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Why is the Biden-Harris administration so woke? Didn't Biden campaign as a moderate? This chart explains what happened. Bear with me: I know it looks like a conspiracy theory, but I have the receipts. In short: The Left's dark money network funds a system of woke nonprofits that staff and advise the administrative state, getting their far-left policy agenda implemented in the federal government. My book, "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government," outlines exactly how this works and zeroes in on a few key issues. (click to enlarge)One of the biggest issues for me has been...

LOL!!! Someone flew a banner over Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in Miami that said: “TRUMP 2024 - READY FOR IT, CAT LADY? MAGA!” Absolutely incredible 🤣🔥🔥🔥

Nature might abhor a vacuum, but empires love them. The busy empire-builders in Tehran have spent the last two decades extending their reach into power vacuums in Iraq and Syria as part of their attempt to recreate at least part of the old Persian Empire that once covered almost the entire Middle East. Funding the Houthi rebels in Yemen keeps the Saudis conveniently distracted, too, as well as giving Tehran a way to attack the shipping that Western economies rely upon. Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Lebanon respectively are Iran's imperial outposts even further west — and the Arab...

With the election and inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum to the presidency, Mexico is rapidly descending into a dictatorship. Here's the marquee case: #Mexico's entering a #constitutionalcrisis. Pres @Claudiashein said she'll willfully fall in contempt of court after a federal judge orders congressional approval of the dismantling of the #judicialbranch halted due to legislative procedural violations-so much for the #RuleOfLaw. — Tony Payan (@PayanTony) October 19, 2024 Sheinbaum plans to ignore the courts and do what she wants, which doesn't portend much future for rule of law there. The MORENA party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Sheinbaum seems to have...

The ever-present, ever-changing election polls reflect what a limited group of people think on a given day. But the billions of dollars wagered on 2024 Presidential election betting proves what a compendium of smart, wealthy people think will happen on Election Day. Polls are opinions. Betting markets are opinions, too, but they are opinions backed up by billions of dollars. The smart money is now backing Trump 60-40. Betting on everything from elections to the date of the first measurable snowfall in London has long been legal in the U.K. The internet, combined with the security of blockchain money movements,...

The Gateway Pundit received this from our dear friend who is currently in Ukraine. What he describes are war crimes and the victims are the people of Ukraine and Russia.* * * * * * * * * *I’m in Odesa, Ukraine, following up on the integrity of humanitarian aid distribution. I have been in-country since late September. I have had all kinds of reactions from sections throughout the nation on the war status. Odesa is a strange-bird—unique in a number of ways, and maybe it’s because of its seaport location. Upon arriving, I was instantly clued to the fact...

More polling from the Keystone State suggests Donald Trump may avenge his bitter loss four years ago. And the “Trump strength” is even greater than what his numbers show, Trafalgar Group pollster Robert Cahaly tells The Post — possibly enough to flip a Democratic Senate seat. Against Kamala Harris in the main event, the former president and recent McDonald’s shift worker is cooking up a victory in Pennsylvania just as he fried up a satchel of potato strips Sunday in Feasterville-Trevose. Trump is up 46% to 43% over the Democratic quasi-incumbent, indicating arches aren’t the only things that are golden...

Saw one of these "in the wild" ...have you seen ANYTHING more hypocritical and lacking in self awareness? They're running the most dishonest, hopeless, and indecent campaign in the history of the Republic ...>

VIDEOMost liberals who mocked the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020 are now too embarrassed to bring up that subject again. However, Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks actually did say she did NOT discuss that laptop because she got suckered into believing it was the result of Russian disinformation. Unfortunately for her, Chunk Yogurt, aka Cenk Uygur reminded Ana that they actually did discuss the laptop at length as you can see in a video from 2020 where Chunk discussed the laptop with Ana while mocking anybody who could think it was authentic.

Today, we know that in 2020, Joe Biden received all of the military and overseas votes in Fulton County, Georgia. All 900 ballots counted in Fulton County went for Joe Biden. ALL 900 MILITARY BALLOTS IN FULTON COUNTY WENT TO JOE BIDEN! We also know today that the election workers who secretly counted ballots in the State Farm Center late at night on election night were counting the overseas or UOCAVA ballots. In December 2020, Rudy Giuliani and Attorney Jacki Pick told a Georgia Senate committee that 93% of the military ballots in Georgia went for Joe Biden. Although this...

Is Ireland the most antisemitic country in Europe? Most Irish people would vehemently disagree. But if you asked: “is Ireland the most anti-Israeli country in Europe?” then many people here would actually take the question as a compliment. Hating Israel is not just acceptable in Ireland; it has become virtually mandatory. The latest evidence for this took place at a county council meeting in Dublin on October 7, the anniversary of the Hamas pogrom. A Fine Gael councilor, Punam Rane, engaged in one of the oldest tropes in the book when she claimed that: “The entire US economy is ruled...

Day #38 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so we are getting down to the last few weeks here. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to...

Daily Readings from the USCCBSomeone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Luke 12:13–15What’s interesting in Jesus’ statement is that of all the people who ever walked the earth, no one is more worthy to be a “judge and arbitrator” of an injustice than Jesus Himself. Yet He refuses to intervene. Why...

Kamala Harris’s campaign reduced her time on the campaign trail this week, opting to prepare for an interview with NBC and a CNN town hall. The schedule is unusual for the closing weeks of a presidential campaign. Candidates typically place greater importance on holding local events in swing states rather than sitting for interviews with friendly networks. Harris will sit for an interview on Tuesday with NBC’s Hallie Jackson, whose reporting appears biased against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Harris will attend a CNN town hall. Trump has often called CNN “fake news.”

A recent study in the British Journal of Social Psychology offers new insights into why some people view their political opponents in dehumanizing ways. The researchers found that political narcissism, rather than political identification alone, is strongly linked to seeing outgroups as less human. Both liberals and conservatives are susceptible to this behavior when their connection to their political group is driven by a sense of grandiosity and insecurity. Political polarization has become a significant problem in many democracies worldwide, leading to greater hostility between political factions. This growing division often results in negative partisanship, where people express stronger dislike...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump’s campaign stop at a McDonald’s in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday has sparked bemusement and bewilderment from onlookers. But the Golden Arches photo op was far from random: it represents the culmination of a yearslong fascination Trump has had with the fast food chain.

South Korea's foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to Seoul on Monday and urged an "immediate" withdrawal of North Korean soldiers from the war in Ukraine. "We condemn North Korea's illegal military cooperation, including its dispatch of troops to Russia, in the strongest terms," said South Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong Kyun in a press release, calling for an "immediate withdrawal" of the troops. The minister warned the Russian ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev that Seoul will respond by mobilizing "all available means in cooperation with the international community to any acts that threaten the core interests of South Korea."...

The two aviators who were missing after a Navy Growler crashed east of Mount Rainier last week have died, officials said Sunday. The announcement comes five days after the EA-18G Growler crashed Tuesday afternoon near White Pass during a training flight. Authorities located the wreckage a day later. No information was provided as of Sunday evening about whether the aviators’ remains had been found. Based in Oak Harbor, on Whidbey Island, the pair belonged to Electronic Attack Squadron 130, known as the “Zappers.” “It is with a heavy heart that we share the loss of two beloved Zappers,” said Cmdr....

In a world reeling from the consequences of the PSYOP-19 scamdemic, where trust in institutions is at best hanging by a thread, a growing body of evidence has emerged that shatters the very foundations of medical integrity. This is not hyperbole, this is a wake-up call. The supposed “failure” of ivermectin, a repurposed Nobel Prize winning drug that could have saved millions of lives during the height of the “pandemic,” has now been exposed as the result of a meticulously orchestrated Medical Industrial Complex campaign of deceit, fraud. and, ultimately, mass murder. There is a war being actively waged against...

Vice President Harris will be joined Monday by former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for multiple campaign stops in crucial suburban communities in “blue wall” states. The moderated conversions will begin in Chester County, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia, at 11:40 a.m. EDT Harris will then travel to Oakland County, Mich., just north of Detroit at 4:10 p.m. EDT, then continue onto Waukesha County, Wis., just west of Milwaukee at 8 p.m. EDT. Harris and former President Trump are split by razor-thin margins in the so-called “blue wall.”