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Newly re-elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now claiming that his government is a symbol for what he is calling "progressive patriotism". I will now compare some claims made for this way of thinking with the reality of Socialist Left governments. “Albanese begins second term with a new slogan.” Albanese and his party, the ALP, are much better at sloganising than they are at governing. "Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pledging to strengthen Australia with a second-term agenda that eases division ......." Albanese won the recent election with a brilliantly effective but viciously unfair negative campaign against his conservative...

Ben Cohen, co-founder and former co-owner of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, is a left-wing lunatic. In particular, he is a devoted fan of Hamas’s regime of rape, torture and murder. A loathsome human being, in other words. Now that he is out of the ice cream business, Cohen has nothing better to do than show up at Congressional committee hearings and try to disrupt them. Today, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy was testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, on the HHS budget. His testimony was interrupted by several protesters whose screaming was incoherent, and who...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok The city council of Providence, Rhode Island, is hosting a flag raising ceremony at the City Hall.What flag, you ask? A Palestinian flag... Providence, RI has been conquered.

Talk about having egg on your face. In an article published Tuesday on their website, CNN decided to make a badly-cooked omelette out of itself by admitting President Donald Trump was actually on to something about falling egg prices, but still attempted to say he was still peddling “fiction.” CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman just couldn't bring himself to fully admit that Trump was right and wrote an oxymoronic headline that reeked of contradiction, “Trump’s egg price fiction has suddenly become reality.” Yeah, we couldn’t make sense of that logic either.

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg predicted that "Trump's efforts to restore American manufacturing will fail because excessive regulations make it too hard to build things in this country. From my time as Secretary of the USDOT I learned that everything goes over budget and takes far longer than it should because of regulations like the rules mandating that 40% of the benefits go to 'under-served' minorities." President Biden established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council whose job is to ensure that the voices, perspectives, and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Holy smokes. RFK Jr. is going off on Democrat members of Congress: “You say that you've worked for 20 years on getting food dye out..” “I got it out in 100 days. Let's work together and do something we all believe in, which is having healthy kids.” 11:46 AM · May 14, 2025

Disturbing footage has emerged showing two members of Congress making a complete mockery of the institution and U.S. taxpayers. On Wednesday, journalist and former congressional candidate Matthew Foldi captured some alarming footage during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. While moving his camera, he noticed that 71-year-old Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) had fallen sound asleep during the hearing and zoomed in. It’s unclear whether Dingell was snoring or what caused her to fall asleep. What was she dreaming about?

VIDEOAh! What a difference a mere week makes. A week ago, much of the media was eagerly anticipating a SURGE in inflation due to President Trump's tariffs. They repeatedly cited "experts" proclaiming the inevitability of such a rise in inflation with NO alternative scenario possible. Unfortunately for them, reality did not cooperate with liberal fantasy yet again.

The First Opium War ended with China surrendering Hong Kong. The Second ended with China surrendering its dignity. Now, nearly two centuries later, the Third Opium War has just ended—and once again, China lost. But this time, they weren’t importing opium. They were exporting it. The Modern Opium: Fentanyl No sails. No gunboats. No treaties. Just chemicals—sent in barrels and disguised in powders—feeding a synthetic addiction that’s killed more Americans than all our wars combined. China didn’t need to invade. They simply flooded our streets. - Synthetic precursors shipped to Mexican cartels - Distribution routes subsidized by “strategic partnerships” -...

Catturd ™ @catturd2 If you want to know who the corrupt thieves are in the Republican Senate who are in on the money laundering scam that DOGE has uncovered ... they're not hard to find. 5:53 AM · May 14, 2025

Former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine on Tuesday bemoaned that his party does not have a commanding figurehead such as President Donald Trump who can dominate its base. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received the most support from Democratic-aligned adults when asked in a March 16 CNN/SSRS poll which leader “best reflects the core values” of the Democratic Party, but she only garnered 10% support overall. Turrentine, on “The Morning Meeting,” said Democratic presidential nominees have struggled to unite their voters under a single leader since former President Barack Obama, a stark contrast from the power Trump wields. WATCH: VIDEO...

I NEED A SURVEY TO TELL ME THIS? Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics.If you wanted to drill down to the biggest dividing factor here, it’s the portion of the coalition made up of college-educated women – a cohort that now dominates the politics of the Democratic coalition. In their circles, they say differences of political opinion have led to broken friendships with friends and neighbors at a more than 40-point rate – 67 percent to 24 percent.One factor here could be an underlying belief that your friends and neighbors are just flat-out racists over their political opinions. Of...

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer NEW: Republicans appear to be letting their guard down ahead of the 2026 midterms at the expense of President Trump. According to FEC filings reviewed by @LoomerUnleashed , the DSCC @dscc has paid $698,847.64 to the Elias Law Group since January 1, 2025, for services listed as “LEGAL SERVICES LEGAL FUND” and other legal work. @marceelias Marc Elias, the firm’s founder, spent his time after the 2024 Presidential election contesting the defeat of Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey. Elias is a massive Trump hater and one of the most notorious anti-Trump lawfare operatives in the Democrat Party....

DHS Chief Kristi Noem on Tuesday evening said the New Jersey Democrat lawmakers involved in the violent altercation at the Newark ICE facility last Friday committed felonies. “We had members of congress assaulting law enforcement officers. They were cooperating with criminals to create criminal acts and then they are saying that they were providing oversight. This wasn’t oversight, this was committing felonies,” Noem told Fox News host Jesse Watters. WATCH:

Sally's sad again. The bitter vinegary bubble-head has written this same basic complaint before.Washington is, and has been, a Democratic town. Trump won 5 percent of the vote here in 2020; in both of his presidential elections, George W. Bush won 9 percent; Ronald Reagan never won more than 14 percent. However, throughout the years, the Washington Establishment always welcomed incoming GOP administrations. The D.C. social scene -- which connected the most powerful people in any given administration with political donors, philanthropists, lawyers, lobbyists and journalists, all Washington fixtures -- had a way of surviving, no matter the politics of...

Five ways the disgraced family can earn enough to fund their lavish lifestyle Mark Halperin reports on what is likely the real reason behind Joe Biden's return to the public spotlight in recent days, which some have suggested is an attempt to "fight back" against damning revelations about his cognitive decline. "Biden, Inc., needs a source of revenue," he said, citing a source familiar with the Biden family. "The trough is empty, the spigot has shut down. They need a way to get back in the game to make big money to have the grandchildren fed and clothed and flown...

VIDEOWith the aid of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the animation magic of Al Barry we find out the reason why Bernie Sanders gets so outraged by allegations of Big Pharma corruption. So give the poor guy a break. He has beach houses to buy and Gulfstream jets to fly.LEAVE BERNIE ALONE!!!

Democratic strategist James Carville on Tuesday urged Democrats to stop using a slew of left-wing words and phrases he said are ineffective, confusing or alienating to voters. Carville, on an April episode of his “Politics War Room” podcast, condemned the phrases “communities of color” and “people of color,” arguing they were “racist” because they suggest all minorities are identical rather than unique. In a Tuesday Politicon video, Carville did not mention these phrases, but rattled off several more terms he believes Democrats should avoid using in political messaging, explaining why they are problematic. VIDEO AT LINK............... “Don’t use ‘generational change,’...

Eighteen states are suing the Trump Administration over the President's decision to end government subsidies to the firms that supply or operate the equipment needed to capture wind energy. New York State Attorney General Letitia James pointed out that "without these subsidies the wind industry cannot survive. The power generated by harnessing the wind is not cost-effective. Consumers are not willing to pay what it costs to generate this energy for their use. By cutting the subsidies this administration is devastating one of our nation's fastest-growing sources of clean, reliable and affordable energy." Energy Secretary Chris Wright observed that "while...

President Donald Trump took a blistering shot at establishment media double standards in a fiery White House rebuke Monday. While speaking at the White House, Trump took a moment to shame the media for the lack of attention given to some of the atrocities happening in South Africa against white Afrikaners — a topic the president cares deeply about. “It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” the U.S. president told reporters. “But it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white. “But whether they’re white or...