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During last week’s excruciating Oval Office make-nice between an insultingly buddy-buddy American President and a fraudulently obsequious New York City mayor-elect, the contest was over which pol was the more patronizing. At one point Trump graciously granted his petitioner permission to call him a “fascist” while clearly implying the guy’s OTT campaign rhetoric had been embarrassing. Donald Trump sat regally on his throne, patting Zohran Mamdani’s arm while commending “Attaboy!” as if petting a golden retriever that had fetched a ball. For his part, Mamdani stood mutely by the Resolute desk with cartoonish humility, hands over crotch. This cowed performance...

Former Clackamas County Commissioner in Oregon Melissa Fireside has reportedly fled the country ahead of her theft trial, where she has been charged for allegedly stealing from a resident at an assisted living facility. According to court filings, she used false identification and an Austrian passport, taking her young son with her. On Friday, the Oregon Department of Justice said it had moved to reverse Fireside's conditional release after she was no longer at the home address she stated to the court, which had been in Lexington in Morrow County. Fireside is facing charges of aggravated first-degree theft, using a...

Pope Leo XIV has issued a clarion call to Catholic politicians worldwide, urging them to align their actions with the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of life. This new message follows on the heels of a recent pro-life message where the Pope emphasized the need to reject “voices of death” and embrace a culture of life. Pope Leo firmly rejected the false notion of Catholic politicians saying they are “personally pro-life” but voting for abortion: “There is no division within the personality of a public figure: there is not on one side the politician, and on the other the Christian.”...

... Gavin Newsom Torches JD Vance With ... ..California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has been trolling both on social media, gave the vice president a blunt response... ..."Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom · No thank you! "

In the book of James, Chapter 4, verse 6, it says, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Donald Trump’s public image has always been portrayed as one that lacks humility and exhibits pride. The way the President discusses his accomplishments and highlights his successes is widely recognized, even among his supporters, as evidence that his is a massive ego. Couple that with a media that has been successful at force-feeding a false narrative concerning Trump that is widely accepted as accurate. However, for those with keen discernment, Trump is a man who, upon careful observation, reveals...

The wife of suspect Vance Boelter spoke out for the first time since two Minnesota state politicians and their spouses were shot, saying she and her family are “absolutely shocked, heartbroken and completely blindsided” by the violent incident that killed one couple and seriously injured the other. Boelter is accused of killing Melissa Hortman, a member of the Minnesota State House, and her husband, Mark, as well as injuring John Hoffman, a member of the Minnesota State Senate, and his wife in a separate shooting. He is facing state and federal charges including murder, firearms offenses and stalking, and could...

Monday on FNC’s “Special Report,” long-time network personality Brit Hume predicted Democrats would be answering for the alleged cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s health issues for a “generation.” Hume argued that those in Biden’s inner circle were aware of Biden’s problems. “I mean, do you think impacts politically are real?” host Bret Baier asked. “Yes, I think they’re very real,” Hume replied. “And I think, you know, a lot of Democrats have a lot to answer for because they were trying to cover up something that, as I said before, trying to hide something that was unhidable. So, you...

Trump Administration Moves to Block the U.S. Travel of Mexican Politicians Who It Says Are Linked to the Drug Trade The list of Mexicans who could be targeted for U.S. visa restrictions includes leaders of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s party, state governors and former Cabinet ministers. In what could be a significant escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption, U.S. officials said. So far, two Mexican political figures have acknowledged being banned from traveling to the United States....

The lefty New Jersey politicians who stormed a Newark immigration detention center did it for their “15 minutes of fame,” Homeland Security’s spokeswoman railed Monday as the feds weigh criminal charges against them for alleged assault. Tricia McLaughlin, DHS’s assistant secretary for public affairs, called the stunt last week at the Delaney Hall Detention Center by Democratic US Reps. Robert Menendez Jr., LaMonica McIver and Bonnie Watson Coleman and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka “beyond the pale.” “We know that the [Newark mayor], we know these members of Congress want their 15 minutes of fame so desperately, but they’re willing to...

Congressman Tim Burchett just confirmed what many suspected—your tax dollars are being laundered. The endless spending, the wars, the so-called “aid packages”—it all circles back into the pockets of the political elite. “Where did all of your tax dollars go?” Burchett asked. “They left Washington, DC, flowed through some organization, and ended up right back in politicians’ back pockets.” That’s the game. Money moves through bureaucratic hands, gets funneled through third parties, and somehow—like magic—it enriches the very people who claim to be “serving the public.”

Right now, there’s a lot of tension in the DC Swamp. Sure, President Trump’s return has shaken its foundation, but this goes deeper than just him sitting in the Oval Office again.Much deeper.A lot of the usual suspects in DC are sweating bullets right now—not just over their dirty deeds being exposed, like the Russia Hoax, COVID shenanigans, or the Epstein client list—but because nobody saw this coming. A group of rogue Gen Z geniuses pulling back the curtain on a level of government abuse and fraud that even the most suspicious among us couldn’t have imagined. And now, the...

A Montana official entrusted with preserving Montana’s history is accused of embezzling up to as much as $300,000 in state funds to pay for his tattoo, divorce fees and rent. Michael Elijah Allen, who took over as the Heritage Commission’s executive director in 2012, is accused of embezzling the money between 2020 to early 2024, a criminal complaint filed by Lewis and Clark County. The MHC’s total annual budget is around $2.2 million, which the agency uses to maintain and preserve three important historic sites in Montana. Allen allegedly deployed a variety of tactics to embezzle MHC funds and launder...

David Hogg's time in the political limelight has mostly revolved around nothing more than his having been a student at Parkland and him parroting the media's preferred line about firearms. He's not done anything else of note, but they still adore him for just those reasons. Hell, it's the only reason he got into Harvard and everyone knows it since he'd already been rejected by state schools. Hogg's PAC tried to get a number of new Democrats elected to Congress, with pretty much no success. Exactly one candidate won in anything remotely like a contested race and they didn't even...

The FBI's handling of child sexual abuse investigations must improve, an internal watchdog said in a new report released on Thursday. The report comes more than 3 years after it came to light that the FBI was aware of U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar molesting female athletes but did not act quick enough. "The DOJ OIG found that further improvements are needed to build upon the FBI’s recent changes to its crimes against children and human trafficking (CAC/HT) program to ensure it appropriately addresses child sexual abuse allegations," read a summary of the report.

How can we trust someone that will literally say anything to get elected? Voters have come to tolerate a certain level of inconsistency in our politicians, but Kamala Harris is taking things to an entirely new level that we have never seen before. She is disavowing a whole host of far-left positions that she previously deeply believed in, and she is trying to convince all of us that she is now a “moderate” that is deeply in touch with what the American people truly want. Give me a break. She doesn’t care about what the American people truly want. All...

The Media Research Center submitted forty-eight public records requests to dozens of different offices. This investigation exposed thousands of pages of never-before-seen communications between Soros groups and elected prosecutors, including the far-left Soros politicians listed below. READ FULL REPORT https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf

Vice President Kamala Harris has a commanding lead nationally over former President Donald Trump, according to a new poll — as Republicans accuse Harris of avoiding media interviews for more than two weeks to avoid stumbling and potentially ending her “honeymoon” period as the Democratic candidate. Harris would take 50% of the vote to Trump’s 42% among likely voters if third-party candidates are options, Marquette Law School found in a poll conducted July 24-Aug. 1, shortly after President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 and endorsed Harris as his successor. Although the poll’s margin is an outlier...

In an effort to bring politics into the modern age and more in line with its sister industries like sports and professional wrestling, prominent politicians have announced plans for each of them to begin using their own entrance theme songs. In a world exclusive, The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of songs to be used as entrance themes for some of the country's most well-known political figures: 1. Nancy Pelosi — "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits: A song that encapsulates Pelosi's trademark "get rich without having to do anything" outlook on life. 2. Alejandro Mayorkas — "Immigrant...

I've been informed by the few liberals utopian socialists who still deign to speak to me that there is no secret confederacy of left-wing pedophiles ravaging hordes of children and that this was just a conspiracy theory whipped by tobaccy-chawin', trailer-dwellin' whackjobs. So I thought I'd pour some bourbon over an ice cube the size of the Death Star, gather some clues, and see what we can learn. Pedophile Flashback: Remember when a trans dudette calling himself Stacie Marie Laughton, a former New Hampshire state rep., was busted for child pornography? CLUES #1-85,000: Biden Administration 'Loses' 85,000 Unaccompanied Minor Children...

Nancy Pelosi slammed former prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson for backing Donald Trump in the race to the White House on Sunday. Earlier this month, shortly before the first of Trump’s four criminal trials began, Truss claimed that the “world was safer” when Trump was in office. She claimed a “strong America” under the presumptive Republican candidate was needed now more than ever. In January, her predecessor, Johnson – once dubbed “Britain Trump” by the ex-president himself – said Trump’s return to the White House could be “just what the world needs”.