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The question of whether Joe Biden could hold out against political pressure from the media, donors, Obama and influential figures across the party has been answered. He couldn’t. The donor coup succeeded. Democracy is dead, long live democracy. His campaign people had kept insisting that he was running until the last minute when his account tweeted a statement that he was abandoning his campaign. The whole seemed reminiscent of the palace coup against Japan’s Emperor Hirohito after the bomb dropped. Clearly there were multiple factions at work, but the power players, led by the party’s donors, won out and Biden,...

The Biden campaign might be the single greatest act of financial fraud in history. “Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election,” former ER actor George Clooney revealed in a New York Times op-ed calling for him to drop out. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” At the fundraiser, George...

“Democrats must recover quickly and say: Trump has been uniquely responsible for stoking the violence that apparently grazed his ear,” The Nation’s Joan Walsh wrote. Beyond the obvious ju-jitsu of a leftist blaming one of her targets for getting shot, there’s that ‘apparently’ in there. Walsh had also tweeted, “Has there been any kind of news conference by Trump’s doctors? I just find this weirder every moment.” “Is Trump’s bandage covering evidence that he wasn’t shot? Still waiting for confirmation from credible sources beyond Trump on his Truth Social that he was actually hit by a bullet rather than hit...

If you want to know who has privilege in a society and who doesn’t, follow the anger. There are people in this country who can safely express their anger. And those who can’t. If you were angry that Trump won, your anger was socially acceptable. If you were angry that Biden took over, it wasn’t. Not all anger is created equal. Some anger is privileged rage. Good anger gets you a gig as a CNN commentator. Bad anger gets you hounded out of your job. Good anger isn’t described as anger at all. Instead it’s whitewashed as “passionate” or “courageous”....

“Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation,” Joe Biden tweeted. “He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.” Yesterday he declared, “most importantly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation.” This kind of rhetoric depicting Trump as the ultimate threat had become normalized. Is it any wonder that it was also acted on? There’s a pattern here. A Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire at a Congressional baseball game and brought along a list of House...

A new terrorist movement is emerging in America. Just as every cell in the human body has a complete copy of our genetic code, so too every terrorist rally is a microcosm of the entire movement threatening America, Israel and the world. The mob that converged on Congregation Adas Torah in a Jewish neighborhood in West LA was smaller than the thousands that had terrorized communities in New York and London, but all the elements that make up the pro-terror side were represented outside the synagogue. The PLO terror flags waved by the rioters represented more than just the cause...

Do tell. When the history of this extraordinary two-week period of American politics is written, the fingerprints of Obama and Pelosi will be far more apparent than currently known, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, as the Democratic elders have served as a guidepost for a party in panic. What that really means is the Dems are short of leadership. Biden can’t really provide it. But with him in the way, no one else can either. Donors have been applying their pressure and so have the politicians they fund. But only Biden can step down. And Biden has plenty...

This is gonna be a little awkward.After chickening out during the actual primary, the media and a lot of allied elites panicked after that debate where Joe Biden began talking about sisters raping each other, apropos of nothing, and began campaigning to remove him. Michael Moore belatedly adopted the Elder Abuse talking point. Media talking heads began to berate Jill Biden like they were on FOX News. Spontaneous editorials at publications controlled by prominent donors urged Joe Biden to step down for the greater good of the nation because he was just too old.And Joe Biden said, “No.”And it turned...

The story of both the UK and French elections is down to liberal establishments allying with and empowering the worst Islamists and Communists to come to power. (For that matter it’s the story of the Biden administration.) The difference between the UK and France though is that Labour appeared (to casual inspection) to have cleaned up its act enough that it was no longer a bunch of Marxists and Jihadists as it had been under Corbyn. But it didn’t take long to find out that it was the same bunch under the hood. In France, they didn’t even bother pretending....

A few centuries ago, some young men refused to have their property and their political autonomy redistributed to an elite thousands of miles away.The very idea of having a revolution over such a thing seems entirely absurd to today’s wokes.Or as another Englishman once again, “Imagine there’s no countries”. It’s easy if you live in the EU.All that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share” of taxes, the same demand constantly put forward by Democrat millionaires like Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All...

The man knows what he’s talking about. And it’s not the first video highlighting Rep. Ilhan Omar’s mission. In January, a video went viral featuring Rep. Omar allegedly declaring that “We as Somalians,” the translation describes, are an “organized society”, “people of one blood”, “brothers and sisters”, “people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second.” “The US government will only do what Somalians in the US tell them to do,” the translation states. “They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders.” “We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for...

In recent weeks, the media had taken to claiming that suggestions that Biden was old, confused and out of it were ‘cheapfakes’ and election misinformation. In the first 10 minutes of the debate, Biden destroyed the ‘cheapfake’ lie by being undeniably old, confused and out of it. What went down was more than Biden’s reputation but the entire media narrative. After nearly a decade of the media telling the public that its common sense observations were misinformation and disinformation to be remedied with media fact checks, everyone could see that it was the media that had been lying. And the...

“Billions of us will come and kill you.” Thirty minutes after Hamas supporters first set up their operation outside a Los Angeles synagogue, they maced their first Jew. And the Los Angeles police did nothing.Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue, did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in keffiyeh terror scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) which they had occupied.And then the mob, chanting calls for “intifada” and the destruction of Israel, moved outward to target two smaller synagogues attended by Persian Jewish refugees from...

Only slavery reparations can save Chicago. Chicago celebrated ‘Juneteenth’ with 40 shootings. The Windy City kept up a Father’s Day weekend in which 71 people were shot by fatherless young men in a city where 8 out of 10 black children are born to single mothers. And in which it’s all the fault of “systemic racism”. Over in Daley Plaza, Mayor Brandon Johnson (pictured above) raised the ‘Juneteenth flag’ created by an activist who wanted the black parts of Boston to secede and form a new city named ‘Mandela’. But who needs Mandela, when you’ve got Chicago? “God bless the...

One of the ways to tell apart moderates and extremists is checking the brakes. The other is the constant infighting. And the two are connected. Extremists have no brakes so their movement is always going to new extremes and tomorrow’s radicals are cannibalizing yesterday’s radicals. In my book,‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left’, I quoted a very telling line about the French Revolution. “As the revolution becomes radical, the Right disappears, and the Left of one assembly becomes the Right of the succeeding assembly,” Mignet explained, describing how each new political incarnation became more radical than the...

Gag orders, constitutionally dubious, are meant to protect the integrity of a judicial proceeding.However, even with the trial over, the gag orders imposed on former President Trump are not going away.DA Bragg’s office (which had just freed the antisemitic Columbia Hamas rioters) demanded a continuation of the gag order which prohibits him from commenting on the individuals involved in the trial.Since Trump is also running for president and Biden is spending $50 million to attack him over the various Democrat trials imposed on him, this effectively bans a presidential candidate from debating a campaign issue.The New York Court of Appeals...

How does a government employee come into $61 million in twelve bank accounts? When Israel took out a top Hamas terrorist, Hady Amr warned that “every Israeli” would pay. And that America would too.That was less than a year after 9/11. By Oct 7, when Hamas launched its murderous ethnic cleansing assault, Amr had become Biden’s Special Envoy to the ‘Palestinians’.Formerly employed by a Qatari front group, a state sponsor of Hamas, Amr, a Muslim immigrant who grew up in Saudi Arabia, had advocated for a deal with Hamas.“I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada,” Amr wrote, making no secret...

Hamas are the civilians. Americans expected Osama bin Laden to be found in a cave in Afghanistan. In reality, he was living comfortably in a military town in Pakistan under the protection of local authorities. Similarly, Israeli hostages, including the four who were last rescued, have come home telling stories of being kept captive in ‘civilian’ households. In both cases we fundamentally misunderstood what Islamic terrorism is. It’s not a “fringe group of extremists”, as politicians and the media describe it, but an ethnic and religious movement. The religious values of Islamic terrorists are universally shared by the vast majority...

Nearly eight years after a Muslim terrorist committed the largest massacre of gay people in American history, LGBTQ Islamic terror supporters blocked the Philadelphia gay pride parade.“Long live the Intifada,” members of Queers4Palestine chanted, referring to the Islamic terrorist campaign against the Jewish State, chanting that the gay pride parade was just like the KKK and the Israeli army. “From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!”Protesting a gay pride parade in support of Hamas was a fitting prelude to the anniversary of the Islamic massacre at a gay nightclub which had its own Hamas connection.On June 12th,...

Right before Election Day, Biden finally released the names of his ‘bundlers’: the big money fundraisers who backed his 2020 campaign. The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s investigative arm did some last minute sleuthing and found some interesting names on that list.One of them was ‘Muhammad’ Tahir Javed: a Biden surrogate, Democratic National Committee deputy finance chair, and future Pakistani cabinet member.Javed bragged that he had “raised over $2M for the Biden Harris transition team” and “recruited 30+ donors to the transition team and general campaign, four of whom were recognized along with myself… to have raised over $100,000 personally.” These...