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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and several Democratic lawmakers came under fire this week after circulating a misleading clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s remarks about a renovation project at the White House. The edited video falsely suggested that President Donald Trump’s “main priority” was a ballroom construction project, despite clear context showing the statement referred only to ongoing renovation efforts, not national priorities. The controversy began Thursday during a White House press briefing, when a reporter asked Leavitt, “In addition to the ballroom and the Rose Garden patio, is the president looking at any other renovations or significant...

Newsdump Alert: Trump Meeting In Qatar Opens Foreign Trip... Qatar's Connections To The US, Israel And Hamas Cannot Be Denied... The rage against Hamas over the brutal events of October 7th, 2023 belies the facts of Israeli and American interaction with Hamas through Qatar prior to October 7th. Having Hamas in power in Gaza and the... How about some Top Ten Country Songs from 50 years ago today the music of my life... Time for a "National Debt Update" our theme song... This week the US national debt that began rising when Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States...

Various blue states are facing towering budget deficits as federal pandemic payments end and expenditures rise. The result is a widening gap between the two parties on tax policies as Democratic leaders seek to avoid massive budget cuts in favor of tax increases. Two of the most economically moronic measures can be found in California and Illinois where leaders could be pushing high-tax residents out of their respective states.In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking a billionaire tax that would target roughly 180 individuals who are expected to remain in the state, like some voluntary canned hunt. In Chicago, Mayor...

Matthew Hoffman, the ex-husband of former Congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter, reportedly suffered the indignity (and injury) of having Porter pour boiling potatoes over his head. Now that Porter's volatile temper and bad behavior to her staffers has been exposed for all to see, Hoffman has decided to break his silence on their relationship and confirm what most of us already know: she's a terrible politician, and would make an even worse governor. Hoffman spills the tea. Fortunately, since he lives in OR now, he has a state between them to insulate him from any blowback. Katie Porter is...

Teams will start tracking office attendance and yes, your boss will know Microsoft Teams is about to deal a heavy blow to those who like to work from home for peace and quiet. In a new feature update rolling out December 2025, the platform will track a worker’s location using the office Wi-Fi, to see whether you’re actually there or not. From a boss’ perspective, this would eliminate any of that confusion as to where your team actually is. But for those people who have found their own sanctuary of peaceful productivity by working from home, consider this a warning...

Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc Mamdani’s aunt didn’t take the subway after 9/11… because she didn’t live in NYC… she was working in Tanzania. This sociopath can’t help himself

KENTUCKY FAILING (once again)🤡cc: @RandPaul@SenRandPaul@RepThomasMassie

In an absolutely jaw-dropping and bonkers CNN interview on Wednesday, October 22, Texas Democrat Jolanda Jones explicitly rejected the famous “when they go low, we go high” mantra of former first lady Michelle Obama, saying instead that she wants to “wipe out” Republicans and will fight vigorously against her foes by going “across your neck.” For reference, her interview came during an appearance on CNN’s “OutFront” program with Eric Burnett, during which the Democrat discussed taking the fight to political enemies, and how she thinks Democrats should take a harder line against their political opponents, making a horrid, throat-cutting gesture...

Rapaport raised alarm about Mamdani's radical policy proposals and condemned the course charted by the Democratic Party. Liberal actor and podcaster Michael Rapaport has come a long way since calling President Donald Trump the "worst possible mother* we could have in power," referring to Melania Trump as a "dumb animal," and wishing ill on Barron Trump in March 2020. Rapaport, among the Jewish liberals who ditched the Democratic Party over its capture by anti-Semitic radicals and its ruinous approach to immigration, supported Trump in last year's presidential election. Now, he's throwing his support behind former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in...

A plan at Utah Valley University (UVU) to create a memorial to Charlie Kirk has been met by protests and a petition signed by thousands to block the effort. One protester declared, “We don’t want his likeness on campus.” That is hardly a new sentiment since Kirk was assassinated on the campus on Sept. 10, 2025. However, the protest shows the sense of license that many have in opposing anyone with conflicting views, including those represented in memorials. I have a long history with UVU and was pleased to receive the Madison award from the university, and was declared an...

There’s a gold empire hiding in plain sight. Not in history books. Not in museums. But right now — operating in secret, controlling more wealth than most nations. This is the story of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) — the mysterious institution in Basel, Switzerland, that acts as the central bank of central banks. Created after World War I, it quietly became the world’s most powerful financial entity — managing the hidden gold that backs nations, funds wars, and shapes the global economy. From Nazi gold transactions to Bretton Woods, to modern gold manipulation through paper markets, the BIS...

For 500 years, a pattern has destroyed every global superpower that followed it. Spain collapsed in the 1600s. Britain lost its empire by 1954. The Soviet Union disintegrated in 900 days. Three empires. Three complete collapses. All following the exact same seven-stage sequence. And the United States has already completed five of those seven stages. This documentary traces the collapse pattern across three superpowers and five centuries—from Spain's silver wealth that bankrupted the richest empire on Earth, to Britain's pound that lost reserve currency status within decades of two world wars, to the Soviet Union that went from superpower to...

VIDEOThe famous Dom Luis bridge in Porto over the Douro River felt like a magical experience while we were walking on it. Built in 1886, the arched bridge has two levels. The lower level for vehicular traffic and the upper level, where we were, is for light rail and pedestrian traffic. The elements of the lighting from a perfect sunset, the music in the distance from a festival, electric train cars gliding past us, the variety of people, both locals and tourists, including the eccentric English Fox hunters, all blended to create that magical unforgettable ambiance. I hope this video...

‘Petey’ is back in Britain, looking for a vengeance. And so it happens that Lord Peter Mandelson is back to Britain, after getting fired as US ambassador in the wake of the scandal caused by his emails to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Instead of the glory he would have dreamed of, he is facing ignominy. Mandelson and Epstein shopping in the US Virgin Islands. ============================================================================== The leaked emails revealed that Mandelson continued to support Epstein even after a conviction in Florida for ‘procuring a child for prostitution’. Columnist Andrew Pierce, wrote on the Daily Mail: “‘Fight for early release,’ he...

California Governor Gavin Newsom, the man who presided over a mass exodus of businesses, rising homelessness, skyrocketing crime, and record-setting taxes, now says he’s “thinking about” taking his failed leadership nationwide. In a taped interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Newsom admitted he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t considering a presidential run in 2028. The Democrat governor, who has spent more time preening for cameras than addressing California’s crises, told CBS’s Robert Costa that after the 2026 midterms, he’ll give a White House bid “serious thought.” “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise,” Newsom said. “I’d just be lying. And...

A German court ruled the Trump administration is “openly far-right” with “fascist tendencies” as German police raided several prominent conservative critics for alleged “Hate Speech” last week. Firing back, the US Embassy in Berlin warned of “censorship and oppression of political opponents in Germany”, which is “threatening to ban the opposition”. Notably, President Trump has yet to even nominate an Ambassador to Germany, a diplomatic slight usually reserved for antagonistic countries. A judge at Bonn Circuit Court described the Trump administration as “openly far-right extremist-populist” and claimed it had “fascist tendencies”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported. The Circuit Court 13th Civil Chamber...

A true mask off moment for Thomas Massie. Only $22,000 of the nearly 540k of individual donations came from within Kentucky. This guy has become everything that he claims to hate.

We have more clarity regarding an interesting factoid from last weekend’s anti-Trump rallies that swept across the country and Democrats will not like hearing it. As the Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft previously reported, Democrats and Communists, or Communist Democrats, held “No Kings” rallies in cities around the country last weekend. The protests, organized by the progressive group Indivisible, took place in over 2,000 locations across the U.S. and even internationally, including cities like Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Bozeman, as well as spots in Canada and Mexico. These rallies came as President Trump...

The Cuomo campaign threw up an AI generated political ad attacking his political opponent Zohran Mamdani, And it's both hilarious and frightening. Take a look: VIDEO AT LINK................. https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1981150231174746370 According to the New York Post, the usual motley crew of leftists showed up to scream "racism," despite the fact that the video is mostly a mix of The Sopranos and inebriated Golden Girls. Of course, the campaign quickly kowtowed to the vitriol and pulled the video. Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi denied the video was an ad in a statement swiping back at the attacks. ‘The video was a draft proposal...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes In June 2025, GPS data placed Zohran Mamdani at Barack Obama’s war room twice in just 6 weeks. Also present were individuals tied to the Muslim Brotherhood Obama’s war room is located at 2446 Belmont Rd NW, just minutes from the Islamic Center of Washington DC The Muslim Brotherhood openly state their goal is to control the political power in every state in America and eventually the all country “We will run candidates inshallah— the strategy is a long-term strategy. I can be very confident to tell you. That we are on the road to the...