Why Would Anyone Vote For These People?

posted by Derek Hunter at Townhall 

Think about this for a second, and I mean that: Is there anything good Democrats have added to your life? I’m not talking about “Democrats” ever – Thomas Jefferson having existed is obviously an easy net-plus for everyone’s life – but the current crop of Democrats who exist in Washington, DC, and pretty much anywhere else. The answer is no. 

AOC has no legislative accomplishments, and neither do any of the other members of the goon squad sniffing around her throne. A Hakeem Jeffries speech would not pass as a proof of life video. Nancy Pelosi may be legally dead. And Chuck Schumer had to hire extra security on his book tour because liberals want to kill him for voting to keep the government open, and he still finds time to whine about “Republican rhetoric” being “violent.” These people are defective.

When not personally demonstrating every repugnant characteristic a human being can exhibit, Democrats dance on the graves of Americans murdered by illegal aliens and form conga lines to march children off to the clinic to have their genitals mutilated on the altar of the Alphabet Mafia God. (Truth be told, I know a lot of Ls, Gs, and Bs, and none of them have anything at all good to say about the Ts and what they have the Democrats doing.)

What does it say about a political party that the only person to make any semblance of sense is the guy who had a massive stroke? John Fetterman is the only Democrat I’ve seen say it might not be a good idea politically, as well as a bad thing to do as a person, to hitch yourself to the foreign criminal gang members, domestica abusers and human traffickers. Not only that, he’s seemingly the only Democrat with the content in the front of his underpants (as opposed to the rest with the content scared into the back of theirs) to tell the radical left where they can go and what it is they can do to themselves when they get there when it comes to Israel and the continued existence of Jews. 

I know what happened at that party because I was alive, but I’ll never understand how it happened. All it would have taken is one of them – just one decent human being among them – to stand up and declare their radical wing to be insane – to say we are not a country of racists, etc. – but none did. Not a single Democrat had the sense to do it. 

Now, one of their leading candidates for Mayor of New York City is a raging anti-Semite who’s barely been an American citizen for 20 minutes running on an agenda that the citizens of the third world who are in this country fled. Their leading candidate had to resign the governor’s office because he was playing grab-ass with seemingly every attractive woman he came across during his tenure. Oh, and his bad decisions were directly responsible for the deaths of about 15,000 nursing home residents in the state during COVID. 

And these are their more respectable character traits.

Their national leadership is a mess, with the party on the verge of taking out loans to pay the salaries of the people who helped cobble together this Frankenstein’s monster of a party in the first place. 

The one thing I’m not sure of is whether or not the donor base of the Democratic Party abandoned them because they have gotten too crazy or are not crazy enough. If it’s the former, they can recover from that if someone of stature were to speak out against the anti-American radicals, if it’s the latter there is nothing that can be done to bring them back and nothing we should not do to prevent them from ever getting close enough to sniff power ever again. 

Whatever the answers – and I look forward to watching these people grapple with the questions – there is no American with an IQ higher than their shoe size who should ever consider empowering this band of weirdos, perverts, and degenerates ever again. That there are so many of our fellow Americans for whom all of these defects of character are a net-positive is not only a testament to why the public education system needs to be dismantled, it also means we’re going to have to work twice as hard to make sure they stay in exile or else the country may not survive. 

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The Most Important Decision of Trump’s Presidency

posted by Rovvy Lepor at American Thinker 

(posted before the air strike)

The United States, Israel, and the world stand at a turning point in history.  The genocidal Iranian regime is reeling from Israel’s Rising Lion military campaign.  Decisive action now can ensure that the regime never again rises, averting a future nuclear attack on the U.S., Israel, and other allies.

President Trump is making the most consequential decision of his presidency — and likely in U.S. history.  He has stated unequivocally and consistently that Iran must never obtain nuclear weapons.  It is unacceptable for a regime that leads chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” to possess nuclear weapons under any circumstance.  This regime is responsible for killing and injuring thousands of American military personnel and civilians — including, but not limited to, the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers attack, and throughout the Iraq War, as extensively documented by United Against Nuclear Iran.

On June 19, Iran fired a Sejjil nuclear-capable ballistic missile at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and fired a cluster bomb missile over residential areas in central Israel, injuring many and causing extensive damage — both clear violations of international law and war crimes under the Geneva Conventions.  If the Iranian regime assembles a nuclear arsenal, the risk of a nuclear holocaust of mass murder and starting WWIII is particularly high.  The parallel to history is all too real.

Had Germany been stopped before WWII, many tens of millions of lives could have been saved and the Holocaust averted.  Burned out from the trauma of WWI, the U.S. embraced isolationism.  The idea was that, unless the U.S. were directly attacked, whatever happens in Europe or elsewhere is “not our problem.”  It took the United States over two years to enter WWII with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, waking it in a moment from the lie of isolationism.

Had the United States experienced just a few more years of quiet, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would have had the opportunity to invade and dominate virtually the rest of the world.

With access to vast amounts of natural resources globally, a battle-tested military, and advanced arms production, the Nazis would have had a decisive advantage over the United States.  Barring a major miracle, the U.S. would have been invaded by Germany and Japan.

Perhaps worse yet, the Nazis could have beaten the United States to develop nuclear weapons.  The Nazis would have used those weapons without hesitation.  A nuclear attack on New York City or Washington, D.C. could have brought about America’s downfall.

Thank God the world stopped it in time.  Had the world gone down the other way, the Nazi killing machine likely would have murdered hundreds of millions more people worldwide, including in America, and would have expanded the Holocaust globally.  Their goal was world domination and the annihilation of every last Jew.

Had a vastly outmatched America waited to confront the Nazis, that could have meant that the murderous Nazi regime would have killed tens of millions of Americans.

Some isolationists seek to discredit those warnings about the great dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran as “warmongers” or “neocons.”  Yet history proves the opposite: Isolationism allowed Nazi Germany to arm and vastly expand its war machine, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.

In reality, isolationists are the most dangerous war-mongers.  Their intent to keep the U.S. out of military conflict (short of a direct attack on the U.S. homeland), virtually ensures a catastrophic war.

One can concede that the isolationist grasp on governments around the world perhaps delayed a regional military conflict in Germany a few years before the onset of WWII in September 1939.  However, it bought the world an illusory and short-lived “peace” at the cost of the most destructive war in human history, claiming an estimated 62 to 78 million lives in war, including an estimated six million Jews brutally murdered by the Nazi regime.

President Trump must not allow the current Iranian regime — a modern-day Nazi regime — to remain in power.  This is a golden opportunity for the United States to eliminate the Iranian regime once and for all.  This would prevent the regime from recuperating from Israel’s heroic attacks on the IRGC, its leadership, its military infrastructure, and Iran’s nuclear program.  The window of opportunity is still open.  Timely military action could prevent Iran’s nuclear rise, avert a nuclear WWIII, and prevent catastrophic attacks on the U.S., on Israel, and far beyond.

Removing the Iranian regime does not require boots on the ground.  To support a pro-Western Iran, the administration should consult Reza Pahlavi and assemble a rigorously vetted coalition of reliably pro-Western military and civil groups inside Iran.  This coalition must exclude elements that could pose a threat to the U.S. or allies and support America’s true allies in Iran.

This includes millions of Iranians who have long opposed the regime in the streets, elements of the conventional Iranian military — excluding the IRGC — who can be counted on to support regime change, other Iranian groups inside and outside of Iran, and various militias such as the Kurdish PDKI and pro-Western elements of the Balochi civil resistance.

These groups can be supplied with enhanced offensive and defensive military capabilities, other supplies, real-time U.S. intelligence, and air and naval support to help deliver a swift and decisive victory.  The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, together with Kurdish allies, was instrumental in quickly dismantling ISIS in Operation Inherent Resolve in President Trump’s first term.

The recent lightning fall of the Iran-backed Assad regime in Syria — partly enabled by Israel’s decapitation war against Hezb’allah — also shows how quickly even entrenched regimes can fall.

President Trump’s decision could benefit humanity for generations and save hundreds of millions — even billions — of lives, averting nuclear war.  The golden opportunity to topple the most dangerous regime since WWII beckons.  The lessons of WWII are instructive for the future.  By applying those lessons, President Trump will go a long way toward ensuring a peaceful future for the world.

Such leadership could make President Trump the most consequential American leader in modern history, save America from disaster, and reject the dangerous and insidious ideology of isolationism.  This is President Trump’s America First ideology at its finest.

Strength now prevents greater bloodshed later.  This is not about starting a war; it’s about preserving peace through strength and preventing catastrophe.  Defeating Iran’s regime will prevent history’s darkest chapter from returning.  The stakes are high.  The time to act is now.  If not now, when?

Students, teacher want school board president ousted for demanding higher test scores

 

Nathaniel Paff and Mason Brandt 

Dave Huber - Associate Editor •June 21, 2025    •    The College Fix

OPINION: They want her ‘extreme reconciliation’ or resignation for ‘disheartening’ remarks

Two students and a teacher at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin high school are demanding the resignation of the school board president — because she condemned the school’s low ACT scores and said teachers need to do better.

School District of South Milwaukee Board President Sophia Williams said at last month’s board meeting that the ACT scores of the district’s lone high school “were nowhere near where they are now,” and that she “wouldn’t have sent [her] child here,” according to WTMJ.

Williams also told South Milwaukee HS teachers “That’s your job, that’s why you became an educator, and if that’s not the job you think you should be doing, this is not the district for you.”

The news station found two disgruntled South Milwaukee HS students, Nathaniel Paff and Mason Brandt (pictured), who were pretty cheesed at Williams’ comments.

The former said “To hear that from someone else in our community, especially a board member, it was very disheartening […] “I either hope for an extreme reconciliation where she apologizes and she truly makes steps forward to make things better, or I hope that she resigns.”

Brandt said “Honestly, I would ask for her resignation” and added “I also really hope that the community understands that her behavior diminishes the opportunity of the students in the building.”

South Milwaukee HS teacher Tim Backes (pictured), also a local alderman, said he wanted Williams’ resignation by the end of the month “because it is imperative that we enter the next school year with a clean slate with a school board that respects us.”

Williams explained to WTMJ via email she was “frustrated that some teachers ‘have not engaged in critical conversations about resource adoption and instructional improvement,'” and that every teacher needs “to come to the table, offer solutions, and take part in the work ahead.”

MORE: Milwaukee schools: Almost half a million bucks for Black Lives Matter curriculum

There’s a bit to unpack with all this. First, Williams’ comments, while seemingly “disheartening,” “diminishing” (in the words of Paff and Brandt), and a bit harsh towards teachers, actually aren’t that bad — and certainly not worth of a resignation.

If her constituents feel her remarks were beyond the pale, they can oust her in the next election.

Williams has a point, after all: According to U.S. News & World Report’s report on South Milwaukee HS, its ACT percentile score is 15.4 (11 in math, 20 in reading, and 18 in science), which equates to an approximate mid-800 score on the SAT.

For comparison’s sake, the Wisconsin state average ACT scores in each subject were 30, 40, and 30 respectively.

I asked both Williams and Backes for comment, but neither responded.

What Williams needs to realize (and she indeed may) is there is only so much individual teachers can do to get test scores up. The U.S. News report notes the South Milwaukee HS student body is over half “economically disadvantaged” with 44 percent getting free lunches. This isn’t insignificant.

As Williams said, teachers (and especially, I’ll add, administrators) at all levels within the district need to “come to the table” and come up with solutions. In my experience, a no-nonsense/no-excuses approach is the most successful, but given Milwaukee’s long history of progressivism I can’t see this happening.

We’ve seen the chaos sown in blue states and cities via progressive leadership (Los Angeles and Chicago, anyone?), and how the teachers’ unions are intertwined with progressive/Democratic politics (did you know American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten was a member of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules Committee for 19 years?). 

And then, of course, there’s the “research” out of blue states — like believing kids should be “well-behaved” makes one an “authoritarian.” C’mahn.

So is it a surprise that these areas’ overriding concerns for students are “equity,” “social and emotional learning” and the like … over tried-and-true (i.e. successful) learning methods?

But that’s what red states have been doing; for example, The Federalist reports Mississippi and Louisiana have prioritized the teaching of phonics for reading instruction … and now its students have “surpassed those in deeply Democratic states such as California and New York.”

It seems to me Ms. Williams was merely expressing many of the same frustrations against progressive leadership that voters did last November. And that is anathema for folks like Paff, Brandt, and Backes.

MORE: Pressure builds — even in blue states — to reform Schools of Education, reinstall phonics training

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Say Hello To My Li’l Friend

posted by Kevin McCullough at Townhall 

(posted before the air strike) 

There’s a reason America is the global superpower—and it isn’t because we host drag brunches on aircraft carriers or let confused TikTokers dictate foreign policy.

No, it’s because we’ve got a “li’l friend” stashed in the hangar—a 30,000-pound Bunker Buster bomb that can punch a hole straight through the gates of hell. And oh, by the way: only *we* have it. Only *we* can fly it. And only *one* man on planet Earth has the brass to use it properly.

And no, I’m not talking about Joe “Where Am I?” Biden.

I’m talking about President Donald J. Trump—the only man with the judgment, strength, and clarity to end Iran’s nuclear program without ever setting foot on Iranian soil.

Let’s be clear: what’s happening in the Middle East is not just “tensions.” This isn’t a lovers’ spat between two hot-headed neighbors. Iran is a terror state with apocalyptic dreams and a near-religious obsession with annihilating Israel—and anyone else who gets in the way. They’ve funded, trained, and armed Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and anyone else willing to strap a bomb to their chest in exchange for martyrdom points. And now they’ve finally ticked off the wrong country.

Israel’s been patient. More patient than I would be. But they’ve had it. And rightly so. Because they know what we know: time is not on our side. Every day Iran’s centrifuges spin, the world inches closer to mushroom cloud roulette.

The problem? Israel’s arsenal—while brave, bold, and brilliantly executed—can’t reach the deepest part of Iran’s nuclear program. The centrifuges are buried deeper than Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal.

Enter the MOP: the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. It’s 30,000 pounds of problem-solving diplomacy. It’s the kind of hardware you don’t need to fire twice—because there won’t *be* a second round.

We, the United States, are the *only* ones who can deliver it. Our stealth bombers can cruise at altitudes so high that Iran’s air defenses wouldn’t even know what hit them until they woke up to find their nuclear ambitions buried beneath 12 stories of radioactive rubble.

Trump—being Trump—won’t go trigger-happy. He never does. He’s not a neocon looking for regime change or a warmonger needing to prove anything. Trump’s doctrine is simple: no boots, no nation-building, no apologies.

And that’s what makes this plan brilliant.

You give Iran 12 hours. Maybe even 6. Tell 'em straight up: “We’re coming at 2:17am. Clear the area.” Then drop one—maybe two—of these beautiful bald eagles right into the heart of the Iranian nuke complex like it’s FedEx Overnight. After impact? Wheels up. Everyone home for breakfast. No invasion. No Americans on the ground. No Stars and Stripes flying over Tehran.

Let the Iranian people—who’ve suffered for decades under the tyrants in turbans—decide how to rebuild. If they want to keep the regime that got their scientists turned into salsa, that’s on them. If not, maybe they find someone less interested in funding global terror and more interested in, say, running water.

Remember what Trump did in Syria? Assad crossed the red line Obama drew in crayon. Trump didn’t hesitate. While enjoying a lovely slice of chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago, he looked up from dessert, gave the order, and boom—59 missiles turned Assad’s chemical weapons depot into a pothole. He wiped the smirk off a dictator’s face without a single American casualty. And then went back to dessert.

That's leadership.

That’s what deterrence looks like.

Compare that to the current approach: holding hands with the U.N., sending pallets of cash, and praying the ayatollahs find inner peace during Ramadan. The Biden years were the geopolitical equivalent of a school counselor whispering, “Let’s use our words,” while Iran sharpened a knife behind their back.

Trump understands peace through strength. He doesn’t want war, but he also doesn’t send “strongly worded letters” to terrorists. He sends bombs. Big ones. And they work.

Make no mistake, the moment we drop one of these MOPs on Iran’s nuke labs, two things happen: 1) Israel breathes a sigh of relief, and 2) China and North Korea start reconsidering their weekend plans.

This isn't just about Iran. It’s about sending a global message: If you dig deep to build death machines, we’ll dig deeper. And we’ll do it from the sky, without ever sending a Marine to knock on your door.

And the name? The MOP? Yeah, fitting. Because after this drop, all Iran will have left… is a broom and a dustpan.

So let’s stop pretending we’re negotiating with rational actors. Let’s stop waiting for international consensus from people who think gender-neutral pronouns stop missiles. And let’s start letting our enemies know: America still has teeth. And under Trump, those teeth bite.

As Scarface would say—Say hello to my li’l friend.

And this time, he’s flying first class.

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Criminals Going High-Tech: Big Surge in Chinese-Made Signal Jammers

Ward Clark reporting for RedState 

Many years back, a buddy of mine was dating the daughter of an Iowa State Trooper. The father was actually a pretty cool guy and welcomed visitors to his home, perhaps hoping to influence some young minds. One of the pearls he dropped on us was that, in his career in law enforcement, he had discovered that every criminal he had encountered had three personality traits in common. Proportions varied, but all three were always there. Those traits were: Greedy, mean, and stupid.

Not all crooks, though, are completely stupid. Some of them are savvy enough to use technology to aid them in their depredations, which makes it very concerning indeed that there has been a dramatic spike in the use of Chinese-made signal jammers to prevent victims from calling for help.

There’s been an 830% increase in the amount of U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizures of Chinese-manufactured signal jammers since 2021, posing a threat to law enforcement operations, according to a new Department of Homeland Security warning.

DHS issued the warning to law enforcement saying the increased amount of signal jammers being smuggled into the U.S. poses "a threat to public safety and civilian aviation.” CBP “has seen a roughly 830% increase in seizures since 2021, despite Chinese companies’ attempts to subvert inspection,” it said.

830 percent! That's a lot of new jammers. Consider what this means for the crooks, in that the use of a jammer could prevent victims from calling the police.

Signal jammers are often used “to disrupt a range of radio frequency channels, and pose a threat to emergency response, law enforcement and critical infrastructure,” the warning states.

Signal jammers are being used by a new organized theft ring that emerged under the Biden administration, South American Theft Groups (SATG). “South American illegal aliens jam calls to local police during home invasions or bank robberies in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia,” DHS said.

If this isn't a good argument for homeowners arming themselves, then I don't know what is. It's important to remember, and this is just another illustration of this, that ultimately the responsibility for our security lies not with the government, not with the police, but with us. And no Chinese jammer ever made will interfere with an incoming .45 caliber attitude adjustment.

Here's the thing, though: To jam a signal, that means that the jammer would have to emit a signal itself. It's not possible to passively jam a signal; a jammer would have to emit some kind of white noise to interfere with mobile phone or radio signals, and one would presume that these are on quite different bands. Wouldn't it be possible to track the use of these jammers and home in on them? Use of such a jammer would surely seem to be an attempt to interfere with law enforcement.

Technology has its upsides and its downsides, and this would seem to be one of the latter. Law enforcement is, after all, an arms race; crooks try to find ways to leverage new technology, and law enforcement has to respond. This is one more example of just that.

Maybe the Department of Homeland Security should talk to the Mossad. I seem to remember a neat little trick the Israeli intelligence service pulled off with pagers...

Good Video Summary of President Trump’s Focus on Deconstructing the Global Order

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

I am not promoting the group, I am promoting the message within this video.  As you watch Susan Kokinda discuss the events from the recent G7, and put the remarks by President Trump into context, you might find what she’s saying sounds incredibly familiar.

This recap may sound familiar because it is almost identical to what CTH has outlined {SEE HERE} and {SEE HERE}.  So familiar in fact, it might sound as though myself and Susan Kokinda have discussed these issues; we have not.  This video is the first time I have heard of her and her group, Promethean Action.

That said, what Mrs Kokinda outlines is precisely what is visible in the details of President Trump’s activity.  While I might take exception to some of the lingo used, the substance of her explanation is spot on; particularly accurate is her overlay of how President Trump is approaching Russian President Vladimir Putin when contrast with Trump’s economic vision.  This is well worth watching.

What Susan Kokinda says about the Senate opposition to President Trump, vis-a-vis the Big Beautiful Bill, is also accurate. It is within the BBB policy legislation that we see the springboard for the American economic revival. However, the larger program for cooperative nationalism is also why the same opponents to the BBB agenda are aligned to keep President Trump and President Putin apart.

If the USA (Technology, innovation, consumer market) forms a strategic alliance with Russia (resources, capacity, consumer market), and then negotiates a reciprocal trade and manufacturing arrangement with China (transformation to a USA manufacturing return), the geopolitical world order is economically changed.  Here at home, the USA is no longer a service driven economy; a natural balance is restored.   The multinationals will fight this hard. There are trillions at stake.

Russian markets open to USA goods, technology and innovation services.  USA markets open to Russian raw materials and strategic partnerships. With expanded alternatives, China then has to compete for manufacturing etc. Controlled markets become free markets.  The focus is on expanded economics, not war and friction.

Volodymyr Zelensky Demands $40 Billion in Annual Budget Support for Ukraine

This is madness.  Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sends a twitter message as if he’s ordering coffee from the guy down the street, telling NATO members not to forget to send him his $40 billion in “budgetary support.”

[SOURCE]

Budgetary support means we pay for the operational cost of Ukraine government, including govt payrolls, pensions, healthcare services, welfare and social services for the people in Ukraine.

The crazy thing is, unless Trump stops it, our congress will give it to him.  And even if Trump tries to stop it, congress will demand the payment as part of their appropriations process.

Maybe it’s just me, but the in-your-face hubris of it is, well, just off-the-charts.  As if we don’t have important priorities here at home that could better use these taxpayer funds.

Suspicious Cat, has, well, frustrate!