How Do They Come Up With So Many Stupid Democrats?

Townhall 

You have to hand it to Democrats, no matter how many times you are certain they can’t do something – be more corrupt, act sleazier, hate the country more, be idiots – they find a way to exceed what anyone thought was possible. In a sick way, it’s an accomplishment – a perverse one, but an accomplishment nonetheless. It’s enough to make you wonder if there is some sort of performance enhancing drug that lowers the bar to the point that you’d need a shove not to clear it. 

The idea of a human being running a 3-minute mile was, for decades, laughable…until Roger Bannister did it in 1954 – finishing in an astonishing (for the time) 3 minutes 59.4 seconds on May 6th. Until then, no one had done it, as the speculation was a human being simply could not run fast enough for that long. In about 100 years of timing running races, no one had ever done what was considered impossible. On June 21 of the same year, the “impossible” record was broken by John Landy. Since then, the record has been broken 17 more times, with countless more runners besting 4 minutes regularly now. 

No one could do it…until someone did it, then everyone started doing it and have been doing it ever since, proving that nothing is beyond the reach of human beings if we really apply ourselves. 

Unfortunately, while that is true for the good things in life, it is also true for the bad, and the bad gets really bad when it comes to intelligence and members of the Democratic Party.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flew to Munich, Germany, this week to participate a security conference where she and her fellow Democrats whine about their claim that the President is a fascist in the home of fascism, “genocide” in Gaza in the places where real genocidal plans were hatches, and climate change in person when they could have simply done a Zoom call and saved the “carbon footprint” of the flight.

What’s the fun in that? You don’t get a “free” trip to a conference in Europe for you and your fiancé if you just video chat in your appearance. I’m not saying she brought her finance with her to Germany, but I do think it weird she’s been “engaged” for years, whatever the reason, when a secondary effect of that is her fiancé’s finances do not need to be included in her financial disclosure forms. With her fellow leftists having their net worth skyrocket to the multi-millions due to the “earnings” of their spouses and all the justified scrutiny that comes with that, I’m just saying that putting off a wedding for as long as possible, in my opinion, makes political sense.

You gotta make hay while the Sun is shining, I guess, and certainly before the sunlight creeps into where all the money comes from…if that’s what is happening. (Just a guess…or one of them doesn’t really want to get married and that’s why they’ve been engaged since 2022.)

In Munich, this intellectual leader of the left was asked a simple question about whether or not the United States would come to the aid of Taiwan if China invaded, as they are desperate to do. This not-ready-for-prime-time-person responded with what could easily be described as an attempt to make Joe Biden look like a genius and Kamala Harris come off like a great orator. 

AOC answered, “Um...you know...I think that uh...this is...such a, ya know, I think that...this is a um...This is, of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States, uh, and, I think, what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point, and we want to make sure that we are moving in all our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise.”

Can you believe Jeopardy hasn’t called yet?

How does a political party produce someone so, um…articulate and special? How does a political party, that same political party, produce a series of “victims” of a child sex predator – who was a proud member of that same political party – who became entangled with that predator not when they were children, but when they were adults? Can’t they even stage a photo-op properly? 

They can’t, because they don’t mean any of it. Do you really think AOC likes this country or cares about Taiwan or anyone who isn’t obedient, for that matter? Does any part of you genuinely think there is a single Democrat in the House who cares at all about who Jeffrey Epstein abused? 

Democrats didn’t say a word about any of them for 4 years, now they can’t shut up about it. But only about the one man in the “files” who is only complained about by Epstein, as President Trump booted him from his life more than 20 years ago. Everyone else in there is a Democrat – all the people who stuck with him after his time under house arrest for soliciting sex from minors are Democrats. That’s not a coincidence, it’s a pattern. It’s who Democrats are.

So, it’s not that the party produces idiots, although it certainly is a magnet for them, it’s that it attracts horrible people who are awful to the children, women, animals, plant life and everything else that is not them or could hinder their goosestepping march to power. It’s not the 3-minute mile, more like the 3-point IQ. It’s who Democrats are.

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Trump Is Turning Around a 100-Year-Old Problem

American Thinker 

America’s ills began in the early twentieth century. Trump has his work cut out for him.

We are becoming gutless and uninspired. 

• Endless giveaways
• Subsidies to big corporations, as well as to millions of illegals
• Dilution of Medicare (as it becomes Medicare Advantage)
• Millions of extra dollars to upgrade failing education, which keeps failing more and more
• Insider trading by our legislators
• People buying online instead of shopping, thus ignoring suitability based on the five senses
• Poor eating habits based on instant foods and takeouts
• Children not active outdoors, but instead on electronic devices day and night
• Declining belief in God, with associated decline in church attendance
• Overeating from boredom, with concomitant obesity
• Manipulation of the voting habits of the population by Madison Avenue and online video clips (many of A.I. origin — i.e., not based in reality)
• Fewer people reading articles or books
• Couples shacking up instead of building a family-focused future

The list goes on and on.

How did we get to such a sickening array of missteps and confused values?  To understand this quality-of-life decline, we must turn our historical telescope back in time to the early twentieth century, and in particular to the administration of Pres. Woodrow Wilson.  During his administration, we see the passage of a federal income tax amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, and the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act (I almost typed “Antitruth Act”).

The income tax became a giant step toward socialism and a buy-in to the John Stuart Mill philosophy of utilitarianism — the greatest good for the greatest number.  The initiative of the individual consumer and the ingenuity of inventors and businessmen for wealth creation was, with the income tax, to be supplemented by government involvement in the economy.  The new flow of dollars into the government would be a new source of government (third-party) leverage in addition to the interactions of buyers, sellers, employers, and employees.

The Democrats became the party of socialism lite.  They rejected socialism, which advances the ideas and ideals of government control and dominance of industry, but retained the vision of government as an essential third party or player in a successful economy.  This replaced the ideals of initiative and hope lying with the individual businessman, inventor, consumer, and self-interested worker.  Adam Smith’s laissez-faire understanding of the economic order began to be replaced. 

At around the same time, the Clayton Act was passed.  It was to provide antitrust leverage against the so-called bogeymen of monopoly and oligopoly, which had begun to grip American life in the 1890s and were expressed in the Sherman Act, which, however, proved to be too vague for effective antitrust challenges posed to consumers.  The terminology of the Clayton Act was more lucid than Sherman and was a much better government tool for prosecutingso-called corporate malefactors.

The third prong of this new Democrat party initiative to integrate more government involvement (garbed in “regulation” as opposed to socialist “control”) was to regulate various banking practices by creating the Federal Reserve.  The Federal Reserve was set in place purportedly to prevent or recover from bank failures, which periodically beset our banking system.  Yet within less than twenty years after the creation of the Federal Reserve, we went into the worst depression the country had ever seen.  We witnessed the collapse of banks and a temporary shutdown of banks by the Roosevelt administration to prevent even the largest banks from collapsing.

Where was the money to recover from this dismal development of the Great Depression to come from?  Our president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, under the semi-socialist spell of the economist John Maynard Keynes, took the economy off the gold standard so that more and more dollars — actual bills and coins — could be minted and printed and distributed to banks so they could make more loans.  Those loans would go to business start-ups or expanded recovery production of existing companies that had retrenched by limiting production and hirings in the early 1930s.

However, by 1938, fully nine years after the November 1929 stock market collapse, unemployment was still at 19% only a little lower than what it was in 1932.  Only our armament for WWII provided the upsurge of economic growth that renewed us after the 1929 crash.

The above three reforms of our economic system together represented a giant step away from the ideals of a state- and local-centered USA and a reliance on individual initiative and responsibility, which were hallmarks of the founding of the country.  The steps taken by Wilson, while not full blown socialism or communism, went much farther in the direction of federal participation (actually, the word “intrusion” would be better) into the economic affairs of “the people.”

These actions opened the door to power struggles over the federal government’s role in economic development and regulations, which ballooned after Wilson in the New Deal and beyond the New Deal’s many “alphabet agencies” to the plethora of federal departments that now interpenetrate the state and local practices in almost every sphere of life.  I call this massive bureaucratic entrenchment The Authoritarian Family Model.  It is not the Freedom Model of laissez-faire Adam Smith Capitalism.   

In the late 1980s, this writer had a clerical job at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the clerical employees had to go to a workshop that emphasized that we, as employees, were “family.”  One of the participants raised his hand and made a compelling point.  He said, “I can be fired from the Port Authority, but I can’t be fired from my family, so — no — I can’t think of the Port Authority as my ‘family away from home.’”

Pres. Trump, an example of the hard-nosed, freewheeling (and sometimes crude and rude) businessman, is pushing back against this authoritarian model of the government.  In the midst of the chaos and decline resulting from the authoritarian model, we see markers of recovery.  The Dept. of War is promising to be more battle-ready and less DIE-ready. Under Pete Hegseth, the military’s socio-ethnic-gender goals have been abandoned.  Further, Trump instinctively knows we want a secretary of health who is healthy, not a man wearing a dress.  The dress clearly points to a mental health problem (not a mental health solution) and thus diminishes the vigor and focus of our federal government.

Instead of printing more and more money to pay the interest on skyrocketing debt and thereby creating price inflation, widespread tariffs have been negotiated and implemented by the Trump administration.  This has created an income stream for the country that became gradually diminished after the federal income tax was established during the Woodrow Wilson term of office.  The president realizes we need to restore solvency — meaning reducing our debt — by having enhanced cash flows and input with less borrowing and less printing. That means cutting federal expenses and inviting greater and greater investment.

President Trump, based on a lifetime of investments, deal-making, and business success, is trying to restore a market-based direction for the American economy.  

Trump ends the era of fake asylum claims

American Thinker 

Probably the most galling thing about Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's open borders was in the surge of fake asylum claims, fraudulently filed, with a whopping fifty percent of them accepted by roundheeled activist Biden administration judges as real. 

Illegal migrants paid nothing to file them. NGOs and the United Nations coached them in how to use loopholes to win their claims, and Biden's judges were ready with their rubber-stamps, putting the illegal migrants on the express lane for public benefits, with immediate eligibility. With an acceptance rate like that and the payoff that followed, it's no wonder so many illegals tried their luck on this track. Biden even made it easy and convenient for them, through the no-vet CBP One app.

Fortunately, the Trump administration has seen through the problem.

According to the New York Post:

Nearly 80 percent of migrants seeking asylum in the US were sent packing in the last quarter, as immigration judges take a tougher line under the Trump administration, which has made it a priority to restore the border.

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“It’s having a real impact. The Trump Administration is doing all kinds of things to drive down the asylum grant rate,” said Andrew Arthur, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Policy and a former immigration judge.

Michael Cutler, who spent 30 years as an agent at the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, cheered the return of common-sense border policy.

“If you look at what asylum is supposed to be, it’s a very narrow definition . . . You have to be able to demonstrate a credible fear and be able to articulate that credible fear of persecution,” he told The Post.

It's immensely welcome news. The surge in fake asylum claims did a lot to crowd out real asylum claims, which involve true persecution by the state instead of living in a bad neighborhood and wanting a better-paid job, which is what the bulk of these fake cases ultimately were.

The Post reported that Trump got rid of about 100 Biden-appointed immigration judges, who had been waving almost every case through, and appointed military judicial people to take their place, people who knew how to read what a law said instead of what their feelings said.

That apparently worked, and presages the future of judicial reform on all matters, which is in the necessity of getting rid of politicized activist judges. 

With 80 percent of the phony asylum claims now being thrown out, word gets back to illegal aliens' homeland that the law means the law now and not what the nice NGO lady says. That will disincentize illegal migrations just as surely as lawless judges with political agendas incentivized it. Nothing gets a migrant's attention better than the idea that if you come illegally, you will not be allowed to stay.

Kudos to the Trump team for recognizing this reality.

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From Chuck To AOC, Here Are The Worst People Of The Week

From Chuck Schumer’s race-baiting false equivalencies to Lisa Murkowski being, well, Lisa Murkowski, it was a great week for bad people. 

The Federalist

Yes, the weekend is finally here. Does it feel like a century since the Super Bowl and Bad Bunny’s carnival of crotch-grabbing and “dry-humping”? Muy malo. 

Speaking of very bad, the week in politics was filled with a parade of awful. From Chuck Schumer’s race-baiting false equivalencies to Lisa Murkowski being, well, Lisa Murkowski, it was a great week for bad people. 

Here are the Worst of the Worst from the week that was. 

Chuck ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Schumer

Did you know that asking people to present identification before they vote is like making some voters drink out of separate water fountains and attend segregated schools? Well, at least it is to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his band of insane Democrats who went about this week painting the SAVE America Act as “Jim Crow 2.0.” Yes, the people who have accused anyone who doesn’t agree with them of being a racist — or a Nazi — are comparing a bill that requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote to a “modern-day poll tax.” 

Bad news for the Chuckster. The vast majority of Americans don’t agree with him and his election-integrity deniers. Polls routinely show voter ID is an 80/20 issue in America, including a robust majority of Democrats who back it. Must be racists. Well, it was the Democrat Party that gave America Jim Crow laws. 

RINO on the Loose 

The unhinged left has some pretty powerful allies among the RINO right. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, of course, is already on record opposing the SAVE America Act and its predecessor voter verification bill. Murkowski believes her own press releases, that she’s being a “principled” member of the U.S. Senate. She’s just another congressional Democrat in “moderate” clothing. Alaska is our biggest state, led by perhaps the worst Republican Senator in the country. 

‘Money and Power’ Mitch

But Murkowski has some stiff competition. Sen. Mitch McConnell, driven by his loathing of President Donald Trump and his love of the military-industrial complex, seems to be doing all he can to kill the election-integrity bill. As Federalist CEO Sean Davis put it, the Kentucky Republican’s “heel turn on election security is worse than spite. It’s about money and power.”

Andy Beshear’s Trans Gospel

McConnell’s fellow Kentuckian Andy Beshear likes to ask himself, what Jesus do? Jesus, according to the far-left Kentucky governor, would be down with so-called “sex changes” for children. In 2023, Beshear vetoed a bill that “protected women’s restrooms and shielded kids from ideology-driven medical procedures,” as The Federalist’s Joshua Monnington noted this week. 

The governor likes to invoke the New Testament when he’s attempting to kill such protections, particularly “that parable of the Good Samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor.” He takes that parable to mean that our neighbors who want to mutilate the genitals of children should be celebrated, not sanctioned. “Suffer the little children” takes on a whole different meaning in Beshear’s gospel. 

Shri Law

Our neighbor from India, Rep. Shri Thanedar, wouldn’t be so neighborly to Trump administration officials should Democrats seize power. At a committee meeting this week, the India-born congressman from Michigan threatened to prosecute Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott when President Donald Trump is out of office.

“You better hope you get pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year,” Thanedar declared, clearly showing that English is indeed his second language. 

As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman wrote, the irony of a congressman accusing federal immigration agents of “disregarding” the law because they arrest people who have disregarded the law is rich. It also underscores that Democrats are quite fond of politically weaponizing justice against their political enemies, and they will enthusiastically do so again once they’re back in power. 

Swalwell’s Lie-Ridden Anti-ICE Lecture

Now comes Rep. Eric Swalwell. The California Democrat stayed faithful to his hypocritical oath this week when he imperiously lectured Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons on immigration enforcement. Swalwell parroted the false narrative that officers “grabbed” a 5-year-old boy and used him as “bait, forcing him to knock on his own door so they could arrest his father.” Some lackey stood behind Swalwell with a blown-up photo of the boy as the bloviator repeated the lie and smugly asked Lyons if he would resign. 

“No, sir, I won’t,” Lyons said. 

“Why not?” Swalwell queried. 

“Because that child that you’re showing right there, the men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him and ran from law enforcement,” Lyons said. 

It’s not clear whether the congressman’s Communist China overlords were pleased with his performance. 

AOC on Foreign Policy (I Laughed, Too)

On the insufferable front, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wanted everyone to know that she gets to go to the U.S.-European security conference in Munich, and she’s going to, like, crush it, girl boss-style. The bobblehead representing one of the most leftist stretches in blue state New York actually spoke (unfortunately) on two panels at the event — again proving to the world in real time that U.S. academic achievement has plummeted over the last few generations. 

In advance of her conference appearance AOC’s “foreign policy adviser” told NBC News she would use the platform to offer a “’working class perspective” on the intersection of domestic and foreign policy.” Unsurprisingly, she ended up taking shots at Trump, fumbling through Kamala-style word salads, railing against the “scourges of authoritarianism,” and cackling about taxing the rich. The Westchester County girl (notwithstanding AOC’s “Bronx Girl” facade) and Green New Deal warrior also dropped a huge carbon footprint on her jet ride to Germany. 

‘Bi-Person’ Breezy 

Maybe AOC will bump into U.S. Olympic skier Breezy Johnson while hobnobbing with the European jet set. Pardon me, “Bisexual” Olympic skier Breezy Johnson. Those are apparently Breezy’s preferred pronouns. While competing in the Winter Games, she felt it necessary to tell the world which ways she swings. What do sexual proclivities have to do with the Olympics? Nothing. But politics doesn’t either, yet that hasn’t stopped curlers and freestyle skiers from sharing their political opinions. Sometimes unsolicited. 

As a freshly minted “bi-person,” “bisexual” Breezy says it’s important everyone gets the 411 on her sexual identity because “they deserve to know that the world of champions is not just comprised of straight white people.” None of us deserves that. No one asked for that. But “bi-person” Breezy had to use her world platform to brag about her “bisexuality.”

New Nick Shirley Video Interviews People, Some Children, Living on Skid Row in CA

Townhall 

Journalist Nick Shirley went to California to interview migrants, some of whom are children, who are living in tents on the street in Gavin Newsom’s California. 

Shirley, who exposed rampant fraud in Minneapolis childcare programs, interviewed people and children apparently living on Skid Row who said they had spent years living in California. 

“We came here to change our lives and now we are living like dogs,” the couple told Shirley. "We aren’t animals; we’re human."

The video shows the reality of people who emigrated from Colombia and other countries who came to California seeking a better life, but who live on the street. Shirley is fluent in Spanish. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is running for president in 2028 in a crowded field. Other Democrat candidates running in 2028 are Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin. 

'We Send Billions to Dead People': Kennedy Stuns in NewsNation Interview

Townhall 

Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA, interviewed with Katie Pavlich on NewsNation about a bill recently signed into law that aims to stop the federal government from sending money to dead people.

Kennedy said that Donald Trump’s administration is stopping the federal government from sending money to dead people. 

Trump signed the bill, S. 269, the “Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act,” which aims to permanently allow the sharing of death data to prevent and recover improper payments, on Feb. 10. 

The bill allows the Social Security Administration to share the Death Master File – a record of deceased individuals – with the Treasury Department’s Do Not Pay system. 

 A 2015 Inspector General Report identified 6.5 million people listed as living who were listed as being over 112 years old.

The change will help agencies better identify and stop improper payments, Kennedy told Pavlich.

The law also authorizes the Treasury to compare SSA death data with data held by other federal entities and share relevant matches with any paying or administering agency authorized to use the Do Not Pay system.

The reform is expected to save about $330 million from 2024 to 2026, according to the Treasury Department. Kennedy’s reform is expected to save at least $330 million from 2024 to 2026.

“Using dead Americans to rip off taxpayers is as low as it gets. Many Americans have seen these scams play out across the country and are tired of watching these fraudsters game the system—so am I. That’s why I wrote this common-sense bill to end this outrageous abuse permanently, and I’m grateful President Trump signed it into law so we can ensure taxpayer dollars go to living Americans who actually need our help,” said Kennedy.

He continued: “This place is…uhhh…some days it’s like the game room of a mental hospital up here.”

Kennedy described Washington D.C: “There are a lot of of intelligent people in Washington, but I call them high IQ stupid people.”“They’ve got lot of education, but no sense.”

Trump Plans to Crush 'Horrible, Disingenuous Cheater' Dems With Voter ID EO to Lock Down Midterms, Beyond

RedState 

President Trump announced late Friday that he plans to pursue an executive order to enforce strict voter ID requirements nationwide, vowing it will happen for the 2026 midterms regardless of what happens with the Save America Act in Congress.

As RedState's Ward Clark reported, the Save America Act received a bit of a jolt in the arm with support from Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), bringing support to 50 votes. (Filibuster-proof passage still looks tough even at 50+1 with a VP JD Vance tiebreaker).

Still, the President is not going to rely on Congress to get this thing over the finish line. And it's hard to blame him on that front.

"The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform. "This was not what our Founders desired."

He promised to develop a legal argument that he'll articulate to the American people shortly.

"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" he promised.

In a fiery follow-up, President Trump blasted Democrats for opposing an issue that a vast majority of the American people on all sides of the political spectrum support, referring to the resistance party as "horrible, disingenuous cheaters."

He urged Republicans to vociferously embrace voter ID as a winning message.

"Republicans must put this at the top of every speech — It is a CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND!" Trump insisted.

"This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW! If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted," his post continued. "I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order."

Already anticipating the pushback such an order would generate, the President expressed hope that the Supreme Court would view his order through the lens of trying to save the nation through secure elections. He went on to explain exactly why voter ID is so important to secure the midterms and what will happen if Democrats win bigly.

It should frighten every American.

"These Corrupt and Deranged Democrats, if they ever gain power, will not only be adding two States to our roster of 50, with all of the baggage thereto, but will also PACK THE COURT with a total of 21 Supreme Court Justices, THEIR DREAM, which they will submit easily and rapidly when they immediately move to terminate the Filibuster, probably in their first week, or sooner," Trump said.

"Our Country will never be the same if they allow these demented and evil people to knowingly, and happily, destroy it."

No lies detected.

Voter ID is a non-controversial issue. Americans want it. Even Democrat voters want it. And, despite Democrats suggesting minorities and women aren't bright enough to clear the hurdles to secure identification, every demographic wants it.

According to a Pew Research poll last summer, 83% of Americans favor requiring all voters to show government-issued photo ID to vote, including 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats. Just 16% of Americans are in opposition.

CNN data guru Harry Enten explained that the people are on board with Nikki Minaj and that support runs "across races."

“The bottom line is this: Voter ID is NOT controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is NOT controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race," Enten said. "The vast majority of Americans agree.”

In a sane world, a bill like the Save America Act would zip through both chambers of Congress and be on the President's desk in short order. Instead, hampered by Democrats who seek to allow fraud to run rampant and Republicans who oftentimes struggle to find a spine to fight back, it has to be dragged across the finish line by the President.