Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The New Pope Seems To Align With The Old Pope’s Liberation Theology


Will Pope Leo XIV return the Catholic Church to traditional morality, or will he continue down the path laid by Francis, a pope who embraced liberation theology? The issue is existential for Western Civilization as a whole—and it appears that on the issue of Israel’s war with radical Islamists, the new Pope is following Francis.

Liberation theology is the single most destructive Soviet op ever hatched, for it overlays Marxism on Christianity. The two are incompatible, with Marxism morphing and misshaping Christianity.

Jon Pacepa wrote a decade ago:

Pope John Paul II, who knew the Communist playbook well, was not taken in by the Soviets’ liberation theology. In 1983, his friend and trusted colleague Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), who at that time was head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, discarded as Marxist the liberation-theology idea that class struggle is fundamental to history. The cardinal called liberation theology a “singular heresy” and blasted it as a “fundamental threat” to the Church.

Of course, it was and remains a threat — one deliberately designed to undermine the Church and destabilize the West by subordinating religion to an atheist political ideology for its geopolitical gain.

Liberation theology creates a ludicrous moral high ground, elevating “love”over Biblical morality. It embraces immorality without requiring repentance and redemption. It ignores those parts of the Bible that will not tolerate sin, such as John 8, where Jesus, after saving an adulteress from stoning, commands her to “go, and sin no more.”

Likewise ignored is Romans 13:1-7, which says civil government “is ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God...”

The liberation theologians’ call to ignore American laws (e.g., to embrace illegal aliens and demand they not be deported) makes an utter mockery of Romans 13:1-7.

Perhaps the most immediately destructive aspect of liberation theology is its mix of suicidal, radical pacifism, the Jew hatred inherent in Marxism, and its uncritical treatment of Islam, the greatest threat to Western Civilization and Christianity since it broke out of the Arabian Peninsula over 1,000 years ago.

Until recently, the Catholic Church was not pacifist. For well over a thousand years, the Church embraced the Just War Theory that Saint Augustine first articulated in 426 A.D., based on Romans 13:4.

[The civil magistrate] is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

While Christianity calls on individuals to act with grace and forgiveness, when it’s necessary to protect civil peace and punish wickedness, government-sanctioned war is moral and required. This was true from the First Crusade of 1096 A.D., fought to beat back Islamic depredations against Christians in the Middle East, to World War II, fought to stop Hitler and his socialist war machine. In between, the Puritan Minister, Rev. Thomas Mayhew, used these passages to justify the English Civil War and set the religious basis for the oncoming American Revolution.

Pope Francis gutted the Just War theory during his papacy and embraced the antisemitism of a true Marxist. The Pope gave his imprimatur to Jesus displayed in a keffiyeh, suggesting ludicrously that Jesus was not a Jew.

And while Pope Francis regularly ignored Islamic attacks on Christians, refusing to comment on them, he obscenely opted to criticize Israel in the wake of Gaza’s medieval, barbaric, and genocidal October 7 attack, going so far as to call for ”the global community [to] study whether Israel's military campaign in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.” Such a broken moral compass points a path to doom for Christianity and Western Civilization.

Thus, it was troubling to see that the new pontiff seems to be following that same path:

Pope Leo XIV called for...an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff.

“I too address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica...

There is no denunciation of Hamas. There is no call for Hamas’s surrender to end the war or a call to release the hostages (although he prays for them). However, there is a call for Israel to feed the nation waging war against it. There is also no concern for the fading Christianity in Europe as radical Islamists flood in.

And there is a completely utopian “liberation theology” call for no more war, irrespective of human nature, human history, and the need to defend a nation. This idea, which is at odds with at least 1,600 years of church history, is especially ironic given that, on the day he was elected, the new pope chose to wear a pectoral cross containing relics from St. Augustine and St. Monica (Augustine’s mother).

We can hope and pray that Pope Leo XIV will eschew liberation theology and lead the Church back to its traditional values. But the signs are troubling that he may be merely a continuation of the disastrous Francis papacy.



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Buckle Up Buttercups, the New Golden Era has Begun


Have you grown tired hearing about how the Trump tariffs are dangerous from smarmy Trump-hating self-proclaimed intellectuals and economists? The drumbeat has been nonstop from the TDS crowd. We expect it from the Left. If he said puppies were cute, they would decry that he hates kittens. What’s disappointing though is hearing it from free-market libertarians and others on the ‘right’ who can’t see past their arrogance and/or disdain for President Trump to figure out what our president is trying to accomplish.

It’s not hard to find footage of a much younger Donald Trump on Oprah in 1988 talking about how we are getting “ripped off” by other countries. It’s not like he hasn’t been talking about unfair trade practices for the last thirty-seven years. What’s a surprise though is when we elect someone on a campaign promise and then they actually do what they said they would do. Take note weak-kneed Republicans.

Has anyone ever heard from this crowd how we are to attain this free-market utopia they seek? Do we just ask China nicely? Pretty please, could you reduce our tariffs to zero? Trump did what he does best. He dropped an anvil on them and guess what happened? Despite the lying headlines, they caved. They came to the table because they were forced to not because they wanted to. What is astounding is that it is all so predictable. He literally wrote a book about negotiating. 

As of this writing, the equity markets have surged past their lows following “Liberation Day”, the day President Trump enacted massive tariffs on countries who have been doing the same to us for decades. The dollar is on the move surging one percent after the announcement with China. New business deals are being struck almost daily. Gas is down, inflation is down. And we all knew that once the government stopped ordering the mass slaughter of chickens, that egg prices would return to normal as they have. And we’re just over 100 days into this administration. 

For the naysayers, no one who believes in this president expects a smooth ride. It takes heat to produce gold. We’re not going to dismantle generations of poor policies without pain. The entrenched administrative state is not going to roll over and give up. Leeches and other parasites aren’t going to change their diet. Citizens at grass roots levels must continue to pressure their representatives to do the right thing, to help this president. We’ve only commandeered the pirate ship. The pirates are still on board. Mutinous ones are the worst. 

Our government is once-again taking law enforcement seriously and federal authorities are rounding up criminal gang members and other threats to civil society. Meanwhile the Never Trump crowd, to include plenty of free-market libertarians, thumbs their noses at these successes. Spare us your lectures about due process. 

Attention Republicans in Congress: You have less than two years to help this president achieve what generations of politicians could not. Now is the time to dismantle the administrative state. Imagine how good it would be if many of the Trump policies were codified into law instead of being acted upon via administrative order. Get on board. We’re tired of your unfulfilled promises. We’re tired of your made-for-TV dramas that end in a vast bottomless pit called Nothing Ever Happens. We loathe your inaction just slightly less than we loathe your Socialist/Communist counterparts across the aisle. The enemy within is worse than the enemy without. We understand that margins are tight. Produce the bills anyway and let the voters figure out who needs to lose in the next primaries. We’re keeping track and we’re paying attention. 

Finally, to everyone who lectured us incessantly about tariffs, you owe us an apology. Trump simply negotiated a better deal by using the best leverage we have as a country, our economic strength and purchasing power. (See also, Ronald Reagan) Thanks, though for your economics lessons about tariffs driving up consumer prices. Gee, we never would have known that without your scholarly input. Trump just showed the world how you implement free trade or get significantly closer to achieving it. You use powerful leverage to negotiate a better deal. 

If you didn't take advantage of the dip in the equity market, you'd better get in now and hold on. For all you Trump haters out there, it's going to be a long four years for you. 

Buckle up buttercups. The New Golden Era has begun.



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President Trump Kicks Off May With So Much Winning


Less than two weeks into May, President Donald J. Trump clinched three wins. He secured a new trade deal and continued negotiations with China, issued an executive order reducing the cost of prescription drugs, and slapped the media again on the fake Qatar-747 story. The response from the president’s enemies has also been peculiar but not shocking. 

The Democrats tried to claim we got rolled in the China talks in Switzerland over the weekend, which is why the markets exploded yesterday. Tariffs were reduced on both sides, leading to another period of talks that could yield greater gains for the United States. 


Not to state the obvious, but Joe Biden could never achieve this because the Chinese wouldn’t have agreed—they’re not going to waste their time speaking with weak people. They essentially told that to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, where they admitted they weren’t abiding by bilateral trade agreements between Beijing and Washington because they knew Biden wouldn’t do anything.  

Liberals brought economic ruin, chaos, and a world ablaze. Hit the mute button on whatever they say; the nation soundly rejected them in 2024. Based on new focus group data, the Democrats are still considered weak, and their anti-Trump screeds are simply not effective.  

On the EO to reduce drug prices, I can’t believe the knee-jerk reaction from the left is to say that higher drug costs are fine essentially. It’s hilarious to watch the opposition bubble up only because a guy named Donald J. Trump is doing it. The lack of media coverage is also conspicuous. I wonder why that is: 


Last, the media remains undefeated regarding breaking their face when stepping on rakes from their shoddy reporting. Trump is supposedly accepting a 747 from Qatar, which will be retrofitted and serve as the next Air Force One. Members of the legacy press confirmed it on Sunday. What was confirmed? 



They’re still grade-A morons who couldn’t report on the most mundane detail about this White House accurately. The real story is that Boeing can’t make the aircraft; that’s a problem. Also, this is an old story that was put through the Trump hater machine at these newsrooms and perverted to all hell to create another laughable bit of fake news that was debunked in less than a day. The real story: Trump asked defense contractor L3Harris to overhaul a 747 once used by the Qatari government. 


So, it's not a bad start to May.  




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Trump Announces End to Sanctions on Syria in Order To Give New Regime ‘a Chance at Greatness’

 The president receives a lengthy round of applause after making the announcement during a speech in Saudi Arabia.


President Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Royal Terminal of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025.( AP/Alex Brandon

President Trump says he will end all sanctions on the new Syrian government in order to allow it to pursue “greatness” after the fall of the Assad regime. Mr. Trump made the announcement during a speech in Saudi Arabia, which has been seeking closer ties with President al-Sharaa’s new transitional government. 

Mr. Trump is currently on the first foreign trip of his second term, taking him to several Gulf states, including Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Speaking to a crowd of Saudi officials on Tuesday — including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — Mr. Trump said he was looking to change the political dynamics in the region. 

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” the president said before the crowd of hundreds on Tuesday. The group applauded for more than 30 seconds, and gave the president a standing ovation. 

The crown prince seemed especially pleased, standing to applaud the president as he was seated near Secretary Rubio, Elon Musk, and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino. 

The crown prince was one of the first foreign leaders to embrace Mr. al-Sharaa after he took power as the new Syrian president late last year. Mr. al-Sharaa’s first trip as head of state after assuming the role was to Saudi Arabia, where he met with the crown prince personally. Relations between Saudi Arabia and Syria deteriorated significantly during the course of the latter’s civil war, which resulted in Mr. Assad being overthrown and forced into exile in Russia. 

The president announced Tuesday that he plans to meet with the new Syrian president on Wednesday. Mr. al-Sharaa is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia to meet Mr. Trump for the first time. 

Mr. Trump’s remarks at Riyadh on Tuesday were largely focused on the issue of Iran. He demanded that the Islamic Republic engage in meaningful talks to wind down its nuclear program and praised the Saudis for their friendship with the United States. 

“I want to make a deal with Iran. I can make a deal with Iran. I’ll be very happy if we’re going to make your region and the world a safer place,” Mr. Trump said Tuesday. “If Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive, maximum pressure … and take all action required to stop the regime from ever having a nuclear weapon.”

Beyond Iran, the goal of Mr. Trump’s visit, the administration says, is to deepen ties with the Saudis, largely through investment. The two countries already have a multibillion-dollar annual defense agreement, though Mr. Trump announced Tuesday that he had secured guarantees from the Saudis that they would invest hundreds of billions of additional dollars in the American economy over the course of several years.

In a fact sheet provided by the White House, the administration says the Saudis will invest the money in artificial intelligence data centers, healthcare technology manufacturing plants, and the purchase of American automobiles and planes.

https://www.nysun.com/article/trump-announces-end-to-sanctions-on-syria-in-order-to-give-new-regime-a-chance-at-greatness

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Secretary Scott Bessent Discusses Details and Perspectives of U.S-China Trade Discussion


Appearing on CNBC yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave an outline of the discussions between the USA and China.  Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer held meetings with the Chinese delegation in Geneva, Switzerland this past weekend.

Pay attention to Secretary Bessent describing [05:40] how Chinese ‘overproduction’ is now reaching the shores of partnered nations, that is the element CTH previously outlined {SEE HERE}, which is a rather significant issue right now.  The goods themselves are not ‘generic’ in nature, they are branded high-end products awaiting labeling and distribution once their component part of the global tariff is determined.  This is part of the ‘urgency’ motive for Beijing to seek some understanding of the timeline.



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Is 'Black Fatigue' a Thing?


There's a phrase going around the internet you might have come across recently due to it being used in polite conversation to describe an issue within the black community. The thing is, I've seen it being used more by black people than anyone else. 

"Black fatigue" is being used to describe America's exhaustion with the behavior of parts of the black community that you often see stereotyped by videos online. They're often portrayed as violent, rude, loud, hyper-sexualized, and destructive. 

A black man on TikTok made the commentary that "black fatigue" was real, and that even black people don't want to be around it any more than other races do, referring to that segment's behavior as "ratchet." 

This is your language warning before you hit play. 


TPUSA's Rob Smith also weighed in on what's being labeled as "black fatigue," using the same language as the man above and describing that behavior as "ratchet." Smith goes on to highlight that the other behavior people are sick of is the "fake intelligentsia" part of the black community that lectures everyone on how they should behave in regard to black people, and even lecture black people on how they should "talk, or think, or speak" as a black person. 


The thing is, black people are getting the most focus, but in my opinion, this goes far beyond the black community. Americans of every race, creed, and religion are sick of that kind of behavior, and the fact that the greater population has been silent about it up until recently is a real testament to the power of the left's influence on the culture making people scared to say anything about it. 

But to say that people are getting "black fatigue" is hyper-focusing on something that I'd say is a much wider cultural fatigue of certain negative behaviors exhibited by every race. It's not a racial issue at its core, because every race is guilty of exhibiting behaviors that nobody wants to be around in the modern era.  

What we're collectively sick of is uncivilized behaviors - displayed by people of every race - that have been rewarded by a system that previously promoted them. 

Our system has, in fact, rewarded fatherlessness and dependence on the government while simultaneously selling the idea of victimhood to poor people - first targeting blacks in the inner cities, but eventually reaching all races - causing an entire wave of mainstream-approved uncivilized behavior.

White people are sick of that part of the white community that commits acts of destruction and intimidation over some misguided pseudo-morality. Antifa, pro-Hamas rioters, transgender activists, and more are generally white. They also often come from colleges and universities, suggesting they're often middle to upper class, and if they aren't excusing their behavior through a sense of victimhood, they're justifying it through the delusion that they're a hero on behalf of oppressed groups. 

But really, they're just brainwashed, entitled, adult children who are as ignorant as they are arrogant. 

However, the previous administration either shrugged at these radicals or called them "ideas," instead of actual domestic terrorists. Government bodies referred to them taking over entire city blocks as a "summer of love" kind of event. 

On the Hispanic side, you'll find many Hispanic people just as sick of illegal immigrants getting away with everything from leeching off the system to legitimate high crimes as much as everyone else is. You'll find many legal immigrants from south of the border wanting a border fence. 

At some point during the Biden administration, people started getting really sick of these anti-social behaviors being rewarded, and the souring wasn't just relegated to black people. One of the reasons Donald Trump was elected was because people all over America were just exhausted by these groups getting the thumbs up from our own system. 

It's because of this that you now see more and more people speaking out against these behaviors, no matter the race. Watching a group of Antifa radicals berate and intimidate innocent people gives you the same feeling as watching a group of young black people terrorize a mall. 

This is a multi-racial cultural movement pushing back against societal degradation, not a focus on the behavioral tendencies of a singular race. The left would like you to think it's entirely racial, but it's not. It's a pushback against a radicalism that was given birth to by an ideology that is, itself, radical. 



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The U.S. Military-Industrial Complex Fought And Won WWII In Less Time Than Boeing’s Delay On Air Force One



On Sunday it was reported that President Donald Trump accepted an Qatar’s offer of a jumbo jet to serve temporarily as Air Force One after Boeing failed to deliver the long-promised replacement aircraft. But the real story here is that Boeing, the Department of Defense’s premier contractor, has been delayed years on a project vital to national security.

“We’re very disappointed that it’s taking Boeing so long to build a new Air Force One,” Trump said on Monday morning during a press conference. “You know, we have an Air Force One that’s 40 years old. And if you take a look at that, compared to the new plane of the equivalent, you know, stature at the time, it’s not even the same ballgame.”

“When I first came in, I signed an order to get [the new Air Force One fleet] built,” Trump said. “I took it over from the Obama administration, they had originally agreed. I got the price down much lower. And then, when the election didn’t exactly work out the way that it should have, a lot of work was not done on the plane because a lot of people didn’t know they made change orders.”

Qatar is slated to gift the U.S. a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet valued at $400 million from the Qatari royal family. In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump said the Department of Defense would be getting the gift “FREE OF CHARGE,” pointing out that despite the hysteria, it is a “very public and transparent transaction.”

But the real scandal here isn’t Trump’s temporary jet or Qatar’s diplomatic overture. The buried lede is that an elite American defense contractor can no longer deliver a presidential plane in a timely fashion. It reflects a deeper rot in the U.S. military-industrial complex — one that used to win world wars in less time than it now takes to build a new plane.

Boeing’s delivery of the new Air Force One fleet is a part of the VC-25B program (begun under the Obama administration), which “will replace the United States Air Force Presidential VC-25A fleet.” The government awarded Boeign the contract in 2018 with a target delivery date for 2024. But that date has since been pushed to 2027, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine.

As CNN previously reported, “Boeing’s $3.9 billion contract to replace the two Air Force One jets has become an expensive and embarrassing albatross. Boeing has reported losses totaling $2.5 billion already on the program … since it agreed to be responsible for what has become soaring cost overruns.”

Some issues facing Boeing include Boeing’s need to “resolve technical and certification issues in the previous supplier’s design,” according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published in 2023.

“Wiring design and fabrication was slower than planned,” the report continued. “According to program officials, Boeing identified a large number of unexpected design errors, which led to suspension of wiring fabrication in March 2022. … Boeing experienced aircraft mechanic workforce limitations due to a competitive labor market, according to program officials. … Lastly, the program officials reported that Boeing’s test plans will likely not be completed by first flight — currently scheduled for April 2024. This increases the risk of testing delays.”

Six presidents have used the current Air Force One aircraft since President George H.W. Bush put them into use in 1990 and 1991.



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Pope Leo XIV's Father Served in the Navy During World War II

 Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served in the Navy during World War II.  


Prevost was born on July 28, 1920, in Chicago. After graduating from college, he was commissioned in November 1943 and became the executive officer of a tank landing ship. He participated in the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944, as part of Operation Overlord. He also commanded an infantry landing craft, which the Allies used to land infantry soldiers and Marines onto beaches during the war.   

The Normandy coastline did not have the port capacity for the enormous number of materials needed to keep the Allied momentum going. The Navy subsequently sent Prevost and other landing ships to southern France, as part of Operation Dragoon beginning Aug. 15, 1944.  


This forced the Germans to defend a second front, diluting their effectiveness.

By the end of August, the Allies had captured the French ports of Marseille and Toulon, immediately using them to land supplies and equipment. In October 1944, more than a third of Allied cargo was shipped through those ports. 

Prevost spent 15 months overseas and attained the rank of lieutenant junior grade before the war in Europe finally ended, May 8, 1945.  


After coming home, he became head of Brookwood School District 167, an elementary school district in Glenwood, Illinois, and then principal of Mount Carmel Elementary School in Chicago. He was also a catechist — a teacher of the principles of the Christian religion.

He married Mildred Agnes Martinez, a Chicago native, Jan. 25, 1949. She worked as a librarian.  

The couple had three sons: John Joseph Prevost, a retired educator who lives in Chicago, and Louis Martin Prevost, a Navy veteran who lives in Florida. The youngest, whose birth name is Robert Francis Prevost, was elected as the first American pope, May 8, 2025. 

Mildred died June 18, 1990, and Prevost died in Chicago on Nov. 8, 1997. 




https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4180629/pope-leo-xivs-father-served-in-the-navy-during-world-war-ii/



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The Numbers Are in — and It’s Horrible News for the Gender Mafia

Jeff Charles reporting for Townhall 

The tide is turning and common sense is beginning to prevail once again, according to a new poll showing how Americans feel about President Donald Trump’s policies related to trans-identified people.

An Associated Press-NORC poll published on Saturday revealed that most Americans are skeptical of progressive gender ideology. About 68 percent of respondents affirmed that “whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by their biological characteristics at birth.” Only 31 percent believed “someone can be a man or a woman even if that identity is different from their biological characteristics at birth.”

Republicans overwhelmingly (89 percent) believe that gender is fixed at birth. No surprise there. But 54 percent of Democrats still accept gender identity over biology, meaning that the left remains split on the issue. Among Independents, 74 percent cite biology as the determining factor in one’s gender.

A majority (66 percent) of Americans oppose Medicare or Medicaid covering “gender affirming” treatments for people under the age of 19, while only 16 percent supported the idea. Even for adults above 19, 53 percent oppose government funding. 

“Two-thirds of the public oppose public health insurance programs like Medicare or Medicaid from covering gender-affirming medical treatment, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for people under age 19, who are transgender or nonbinary,” the report reads.

Most Americans (55 percent) are not on board with “allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.” 

Even further, 43 percent favor “requiring public school teachers to report to parents if their children are identifying as transgender or nonbinary at school.” About 28 percent opposed the idea, with another 28 percent saying they neither favor nor oppose it.

Responses became a bit more nuanced when it comes to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning trans-identified individuals from the military. About 37 percent believe trans-identified people should be allowed to serve in the Armed Forces, while 26 percent opposed it. About 36 percent neither favored nor opposed the idea.

Even more encouraging is that 52 percent of respondents approved of Trump’s handling of transgender issues. “Trump approval is higher for transgender issues than overall performance,” the report noted.

These results should not be surprising, but given today’s political climate, one could be forgiven for not expecting these findings. The days when everyone agreed that men are men and women are women seemed long past in recent years. Progressives continually used their control over education, entertainment, and other prominent institutions to cajole, coerce, and convince America to accept their bizarre views on gender to great effect.

Now, the tide truly is turning.

Leftists were unable to persuade the majority of Americans to embrace the notion that men can become women and vice versa. They failed to demonstrate why it is totally fair to force female athletes to compete against biolgoical males. In other words, most people can tell the Emperor is stark naked, and this isn’t changing anytime soon.



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Dems Won't Like This: Latest Poll About Direction of Country Hits Astonishing Number


Nick Arama reporting for RedState 

Sifting through poll numbers to assess the truth is sometimes a challenging thing, especially when so much bull is often being spread in liberal media surveys. I tend to look more at the polls that have a history of being accurate in the past, particularly in the 2024 presidential election.

One of those polls is Rasmussen. They have new numbers out that will make Democrats break out the crying towels. After all the effort Democrats have stirred up against President Donald Trump, after the tariff furor, what is the American public thinking about where we are right now? 

Rasmussen's Mark Mitchell commented on what they found in their polling: "In 20 years, the % of people who say the US is headed in the Right Direction has never been higher than today."

What were the numbers?

Forty-nine percent thought we were going in the "Right Direction."  Forty-six percent thought we were on the "Wrong Track." That's a three-point net positive. The previous record was 48 percent, with a net plus one point positive. 

He said the right direction number had never been this high. 

Mitchell thought that if the trend continued, he might soon be able to say that a majority of Americans thought we were on the right track. That would be astonishing, since the right track number is generally a pessimistic number. 

Notice also in the above tweet that President Donald Trump's approval is at 52 percent, which is also high. Mitchell said most of that polling was before the weekend, before the wins on ceasefires, trade deals, and Hamas hostage Edan Alexander being released. So one might expect that number will ultimately be higher. 

Now compare that to March, when the numbers were already high in the NBC and Marist polls for "right track"—44 and 42 percent, respectively. These numbers are even higher now in the Rasmussen poll. 

It shows the high numbers are sustained, despite the Democrat/media attacks. So, regardless of what the media is trying to sell us, the people across multiple polls think we're going in the right direction under President Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, Democrats are wedding themselves to illegal aliens, causing chaos at ICE facilities and disrupting ICE arrests. 

Could there be any greater contrast?



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