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Your job as Democrats is to lead the opposition to Trump, which means making Trump unpopular. Right now there are only two engine governors on Trumpism: The courts and his popularity. You can’t influence the courts, but you do have input on public opinion. Stop wasting it. First rule of fight club: Pick your opponent. Ultimately you need to drag Trump’s numbers down, but right now he’s riding high. Elon Musk is a softer target.

A top Ukrainian official has claimed that the country is 'very near to really ending this war by a just and lasting peace', after Ukrainians were left horrified by a report on a pro-Russian site claiming that Trump might force Kyiv into a unfavourable ceasefire by Easter. Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff who is due to attend the Munich Security Conference next week where Trump is expected to officially unveil his plan for peace in Ukraine, made the comments to the Associated Press. He said: 'It's necessary that the leaders and the experts in politics who will...

@elonmusk: Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://x.com/elonmusk/statu After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to recap my National Endowment for Democracy bashes going back to shortly after it was launched in 1983. In a November 29, 1985 piece in the Oakland Tribune, I hailed NED as “one of the newest, most prestigious boondoggles on the Potomac.” But there were plenty of scoffers early on: “NED has been called many things—an International Political Action Committee, the Taxpayer Funding of Foreign Elections Program, and...

America First Legal filed two amicus briefs this week in support of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. The firm filed the briefs on behalf of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and 17 other committee members. Despite there being nearly two dozen Democrat-run states and civil rights groups suing to stop the order and two federal judges ruling to temporarily block it, America First is arguing that there is a clear constitutional basis for denying citizenship to illegal migrants who have broken the country’s immigration laws. Trump’s order titled "Protecting...

The Biden administration awarded Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric nearly $160 million to manufacture hundreds of battery-powered buses for school districts nationwide as part of its sweeping climate agenda. In recent weeks, Lion has initiated bankruptcy proceedings, laid off all employees tasked with building its buses, and paused manufacturing operations. Lion's financial demise leaves dozens of school districts—including those in California, Montana, North Dakota, Iowa, Alabama, and Maryland—questioning whether they will receive the buses the Biden administration promised them. Lion has yet to deliver $95 million worth of electric buses to 55 districts across the country, according to federal...

Patrick Bet-David explains how DOGE led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can cut income taxes to 0% potentially.

How many Americans had even heard of the U.S. Agency for International Development just a month ago? Now in the third week of the second Trump administration, the country is learning that USAID apparently has been running a racket that has propped up the Democratic political machine, which includes the usual big-media players, with tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars. As political scandals go, this one could be the grubbiest of all. Democrats are already reeling. Polls show they have become as popular as a pineapple on a pizza. This country would be well served if the party collapsed and...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” Mark 6:34The Twelve had just returned from going about the countryside preaching the Gospel. They were tired. Jesus, in His compassion, invites them to come away with Him to rest for a while. So they get in a boat to cross over to a deserted place. But when the people hear about this, they hurry on foot to the place that their boat was heading. So, when the boat arrives, there is a crowd awaiting them. Of course, Jesus does not get upset. He...

"You defeated the Zionist regime [Israel], which was, in fact, America's defeat," Khamenei, whose country supports Hamas in its war with Israel, told the Palestinian delegation. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with acting Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and two other leaders of the Palestinian group in Tehran on Saturday, Iranian state TV reported. "You defeated the Zionist regime [Israel], which was, in fact, America's defeat," Khamenei, whose country supports Hamas in its war with Israel, told the Palestinian delegation. "You did not allow them to achieve any of their goals." Iranian TV said the Palestinian leaders were in...

🇼🇸🇮🇱Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (2/8/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Healer) Acts 4:8-118 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before...

Canadian Liberal supporting News sources are Censoring leaks about what Trump discussed with Trudeau during recent phone calls. Details were suppressed. As it turns out what has Trudeau freaking out is the 1908 Border Treaty between the USA and Canada, Article IX,and Trudeau is announcing a possible invasion of Canada by the USA, is an attempt by Trudeau to heroically reverse his resignation as Prime Minister , wrapping himself in the Canada Flag, a strange thing from a man who recently ground down the Freedom Convoy Movement, declared them terrorists to seize oin Canadian's online donations , shut down donors...

President Trump has been the target of numerous 'protests' since the day he descended the escalator at Trump Tower to declare his foray into politics. The 'protests' were so widespread that Wikipedia dedicated an entire page to the 'Protests against Donald Trump.’ But it was different this time. There were no major protests or violence from the Democrats or their proxies. In Virgil’s The Aeneid, set during the Trojan War, the Trojan priest Laocoön warns his people about the Trojan Horse gifted by the Greeks with the words "Timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs", i.e. "I fear the Greeks even when...

"Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other...

Karim Khan, who is British, was named on Friday in an annex - not yet made public - to an executive order signed by Trump a day earlier, a senior ICC official and another source claimed. International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person to be hit with economic and travel sanctions authorized by US President Donald Trump that target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of US citizens or US allies, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday. Khan, who is British, was named on Friday in an annex - not yet made public...

On a dark, cold morning in Washington, D.C., hundreds gathered at the Museum of the Bible for the 2025 National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance (NGPR). Despite the early hour, people came with smiles on their faces as they greeted one another and prepared for a time of unity through prayer. As attendees found their seats, the hymn “It Is Well” echoed throughout the room, spilling into the hallway. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” kicked off the event, and other hymns such as “My Jesus I Love Thee” and “Jesus Paid it All” were sung throughout the morning.

By debanking conservatives, JPMorgan and Bank of America may be “debanking” themselves, On The Money has learned. It all stems from a raft of bad publicity that began with President Trump’s statements in Davos a couple of weeks ago, accusing the nation’s No. 1 and No. 2 banks of canceling accounts of conservatives. It continued with Wednesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on the matter. The result: Some customers began to flee the big guys, and at least one beneficiary has been to a small online bank that is beginning to make a name for itself in conservative circles by claiming...

Since 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded over $30 million to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the guise of tackling “global health challenges” In a 2008 conversation with Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates outlined his vision for the next 15 years, stating that his efforts would largely focus on population control through health interventions. He emphasized that combating infectious diseases and expanding access to healthcare could lead to lower birth rates.

Lego is anti-LGBT and promotes the idea that there are only two genders, an exhibition at the Science Museum has claimed. A self-guided tour at the London museum, entitled Stories of Queer Communities, Experiences and Identities says the plastic bricks may reinforce the idea that heterosexuality is the “norm”. Alongside a display of Lego bricks, it states the public believe that: “The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating”. This, the...

On Wednesday, January 29th, 2025, the Wisconsin Legislature Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) approved the repeal of Wis. Admin. Code § NR 20.05(2). “No person may…[p]ossess or control any firearm, gun or similar device at any time while on the waters, banks or shores that might be used for the purpose of fishing.”The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) rule has been in place since 1999. It effectively banned the possession of firearms in wide areas of the State. The repeal took place because the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit on...

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., released a blistering 92-minute video condemning the Trump administration and advising followers on how to resist it. Ocasio-Cortez did a livestream on Tuesday where she lamented the Trump administration’s numerous initiatives, telling her followers, "The first order of business is to self-regulate. What authoritarian regimes try to do is that they often try to, what is known as ‘flood the zone,’ do so much at once or try to do so much at once that it gets carried in the news, that you are that you feel overwhelmed and paralyzed." She added further in her...