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GENERAL MARK MILLEY: AFTER BETRAYING AMERICA TO CHINA, HE'S WALKING FREE THANKS TO BIDEN'S PARDON.. Biden just pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, the man who undermined Trump while he was president, secretly called China, and presided over America’s most humiliating military failures—and now, he faces zero accountability. SECRET CALLS TO CHINA In 2020 and 2021, Milley unilaterally called China’s top general, promising he’d warn them if Trump ever ordered an attack—completely going behind the back of the President. This was a stunning act of insubordination, potentially treasonous, as it directly compromised U.S. national security. THE AFGHANISTAN DISASTER Milley oversaw Biden’s catastrophic...

If this is what the left needs to tell itself to come to terms with the prospect of defeat, so be it. We all find our own paths through the Kubler-Ross model, my friends. Don’t mock someone just because they’re momentarily stuck on stage one. Bill Clinton allegedly thinks O’s “incompetent” and an “amateur,” but I guess this theory works too: As devotees of Barack Obama know all too well, qualities that made him so attractive as a candidate — an affinity for subtle arguments, a tendency to carefully weigh his options — have at times proved less useful in...

The Left has developed no end of tricks to manipulate debates without the trouble of making a case or putting together an argument. Many of them have been in wide use for decades without ever being identified, much less counteracted. One example widely seen in recent weeks is a technique closely related to what the PR industry calls "rebranding": taking a group that is loathed for any number of good reasons - terrorists, criminals, druggies, what have you - and subtly reworking their image over time to present them instead as victims. One group that benefited from this style of...