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Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling The Trump-Hitler story is a psyop. I mean that literally, not figuratively. It’s a military-grade, multi-stage psychological operation, engineered to re-energize demoralized Harris supporters and—through stigmatization—reduce turnout among Trump supporters. Here’s how it works: STEP ONE: PAYLOAD The most important component of any weapons system is the payload—that is, the material that actually detonates and causes explosive damage. In a psyop, the payload is a generally a narrative; in the case of this psyop, the narrative is that Trump is a fascist, a Hitler-sympathizer, and an outright Nazi. If your initial reaction here is to laugh at...

"Batman" star Michael Keaton criticized supporters of former President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk in a recent social media post, accusing them of not seeing that the two businessmen think they’re "stupid." Keaton shared the scathing message to his Instagram on Tuesday, expressing his disbelief that conservative Americans are fans of the two figures who have been on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania to shore up support for Trump’s presidential race. "For some of you folks who uh – guys mostly, I guess – who are thinking about attending a rally with Musk and uh, Trump," he began in the...

Unconventional college funds LGBTQ and DEI programs amid budget cuts, layoffs A private Massachusetts liberal arts college which openly touts its embrace of progressive concepts continues to grapple with big budget deficits. The budget woes have not stopped campus leaders from funding programs advancing LGBTQ and DEI concepts amid laying off employees and slashing departments. Hampshire College, which made headlines years ago when it took down the U.S. flag to promote multiculturalism and more recently offered Florida students wanting to flee from Gov. Ron DeSantis streamlined enrollment, is currently laying off 9 percent of its staff to close a budget...

VIDEOThey hated him. They despised him. They called him a racist. That was the general attitude of liberals back in 2017 when John Kelly was Donald Trump's chief of staff. And yet the liberals now love John Kelly. What changed? Simple, John Kelly, after conveniently waiting over five years until just days before the 2024 election, is now calling Trump a dangerous fascist. See, all someone absolutely hated by liberals needs to do to win the love of liberals is to attack Trump. Looking at YOU, Dick Cheney.

Michael Yon, a war correspondent, author, photographer joins Navy Seal, author, historian Matt Bracken to discuss who will be installed in the next election, precious metals including gold, break up of America, George Soros, famine, genocide, Ireland, FEMA, and much more.

Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is trying to release the elephants from what they say is essentially a prison for such highly intelligent and social animals known to roam for miles a day in the wild. Colorado's highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether the older African female elephants should be legally able to challenge their captivity under a long-held process used by prisoners to dispute their detention. The animal rights group NonHuman Rights Project says the...

As an observant reader will note, from censorship to lawfare it’s the Democrat Party today -- not Republicans -- that has embraced the exact same methods as the Nazis to seize power. But there is so much more. The Democrat use of DEI as a mandatory race ideology is similar to Nazi racial ideology -- just change whites for Jews in DEI training and you get a good idea of what Nazi racial ideology was like. The current attacks on academic freedom in universities in America also give you a good idea of Nazi methods of 1933. But that’s for...

Well, Fuzzy (or Chimp as we call him) has gone fairly viral with a thread on X exposing Donald 'Adolf Hitler' Trump throughout the years and we would be doing him an injustice if we did not cover it here as well. Plus, it's just damn funny. Take a look:

A beloved grizzly bear known as an ambassador for her species was fatally struck on a highway in Wyoming, National Park Service officials said Wednesday. Grizzly bear 399, who got her name through a research number assignment in 2001, had a yearling cub with her when she was hit on a highway in Snake River Canyon south of Jackson, authorities said. The cub's whereabouts are unknown, but there's no evidence to suggest that it was injured. The driver is OK, officials said. While the circumstances of the fatal crash were not immediately clear, authorities said 49 grizzly bears died because...

Republican poll-watcher planning raises prospects of noncitizen votingNorth Carolina election officials air concerns about potential voter and poll worker intimidationVoting rights advocates say effort is aimed at creating doubt in the event of a Kamala Harris victorySANFORD, North Carolina, Oct 24 (Reuters) - "Be aggressive," Jim Womack, a local Republican Party chair in North Carolina, told the grid of faces who joined the Zoom training session for volunteers to monitor voting on Nov. 5. "The more assertive and aggressive you are in watching and reporting, the better the quality of the election."During the two-hour session, conducted from a Republican Party...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend said she was left “embarrassed and humiliated” when he slapped her so hard, she “spun around” at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The woman, a New York attorney identified only as “Jane,” broke her silence weeks after her disturbing claims emerged, telling the Daily Mail that she was trying to persuade a valet to give her and Emhoff special treatment when her beau struck her in the face. “As I’m talking to him, Doug got out of the line, comes up, turns me around by my right shoulder. I’m completely caught off guard, I’m not...

In 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom proudly declared an “clean air” policy which has the potential to put the state’s drivers in harms way: “California became the first jurisdiction in the world today to end the sales of traditional combustion trucks by 2036, creating a path to 100% zero emission medium heavy-duty trucks on the roads in California by 2045. California also became the first state in the nation to implement emissions standards for trains,” Newsom said. “The future happens here first, and California is once again showing the world what real climate action looks like.”

Some 2,000 North Korean soldiers have completed training in Russia and are being sent to its Western regions near the border with Ukraine, Japan's Kyodo News said on Thursday. The troops traveling by train are likely bound for the Kursk region, where an advance team of about 10 officers has established a base of operations to receive North Korean ground forces, reported Kyodo, citing Ukrainian military intelligence. Russia has been fighting off a Ukrainian incursion into Kursk, which borders Ukraine's Sumy region, since August.

During an interview with the Fox News Channel that took place on Tuesday and was released on Wednesday on the “Fox News Rundown” podcast “Evening Edition,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded to a question on whether he and President Joe Biden urged Israel to avoid striking Iran’s nuclear sites or oil facilities and why those sites and/or facilities shouldn’t be hit by stating that Israel will ultimately decide what they do and do not strike, but, in his view, he believes that “if you’re conducting a military strike, it ought to be against military targets.” Fox News Chief National...

Historically, public health was a radical profession. It challenged power and built large public works projects (sewers and sanitation) that dramatically improved lives. But the field of public health today bears almost no resemblance to the efforts from a century ago. Instead, public health today is this weird, exaggerated, corporatized performance of things that kinda sorta sound like health by people who have no understanding of science and medicine. After years of personal observation, reflection, and engagement it seems to me that public health today is best described as a drag performance by marginalized people who allow themselves to be...

Not a vigilante killing....but no one is shedding any tears over this piece of garbage: Sunday evening, somebody shot and killed Robie in the Morse Red Line station lobby. Given his long history of robbing, battering, and generally causing nothing but trouble in the city’s transit system, it seems like an appropriate exit. ...Someone was bound to shoot him for cause sooner or later. That it might have been accidental is just amusing.

SummaryTrump criticizes Zelenskiy for failing to seek peace with MoscowTrump suggests Ukraine may need to cede land to Russia for peaceHarris has pledged continued support for Ukraine, rebuked Trump for stance on PutinWASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation's war with Russia, a comment that further suggests Trump is likely to decrease U.S. support for Ukraine if he wins the Nov. 5 election.The Republican former president has frequently criticized Zelenskiy on the campaign trail, repeatedly calling him "the greatest salesman on Earth" for having solicited and received billions...

[No official intelligence from the Union armies has been received later than the following dispatch from the Secretary of War.] [OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 22, 1864. To Major-Gen. Dix: The following official dispatch has been received from Gen. SHERIDAN: CEDAR CREEK, VA., FRIDAY, Oct. 21, 1864 -- 4 P.M. Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant, City Point, Va.: I pursued the routed force of the enemy nearly to Mount Jackson, which point he reached during the night of the 19th and 20th, without an organized regiment of his army. From the accounts of our prisoners who have escaped, and citizens, the...

Jeffrey Goldberg is a monster. An evil monster. So is the Atlantic magazine. Both should be destroyed. They have loosed a horrible hoax on America and the left-wing media have seized upon it. Goldberg wrote an article allegedly quoting former Gen John Kelly: Retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as White House chief of staff in the Trump administration, said former President Trump praised Adolf Hitler’s generals for their loyalty in a new interview in The Atlantic on Tuesday.In the interview with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Kelly affirmed reporting from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s book, “The Divider: Trump in the...

On Wednesday, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris unnecessarily dodged some questions during her town hall with the network that night and “the word salad stuff gets on my nerves.” Jones said, “[T]here were flashes of the Kamala that I know, who is really a true public servant. She really does work for real people. In the back of her mind, she is trying to figure out, how do I solve the problem? She sometimes skips — even in person, she’ll sometimes skip the human part and get...