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Thursday, November 6, 2025
If Arctic Frost Perpetrators Don’t Go To Jail, Conservatives Will
To conservatives, Arctic Frost is a scandal. To Democrats, it’s their new baseline. And the only way to stop it is to punish them.
If you’re reading this, there is a good chance Joe Biden’s Justice Department tried to throw you in prison.
That is the inescapable conclusion of whistleblower documents from inside the DOJ and FBI about the Biden Administration’s Arctic Frost operation. It turns out Arctic Frost was never the inquiry into Donald Trump and Jan. 6 that Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith said it was. Rather, it was an unprecedented, illegal conspiracy of partisan prosecutors and FBI agents to surveil, harass, and prosecute “the entire Republican political apparatus” for the crime of being conservative.
There has never been anything like it in American history — a sweeping, open-ended, fishing expedition conducted by the regime against the opposition party. Arctic Frost weaponized the federal criminal justice system not just to defeat Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but to permanently rig the U.S. political system against the GOP.
The details are mind-boggling.
Smith secretly surveilled the telephones of at least eight Republican senators without any reason to believe any of them committed a crime. He issued 197 subpoenas to 430 individuals and organizations, none of whom had anything to do with the J6 trespassers. Indeed, some of targeted groups didn’t even exist, or hadn’t even started operations, on Jan. 6, 2021!
The abuses compound from there. Smith got a left-wing federal judge to gag phone companies from telling senators about the subpoenas — possibly a federal crime in its own right. Nor were Smith’s subpoenas restricted to information relevant to J6. On the contrary, Smith demanded wholesale access to private donor information, banking records, and even contacts with the media. Subpoenaed groups and individuals spent millions of dollars in legal fees just trying to comply.
Never mind that this two-year rectal exam of the conservative movement yielded zero evidence of wrongdoing. The investigation — the harassment, the spying, the legal fees, the intimidation — was the punishment.
Smith insists that his investigative tactics were routine and consistent with DOJ procedure. In this, at least, Republicans should take Smith at his word. This is exactly how Democrat Justice Departments plan to treat Republicans going forward.
Which brings us to the most terrifying part of the Arctic Frost shakedown: how close it came to succeeding. If Donald Trump had not won the presidency last November, Smith’s illegal dragnet would still be trawling the American Right. The individuals and organizations he spied on would be on trial today. Or already behind bars.
If Kamala Harris had won, conservative donors would have been indicted, groups de-banked, and activists arrested. Republican presidential aspirants, members of Congress, and conservative justices would all now be targets of new, secret FBI investigations.
If that sounds far-fetched, remember: Arctic Frost did not almost happen. It happened. And its perpetrators are still at large on the public payroll.
The biased, partisan judges Democrats would need to help them persecute innocent Republicans are already on the bench. The same goes for the FBI agents, DOJ prosecutors, and career bureaucrats who worked on the Arctic Frost witch hunt. They’re still in their jobs, gaining seniority, and waiting for the next Democrat president to let them finish what they started.
To conservatives, Arctic Frost is a scandal. To Democrats, it’s their new baseline. The question is: What are Republicans going to do about it?
The usual answer — fiery press conferences, strongly worded letters, performative congressional hearings — won’t cut it. In case anyone didn’t notice, the left is not chastened by their failure to stop Trump, but emboldened and radicalized.
See their embrace of violent political rhetoric. See the presidential pardons they auto-penned for themselves. Their psychotic reaction to the shootings of President Trump and Charlie Kirk. See their celebration of Jay Jones, Virginia’s new Democrat attorney general, who fantasized about murdering Republican politicians and their children.
Republicans need to understand the Rubicon that Democrats crossed last year — the existential threat they still face from the Arctic Frost left.
There are only three reasons politicos respect norms and abide by the Constitution: duty, religion, and fear. Among Democrat elites today, the first two are obsolete.
First, they see themselves as partisan activists rather than public servants. Their deepest loyalty and interests are not patriotic as such, but ideological.
Nor are secularized, irreligious leftists meaningfully restrained by their oaths of office. The Founders wrote and required the oath to bind public servants to the Constitution on pain of eternal damnation. No one involved in Arctic Frost, no matter how many bright lines they crossed, believes they could go to hell over it.
If duty and religion cannot deter Democrats from abusing power, that leaves only fear. Fear of retribution. Fear of justice. Fear of Republicans.
The only way to stop Democrat abuse of power is to use the law to punish it. The penalties must be swift, severe, and match the scale of the crime. They must put the fear of God into elites who think they are above the law.
The men behind Arctic Frost must be hauled before congressional committees and grand juries. The agents and attorneys who staffed it need to be terminated and disbarred. The judges who enabled it with illegal rulings need to be impeached and defrocked. Everyone on Arctic Frost who broke the law should be prosecuted, imprisoned, and stripped of their pensions. The signal must be sent to professional Democrats that this behavior will not win them elections or promotions, but cost them their careers.
None of this would be revenge or retaliation, whatever the media says. It would be what the law requires. It would be justice.
Arctic Frost was and remains a grave threat to the republic. The Republican Party needs to act like it, or it may be the last mistake it ever makes. Arctic Frost is what Democrats are willing to do. What are Republicans willing to do to stop it?
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/06/if-arctic-frost-perpetrators-dont-go-to-jail-conservatives-will/
The New York Times Is Terrified Of Mamdani, The Mayor It Helped Create
The New York Times helped create Zohran Mamdani, and now the paper is worried that he will do everything he says.
redit to The New York Times editorial board for pausing its longtime campaign to destroy the country, if even just for a day. Apparently the mayoral victory of a communist in its hometown is cause for some concern.
At the top of an editorial late Tuesday, the Times congratulated Zohran Mamdani for his winning campaign. Then the paper dove into a panicked plea for the Ugandan native to please, oh please not be everything he promised to be.
“In almost every area that featured prominently in the mayoral campaign,” wrote the Times, “Mr. Mamdani can improve life in New York by marrying his admirable ambition to pragmatism and compromise.” The paper told him to “start by building a leadership team light on democratic socialists and heavy on officials with records of accomplishment and proven management skills.”
I’m sure the little revolutionary will get right on top of that.
When a major media outlet says “pragmatism” and “compromise,” it means 2010-era Democrat preferences such as race quotas and high taxes on middle-income earners to fund “green energy” projects. But those are the very garbage policies that turned a once-great city into a dump, along with the brilliant 2020 Democrat trend of “defunding the police.”
Outside of New York, voters saw it wasn’t working and elected Donald Trump twice. But instead of approaching the president’s appeal and platform with an open mind, which might have encouraged New Yorkers to do the same, the Times and the rest of corporate media viciously attacked him and his supporters as racist Putin lovers.
That hasn’t left the city with many options as residents have watched their rents increase by 30 percent in just four years, making everything else all but impossible to afford. If New York Times-approved Democrat policies weren’t working — even as the party establishment insisted they were — and the MAGA agenda is for Nazis, that left a Muslim foreigner who at least said, Yeah, these problems are catastrophic and the Democrat leadership has failed. I have a different way.
This has been a long time coming. In January, I noted Democrat leaders were setting their party up for the rise of their own Trump by telling voters everything they were doing was great, even as they could clearly see and feel it was the opposite. If voters couldn’t understand how much better their lives were under Democrat rule, it was the voters’ fault for not getting it.
The media helped get them to a place where an East African can become mayor in America’s biggest city and promise all the things that even The New York Times knows will lead to destruction.
redit to The New York Times editorial board for pausing its longtime campaign to destroy the country, if even just for a day. Apparently the mayoral victory of a communist in its hometown is cause for some concern.
At the top of an editorial late Tuesday, the Times congratulated Zohran Mamdani for his winning campaign. Then the paper dove into a panicked plea for the Ugandan native to please, oh please not be everything he promised to be.
“In almost every area that featured prominently in the mayoral campaign,” wrote the Times, “Mr. Mamdani can improve life in New York by marrying his admirable ambition to pragmatism and compromise.” The paper told him to “start by building a leadership team light on democratic socialists and heavy on officials with records of accomplishment and proven management skills.”
I’m sure the little revolutionary will get right on top of that.
When a major media outlet says “pragmatism” and “compromise,” it means 2010-era Democrat preferences such as race quotas and high taxes on middle-income earners to fund “green energy” projects. But those are the very garbage policies that turned a once-great city into a dump, along with the brilliant 2020 Democrat trend of “defunding the police.”
Outside of New York, voters saw it wasn’t working and elected Donald Trump twice. But instead of approaching the president’s appeal and platform with an open mind, which might have encouraged New Yorkers to do the same, the Times and the rest of corporate media viciously attacked him and his supporters as racist Putin lovers.
That hasn’t left the city with many options as residents have watched their rents increase by 30 percent in just four years, making everything else all but impossible to afford. If New York Times-approved Democrat policies weren’t working — even as the party establishment insisted they were — and the MAGA agenda is for Nazis, that left a Muslim foreigner who at least said, Yeah, these problems are catastrophic and the Democrat leadership has failed. I have a different way.
This has been a long time coming. In January, I noted Democrat leaders were setting their party up for the rise of their own Trump by telling voters everything they were doing was great, even as they could clearly see and feel it was the opposite. If voters couldn’t understand how much better their lives were under Democrat rule, it was the voters’ fault for not getting it.
The media helped get them to a place where an East African can become mayor in America’s biggest city and promise all the things that even The New York Times knows will lead to destruction.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/06/the-new-york-times-is-terrified-of-mamdani-the-mayor-it-helped-create/
Victor Davis Hanson Predicts What Mamdani’s Ideology Means For Future Of Democratic Party
All of these social experiments, even if they’re democratic, they end up repressive”
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson warned on Fox News Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s embrace of figures like Zohran Mamdani signals a deeper ideological shift.
Short interview at link with Laura Ingraham & VDH
Mamdani is a self-avowed socialist who built his campaign around wealth redistribution, expansive government programs, and class-based politics. Appearing on “The Ingraham Angle,” Hanson said modern Democrats led by progressives such as Mamdani and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez push policies that contradict human nature and repress people.
“Historically, socialists always come in after capitalists have made prosperity, and then they offer and improve prosperity,” Hanson told Laura Ingraham. “And it’s contrary to human nature. People like initiative. They like pride in their property. Some people like to work a lot and get compensated.”
Hanson said that when the state controls innovation and productivity, it inevitably crushes dissent and freedom.
“It gives you that freedom of opportunity. And then the society at large benefits, Laura, from all these millions of agendas and ideas that improve, that people are free to innovate and to take experiments and risk. But when the state monopolizes all of that, it’s contrary to human nature, and then it has to be repressive,” Hanson said. “So all of these social experiments, even if they’re democratic, they end up repressive. At the worst form, it’s no accident that the greatest mass murderers in history were Mao [Zedong] and [Joseph] Stalin, 30 million, 60 million, and they were radical communists, and even people like Hitler, National Socialist Party.”
Hanson added that every socialist system creates a privileged elite exempt from its own policies.
“Talented people who can help the economy, who are successful or demonized, they flee. People who want things for nothing come in. There’s open borders,” Hanson added. “They destroy personal liberty, and they stamp out any dissent or criticism. And there’s always an elite, the billionaire Castro brothers, Chavez and Maduro. They always are never subject to their consequences, their ideology. Here in California, we are becoming socialist.”
As Mamdani’s campaign gained traction after clinching the Democratic mayoral nomination in June, prominent party figures gradually lined up behind him. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul voiced her support in a September New York Times op-ed. By October, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries publicly endorsed Mamdani after months of sidestepping questions about his candidacy.
Mamdani, who was elected mayor of New York City Tuesday, said he will push for sweeping economic reforms — including a $30 minimum wage, city-operated grocery stores, and higher taxes on what he described as “richer and whiter” neighborhoods.
https://modernity.news/2025/11/05/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-what-mamdanis-ideology-means-for-future-of-democratic-party/
Russia Threatens to Send Venezuela Missiles That Can Reach DC
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that another drug cartel boat had been destroyed.
Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).
Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. The strike was conducted in international waters in the Eastern Pacific.
No U.S. forces were harmed in the strike, and two male narco-terrorists — who were aboard the vessel — were killed.
We will find and terminate EVERY vessel with the intention of trafficking drugs to America to poison our citizens. Protecting the homeland is our TOP priority. NO cartel terrorist stands a chance against the American military.
This is the 16th strike since attacks began on September 1; see Shots Fired! The US Military Sinks a Venezuelan Drug Runner (Updated). Sixteen boats and one submersible have been destroyed. At least 66 people have been killed. Seven of the strikes and eight of the boats have been destroyed in the Eastern Pacific. Along the way, all the yammering about violating the War Powers Resolution stopped (see Oh, No. The War Powers Posse Comes After President Trump Over His Attacks on Drug Cartels), perhaps because people finally figured out that no one really cares if drug runners get whacked.
While drug runners are getting clipped at the pace of nearly two a week, a lot of other stuff is happening.
Russian Ballistic Missiles to Venezuela?
According to the Telegraph, the Kremlin is considering sending the hypersonic (at least according to Russian press releases) Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile to Venezuela.
Alexei Zhuravlyov, the deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defence committee, warned that “the Americans may be in for some surprises” as he opened the door to a weapons transfer to Venezuela.
“I see no obstacles to supplying a friendly country with new developments such as the Oreshnik or, let’s say, the well-proven Kalibr missiles,” Mr Zhuravlyov told the Russian news website Gazeta.Ru.
The Oreshnik missile, translating as “hazel tree”, is capable of striking any target across the European continent in under an hour if launched from Russia or Belarus, according to Moscow.
By definition, an IRBM has a range of 1,800 to 3,400 miles. At the minimum distance, a missile fired from Caracas could hit New York City. If it can hit the maximum range, then Los Angeles would be at risk. Again, it is unclear who would use the missile, if not Russians, and moving this missile to Venezuela would definitely make the administration move to take that missile out.
Russian Air Defense Missiles Arrive
As I pointed out a few days ago, Russia is flowing weapons into Venezuela and making no secret of it. Venezuela and Russia have renewed their "strategic partnership," which, allegedly, "strengthens bilateral cooperation in political and economic spheres, including energy, mineral extraction, transport, and communications, as well as in security, counterterrorism, and counter-extremism." It is rumored that Russia has sent elements of the Wagner Group PMC to Venezuela. One has to view both of those as moves as propaganda efforts to 1) discourage U.S. direct action against Maduro, and 2) convince other client states that it will defend them; see Russia Flexes in Venezuela, but Does It Really Matter? However, it is clear that Russian aid has gone beyond the ephemeral to the lethal.
“Russian Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2E systems were just recently delivered to Caracas by Il-76 transport aircraft,” Alexei Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, told Gazeta.Ru earlier this week.
Only one Il-76 flight from Russia to Caracas has been reported. That would limit the number of anti-aircraft systems to a maximum of two, total. That is a symbolic contribution that is greatly outmatched by the forces it would be defending against. Venezuela probably has about 16 existing S-300 systems and perhaps 44 of the nearly prehistoric SA-3 systems. There is no open source documentation on the state of repair of those systems or the training status of their crews. Likewise, we don't know if Venezuelans have been trained on the Buk or Pantsir units or if Russians operate them.
U.S. Surges on Infrastructure Improvement
Massive improvements are underway at U.S. facilities in Puerto Rico.
GPS Jamming
Intense GPS jamming has been reported in coastal Venezuela since October 29. It has disrupted air and maritime navigation. The source hasn't been identified.
Sky News points the finger at the U.S., and I'm inclined to agree.
Carrier Strike Group 12 takes its good old time
A week and a half ago, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered Carrier Strike Group 12 from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean. Instead of arriving on station around Saturday, the strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford only cleared Gibraltar on Tuesday. I'm assuming there is a purpose for this slow walking.
Friend in Need
The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, an island nation located only seven miles off the Venezuelan coast, has thrown her lot in with the U.S. Her motive appears to be enlightened self-interest. If Maduro is ousted and a friendlier government is installed, Trinidad and Tobago will be much better off. Her name, oddly enough, is Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and she is Indian.
Ready for the Next Phase
As I've said before, I don't see how President Trump can back off or back down after assembling this military force. If he leaves with Maduro still in place, then his credibility will be shot at home and abroad. Russia's open support of Venezuela and talk about moving Russian missiles into Venezuela will become, at the hands of the Russian propagandists of America's "woke right," proof that Trump is afraid of Russian might. A U.S. retreat will be a green light for Maduro to settle scores with Trinidad and Tobago and actively push into the contested border region it has with Guyana.
In an earlier post, I laid out how Venezuela is a linchpin if Trump wishes to dominate the Western Hemisphere; see Trump's Campaign Against Venezuela Is Jumpstarting the Monroe Doctrine. Trump preparing to take the fight to the Mexican cartels (US Plans Covert Action Against Cartels in Mexico As the Government Seems Timid and Inept in Fighting Them) can't happen if he allows Maduro to walk away the victor.
While the improvements in Puerto Rico might be unrelated to events, it doesn't seem that way. The GPS jamming and the B-1B and B-52 flights toward Venezuela all seem to be testing Venezuela's early warning system, mapping their anti-aircraft radars, and determining how much power is needed to jam GPS and stop a response by the Venezuelan air force.
I don't believe the Ford's slow progress is the result of dallying in the Mediterranean. I think when it arrives on station, we will be entering the last phase of the operation.
'Game Changer': DHS Puts Masked Portland Wacktivists on Notice With Latest Announcement
One of the most notorious tactics employed by left-wing agitators during their so-called "peaceful protests" is to try and conceal their identities by wearing a bandana or scarf that partially covers their faces, ski mask-style facial coverings, or some type of character mask that obscures pretty much everything but their eyes.
More recently in Portland, however, the nightly rabble rousers have, in many instances, begun wearing full costumes in front of the city's ICE facility as a way to distract and deceive federal law enforcement, something we also saw during some of the "No Kings" protests in mid-October.
Here are a couple of examples:
To combat this, new rules that were set to take effect in January outside the facility are now in effect - rules that relate to masks and any other type of attempt by demonstrators to conceal their identities:
Here are more details from the DHS website. Make sure to click the link and go to the "prohibited conduct" section for the full list:
All persons are prohibited from engaging in the following conduct, on federal property or in areas outside federal property, that affects, threatens, or endangers federal property or persons on the federal property —
(a) Disorderly conduct, which includes, but is not limited to, assaulting, fighting, harassing, intimidating, threatening or other violent behavior, lewd acts, or the inappropriate disposal of feces, urine, and other bodily fluids.
(b) Wearing a mask, hood, disguise, or device that conceals the identity of the wearer when attempting to avoid detection or identification while violating any federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
(c) Creating a loud or unusual noise, noxious odor, or other nuisance.
According to Katie Daviscourt, who is an investigative reporter for The Post Millennial and who spoke at President Donald Trump's Antifa roundtable in early October, the advantages brought about by the new policy are a "game changer" in the ongoing battle between the leftist militants, their Democrat/media apologists, and the Trump administration:
In DHS' announcement on the matter, they noted that the "accelerated effective date" of the policy was due to the sharp uptick in violence against federal immigration officers and detention centers. Other highlights of the policy include:
- Expanded Charging Authority: FPS now has enhanced charging authority to address violations occurring both on and off property to the extent it affects federal property and the persons thereon.
- Modernized Prohibited Conduct: Regulates the unauthorized use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones), tampering with digital networks, and other security risks at and near federal facilities.
- Additional Prohibited Conduct: Adds additional charges for conduct affecting the safety, security, and orderly government functions on federal property.
- Clearer Public Notice: Standardized notices governing conduct will be posted at federal facilities.
- Collaboration with Stakeholders: The regulation emphasizes cooperation among federal tenants, security personnel, and local law enforcement.
If it's like everything else, the new policy surely will be challenged in the courts. In the meantime, at least ICE agents now have more tools at their disposal to combat the agitators and quell the lawless mobs that Democrats keep telling us don't exist.