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Image from wikimedia commons, 1992 LA riots, taken by Ricky Bonilla, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten In the tumultuous middle 1960's, the ideologically progressive media came to full power, with a blame America first, globalist, anti-Christian set of assumptions about reality. Their answer to the riots in the cities was to "purchase peace" with money and programs. A primary result of this action was the funneling of enormous amounts of cash to people in the progressive cultural knowledge-elite. They did the studies, ran the think-tanks, and administered the programs. The money flowed through their hands, and a great deal,...

President Trump on Tuesday walked out of the New York City courtroom to talk to the press after Stormy Daniels testified in Alvin Bragg’s ‘hush money’ trial. Stormy testified to irrelevant yet very salacious details about her sexual encounter with Trump that allegedly happened many years ago. She was also reportedly making scripted jokes in the courtroom to win over the jury but nobody was laughing. Trump walked out of the court and spoke to the media. He used a clever trick to avoid violating Judge Merchan’s illegal gag order. Crooked Judge Merchan on Monday held Trump in contempt, fined...

Stormy Daniels on Tuesday took the stand in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial against President Trump. “Judge Merchan agrees with Bragg and Biden’s attorneys saying that Stormy Daniels has “credibility” to testify about an alleged affair, even though she’s repeatedly denied any such affair over the years and even went on record by issuing an official statement denying such an affair.” TGP contributor Paul Ingrassia reported on Tuesday. Trump was accused of paying porn star Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, ‘hush payments’ through his then-attorney Michael Cohen in a scheme to silence her and stop the story about their...

The unbroken string of economic disasters that is Bidenomics now has a solid explanation. Jared Bernstein, the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers doesn't understand economics. While being interviewed for the newly released documentary Finding the Money, he was unable to explain how the Federal Reserve creates money--something I taught to freshmen in macroeconomics classes for 23 years. "The government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money by selling bonds," Bernstein guessed. "Is that what they do? They sell bonds, yeah, they sell bonds. Right? Since they sell bonds, and people buy the bonds and lend...

VIDEO Former Congressman Joe Walsh has been in a nosedive ever since his infamous 2011 Town Hall meltdown in which he attacked his own constituents. Of course, he lost his next election and proceeded to dive further into the depths of economic desperation and mental depravity until he discovered that if only he sold his soiled soul and embraced the TDS left he could earn a few pieces of silver they tossed his way for performing anti-Trump propaganda tricks for them. Look for more and more broadcast appearances by PATHETIC Joe Walsh the closer to Election Day we get. Oh,...

They want Trump dead. Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki fantasized about Trump dying before the 2024 election on a Tuesday morning appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Joe Biden and the Democrat-media complex are terrified of Trump. They know Trump is ahead in the polls. They know Joe Biden is unpopular. This is why Biden’s DOJ is trying to jail Trump. Biden can’t win unless he cheats – or jails his main political rival. Psaki fantasized about all the ways Trump can be eliminated this election season. “Maybe Donald Trump will go away. Maybe he’ll go to jail. Maybe...

Albeit delayed, another right-wing “conspiracy theory” is about to come true. Back in 2010, as Congress debated then-President Barack Obama’s expansion of socialized health care through the Affordable...

IMAGE CREDIT UPUPA4ME / FLICKR / CC BY-SA 2.0 SHARE Share Article on Facebook Share Article on Twitter Share Article on Truth Social Copy Article Link Share Article via Email After Pennsylvania House Democrats passed a bill that would allow mail-in ballots to be processed before Election Day, the bill heads to the Republican-led state Senate. A Republican Senate leader expressed concerns to The Federalist that the bill’s provisions would endanger “honest, transparent and secure elections.” HB 847 was passed along party lines, 102-99, on Wednesday and would permit county election officials to begin opening and counting mail-in ballots and...

Anew report claims that the Biden Administration is attempting to implement federal regulations that will be difficult to reverse by a future president, as polls increasingly suggest that Joe Biden will lose the November election to former President Donald Trump. According to the Daily Caller, the report says that President Trump plans to sign multiple resolutions under the 1996 Congressional Review Act if he wins a second term, aimed at reversing many of Biden’s regulations. In response, officials in the Biden White House are examining methods to make regulations more permanent or harder to undo. “They’re all looking back to...

Here’s your photo of the week: Columbia University janitor Mario Torres slams 40-year-old trust fund kid James Carlson against the wall in Hamilton Hall with rabid leftists stormed the building late at night last Tuesday. HAVE TO SEE PIC AT SITE...GETTY IMAGES CAN'T POST........... Mario Torres makes around $19 per hour. James Carlson owns in a $3.4 million townhouse in Brooklyn. Mario Torres fought off the anti-Israel protesters when they stormed Hamilton Hall and took control of the building. Torres later told reporter Francesca Block that the protesters were organized and their occupation of the building was planned.

Andrew Weissmann led the Mueller sham investigation against President Trump. Now he’s a top Deep State player behind DA Bragg’s bogus Manhattan case against President Trump. Andrew Weissmann is the face of DOJ corruption. He has been overturned by the Supreme Court and he’s been behind most all the efforts to attack President Trump through lawfare. Andrew Weissmann led the Mueller sham investigation against President Trump. Now he’s a top Deep State player behind DA Bragg’s bogus Manhattan case against President Trump. Andrew Weissmann is the face of DOJ corruption. He has been overturned by the Supreme Court and he’s...

Lightning strikes TWICE! One year after regional banks crashed and burned due to the combination of tumbling debt/treasury prices coupled with cratering commercial real estate loans, fears about the current state of Commercial Real Estate – where most offices still see tenants at best 3 to 4 days a week and are literally burning through rents – appear long forgotten. Is that sensible? For one answer, we turned to the latest report from Goldman’s REIT/CRE expert Chandhi Luthra who has published a visual assessment of the state of CRE in 2024 in terms of loan maturities, 2023 extensions, and property...

Anti-Israel demonstrators at the Rhode Island School of Design are occupying an administrative building and demanding the school divest from Israel. Even though the protesters were given a deadline of 8 a.m. ET Tuesday to clear the building, the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter issued an alert on its Instagram telling people to "show up in support" of the protest.

So far, the witnesses in the former president’s ‘hush money’ trial seem to be undermining the Manhattan DA’s case. Since the so-called Trump “hush money” trial started three weeks ago, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has called a handful of high-profile witnesses in his case against former President Donald Trump who have appeared to contradict Bragg's central claims. Hope Hicks – a former communications aide for Trump – last week delivered testimony that undercut Bragg’s main charge, that Trump orchestrated the “hush money” payments to women claiming they had affairs with him to improperly influence the outcome of the 2016...

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign released an ad Monday putting university leaders on notice that if he is re-elected his administration will not tolerate anti-Semitism on campuses. The online ad, which dropped on Holocaust Remembrance Day, included clips from a speech Trump made as president in 2017 condemning anti-Semitism and remarks he made last fall to the Republican Jewish Coalition following the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks. “We’ve seen anti-Semitism on university campuses, in the public square, and in threats against Jewish citizens. This is my pledge to you, we will confront anti-Semitism. We will stamp out prejudice,” Trump said. “We will...

A popular hotel in New York City’s Broadway District has been converted into a migrant shelter as the city continues to face an unprecedented influx of migrants from the U.S. border. The hotel wrote on its Facebook page: “To our valued guests: it is with great sadness that we announce the Square Hotel will be closed for the foreseeable future. We appreciate your patronage and hope to welcome you back someday soon.”

President Trump spoke with reporters following another wasted day sitting in court before corrupt New York Judge Juan Merchan for crimes that have yet to be defined. President Trump was threatened earlier today by far-left Judge Merchan with jail if he continued to defend himself in public. This is blatantly unconstitutional but Democrats get away with a lot of unlawful acts these days. Republicans like to look the other way. President Trump told reporters he would gladly go to jail to defend the US Constitution. President Trump: Because this judge is giving me a gag order. And said you’ll go...

Joe and Jill Biden on Monday co-hosted a Cinco de Mayo reception in the Rose Garden at the White House. Biden called illegal aliens “model citizens” in his brief remarks to the attendees. “We are a nation of immigrants and we should never forget it,” Biden said. “We’re a nation of DREAMERs and Cinco de Mayo represents we’re a nation of freedom. That’s America. The America we share and fighting for together.” Biden absurdly claimed he has always been “fundamentally focused on Latinos."

Sane-minded people who felt a sense of despair after seeing how the pro-Hamas college protests were playing out early on at places like Columbia University and UCLA were heartened in late April when the University of Florida issued a no-nonsense response to the "outrage" that ensued from the arrest of some campus agitators.As RedState reported at the time, the statement released by U of F school spokesman Steve Orlando confirmed that they were not a daycare center and that if their rules were not followed, then consequences would follow."This is not complicated: The University of Florida is not a daycare,...

VIDEOLoony former federal Judge Michael Luttig recently turned himself into a laughable clown show when the U.S. Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY shot down his ABSURD scheme to keep President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballots. When that extreme HUMILIATION slapped him in the face, Luttig went into a state of highly entertaining grief-stricken mourning which was covered here in the DUmmie FUnnies. However, after a brief period of hiding in shame, Luttig is baaaaaack with yet more lunacy. He now seems to think that DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE. No, not because of all the illegal LAWFARE being thrown at Trump with...