Normal People Are Crying Out for a Leader

posted by Neil Patel at Townhall

The leftward shift of the Democratic Party has provided a huge opportunity for Republicans. People are completely put off by many of the radical policies Democrats are pushing. What a gift this should be for Republicans. So why have they been so thoroughly unable to capitalize? 

A huge chunk of the Republican Party's Washington establishment is still living in 1995. They are thoroughly unable to get their heads around the profound changes in America. As with so many Americans these days, they are defined by their bubble. The people they know best -- corporate America and those in leadership positions -- are generally thriving. They haven't stopped to consider whether the trade, immigration, spending, defense, and other policies that define them need an update in light of the country's current circumstances. The giant wave of political unease in America -- even after a reality TV host kicked their door open and took over the living room! -- has caused almost zero self-reflection among Republicans. 

The more reformist side of the Republican Party understands the problems facing the country. They understand that Republican trade and China policies have contributed to America's decline. They understand that real border security is a prerequisite for most Americans before any broader discussion on immigration. They know that the bloat, waste, inefficiency, lack of focus, and often outright corruption in America's defense establishment have allowed competitors like China to close the military gap while spending at a fraction of the cost. Most of the leaders on this side of the party have a solid sense of what's happening. Their problem is competence and sanity. 

There are some amazingly talented and sane reformist Republican politicians, but their coalition includes too many crazies, dummies, and outright scammers. Simply put, the leadership vacuum in the Republican Party has allowed too many nuts to occupy the field. The downside to this dynamic was in stark display this past election cycle. Crazies scare away normal people. Normal people are turned off by Democrat policies on open borders, woke education, and crime. They're begging for something better, and they are there for the taking. But they recoil from leaders incapable of dismissing QAnon, Black Hebrew Israelites, or child slave dungeons. Corporate media loves to overplay these weaknesses, but too many Republicans regularly give them the ammunition they need. 

The result for Republicans is chaos. The debate over the massive congressional omnibus spending bill is just the latest example. This spending bill is the definition of what Republicans should unite to oppose. Republicans have an incoming majority in the House of Representatives. They will soon have the leverage to cut a better deal. They are afraid to use this power. Their thin majority and lack of real leadership, and the resulting power vacuum between the warring factions, have left too many Republicans too frightened to stand up to even the most damaging policies. 

As a result, many Senate Republicans are going to vote for a bill that says the Border Patrol can't use its operating and support budget for border security. The funds can only be used to improve border processing. Have any of these senators been to the southern border? American border towns are being overrun. Millions of people are crossing per year. The government has no idea how many. All they know is that the Border Patrol encountered a record 2.3 million people. They can only guess how many more walked across without getting caught. With these people came enough fentanyl to kill everyone in America. Fentanyl killed over 100,000 Americans last year. It's an epidemic. As with the opioid crisis before it, Republican leaders are asleep at the switch. 

As bad as it is, the border insanity is not the worst part of the bipartisan spending package. The worst part is the complete waste of spending with not even a sliver of reform. At $1.7 trillion, the new spending bill once again massively increases funding for just about everything. Many Republicans view this as a win because they got more defense spending as part of the package. Without needed reforms, most of this defense money will be wasted in a broken system. And as a result of this bill and so many before it, when the history of this sad era is written, the total dumping of spending discipline and the crisis it ends up causing the country will be viewed as a monumental failure.

America is now past the point when the country's spending catastrophe should be driving a real reform debate. Sharply increased interest rates and massive emergency spending have brought the country much closer to the pending entitlement crisis and fiscal catastrophe that is coming. Instead of debating reforms, Republicans have decided to join in on the spending binge. Democrats have always been for more spending, but now most Republicans have decided to join the party. The current waste-ridden spending bill just continues and expands this trend. 

No doubt, fiscal discipline is a tough issue politically. Leadership is the ability to overcome tough issues and speak the truth that people need to hear. America has a thirst for truth right now. When our children and grandchildren are suffering as a result when the country ends up weaker as a result, we will all be to blame, but none more than the Republicans who deep down knew better and sold out anyway.  

Republicans have the 41 votes needed to stop this spending binge. They also have a very appealing political alternative. They can agree to pass a short-term spending package to fund the government until the new Congress can fix things or at least until Republicans will have more votes to add a little balance. 

This alternative makes sense but is unlikely. Republicans are scared of their chaos. This is unsustainable. Democrats are driving America over the edge with insane policies, and Republicans are in too much chaos to do a thing about it. If ever a country were crying out for leadership, it's now. 

X22, And we Know, and more- December 23

 

You really want to know how I'm really feeling right now? I'm pissed. I'm really pissed.

Turns out, a fully working heater isn't enough to combat below zero temps and below zero wind chill temps. Unless the conditions change tomorrow, the whole apartment is going to be freezing the whole weekend! 😡😡 I don't even know if I even want to risk trying to go to church given how cold it's going to be tomorrow and Sunday.

I don't know when Hetty will be back, I'm stuck in a sweater and sweatpants in an apartment that'll more then likely be dipping below 70 degrees tonight, everything is just soooo fucking wrong right now!!

Here's the podcasts if you don't want to hear me piss some more:

Who Radicalized the Right?

In the process of steamrolling normal people, the Left may have created the very “fascists” they claim to be against.

by Matthew Boose for American Greatness

The term “far-right” is applied far too liberally these days, but the Right has doubtless moved away from conservatism and toward a more radical form of politics. There aren’t too many defectors from Donald Trump’s camp who feel the man is too extreme. Rather, the argument from Trump’s right is that he is not disciplined enough to—as the online Right likes to say—“crush our enemies.” Whether Trump, Ron DeSantis, or some other figure is the Republicans’ nominee in 2024, the frontrunner will not win the hearts of the base by appealing to what conservatives are pleased to call “principle” and speaking in a trans-Atlantic accent. That person will do it by showing he is strong and can be a protector to half the nation. 

Of course, the whole purpose of constitutions is to limit power. In a constitutional system like ours, one is not supposed to be motivated by crushing one’s enemies. This has never been the inclination or aim of conservatives, who do not share the Left’s aversion to limits on political power. But things have changed. What happens when one side has no regard for the constitution or the limits of power? The goodwill of the conservative has been mercilessly abused, and he is searching for shelter from the obscene freak show of anarchy and disorder that has descended upon his country. 

Joe Biden is but the vessel of the deranged, domineering spirit behind the corruption. This malign force is not the beneficent liberalism of the founders, who cherished freedom of speech, religion, and opinion and, of course, the right to bear arms, and its implicit right of revolution. It is a tyrannical will that asserts total ownership of everything, proudly celebrates evil by calling it good, treats decent people like terrorists, exalts criminals and the insane, snatches children from their parents, and requires submission to itself—in mind and body—for citizens to earn bread.  

On top of it all, the means of democratic recourse appear to be slipping. Our elections are a Third World sham, and millions of foreigners with no right to be here live in the country without fear of removal. Their numbers are rapidly growing under the explicit protection of an administration whose party, in between giving lectures on the rule of law, brags about replacing and disenfranchising the country’s natives. 

The country is changing fast. A decade ago, the Left said, “We just want gays to be able to marry,” and now they say, “We just want to parade our depraved fetishes in public and sexualize children.”  

Faced with all of this, a Caesar who promises to sweep away the trash begins to look appealing to many. Especially when those on the other side are disingenuous, like our leftists, and appeal to principles they do not themselves believe in to get their way. No, the Left doesn’t care about constitutionalism, democracy, liberalism, or any of the high phrases that pepper their pompous speeches. Like a communist Popular Front, these are just words they use to put a benign face on tyranny, and blackmail their opponents into unilateral disarmament.  

Most on the Right have awoken to this, which is why, outside of a handful of naïve but sincere conservatives, few went out of their way to condemn Trump when he apparently called to suspend the Constitution. By the same token, there aren’t too many free-speech absolutists on the Right shedding tears for the liberal journalists briefly put on time out by Elon Musk. Why bother defending those who militate against free speech except to defend child drag shows and racialist propaganda in schools, and who would, if given the opportunity, censor all opposition from the Right without hesitation?

This may not be a “principled” way of thinking, as some conservatives understand it, but it is not an unreasonable approach in times of such enmity and trouble. The increasingly medieval nature of American politics has left many feeling that a faith in what used to be called principle is outdated and foolish. The two dominant factions now resemble hostile nations living under one government while speaking completely foreign languages. Consequently, politics has become a struggle for survival in which, because of universal suffrage, all are conscripted. The inconsequential noise of mutual recrimination leads many to tune out, but to do so, to remain unallied, is to let oneself be trampled. 

This is a sad state of affairs, but it is reality. The inducements for the Right to ditch conservatism are likely to multiply as the conflict deepens, convulsions of disorder worsen, and more people on the Right begin to realize they will never be left alone. The irony is that the Left, in the process of steamrolling normal people, may have created the very “fascists” they claim to be against.

For Conservatives To Win, Republicans Must Get Comfortable Using Power

Conservatives should evaluate and exercise government power prudentially rather than rejecting it as a matter of principle.

by Nathanael Blake for The Federalist

If, as some recent polls suggest, Florida’s popular governor, Ron DeSantis, is able to mount a serious primary challenge to former President Trump, it will be because the governor understands political power is meant to be used. If DeSantis runs and wins, it will be because he persuaded Republican voters that he will be a more effective leader than Trump — not because he repudiated the former president’s policies or followers.

The governor’s appeal is founded on his use of power. In this, he contrasts with the many conservatives who, upon gaining power, tend to be like the dog who caught the car — unsure what to do with it. Of course, this is a feature, not a bug, for many on the right. This more libertarian vision of conservatism insists that we don’t want the vehicle of government to take us where we want to go; we just want it to be smaller, quieter, and less involved in our lives. The credo of this philosophy is Reagan’s jibe that government is the problem, not the solution.

But making this quip into the basis for our politics is a mistake (and one that Reagan himself didn’t make). Conservatives should evaluate and exercise government power prudentially rather than rejecting it as a matter of principle. Some skepticism of government power is wise; our nation’s founders limited government for good reasons, recognizing its potential for incompetence and abuse. But they also established our Constitution in response to the perilous weakness of their prior government. Weighing the risks of an underpowered government against those of an overpowered one is a matter of prudence, as is the right use of that power.

Too many people on the right fear this reliance on prudence. They want bright lines, and they often seek to trace these back to absolute principles. Unfortunately, their attempted precautions against the abuse of power often inspire them to embrace philosophies that are not conservative. For example, the fear of excessive government intervention in the economy has led many on the right to deny the obvious truth that the government must constrain markets and embrace the rhetoric of an unattainable and undesirable libertarian free market ideal instead.

However, conservatism is not based on the ideal of the autonomous, independent adult, whom libertarians treat as the basis for their political system. Conservatives know that atomistic individualism is an anti-human ideal. The autonomous individual is a maimed person who is severed from the dependence, obligations, and relationships integral to genuine human well-being.

Conservatives know the government ought to protect and preserve human flourishing and that it cannot be neutral about what is good. The rule of law under the U.S. Constitution does not require the government to embrace nihilistic relativism. A degree of tolerance and pluralism is necessary for our nation, but they are not the same as neutrality between good and evil. Justice requires that the government act in accordance with objective truths of morality and human nature in order to promote human flourishing. In particular, a just government will protect children, who are dependent by definition, and promote family life and social structures that nurture them.Governing does require humility, of course. Conservatives recognize the reality of justice and moral truth, but we also know we are limited and imperfect in apprehending and acting upon them. Thus, the conservative case for government action is not a plea for big government, let alone arbitrary power exercised by a dictator or cabal. Rather, it is a plea for our elected representatives to use their legitimate powers to protect and promote the well-being of we the people.

This would be an electoral winner. Effective, populist conservative governance is, well, popular. DeSantis has exemplified the combination of cultural conservatism and energetic competence. In particular, DeSantis has shown that conservatives can use political power to take on the bullies of woke capital and win.

Instead of wilting at the thought of using government power, conservatives should be developing and championing a platform full of policies that advance the common good, with a focus on protecting children. There is plenty of low-hanging fruit. For instance, we should not allow public school teachers to teach gender ideology and queer theory or permit librarians to stock sexual materials for children, and we should especially prohibit performances of a sexualized nature that target children. And we should enforce real-age restrictions on online pornography instead of allowing it to be easily available to every adolescent with a Wi-Fi connection.

Conservatives ought to dismantle the race and gender ideology bureaucracies that are taking over even the military and red-state public universities. We should cut the flow of government cash to left-wing activist groups that use it to push radical agendas — to give one example, the Biden administration is giving hundreds of millions to a radical group that champions a child-raping murderer because trans-identitarianism wins the day. And while we’re on the subject, we should use political power to punish the greedy quack doctors chemically castrating and surgically mutilating children.

These policies are protective, especially of children. They are all legitimate, constitutional uses of government power. In most cases, they consist of the people’s representatives exercising more control over government employees abusing the powers delegated to them. They are popular, modest responses to the left’s culture-war aggression.

Such measures are not, of course, the entirety or even the majority of pro-family conservative policy. A great deal of work is needed to develop more pro-family economic policies. For instance, we should focus on making it easier to build affordable family homes. Affordable family housing ought to be a priority for conservatives.

But the cultural fights matter. A Republican who refuses to take a stand on issues such as teaching gender ideology to first graders cannot be trusted on anything else — except, perhaps, in advancing the interests of corporate donors. A conservatism that will not use political power to protect its constituents and advance the common good is not actually conservative but only degraded corporatism with a veneer of free-market ideology. If conservatives are content with that, we will deserve the political and cultural defeats that continue to be inflicted upon us.

Ron DeSantis has already shown that he is not content with that and that he’s willing to take these fights head-on. Tax cuts and simply being an alternative to the Democrats aren’t enough. To win, conservatives need to tell voters how we will use power to protect them and improve their lives. Trump did that, especially in his 2016 campaign. But that was then.

For Republicans, the appeal of the Florida governor is a man who promises the same wins as Trump but with more credibility about delivering on them.

Maricopa County Attorney Argues That Voters Who Wait Until Election Day to Vote Then Encounter Problems Reap What They Sow

Jennifer Van Laar reporting for RedState 

During day 2 of the Kari Lake election trial in Phoenix, Arizona, Maricopa County attorney Tom Liddy argued that it was “political malpractice” for a campaign to tell voters to vote in person on election day instead of voting early, and that “you reap what you sow,” meaning that Lake’s campaign lost because of strategy, not because of a printer malfunction error that rendered the ballots incapable of being machine read, long lines that led to voters being unable to vote, or other malignantly incompetent actions on behalf of Maricopa County officials.

Now, playing devil’s advocate, it may well be that even with all of the malignant incompetence on behalf of the county that Hobbs still won. However, for a county attorney to excuse all of that away with references to those who want answers as “election deniers” who shouldn’t have any expectation of working voting machines on Election Day is reprehensible.

During his closing argument, Liddy said:

But those errors, or those mishaps by machines, if you will, the effect that had on election day voters was compounded, Your Honor, not by intentional misconduct by any employee or anybody under the control of Maricopa County, but by months and months and months of communication from the current leadership of the Republican Party of Arizona and the communications specialists of the Kari Lake for Governor campaign that said, do not vote early. Even if…you got an early ballot, don’t mail it, don’t drop it off at the drop box, 2000 Mules…go on election day and vote in person.

And Lord forbid, don’t ever put your ballot in the drop box, in the ballot box, or in drawer number 3, because there’s something very scary about drawer number 3, which is nothing but a ballot box. That’s what people all over the world do with their ballots. Vote it and stick it in the ballot box. But people were terrorized by that on election day. That’s not on Maricopa County. That’s on the Kari Lake for Governor campaign. That’s on the Dr. Kelli Ward-led Arizona Republican Party communications apparatus.

So we did not see — two days of testimony and all of those affidavits came in — evidence of a botched election. We saw evidence of a botched campaign, political malpractice. Who goes out and tells their voters, don’t vote on day one of early voting, day two, day three, all the way up to day 26 of early voting. Wait until the last second. That’s political malpractice. You reap what you sow.

Your Honor, the burden has not been met. When people come into this courtroom without evidence, there should be a day of reckoning. And this has been happening all over the country, Your Honor, and it’s gotta stop, and it’s gotta stop right now, and the place to stop it is right here in your courtroom, Your Honor, right here in Mesa, Arizona. This has gotta stop.

We’ve gotta get back to respecting elections, because that’s all we have, Your Honor. Different religions, different creeds, different ethnicities, different backgrounds, there’s only one thing that makes us Americans, and that’s, we believe in choosing our own election — our own rulers, our own governors, our own mayors, our own presidents, and we do that through elections.

He’s got a slightly warped understanding of what makes us Americans, and an even more warped view of what we’re voting for when we cast our ballots, but we’ll set all that aside for a moment.

What exactly does counsel mean by “without evidence”? Simply because he doesn’t agree with the evidence doesn’t mean that there is no evidence. On Wednesday, we learned that a printer setting error caused 42.5 percent of 113 ballots examined by Lake’s team to be invalid, because they were 19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper. On Thursday we learned more about that issue; Scott Jarrett admitted “under oath [that the] ballot fit to print issue was known and is being investigated but Maricopa County never informed the public.”

We also learned that the ballot on demand printers (which they have to use because people from throughout the county can vote at any vote center) had issues on Election Day and that the county’s root cause analysis has not been completed as of this time.

And, we learned that the printer setting changes that caused the shrink-to-fit issue were enacted on Election Day.

Is there no way that they could have figured out sometime during the 12 hours the polls were open? The issue was noted almost immediately after polls opened.

This is just one small part of what came out during the trial.

As far as the Hobbs/Maricopa County team, their main expert is a professor at the University of Wisconsin who relied on the accuracy of the data that Maricopa County gave to him and wasn’t even in Maricopa County on Election Day. Well, of course the data that they gave the expert is going to say what they want it to say. Why wouldn’t it? Without any independent investigation of the accuracy of that evidence, there’s no way to have confidence in a single conclusion the expert drew.

Closing arguments wrapped up around 5:30 PM Arizona time, and Judge Peter Thompson informed the parties he will take the matter under advisement and issue a ruling “forthwith.”

The Data Is In: Democrats Embrace 'Replacement Theory' in Plot to Displace Republican Votes

Mike Miller reporting for RedState 

In simple terms, “replacement theory” holds that welcoming immigration policies are part of a plan designed to undermine or “replace” the political power of conservatives in the U.S. Make no mistake: replacement theory is real — and the Democrat Party blatantly continues to embrace it at the southern border.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has in the past been all but burned at the stake by the rabid left for daring to discuss replacement theory on his program, including by Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which laughably describes itself as an “anti-hate” group, went after Carlson in early 2021:

In the days following Tucker Carlson’s vitriolic, xenophobic commentary about demographic change, most white supremacist reactions were supportive of the Fox News personality and praised him for railing against “white genocide.” Some suggested that Carlson is finally showing his true colors and fully embracing white nationalism.

Not to be outdone, CNN in April 2021 declared: “Racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward.”

White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities, and now Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to “replace” native-born Americans in the nation’s culture and the electorate.

But that racist “replacement theory” inverts the real consequence of immigration for its target audience of Whites uneasy about social and racial change: Many of the Whites most drawn to the far-right argument that new arrivals are displacing “real Americans” are among those with the most to lose if the nation reduces, much less eliminates, immigration in the decades ahead.

The verdict: Carlson was right, and “shockingly,” the left is lying.

Recent data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) proves it, beginning with the Democrat argument that increased importation of “migrants” is necessary because arrivals slowed during the pandemic and immigrant workers are now “missing” from the labor market, creating a “shortfall” for the economy. Nonsense, via the CIS:

In November 2022, there were 29.6 million immigrants (legal and illegal together) working in the United States — 1.9 million more than in November 2019, before the pandemic.

The 29.6 million immigrant workers in November of this year was one million above the long-term trend in the pre-Covid growth rate of immigrant workers — [so] immigrant workers are not “missing”.

In contrast to immigrants, there were 2.1 million fewer U.S.-born Americans working in November 2022 than in November 2019, before the pandemic.

In November of this year, there were 44.9 million working-age U.S.-born Americans not in the labor force — nearly 10 million more than in 2000.

CIS Report Director Steven Camarota put it bluntly in a December 21 report:

The availability of immigrant labor allows us as a society to ignore the plight of all those [Americans] on the economic sidelines.

Think about it from the perspective of the Democrat Party, whose every move can be connected to the ballot box with no more than two dots:

Replacing older (White) workers with younger migrant workers, whom the Democrats incorrectly believe can be programmed to vote Democrat for years to come, looks like a great idea on paper.

Camarota continued:

There are all kinds of Americans who were working just until two years ago, that are sitting on the sidelines now. … Some of them are young, and they’ve just been out for a little bit. Some have been out for a long time and will never get back.

For men, we’re not likely to get back to the labor-force participation rate of the 1960s or even the 1980s. But if it returned to what it was in in the 2000s, that would be six million more workers.

And there it is. Yet another big fat Democrat lie, I mean.

Finally, Camarota went bottom-line:

The left wing has made the word ‘replacement’ a bad word. All these people that are calling for more immigration are saying, in effect, ‘Look, we need to replace these American workers who are not in the labor force.’

Lemme fix that first statement: “The left wing has made the word ‘replacement’ a racist word.”

Democrat elites might be a lot of unsavory things, but “stupid” isn’t one of them. I’ve written the following illustration, multiple times, to demonstrate the left’s hypocrisy:

If reputable pollsters stood along the southern border and asked illegal aliens streaming across the border which party they’d support if ultimately given the right to vote and 75 percent of respondents said ‘Republican,’ Nancy Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the entire Democrat Party would race to the border and lock arms in a human chain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, in a “Custer’s Last Stand” effort to keep illegals the hell out of the country.

Democrats give less of a damn about “welcoming undocumented migrants” to America than about the ballot box — and the Democrat Party remains the most dishonest and hypocritical organization on the planet.

Manhattan Judge Sets $250 Million Bond and House Arrest for FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried

Sundance reporting for Conservative Treehouse 

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried waived an extradition fight and U.S. Marshals flew him from the Bahamas to New York late Wednesday night.  Appearing in a Manhattan court today, the judge set bail at $250 million and permits SBF to remain under house arrest at his parent’s California home until trial begins.

Additionally, it was revealed that Carolyn Ellison, 28, the former chief executive of Bankman-Fried’s trading firm, Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, 29, who co-founded FTX, pleaded guilty to charges including wire fraud, securities fraud and commodities fraud.  Both are cooperating witnesses with the prosecution against the FTX founder.

New York – The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried can post $250 million bond and live in his parents’ home in California while he awaits trial on charges that he swindled investors and looted customer deposits on his FTX trading platform, a judge said Thursday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos said in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that Bankman-Fried, 30, “perpetrated a fraud of epic proportions.” Roos proposed strict bail terms, including a $250 million bond and house arrest at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California.

An important reason for allowing bail was that Bankman-Fried agreed to waive extradition, Roos said.

Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein agreed to the bond and also approved the house arrest proposal. He also said Bankman-Fried would be required to get an electronic monitoring bracelet before leaving the Manhattan courthouse.

[…] Prosecutors and regulators contend that Bankman-Fried was at the center of several illegal schemes to use customer and investor money for personal gain. He faces the possibility of decades in prison if convicted on all counts.

In a series of interviews before his arrest, Bankman-Fried said he never intended to defraud anyone.

Bankman-Fried is charged with using money, illicitly taken from FTX customers, to enable trades at Alameda, spend lavishly on real estate, and make millions of dollars in campaign contributions to U.S. politicians. (read more)

The D-Bomb, Realpolitik & Zelensky's Self-Serving 'Heroics'

posted by Ilana Mercer at Townhall

Zelensky has no incentive to negotiate peace, quit his shabbily self-serving ‘heroics,’ now that the world’s greatest deliberative body has authorized billions for his upkeep in posterity.

Broadly speaking, anyone (other than white South Africans) can claim “credible fear” at the US south-western border, and must, by law, be given safe passage. That, combined with family unification policies—one legal, third-world immigrant brings in a tribe—and birthright citizenship, a legal aberration not practiced by any serious country in the world, have made population replacement in the United States a fait accompli, a done deal. 

Indisposed to idle optimism, your columnist refuses to dish anything but reality about the future of the United States from the vantage point of immigration. The demographic tipping point has arrived, by which I mean that America’s annual intake of legal and illegal immigrants, coupled with immigration law, for which the Uniparty is responsible, account for the exponential nature of this top-down scheme to swamp America. 

Millions of invaders are invited in annually, to take up residence in a country in which they will be inculcated into a militant anti-white culture; taught to hate their hosts in the purplest of ways. The statist scandal has been underway for decades now. 

In all, be realistically pessimistic, America, but do not despair. For your optimism, look to localism. As hard as this is, individuals who’re politically and philosophically aligned must endeavor to congregate in small communities of the like-minded. Create we must our own immutable reality on the ground to counter theirs.

Reality being the rational man’s anchor, I further dispel, with chapter and verse, in the latest Hard Truth podcast, any illusions that dissidents enjoy robust representation on Fox News. Had we listened to the resident COVID expert, Dr. Marty Makary, we’d be vaccinated. Fortunately, most of us ignored his ilk and remain healthy pure-bloods. 

How much of a Johnny-come-lately is Makary on matters COVID? Here’s but one example: Almost 2 years ago I shared an important revelation on LinkedIn. It had originated from a highly credentialed researcher on that professional site. She had been flabbergasted at having found no empirical safety data to rule out the fact that the mRNA spike protein migrates well beyond the muscle.

You see, the muscle is where vaccines are meant to remain: "Muscle tissue tends to keep vaccine reactions localized." Instead, the spike protein has been located in tissue throughout the body. Two years hence, Makary awoke to this phenomenon, parroting it on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” "Good morning, Elijah," as we used to say in Israel. Independent medical thinkers the likes of Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Kelly Victory, Robert Malone, and inquiring, honest minds like England’s Dr. John Campbell are usually absent from Fox New (if they make a brief appearance; Laura Ingraham motormouths over them). 

Another late, more meaningful, awakening has come from Dr. Henry Kissinger. The famous originator of realpolitik in diplomacy finally piped up in favor of "achieving peace through negotiation" between Ukraine and Russia. Kissinger reminded his neocon readership at The Spectator, alas belatedly and all-too timidly, that "Russia has made decisive contributions to the global equilibrium and to the balance of power for over half a millennium. Its historical role should not be degraded." He "recommended establishing a ceasefire line along the borders existing where the war started..."

Well before its originator, your columnist was first to revive the realpolitik concept in the context of Ukraine. If the invasion of Ukraine commenced on February, 24, 2022; then March 3, 2022 saw yours truly writing the following in "Uncle Sam Still King Of All Invaders: Ukraine, Realpolitik And The West’s Failure":

Good old realpolitik is what Zelensky should have been practicing with his powerful neighbors and historic brethren, the Russians. This is precisely what President Joe Biden should be shamed into doing now: talk to Putin; thrash out a cease-fire, ASAP; haggle for the lives of the population under siege because led by imbeciles.

Realpolitik is practical politics, the art of getting along, differences and all, in a real world in which reality, including the differences between people and their political systems, is accepted and dealt with.

Contrary to proclamations, it is not a moral foreign policy that America practices but a moralistic one. Be like us or we’ll destroy you! Instead of realpolitik, Zelensky adopted America’s moralistic, impolitic, uppity manners. Zelensky, a failed leader—a success only to the Anglo-American welfare-warfare machine—ought to have been at the negotiating table with Putin from the start.

“It’s biblical, Zelensky: a leader who fails to haggle for the lives of his people is a failed leader.” Since the command-and-control US Media purge any news of peace talks with Russia, we’re none-the-wiser to the fact that at least Israel, France and Turkey are currently active in mediating peace talks. 

Ever wonder how Zelensky and family could have remained safely ensconced in Ukraine, as over a million of his countrymen have been forced to flee? The little runt is very likely heavily protected by the best of our Special Forces, or by a private, paramilitary security company paid for by the American taxpayer. A kept man, his flesh softer than sin under the khaki costume, Zelensky has no incentive to quit his shabbily self-serving “heroics,” now that the world’s greatest deliberative body has authorized billions for his upkeep and that of his country for posterity, in sickness and in health.  

‘Journalist’ Is Reminded of the Many Faces of Joe Biden After Asking if There’s ‘Precedent’ to the George Santos Situation'

Sister Toldjah reporting for RedState 

I admit that I have not closely followed the story of Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) and the allegations that he made up substantial portions of life story out of whole cloth.

But if what the New York Times has reported about the alleged holes in Santos’ telling of his story is accurate (he says he plans on addressing the allegations next week) then a lot of people have some major explaining to do, including Republican operatives who didn’t do a better job of vetting Santos, Democrats who did a terrible job on the oppo-research front, and perhaps most notably the MSM – whose jobs it is to catch stuff like this.

In response, Politico deputy managing editor Sam Stein (formerly of HuffPo and Daily Beast infamy) took to the Twitter machine Thursday to inquire if there had ever been a situation on par with Santos’ (alleged) made-up history.

“Is there any precedent at all to this George Santos situation?” Stein asked, seemingly insinuating that there hadn’t been. “Has Congress ever had someone with so many remarkable biographical holes?”

Well… yeah, Sam, there has been. You may have heard of him. His name? Joe Biden – happens to be president right now, you know?

Grabien founder/viral video guru Tom Elliott had the answer at the ready, saving many of us a lot of trouble in the process by recounting many of the embellishments and lies told by Joe Biden about his story and that of his family over the course of his multiple decades of “service” in Washington, D.C.

Here’s the list Elliott composed in a mini-Twitter thread:

“— Survived a fire
— Arrested in civil rights march
— Star football player
— Once a truck driver
— Arrested meeting Mandela
— Son killed in Iraq
— Overheard mass shooting
— Top of his class in college
— Hit a 368’ homer in baseball game
— Had job at timber co.

— Drunk driver killed his wife & daughter
— Pinned medal on a Navy captain who was just a kid
— No knowledge of Hunter’s foreign business dealings
— Turned down offer from the Naval Academy
— His uncle won a Purple Heart
— His helicopter in Afghanistan “forced down”

— Met Parkland families as vice president
— Was once a coal miner
— Comes from a family of coal miners
— Was shot at in Iraq
— Called Milosevic a “war criminal” to his face
— Criticized George W. Bush to his face
— Participated in sit-ins during civil rights movement

— Oil industry somehow gave him cancer
— Won a fight against a drug dealer named Cornpop
— Dead Amtrak worker awarded him for riding 1.8 million miles
— Attended Temple services on a Sunday
— Raised in Puerto Rican community
— Worked as a college prof”

There are of course many more where that came from, but the most recent one Elliott mentioned was one Biden told to a group of Delaware veterans he was speaking to last Friday, where he told the story of how when he was Barack Obama’s vice president he supposedly awarded his Uncle Frank the Purple Heart during a family gathering at the urging of his father Joe, Sr.

As we previously reported, in his remarks, Biden said his Uncle Frank won the Purple Heart after fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. According to Biden, his father Joe Biden, Sr. asked him after he was elected Vice President in 2008 to present it to his uncle because “he never got it.” President Biden went on to say that when he did supposedly try to present it to his Uncle Frank that he didn’t want it.

The big problem with this story, as noted by Forbes.com, is that Biden’s uncle and his father both died several years before Biden became Barack Obama’s VP:

President Joe Biden appeared to make a major gaffe Friday when he claimed that after being elected vice president in 2008, he awarded his uncle, Frank Biden, a Purple Heart for his service in World War II, but there are some major holes in his story–primarily the fact his uncle died almost a decade before the 2008 election.

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The president’s father died in 2002; his uncle died in 1999.

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There doesn’t appear to be any record of Biden giving his uncle the honor—the president hasn’t mentioned the story in the past, there have been no news articles written about it and Frank Biden’s name does not appear on a list of recipients held by the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, though the list is incomplete.

Worse yet, apparently the story was another (made-up) version of a whopper he told in 2019 that sounded very similar:

Biden’s history of getting caught making stuff as he goes all the way back to at least the late 80s during his first failed presidential run when it was discovered that he had plagiarized the work of others and lied about being the first in his family to graduate from college.

But move along, though, nothing here to see. We’re not dealing with a serial liar here. It’s just “Joe being Joe,” as his apologists in the mainstream press have suggested.