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"Obama maneuvered behind the scenes to fight Trump"When Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to express an opinion on gerrymandering, he issued public statements and gave interviews. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Trump certainly have been pretty clear about their positions. So have most elected officials.So why do we get this?How Obama maneuvered behind the scenes to fight Trump on redistricting – Washington PostWhy does Obama have to maneuver behind the scenes? He’s a former president. The most popular and prominent ex-president that the Democrats have. His name recognition is pretty much universal.So why all is maneuvering ‘behind the scenes’?It’s a good question because...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – A St. Lucie County woman was arrested and charged with robbery by sudden snatching without a firearm or weapon at a weekend 'No Kings' protest near Vero Beach. Deputies said the 73-year-old approached a pro-Trump protester and attempted to grab a “Trump Won” flag he was holding at the 'No Kings' protest on State Road 60 just outside of Vero Veach city limits, one of six held across the Treasure Coast Oct. 18. Organizers said these protests focused on President Donald Trump's “crackdowns on First Amendment rights,” which attracted over 7 million people throughout 2,700 communities,...

Prime Minister Mark Carney set a goal for Canada to double its non-U.S. exports in the next decade, saying American tariffs are causing a chill in investment. Carney, who will release his government’s budget on Nov. 4, said Wednesday many of Canada’s former strengths — based on close ties to America — have become vulnerabilities. “The jobs of workers in our industries most affected by U.S. tariffs — autos, steel, lumber — are under threat. Our businesses are holding back investments, restrained by the pall of uncertainty that is hanging over all of us,” Carney said. U.S. President Donald Trump...

Two recent articles have a couple quotes from prominent Democrat strategists that inadvertently capture the filthy rut the party continues to wallow in. They even use the same word.In The Hill on Monday, campaign strategists Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman declared that “the heart of Democrats’ dilemma is an inability to articulate their own path forward” and a failure at “communicating their own credible and attractive alternative” to President Trump’s agenda. Over in The New York Times one day before, pollster Celinda Lake almost identically said, “The biggest thing the Democrats need to do is not the negative but the...

On Tuesday, Leighton Woodhouse wrote for The New York Times that conservatives are “spinning” a “mythology” that is “historically delusional.” The delusional mythology Woodhouse is referring to? The belief that Americans are a “group of people with a shared history.”According to Woodhouse, “The founding fathers were an assortment of people from different histories and backgrounds who coexisted — often just barely.” These “different” histories, however, were all rooted in Christianity. But Woodhouse wants readers to believe that this type of variety in Christianity proves America was born out of a multicultural diversity experiment.Of course it wasn’t. The colonists shared a...

Put this in the ‘beyond ridiculous’ file that explains the current situation of a contracting European economy; specifically, in the auto sector.Europe has fines associated with the production of gasoline powered engines if the auto company doesn’t hit targets for sales of electric vehicles. The fines triggered this year. In order to avoid paying the European fines the auto makers are forming alliances with Chinese EV makers to purchase carbon credit offsets.In essence, EU car companies buy Chinese car company carbon credits, to avoid the EU fines. The Chinese car companies can then use the carbon credit revenue to subsidize...

Far-left Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jersey appeared in court yesterday to answer felony assault charges stemming from the rumble in which she participated outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the Garden State. McIver’s attorney sought a dismissal from U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper. Semper didn’t buy McIver’s argument that she was charged because she is a far-left, hate-Trump Democrat. But the judge also ordered federal prosecutors to produce more videos of the melee. He also told the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, Mark McCarren, to push the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE’s...

Democrats are apoplectic that President Trump has deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, and will soon deploy them in Portland, and likely Chicago, thereafter.They proclaim that these deployments are unconstitutional, and that the Guard and other military units are constrained by posse comitatus, a law that limits military use for policing activities.Deploying the National Guard is/was a risky endeavor. To date though, the deployment of military resources (L.A., D.C., Memphis) has been overwhelmingly successful. The National Guard has significantly reduced crime in our nation’s capital, quelled unrest in Los Angeles without significant blowback, and with...

Indiana Senate Republicans say they do not have the votes to redraw the state congressional maps. That is according to a spokesperson for the Indiana Senate president pro tempore Rodric Bray. The statement came after months of debate on whether Indiana would join several other states in deciding to pursue mid-decade redistricting. Both President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have discussed the possibility of redistricting with Indiana lawmakers a number of times in the last few months. Vance was most recently in Indiana two weeks ago, following his first visit in August. State Democrats have continuously pushed back...

Regardless of the ultimate outcome of the Gaza peace deal brokered by Donald Trump, the past two years have seen Israel achieve an unprecedented litany of military accomplishments in the Middle East. The level of damage done to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis is difficult to comprehend. The end of the Assad regime and, with American support, the demolition of the Iranian nuclear program – setting it back years at the least – were steps that many once thought impossible. Israel has emerged from the post-October 7 period unquestionably stronger in every way except one: its support around the globe,...

Hippies, we have to talk. While for years the generation born right after you has been lumped together with you because of similarly high birth rates, the reality is that generations are defined by shared formative experiences, not just numbers. Baby-Boomers were born between 1946 and 1954, whereas those born between 1955 and 1965 had very different formative years, coming of age during the late 1970s and 1980s. As the Hippies hold onto their failed ideas, this generation urges them to step aside so the problems they created can be addressed. For years, it’s been assumed that Boomers and Hippies...

The image of Nigel Farage has loomed over this party conference season, as the established parties scramble to come up with a response to the rapid rise of Reform UK. Labour and the Liberal Democrats launched all-out attacks on Farage, portraying him as a threat to the very fabric of British society. But here at the Conservative Party conference, the attacks have, in general, been more muted. Reform is not just an electoral menace to the Conservatives, but an existential one. The party is leaking members, elected officials, and influence to Reform. In the past few hours, Farage's party has...

Fox New’s Bill Melugin - The truck driver who killed 3 and injured others in fatal freeway crash in Ontario, CA, is a 21 year old ILLEGAL ALIEN by the name of Jashanpreet Singh, who entered the U.S. illegally, but released by Biden admin in 2022

The President can use the military to protect federal facilities and federal personnel carrying out legitimate federal functions.Supporting the disorder outside federal buildings, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims that “the right wing in this country wants a rematch of the Civil War.” He has one thing right. But, in a result that would have shocked his state’s most favored son, Abraham Lincoln, the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, are relying upon the discredited theories of Confederates and segregationists to unconstitutionally resist federal authority. President Trump has no choice but to deploy military units to protect...

President Trump’s team is trolling Democrats harder than ever during the shutdown. It's a page stolen from his campaign and his own online habits.White House digital staffers have unleashed a social media strategy full of taunting memes and fake videos, following President Donald Trump’s lead in a bid to bolster his base as the government shutdown drags on.The amped-up tactics are meant to mock Democrats for their proposal to reverse recently passed restrictions on Medicaid, which the GOP falsely claims pays for health care for undocumented immigrants. The memes include a recurring stunt of placing animated sombreros atop images of...

Magnificent 13 Guardian Angels 1979 Curtis Sliwa discusses the start of the Guardian Angels in NYC. At 23, Curtis Sliwa decided he had seen enough and with the help of others spearheaded a self-help, all volunteer organization that kept NYC subways safe and set the standard for a worldwide community safety revolution. Learn more at www.GuardianAngels.org

The latest exercise in Swiftiana combines bawdiness with a certain impulse toward conservatism, as the singer embraces suburban dreams of marriage and white-picket fences while rhapsodizing about her fiancé’s reproductive organ. In that sense it’s an appropriate text for the Trump era, when coarseness and right-wing politics have been married in a distinctive way

A new shareholder campaign is calling for Tesla investors to vote against Elon Musk’s proposed 2025 CEO Performance Award, arguing it would deepen governance risks and weaken corporate accountability. Ahead of Tesla’s Q3 2025 earnings report, a coalition of unions and watchdogs launched the “Take Back Tesla” initiative, urging investors to reject Musk’s pay proposal at next month’s annual meeting. The plan would grant the CEO additional shares worth nearly $1 trillion over ten years, expanding his ownership stake in the company to about 25%. Unions and watchdogs argue that Elon Musk’s proposed plan rewards distraction The Take Back Tesla...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Mushrooms Falling From The Sky! U.S. Air Force tactical air control party (TACP) specialists assigned to Detachment 1, 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron descend over Malemute Drop Zone during airborne training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Air Force special warfare Airmen and Alaska Army National Guardsmen from the 207th Aviation Troop Command conducted the training to demonstrate airborne and mission-readiness skills in an arctic environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members...

Video at link. Interesting part starts at 11:22. This is what his kind really think.