President Trump Is Running a Tight Ship and Giving the Deep State a Run for Its Money

Townhall 

Memories tend to be short in American politics, but it was not so long ago that Donald Trump was a first-term president and, if we're to be honest, a flailing one at that. Trump's presidency began with the hiring and firing of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, which sent the signal early on that Trump was 1) highly responsive to media criticism, and 2) more than willing to jettison anyone in his circle who he viewed as a polling liability. The result was massive turnover throughout the four years of Trump's first term, a constant barrage of media attacks, and a steady drumbeat of policy reversals, as Trump struggled to find a tone and a direction that resonated with both the public and the D.C. in-crowd. Trump was also repeatedly hamstrung by the seditious behavior of his own appointees, who frequently leaked information to the press, and often ended up on the outside looking in, joining the ranks of Trump's bitterest critics and most formidable enemies. It was not, in short, an administration characterized by loyalty, efficiency, or consistency, to say the least.

That's why the smooth functioning of Trump's second-term administration comes as such a pleasant surprise to his supporters. Trump's Chief of Staff this time around is Susan Wiles, who effectively ran his 2024 presidential campaign. Wiles has kept Trump focused and dissuaded him from posting rash or self-destructive comments on social media. She has also helped Trump to assemble a team, centered on his cabinet, that is competent, deferential, and ideologically in sync with Trump and the MAGA movement.

Compared to Trump's first term, his second has featured remarkably few personnel changes. We saw one notable exception recently, with the ouster of Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, who was in charge of the DOJ's all-important antitrust division. Slater appears to have been encouraged to resign because of persistent conflicts with her boss, Attorney General Pam Bondi, potentially verging into insubordination and mendacity, not to mention selective leaking. She allegedly lied to Bondi about checking with intelligence officials before maneuvering to block a national security-related merger, which some intel experts said helped China at our expense.

Rather than let Slater hang around and become a cancer on his administration, though, Trump – or rather Bondi – engineered her quiet departure, without undue notice from the press or significant damage to Trump or the MAGA movement. Meanwhile, Bondi, despite a drumbeat of criticism from the media and Democrats, retains Trump's confidence and continues her efforts to bring justice to Deep State darlings like Adam Schiff, James Comey, et al. All this shows an administration capable of a deftness and a poise quite unlike the manic chaos that characterized its first iteration in 2017-2021.

None of this is to deny that the Democrats and the Deep State retain powerful assets in their relentless and ruthless drive to obstruct Trump and MAGA. The mainstream media remains as implacably hostile as ever, and it has succeeded in vilifying ICE, the Border Patrol, and Trump himself as far as half the country is concerned. Meanwhile, liberal judges, although they have not had the same success in sabotaging executive power as they did in Trump's first term, have nonetheless proved a significant obstacle. D.C. juries and grand juries, infected with TDS, have also made it nearly impossible to hold any prominent Democrat or leftist accountable for crimes he or she may have committed.

The fact remains that Trump haters seldom are in a position, in his second term, to dismiss the President as a bumbler or a buffoon. Quite the contrary, they hate Trump now more than ever, but because of his policy successesrather than his failures. They know that Trump now has a smart, articulate, and loyal team surrounding him, and that he is painstakingly executing a well-considered set of policies that is rolling back wokeism and bureaucratic overreach, while reaffirming our constitutional liberties, our national sovereignty, our common civilization, and our capitalist and competitive values.

This time, leftists are not aghast at Donald Trump and his presidency because they are train wrecks, but because they are sleek, modern, and powerful engines of change that threaten to obliterate everything in their path – the Deep State, most of all.

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Politics in the Quiet Hours

American Thinker 

It is still a common experience, spending time with friends and family despite opposing political views. There may be mutual consideration, with acceptable topics of conversation around shared interests. There may be the occasional proclamation, intended harmlessly for the ears of kindred spirits, that is met nonetheless with a small inner groan or eye roll. No doubt, it is easier to speak freely when all are of like mind, but supposing at least that we still love one another, it is worth examining the gulf between us and how it came about.           

I have pool-shooting friends who would not necessarily call themselves liberals, or “on the Left,” but rather see themselves as independent-minded. We get together on many evenings, and it has long been apparent that they do not like Donald Trump, as they themselves would concede and perhaps state in even stronger words. They know that I would rather shoot pool than argue over politics; as a result, I suspect that they would describe me as “on the Right” in some fashion.

My friends get their information through traditional mainstream media, through CNN, NBC, ABC, Fox, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, through local newspapers and radio, as we all did, once upon a time. In contrast, my information (what they would consider disinformation or misinformation) is mostly gleaned from internet sources and some podcasts.           

The other night, Bob asked how I thought “people on the Right” would react if something happened to Trump, and JD Vance were to become president; or, with Trump’s term in office ending, if Vance were to become the Republican nominee. I felt that most people who voted for Trump had very favorable views of Vance, possibly liking him even more than Trump himself. Bob found the assessment very surprising! The conversation continued civilly, following a logical path Bob was exploring: did Trump have any accomplishments at all? I took the bait and said that at least he had pardoned the J6 people. Well, it wasn’t long following that thread, before Charlie, listening on, could take it no longer and cried out, “These are conspiracy theories!”         

My friends agree that we all tend to seek out news and information from sources we find trustworthy and rational, and that we are all subject to some confirmation bias. There was a time, not so long ago, when we shared a similar sense of reality. Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gunman, Nixon was a crook, the two-party system was a rigged game. We saw the world through the same lens, and could openly question anything, because we were like minded. Did Roosevelt know ahead of time that an attack was coming on Pearl Harbor? Did the State Department green-light Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait? Was there really a hole on the ozone layer? Such topics never set us on either side of a divide; after all, we didn’t have access to boundless information, so it was mostly conjecture for its own sake. Even if some conspiracy theory or other were true, it wouldn’t have had any great bearing on how we saw the world overall. Some things may been unsettling, but we weren’t living in the Matrix.

The Internet has changed things. These days, our view of reality itself creates a gulf between us. Each of our clear lenses becomes a kaleidoscope, when the other looks through it.           

We would have opposing answers to the following examples:

• Are humans causing a crisis of global warming?
• Is there a “deep state” within the U.S. executive branch?
• Do intelligence agencies spy on everyone?
• Was there a coup against Trump in his first term?
• Is there widespread censorship of conservative viewpoints?
• Are many protests and activists funded through NGOs?
• Did the FBI stage the attempted kidnapping of Governor Gretchen Whitmer?
• Was the 2020 election stolen with fraudulent ballots?
• Were peaceful J6 protesters set up by federal assets and capital police?
• Was the government weaponized against conservatives?
• Has the country been intentionally flooded with millions of alien foreigners?
• Was Epstein working for foreign and domestic intelligence agencies?
• Did the U.S. provoke the war between Russia and Ukraine?
• Were state actors involved in the assassination attempt in Butler?
• Have childhood vaccines been harming people?

The list could go on and on.        

Occam's razor is double-sided. For my friends, the simplest explanation is that all the conspiracy theories have been debunked, that their own sources of information are telling them the truth, and that people who believe such nonsense have fallen prey to various forms of malinformation. The alternative is that there is some deep-state cabal and everyone’s in on it, from government to tech companies, to a widespread media, to a multitude of public and private organizations: it doesn’t even seem possible. For the other side, the machinery is in plain view, once you see it: forces are controlling the narratives, and that is the simplest explanation for otherwise inexplicable events. What was really more believable, that there was no natural immunity after COVID, or that people like Fauci wanted to ensure that everyone was vaccinated? A complex system can rise from simple interactions: personal interests around money, greed, and fear.

In his famous Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke noticed that belief becomes a question of probability. Does some proposition conform with what people already know? Who is testifying about it? How many people? Are they reliable? Do they know what they’re talking about? Why are they talking about it? What are their motives? Is there counter testimony? We may not have the information we need to weigh the odds, “and yet we are forced to determine ourselves on the one side or other.”

For my friends, anyone believing such conspiracy theories must be gullible, putting trust in unreliable sources. In the interest of protecting conservatives from the kind of predatory information that put Trump in office, they even embrace more censorship. In the past, we used to agree on freedom of speech and expression, at least.

Our beliefs have certainly diverged. I do not trust government, big tech, or the mainstream media. It started with censorship, sneaky algorithms at first. Now censorship has been embraced, not just by freedom-loving friends, but by the Supreme Court. How could I choose anything but the red pill?

In time, my friends may realize that the conservative viewpoint isn’t some cult of personality around Trump but instead has its roots in national pride and fiscal policy. They may even backtrack on some of their convictions, as they catch COVID despite the vaccines and boosters. But still, they want to live in an optimistic world. They make the appeal, that it would be better to pursue happiness in their blue-pill reality.

Admittedly, the conservative view is dark. But it’s not insurmountable, so long as friends can find common ground. So long as we notice, at the very least, that forces continually pit us against each other.

Democrats Are Obsessed With White Men

Townhall 

You can’t turn around these days without seeing some leftist somewhere whining about white men. As a white man, it seems like every Democrat is an obsessed stalker – it’s enough to make us want to take out a restraining order. I speak for all white men in this piece because, after watching a week’s worth of fawning coverage of the death of Jesse Jackson that glossed over or ignored his racism, affair (oh, the stories I’ve heard) and grifting, I remembered who he simply appointed himself a “leader” and the corporate media crowned him the spokesman for black people, so I’ll take the job for whitey for today.

What is the obsession the left has with us? It’s flattering, I suppose. We’ve done pretty well, though you never know it from the way Democrats talk about us. We created democracy, pretty much all the rights everyone enjoys and all the concepts behind them, in one way or another. Literally all the technology Democrats use to complain about us – television, computers, internet, print, etc. Hell, even the languages most liberals speak. We don’t sit around and demand everyone rub our feet over the endless list of things we’ve created and/or made better, but not being screamed at for the penis envy of bigots isn’t too much to ask.

But there’s no money in honesty with Democrats; bigotry pays well on the left and victimhood is their Bitcoin.

Bigot trash and child of criminal immigrants, Wajahat Ali, hates white men and can’t stop talking about us. Maybe he blames us for his corrupt parents and their role in the fraud scheme that got them sent to prison? He’s mad about it, rather than at them for their role in it – can’t really blame him, how wants to believe the worst about their parents? But we didn’t have anything to do with it.

Ali was whining to fellow bigot Joy Reid about us, “The fragility of mediocre, terrified white men is destroying America.” We’ve done pretty well for “mediocre, terrified” people, considering all we’ve accomplished. The enlightenment alone would be enough for us to rest on the way our subset of Greeks basically rest on creating democracy and feta cheese, but we didn’t.

And thank God we didn’t. Without us, medicine would consist of leeches and meteorology would basically be dancing and farming would be throwing babies into volcanoes. Considering how Democrats love abortion, maybe denying them that baby-throwing outlet is part of the reason they’re so angry?

Of course, when not whining about the existence of white men, Democrats whine about “cultural appropriation” and other garbage people use as cover for their hatred. Reid, now blonde – which I don’t think occurs in nature – has made a living with that. Every couple of months, there’s a new “outrage” over some which chick who got dreadlocks or braids, even though the Vikings were doing both long before anyone knew the world was round.

Actor John Leguizamo demanded whitey not go to his movies if they support the enforcement of US immigration laws. I was way ahead of him on that one, as were most people of all configurations. He’s not very good at acting, but does like playing “offended” by cultural appropriation.

“There should be a rule if you don’t like a certain ethnic group or race that you cannot eat their food or use their inventions that they’ve given the world,” the Hispanic man who played an Italian in the original Super Mario movie said. He then went on to list a bunch of food items white people shouldn’t be allowed to eat, weirdly ignoring how many of those food items are enjoyed by black and Asian people as well, or how the language of the region is from Spain…in Europe. Is he willing to give up Spanish? I somehow doubt it. Nor will he give up the Spanish influence in the food he listed, but whatever. 

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. There’s a reason these bigots simply spew their nonsense and never act on it, and it’s not the exclusive love of the culture they profess to be superior. I’ll take Johnny seriously when he demands to be cut out of “The Odyssey” by Christopher Nolan and returns the money he was paid to play Eumaeus, as I doubt he’s from Colombia like Leguizamo is.

If we can’t eat taco shells (I didn’t say tacos because where cows come from would be a disappointment to him), he can’t play…well, anything but Colombians.

It’s much more fun to impose the rules on others than it is to live under them, which is why that’s what Democrats of all configurations constantly do. To hell with all of them.

Democrats can blame us for everything under the sun to distract from their failures, but if you follow the policies and issues they spend their time whining about, at the root, you will find something a Democrat created and imposed on people. Some were created by white men, others by different shades of humans, all by liberals. They can say whatever they want about us, but we aren’t going to sit by and take responsibility for, or ownership of, their failures.

In the meantime, maybe we should look into that restraining order…

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Europe Retreats from Climate Change During International Energy Agency Global Meeting

Conservative Treehouse 

According to the Washington DC spin, the various EU energy ministers changed clean energy justification of ‘climate change’ during the International Energy Agency (IEA) summit because they were concerned the U.S. would pull out of the IEA group.  The IEA shifted to green energy as a security priority, no longer concerned with climate change.

However, given the situation with European energy costs and the severe problems they are having within their collective and individual economies, what they consider “national security” appears to be their need to control public outrage at the green energy consequences.

Affordable or ‘cheap’ energy production is directly linked to the underlying economy.  If energy production costs more, heating, electricity, fuel, transportation, just about everything costs more.  Energy prices drive consumer prices and that has become a serious problem for the U.K and EU who have chased the “Build Back Better” global energy reset.

With President Trump targeting reciprocity in a global trade balance, suddenly the economies of Europe, Canada and parts of Asia are feeling the impact.  Industrial manufacturing in Europe continues dropping and various sectors like the automotive manufacturing showcase the contraction.  The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or economic output within each of the contracting nations is putting hard data behind the problem.

Suddenly, with their economies now quivering, the IEA meeting in Europe drops the climate change objective as justification for their ‘renewable’ energy programs.  They blame the USA, but in reality, they appear to be trying to save themselves from feeling the full consequences of their action.

(POLITICO) – […] Ministers, senior officials and ministerial advisers told POLITICO that the event had cemented a long-running rebranding of the green transition that emphasizes the security benefits of renewables rather than their climate-saving potential. It’s a change that has been slowly building since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office 13 months ago, and that was turbocharged by Wright’s threats on Tuesday to quit the IEA and fears Washington might stop funding the body. The U.S. provides around 14 percent of the IEA’s funding.

“With diplomacy it’s about looking for those places where you can work together,” said one European energy ministry official present at the closed-door discussions. “If the word ‘climate change’ is a red drape for a bull then don’t use it.”

The emphasis on security — not climate change — was everywhere.

“Renewable energy is not about tackling climate change, it’s about economic growth and affordable and low energy prices,” Austrian State Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Zehetner told POLITICO on the sidelines of the event. Zehetner stressed however that Europeans wouldn’t be “blackmailed” by the U.S.

Her comments reflect that independently of the U.S., Europe has itself moved away from the climate fervor that dominated Brussels policymaking in the first part of this decade. Still, despite some backsliding on green rules, the EU remains fundamentally in favor of strong policies to tackle climate change. (read more)

People tend to forget, coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic era, the Build Back Better agenda to radically change energy policy throughout the west was the primary cause of massive jumps in consumer prices.

Student ‘ICE Out’ Protests Go Viral Across US – Now Schools are Taking Action

Townhall 

K-12 students across the country are facing disciplinary action after participating in walkouts to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.

The walkout trend began after the fatal shootings of civilians in Minnesota by ICE and Border Patrol agents. Footage showing the demonstrations have gone viral on social media. But some schools are taking action against those who participate, according to The Hill.

Hundreds of K-12 students across the country have received detention or suspension after participating in classroom walkouts to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts.  

Such anti-ICE or “ICE out” walkouts have increasingly popped up after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month.

But experts say leaving school grounds is not a form of protest protected under the First Amendment for students, and Republican leaders are warning of consequences for those who participate.

“I applaud Mustang Superintendent Dr. Charles Bradley for suspending 122 students who walked out of class to protest,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) wrote on social platform X on Wednesday. “Young Oklahomans: Free speech is sacred, but truancy robs your future. Stay in school, build skills, and make your voice heard responsibly.” 

But as the Trump administration presses ahead with its aggressive immigration agenda, walkouts could spread, with some students objecting to the Trump policies generally and others marching in the names of detainees they personally know.

The protests have occurred in several states, including Texas, Virginia, Indiana, and others. Students have been leaving class during the school day to demand an end to aggressive federal immigration enforcement operations.

School administrators say they are trying to strike a balance between students’ free speech rights and compulsory attendance laws — especially as these rallies begin to spill out beyond campus boundaries and into the streets.

Teens in multiple Marion County, Indiana, high schools coordinated “ICE out” protests near major roadways and told reporters that administrators put campuses “on hold” and had staff prevent them from leaving, according to the Indiana Star.

Students describe the protests as a moral stand. One student in San Antonio, Texas, said, “We thought it was ridiculous that they were silencing us, and wanted our voices to be heard and wanted to speak out for those who can’t speak for themselves,” KSAT reported.

Democrats' State of the Union 'Counterprogramming' Promises to Be a Clown Show

RedState 

If ever there was a perfect story to sum up the disarray that is the Democrat Party circa 2026, it's this one. The party looking to solidify its messaging ahead of the midterm elections – they'd like very much to gain control of the U.S. House of Representatives – is about to use the occasion of the State of the Union (SOTU), to be delivered Tuesday by President Trump, to serve up copious amounts of chaos and confusion to voters. 

As RedState reported on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, who's been in office just over one month, would be delivering the official Democrat rebuttal following the conclusion of Tuesday's SOTU. 

Schumer praised the pick of Spanberger, claiming she is someone who "has always put service over politics. She knows Americans want lower costs, safer communities, and a stronger democracy — not chaos and corruption. Gov. Spanberger will lay out a clear path forward: lower everyday costs, protect healthcare, and defend the freedoms that define who we are as a nation." He also said that Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) would give the Democrat response in Spanish.

That's that settled, then, right? Not so fast.

As it turns out, Democrats are all over the place when it comes to how to respond to Trump on Tuesday, with one giving a socialist-theme rebuttal, several planning to skip the address and gather with protesters instead, and one – Rep. Shri Thanedar (MI-13) – vowing to cause disruptions. 

It's being framed as providing State of the Union "counterprogramming" – maybe after they saw the success of Turning Point USA's alternate Super Bowl halftime show? – but it's actually insanely garbled messaging surrounding one of Trump's biggest moments of the year. Voters will be left wondering who, exactly, speaks for Democrats and what is the message?

Democrat congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) says she'll be giving the official Working Families Party response, using the occasion to "elevate the voices of the people ... who are angry, scared, and fed up with an administration that's done nothing to help and a lot to hurt everyday people."

Then there are the protesters and disruptors. As RedState's Bob Hoge reported, "Democrats now rely on obstruction, protests, and endless whining over imagined existential threats posed by the president." And they'll be going all-in on Tuesday, with several of their most high-profile members holding a “People’s State of the Union” on the National Mall; the event is sponsored by MoveOn Civic Action and other "coalition partners."

Speakers at the event include Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), as well as Reps. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Becca Balint (D-Vt.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), according to a press release.

If you wonder how the Democrats got to this confused point, clues could be found when Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) attempted to address threats by members of his caucus to disrupt Trump's speech. This is what "leading from behind" looks like:

President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 24, at 9:00 p.m. ET.

The DOJ Has Canned the Most Liberal Immigration Judge in America

Townhall 

The Department of Justice quietly fired the most prolific asylum granter in New York last September, the New York Post revealed on Saturday.

Judge Vivienne Gordon-Uruakpa was reportedly removed from her post due to her extraordinarily high rate of granting asylum claims. The Post reported that Gordon-Uruakpa sided with claimants 97 percent of the time.

A 2024 report from TRAC Immigration showed that, from 2019 through 2024, Gordon-Uruakpa heard 924 asylum cases and granted claims in 806 of those cases. She only declined claims in 88 of those cases. Her record is well out-of-step with her colleagues, as nation-wide, nearly 60 percent of claims were declined. Even is hyper-liberal New York, she still outpaced her fellow judges, who declined 35 percent of cases.

The Trump administration has fired over 100 immigration judges during his second term while promoting judges with a strong record of asylum denials. Some have reported getting their notice of termination mid-day while their docket gets placed on hold, a move characterized by liberal media as “a hostile takeover.” Despite their cries, termination of immigration judges is well within the purview of the Department of Justice.

As the New York Post has previously reported, 80 percent of asylum claimants are actively being deported by the Trump administration.

Thermite and Guns at Electrical Substation: LVMPD Thwarts a Potential Catastrophe

RedState 

We focus a lot on the various forces of Islamic terrorism around the world, and that's justified; there are far too many jihadi goblins out there. But once in a while we are reminded that we have our own, home-grown nutjobs, too. One such is one Dawson Noah Maloney, who sent himself to his own just deserts after an aborted attack on a Las Vegas-area power substation.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has released some chilling details. Here's the thread:

The initial X post in the thread continues:

...to provide an update regarding a critical incident that began last night near Boulder City. 

On Feb. 19, 2026, at approximately 10:00 a.m., Boulder City Police received a 911 call reporting a vehicle had crashed through a secured gate at a Department of Water and Power substation. The caller also reported hearing gunshots after the crash. Responding officers located a silver Nissan Sentra that had breached the facility’s perimeter fence and come to rest inside the secured area. 

Officers discovered a deceased adult male in the driver’s seat suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Multiple firearms were observed inside the vehicle. 

There is no ongoing threat to the public at this time.

A water and power substation is what you can only consider a high-value target. Water as much as power, in this desert region; without water, or if the water supply is compromised, it seems like Las Vegas would grow very thirsty very quickly. 

Here's where that substation is located; you can see its proximity to the city.

Oddly, the attempted attack was allegedly carried out by someone who had driven all the way from New York, which is curious in itself. Why come all that way? Why Las Vegas?

What's more, the suspect had obviously been preparing for this attack for some time, even though he self-terminated before any real damage was done.

There's a lot more at the link.

Here's the thing: The preparations apparently taken by the suspect, along with the cross-country journey, would seem to indicate that some thought went into this. Power and water substations are installations that are, in most places, relatively soft targets. The materials confiscated by investigators from the vehicle and the hotel could have destroyed a large portion of this substation, and repairs could have taken months. The fencing that the accused's vehicle so easily breached would hold off curiosity-seekers and random hooligans, but as we see very plainly, an ordinary passenger car can breach that perimeter pretty easily.

This gives every indication of being a serious, well-planned event on a carefully chosen target. One would think that would indicate that the goblin Maloney didn't act alone, although as of this writing, there's no reliable information on that one way or another.

This is a developing story. We will bring you updates as events warrant.

'Jim Snow 2.0': Mamdani Requires Multiple Forms of ID If You Want to Help Clear NYC Streets

 

By Bob Hoge  | 6:25 PM on February 21, 2026  |  RedState

Sometimes, the silliness of the Democrats is jaw-dropping with their pot-banging protests, performance theatrics, and rote opposition to every single policy President Donald Trump proposes. Whether his ideas are good or bad for the country does not play a part in their decision-making; all that matters to them is that they thwart him at every turn.

Their hypocrisy, however, also seemingly knows no bounds. We know that they fly around in fuel-guzzling private jets to attend faraway climate conferences where they work to take away our gas stoves, we know they claim to care about crime but then do almost everything they can do facilitate it, and we know that they claim to be the party of women even as they allow males to injure females in sporting competition and hang out naked in their locker rooms.

Democrat socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has taken the duplicity to new heights, however, combining idiocy with hypocrisy in just one statement regarding New York City snow removal. You can help out, the mayor said Saturday — just be sure to bring two forms of ID and your Social Security card:

This is beyond ludicrous, because as we know, leftists been fighting tooth and nail against the SAVE Act, which would require voters to actually prove who they are — what a crazy concept. They’ve claimed it’s a Jim Crow law, that it’s racist, that it discriminates against women because apparently females are too stupid to keep their IDs up-to-date, and that it’s a threat to democracy.

It narrowly passed the House on February 11 and now awaits an uncertain Senate fate.

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Progressives don't think you need an ID to vote, but if you want to help dig out the Big Apple, bring papers — plenty of them. Zohran seemed completely unaware of his stunning hypocrisy as he made his statement Saturday:

We're utilizing 33 DSNY vans and 2 DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed, faster. And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you two can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. tomorrow, with your paperwork, which is accessible online, at nyc.gov slash snow, and you can get started right away.

The well-deserved mockery was off the charts:

It’s such a ridiculous self-own that it’s almost funny. Actually, it is funny to watch one of these lefties so thoroughly exposed for the charlatan he is. 

The very unfunny part about the episode, however, is that this man is running the most populous city in the nation — considered by many to be the financial hub of the world — and that is downright sad, because he's doing everything he can to debase it further.

Photo: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki