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DHS cast the incident as being "disrespectful political theatre."Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) choked up on Tuesday while recounting his brief detention last week after interrupting a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles — a disruption that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) slammed as “disrespectful political theatre.”In remarks on the Senate floor, Padilla appeared to get emotional as he spoke about what happened from his point of view.“You’ve seen the video. I was pushed and pulled, struggled to maintain my balance. I was forced to the ground — first on my knees and...

Alex Padilla fake cries while explaining how law enforcement protected DHS Secretary Noem from a no-name Senator interrupting her press conference.

Investigation uncovers 70 DNC affiliates organizing anti-Trump demonstrations across 21 states. Yesterday, as protesters readied to descend on city squares across America for a mass demonstration branded #NoKings, California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis took to MSNBC, praising the movement as a righteous stand for democracy. "People are very determined to get out there and be seen. This is the United States. We do not want a king," she said. What she didn’t say: The California Democratic Party is itself organizing today’s protests — from Orange County to Oakland — with the full institutional weight of the Democratic machine, and the...

Dozens of women dressed as handmaidens from the show The Handmaid s Tale walk silently through downtown as part of a March of Dissent before a No Kings protest against policies of the Trump administration on Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Fort Worth.

As much as it’s horrifying to watch a city burn and the lives of cops and federal agents threatened by violent protesters, there is a silver lining to the last several days of rioting in Los Angeles. The desperate attempts to spin what’s happening do a fairly good job of illustrating what’s wrong with the political discourse in this country — and further demonstrate that the dishonest sophistry used to excuse violent riots in 2020 is no longer remotely persuasive.Still it’s worth classifying and breaking down the specific arguments and talking points that have been employed by the Democrat Party-media-industrial...

Refuse Fascism, a communist nonprofit organization with a history of staging violent riots against President Trump is organizing a protest in Washington D.C. on Saturday ahead of Trump’s Grand Military Parade, marking the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. Army. Refuse Fascism, reportedly an offshoot of the radical-left Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), plans to gather in D.C. at Logan Circle at 1:00 PM and later march on to the White House. Trump’s military parade, which also coincides with Flag Day and his 79th birthday, is scheduled to take at 6:30 p.m. near the National Mall on Constitution Avenue. A flyer promoting...

Democrats are a mess. They have no message other than "Trump bad." They've made one stupid move after another, siding with human traffickers, drug smugglers, and CEO killers. Nothing is working, so they have resorted to theatrics led by one Alex Padilla. If I had to guess, I'd say this was planned in advance and that pretty much all Democrats were given a heads-up about it. Alex Padilla, the emotionally volatile lightweight senior Senator from California, pulled off one of the most stupid and obvious stunts we've seen in some time. He interrupted an official proceeding and appeared ready to...

Cory Booker, AKA Spartacus, Has a Full-Blown Meltdown on the Senate Floor Over Alex Padilla

NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his lamentations on President Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night. As Meyers tells it, Congressional Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, are “collaborating” with Trump to “turn America into a military-style autocracy” and would’ve ratted out the original Tea Party to the British in 1773. Meyers was agreeing with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that the Founders would be ashamed of Trump’s actions when he went on one of his Meyers-esque digressions about what the proper term for “pants” was in the 18th century and then declared, “Now, if you’re...

Nothing stirs us to outrage more quickly than the combination of theatrical self-righteousness and brazen dishonesty from a cold-blooded liar. Of course, nothing of consequence ever seems to happen to such people. In Washington, D.C., they receive promotions. Tuesday on the Senate floor, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California had the 14-karat chutzpah to speak of “truth” and “decency” after years spent peddling known lies about President Donald Trump having colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. “Truth should matter to us,” Schiff said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. God showed infinite mercy...

One of the delights of the last couple of months has been watching the Democrats and their regime media adjuncts running their decades-old political playbook and seeing them completely outflanked by the Trump administration running its modern playbook. Check your calendars, guys. It’s 2025, and what used to work doesn’t work anymore. You guys haven’t changed, but we Republicans have. The fact that we are no longer reacting as you expect and demand us to, along with the revolution in media that has allowed us insurgents to evade the regime media gatekeepers, has made all your old go-to moves utterly...

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Thursday on CNN’s “OutFront” that if Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth does not resign over the Signal chat among senior national security officials, President Donald Trump should fire him. Kelly said, “When you plan a mission, the most closely held information is the timing when you’re going to launch where you’re going. In this case, Yemen, and when you’re going to get there, time on target, weapon systems you’re carrying. In this case, Pete Hegseth shared MQ-9, Tomahawk, F-18. all that information is the most sensitive, sensitive information we have. And any adversary would want to...

"Nothing in the Draggieland performance offends the executive order the Board cites. No male performer in the drag show is stating an intent to become a woman. Nor does the Board point to evidence in the record establishing that the president’s executive order on “biological truth” specifically refers or applies to drag shows." "The court grants the motion for a preliminary injunction. The Board is enjoined from enforcing the ban. The Draggieland performance scheduled for March 27, 2025, in the Rudder Theatre, may proceed as originally scheduled."

It's about time a president goes full Andrew Jackson on these unelected activist judges appointed by the Democrats. A D.C. judge has ordered a preliminary injunction in favor of a trans activist in the military who sued the U.S. over the President's executive order ban on trans service members. Judge Ana C. Reyes ordered the U.S. military go back to its former Biden-era policy. Judge Reyes was nominated to the position by President Biden and is celebrated for being an immigrant who identifies as LGBTQ+. Yes, a Biden diversity hire, gay, female, Latina, immigrant, is telling the president what he...

You can see the ridiculous political puppet show for what it really is. They are just actors reading a script.

Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., erupted over Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while delivering remarks to colleagues on the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday. During a markup of bills related to providing the House with information on DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems and the Social Security Administration, Larson turned red and shouted at Republican colleagues, "You will do whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell you to do. "Where's the independence of the committee? Where's the legislature? We're an equal branch of government," an enraged Larson yelled, "Look at the empty seats here....