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For shame!

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Yet Another Corrupt Black Female Politician.

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U.S. District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher on Wednesday issued a temporary block on the planned deportation of the family of the illegal immigrant charged in the terrorist attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday. Gallagher is an appointee of former President Joe Biden.

Daily Signal White House correspondent Elizabeth Mitchell joins us for a quick update on White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and her predecessor, Biden administration press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer makes a fool out of himself, again, as Elon Musk and President Donald Trump disagree over the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

Filmmaker Ralf Augstroze joins us in an exclusive interview to discuss the release of “The American Miracle: Our Nation is No Accident.” Check out more at www.americanmiraclemovie.com to see it in a theater near you!

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The Democratic Party’s widely ridiculed campaign to spend $20 million on a “strategic plan” to “study young men” was spearheaded by the former president of a left-wing activist group that supported efforts to “defund the police,” denounced the Supreme Court nomination of “frat boy” Brett Kavanaugh, and attacked “white women” for upholding “the patriarchy.”

Politico reports that Ilyse Hogue, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America (now known as Reproductive Freedom for All), cofounded the Speaking with American Men project, or SAM for short, along with MSNBC contributor John Della Volpe and former Democratic congressman Colin Allred. In an interview with the Virginia-based news blog, Hogue argued the widespread mockery of the group’s efforts, which include “super charg[ing] social listening” and analyzing the “syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality” in male online communities, proved that they were on the right track.

“Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong,” Hogue said. “Young men also spoke of being invisible to the Democratic coalition, and so you’ve got this weak problem and then you’ve got this ‘I don’t think they care about me’ problem, and I think the combination is kind of a killer.”

She is not, of course, a man, so this will be as fruitless as a transgender female.

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No, it’s to prevent crooked black women from getting fat at taxpayer expense, a cause to which Jasmin Crockett has devoted her life.

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California officials are taking another shot at undoing a voter-approved measure in the city of Huntington Beach that requires ID to vote.

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an appeal in the California 4th District Court of Appeals after an Orange County Superior Court backed Huntington Beach’s authority to require voter ID.

Local governments enacting their own election laws in California isn’t unheard of. The cities of Oakland and San Francisco allow noncitizens to vote in school board elections. However, in August 2024, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1174, which bars local election officials from requiring photo identification for elections.

Earlier this year, a group of Republican state legislators initiated the process for a ballot referendum to get voter ID statewide.

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Same old socialism in a Clever Plastic Disguise.

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If you want to travel back in history and get a glimpse of the spread of violent Bolshevism across Europe in the early 20th Century, the west coast of the US in 2025 is a close parallel. Seattle in particular has become a cesspool of extreme Antifa activism and apathetic local governance. It’s a place where zero tolerance is displayed for differing political views and violence is considered an acceptable strategy to silence opponents. Seattle is a glimpse back to the height of the woke era, and a warning of what could happen if the political left is ever allowed to gain real power again.

As we covered last week, Antifa groups organized and descended on a Christian event held by Mayday USA in Cal Anderson Park, within the same area that was once the “CHAZ autonomous zone” during the riots of 2020. The reaction from the woke mob to the peaceful free speech event was vicious and at least 23 arrests were made by police.

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Hey, that’s the platform she ran on when she one the election.

Project Veritas.

Maybe we’ll see some Bidens going to jail.

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The left’s answer to everything seems to be better messaging:

“Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to ‘American Men’ and win back the working class,” the Independent reported today, with party leaders holed up “in luxury hotel rooms on a strategy codenamed SAM, or ‘Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.’”

Yeah, that’ll work.

It’s all about style and nothing about substance. See this:

This is all about perception, not reality … Study the “syntax” of the opposition so you can try to sound like them. Watch the “tone” you use to speak. Always be aware of your “messaging.” These people have learned precisely nothing from the rise of Donald Trump. The lesson in Trump’s rise, distilled to its essence, is “be authentic.” No “messaging” massaging can be remotely helpful if you’re obviously an inauthentic liar.

Although “be authentic” is indeed part of the lesson that should have been learned, the substance of the message is very important as well. If the left was authentic it would turn even more people off.

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Andrew Cuomo, the frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for mayor of New York City, will on Wednesday promise to raise the city’s minimum wage to $20 an hour if he’s elected, putting the wages among the highest in the nation.

Buy those votes! Buy those votes!

Not the Babylon Bee.

Democratic donors and consultants have been meeting in luxury hotels to analyze the party’s inability to connect with male voters and propose alternative communications strategies. The results, according to the New York Times, have often resembled “anthropological studies of people from faraway places.” One liberal group is planning a $20-million campaign called “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan,” or SAM for short, that will “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality” in masculine-coded heteronormative communities.

The Washington Free Beacon has exclusively and semi-legally obtained an early draft of the data-driven blueprint for communicative outreach. Enjoy!

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is outpacing the National Republican Congressional Committee in fundraising, according to recent campaign finance disclosures. They show that at the end of April, the DCCC had hauled in $1 million more than its Republican counterpart.

In total, the DCCC raised $8.1 million, compared with the NRCC’s $7 million.

This snapshot of the fundraising numbers come as the 2026 midterm elections are shaping up, as usual, to be a fierce battle. Historically, midterm elections favor the party out of power, and Republicans currently hold slender margins in both the House and the Senate. Republicans hold 220 seats in the House and need at least 218 to maintain a majority in the 435-seat chamber. In the Senate, the GOP holds 53 of 100 seats.

Despite historical winds at their back, Democrats have struggled with their messaging since the November 2024 elections, especially with new revelations about President Joe Biden’s mental decline during his time in office.

Democrats, Party of the Rich.

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A growing number of Democrats are arguing that members of their party need to reconsider their use of certain left-wing words and phrases if they want to better connect with voters they lost in the 2024 election cycle, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Some members of the Democratic Party are raising concerns that many of their candidates have become too reliant on using elite-sounding phrases, which they claim is a type of language that could isolate working-class voters, according to The Washington Post. The article cites examples of left-wing words and phrases often used by Democrats, such as “oligarchs,” “equity,” “justice-involved populations,” and “intersectionality.”

“Some words are just too Ivy League-tested terms,” Democrat Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego told The Washington Post. “I’m going to piss some people off by saying this, but ‘social equity’—why do we say that? Why don’t we say, ‘We want you to have an even chance’?”

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Democratic Party strategists are hoping to win back young men through a new $20 million effort called “Speaking With American Men.”

What’s being labeled a “Strategic Plan” is an attempt to “study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality in these [online] spaces.”

The plan recommends buying advertisements in video games and cautions Democrats to “shift from a moralizing tone.” The plan raised some eyebrows after excerpts of it were published by The New York Times, not least because the Democratic National Committee recently announced it might be holding another election in June that could result in the ouster of the youngest male member of the leadership team.

David Hogg was elected one of the DNC’s four vice chairs, but faced blowback after he refused to sign a neutrality policy that asked members to avoid activity that would “call into question their impartiality and evenhandedness,” instituted by DNC Chair Ken Martin. Instead, he said he would work to unseat some Democrat incumbent legislators.

“People say they want change in the Democratic Party; but really, they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” Hogg told The New York Times after announcing his intention to seek primary challengers for some Democrat incumbents.

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The distinguishing characteristic of ‘Democrats’ is that they seem to hatet actual democracy.

NBC News, a Voice of the Crust.

The Magic Negro loses his mojo.

Vox, a Voice of the Crust.

It’s been more than six months, but Democrats are still picking over the cold, dead body of the 2024 election. The latest autopsy comes courtesy of Catalist, a Democratic data firm with a widely coveted voter database.

By now, you may feel that you know more about how Democrats lost last year than you ever wished to know. Which would be understandable. But Catalist’s findings are especially authoritative, as the firm tracks the actual voting behavior of 256 million Americans across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In other words, they are not relying purely on surveys of how people said they would vote, but also hard data showing which party individual voters registered with, and which elections they did and did not show up for.

Previously, David Shor of Blue Rose Research released a 2024 analysis that drew partly on similar data sources. But Catalist boasts the longest-running voter database of any institution besides the Democratic and Republican Parties, as it has tracked the electorate’s behavior for over 15 years. Many, therefore, consider its characterizations of shifts in voting patterns to be uniquely trustworthy.

I found the results very entertaining. You can believe in its accuracy as much or as little as you care to, but at the very least it represents what Democrats are willing to admit.

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Some of us knew it all along. No surprises here.

The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.

Maybe it’s using the word “oligarchs” instead of rich people. Or referring to “people experiencing food insecurity” rather than Americans going hungry. Or “equity” in place of “equality,” or “justice-involved populations” instead of prisoners.

As Democrats wrestle with who to be in the era of President Donald Trump, a growing group of party members — especially centrists — is reviving the argument that Democrats need to rethink the words they use to talk with the voters whose trust they need to regain.

They contend that liberal candidates too often use language from elite, highly educated circles that suggests the speakers consider themselves smart and virtuous, while casting implied judgment on those who speak more plainly — hardly a formula for winning people over, they say.

The latest debate is, in part, also a proxy for the bigger battle over what the Democrats’ identity should be in the aftermath of November’s devastating losses — especially as the party searches for ways to reverse its overwhelming rejection by rural and White working-class voters.

Not the Babylon Bee.

Six months after a stinging nationwide rejection that handed Donald Trump a commanding reelection and fractured their core coalition, the Democratic Party is turning to a new solution: spending $20 million to figure out why young men don’t like them.

The project, codenamed SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” – is described in a prospectus obtained by the New York Times. It outlines a massive push to decode the language and culture of disaffected young men, particularly in online spaces, and includes a proposal to buy ads inside video games.

“Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” the document urges.

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Gee, I wonder why?

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann made a rare admission that Hollywood and the “mainstream media” are “largely left of center” as he countered his colleague Anand Giridharadas claiming that Democrats have not been active enough in the “cultural process” to counter President Donald Trump.

During a discussion of what Democrats have been getting wrong in trying to run against Trump and how they should change tactics for the next big elections, co-host Joe Scarborough turned to Giridharadas and posed: “They’re not running against Donald Trump in 2028. Maybe they’re running against him a little bit in 2026, but they’re not running against him in 2028, right? So, but don’t they need to figure out who they are first?”

Hey, we’ve figured out who they are; that’s why we voted for Trump.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

The departures include Karen Dunn, who co-chaired the firm’s litigation department and has helped Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates prepare for debates in every election since 2008.

Also leaving the firm is Jeannie Rhee, a former Obama-era Justice Department official who previously represented Hillary Clinton in a lawsuit regarding her use of a private email server and later joined special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team.

Rounding out the departures are Jessica Phillips, who has represented some of the nation’s largest technology companies in court, and William Isaacson, another high-profile trial lawyer once named litigator of the year by The American Lawyer.

All women, all Leftists, all no doubt Wokerati. Let’s see whether they can survive the slings and arrows of Natural Selection.

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Brian Williams, who was charged by federal prosecutors Thursday, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Mayor Karen Bass announced in December that Williams had been put on administrative leave, meaning he likely has been collecting his $245,143 combined salary and benefits without any official duties. As deputy mayor for public safety, Williams would have overseen the city’s fire and police response during the devastating January wildfires.

The Department of Justice reports that during an online government meeting, Williams used his personal cellphone’s Google Voice app to call his city cellphone, then left the meeting and placed a call to the Los Angeles Public Department, saying he received a call from an unknown man with a threat to bomb Los Angeles City Hall.

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Eric Rodriguez is an anti-Trump SEIU member who also spoke at a Democrat press conference ahead of Trump’s address.

His son, accused killer Elias Rodriguez, 30, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after allegedly gunning down Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, who were about to become engaged.

“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” a spokesperson for Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) told the Post Thursday night.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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In a revealing interview with Tucker Carlson, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, pulled back the curtain on the entrenched resistance within the Department of Justice, which she described as a stronghold of the deep state. Dhillon revealed a culture of anti-MAGA defiance, marked by resistance memos circulating among career lawyers, instructing them to obstruct directives through bureaucratic tactics. Dhillon also recounted a hilarious scene of open crying sessions in the DOJ halls and mass resignations as hundreds of attorneys recoiled at her push to align the division with the Trump administration’s agenda.

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Antonio Gracias, a private equity investor and senior official in the Department of Government Efficiency, revealed the startling methodology used by DOGE staff to uncover voter fraud involving illegal immigrants, describing it as “just the tip of the iceberg.”

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

New York Post.

Taylor Lorenz heaped praise on accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione and slammed the media for criticizing the legion of unhinged youths who consider him a hero or role model.

“It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America — as if we don’t lionize criminals,” the influencer and former reporter for the New York Times and Washington Post told CNN in a bubbly interview.

Axios, a Voice of the Crust.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Wednesday she is filing a resolution to expel Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) from Congress after the Justice Department charged her with allegedly assaulting law enforcement.

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With one broad stroke, Democrat Hillary Clinton called all conservative women “handmaidens” in remarks at an event in New York City earlier this month.

“Well, first of all, don’t be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the [Republican] side of the aisle, except for very few,” Clinton, 77, said when asked what advice she would give to the first female president.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., are among the “few” Republican women who don’t bow down to the patriarchy, according to Clinton.

The Foundry.

leaving us with constant whiplash. Even so, we have a duty to remember how bad things were under President Joe Biden, because the institutional factors that enabled his presidency—and the cover-up of his health problems—have yet to be dismantled.

Human beings are fickle, and our memories often end up getting twisted by present concerns. When the Israelites were hungry in the wilderness, God had to remind them that he brought them up out of slavery in Egypt, because their hungry stomachs led them to say they had it better under the whips of their masters (Exodus 16:1-8).

Similarly, we are often tempted to leave injustices in the past, because it’s easier to move on. Thus, after the COVID-19 pandemic, some voices I respect called for a “pandemic amnesty.”

Yet COVID-19 exposed the corruption of the public health bureaucracy, which repeatedly lied to the American people. Bureaucrats abused their power—forcing churches to close, demanding businesses shutter, and keeping kids out of the classroom.

These abuses show why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s shake-up of the public health establishment is way overdue. We must remember the abuses, so we accept the hard medicine we now need. If we forget, we may not address the corruption at the root of these problems, and the excesses of the bureaucracy will metastasize like Biden’s prostate cancer.

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The law firm of Marc Elias, the Democratic campaign lawyer who played a key role in the Russiagate conspiracy theory, is suing the state of Kansas to allow wealthy foreign nationals to fund state ballot initiatives and constitutional referendums.

Elias Law Group is one of the firms representing Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, a pro-abortion group behind a 2022 Kansas ballot initiative that reaffirmed the state’s constitutional protections for abortion.

Kansans for Constitutional Freedom filed a federal lawsuit last week against Kansas officials to block HB 2106, which limits the campaign activities of organizations that take money from foreign donors or foreign corporations. The bill prohibits groups involved in ballot initiatives and constitutional referendums from taking large donations from foreign nationals and foreign corporations.

Democratic groups have a significant financial stake in maintaining access to wealthy foreign donors—the most prominent of which is Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss.

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Rules for thee but not for me.

Across the country, a new defense is being heard in state and federal courtrooms. From Democratic members of Congress to judges to city council members, officials claim that their official duties include obstructing the official functions of the federal government.

It is a type of liberal license that excuses most any crime in the name of combating what Minn. Gov. Tim Walz called the “modern-day Gestapo” of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The latest claimant of this license is Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a protest at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. McIver is shown on video forcing her way into an ICE facility and striking and shoving agents in her path.

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The Justice Department charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a recent confrontation outside an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey.

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The U.S. Department of Justice began an investigation into Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday over allegations of race-based discrimination, citing his recent remarks at a Woodlawn church in which he emphasized how many Black people he’s hired in his administration.

Johnson received a letter from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon saying there is “reasonable cause” to believe the mayor “made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race,” in potential violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The probe was the latest attack on Johnson, a freshman progressive mayor, from Republican President Donald Trump since he returned to the White House this year and began cracking down on liberal-leaning cities.

Dhillon’s letter quoted several examples of what she said suggested discriminatory hiring practices from the mayor’s Sunday panel with Bishop Byron Brazier of Apostolic Church of God. The appearance was part of a series of stops Johnson has been making on the South and West sides to shore up his Black voter base.

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With medical experts saying the seriousness of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis must have been known well before the former president left office in January, Donald Trump Jr. asked whether former first lady Jill Biden took part in a “cover-up.”

Biden’s office announced Sunday that the former president has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Prostate cancers are given a rating called a Gleason score that measures, on a scale of 1 to 10, how the cancerous cells look compared with normal cells. Biden’s office said his score was 9, suggesting his cancer is among the most aggressive.

Biden and his handlers lied. They’re Democrats. That’s what they do.

New York Post.

But you knew that.

The Foundry.

CNN’s Kasie Hunt interviewed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the other day. She confronted him about allegations of a meeting with former President Joe Biden that should have raised alarms about Biden’s fitness for office. “We’re moving forward,” Schumer replied. He would not answer the question.

The Foundry.

Just 101 days into his tenure as the Democratic Party’s youngest vice chair—and the first “Zoomer” to hold that office—party elites have already declared David Hogg’s election null and void, a complaint that sounds suspiciously like “election fraud.”

It’s the latest embarrassment from a spent political party that pales in comparison to President Donald Trump’s incredibly successful first 100 days. If Republicans are wise, they’ll take advantage of the chaos ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The complaint centers on broken parliamentary procedures—the preferred excuse of weasels and dictators alike to undermine democratic elections—specifically, DNC rules mandating “gender parity” to tip the scales in favor of female candidates running against men.

In other words, DEI did Hogg in.

No, DEI was just a plausible excuse, one that Democrats would be willing to accept. If it hand’t been that, the Democrat Crust would have found some other trick to play.

Hogg was rocking the boat, and the Crust don’t like boat-rockers. He was put there for window dressing, and made the mistake of thinking himself more important than he actually was. You mess with the donkey, you get feet in your face.

New York Post.

Major crime rose by an eye-popping 70% in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Bronx and Queens district since the ‘defund the police’ socialist lawmaker took office in 2019 — more than double the citywide increase of 30% over that same span, a Post analysis of NYPD data shows.

The 110th Precinct in Queens, which covers part of the infamous “Market of Sweethearts” human-trafficking and prostitution mecca on Roosevelt Avenue, saw a 105% surge, the highest increase of any NYC precinct in that period.

Gee, I wonder why.

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Lock in that Union vote!

Time to leave.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday said the three Democrat lawmakers who scuffled with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New Jersey last Friday committed felonies.

New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver were part of a mob that protested at the Delaney Hall detention center, a privately run facility under contract with ICE that houses non-citizens awaiting immigration proceedings or deportation.

The lefty protesters were demanding that the center be shut down, the New York Post reported.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with trespassing after entering the facility and refusing to leave.

An ugly scuffle ensued as the lawmakers surrounded Baraka in an apparent attempt to shield the mayor from the ICE agents making the arrest.

“Don’t touch us!” McIver (in red) screamed over and over as officers tried to break through their blockade.

An online video shows the hefty McIver (in red), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, throwing punches and shoving law enforcement officers as they tried to regain control.

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Saying the quiet part out loud.

The Federalist, founded by people I know.

Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is apparently by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of “masculinity,” but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it’ll work!

Three such strapping lads come to mind of late, first and foremost being David Hogg, the lithe twink who is currently a vice chairman of the Democrat National Committee. (Though, some party officials are challenging his election on the grounds that he’s not DEI eligible — he’s apparently not gay). In an interview last week on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Hogg proposed that Democrats are losing the support of young men, who “would rather vote for somebody who, even if they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” He said young people more generally “should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.”

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Maryland’s tax-and-spend Democrats—obsessed with a far-left progressive agenda, ranging from condoms for kids to gender identity to reparations to climate change to criminal illegal aliens—have pushed the state closer and closer to the brink. The self-created financial mess unfolding in the state predates President Trump’s second term and derives from leftist activists who have seized power in recent years and squandered taxpayer funds.

Now, Maryland’s financial credit profile is deteriorating—for the first time in decades—after Moody’s downgraded the state’s creditworthiness to Aa1 from AAA, according to Fox Baltimore.

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How are the guards supposed to be sure the “protesters” aren’t preparing a “jailbreak”?

I have not seen this asked in any news reports or commentary, but the question sticks in my mind.

The “protests” at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in New Jersey seem to be expanding and getting more violent after the Newark mayor was arrested when he rushed into the facility.

Much of the media and other supporters of the mobs assembling at the gates of the Delaney Detention Center assert that the mobs are mere “protesters” or that they are just trying to “inspect” the facility. But how can the guards be sure of that? How do the facility guards know that, once inside the facility, the “protesters” or “inspectors” won’t try to release the detainees, or to slip contraband or weapons to the detainees?

An argument I hear from people who oppose private ownership of guns is that homeowners should never shoot burglars because a burglar’s life is more valuable than a homeowner’s material “stuff.” A common response to that argument is to point out that, as the burglary is beginning, the homeowner has no way to know what the invading person intends. Does the intruder intend “merely” to take “stuff”? Or does the intruder intend to kidnap or rape or murder? What if the intruder who plans to “merely” take stuff changes his mind during the action?

On what basis are the guards at the Delaney Hall supposed to be sure that the mayor, the clergy, and the mob at the facility’s gate are “merely” protesting, and not intent on entering the facility to release the detainees? Especially since the guards at the center now have experience with the mob rushing into the facility when the guards opened the gate for an authorized vehicle?

The potential for a “jailbreak” seems to be a realistic possibility. Therefore, basic facility security would seem to call for the guards to use full force against a mob that is assembling at the gates.