poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies shows Kamala Harris may benefit from some name recognition in a potentially crowded field and has the support of many Democrat voters in the state. 

Tablet Magazine: Papers, Please! – A surprising number of America’s most pressing problems can be solved with a single, simple solution: a national ID. – Thanks to modern technology, the ID can be digital. The EU is creating a new “digital wallet” for every citizen. – Past proposals were thwarted by the opposition of three groups: libertarian ideologues, partisan Democrats, and lobbyists for big businesses that want to be able to hire illegal immigrants with impunity. – Presently, there are no serious arguments against the adoption by the U.S. of a digital national ID…

Epoch Times: For the seventh year in a row, the Department of Defense failed its annual financial statement audit, a massive undertaking meant to ensure accountability for its $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities. – Auditors recommended enhanced monitoring, timely variance resolution, and standardized processes to ensure compliance with accounting standards.

New York Post: No one deserves more blame for The Democrat’ $1B electoral collapse than Nancy Pelosi – Voters rejected the Dems from coast to coast, even in Pelosi’s deepest-blue home city of San Francisco, which saw a 7-point swing to Donald Trump. – She’s the only speaker in history to have lost control of the House twice. – She’s finished.

Zero Hedge: Russia Hit Ukraine Energy Sites With 120 Missiles and 90 Drones In Large Sunday Attack – The massive combined air attack marked one of the largest of the war thus far and killed and wounded several people. – It appears to be in response to ongoing Ukrainian attacks on Russian military and naval sites and oil depots.

Zero Hedge: Who Really Profits From The Ukraine War? – Few people understand what the war in Ukraine means for big business, namely, opportunity. – It’s not just the weapons and reconstruction contracts. – Ukraine’s vast agricultural lands, among the most fertile in the world, are up for grabs, and American companies like BlackRock are at the front of the line…

Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Push for Ukraine Peace Finds Growing Acceptance in Europe – With U.S. support for Kyiv in doubt, many European officials see diplomacy as the best option. – The increased alignment between Europe and the Trump administration over talks is a sharp turnaround from even six months ago. – Concerns remain deep in Europe, however, over the degree to which the Trump administration will deny Ukraine agency over the shape of a diplomatic settlement.

American Thinker: What The 2024 Election Results Portend For Israel – Obama’s chartered policy for the Middle East was detrimental to Israel. – Biden sought de-escalation in the Middle East by exercising U.S. restraint in the face of Iranian aggression – Trump’s victory signals a new era of peace through strength may well be on the horizon. – Effecting a regime change in Iran, unthinkable under the Obama and Biden administrations, will not be dismissed as such by Trump…

Breitbart: An Israeli strike on Sunday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah. – The Israeli military declined to comment in response to questions from Reuters. – There was no evacuation order for the area published on the Israeli military spokesperson’s account on social media platform X before the strike.

Townhall: President Joe Biden once again humiliated the United States after being placed in the back row during a group photo at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference Summit in Peru. – The worst part was that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping got a front-and-center spot.

American Thinker: The Lie of DOJ Independence – Why would powerful, supposed selfless public servants flee from the looming second term of Trump? – Far too many are political thugs who abandoned the Constitution, abused their power, and committed innumerable violations of law as they willingly, gleefully pursued the political enemies of Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) and the Deep State. – There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s going to wield a legal scalpel to cut out its cancer.

Breitbart: Speaker Mike Johnson says Donald Trump is fulfilling his mandate by picking cabinet members who are “disruptors” by design. – Johnson said Trump has put forward people who will shake up the status quo. – I think what the American people have believed and what they’ve delivered with the mandate in this election is a demand that we shake up the status quo.

The Daily Fetched: Trump’s Presidency Could Bankrupt Some Already Failing Legacy ‘News’ Outlets – We are already seeing the cracks emerging within the mainstream media, and Trump has yet to be inaugurated. – Americans elected Trump for a reason. – As Michael Moore once aptly put it, “Trump is the human Molotov cocktail that they’ve been waiting for.” “The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them.”

American Spectator: With Trump’s Win, The Law Wins – Obama served as the barely hidden linchpin of opposition to Trump and broke precedent by remaining in DC after his term of office to exercise influence. – In a series of law cases that bear the hallmark of active coordination, novel and unprecedented uses of civil and criminal law were used to try to end forever the ability of Donald Trump to affect American politics. – In the end, people understood that the law should keep them free…

The Liberty Daily: After Walking In at The UFC, Trump Gets Pumped When He Sees Joe Rogan – Trump knows who his friends are, and like the Elephant of the Republican party, he’ll never forget them…

American Thinker: One Theory On The Democrats’ Catastrophic Loss – The driving force was not Trump’s popularity or Harris-Walz’s lack thereof. – It is the long overdue awakening of the formerly free-living American public to the accumulated tyranny of the modern mega-state. – Hayek hit the nail on the head when he named planners as the primary enemy of freedom. – Elon’s and Vivek’s Department of Government Efficiency will be thwarted in ways unimaginable…

American Thinker: Kamala’s Billion-Dollar Campaign – Her campaign spent roughly $9.3 million per day, Yet Harris lost all the swing states, the Electoral College, and the popular vote. – She won 382 counties, while Trump won 2,552 counties. – So where did all her campaign dollars go? – Kamala’s costly calamity isn’t an anomaly but a norm in D.C., and it is time for a change. – Take the Ukraine war as an example. – Dig a little, and one discovers that lawmakers have ties with vendors who profiteer from the war…

American Thinker: Trump Derangement Syndrome is a delusional symptom cluster at the terminal stage of a sixty-year vast, progressively insane attempt by the left, especially the cultural, educational, and political elites, to entrain the American people to despise their nation, laws, and themselves to break their self-respect and mentally enslave them to government control. – It began when Trump strongly rejected to its core the quasi-religious, anti-American indoctrination…

Zero Hedge: Visualizing How Trump Realigned America’s Political Landscape – President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election was the result of demographic shifts that benefited Republicans. – In many cases, Americans were more similar in their voting patterns this cycle than they were divided. Here are some graphs on Gender, Education, Age, and Race.

Megyn Kelly: Why Kamala Harris Lost So Spectacularly – Megyn Kelly delivers the definitive explanation for why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, including The reason no one is willing to be honest about the reasons. – The attempts to reframe her and change the narrative. – Her terrible VP choice of the weird and radical Tim Walz. – Kamala’s radical past and her inability to distance herself from it. – Her terrible interview performances…

November 16, 2024

Breitbart: Kamala Harris’s campaign spent a whopping $2.6 million on private jets alone in just two weeks towards the end of her failing campaign, bringing its total private air travel costs to at least $12 million. – The total amount of money spent on private jets may be even higher after the last couple weeks of Harris’s campaign filings are published by the Federal Election Commission. – She is now facing backlash for her “hypocrisy” by using such an un-environmentally-friendly method of travel.

Breitbart: Ray J Admits That Frightened Celebs Are Paying Diddy’s Alleged Victims To Stay Quiet – He was asked if he knows of instances in which alleged victims are going to celebrities saying, “Give me money and I won’t talk.” – Ray J responded by implying that it is “the other way around,” stars are the ones going to the alleged victims saying, “I’ll give you money, please don’t talk.”

Western Journal: Bad News For Illegal Immigrants: – Newly appointed “Border Czar” Thomas Homan said “thousands” of retired border agents and military servicemen are volunteering to help with the incoming Trump administration’s planned mass deportation of illegals. – Homan shared the news during an appearance on Fox and Friends.

One America News: Trump Picks Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright To Lead Department Of Energy – Trump, “I am thrilled to announce that Chris Wright will be joining my Administration as both United States Secretary of Energy and Member of the newly formed Council of National Energy.” – “Wright has been a leading technologist and entrepreneur in Energy.”

Zero Hedge: Trump Picks A Fracking Boss As The Next Energy Secretary – Trump has nominated Chris Wright, who runs the Colorado-based oil and natural gas fracking services company Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department. – Like many other Trump picks, he has no previous DC experience and instead has made a name for himself as a vocal proponent of oil and gas, saying fossil fuels are crucial for spreading prosperity and lifting people from poverty.

Epoch Times: Trump To Withdraw America From The Globalist Paris Climate Agreement – Trump’s main point of contention with the Paris Agreement is that it allows some countries to dictate their emissions standards while forcing much higher standards on some larger countries, like the United States. – Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement will allow Trump to authorize drilling and mining on western lands to reinstate America’s global energy leadership…

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 15 of 27 position selections have been announced.

One America News: Trump Names Attorney Will Scharf As Assistant To The President, White House Staff Secretary – Trump, “Scharf has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the Historic Immunity Decision in the Supreme Court.”

Resist The Mainstream: Democrat officials in Pennsylvania blue counties are now facing scrutiny after some openly admitted to counting disqualified ballots in the highly contested Senate race between Republican Dave McCormick and incumbent Democrat Bob Casey. – Despite the AP declaring McCormick the winner by a margin of 26,000 votes, Casey has yet to concede, insisting on the counting of every ballot cast.

InfoWars: The Usual Suspect – Pence called on Senate Republicans to refuse to install RFK Jr. on the grounds of his attitude towards abortion and reproductive rights. – Pro-life Republicans shouldn’t kid themselves. – Refusing to compromise on RFK Jr.’s appointment will surely have a grave cost because kids will continue to die.

American Thinker: President Trump’s Magic Show Begins – Trump will move fast, change directions, and keep his opponents off guard. – This won’t be like 2017 when Trump did everything he could to work amicably with House and Senate Republicans. – This time, you either get on the “Trump Train” or kindly throw yourself from the back car.

American Thinker: Trump Will Have Two Years to Run Wild, and Then What? – In a war, the window for making changes is narrow. – Trump will have at least 18 (six months before the next national election) to cement all the major changes he’s likely to make in his final administration. If he can’t get his signature actions enacted into law by about that time, the realization is that there is no guarantee we’ll hold the House or Senate in the second half of his term…

Zero Hedge: Trump Will Bring Justice, Not Revenge – The Deep State tried everything to make Trump lose. In total, 91 frivolous felony charges were thrown at the former president. All so they could brand him a felon, tie up resources, and prevent him from campaigning. – Then there was the January 6th “insurrection,” multiple Russian collusion hoaxes, and countless media lies. – Trump stated, “The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled.”

American Thinker: D.O.G.E. Is A Wonderful Concept, And Here Are Some Ideas To Get It Started – An important step would be ending federal agencies that have shown themselves to be either redundant or that have disrupted the states in their role as the true custodians handling day-to-day matters for American citizens.

American Spectator: What Trump’s Cabinet Picks All Have in Common, They Don’t Give A Shit. – Now they’re calling Pete Hegseth a racist and white supremacist, but these epithets have lost their power on Americans. – All of Trump’s characteristics that D.C. insiders find distasteful and gauche undergird the reasons he was elected. – The American people want Thor’s Hammer in the hand of one of their own, not in the hands of people who hate them…

Washington Free Beacon: New State Department Head Marco Rubio And the Return of the Monroe Doctrine – After a few decades of relative calm, the situation in much of Latin America is deteriorating. – The United States also has a new great power rival in the region. China has become South America’s largest trading partner, and it is making inroads across the Western Hemisphere. – China’s influence exacerbates the other issues that have plagued the region…

American Thinker: The Inflation Reduction Act means higher prices for everyone – Someday, somebody will have to pay the bill for all this inflationary spending. – The IRA was wrong from the start and was rammed through Congress without a single Republican vote (Harris broke the tie in the Senate). – Massively increasing government spending does not reduce inflation. The energy and climate provisions of the IRA are already burning through taxpayer dollars at rates much higher than initially projected…

American Thinker: RFK, Jr. As HHS Secretary Can transform America – It could potentially transform the practice of medicine in the U.S. and, as perhaps an unintended consequence, provide a fast track for helping to heal the rift between and even unifying, left and right.

Washington Examiner: – The DOJ is under legal pressure to release audio recordings of the special counsel interview between Robert Hur and Joe Biden, even as Biden’s term winds down. – After refusing to hand over the audio to Congress and outside groups, the DOJ remains caught up in several court battles, in which it has continued, as recently as this week, to ask judges to keep the audio and other material from Hur’s inquiry out of the public eye…

American Thinker: Will Democrats Create A ‘Shadow Government’ To Thwart Trump? – A leftist congressman names gamy Democrats he’d like to put in his shadow cabinet. – Democrats, whether elected representatives or Deep Staters and swamp dwellers have certain ideas, despite the landslide mandate, the people added to Donald Trump and Republicans…

American Thinker: So Many Secrets – Absent the will to ferret out those who have betrayed America, we’ll never be able to hold the country together. – Wouldn’t you like to know what the Deep State knows? – Every dirty little secret? – The details of their campaigns against parents concerned about the political and sexual indoctrination of their kids in public schools? – The details about who’s behind the Covid lockdowns and lies? – Trump has the power to find out so many things…

American Thinker: They Say Trump’s Cabinet Is Unqualified? – Are Democrats stupid enough to want to go there? – Let’s take a look at some of their Democrat qualifications. – Xavier Becerra, over HHS, he’s not a doctor, he’s a lawyer and ex-AG of California. – Jared Bernstein, Chair of Council of Economic Advisors, BA in music, masters in sociology. – Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, no transportation background, but Mayor of Indiana and known as “pothole Pete.” and the list goes on…

Zero Hedge: RFK Jr. drives pharma to a 15-year low – They were on a losing streak, and then comes RFK. – The pharma sector has been facing a growing number of uncertainties, which are increasingly reflected in biopharma’s collapsing multiples. – Generalists were already abandoning the sector, as evidenced by nine straight weeks of HC sector underperformance even before this week’s RFK Jr news.

Slay News: More than a week after Election Day, California still has over 1.7 million ballots that are yet to be counted. – Trump is already making appointments, while other states like Florida have wrapped up their elections and counted every vote. – Meanwhile, California has more than a million outstanding ballots. – The issue is fueling suspicions Trump has raised in the past about election integrity.

American Conservative: The USMCA Provides Trump Options in Mexico – This trade agreement is up for renegotiation in 2026, so it could allow Trump to put serious pressure on the Mexican government. – A major component of Trump’s renegotiation of NAFTA was using the leverage of potential economic sanctions against Mexico to extract other concessions from the government, particularly over immigration…

Washington Free Beacon: The Best of Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Thanks for the Memories As Kamala Fades Out) – Kamala will not be president after running what is widely regarded as the most incompetent campaign in the history of American politics. – Kamala told us she was “gon’ win,” but she did not. – Harris exuded joy and vibes while stressing the importance of understanding what needs to be done in terms of doing the work…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Run and Shoot Offense Edition – Does it seem like Trump is already president? If his first week following the election is compared to a football game, he isn’t just throwing long bombs or running a smash-mouth fullback right up the middle; he’s more like a run-and-shoot offense that completely confuses the defense and leaves it breathless.

November 15, 2024

Zero Hedge: Israeli Officials Belatedly Claim Secret Nuclear Site Destroyed In Last Month’s Iran Strikes – “The strike — which targeted a site previously reported to be inactive — significantly damaged Iran’s effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research, Israeli and U.S. officials said,” the report says. – The site has been identified, also in satellite images, as the Parchin Military Complex.

UPI News: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited an unmanned aerial vehicle facility and ordered the “full-scale mass production” of new suicide attack drones, state media reported Friday, amid growing military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. – Kim guided a performance test of various drones at the North’s Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex on Thursday, state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.

USA Today: How America voted, which counties shifted towards Trump, and a look at voter turnout – President-elect Donald Trump claimed the White House again after hundreds of counties shifted to the right when the more than 149 million 2024 presidential election votes were tallied. – Harris’ and Trump’s campaigns received overwhelming support, 80% or more, in a combined 720 counties of the country’s nearly 3,000, and the vast majority were on Trump’s side of the ledger…

One America News: Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune has assured the public that “all the options” are on the table to get President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks through the confirmation process amid concerns that some appointees might not receive enough votes. – Thune appeared on Fox News, where he explained that Senate Republicans are going to do everything they can to “see that Trump gets his team installed as quickly as possible.”

Epoch Times: Trump Is Forming A New National Energy Council That Will Be Led by Doug Burgum – Burgum was nominated to lead the Department of Interior and also serve as the chairman of a new Energy Council. – The National Energy Council will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, and transportation of ALL forms of American Energy.

Just The News: Trump’s National Security Team Signals Tougher Approach to China while Shifting Focus from Distractions – Three of the candidates for pivotal security roles, Sen. Marco Rubio, Gov. Kristi Noem, and Rep. Mike Waltz, have long records of tough-on-China policies from the federal and state level and are likely to support the president-elect in implementing policies that treat China as America’s primary economic and geopolitical rival.

Western Journal: Dean John Sauer, The Lawyer Who Stood Up for Trump at SCOTUS, Has Been Selected As The New Solicitor General. – Sauer defended Trump in a precedent-setting case in which the Supreme Court ruled a president has broad immunity for official actions.

Fox News: Trump picked Steven Cheung as communications director and Sergio Gor as personnel office director. – Cheung previously served as communications director for the Trump-Vance campaign and was the White House director of strategic response in Trump’s first term. – Gor, an ally and business partner of Donald Trump Jr., was in charge of the pro-Trump political action committee.

Western Journal: Donald Trump revealed that Karoline Leavitt, the spokesperson of his 2024 campaign, will serve as his incoming administration’s White House press secretary. – Trump, “Karoline Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Campaign, and I am pleased to announce she will serve as White House Press Secretary.”

Epoch Times: Speaker Johnson Will Ask House Ethics Committee Not to Release Report on Matt Gaetz – Johnson said that Gaetz’s resignation puts him outside of the jurisdiction of the committee and that releasing the report would be a breach of House rules.

The Daily Fetched: Florida Sues The FEMA Director for ‘Violating Trump Supporter’s Civil Rights’ During Hurricane Recovery – The complaint, filed by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, said: “While the facts will continue to come out over the weeks and months, it is already clear that Defendant Washington conspired with senior FEMA officials, as well as those carrying out her orders, to violate the civil rights of Florida citizens.”

Western Journal: RFK Jr. Haters May Be Silenced B Ay Forgotten Article From 2008 – President-elect Barack Obama was considering Kennedy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. – In addition to his health agenda, Kennedy built a career as an environmental lawyer. – If we forget the noise, the selection of both Kennedy and Hegseth indicates Trump will deliver on his promises to voters.

Revolver: Infowars Has Been Restored to Alex Jones In A Total Reversal of Yesterday’s Shutdown – The Illegal Sale of InfoWars Is Now Under Criminal Investigation – Jones stated that his enemies called him earlier today and said, in essence, “We didn’t know what we did at auction was illegal; we’ll give you whatever you need.”

New York Sun: NATO or Nuclear? – While Trump Assembles His Team, Ukraine Races to Consolidate Positions for an Armistice in January – Talk grows of a Korea-style agreement with a demilitarized zone that could freeze positions for decades. – Although the war has slipped from daily headlines, October was the bloodiest month for Russian soldiers since Mr. Putin launched his frontal attack on Ukraine in February 2022. – Each day, Russia lost an average of 1,500 soldiers killed or wounded…

Zero Hedge: Zelensky, “The War Will End Faster” Under The Trump Administration – Zelensky and Putin have now expressed a desire for formal talks regarding the war. – Zelensky’s apparent change of heart (or else realization that the war is unwinnable at this point) shows strong momentum that talks could get underway before Trump is even sworn in on January 20th.

Geller Report: 90 Democrat Senators and House Members Ramp Up Demands To Punish Israel Before Trump Takes Office – These biased Democrats sent a hostile letter to Biden demanding that he sanction Israeli officials and organizations. – Unsurprisingly, they made no mention of Palestinian terrorism or Israel’s security needs. – Such a move to sanction them would almost certainly be reversed by President-elect Donald Trump, and it also comes with significant questions regarding enforcement.

Epoch Times: Trump Names Campaign Spokesman Steven Cheung as His Communications Director – Cheung is an alumnus of Trump’s first term. – He also tapped Sergio Gor to serve as president of the Presidential Personnel Office. – Gor will lead the presidential personnel office while also serving as an assistant to Trump.

American Greatness: The Coming Era of MAGA Dominance – Trump’s 2024 win, driven by a coalition of White and male voters with gains among Hispanics, Catholics, and union members, suggests a new era of Republican dominance amid shifting demographics. – It was never about the swing states of 2004. The answer has always been the Rust Belt and turning the “blue wall” into the “red wall.”

American Thinker: The first days of the Trump transition were focused, efficient, and smooth, in large measure, due to Don Jr. – Behind the scenes, he brought order to the chaos of the Trump world. – Don was a talent scout, bringing in fresh new faces who could make a difference. – He got Ronna McDaniel ousted from the RNC and brought in Charlie Kirk to implement more modern election tactics. – He saw JD Vance as a budding star and had his father endorse him in a crowded Senate primary. – He…

American Thinker: Talented Team Trump Is Ready To Rumble – It is clear that Trump puts a premium on smarts and youth, leading off with his first major selection of J.D. Vance, just 40, for VP. – Pete Hegseth, 44, went to Princeton and Harvard. – Elise Stefanik, 40, is a Harvard Crimsonite aimed at degrading pinkos. – Stephen Miller, 39, is a Duke genius who will lead the border battle as deputy chief of staff. – Elon Musk, 53, could be the smartest human on the planet. – And then there is…

American Thinker: Gaetz-Gate, How This Strange Nomination Might Play Out – If Gaetz’s nomination goes through, it is an ‘in your face’ move directed towards both the Democrats and the RINOs of his party who are less than fans of the brash Florida congressman. – I believe when the dust has settled, Gaetz will be Attorney General, and the new Florida senator will be Representative Byron Daniels, a favorite of the President-elect.

American Thinker: The Gaetz appointment is a giant middle finger to those in the DOJ who had harassed Trump since before he took office in 2017. – It started with the Russia hoax, and it’s been going on nonstop for eight years. – Trump will not allow this invasion of his wife’s privacy to go unavenged. Heads will roll down the entire chain of command that was responsible for this travesty. – It’s pleasant to think that this is just the beginning of four years of fearless leadership.

Townhall: Did The New GOP Senate Leader Say Recess Appointments Are on the Table for Matt Gaetz? – This nomination has become a sort of political Rorschach test, as some view it as a genuine push to clean house at the Justice Department while others see it as a way to soften the upper chamber to get who Trump wants at DOJ after everything shakes out.

American Conservative: Tulsi Gabbard Is a Dream Come True for Foreign Policy Realists – Interventionists haven’t forgiven her for her opposition to Syrian intervention. – In 2016, she wrote an op-ed arguing against U.S. interventions in the Middle East, where she correctly assessed that “to maintain order after Assad’s fall would require at least 500,000 troops in a never-ending occupation.”…

Zero Hedge: All The Right People Hate Trump’s Cabinet Picks – After president-elect Trump nominated the likes of Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. Matt Gaetz, and Pete Hegseth to cabinet positions, the usual crowd of neocons, warmongers, and screechy leftists are quite unhappy, and that is a good thing. – First in line was RINO warmonger and all-around lunatic John Bolton, who must be devastated that he won’t see a massive war with Iran any time soon. – Then came Bill Kristol…

American Thinker: The DOGE Search For Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government is Not the Problem, Bureaucratic Power is – One bad bureaucrat with a taste for power can still do a lot of damage – Legally, every federal agency is limited in two ways: the agency can only exercise the powers granted to it by Congress, and Congress itself had to have the Constitutional authority to grant it such power in the first place. However, the government stopped honoring these two restrictions over a century ago.

The Federalist: Donald Trump Proved That Rigged Elections Are Winnable, But Now It’s Time To Un-Rig Them – There is now an accumulated body of research on proven or potential flaws in our elections. – States that automatically register residents to vote but don’t require proof of citizenship to do so created opportunities for noncitizens to end up on voter rolls, sometimes unknowingly so. – Laws allowing non-dated ballots to be turned in after Election Day welcomed illegitimate behavior…

George Behizy: Senator Tuberville reveals that the U.S. military has 44 four-star generals, each of them with a budget of $250 MILLION and each with 2,000 employees. – I had no idea it was this bad. – This is why D.O.G.E is so important.

Zero Hedge: SpaceX Plans A Tender Offer At A Valuation Of $250 Billion – Elon Musk could be on his way to becoming the first trillionaire by the end of the decade, as two of his private companies soar in value while his public company, Tesla, recently surpassed a trillion dollars in market capitalization. – According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk’s net worth has risen to $306.5 billion, up $77.5 billion on the year, primarily because of the latest Tesla price surge.

November 14, 2024

Gateway Pundit: The FBI In Houston Has Arrested A Man For Plotting A ‘9/11 Style’ Terror Attack – Anas Said was born in Houston but spent a lot of time in Lebanon, where his family lives. – “He admitted to wanting to use explosives to commit a mass killing here in Houston,” Special Agent Williams said. “He expressed the desire to join the U.S. Military just so he could commit an act once he was inside their ranks.”

Trending Politics: During a Mar-A-Lago gala on Thursday evening, Trump announced that he would be nominating North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior. – Trump then stated that Burgum would formally be announced tomorrow before hinting that another “big” nominee would also be announced…

American Conservative: Officials Say Musk Met with Iranian UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Irvani. – Musk allegedly discussed ways to defuse tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic. – Iranian officials who spoke to the New York Times about the meeting reported the meeting as “good news” and “positive.”

Fox News: Joe Rogan says many people in the entertainment industry have privately thanked him for endorsing Trump. – Rogan says he has heard from artists, musicians, and comedians grateful ‘because they can’t do it’ publicly for fear of being attacked. – Rogan then went on to say that many creatives and groups associated with liberal movements of the past have been silent supporters of Trump…

Resist The Mainstream: Karoline Leavitt, a 27-year-old former Trump campaign staffer, is being considered for the role of White House press secretary after Donald Trump’s election victory. – Figures within the Trump world have praised Leavitt’s no-nonsense attitude, work ethic, and ability to effectively communicate the president’s message.

Just The News: Trump Hopes To Slash The Government With The Help Of The Department of Government Efficiency. – DOGE has an expiration date of July 4, 2026. – Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will pave the way by eliminating excess regulations, cutting wasteful expenditures, and restructuring Federal Agencies. – To limit resistance from federal employees facing the prospect of job loss, Musk has proposed granting federal employees generous severance packages…

Headline USA: Big Pharma Stocks Crumbled After Trump Nominated RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services Boss – BioNTech and Novavax saw their stocks drop by 7.1% and 7.0%, respectively, while Moderna’s fell by 5.6% shortly after Trump’s announcement on Thursday – These companies made billions after manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccines, that several governments, including the U.S., forced Americans to take.

City Journal: Donald Trump’s Team of Successors – Trump’s appointments so far, some startling, share a common thread of comparative youth, an indication that the president-elect is looking beyond his presidential tenure. – It is quite clear that Donald Trump is avoiding how he did things last time around when he entered the White House as a political novice. – Some of Trump’s appointees are certainly “designed to shake up Washington…

Gateway Pundit: THE PUBLIC REPUTATION SMEAR OF MATT GAETZ BEGINS – The House ‘Ethics’ Committee Has Leaked Details of Matt Gaetz’s Investigation into Sex Trafficking – The far-left media launched an attack against Matt Gaetz on Thursday following his nomination as Attorney General. – These Charges Were Dropped by Merrick Garland Years Ago – Gaetz was exonerated of all criminal accusations.

Epoch Times: Tracking Every Trump Cabinet Pick – The president-elect is confirming Cabinet members a week after winning the 2024 presidential election. – So far, 14 of 27 position selections have been announced.

New York Post: Trump nominates RFK Jr. to head Department of Health and Human Services – If confirmed as head of HHS, RFK Jr. will oversee 80,000 employees, a $1.7 trillion budget, and a vast network of agencies and subagencies that cover topics as varied as nutrition, immigration, and even biodefense research.

American Thinker: Tom Homan Is A Man Out For Justice – The first time I saw him interviewed, I was so impressed by his determination to protect the border of our country. – For him, the goals were all about border security and national security, and nothing could excuse illegal migrants from breaking our laws. – Tom Holman has an in-depth background in border security and law enforcement...

Real Clear Politics: Peter Thiel, If Trump Could Not Defeat “The Machine,” It Would Prove The Machine Was Unbeatable – If it was unbeatable, then America would become California, which is a one-party state. If things get really bad, you can leave California, but it is much harder to leave America…

Newsmax: Democrat Representative Josh Harder has been officially projected as the winner in the 9th California Congressional District, setting the latest House Republican majority tally at 219-212 with four races remaining too close to call.

Real Clear Politics: The End of the Nutball Era – No. 1: A war on merit. – No. 2: A war on free speech. – No. 3: Breaking the immigration system completely and purposely. – No. 4: Encouraging racial division and even rioting. – No. 5: Extreme policies on transgender issues. – No. 6: Virtually unlimited blank-check national security funding. – Their policies are collectively so crazy and utterly disconnected from people’s basic concerns that normal people rebelled...

Western Journal: The Federal Elections Chair Caught Biden’s DOJ Interfering in The 2024 Election – FEC Chairman Sean Cooksey notified DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and counsel Jeffrey Ragsdale that the DOJ violated its internal policies when it sent a letter to Elon Musk giving a warning about his political action committee giving away $1 million to registered voters in swing states.

American Thinker: Let Me Count the Ways – Just how thoroughly did the red team win on November 5th? – The White House Oval Office, The U.S. Senate, The U.S. House of Representatives, The Electoral College, The popular vote, All seven swing states, State governor majority, State Legislature majority, and The stock market hit a record high. – Plus, these things that happened due to Trump’s White House win…

USA Today:  Progressives have responded in extraordinary ways since Donald Trump secured a whopping 312 Electoral College votes to win the presidency for a second time. – Some have thrown temper tantrums. – Others have expressed elitist disdain. – Some have decried the 75.6 million Americans who voted for Trump as uneducated, sexist, and racist. – Leftists’ inability for self-reflection, along with their self-righteousness and delusional sense of superiority, have been stunning to observe in the wake of the Republican Party’s sweeping victory.

Zero Hedge: Three Key Energy Moves Trump Plans For His First 100 Days – Increase U.S. oil and gas production by removing federal drilling restrictions. – Negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war with a settlement that secures disputed regions for Russia. – Support Israel in taking action against Iran’s nuclear program to strengthen U.S.-Middle East alliances and counter China’s influence in the region.

The Daily Fetched: The Trump Administration Plans To Create Massive Deportation Prisons in Democrat’s Backyards – Sanctuary city status will not stop the incoming administration from creating a detention center in or near such a community. – Likely places for new centers include Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago. – In cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, expanding or reopening facilities might also be an option…

Revolver: James Woods shared a short clip of Bill Maher’s pre-election smugness during a conversation with Dr. Phil that will blow you away – When you think of the words “smug” and “elite,” the first thing that usually comes to mind is the Democrat Party. – They’ve become the party of wealthy, arrogant elites, sneering at the ‘little people’ and mocking the peasants’ wishful thinking. – It’s almost hard to believe that not so long ago, they were seen as the party of the working class.

American Thinker: Thune Elected Majority Leader And The RINOs Are Emboldened? – John Thune is a McConnell acolyte and a bend-over-backward to compromise with Democrats Trump disdaining RINO. – Spineless establishment Republicans can always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, even in a rout. – Trump represents transformation, so they feel threatened, just like the Deep Staters do…

Townhall: The FEMA Director to Be Brutally Grilled in Back-to-Back House Hearings – FEMA Director Deanne Criswell will have to answer questions before Congress about the discriminatory practice, whether it’s widespread, and if it’s, indeed, agency policy, as alleged by a former FEMA supervisor. – The ex-employee says she was simply following orders from her higher-ups when she directed disaster relief workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump” in deep-red Highlands County, Florida.

Breitbart: Democrat governors and mayors promise massive resistance against the enforcement of Americans’ civil rights to secure our borders. – Two Democrat governors and their political allies have created two groups — Governors Safeguarding Democracy and Governors Action Alliance to oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 mandate to enforce the nation’s popular immigration laws.

Victor Davis Hanson: Restoring Deterrence Will Prevent Endless Wars – Trump must remind Americans only by deterring enemies can he prevent endless wars. -In the second Trump administration, rethreading the deterrence needle without getting into major wars may become far more challenging as the world of today is far more dangerous than when Trump left in 2021. – The inept Biden administration has utterly destroyed U.S. deterrence abroad through both actual and symbolic disasters…

American Thinker: Democrats Vow To Obstruct President-Elect Trump Yet Again – Democrats/leftists/progressives/Marxists will lie, bitch, moan, obfuscate, attack, sue, and do anything else, 24/7, from now until the inauguration to keep Trump from taking power. If he still manages to do so, they will redouble their efforts to make sure he doesn’t succeed in Making America Great Again.

American Thinker: The Biggest Blunder In The History of American Politics – The premeditated, unabashed, and overt theft of the 2020 presidential election by the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and their fellow left-wing elitists. – In the history of the US, there has never been a more inept, duplicitous, or ludicrous Ruling Class than the current iteration in its pursuit of Donald Trump. – In a poll taken two weeks after the election, nearly half of all likely voters believed there was sufficient fraud in the election to ensure Biden won.

Washington Free Beacon: The Department of Energy loan office quadrupled its available lending budget to over $240 billion this week, as Biden officials rush to approve a flurry of “green energy” loans before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. – The DOE Loan Programs Office said on Tuesday that it’s increasing its lending power under the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment program.

Issues & Insights: How Can We ‘Trust The Science’ When We Can’t Trust The Data? – ‘Climate change is the challenge of our lifetimes,” we in the energy-hungry West often hear when lectured by leftist government officials and their allies pushing the “Net-Zero” religion. – But what happens if much of the vital data behind the climate-change threat are made up? – As it turns out, quite a lot of it is just that…

November 13, 2024

Breitbart: Blinken Assures NATO That Biden Will Funnel Billions More To Ukraine Before Trump’s Return – Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a farewell visit to the headquarters of NATO in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday during which he repeatedly insisted that Joe Biden would “push every dollar out the door that we have at our disposal” to Ukraine.

Western Journal: Trump Continues To Build The Team That Will Shape His Second Term. – Trump Just Announced Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, and Marco Rubio for Secretary of State…

The Bulwark: Donald Trump Is Dead Serious About Getting Matt Gaetz To The DOJ – Of all the lawyers Trump interviewed for Attorney General, Gaetz checked the most boxes. – He is a loyal, longtime adviser, an acid-tongued debate champ, and—perhaps most importantly, an aggrieved target of the FEDS. – Gaetz was the subject of a federal sex crime probe that he survived and labeled a Deep State fix to tarnish his reputation, if not worse...

Epoch Times: House Speaker Mike Johnson Says Matt Gaetz Has Resigned From Congress After His Attorney General Nomination – He resigned his seat early so it can be filled as soon as possible.

Wall Street Journal: The FBI Seized Polymarket Founder Shayne Coplan’s Phone During A Raid of Home – “This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election,” said a spokesman for the New York-based company.

The Daily Caller: Liberals Are Pressuring Biden To The Commute Sentences Of Dozens Of Death Row Inmates, Including The Boston Marathon Bomber And The Charleston Church Shooter – Hundreds of Democrat-aligned organizations have signed onto a petition urging Biden to uphold his campaign promise to abolish the death penalty by commuting the sentence of every inmate, writing it is “not too late to act decisively.”

One American News: Donald Trump and President Joe Biden met at the Oval Office and shook hands while seemingly engaging in light-hearted banter while discussing plans for a peaceful transition of power when the president-elect takes the oath of office for a second time on January 20th. – Biden also reportedly told Trump, “Welcome back,” and congratulated him on his election win.

Western Journal: The incoming Trump administration is reportedly planning to add more pro-MAGA outlets into the small White House press briefing room, which may mean some traditional establishment outlets getting the bump, something that may not sit well with them. – There are 49 seats available in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, with reporters from both media and print outlets filling the spots.

Liberty Daily: Less than 10 days after Trump won the election, speculation has turned to the important role of White House Press Secretary. – Among the names being proposed are CNN analyst Scott Jennings, former news anchor Kari Lake, and Trump attorney Alina Habba. – Habba, “While I am flattered by the support and speculation, the role of Press Secretary is not a role I am considering. Although I love screaming from a podium, I will be better served in other capacities.”

Just The News: Cellular carriers have told Congress they possess intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident. – This directly disputes FBI testimony that agents couldn’t identify a suspect because the phone data was corrupted. – The revelations from Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, add new intrigue to a debate that has gripped Washington for nearly four years

Western Journal: Trump and Biden ‘Act Like Buddies’ as They Meet in The Oval Office – People noted that the meeting was brisk, with both sides agreeing to a peaceful transition. – The transition of power will formally conclude on Jan. 20, 2025, when Trump is officially inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States.

Gateway Pundit: John Thune Is Elected Senate Majority Leader in A Blow to MAGA Conservatives – The Mitch McConnell Lackey, Trump-Hater, and War-Monger Wins Majority Leader – Thune is not only a longtime neocon and McConnell ally, but he also has anti-Trump credentials that almost make Cornyn look reasonable ash shown in this video...

New York Post: A CIA official with top security clearance is charged for leaking highly classified docs about Israel’s plans to strike Iran – Asif W. Rahman, who worked overseas for the agency and held a top-secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday over the leaks. – His arrest comes after the top secret materials started circulating online last month detailing Israel’s apparent intention to retaliate after Iran launched a barrage of missiles back on October 1st.

Tom Klingenstein: Americans Have Rejected The DOJ’s Lawfare – Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Kristin Clarke, and others in DOJ face an uncertain future. Earlier this year, I wrote that they “have wagered their property, their careers, their reputations, and their liberty on the regime’s retention of power.” – Now, the verdict is in, as voters made it clear that the DOJ has failed miserably to meet the high standards of excellence expected by the American people.

Issues & Insights: How High Does The FEMA Scandal Go? – Now that the FEMA employee at the center of the current scandal is saying that she’s a scapegoat and that the problem is far deeper and wider, will the mainstream press ignore this, too? – “FEMA’s very well aware of the incidents that take place, not just with my crew, but with all the crews in the states,” Washington said recently. – “This is not isolated and is a colossal event of avoidance.”

Townhall: Quit Glossing Over Something That Cannot Be Ignored Regarding the 2020 and 2024 Elections – How do you account for the big jump in supposed 2020 Biden Votes? – 2004 Kerry, 59M – 2008 Obama, 69.5M – 2012 Obama, 65.9M – 2016 Clinton, 65.9M – 2020 Biden, 81.3M – 2024 Harris, 66.4M – And they want us to believe Joe Biden somehow got 81M votes and won, despite losing nearly every bell weather county…

Gateway Pundit: The Los Angeles Times Owner Fires Far-Left Editorial Board Because He Wants ‘Factual and Balanced Coverage’ of Trump Presidency – Patrick Soon-Shiong, “I will work towards making our paper and media fair and balanced so that all voices are heard and we can respectfully exchange every American’s view ..from left to right to the center.” – “Coming soon, a new Editorial Board.” – “Trust in media is critical for a strong democracy.”

Washington Examiner: Special counsel Jack Smith plans to finish his work and resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. – Smith’s goal is not to leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of Trump’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in.

American Thinker: The Deep State War Against Donald Trump Begins – In a video posted two days after the election, Trump detailed a plan to dismantle the Deep State. – In this three-minute video, Trump explained how he would take a series of measures to “shatter the Deep State.” – It’s not difficult to imagine a scenario in which the Deep State does everything it can to keep Donald Trump from getting inaugurated.

American Thinker: Expediting Deportation By Using Carrots and Sticks – Go home on your own, and you will be eligible to apply for legal residency. – If the government has to take action, wait for more than the current ten years before even getting to the end of the line…

American Spectator: The Growing Irrelevance of the Mainstream Media – It is not just their leftist ideological stance that has done them in. – It is their insufferable arrogance, their demeaning approach to average Americans who didn’t attend the “right” schools or who hold the “wrong” positions on issues, and their obnoxious superiority complex which allows them — indeed, demands of them — to categorize their social inferiors as “dangerous,” “uneducated,” and “fascist.”

American Thinker: Are Americans finally noticing media bias and propaganda? – It looks as though the bias in mass media has caught up with them. – They overplayed their hand, and according to a recent Gallup poll, only 52% of Democrats, 27% of independents, and 12% of Republicans trust mass media. – Younger people trust mass media less than older.

New York Sun: Trump’s Win Bolsters ‘Parents Rights’ Movement in America’s Public Schools – ‘Parents trust President Trump to put them back in the driver’s seat when it comes to their children’s education.’ – Moms for Liberty, is now celebrating 44 school board wins in their target states of Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, as part of its efforts to promote “parental rights” and subvert progressive politics on local school boards across the country.

FAR: How The US and NATO Provoked The War In Ukraine – As usual, the situation, as reported by the mainstream media, paints Russia as the aggressor and completely ignores the events leading up to their invasion. – This brief video should help those who don’t understand the history surrounding the chain of events obtain a better grasp of the situation.

November 12, 2024

Real Clear Markets: With Biden’s Reign of Error Over, Here Is A List Of Twenty-Five Things To Do For #47 – Immediately ask for whistleblowers to come forward in all federal agencies to expose the Biden administration’s weaponization of federal power against its political enemies. – Publicly announce that any destruction of evidence will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. – Immediately start the interview process to load the Department of Justice with seasoned prosecutors because you are going to need them…

Breitbart: Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has told up to 220 migrant families currently lodged in hotels in Albany, New York, that their deadline of Dec. 31 has been moved forward to Dec. 15 as the city moves to phase out its funding of the hotels. – The announcement came on the heels of the arrest of several migrants in Rensselaer, New York, in connection with a murder in Connecticut that is suspected of being tied to the dangerous, bloodthirsty Venezuelan Tren de Aragua criminal gang.

Wall Street Journal: Secret Ballot For Their New Leader Will Test The GOP Senators in The New Trump Era – Wednesday, Republican lawmakers are set to choose between John Thune, John Cornyn, and Rick Scott. – The new majority leader will guide the Senate as Republicans work to pass sweeping tax cuts, consider Trump-nominated judges and cabinet officials, and navigate high-stakes battles over government spending, foreign aid, and the debt ceiling.

Washington Examiner: Donald Trump taped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency – Trump, “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies – Essential to the “Save America” Movement.”

Wall Street Journal: The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership. – If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities.”

New York Post: Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that John Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman as well as director of national intelligence, would return to the executive branch as director of the CIA. – Trump, “From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation to catching the FBI’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public.”

Fox News: Trump nominates Pete Hegseth to serve as defense secretary – Hegseth is an Army National Gaurd veteran who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and has hosted the FOX Nation “Patriot Awards” since 2019 – He repeatedly advocated for military veterans and championed veteran and military causes. – While serving in the Army, he was awarded two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman’s Badge, awarded to infantry soldiers who participate in active combat.

Epoch Times: Donald Trump announced that Steven Witkoff will be his special envoy to the Middle East. – Trump, “Steve is a Highly Respected Leader in Business and Philanthropy who has made every project and community he has been involved with stronger and more prosperous. Steve will be an unrelenting Voice for PEACE and make us all proud.”

Western Journal: Donald Trump announced Tuesday that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is his pick to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. – Trump, “Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and he loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him.

Breitbart: Speaker Johnson Orders The Entire Biden Administration to Preserve and Retain All Records and Documents – He sent letters to all 18 federal Departments ordering them to retain and preserve documents. – This could become explosive if outgoing Biden administration officials attempt to delete or destroy documents that shed light on some of the radical policies they pursued or scandals concerning censorship or other major storylines of the past four years...

The Daily Signal: As the race to become the new Republican Senate leader comes down to the wire, Senator Rick Scott is gaining momentum. – A slew of endorsements came in for Scott over Veterans Day weekend as the Senate GOP conference prepares to choose a new leader for the first time in 18 years. – Scott is pitted against Senators John Thune and John Cornyn to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Western Journal: Donald Trump is reportedly considering lawyer Alina Habba to be the White House press secretary. – Habba often spoke to the media while she was on the legal team representing Trump in his New York defamation and fraud civil lawsuits over the past two years. – Her style with reporters was usually combative.

The Daily Signal: A federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens. – In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states to the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to create the parole program by administrative rule

Newsmax: Special counsel Jack Smith reportedly has spent more than $50 million in his pursuit of prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump for mishandling government documents. – With Republicans set to control both chambers in the new Congress, the chairs of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight last week warned Smith not to purge records, communications, and documents they have requested relating to the federal prosecutions of Trump.

Fox News: NY judge Merchan has paused all court deadlines and sentencing in the case – The 34 convictions could have placed President-elect Donald Trump in prison for up to 4 years – The decision comes after the Supreme Court said in a July 1 ruling that presidents should enjoy presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for most actions taken as president…

The Daily Fetched: Far-left groups with a history of engaging in violent protest are being recruited ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20. – Flyers are suddenly appearing around college campuses in DC inviting individuals to fight fascism by joining the following groups: The People’s Medic Collective, The DMV Students for Justice in Palestine, and The Socialist Action Initiative…

Washington Times: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to visit with House Republican leadership on Capitol Hill before meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday morning, Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. – House Democratic leaders have not yet responded to Trump’s planned visit or whether they will request a meeting with the president-elect.

Western Journal: Trump’s New Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Discloses His Plans For Day One – Trump will reinstate several executive orders, but Wiles did not specify which orders Trump would reinstate. – Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said, “There will be tens of them. – Trump has said he will link tariffs with immigration control. – “We’re being invaded by Mexico,” Trump said during the campaign.

Center For Immigration Studies – Is It Time to Deploy the Alien Enemies Act Against Iranians in the U.S.? – Is Iran an enemy state? – The State Department has concluded that “In 2022, Iran increasingly encouraged and plotted attacks against the US, including against former U.S. officials,” noting that the DOJ had “disrupted an [Iran Revolutionary Guard Corp-Qods Force] IRGC-QF-led plot to assassinate former National Security Advisor John Bolton and arrested a suspected Iranian operative accused of planning the assassination.”

CNN: Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to two people familiar with the selection. – Noem will be tapped to take over the agency as two key immigration hardliners, Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, are slated to serve in senior roles, signaling Trump is serious about his promise to crack down on his immigration pledges.

Wall Street Journal: Trump is expected to nominate Senator Marco Rubio as secretary of state and has asked Representative Mike Waltz, a Green Beret veteran, to be his White House national security adviser, according to people familiar with his thinking. – Trump could change his mind on the Rubio move, as he remains fond of others lobbying for the secretary of state role.

Just The News: Trump builds no-nonsense team as Rasmussen predicts he could rival Reagan’s legacy in his second term – Experts believe Trump’s new team will focus on making America affordable again by defeating inflation, making the country secure again by fixing the border, and restoring common sense to public policies from energy to transgenderism. – Former White House aide Sebastian Gorka is advocating for Florida’s Rick Scott to become the next Speaker Of The House…

Epoch Times: Trump Could Impact the Supreme Court for Decades to Come – President-elect Donald Trump’s second term could help make him one of the most consequential presidents for the U.S. Supreme Court by solidifying a long-lasting originalist majority. – Although Democrats have criticized the justices in recent months, the 2024 elections may have stripped them of the power they would need to block Trump’s nominees and implement reforms to stunt conservatives’ influence on the court.

Zero Hedge: “They Just Got Handed Fraudulent Books” – Former Wall Street Analyst Ed Dowd Confirms That Trump Is ‘Inheriting A Turd Of An Economy’ – “I have never seen such blatant manipulation of government statistics. – Government spending and the government is hiring to paper over what is truly a bad economy for the average man. – The other big problem that Trump needs to get in front of is the COVID-19 bioweapon vax disaster.

American Thinker: How The Media Fail Us – Traditional news stations (ABC, CBS, NBC) and folks like Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer pretend to be objective but aren’t. – They are guilty of acts of omission as well as commission. – Think back to Covid and their lack of curiosity about the origins of the disease as they blindly went wherever Anthony Fauci pointed them. – Then, there was the obvious cognitive decline of President Biden that was ignored until it could no longer be hidden…

American Thinker: Trifecta Trump! – Most Republican voters strongly suspected that the last election for Trump was stolen. – Red is the color of the map where people have had more than enough. – This winning Trifecta is conservatives’ way of telling the Democrats to get out of our lives and schools and children’s bodies. – This election said NO to the legacy media, the DOE, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the…

Front Page Magazine: Trump Won Jewish Neighborhoods Across America – The real facts about how Jews voted in 2024. – Trump won the largest Jewish county in the country, the only entirely Jewish town and village, and some of the densest, fastest growing, and most Jewish neighborhoods in America. – Trump won over 90% of the vote in most Borough Park districts. On 14th Avenue and Rabbi Weissmandl Way, Trump won 96% of the vote in one very Jewish district…

Tom Klingenstein: Even with conservatives returning to power in DC, the intellectual and spiritual chasm between the classical education movement and the DOE is in no danger of closing soon. – The task of the public school, and thus the task of the DOE, is this same task. – To have a functioning republic in which political equality is upheld by law and social practice, the normative public school must provide an ordinary education that is sufficient for living the life of a just citizen.

Resist The Mainstream: Documents obtained through a FOIA request by the watchdog group Open the Books exposed a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Marshals Service and HHS detailing extensive security measures for former public health officials. – Former White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has received $15 million in taxpayer-funded security protection since his retirement, raising questions about the allocation of federal resources.

Brownstone Institute: How the Information Factory Evolved – Wrapping institutional agendas in the language of personal liberation – has become the template for modern social engineering. – These techniques now shape everything from pandemic responses to geopolitical conflicts, evolving into what behavioral scientists and policy advisors today call ‘nudge theory,’ sophisticated psychological operations that guide public behavior while maintaining the illusion of free choice…

American Thinker: Ctrl + Alt + Rage – How do we explain all of the violence we are seeing in school classrooms? – 65% of teachers reported being the victim of threatening behavior or verbal harassment before the pandemic, and then 80% responded being victimized post-COVID-19. – 42% responded that they were victims of physical violence before the pandemic, and that number increased to 56% when schools reopened…

California Globe: On the heels of Democrats’ huge presidential loss last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom doubled down on stupidity, arrogance, smug bravado, foolishness, indiscrete loony ideas, and leftist policies. – Perhaps before Newsom gets too full of himself, he should at least acknowledge that millions more Californians rejected his and Democrats’ dangerous anti-American agenda is not as blue as it once was, thanks to Gavin Newsom. – See the map…

November 11, 2024

Washington Times: Uncle Sam’s suppression of free speech ends on Inauguration Day – Donald Trump isn’t messing around. His first major policy statement since his landslide victory outlines his plan to restore free speech. – “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. – Documents uncovered through lawsuits reveal how agencies such as the FBI, DOJ, and DHS worked closely with Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook to remove content they labeled “misinformation” or “malinformation.”

Western Journal: Republicans Retain Control Over House of Representatives, Handing Trump the Keys To Pushing Forth His Agenda – Monday, as more totals emerged, what some commentators predicted might be the only place Democrats would have a majority appeared to be won by the GOP, which is currently projected to have 218 seats, while Democrats will have 209 seats, according to Decision DeskHQ…

Epoch Times: Trump Has Taped Former Representative Lee Zeldin as Head of The EPA – Zeldin, who represented New York’s 1st Congressional District from 2015 to 2023, has accepted the position. – Donald Trump, “Lee, with a very strong legal background, has been a true fighter for America First policies.”

New York Post: Melania Trump declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration’s raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government’s investigation into classified documents. – “She ain’t going,” a source familiar with Melania’s decision told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. – The Bidens are disgusting,” the source said, “Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet.”…

American Thinker: Honoring Our Vets – Veterans should be honored, respected, and appreciated on November 11th and all year for their service. As a grateful nation, we can never repay veterans for their sacrifices, but we can bow our heads and thank almighty God that such patriotic Americans were willing and able to defend our country.

Western Journal: Trump Gives Putin an Ominous Warning in A Post-Election Phone Call – Donald Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin Thursday and warned him not to grab more of Ukraine. – “Don’t escalate because I have weapons, too.”

Zero Hedge: Israel’s Major City of Haifa Was Hit By One Of Largest Hezbollah Rocket Barrages Of The War – At least 90 were fired on the major port city. – The IDF says it intercepted most, and this was followed by a smaller second barrage of ten missiles.

Epoch Times: Trump Names Stephen Miller to Be Deputy Chief of Policy – Miller was a senior adviser in Trump’s first term and has been a central figure in many of his policy decisions, namely focusing on illegal immigration and border security. Miller also helped craft many of Trump’s speeches and plans on immigration.

Woke Spy: According To A Former Obama Speechwriter, Internal Polling Had Trump Winning Over 400 Electoral Votes In A Face-Off Against Biden – Describing Biden’s decision to stand against Trump again, Favreau said, “He and his inner circle, they refused to believe the polls. – They refused to believe he was unpopular.

Mediaite: MSNBC saw its audience crater on Thursday, just days after the left-of-center network beat CNN in election night ratings for the first time. – Fox News was up some 60 percent year over year for the day, while MSNBC and CNN were down 23 and 40 percent – respectively. In prime time, the news was even more bleak for CNN and MSNBC- Fox News also dominated election night with over 10.3 million average viewers from 8 to 11 pm, further extending the network’s long reign atop the cable news industry.

The Federalist: The Biggest Losers On Election Night Were The Obamas – About a week before the final day of the election, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial titled, “A Harris Victory Means the Fourth Term of Obama.” – Under President Obama’s leadership, the Democrat Party has been transformed into one dominated by “liberal coastal elites.”- In some ways, voters chose Trump as a rejection of the Obamas’ brand of leftism.

Zero Hedge: On Day One, Five Things Trump Will Take Action On Using Executive Orders – Immigration, The Wall, Pardons, Paris Climate Agreement, and Biden Titel IX Transgender Changes. – Trump has also said he would use executive action on his first day in office to put a stop to granting birthright citizenship to children born to anyone who entered the U.S. illegally…

Zero Hedge: Futures Hit A 51st Record High Of 2024 As Trump Trades Storm Higher – The post-Trump rally has returned full force, and US equity futures are sharply higher and well above 6,000 in what should be a light volume day with bonds closed due to the Veteran’s Day holiday.

Geller Report: THE TREACHERY BEGINS – Here’s The Leaked List of GOP Senators Voting For RINO Majority Leader In Mitch McConnell’s Secret Vote – The GOP establishment who undermined Trump’s first term is at it again. – The American people gave Donald Trump a sweeping mandate. They do not want Thune or Cornyn to lead the US Senate. – It is very clear that they want Rick Scott…

Trending Politics: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is refusing to allow Republican Senator-elect Dave McCormick to attend Senate orientation for new members next week because McCormick’s opponent, Bob Casey, refuses to concede. – The race has long been called in McCormick’s favor by the AP and several other outlets. – McCormick would need to carry provisional ballots by an astronomical margin to win.

Victor Davis Hanson: The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves – Democrats are engaging in public blame-shifting while avoiding accountability for their own policies and elite disconnect, which alienated voters and led to defeat. – So, what lost the election for the Democrats? – Both substance and style. – The proverbial people may have agreed that Trump was sometimes crude, but they knew in his prior four-year tenure that food, gas, rent, power, and insurance were affordable—and then there are all of these things…

Fox News: Trump to appoint former ICE Director Tom Homan as next ‘border czar’ – “Nobody better at policing our borders,” Trump said. – “Homan ‘will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.” – Trump added that the “border czar” position isn’t just for monitoring the U.S. southern border with Mexico, but also “the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security.

American Thinker: Elon Musk’s Kodak Moment – Our government had clandestinely and purposefully morphed into a propaganda machine used to kill free speech. – Musk bought 100% of Twitter for cash and then explained the obvious, “If you don’t have freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. – If they are just being fed propaganda and there is no free speech, democracy is an illusion.” – Twitter, now X, is the new sheriff in town. It is cleaning up the lies and propaganda the old order has been spewing for far too long.

Resist The Mainstream: Elon Musk Notices 18 of the 19 States Harris Won Don’t Require Photo ID at Polling Places – The National Conference of State Legislatures data reveals that while 36 states maintain some form of voter identification requirements, the vast majority of Harris-supporting states operate under more lenient voting protocols.

American Thinker: Lefties in Wonderland – Tuesday’s slaughter reflects the disgust most Americans feel for Democrat positions on the economy, transgenderism, homosexuality, abortion, wokeism, and illegal immigration. – By all means, keep people like Newsom, AOC, Talib, Pelosi, Ilhan Omar, Jamie Raskin, Chuck Schumer, Jerry Nadler, and Elizabeth Warren front and center for the Democrat Party. – And keep the likes of Joy(less) Reid, Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, and the ladies of “The View” as the faces of the news media. – How’s that working for ya?…

Issues & Insights: The Battle Was Won, But The War Has Just Begun – You thought common sense and true normalcy would return to government, society, and our culture? – The reality is that America remains a deeply divided, essentially 50-50 nation because Millions out there still consider it the “right” to snuff babies’ lives out in the womb to preserve women’s careers and hookup culture. – Millions more still think men can be women and women men…

Slay News: Biden-Harris Admin Bureaucrats Already Looking for New Jobs After Trump’s Victory – Floods of Biden-Harris administration officials, mostly FBI and DOJ employees, are already searching for new employment opportunities – In March 2023, Trump announced that on day one, he would reissue his 2020 executive order establishing the Schedule F employment category for federal employees, making it easier to remove insubordinate and poorly performing bureaucrats…

Issues & Insights: This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea – If the presidency were decided by popular vote, a nationwide voter fraud campaign could easily secure the necessary votes without leaving any obvious signs. – At the same time, every ballot in every state could be challenged, creating a legal nightmare that could make it impossible ever to know for sure who won an election…

American Thinker: Let the Reckoning Begin – Trump’s inauguration must mark the moment when bad actors in the government pay the price for their very real insurrection.- The easiest place to start, as in low-hanging fruit, is the 51 intelligence officials claiming in writing with their signatures that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation,” influencing the 2020 election. – And what about the former Director of National Intelligence under Obama, James Clapper?…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly confirmed Sunday that Israel was behind the “pager attacks” that killed or wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists in September and disrupted the group’s communications. – The pager event has been called the most successful targeted attack on terrorists in the history of anti-terror warfare. 

The Federalist: The Lesson Some Leftists Have Learned From Trump’s Win Should Terrify Americans – Some have concluded that they need to crack down even further on free speech, so Republicans should stay vigilant. – The New Republic’s article declared the purported “reason” for Trump’s victory: “It wasn’t the economy inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer: right-wing media.”

November 10, 2024

One America News: Trump Obtained The Highest Popular Vote Count Ever By Republican Candidate – As of Sunday morning, Donald Trump secured 74.56 million popular votes, surpassing his previous record of 74.22 million from the 2020 election. – This total places him ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 70.8 million votes.

One America News: President-elect Donald Trump has officially won Arizona, securing 312 electoral votes and sweeping all seven swing states. – On Saturday evening, the race in Arizona was called, which gave Trump 11 more electoral votes and brought his total to 312 electoral votes. – Vice President Kamala Harris is currently at only 227 electoral votes.

New York Post: New York Representative Elise Stefanik has accepted President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to be his United Nations ambassador – The 40-year-old upstate Republican, who helped force out two Ivy League presidents with her sharp questioning on-campus antisemitism, will lead Trump’s “America first” and pro-Israel message…

Epoch Times: Trump Sets Condition for Next Senate Republican Leader – “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the US Senate must agree to Recess Appointments, without which we will not be able to get people confirmed promptly.” – “Such votes can take “two years or more,” which is “what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again.”

Epoch Times: An exit poll released by Democrat polling firm Blueprint outlined the top three reasons voters nationwide gave for not supporting Kamala Harris – The poll queried more than 3,000 national and swing state voters between November 6th and 7th. – The leading issue for voters was inflation. – Next, the Biden–Harris administration allowed in too many illegal immigrants, and Harris focused too much on cultural topics like transgender issues rather than the middle class…

Western Journal: Trump Urges The GOP to Pay off Harris’ Campaign’s Debts in the Name of ‘Unity’ – The move falls in line with Trump’s recent calls to unify the country. – Trump made the request publicly via an X post on Saturday evening.

Epoch Times: 20 races in the U.S. House of Representatives are still being counted, 10 of which are in California. – Iowa: Incumbent Mariannette Miller-Meeks is fending off her Democrat challenger Christina Bohannan for Iowa’s 1st congressional district race, and Meeks is leading by fewer than 1,000 votes, or 0.2 percent, with 99 percent of the votes counted. – Louisiana: Democrat Cleo Fields is currently leading the pack with 50.8 percent, with 99% of the vote tallied…

Western Journal: How Barron Trump Helped Mastermind Victory – The popular vote margin was likely the result of a Trump campaign strategy to target those voters that absorb their political views from “edgy bro podcasts and social media.” – The campaign decided to let Alex Bruesewitz, 27, suggest some podcasts for Trump, but Trump had an in-house expert have the final say, his son Barron.

Western Journal: Trump Confirms He’ll Conduct The Biggest Deportations to Begin at Start of Term – Trump’s national campaign press secretary said that President-elect Donald Trump’s blowout victory is an endorsement by voters of policies Trump championed on the campaign trail, “Which include, on Day One, launching the largest mass deportation operation of illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris has allowed into this country.”

Geller Report: CNN reported that unelected officials at the Pentagon are already holding secret meetings on what to do if Donald Trump issues orders they don’t agree with. – Some of those orders include using active military to assist in carrying out mass deportations and “fire corrupt actors” currently in the US government. It sounds like a coup to me…

Sharyl Attkisson: Officials in Baja California anticipate a significant increase in deportations from the US once Donald Trump returns to the office, aligning with his campaign promises to deport large numbers of migrants. – Currently, shelters in Tijuana and Mexicali report relatively low occupancy, with 60% vacancy in Tijuana and 70% in Mexicali. However, José María García Lara, head of the Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter, voiced concerns about an expected influx of deportees…

The Daily Fetched: President-Elect Trump to Receive Classified Briefings as He Prepares for Historic Return in January – Of course, this is great news. – Trump regaining a firm grasp on the state of the world before he resumes his seat at the Resolute Desk should be music to everyone’s ears.

Liz Wheeler: Trump is President-elect for only two days and: – The stock market hits record high – Migrant caravan at our border dissolves – Hamas calls for end to war – Bitcoin hits record high – Putin ready to end Ukraine war – Qatar kicks out Hamas leaders – EU will buy U.S. gas, not Russian gas – Putin will sell oil in U.S. dollars – Zelenskyy phones Trump & Elon – NYC Mayor ends vouchers for illegals – Mexico to stop migrants at U.S. border – China wants to work peacefully with us – A big U.S. company to move out of China. – I repeat: Trump has been President-elect for two days.

Slay News: Putin Announces Russia Is Ready for Peace Talks with Trump on Ending Ukraine War – After a long speech, Putin said that he would like to “take this opportunity to congratulate [Trump] on his election as president of the United States.” – He went on to say Russia is ready for talks with Trump on ending the conflict. – Under the Biden-Harris admin, there has been little hope of peace…

The Liberty Daily: Kari Lake’s run for Governor of Arizona was marred by blatant ballot and voter shenanigans, particularly in Maricopa County. – Now that she has allegedly been beaten in her U.S. Senate run by disgraced Democrat Ruben Gallego, even more concerns over election integrity are starting to pop up. – Unfortunately, most conservative and even alternative media outlets are currently ignoring this story.

PJ Media: Arizona Senate Race Finally Decided – Democrat Ruben Gallego narrowly defeated Republican Kari Lake, according to Decision Desk HQ, and will fill the seat currently held by Independent Kyrsten Sinema. – As of 10:35 p.m. on Saturday, with 88% of precincts reporting, Gallego had 49.7% of the vote, compared to Lake’s 48.2%.

Front Page Magazine: – The Women’s March, formed to fight Trump, but which turned out to be an antisemitic hate group, melted down a while back. – But since Trump is back, the Women’s March has announced that it’s back, too. – The Women’s March group is returning with a series of D.C. protests in light of President-elect Trump’s win…

The Federalist: Inside The Brand New Ballot-Chasing Operation That Helped Republicans Flip The Senate – Perhaps no conservative organization worked the ground game better than the Sentinel Action Fund. – The super PAC developed and carried out a GOTV campaign targeting low-propensity, right-leaning voters and turned them out early for Donald Trump and Republican Senate candidates in Montana, Ohio, and swing-state behemoth Pennsylvania…

American Greatness: It’s America’s Victory As Trump’s Win Saved America – The American people gave Trump a mandate with almost 51% of the vote. – He received over 73 million votes, more than four million more than his opponent. A new American coalition—traditional Republican voters united with lower middle class, working class, African Americans, Hispanics, and white women—provided the monumental victory…

American Thinker: How Badly Harris Lost To Trump and Why – Donald Trump appears to have been the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote. – Biden appears to be smiling, but for the others, it seems to be a time of mourning. – A look at the results, their implications, and the machinations of the federal bureaucracy is in order. – The very best wrap-up was by Victor Davis Hanson…

American Greatness: Following Donald Trump’s landslide victory, shocked commentators echo 2016 concerns, while emerging economic and geopolitical shifts suggest stability under his leadership. – Donald Trump has been President-Elect for less than a week, but here are some of the things that have happened: The stock market has soared by more than 2000 points, Zelenskyy held a private phone call with President Trump and Elon Musk…

Washington Examiner: Gavin Newsom plays politics as everyday Californians suffer – California has suffered for a decade following the passage of Proposition 47, which critics claimed gave shoplifters and drug addicts the green light to commit crimes and steal merchandise as long as what they took was less than $950 in value. – 62% of Californians believe the state is headed in the wrong direction, and only 44% approve of Newsom’s performance. – 30 other polls found that number even lower, with a 27% favorability rating and 49.2% unfavorable rating…

November 9, 2024

Newsmax: President Joe Biden will meet with his replacement, President-elect Donald Trump, this Wednesday in the Oval Office, the White House announced Saturday. – Biden extended the invitation to Trump, who decisively beat Vice President Kamala Harris last week in the U.S. presidential election.

Gateway Pundit: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Jack Smith’s Records After “Illegal Weaponization” of DOJ Against Trump – US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate whether criminal charges should be filed against Trump in November 2022, just one day after Trump announced a 2024 White House run…

Western Journal: A White House adviser stomped all over the Hatch Act by soliciting donations for Democratic Party candidates in this year’s elections, according to the Office of Special Counsel. – Neera Tanden has served in the Biden White House as the outgoing president’s domestic policy chief.

Zero Hedge: Democrats have activated their network of social justice warriors for the second time in days following a Trump victory early Wednesday morning. – The latest mobilization effort of far-left activists by mysterious and dark money-funded nonprofit groups is occurring on the streets of New York City on Saturday afternoon. 

American Greatness: President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley would not be part of his administration. – “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

American Thinker: Jerome Powell seemingly outed himself as an unlikely member of the anti-Trump deep-state resistance when he told reporters he had no intention of quitting as the Fed chief if President Trump asked him to go. – It puzzled many because Trump never said anything about getting rid of him, and he has since said he has no plans to. – Brian Wesbury, a Wall Street economist of very sound free-market views, pointed out that on Powell’s watch, the Fed has been spending up a storm…

Zero Hedge: Don’t Fire Powell, End the Fed – How To End The Fed…Carefully…

Gateway Pundit: Arizona Officials Caught Changing the Ballot Totals as Counting for US Senate Seat Continues – Just like we witnessed in the 2022 Arizona election, election officials are openly changing the ballot totals remaining to be counted without explanation. – The filing also states that 25,000 ballots were added to Maricopa County’s totals after election day.

One America News: A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official has been removed from her role after reportedly telling workers to skip the houses with Trump signs during Hurricane Milton relief. – At least 20 homes displaying Trump signs or flags were skipped over between late October and early November due to the official’s “best practices” instructions.

INFOWars: President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and allow drilling and mining on some national monuments. – According to The New York Times, Trump’s team has already prepared a raft of measures to reverse Biden’s policies on energy and the environment.

Epoch Times: Trump Flips Nevada And Nears A Sweep of All Swing States – The race was called at 9:15 p.m. PT on Nov. 8. Trump has now won six of the seven swing states and appears poised to capture them all. He is leading in Arizona, the final battleground that has not yet been called.

America First Report: Senator Mike Lee’s Idea For The New Senate Majority Leader – The “John Adams Plan” would have VP-Elect J.D. Vance ascend to the role of Senate Majority Leader while also fulfilling his duties as President of the Senate. – The Senate Majority Leader isn’t a Constitutional role. – It is part of the Senate’s own internal rules, so giving Vance a “side job” as Majority Leader while also retaining his VP role as President of the Senate seems viable.

American Thinker: Lara Trump Played The Winning Hand – She took on the thankless job of outmaneuvering the dirty tricks of her opponents in her new role as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. – “We don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere,” she said, pointing out the reality of winning on a new playing field. – “We have to play the hand we’re dealt.”

Breitbart: The Trump Effect – In preparation for President-Elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested that the bloc will look to replace Russian liquid natural gas (LNG) imports with supplies from the United States.

Washington Free Beacon: The Media Ran an Autopsy on Why Kamala Lost, And You’ll Never BELIEVE the Results! – Liberal pundits agreed that Harris’s campaign was “flawlessly run” and that the real culprits are “misogyny and racism.” – Political strategists placed blame on a “right-wing media ecosystem,” saying that Democrats “don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson” to “move [a] man in a feminist direction.”

American Thinker: Making America Greater Again – Less than one day after Donald J. Trump’s triumphantly decisive victory at the polls, both in votes and in the Electoral College, all major stock exchanges once again closed at record highs. – All three major indexes hit record highs. – The Indexes are up: Dow 3.57%, S&P 500 2.53%, Nasdaq 2.95% – The market volatility gauge fell sharply…

American Thinker: It’s Not What Trump Was, But Rather What Harris Wasn’t – An old high school friend now living in an affluent DC suburb who deals with movers and shakers can’t understand how anyone could have voted for Trump. It’s not what she said but what she didn’t say that was so telling. – Not once did she mention his opponent. – The reason so many people voted for Trump can easily be answered with these two words: Kamala Harris. – It’s been said that Kamala Harris is an empty pantsuit with a head to match. – It’s hard to argue with that assessment.

American Conservative: Trump’s Election Provokes Fear South of the Border – The incoming administration has change in U.S. policy towards Mexico high on its list of priorities. – Trump was elected on a platform of law and order, including the elimination of illegal immigration and a crackdown on drug trafficking and the cartels that carry it out—all of which will require an adjustment in relations between the U.S. and Mexico…

American Thinker: It’s been largely under the radar until now, but third-place cable news channel CNN is facing a new problem: a potential jury trial to defend itself against charges that it libeled Project Veritas with a fake news report in 2021. – The long-simmering news finally broke wider on Thursday when Reuters reported the most recent developments…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Election Elation Edition – Who knew a non-rabid squirrel would trigger the rabid response of our diseased administrative state that would redound to the benefit of the Great Orange Man!

New York Post: Move over LA and NYC – With Trump’s re-election, South Florida is now the political, business, and celeb capital of the US – “People used to want to retire here or have a second home, but it’s not the Golden Girls’ Miami anymore, South Florida is a real place for business people to live,” one high profile source in the business said. “After the [financial] crash in 2008, there wasn’t an industry here. – Now we have banks and jobs to rival some of the biggest tri-county areas.”

November 8, 2024

One America News: An Iranian asset and two others have been charged in a plot to assassinate Donald Trump. – On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged three suspects named Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera, and Jonathan Loadholt with murder-for-hire. – Loadholt and Rivera are currently behind bars, but Shakeri is still at large in Iran.

American Conservative: President-elect Donald Trump held a phone call with the Palestinian Authority’s President Mahmoud Abbas. – Abbas expressed a desire “to work with President Trump to achieve a just and comprehensive peace based on international legitimacy.” – Trump told Abbas that he would “work to stop the war” and that he looks forward to working to “promote peace in the Middle East.”

Zero Hedge: The lame-duck Biden administration has lifted a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine. – The change had reportedly been formally approved a month before the election but is officially taking effect now. – The move is being framed as necessary to maintain sophisticated equipment and defense technology provided to Ukraine by Western allies.

Breitbart: Jack Smith Asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to End January 6 Case Against Trump – Smith’s concession is a remarkable symbolic moment for Trump, who has faced multiple lawsuits as he sought to return to the White House. – Trump’s victory against Vice President Kamala Harris essentially ended Smith’s hopes of convicting the former president.

City Journal: The Big (State) Picture – Understandably, much media focus has centered on Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other key swing states that formed the keys to Trump’s victory and Harris’s defeat. – But the results in America’s four most populous states—California, Texas, Florida, and New York, none seriously in question on Election Night—merit attention, too, since they help explain Trump’s remarkable popular vote win.

Just The News – The DefCon Dozen – Here Are 12 Americans who could profoundly shape the Trump 2.0 administration, plus a few others – Former Representative Lee Zeldin – Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg – Elong Musk – Susie Wiles, RFK Jr. – Nathan Ough – Fred Fleitz – Ambassador Ric Grenell – Former Representative Tulsi Gabbard – Kash Patel – Representative – Elise Stefanik – Alfredo Ortiz – Other Key Players include JD Vance, Jim Jordan, Mark Paoletta, Senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio…

Newsweek: The Death of Obamaism And The Historic MAGA Opportunity – Trump’s electoral landslide this week is one for the history books. His myriad foes illegitimately spied on his 2016 campaign. – They fabricated a “Russia collusion” narrative out of whole cloth, then spent years “investigating” it. – They impeached him twice. – They prosecuted him across four separate jurisdictions, 91 criminal counts in total. They have tried to humiliate him, bankrupt him, and incarcerate him. – Assassins have tried to kill him—twice…

Daily Wire: A FEMA Official Ordered Relief Workers To Skip Houses With Trump Signs – The supervisor relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees confirmed. – At least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not provided the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance…

Just The News: The Justice Department has filed criminal charges in the thwarted Iran plot to murder Trump before the election. – The complaint said if Shakeri wasn’t able to create such a plan, the operation would be paused until after the presidential election. – According to the complaint, the unnamed official thought Trump would lose, so it would be easier to carry out a plot to kill him…

Gateway Pundit: Trump Confirms He Has ‘No Choice’ But to Enact Mass Deportations, No Matter The Price Tag – “When people have killed and murdered, and after drug lords have destroyed countries, now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here,” he continued. – “There is no price tag.”

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Vacated The Trump Case Deadlines After Jack Smith Sought A Pause – Smith said his team needed to ‘assess the unprecedented circumstances and determine the appropriate course going forward’ in the case. – Next month, Smith will file a report or will inform the court of his office’s deliberations on the matter, the court papers say, which added that Trump’s attorneys have not objected to their request after conferring with them.

Issues & Insights: Another Big November 5th Loser Is The Left’s ‘Lawfare’ Campaign Against Trump And MAGA – Of all the excesses of the four-year Trump interregnum that was the Biden-Harris administration, none was worse than the left’s use of our legal system to exact political retribution and “send a message” to those who dared oppose progressive extremism. – It had all the markings of totalitarian behavior, but now it’s going down in flames…

Reuters: Republicans Widen Their Senate Majority And Are On Track To Win The House – Several media outlets projected that Republican Dave McCormick would defeat Democratic Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, giving Trump’s party at least 53 seats in the 100-seat chamber next year. – In the battle for the House, Republicans were edging closer to victory after adding one seat to their 220-212 majority, though 25 races have yet to be called.

Washington Examiner: Trump’s Potential Picks To Lead The Department of Justice – John Ratcliffe; The loyal intelligence chief – Senator Mike Lee; The constitutional conservative – Ken Paxton; The Lone Star State firebrand – Matt Whitaker; The DOJ insider – Senator Eric Schmitt; The Missouri conservative – Mark Paoletta; The legal strategist – Mike Davis; The controversial ‘viceroy’ – Judge Aileen Cannon; The judicial ally – Todd Blanche; The defense attorney

American Greatness: Making America Safe Again Will be Donald Trump’s Highest Priority as President – America’s enemies are not looking forward to January 20, 2025. – Joe Biden will leave Trump with grave national security challenges around the world. U.S. weakness under Biden, Biden’s frivolous foreign policy that designated climate change as the top U.S. national security threat, and major foreign policy failures have caused U.S. and global security to seriously deteriorate since 2021.

The Daily Fetched: Former administration official Kash Patel, rumored to be the likely choice for deputy director of the CIA, announced the “massive declassification” of troves of information ranging from the Jeffrey Epstein files to the “P Diddy” list. – Trump, who had initially planned to appoint Kash Patel as the CIA‘s deputy director during his first term as president, will now finish the job of getting all the information on elites out to the public.

Townhall: The FBI Braces for a Total ‘Bloodbath’ After Trump’s 2024 Win –Anonymous bureau sources say that senior executives who run the agency were “stunned” and “shellshocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory. – “You know the fit test, how they let the standards slack on the fit test?” – “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”

Geller Report: A Federal judge strikes down Biden citizenship program aimed at migrant spouses of US citizens – U.S. District Court Judge Campbell Barker, who was appointed by Donald Trump, sided with Texas and other Republican states that the program violated federal immigration law.

Townhall: Trump’s Win Is Already Having an Impact on Illegal Immigration – A caravan of approximately 3,000 migrants heading toward the United States to cross the border shrunk to about half its original size on Thursday as many migrants grapple with their prospects following former U.S. President Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s election.

Zero Hedge: Americans Have Burned Through Their Pandemic Savings – For the past three years, as the United States, like many other nations, battled with elevated inflation, consumer spending remained remarkably robust, keeping the U.S. economy from sliding into a recession. – That has come at the expense of personal savings, which dropped sharply in 2022…

November 7, 2024

Vigilant News: Joe Rogan Raises Serious Questions About the 2020 Election Totals – This eye-opening chart comparing the vote tallies from 2012 to 2024 has gone mega-viral. – “Look at the difference in how many people voted for Biden in 2020. – It’s unprecedented! – It’s way higher than any other time since 2012.” – And it’s back to normal now. – What happened?

Breitbart: Frontline Border Patrol intelligence officers reveal the possibility of a formal covert operation being conducted by the Maduro regime. – The operation is designed to infiltrate the United States using released inmates and pairing them with Venezuelan intelligence operatives to “neutralize” human targets within the United States.

Wall Street Journal: Trump to Renew A ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign Against Iran – President-elect Donald Trump plans to drastically increase sanctions on Iran and throttle its oil sales as part of an aggressive strategy to undercut Tehran’s support of violent Mideast proxies and its nuclear program, according to people briefed on his early plans…

Geller Report: Israel Sending Rescue Planes To The Netherlands To Save Jews That Are Being Attacked and Beaten By Muslim Mobs – Groups of Middle Eastern migrants are now walking through the streets of Amsterdam demanding people show them their passports to make sure they are not Jewish.- Footage shows rioters break into a hotel to search for Israelis…

Associated Press: President-elect Trump names Susie Wiles as chief of staff, making her the first woman in the post. – Wiles is widely credited within and outside Trump’s inner circle for running what was, by far, his most disciplined and well-executed campaign and was seen as the leading contender for the position.

Just The News: Trump’s first task of closing the border is herculean – Trump plans to supercharge border patrol, combat sanctuary cities, complete his wall, and battle the cartels to end the immigration crisis, according to campaign promises, policy documents from allied groups, and former officials. – “Trump will use the existing statutory authorities and “infuse a whole of government injection of steroids” to increase the magnitude of enforcement.

Epoch Times: The Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates for The 2nd Straight Meeting – The Fed cut rates by a quarter point and continues to obtain confidence that inflation is heading to the central bank’s 2 percent target. – The vote in favor of a quarter-point cut was unanimous.

Western Journal: GOP’s David McCormick Defeats Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Bob Casey, Making Trump’s Win Even Bigger – Before Tuesday’s loss, Casey had won six statewide elections since 1996. – Casey was first elected to the Senate in 2006.

City Journal: Trump Won on the Issues – Exit polling demonstrates that voters trusted him more than Kamala Harris to handle the problems that most concern them. – 75% of voters said inflation has caused “hardship” for their family in the past year. – 11% of voters described immigration as the “most important issue,” and 90 percent of those voters went for Trump—by far the largest margin for either candidate on any issue asked about…

Just The News: Biden failed to top up our oil reserves in the lead-up to the election, but refilling will take years – Some analysts had feared that President Biden would tap the stockpile again to address any increases in gasoline prices in the lead-up to the Nov. 5 presidential election, as he did in 2022, which would end the DOE’s efforts to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The Gateway Pundit: Arizona and Nevada Have Been Called for Trump – This Gives Trump 312 Electoral Votes and a CLEAN SWEEP of ALL Battleground States, Along With The the Popular Vote – This massive red wave success is beyond a landslide, as Republicans won the Presidency, Popular vote, Senate majority, House Majority, State Governor Majority, and State Legislature Majority – The few states that didn’t go red are mostly ones without voter ID requirements. – Can this be a coincidence? – This is an extremely clear mandate from the people for significant change!

The Gateway Pundit: IT BEGINS, As Anti-Trump Protests Break Out Nationwide as Distraught Leftists Lash Out at Trump’sLandslide Victory – Despite Trump and the Republican Party winning the election in an indisputable landslide, demonstrations have consequently broken out in cities across the country, most notably in Chicago, where thousands appeared outside Trump Tower to express their disgust…

The Gateway Pundit: General Flynn Warns of Another Assassination Attempt. – “They’ve Already Tried It a Couple of Times. – They’ll Try It Again Between Now and The Inauguration. – Job Number One Is for Trump to Stay Alive.” — Gen. Flynn Warns of Another Assassination Attempt. – Listen to this was an incredible conversation…

Washington Free Beacon: Israeli president Isaac Herzog said in a statement congratulating Trump on his victory, “I look forward to working with you to strengthen the ironclad bond between our peoples, to build a future of peace and security for the Middle East, and to uphold our shared values.”  – The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, and Turkey similarly congratulated Trump and pledged to work with him for peace. 

American Thinker: Another Big Winner on Tuesday Election Day – Despite the ongoing exodus of people from conventional television, FOX News’s prime-time election night coverage was watched by over 13 million people. – ABC had 5.7 million, NBC had 5.3 million, and CBS had 3.5 million. – FOX News is the only mainstream basic cable channel providing anything close to comprehensive coverage of the news and access to a wide range of conservative voices.

Washington Examiner: The 2024 presidential contest proved anything that the mass media no longer drive the national conversation. – They can no longer stoke fear and outrage in average voters or prop up terrible candidates. – Like him or not, President-elect Donald Trump’s success with black, Hispanic, and Jewish voters proves that the entire “fascist” scare was a flop. – Indeed, the establishment press is less trusted than virtually any major institution in American life.

Breitbart: Control of the U.S. House of Representatives could depend on the results of several congressional races in California that are still too close to call and whose outcome could depend on the arrival of late ballots in the mail. –
California allows ballots to be counted if they arrive up to seven days after Election Day, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day itself. That has left several races in Orange County and the Central Valley hanging in the balance.

American Thinker: Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6 – The deliberate misrepresentation of events surrounding January 6 was the primary pretext for the longstanding argument against Trump’s election, suggesting he is a “threat to democracy.” – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was never held to account for her calls for violence on January 6 and instigated one of the most important epistemological tomes on the matter, the January 6 House Select Committee…

American Thinker: Hilarious Trump Triumph Memes – These hilarious memes provided much-needed amusement during the wait for 270 delegates. – The following is a selection of the very best. – This was in remembrance of Trump’s assertiveness display at NATO…

American Thinker: Were Peanut And Fred One Of The Final Straws? – American voters were shocked that the government could come into their homes and unceremoniously murder two harmless long-time pets just because of some obscure law that didn’t apply. The government has been overreaching for a long time. – We hated it then, and we hate it now. – Until the Peanut incident, the government had some cover, but when you threaten a person’s beloved pet, you have gone too far…

American Thinker: Bye Bye, Barack – His “emerging majority” did not emerge. – Democrats need to look for new faces and different speakers at their next convention. The Obama coalition is based on identity politics, green energy, and taxing the rich is now history. – I have a feeling that Governor Josh Shapiro is not going to ask the Obamas or Clintons to speak on his behalf the next time around.

Trending Politics: Republicans Win A Crucial House Seat – Congresswoman Young Kim is now elected to her second two-year term after fending off Democrat challenger Joe Kerr, a former firefighter who ran with the backing of powerful labor unions across the state. – With 68% of votes tallied so far, NBC News has called the race for Kim and her 56.5% of the vote to Kerr’s 43.4% margin.

Zero Hedge: Far-left activists and self-identified Democrats appear to have found a scapegoat for their humiliating defeat in the 2024 presidential election. – Hispanic Americans. – On average, Hispanic-majority counties went for Trump by ten percentage points. – Many leftists have unleashed racist insults and smears against Hispanic Americans after they played a major role in fueling Donald Trump’s comeback on Election Day.

Zero Hedge: Trump’s victory means that absent a renewal of the court-packing scheme and other extreme measures of the left, the Court will remain unchanged institutionally for at least a decade. – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett—are extraordinary jurists who have already created considerable legacies. – These justices have shown the intellect and integrity that bring credit to the Court, including each voting in key cases with their liberal colleagues when their principles demanded it.

Cal Matters: Governor Newsom today called on newly elected state lawmakers to work as soon as they’re sworn in on December 2 for a special session to “safeguard California values” as the state prepares, again, to be a liberal antagonist to the upcoming Trump administration. – In other words: Gear up for lawsuits… 

The Gateway Pundit: PANIC MODE! The Top Five Big Pharma CEOs Hold an Emergency Teleconference After Trump’s Landslide Victory Threatens The Influence Over US Healthcare. This emergency meeting comes as Kennedy, a well-known critic of corporate corruption in health policy, is expected to be appointed by Trump to lead a comprehensive overhaul of federal health agencies, including the FDA and CDC.

American Thinker: Trans Drugs Are Bad, So They Block the Study! – Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the nation’s leading advocates for “gender-affirming care” for kids, refuses to release a ten-million-dollar taxpayer-funded study on puberty blockers because the results don’t support continued trans-medical intervention. – However, full disclosure is necessary for the trans community to make important life decisions.

November 6, 2024

WDBJ7 News: Joe Biden has called President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his election victory. – Biden also invited him to the White House to discuss the transition. -The White House said staff would coordinate a date “soon.”

Western Journal: It Is Now Official That Trump Swept All Major Swing States – With Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, Trump sits at 306 in the Electoral College, his tally of votes won back in 2016. – While Nevada’s six electoral votes remain out with 88 percent of the vote counted, it wasn’t considered one of the “big six” that both candidates were eyeing.

American Spectator: A Dozen Thoughts On A Historic Election – 1. The Media Is Dead – 2. Kamala Is Trash for Not Conceding Earlier – 3. The Never Trumpers Can Go Away Now – 4. Mitch McConnell Is Finally Gone – 5. Holding the House Gives America a Chance – 6. The Importance of a Functional RNC – 7. An Experienced Trump Means a Much Different Term the Second time around…

The Daily Signal: The Left’s 6 Enormous Transgressions That Helped Propel Trump To A Smashing Victory – The Lawfare – The Ballot Challenges – The Nazi Comparisons – Hiding Biden’s Decline – The Kamala Switcheroo – After all this, Harris delivered a “closing argument” packed with lies and predicated on demonizing her opponent.

Fox News: The Justice Department looking to wind down Trump’s criminal cases ahead of inauguration – The effort reflects long-standing DOJ policies that prevent them from prosecuting a sitting president.

The Populist Times: President-Elect Trump broke his 2020 record by gaining ground across nearly all demographics, despite Democrats trying to incite various groups against him. – His greatest gains were in predominantly Democratic-voting blocks, where Trump gained 10% among young voters, 7% among African Americans, and 6% among Hispanic voters.

The Daily Signal: With unaddressed allegations of fraud dominating the months following the 2020 presidential election, Republicans made election integrity a major focus on Tuesday night. – The Republican National Committee and its team of lawyers were quick to respond to potential hijinks Tuesday night, while voters followed up with a resounding push for ballot integrity in nine states.

American Spectator: Californians Rejected the Worst Ballot Initiatives – True to form, the state passed some bond spending but otherwise voted conservatively on statewide ballot initiatives. – Proposition 33 would have overturned the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 law that limited the ability of localities to impose far-reaching rent controls on residential properties. – Voters’ support for Proposition 36, set to pass by a 70–30 percent margin, was not surprising. Even liberal Californians are tired of the state’s crime wave…

Epoch Times: Arizonans Approve Police Arrests of Illegal Entrants And The Right to Abortion – Both ballot initiatives passed with the broad support of voters. – This also bars illegal immigrants from knowingly submitting false documents to apply for public benefits or a job and makes it a class 2 felony for an adult to knowingly sell fentanyl that later causes the death of another person.

Epoch Times: Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump to congratulate him and concede the presidential race, according to a senior adviser to Harris who spoke anonymously to discuss the call. – Harris is scheduled to address supporters in a concession speech at Howard University at 4 p.m. ET. – The aide said Harris discussed the importance of a peaceful power transfer with Trump.

American Spectator: Donald Trump Wins! – Welcome to the new reality, America and the world. – Donald Trump didn’t just win, he won in a wipeout. – He won the popular vote. – He won the electoral vote. – And his coattails created an overwhelming Senate majority, and keeping the House majority looks promising. – This is what you call a mandate. – Other obvious winners include JD Vance, Elon Musk, and this long list of losers…

Revolver News: AN ABSOLUTE MANDATE – Trump’s victory speech. – Thanks, family, Vance, Elon…

Fox News: 2024 Presidential Election News – Real-time results from the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump presidential election here! – There is a county-by-county map view, too. Stay up to date on the White House race, along with state and local elections, with live vote totals updated as appropriate.

Slay Magazine: Vice President-Elect JD Vance, ‘We Just Witnessed the Greatest Political Comeback in the History of the United States of America.’ – “Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re never going to stop fighting for you, for your dreams, and the future of your children. – “And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump’s leadership.”

Breitbart: Exit polls suggest Donald Trump won the Catholic vote by a whopping 15 points, the largest margin in decades. –  An NBC exit poll found that Catholic voters favored Trump in 10 key swing states by a 15-point margin, with 56 percent of the vote going to the former president and only 41 percent going to Harris.

The Times of Israel: Kamala Harris is expected to call Donald Trump today to concede defeat in the presidential election, NBC News reported, citing two Harris aides. – Then, she is expected to deliver a concession speech at 6 p.m. ET, sources told Reuters. – President Biden also plans to call Trump and is expected to speak publicly about the election results, NBC News reported.

Epoch Times: 7 Takeaways From Election Night as Trump Retakes The White House – The picture so far shows high turnout and key demographic swings for Trump, with the GOP taking control of the Senate while the House remains uncertain. – Exit Polls Show Key Demographic Swing for Trump – At the time of publication, the Associated Press projected that Republicans would take at least 198 seats and Democrats would take at least 180…

The Free Press: How Trump Won – He was impeached, found guilty of sexual assault, faced 116 indictments, and was convicted in a Manhattan court. But none of it mattered, – Why were Americans so angry? – Corporate media carried water for the Democrats and became the party’s press secretaries in the home stretch of the election. – Trump created iconic visuals that defined him as a champion for half the country. – Four iconic images help explain his journey to victory on November 6, 2024…

First-time candidate Republican Tim Sheehy has ended Montana Democrat Senator Jon Tester’s three-term tenure in the U.S. Senate, capturing a seat that boosts the GOP’s newly-gained majority in the chamber. – The race was called at 6:26 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 6 by The Associated Press, with Trump-endorsed Sheehy leading 52.8% to 45.4% over Tester, the only statewide-elected Democrat in deep red Montana.

The Federalist: 2024’s Biggest Loser Is The Corporate Media Industrial Complex – Kamala Harris is the second-biggest loser of the night. – Her media shills are #1 and are nursing wounds that will take far longer to recover from. – The corporate media industrial complex has spent Donald Trump’s entire political career trying to destroy him, hand-in-hand with triple-letter government agencies and the Democrats…

Gateway Pundit: Liberals Melt Down After Trump Wins The Presidential Election – Following President Trump’s dominant election victory, liberals across the United States went into full meltdown mode. – Videos on X show Democrats crying and completely enraged after finding out Trump won the presidential election.

Vigilant News: After Trump Won The Election, “Move to Canada” Searches Spike on Google as Liberals Meltdown Online – Most of the “Move to Canada” searches on Google came from states like Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Oregon.

Slay Magazine: Fired Journalist Catherine Herridge Exposed Suppression of Her Hunter Biden Laptop Story by CBS Until After The 2020 Election. – Herridge asserts that she brought validated materials to her superiors, which were not aired until later. – In early October 2020, Herridge approached Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, a top CBS News executive, and anchor Norah O’Donnell with explosive content from a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden.

MarketWatch: Look What Trump’s Victory Did To The DOW

Zero Hedge: Markets Erupt, With The Dow Futures Up 1,300 And The Dollar Soars After Trump’sHistoric Win – Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has unleashed a shockwave in global markets as traders prepared for unprecedented policy and economic changes under the new administration. Trump’s political comeback sparked a surge in risk assets, sending 30-year Treasury yields and the dollar to their biggest gains since 2020…

American Thinker: The Greatest Comeback of All Time – No president has won a second term in office after suffering a re-election loss in 130 years. – It turns out that Americans don’t like “The Green New Deal,” induced inflation, COVID lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations, open borders, skyrocketing violent crime, child mutilation, “transgender” madness, censorship, political persecution, bungled military withdrawals, or the prospect of nuclear war in Europe and the Middle East…

Geller Report: Within hours of the Trump victory in the U.S. elections, the Houthis announced an end to the Red Sea Shipping Crisis, – “Our operation in the international waters were for defensive purposes only, and we announce an immediate ceasefire”

Zero Hedge: Trump Won, Here Are The Economic, Market, Tax, Tariff, Immigration And Regulation Implications – Tax Cuts, Fiscal Spending Tariffs, Immigration, Europe, Market Reaction…

American Thinker: Democrats are obsessed with the race card, but America is not! – This is truly a new day in America. – None of Trump’s campaign promises were racial. – All of Trump’s campaign promises focused on economic issues! – Americans rejected a candidate who knifed a sitting president in the back and participated in a palace coup. – Americans rejected a candidate who had never won a single election…

Issues & Insights: What’s In And What’s Out After Trump’s Stunning Victory – Out, Questioning election results is anti-Democratic! In, Trump stole the election!! – Out, We must save democracy! In, Down with democracy, it failed us!! – Out, Violence is never the answer! In, Emotions are running high!! – Out, This will be a razor-thin election! In, We never said that!!…

Breitbart: Western Patriots Unite! – European Populists Hail Donald Trump’s Victory And America’s Rejection of Woke Globalism – Despite fanatic opposition from the deep state, legacy media, and international institutions, Donald Trump pulled off perhaps the greatest political comeback in modern U.S. history as the American people rejected the administerial attempt to determine the future of their country and indeed the future of the Western world with it.

Breitbart: Stock futures surged, and Treasury yields climbed sharply after Donald Trump’s decisive election victory, as traders piled into trades that are seen as aligning with the former president and president-elect’s economic agenda. – Investors scrambled to position themselves for new tariffs, tax cuts, and big shifts in energy and regulatory policy. – Futures on all three major indexes advanced in premarket trading.

Brownstone Institute: Three Modes of Mike Benz – Michael Benz has four things going for him: (1) remarkable knowledge; (2) sharp insight; (3) remarkable verbal clarity and color; (4) wisdom and virtue. – Recent sessions of the full-on excellence mode are on display here…

Geller Report: Media Slag, “Will you tell your supporters there should be no violence?” – I don’t have to tell them that there’ll be no violence…These are people who believe in no violence. – Unlike your question, you believe in violence.”

American Thinker: ‘Get US Out of the United Nations’ – Signs with that message started running in America in the 1950s, and ever since then, the UN has proven to be worse and more anti-American than we ever imagined. – Now, some 70 years later, we must ask why the US still supports the UN. As in the 1950s, the UN promotes world government and trashes America except when its lobbyists come to DC for the annual handout…

November 5, 2024

Trending Politics: Watch! – Elon Musk Looked Directly Into The Camera And Gave His Final Election Warning – “If the Democrats win this election, they will legalize enough illegals to turn the swing states, and everywhere will be like California. There will be no escape.” – “This is the final… this is it. This is the last chance,” – “Just go out and vote like your life depends on it, vote like your future depends on it because it does. This is the last chance.”

The Daily Fetched: The left-wing New York Times suggests that polls in the run-up to the presidential election are likely underestimating former president Donald Trump’s popularity. – The Times’s Nate Cohen said the non-response bias of their final polls was as bad as 2020, meaning that MAGA is less likely to engage in polling than Democrat supporters…

American Conservative: Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump’s reelection bid Monday evening. – In an Election Eve post to 𝕏, Rogan released a new interview with billionaire Elon Musk in which the Tesla CEO made his case for Trump. – In the text accompanying the interview, Rogan wrote, “We’d be f—ked” without Musk’s contributions. – “[Musk] makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear”…

The Daily Fetched: Tech billionaire Mark Pincus, who donated to Joe Biden in 2020, sent shockwaves throughout the political landscape by endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2024. – Pincus joins a long list of former Democrats and billionaires who are supporting Trump this year. – The difference between the 2024 and 2020 elections is that many tech entrepreneurs have seen democratic leadership in action.

Townhall: Trump’s Closing Message to Voters – “We do not have to live this way. We do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay.” – “With your vote tomorrow, we can fix every single problem our country faces and lead America, and indeed the world, to new heights of glory.” – “We’ll help the world – a lot of people think we’re isolationists, we’re not…

American Thinker: The Case for Trump – The Trump of 2024 is different from the Trump of 2016 or even 2020. – The key factors in evaluating anyone running for political office are the record, the current pledges, claims by adversaries, the motivation for running, the campaign, and above all, the individual. – We first begin with President Trump. – The economic boom under Trump led to historic growth and record-low unemployment across demographics…

Town Hall: Trump Reveals Who He Is Calling on Day One If Elected – Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, about the border crisis, to tell her to “stop letting people come in through our border.” – If they don’t stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send into the United States.

Zero Hedge: Why You Shouldn’t Trust the Polls – How many people respond to pollsters? – Well, response rates have been under 10% ever since 2012. And this year (2024) they’re close to 1%. – It’s pretty clear the polls are useless.- We found this out in 2016, and I believe we’re about to find it out again. – If the 2024 Presidential election was as close as the polls claim, do you think stocks would be up 20% year to date?

Gateway Pundit: The Harris County Clerk Issues Statement After Early Votes Shift Mysteriously To Favor Democrats, Claiming it Was an ‘Accident’ – In yet another “accidental” discrepancy benefiting Democrats, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth announced on Monday that early voting turnout numbers in Texas’ Harris County might be inaccurate due to a “formatting issue” with their tracking spreadsheet.

Gateway Pundit: Commander Jay Furman, The Republican Candidate in TX-28, Reports Early Voting Irregularities at Polling Centers Across His District. – After receiving dozens of similar reports from verified eligible voters, the Campaign reported the matter to the Texas Secretary of State, Texas Republican Party, Texas Election Network, the National Republican Party, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Conservative Brief: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that certain absentee ballots can only be counted if they arrive by Election Day. – This means that at least 3,000 votes that arrived after the deadline will not be counted until more litigation is heard. – The state’s highest court’s ruling is a huge win for the Republican National Committee’s efforts to keep elections fair.

Western Journal: Republican Election Attorneys Score An Early Morning Victory in Pennsylvania – Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia, York, Westmoreland, Allegheny, Lehigh, Cambria, Wyoming, and Lackawanna Counties were being turned away.” – RNC Chair Michael Whatley, “We deployed our roving attorneys, engaged with local officials, and can now report that all Republican poll watchers have been let into the building.”

Epoch Times: Voting Time Has Been Extended In A Pennsylvania County After A ‘Software Malfunction’ – Cambria County officials said a malfunction prevented voters from scanning their ballots. – The county did not immediately respond to a request for more information.

Just The News: No matter the final vote, this election’s biggest loser may be the legacy news media. – Flubs, blatant bias, and tantrums have created huge distrust among American voters in an industry once indispensable to election coverage and voters’ decision-making. – The 2024 election provided a chance for traditional media reporters to reverse their slump, but instead, they doubled down on anti-Trump coverage…

Daniel Greenfield: The Third Worldization of America – If we don’t want to end up like the Third World, it’s time for us to stop being ruled by it. – It is no coincidence that both of the Democratic Party’s ‘black’ presidential nominees were not black Americans but the children of radical third-world students who appropriated the rhetoric of the civil rights movement to get ahead without having any actual history or part in it…

Townhall: Texas’s top election official, Secretary of State Jane Nelson, told the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s federal inspectors — tasked with “monitor[ing] compliance” — to stay away from the state’s polling places and out of its elections process, warning that their interference is against state law. – “Texas law is clear: Justice Department monitors are not permitted inside a polling place where ballots are being cast or a central counting station where ballots are being counted.”

New York Sun: It’s Election Day, but Nearly 80 Million Americans Have Already Voted — What It Means for When the Polls Close Tonight – The number of votes cast already is almost half the total votes cast in 2020. – National and state polls have found that the presidential race is essentially tied, even as early voting data showed that Republicans turned out in numbers not seen before…

Breitbart: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is offering millions of dollars, plus safe passage out of Gaza, for any Palestinians who free Israeli hostages that they are holding captive. – The offer came after the U.S. State Department reported that Hamas had once again refused to release even a limited number of hostages to secure a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza…

Zero Hedge: Illegal Alien Gangs Are Taking Root In Our Schools – The harmful impact of mass illegal migration is felt in every state and at every level of society, from the national to the most local. – The problem of alien gang members in schools is by no means limited to one alleged gang member in one county…

American Thinker: The Heritage Foundations’ Project 2025 Promotes Freedom – Project 2025 is about expanding freedom and localizing government choice as much as possible. – It strongly supports the checks and balances in the Constitution, which have been significantly reduced since it was written. – Contrary to the claim commonly made by Project 2025’s detractors and defenders alike, the US is not a democracy; it is a constitutional republic with limited democratic elements…

FAR: Everything Is About To Change, But Hopefully For The Better – No matter how I vote, no matter what I say, something evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. – You can’t justify this insanity. – We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind! – For example, If a man pretends to be a woman or vice versa, you are required to pretend with him/her or they/them…

November 4, 2024

Revolver: In another stunning election development, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has announced its endorsement of Donald Trump. – Could this swing the state? – New Hampshire is home to the Free State Project and a significant number of libertarian-leaning voters. Could this swing the state?

Breitbart: The Harris campaign and allied groups spent more than $2.185 billion trying to prevent Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in American political history. – This underscores the challenge Trump faces to win reelection, notwithstanding two assassination attempts and the Democrats’ lawfare. – The vast sum does not include millions of funds invested in smaller amounts by Democrat-allied organizations.

Breitbart: Former President Donald Trump selected Grand Rapids, Michigan, for one last rally on Monday to conclude his 2024 presidential campaign. – Grand Rapids is a historic location for Trump because it is where he finished both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. – Trump delivered his classic entrance with a red tie, navy blue suit, and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,”…

Trending Politics: Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is witnessing a surprising surge in support in Pennsylvania, a development that could prove pivotal in the state’s tight race. – Known for his traditionally strong appeal among blue-collar, white voters, Trump is now making significant inroads with the Latino communities of cities like Reading, a region where Democrats historically held an advantage.

The Daily Signal: Your Guide to Election Day – These Are The States and Races to Watch – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – Senate Races To Watch – There are 33 U.S. Senate seats up for regular election in 2024. – House Races to Watch: Republicans hold a 220-212 majority in the U.S. House with three vacancies. – All 435 seats are up for election, with Republicans currently holding a 220-212 majority…

Gateway Pundit: The Suspect Charged With The Murder of Puerto Rican Fitness Influencer Is an Illegal Immigrant from Mexico – ICE reported that Rivera-Sanchez entered the US illegally at an unknown time and place. – Rodriguez-Ramirez went missing on October 22 after last being seen at a Walmart in Cornelia, Georgia.

The Center Square: A new Congressional report from House Republicans alleges that the Biden-Harris administration gave billions of taxpayer dollars to “Environmental Justice” grants for political reasons. – Congressional Democrats jammed through legislation that was designed to rush money out the door as quickly as possible with no guards against waste, fraud, and abuse, and the funds were distributed unfairly…

Epoch Times: A Philadelphia Judge Allows Elon Musk’s $1 Million Giveaways to Proceed – The billionaire and America PAC were accused by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner of running an illegal lottery.

California Globe: A New Policy Brief Proves California’s $20 Fast Food Wage is Costing Jobs And Raising Prices – With California voting tomorrow on another statewide minimum wage hike up to $18 per hour. – In a survey conducted by the Employment Policies Institute of 200 fast-food companies, 89 percent of those eateries had already been forced to reduce scheduled hours for their employees. – The survey also found…

Slay News: A Leaked Medical Report Confirms That Olympic Gold Medal-Winning Supposedly ‘Female’ Boxer Imane Khelif Is Male – A French journalist reportedly gained access to the damning medical report revealing Khelif has “testicles.” – The document shows that Khelif is impacted by 5-alpha reductase deficiency. – The disorder impacts sexual development, and it is only found in biological males.

American Thinker: Licensed to Kill, Not James Bond, But Our DOD – On October 18, 2024, Law Enforcement Today had the following headline, which passed by almost unnoticed: the “DoD secretly reauthorizes bill that would allow military intervention domestically, with the added ability to use deadly force.” – The reissue of DoD Directive 5240.01 was quietly put into effect on September 27, 2024, six weeks before our presidential election and is a formalized license to kill…

American Thinker: The Iran Deal the Democrats Killed – I learned from an Iranian sub-source that the Baghdad embassy attack was not just an Iranian operation. – It had been motivated and indeed was solicited in large part by a senior advisor to former VP Joe Biden, who was seeking ways of destroying Trump’s chances of re-election in 2020.

Wall Street Journal: Iran Warns The Region That A ‘Strong and Complex’ Attack Coming To Israel – Tehran has warned diplomats that it is planning to use more powerful warheads and other weapons. – It remains to be seen whether the Iranian threats are real or just tough talk. – How the Israeli response plays out will depend on the size, nature, and effectiveness of Tehran’s threatened strike…

Zero Hedge: The Looming Biden-Harris’ Economic Time-Bomb, A Warning To Trump & Musk – Over 20.5% accumulated inflation over the past four years, government deficit spending has reached nearly $2 trillion annually despite record tax receipts and a growing economy, public debt has reached almost $36 trillion, and the monthly job figure includes an astonishing 43,000 new government jobs each month.

Slay News: A Federal Judge Challenges DOJ’s Push to Uphold Jan 6 Obstruction Charges – A federal judge has ruled against efforts by the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice Department to preserve felony obstruction charges against participants of the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests. – The ruling is a decisive blow to federal prosecutors. – Judge Beryl Howell’s decision follows a Supreme Court ruling limiting the scope of obstruction laws previously applied to the defendants.

Resist The Mainstream: Elon Musk Posts A Viral Trump Ad On X, Showcasing His Closing Arguments as Shock Polls Cause Election Bedlam – He added no notes, just an upload of the ad by itself, as it makes the case all by itself…

American Thinker: Be Careful What You Wish For – A recent Gallup poll found that the U.S. economy is the most important issue, with 81% of respondents saying it’s very important. The Biden/Harris administration has taken inflation to a 40-year high, at one point reaching a rate of 9% and climbing to a 20% total increase during his first term. – There are even television commercials for loans to buy groceries. – 49% of respondents placed the state of the U.S. democracy next in importance…

American Thinker: American Jews Are Shifting To The Right – “American Jews must wake up to the reality that the historic and principled loyalty toward Israel from the U.S. is no longer assured. – Those in the Democratic Party itself, from its highest leaders to its future base, have revealed that their commitment to Israel is tenuous, and they are not consistently in line with the American Jewish community.”…

Breitbart: Pollster Mark Penn said, “Well, I’d rather be Trump this evening for the simple reason that there are lots and lots of polls that show it dead even, so the fact is, they’re better off. – They should feel a lot better since that Iowa poll came out, and since they feel good momentum on the ground.”…

Geller Report: A Crooked Election Group Dumped 90,000 Ballot Registrations in Maricopa County Right Before The Sign-Up Deadline Ends. – Maricopa is the fourth largest county in the United States. It makes up 60% of the votes cast in Arizona. – At least 40,000 of these voter registration forms are DAMAGED, meaning that there could be thousands of PROVISIONAL BALLOTS cast on Election Day…

Trending Politics: Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is witnessing a surprising surge in support in Pennsylvania, a development that could prove pivotal in the state’s tight race. – Trump is now making significant inroads with the Latino communities of cities like Reading, a region where Democrats historically held an advantage.

American Thinker: What Could A Second Trump Term Look Like? – He told us eight years ago. – “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense. – The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.”

The Center Square: Donald Trump said Monday he would impose a double-digit tariff on Mexico if the nation doesn’t stop illegal border crossings. – The United States imported goods from Mexico totaling $493 billion in 2022, a 64% increase over the last decade, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Victor Davis Hanson: From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage,’ Why the 16 Years of Vilification by Democrats? – Derogatory labels highlight the cultural and socioeconomic divide between our elite politicians and many Americans, particularly Trump supporters, who feel disrespected by their terms and policies. – Garbage people, semi-fascists, chumps, dregs of society, clingers, irredeemables, and Walmart shoppers who “smell”…

PJ Media: Democrat Hypocrites Accuse Trump of Plotting to Throw Political Enemies in ‘Internment Camps’ – It’s no new observation that the Democrats traffic heavily in projection, but this election cycle, they are taking things to the next level.

The Western Journal: Damning GOP Report Exposes Why the Biden-Harris FTC Targeted Elon Musk’s X – “The FTC’s effort was an inherently politically motivated attempt to stifle Twitter at a time when Musk was taking steps to ‘reorient Twitter around free speech,’” the report said.

Epoch Times: A Federal Judge Ruled That Iowa Officials Can Challenge Ballots of Potential Noncitizen Voters – The Iowa Secretary of State hailed the court’s ruling as a ‘win for Iowa’s election integrity.’

Breitbart: Kamala Harris Is Pro-Gun Control, While Donald Trump Is Pro-Second Amendment – Democrats Want Universal Background Checks Instead of Current Background Check Laws – This means there will be a requirement to register all guns so all sales can be tracked…

California Globe: California’s Corrupt Air Board and The Great California Shakedown – The California Air Resources Board, which will be voting on new gas regulations on November 8th that will likely result in a .65 cent per gallon increase in gas prices, just proudly announced they have issued a massive fine to Valero oil company. – It’s not just any fine, “This penalty is the largest ever assessed in the Air District’s history.”…

American Conservative: The Final Case for Trump – I know exactly how much more food, gas, and minor luxuries have cost me over the past three years. – Then there is the illegal immigrant’s situation, and let’s not forget our foreign nightmare. – In addition to her almost entirely blank slate of accomplishments over three years, Kamala has steadfastly refused to explain her policy positions in detail or tell us her plans foreign policy-wise other than to continue what Biden has done…

FAR: Fair Election Ballot Controversies – November 5th is almost here, and things are heating up. – Here are links to articles that address the situation going back as far as July of this year.

FAR: Trump Attorney Alina Habba on Lawfare in America’s Justice System – Alina and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit discuss what it is like working with the former president and defending one of the most visible and historic cases against him…

Zero Hedge: Washington Activates Their National Guard And Oregon Is “Standing Ready,” Heading Into Election Day – Governor Inslee announced that some National Guard members will assist local law enforcement and the State Patrol, with the exact number yet to be decided. – Homeland Security has warned of potential political violence and threats to election infrastructure ahead of the 2024 General Election. Guard members will be on standby from Monday through Thursday night.

November 3, 2024

A Midwestern Doctor: The Space to Create Wealth – Exploring the Fascinating Future That Lies Before Us – There is too much covered here to summarize it adequately – When you have time to read it and think about what is covered, especially the Elong Musk portion, I guarantee it will blow your mind…

American Spectator: Peanut the Squirrel and the Coercive State – The euthanizing of Peanut the Squirrel by the state is the health and safety busybody impulse elevated to sheer madness. – Our recent experience with COVID serves as an object lesson in the active imposition of “health and safety” mandates. The most visible of these was masking, which was widely required despite the lack of evidence that it made a difference in the spread of the disease. – The most notable of these active requirements, however, was vaccination.

Powerline: Election Week in Pictures – The fall campaign began with cats being eaten in Ohio and looks to be ending with everyone having an ADHD episode and shouting, “Look! A Squirrel!” – The government SWAT raid on Peanut the Squirrel is a fitting example of governance these days…

City Journal: Who’s the Fascist? – The candidates’ records contradict the mainstream media’s narrative. – The Biden administration successfully pressured social media platforms to silence eminent scientists who accurately documented the futility and harms of White House pandemic policies. They also created a Disinformation Governance Board, which prompted so many comparisons to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 that it was shut down…

Western Journal: The gunman who randomly opened fire on a Jewish man in Chicago, Illinois, last week was an illegal immigrant who had been released into the U.S. last year. –Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, entered the U.S. illegally in March 2023, a migrant from Mauritania in West Africa.

Just The News: Big Tech knew that Biden laptop story suppression would influence the 2020 election but wanted the Big Guy’s favor. – “Unwinding” Facebook’s demotion of New York Post bombshell “now will, unfortunately, create more headaches than it’s worth,” and the problem is “we manually” demoted the story, executives told each other.

American Thinker: The Joe Rogan J.D. Vance Interview – The interview lasted more than three hours.- Donald Trump made one of the best VP choices of all time. – Vance is unquestionably intelligent, relaxed, funny, has a wide knowledge base, and is effortlessly sincere, unlike so many other politicians. – There was no question of his views on the issues, no concealment or flip-flopping. – And Trump’s interaction with Vance’s son is noteworthy…

Breitbart: A Veteran-Led Group Saved Lives in North Carolina Amid The Slow Federal Hurricane Helene Response – The mission was to save lives, and the team had a list of missing people. – While FEMA had contracted local emergency crews, it was not until six days later that federal FEMA agents and the active duty U.S. military, despite Fort Liberty being in the same state, came to assist…

American Thinker: Is It Bad Enough Yet? – In other words, has the level of socio-economic and political punishment being dished out to you reached a point where you’ve had enough? – What else do Kamala Harris and her party have to do to convince you that they hold you in utter contempt? – This question is especially pertinent when addressed to Christians and Jews.

Breitbart: The Jewish Press, the largest independent Jewish-American newspaper with a powerful voice among Orthodox communities, has officially endorsed Donald Trump for president in the final days of the election campaign. – Noting, “A vote for him is as close to being a moral imperative as we can get,” while deeming his policies crucial for protecting Jewish interests against what it described as the Democrat Party’s “socialist state.”

Headline USA: A Federal Communications Commissioner suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris’s surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live just days before the Nov. 5 election may have violated federal law. – FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr argued that NBC scheduled Harris’s SNL appearance to evade the Equal Time rule, which mandates balanced airtime for political candidates. – With the election scheduled for Tuesday, President Donald Trump cannot get equal time.

American Thinker: The Case of the Disappearing Ballots – Mail-in ballots are on the docket in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. – Lawsuits ask for transparency concerning contracts with the USPS to transport alleged completed mail-in ballots and to get to the bottom of questions about the legitimacy of the ballots, where the ballots are going, and what is being done with them.

American Thinker: The Futile Quest For Equity – Will Americans continue to tolerate endless government intervention to level all outcomes? – Higher education has become equity-obsessed, so schools ignore test scores to “curate” a more physically diverse student body. – The damage caused by pursuing equity now even applies to how doctors treat injured children…

FAR: Everyone Is Smart, Except Trump – Don’t let the above title fool you. – Putin would never have considered invading Ukraine had Trump been in office. – Trump’s voters get him because not only is he we, but we are he. – We were not snowed flaked-for-life by effete professors who themselves had never negotiated tough life-or-death serious deals. – Instead, we live in the real world, and we know how that works.

November 2, 2024

Washington Post: Americans Telephone Calls And Texts Can Be Monitored By Chinese Spies – The Chinese hacking and spying operation known as “Salt Typhoon” targeted Donald Trump, JD Vance, as well as staffers for Kamala Harris’s campaign and people running for Congress. – Hackers were able to collect audio and text messages from their targets in a wide-ranging espionage operation, which likely began several months ago. – The U.S. government and the telecom companies need to quit hiding this and reveal more about what is going on.

Gateway Pundit: The RNC filed a lawsuit on Saturday after four Georgia counties extended their election office hours and decided to accept absentee ballots over the weekend in violation of state law. – Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties are refusing to allow Republican poll watchers in to observe the process, according to the Republican National Committee.

Trending Politics: Election officials in the deep blue stronghold of Fulton County, Georgia, are refusing to allow poll watchers to supervise the counting of newly-arrived mail-in ballots. – Even though Georgia’s early voting deadline was November 1, several counties across the state have extended the deadline throughout the weekend. 

Jonathan Turley: Halloween is over, but the election litigation is getting scarier. – More than 200 cases have been filed around the country before the election this year. In the last week, worrisome elements have begun to pop up in various swing states. – Critics charge this is the continuation of the administration’s unrelenting attacks on voter identification and proof of citizenship laws, even though 84% of Americans support such laws…

American Thinker: Five reasons to get out there and vote – We have a country to save. – 1. If we don’t win the House and Senate, we’re in trouble no matter what happens. – 2. We need to win the popular vote to thwart the naysayers. – 3. Down ballot, local races, and ballot initiatives are important, too. – 4. Vote to repudiate the sheer insanity of the fascist far-left! – 5. Repudiate the propaganda press…

Breitbart: Israeli commandos carried out a daring raid Saturday in northern Lebanon in which they captured Imad Amhaz, said to be a senior Hezbollah naval official, and took him to Israel for further questioning. – Lebanese media reported that Israeli special forces arrived from the sea and raided a chalet on the coast of Batroun, south of Tripoli, and took one person with them before leaving the area in speedboats.

One America News: Texas public hospitals will now ask patients if they are in the United States legally to keep a record of the funds spent on illegal migrants. – An executive order from Governor Greg Abbot went into effect that states public hospitals are required to collect information regarding the “cost of medical care provided to illegal immigrants,” the number of inpatient discharges, and the number of emergency visits, then submit that data to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission quarterly.

Front Page: Secret Service Won’t Fire Anyone Over The Trump Assassination Attempt – The Secret Service said Friday it has carried out multiple reforms since the July 13 assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and signaled that the agency has not dismissed any agents for the security failures that day, according to a copy of a final internal report to be sent to Congress and other agencies.

Western Journal: SCOTUS declined to block a lower court ruling finding Pennsylvania voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected over errors can cast a provisional vote. – Justice Samuel Alito wrote the question is of “considerable importance” but noted that even siding with the Republican National Committee at this time “could not prevent the consequences they fear” in a statement joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.

John Daniel Davidson: The Media Are Running Blatant Election Interference With Propaganda About Trump Supposedly ‘Threatening’ Liz Cheney – None of it is true. – Anyone who watched the full clip of Trump’s comments could see that Trump was talking about how Cheney is a neocon war hawk who doesn’t have the guts to face the consequences of her policies. – They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”

American Thinker: Let’s Go Back – The Democrat Party has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, moving away from its traditional working-class roots toward a more elite focus that is disconnected from the struggles of everyday Americans. – “Gaslighting” has become the primary communication tactic for Democrats, as they juxtapose claims of democratic threats with legal actions directed at their political adversaries…

Townhall: The Amish Don’t Vote, But This Year Could Be Different. – This year brings a whole new ball game as candidates are seeking their support.- The Amish are reliably conservative, so the group can drastically shift the outcome of some rural states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin. – About 90,000 Amish live in Pennsylvania, 84,000 live in Ohio, and 26,365 live in Wisconsin…

Zero Hedge: European Investors Are Bracing For Trump 2.0 – To prepare for such an outcome, investors are moving out of stocks geared toward Democrat policies. A UBS basket of European companies seen benefiting from the Inflation Reduction Act, and others, such as renewables stocks, dropped 10% in October. – A potential Trump win is starting to get “priced in already” in Europe, says Neil Birrell, chief investment officer at Premier Miton Investors. “People are moving away from the sort of things that did less well during the last Trump administration.”

The New York Sun: Election Will Test the Power of Teachers’ Unions Against Conservative Advocates Fighting for Parental Rights – Few voters pay attention to school board elections, yet they decide the future of America’s classrooms. – While these seats are typically nonpartisan, they’ve entered the culture wars between parents, activists, educators, and administrators that target how public schools address issues of race, gender, and sexuality.

The Center Square: 2.5 million from 4 Central American countries have illegally entered the US since 2021 – It is the greatest number in U.S. history from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. – The total excludes gotaways and the inadmissible from these countries who were released into the U.S. through a so-called family reunification program created by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, The Garbage Time Edition – It is no surprise that we reached garbage time this week after the reductio ad Hitlerum fell flat.

November 1, 2024

American Spectator: Roll the Dice With Trump or Go Down the Tubes With Harris – There are at least six crucial reasons to support Trump on November 5th. – The Deep State, Taxes, A Strong Commander-In-Chief, Immigration, Climate Change, and The Constitution. – This list could be longer, but despite his shortcomings, it makes more sense for Americans who aren’t progressive zombies to vote for Trump rather than to stay home or vote for a candidate who would cause the final flush.

Just The News: Voter registration fraud investigations point to an Arizona company calling itself ‘Field and Media Corps,’ with ties to a left-leaning organization. – Five Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter applications and mail-in ballot applications in the days and weeks leading up to Election Day.

Revolver: JD Vance explains his reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine during his Rogan interview, declaring it’s the sickest he has ever been. – Then he revealed his theory on what’s happening with that vaccine and Big Pharma. – Vance theorizes that Big Pharma is likely backing Kamala because they’re looking for immunity from consequences down the road.

American Spectator: Wokeness Is Responsible for the Military Recruitment Crisis – Incompetent top-level leadership and DEI efforts are chasing away potential recruits, as well as the military’s historically best recruiters, veterans who have encouraged their kids and grandkids to follow in their footsteps.

Townhall: JD Vance’s Reaction When Trump Was Nearly Assassinated – Vance was at a mini golf course with his kids. – “When you first see the video, he grabs his ear, and he goes down,” and I’m like, ‘oh my God, they just killed him’…I was so pissed.” – “I grab my kids up, throw them in the car, go home and load all my guns, and stand like a sentry in our front door…that was sort of my reaction to it [the assassination attempt],” Vance explained…

Newsweek: Trump Wins Over Swing State Voters With Joe Rogan Interview – The Republican presidential candidate’s change in tone went over well with many in that category, Impact Social’s exclusive analysis of 40,000 people showed. – Since the tracker began in June 2020, during the previous presidential election campaign, Trump had not enjoyed a net-positive score until his recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Zero Hedge: Over 7 Million Have Already Watched Joe Rogan’s JD Vance Interview – During the interview, they touched on a variety of topics related both to politics and Vance’s personal life, such as. – How Trump Chose Him – Vance Is Skeptical of Money in Politics – Vance Confirms The Chinese Cellphone Hack – Abortion…

Zero Hedge: A whistleblower has told the House Judiciary Committee that the Obama FBI launched an off-the-books “Honeypot” operation targeting Donald Trump and his campaign as soon as he announced his bid for the White House in 2015. – The operation, ordered by James B. Comey, predicated the Crossfire Hurricane operation. – An FBI agent involved in the covert criminal investigation said Comey sent two female FBI undercover agents to infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels…

Unheard: Is Trump right to fear election fraud again this time around? – Polls show that 66% of the electorate are very or somewhat concerned that the vote will be compromised, including 55% of Democrat voters, 58% of Independents, and 83% of Republicans. – “We are working hard to ensure it does not happen again this time. – Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who founded the Election Integrity Network, said, “We haven’t fixed everything in elections that the leftists spent billions of dollars breaking, but at least we know what to watch for in 2024.”

Slay News: The White House Deceptively Altered Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Transcript Despite Warnings Of Protocol Violations From Stenographers. – “Our Stenography Office transcript, released to our distribution, which includes the National Archives, is now different than the version edited and released to the public by the Press Office staff.” – The internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office was obtained by The Associated Press.

Zero Hedge: October Payrolls Show A Huge Miss As Private Jobs Go Negative For The First Time Since 2020 – Moments ago, the BLS reported the highly anticipated number, and it was close: the monthly print was only 12K, a huge drop from the pre-revision 254K in October (revised naturally lower to 223K), and just 13K away from a negative print.

Trending Politics: Colorado’s Democrat Secretary Of State Faces Major Legal Trouble After Sharing Election Machine Passwords – Trump’s lawyers are demanding that she immediately identify the affected counties, tear down the machines’ compromised software and build a new version, and halt the processing of all mail-in ballots until the new software is up and running…

Zero Hedge: “Pocketbook Pressure” Is Increasing Chicken Demand As Consumers Seek Savings – “In addition to reducing dining-out occasions, shoppers are also making more frequent visits to grocery stores even as they purchase less each time, all to capture savings after years of high food inflation,” Bloomberg reports.

American Greatness: America’s Adversaries are Rooting for Kamala Harris, Not Donald Trump – In Kamala Harris, America’s adversaries see a president who would be substantially weaker than Joe Biden, whom they could easily manipulate and defy to destroy the U.S.led global order. – They include leaders of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorist groups, and other U.S. adversaries.

American Mind: The Definitive Case Against The Left And Its Allies. – There’s no need to single out individuals, the Democrats, the compromised courts that ignore or invent the law, the Intelligence Community that interferes in our elections, the leftist foot soldiers burning and looting our cities, the unelected “experts” who try to rule Americans by fiat, the “non-government organizations,” Big Tech, the useful idiots, and corporate media that have lied to us about all these things…

The Federalist: A Far-Left Trans Activist’s Shady Voting Group Is Caught In A Swing State Voter Suppression Texting Scheme – This week alone, thousands of voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania received text messages from a group called “AllVote” reading, “Records show you voted,” along with a hyperlink to more voting information, reports say.

The National Pulse: The Texas Attorney General Has Opened A ‘Criminal Investigation’ Into Dominion Voting Systems. – Dominion voting machines are already stirring controversy in the 2024 election amid ongoing early voting. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has confirmed that some terminals are experiencing issues nationwide with split-ticket ballots…

Geller Report: A new ruling from an Arizona judge will require the secretary of state to immediately release a list of 218,000 individuals who registered to vote without providing proof of citizenship, which is required by law. – Today’s ruling comes one month after Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat elected in 2022, revealed that a computer glitch had allowed the affected individuals to register to vote without providing proof of citizenship.

New York Post: Polling guru Nate Silver says irresponsible pollsters are “herding” their numbers or using past results to affect current ones to keep Harris and Trump within a point or two of each other in the polls.- Silver’s vaunted model puts Trump ahead of Harris, 55% to 45%, as voters prepare to head to the polls in just three days.

American Thinker: With Less Than a Week until the Election, What Do the Polls Say? – According to Rasmussen Reports, “Donald Trump holds a two-point advantage over Kamala Harris in the most recent daily tracking poll for the 2024 presidential election.” – This indicates that Trump could win the popular vote. – The last Republican presidential candidate to achieve this was George W. Bush, twenty years ago in 2004.

American Thinker: The Media’s Mammoth Thumb on the Electoral Scale – The bias from both the mainstream media and the tech/social media is mind-boggling. – Democrats openly and habitually lie about Donald Trump regularly, and the media uses subliminal messaging to reinforce those lies. – They are not fair, neutral arbiters and, by and large, are Democrats. – Then there is the Hollywood crowd…

California Globe: California’s Politicians No Longer Work for the People – They work against the people by refusing to pass or enforce laws that make our lives better. – Look around, and you see drug-addicted vagrants living in parks, on city streets, along rivers and bike trails. – You see brazen retail theft when you go shopping. – Do you feel safe in your neighborhood park or at your grocery store parking lot? – Is it safe for your child to walk to school?…

Fox News: “The rush to get pandemic relief funding out quickly resulted in shortcuts being taken to deliver aid quickly to small businesses in hopes of recouping improper disbursements on the back end.” – The Biden-Harris administration failed to recoup $200B in fraudulent COVID loans, the House committee says – The SBA paid roughly $1.2 trillion to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic…

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