Canada morphing from good neighbor to serious threat?

American Thinker 

What’s happening in Canada is no longer simply odd, sad, or irrelevant.

It is deeply concerning.

Canada has morphed into a crazed killing factory, one that performs Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) procedures on its own citizens, even those who aren’t facing a terminal illness.

Seriously depressed? Canada will off you. And why wouldn't Canadians be depressed, as the radicals that have been running -- and ruining -- the country for decades now have destroyed their economy, made many things unaffordable, and made some large cities almost uninhabitable due to crime from the massive hordes that they have let in from Third World nations.

And, due to the fact that they've let so many of these immigrants in, Canada is on the cusp of becoming a Third World nation itself.

But there is an even more existential threat to the United States than this. And this is that Canada appears hell-bent … on going all-in on the WEF, global governance, and especially on cozying up to communist China.

Liberals chided President Trump for wanting to purchase Greenland in defense of the U.S., due to its strategic position and copious quantities of precious metals and minerals.

But China, being China, through its One Belt, One Road initiative (also known as Belt and Road) and outright purchasing of ports, farmland, and other sensitive areas, is poised to simply absorb Canada in the long run.

At first these efforts will appear as a friendly gesture to help out and lend a hand.

But, in truth, these so-called efforts will be nothing more than bribery and coercion. And then will come the threats.

China plays the long game better than anyone else. But that game may not take that long, because Canada does a better job of anyone else at destroying itself in the short run. At some point, China may simply try to take what's left of Canada by force, since Canada no longer has a viable military, and probably could not successfully fend off Costa Rica or Paraguay.

Not a good look for the world's second-largest country in terms of landmass. (And good luck to the Muslim immigrants from the Third World at that point! And the LGBTQ community. And Republicans. And …)

When it is not busy trying to exterminate its citizens, the Canadian government is taxing the hell out of them … and it is using that money not to prevent an invasion by foreigners, but to give the invaders free stuff, like education and health care. Parts of Toronto and Montreal, among other cities, have already been conquered.

Many say that the Free Alberta movement is traitorous and that those leading it should be ashamed of themselves. The truth is that the Canadian government has been traitorous to Albertans ... and all other Canadians as well. The Free Alberta movement exudes patriotism and shows a love of a country called Alberta, and it was only made possible by the Canadian government's denial and usurpation of its citizens rights. Free Alberta? Yes, but perhaps we could free all of Canada, as well.

For a very long time Canada has been an excellent neighbor to the U.S.

For a very long time, The United States has been an even better neighbor to Canada, protecting it and aiding its economy.

But, if the U.S. itself doesn't sink into the multicultural abyss, the time may come when acting in its National Defense may have to include essentially annexing Canada.

I never wanted to think like this. Never wanted it to get to this point. Fervently hope this can somehow be avoided. It would be wonderful if that were the case. And if all Canadians could be truly free. But Canada simply cannot he allowed to potentially become a proxy of the Chinese communist party, effectively making communist China the largest nation on Earth, the one with the most natural resources … the world’s hegemon.

Canada may arguably still be the “true north,” but it is no longer strong, and it is no longer free.

Oh, Canada, who truly stands on guard for thee? It is unquestionably not Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government. Regrettably, it may one day have to be the United States.

Oh, wait, I guess it always has been.

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America’s Stupidity Crisis

Townhall 

America has no shortage of crises. Even during this period of unparalleled prosperity, we face daunting challenges. And perhaps the biggest one is stupidity. There are a lot of stupid people out there. Incredibly stupid. Now, let’s distinguish that from the unwise. Unwise people can be smart but lacking in wisdom. I’m talking about morons. Nitwits. Idiots. I mean, people who can't comprehend basic stuff. America has a stupidity crisis, and we must act. For too long, the dumb have dominated our society in the sense that everything is directed toward keeping them from fully expressing their dumbness in all its mouth-agape glory. These are the people responsible for hammers that come with warning labels telling you not to hit yourself in the head with a hammer. And they are bringing America down.

Stupidity is a sad fact of life that confronts us at every turn. We are slaves to the whims of people too dumb to remember to breathe, and so much of our society has been designed to cater to and ameliorate the consequences of their foolish choices. Everywhere you look, there is dumb. If you go to McDonald’s—which itself is dumb in an age where the once-yummy Big Mac is now the bland Medium Mac, apparently made with ground earthworms, while the famous French fries have gone from a crispy, tasty treat to a soggy, tasteless mess—the first thing you see is baffled people. They’re either baffled by the little computer screen you’re supposed to default to ordering from, or they’re baffled by the menu when they’re talking to the cashier. It’s McDonald’s. It’s not a hard choice. It’s not something you need to ponder. But they need to ponder. It’s like they’ve never been there before. That’s the thing about stupidity—every day, every experience, every moment is like the very first time they’ve encountered it. “What’s a McNugget?” they inquire, genuinely puzzled. "This hot mustard sauce… Is it hot and does it taste like mustard?"

And the worst part is that these people vote.

So, I got on an airplane the other day. That’s always enough to flush your faith in humanity down one of the things that Herr Oberstoysterfuhrer Graham Platner performs onanism upon. Yet again, we have the first-time phenomenon. It’s like a significant percentage of the passengers have never boarded a plane before. Much like how all happy families are alike, but each unhappy one is unhappy in its own way, every competent airline passenger is the same, but each knucklehead is different in his own way. There are the people lugging a steamer trunk down the aisle until they stop and try to stow it, only to be shocked to find it doesn’t fit in the overhead compartment—just like the last time they lugged the steamer trunk down the aisle, only to be shocked to find it didn’t fit in the overhead compartment. Then there’s the guy who has to be on his phone having a conversation as he works his way down the aisle. If they want to take it to the next level, they don’t hold it to their ear—they hold it in front of their face on FaceTime with the speaker on so everyone can hear and see the idiot he's talking to. Yes, because some guy who looks like he got dressed by having a hobo barf on him needs to have vital lines of communication to open while finding his seat. And let’s not forget the ladies who look like they swallowed a carry-on, waddling down the aisle and getting irritated because their ample flanks are brushing the sides of the seats.

Again, these people vote.

The stupidity of people on social media goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway, even though it’s like pointing out that the sun rises in the east. At least on social media, you can detect clues that someone’s a slack-jawed numbskull pretty quickly. The new all-purpose dummy detector is any reference to either Israel or the Jews. Oh, you know something smart’s coming when you see that. Now, on social media there’s not just the denial of dumbness but the active assertion by people with inactive cerebellums that they are geniuses. There are so many dumb people pretending to be smart on social media that it’s become a cliché. Start with the people who think they’ve got a clever analogy to share. They never have clever analogies. They are why we should require permits before people can use analogies. My new favorites are the people who analogize Trump’s dealings with Iran to Obama’s JCPOA. OK, because Trump may make a deal with the Iranians does not mean it’s the same thing as Barack Obama making a deal with the Iranians. It’s just not. Different things are different. One can be good, and the other can be bad. But you’ve got a lot of people looking at their phones, nodding their heads at a parallel that’s not at all parallel.

Oh, and then you have the people who think they are experts on everything. When COVID came along, they were epidemiologists. When tariffs came along, they were economists. Then the war with Iran begins, and they’re all experts on the Strait of Hormuz despite having been unable to locate it on a map before last Tuesday. That’s the worst kind of dumb person: the one confident in the soundness of his own stupidity.

Which brings us to the Democrats. The competition is pretty heavy, but perhaps the most egregious is AOC, the poster child for unearned self-confidence in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Have you noticed she’s not talking quite as much? Maybe it’s competition from other idiots, but it’s almost like they’re pushing her aside because every time she opens her mouth about black cowboys or, heaven forbid, economics—“Are these evil billionaires in the room with us now, Sandy?”—someone out there has the revelation that this media-manufactured mannequin doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together.

Oh, but let’s not leave the Republicans out of it. They can be a marvel of stupidity and a demonstration of what happens when lackwittedness is supercharged with arrogance. Take Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy. Please. They really thought their voters wouldn’t notice that they had no intention of doing what they had been elected to do. And when their voters essentially told them to go pound sand, they were not merely stunned but offended. And to prove those voters wrong about their disloyalty, they loudly and publicly resolved to be even more disloyal now that they don’t have to worry about facing the electorate anymore. They proudly stand for the principle of lying to the people who elected them because of principles, or something.

That's not good for their buddies still in office, but it's good for us. Hey, I’m all for dumb people doing dumb things that hurt themselves. We America-first types are lucky that so many of our enemies are so stupid. It would make it a lot harder if they were cunning. You can say what you want about Mitch McConnell, but that guy was no dummy, and we’re lucky he’s on the way to retirement because he can be a problem. But Thom Tillis? Every time you see him, you hear circus music in your head.

Yet there is hope. Not everyone’s dumb. Trump is smart, but dumb people think he’s dumb. That’s OK. It’s always good to be underestimated. And in society, you occasionally see flashes of appreciation for smart things. I watched the movie Project Hail Mary the other night. It’s about a guy in space, and he solves problems by being smart. People love that movie. That’s because most people love intelligence. They like to see people being smart. They love to see people solve problems. To keep it on the space tip, you remember Apollo? We reveled in how smart we were in solving the problems of space. And now, watching Elon Musk launch rockets and then catch them on the way back down, the smart among us smile while the dumb get mad because he’s been successful and they live at their mom’s place, have $13.22 in their wallet, and can’t find one of their shoes.

Society needs to stop catering to the dumb. We need a society that demands more, that organizes itself around letting the smartest people do their smart things while imposing consequences upon people who do dumb things. Let’s make it uncomfortable to be stupid. Then we’ll probably have fewer stupid people.

And now we just have to figure out a way to keep dumb people from voting.

Noah Fined By HOA For Parking Boat In Driveway

Noah Fined By HOA For Parking Boat In Driveway

Babylon Bee

MESOPOTAMIA — Local righteous man Noah was the recipient of a hefty fine from his HOA today over parking a large boat in the middle of his driveway.

Despite multiple warnings from Kitra, the HOA President, Noah insisted that "he's not done with it" and has refused to move the boat in question.

"This is a clear violation of Section three, Article five of the HOA agreement," said Kitra. "We have been more than lenient about the construction materials, and have even turned a blind eye to all the stray animals hanging about. But not only have you refused to move the boat, you just keep making the eyesore bigger. It's hurting the property value of everyone in the neighborhood, and we won't stand for it."

Sources said that several neighbors had filed complaints with the HOA, feeling the boat in Noah's yard to be "trashy" and "too hillbilly." "It's not even a functional boat," stated a neighbor on condition of anonymity. "Noah keeps saying he's 'working on it,' but it's been years now, and that thing is nowhere near floating. Come on, man."

At publishing time, Noah had tried explaining that it was really a ship and not a boat, to no avail.

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Conservatives Are Driving Out RINOs From The Senate

John Cornyn’s defeat was another strong message sent by Republican primary voters: fail the MAGA movement at your own political peril. 

The Federalist 

The weak-kneed Republican RINO. Elephas Minimus, or the spineless elephant. The Senate species commonly referred to as Republican in Name Only is hardly endangered, but conservative voters have been thinning their ranks.

The latest to fall is bull RINO John Cornyn, a four-term Texas senator manufactured in an establishment Republican lab.

Cornyn was summarily dismissed in Tuesday’s primary runoff election, suffering a 27-point shellacking to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Cornyn’s crushing defeat arrived one week to the day after President Donald Trump delivered his coveted endorsement to Paxton, whom the GOP’s top dog described as a “true MAGA warrior.”

Cornyn’s unprecedented defeat was another strong message sent by motivated Republican primary voters: fail the MAGA movement at your own political peril. 

‘The Primary Process was Bruising’

Cornyn’s support of Trump and his policies has long been conditional, dependent on which way the Texas senator believed the political winds to be blowing. He’s not alone on that front. Plenty of his Senate colleagues have done the same. For Cornyn, his fickle loyalty to Trump and key conservative values proved costly. 

In 2016, after Trump emerged victorious from a bareknuckle nomination battle, Cornyn held his nose and said he would support the Republican Party’s nominee. 

“We all know that the primary process was bruising and a lot of different choices (emerged). But we have to respect the choices made by the voters and I do, and I would consider Mr. Trump to be preferable to Secretary Clinton,” he said in a June 2016 speech to the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. 

While a longtime vocal proponent of border security, Cornyn has more than flirted with the amnesty ambassadors in his party, in 2021 backing a DACA deal that would have given open-border Democrats an amnesty victory. And he was a critic of Trump’s early campaign pledge to build a border wall. The member of the august Senate found such talk unseemly, divisive. Trump, Cornyn told conservative radio talk show host Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo in 2016, was a business guy and political outsider who didn’t “have the experience of visiting places like the border and appreciating the complexity of it … so he says things that are just jarring.” 

To a lot of Second Amendment advocates, Cornyn is a traitor. The senator in 2022 “teamed up with President Joe Biden” and Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy to pass “the largest federal gun control package in over 30 years,” according to the National Association for Gun Rights. 

The bill funded — to the tune of $750 million in taxpayer money — expanded “Red Flag” gun confiscation initiatives, empowered Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives to target private gun sales, and created a “lifetime gun ban for many young Americans through a new federal registration scheme.” Gun owner rights groups like the National Association for Gun Rights made sure conservative voters remembered the RINO’s “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.”

SAVE Acting 

More recently, Cornyn was one of the faces of the Republican majority’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act, a critical election integrity package that, at its core, is aimed at blocking noncitizens from registering and voting in U.S. elections. As The Federalist reported earlier this month, Paxton, unlike Cornyn, was willing to sacrifice his Senate run for the sake of a critical election integrity bill that Trump has described as his “top priority.” 

In early March when it appeared that the president was about to give his endorsement to Cornyn, Paxton said he would “consider dropping out of this race if Senate Leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and passes the SAVE America Act.”

Cornyn was then forced to reconsider his opposition to nuking the Senate filibuster to pass the election integrity bill on a simple majority vote. But Capitol sources have told The Federalist that Cornyn and other RINOs fear seeing the act come up for an actual floor vote. 

The SAVE America Act is an extremely popular bill. Cornyn’s lukewarm support for it and Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s failure theater performance leading to the bill’s burial didn’t help Cornyn’s cause. 

In the end, Texas conservatives wanted a fighter, a warrior for the MAGA movement. Cornyn wasn’t it. 

Get the Message

It’s the same story in Louisiana, where Republican voters earlier this month sent Sen. Bill Cassidy packing after two terms in the upper house. Cassidy fell out of favor with Trump after he voted to convict the president in the Democrat-led witch hunt impeachment trial in early 2021. Trump endorsed Cassidy’s challenger, Julia Letlow, R-La., who will face Louisiana state Treasurer John Fleming in the GOP’s primary runoff. 

Cassidy took to X earlier this week to air his grievances and paint himself once again as a great American hero. 

“At its best, America has renewed itself through leaders who understood that public office is a responsibility, not a performance,” Cassidy said. “The American people do not expect perfection from their leaders, but they do expect seriousness.” 

The American people expect action. They’ve gotten little beyond performance from a Republican majority in a Senate filled with RINOs afraid to lead, to heed the mandate the American voter gave them in 2024’s change election. 

But Louisiana and Texas should be a wake-up call for establishment Republicans and their massive ad campaigns to save primaried establishment Republicans. Business as usual in the stodgy Senate is no longer acceptable. Conservatives are driving out RINOs who fail to get that message. 

Why California Proves the Extreme Left Is Now the Democrat Mainstream

Why California Proves the Extreme Left Is Now the Democrat Mainstream

Drew Allen for Daily Signal

Xavier Becerra (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The Democratic Party did not merely drift left over the decades, as some still politely maintain. It was captured, body and soul, by its radical socialist wing—hijacked, thrown into the trunk, and driven straight off the cliff into the ideological abyss.

The old moderates are extinct, reduced to fossils of a bygone order that once valued pragmatism and compromise. The Blue Dogs have been buried in the backyard, their instincts for fiscal restraint and cultural common sense now dismissed as embarrassing relics. 

What was once safely relegated to the “extreme Left”—the province of campus radicals, fringe activists, and academic theorists—has become the party’s beating core, its driving force, its new normal. And they no longer even pretend otherwise.

New York City announces the transformation with theatrical boldness through socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Los Angeles presents its own spectacle: Mayor Karen Bass, long tied to far-left networks, now faces harder-left challengers like democratic socialist Nithya Raman, while scattered voices, including unlikely figures like Spencer Pratt, try to restore basic sanity. These coastal cities offer loud symptoms of the disease. But the shift runs deeper and more entrenched across California itself.

Nowhere does this quiet revolution reveal itself more poignantly than in the state’s 4th Congressional District—the storied Napa and Sonoma wine country. These rolling hills and fertile valleys once embodied productive California: generations of hard-working Americans, including Italian and French immigrants, who coaxed world-class wine from the soil, built thriving family enterprises, sustained vibrant communities, and lived without constant supplication to distant bureaucrats and their multiplying permission slips. This was a landscape where effort, ingenuity, and stewardship produced both prosperity and beauty.

For nearly three decades, Democrat Rep. Mike Thompson has occupied that seat like a personal retirement villa. A Vietnam veteran first elected in 1998, Thompson has voted with the Biden-Harris agenda nearly 100% of the time and carries a lifetime Heritage Action score of just 6%—less a legislative record than a participation trophy for rubber-stamping progressive priorities.

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He has pushed gun control as nearby streets turned into shooting galleries, opposed tax relief for working families, and embraced green-energy mandates that delivered rolling blackouts, soaring electricity bills, and an unreliable power grid. 

Under his watch, California spent $24 billion on homelessness programs in five years, only to see more tents, more despair, and visible failure. Small farmers and vintners are strangled by water restrictions, environmental regulations, and red tape, while businesses and families flee to red states.

Yet even this longtime liberal is no longer radical enough.

Enter Eric Jones, the 35-year-old challenger: a Maine-born carpetbagger and Yale-educated venture capitalist millionaire who parachuted into Napa. Raised on food stamps and Medicaid, Jones made his fortune at Dragoneer Investment Group, kept his Pacific Heights mansion, partially relocated in 2021, and registered to vote in early 2025. 

Endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution, he campaigns on the full socialist platform: national $15 minimum wage, universal childcare, “Medicare for All,” higher corporate taxes, government-directed housing, and centralized insurance and energy. The irony is thick—a man enriched by the system that priced families out of housing now lectures North Bay residents about affordability.

Not long ago, openly socialist or communist affiliations carried real risk. In 2009, self-described communist Van Jones was removed from the Obama White House when his past surfaced and was treated as a scandal. Today, candidates like Eric Jones wear such endorsements as badges of honor. The party no longer hides its radicals; it elevates them.

The pattern repeats statewide. In the 2026 governor’s race, leading Democrats include Xavier Becerra and billionaire Tom Steyer, both pushing further left with aggressive single-payer health care expansions, wealth taxes, and heavy government control over housing and energy. Even after Gov. Gavin Newsom, the party charges onward with evident enthusiasm.

Safe blue districts like California’s 4th have become sterile testing grounds for socialist ideas. With no Republican opposition, the only contest is left versus far left. Insurgents set the agenda. The results are clear: record homelessness despite billions spent, unreliable power, choking regulations on producers, failing schools, rising urban crime, and families abandoning the state in droves.

California stands as the nation’s most vivid warning label. One-party rule under this ideology does not deliver utopia. It delivers tent cities on once-pristine streets, fleeing taxpayers, budgetary sleight-of-hand, and politicians who call failure “progress.”

What unfolds in the thriving valleys of Napa and Sonoma is no anomaly; it is the logical endpoint of the transformed Democrat reality—a party hollowed out from within and replaced by an ideology that brooks little dissent and offers no restraint.

The socialist takeover is not a future threat. It has already arrived where resistance is weakest. The only remaining question is whether the rest of America will awaken in time before the entire country begins to resemble California on its worst days.

Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex

‘It is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.’

The Federalist 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is starting to dismantle the legal industrial complex pushing for mass migration by cracking down on immigration lawyers who file fraudulent asylum claims.

DHS directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday to develop policies to go after the attorneys who aid and abet illegals obtaining legal entry and status in the United States fraudulently, under a law already establishing penalties for document fraud. DHS said that ICE attorneys will have “greater authority to enforce the law.”

“For many years, millions of illegal aliens have committed fraud in our immigration system. No place is this more rampant than in immigration court,” DHS General Counsel James Percival said. “Protection claims like asylum are intended to cover unique and narrow circumstances, but it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.”

The move is in line with other Trump administration attempts to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain groups, but will ostensibly make it more difficult for migrants to successfully gain entry into the United States using pro-immigration lawyers coaching them on how to make false claims. Under such guidance, aliens often assert that their lives are at risk in their home country, when they are nothing more than economic migrants looking to take American jobs and access welfare programs.

As The Federalist reported, 54 percent of all immigrant households are on at least one welfare program, and 59 percent of illegal immigrant households are on welfare. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), explained that “because claims are so hard to prove, asylum will always be one of the most fraud-ridden parts of the immigration system. Limiting such fraud is especially important because asylum represents a surrender of a portion of our sovereignty, since foreigners can sneak into our country illegally and demand asylum, and if they qualify we are bound by international law to let them stay.”

It is not just that the asylum claimants gain access to the country, however. As America First Legal (AFL) stated, “the vast majority of aliens who apply for asylum, including those who entered the United States illegally, do so because it triggers access to work permits that effectively function as multi-year employment visas.” AFL recently submitted a public comment supporting DHS rulemaking that would stem the flood of migrants fraudulently claiming asylum to obtain work permits.

Immigration courts, and the lawyers who advocate for mass migration, are part of the behemoth apparatus of world migration from the Third World into Western civilizations, commonly known as “replacement migration.”

“The United States will not legitimize global compacts that enable mass migration into America or Western nations,” the U.S. State Department wrote on May 11. “Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration — not replacement migration.”

The Trump administration appears to have lost trust in the discretion of immigration courts, as Percival emphasized in his comments on Tuesday: “Historically, ICE has depended on the discipline of immigration judges and the enforcement of criminal fraud laws to deter this conduct, but ICE has its own tools.”

The Trump administration has also worked to revamp the legal infrastructure propping up the influx of migrants by surging hiring of immigration judges in order to be able to process proceedings more quickly. While it is likely to relieve the bottleneck of immigration cases, the surge will also allow the Trump administration to pick judges who are not going to bypass the law in order to maximize the number of immigrants entering the country.

According to CIS, Trump’s second term has already achieved a reduction in the backlog of cases for the first time in 17 years, but there are still millions to adjudicate.

The DHS effort to rein in immigration lawyers committing fraud comes after Trump issued a memorandum in March 2025 recognizing that “the immigration bar, and powerful Big Law pro bono practices, frequently coach clients to conceal their past or lie about their circumstances when asserting their asylum claims, all in an attempt to circumvent immigration policies enacted to protect our national security and deceive the immigration authorities and courts into granting them undeserved relief.”

The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play

The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play

Take a look at why Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won their elections, and then look at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.

Selwyn Duke for American Thinker 

Pundit Bill O’Reilly recently said he was “surprised” that ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lost to Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral race.

“I thought,” he told Cuomo during a May 14 discussion, “you were going to wax them [your competitors].”

Do you know when I realized Mamdani would win?

The very first time I saw him on TV.

No, it wasn’t that Mamdani was promising to rob Peter blind to pay Paul and then send both home to rent-frozen apartments on a free bus. It was that I understand the Luciferian Beauty Principle.

Now, you can take the following as metaphor if you’re not a theist. In Christian theology, Lucifer chose pride over God, rebelled and became the purest manifestation of evil: Satan. But he also was something else: As Lucifer, whose name means 'light bringer,' he was known as the most beautiful of angels.

There is an all-important lesson there. It’s not just that evil doesn’t appear comic-book style, with a pitchfork and horns; it masquerades as something beautiful and impressive.

The malevolent know how easily humans are seduced by what pleases the eye and ear. We see this, for example, whenever a man is deceived by a comely gold-digger.

As for Mamdani, the power- and national grave-digger, he’s a good-looking young guy with an easy smile, charisma on command and the most silvery of tongues, eloquent and articulate to the hilt. Note here the studies showing that it doesn’t matter what you say; if you say it well, you willsway people. It’s a testimonial to the power of style over substance.

Mamdani isn’t alone, either.

In fact, it appears that the hard-left (e.g., socialists) have possibly been purposely, actively applying the Luciferian Beauty Principle for a number of election cycles now. It’s a dangerous phenomenon, too, one threatening to vault us into tyranny.

I wrote about the appearance imperative in 2011 in “That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful and Voting-booth Realities.” I asked, essentially: When was the last time an unattractive, bald, fat and/or bespectacled candidate won the presidency?

If you say, “Prior to the television era,” go to the head of the class.

In fact, the last time we elected a balding president was 1956 (Dwight Eisenhower). Four years later we witnessed history’s first televised debate between presidential candidates — Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy — and got an immediate lesson in the Luciferian Beauty Principle.

That is, Americans hearing the debate only on radio thought the more intellectual, but pale, sickly-looking and sweaty Nixon won. Those watching it on TV supposed that the younger, far more handsome Kennedy won.

Donald Trump would seem an exception to the appearance imperative with his generous girth. But, first, he carries it well; second, he did generally shed pounds during campaigns. Most importantly, however, Trump is a singular, historic, transformational figure (e.g., the first to win the presidency despite no military or prior political service). He’d long been a celebrity and a star on television, a member of the glitterati.

Speaking of which, the late Rush Limbaugh would say that politics “is just showbiz for the ugly.” Well, the Democrats generally, and their far-left fringe puppeteer crew in particular, may be applying a formula: Put an uber-attractive, ultra-articulate candidate who delivers his lines splendidly in ugly-people showbiz and “Voilà!” He perhaps can’t lose.

Lest you think I exaggerate, question: Do you know how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) entered politics?

She was chosen by “progressive” PAC the Justice Democrats, from about 10,000 applicants, through what was, essentially, an audition-like process. 

Yes, really.

The result was one of the biggest upsets in recent congressional history: Ocasio-Cortez trounced 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democrat primaries by 14 points.

By the way, don’t kid yourself, Ocasio-Cortez does fit the bill. She is attractive (I know some make fun of her), especially relative to the ugly-showbiz, female-pol norm. She certainly can talk chicken off the bone, too.

Oh, it’s empty talk, you say? Ocasio-Cortez is ignorant?

Sure, but you are not going to vote for her no matter what. You also probably wouldn’t buy snake oil. But the snake-oil salesman doesn’t need your business. He doesn’t have to know anything about medicine. He just has to be sufficiently charismatic and glib to convince enough suckers that he does, and he becomes wealthy. That is Ocasio-Cortez.

Rest assured, too: If she bested 10,000 other applicants, she has some skills — not at being a statesman, but a politician. 

To cement the point, it’s instructive noting why professional commentators, and politics wonks generally, under-emphasize the Luciferian Beauty Principle. Such people are more likely than average to proceed intellectually, to evaluate candidates on their positions. But even the smartest among them can make a very human mistake: projecting your own mindset onto others.

The reality is that many voters, and probably most, often make decisions on emotional bases, not rational ones. This is perhaps especially true of the “undecided vote,” which can be 20-plus percent of the electorate early in campaigns. Also known as the swing vote, capture most of them and you win. And Luciferian beauty will entice them.

This brings me to the last style-over-substance candidate I’ll mention, Texas Democrat James Talarico. Running for the U.S. Senate, he’s polling even with each of his two possible Republican opponents: Sen. John Cornyn and Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton. This is in a “red” state, mind you, and despite Talarico’s radicalism (e.g., he firmly embraces abortion and sexual-distortion — a.k.a., “transgender” — treatments for children; he also believes there are six “genders” and fancies God “nonbinary”).

Now, I know polls can be manipulated and often are. But I warn you: Talarico can win (this isn’t to say he will). He has Luciferian beauty in spades, being young, handsome, charismatic and silver-tongued. He also claims Christian status — advantageous in Texas — and skillfully makes his un-Christian positions look pretty, too, with Luciferian rationalization.

We may wonder at this point how much of the Democrat’s beauty play is conscious strategy. We know it was planned with Ocasio-Cortez, chosen via her “audition.” And though Mamdani rose through the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) ranks more conventionally, his comrades surely recognized and decided to capitalize on his political skill. Talarico’s ascendancy was perhaps more typical still, but this brings us to another point.

With liberals being characteristically emotion-driven, they’re more likely than conservatives to subordinate substance to style. This being so, they’d perhaps be more likely to deliver in the primaries a Luciferian-beauty candidate.

Whatever the case, at issue here is a real phenomenon. Research has shownthat in politics, the more charismatic and attractive candidate wins more often than not. Why, one study foundthat via exposure to candidates’ faces for as little as 100 milliseconds, research subjects picked actual congressional and gubernatorial race winners with 57 percent to 68 percent accuracy.

So perhaps one reason, aside from Americans’ declining virtue, we chose better candidates in the pre-TV/radio age is that most Americans never saw or heard major-office candidates; they perhaps only read about their positionsin newspapers.

What’s for certain is that the Luciferian Beauty Principle combined with the idiot vote is a toxic mix. It can deliver an absolutely beautiful package — hiding a demonic inner ugliness that’s deadly to a republic.

Image: Kara McCurdy, via Wikipedia // CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed

'This Isn't Holiday Inn': Markwayne Mullin Mocks NJ Protesters, Teases Major Airport Crackdown

RedState 

RedState’s Ben Smith wrote about how back in April, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was "looking hard" at pulling Customs and Border Patrol agents from airports in sanctuary cities because those cities harbor illegal aliens and refuse to cooperate with ICE.

On Tuesday, he announced on Fox News that the idea has moved one step further and he is “currently drawing up plans” to make it happen.

🚨 HUGE DEVELOPMENT: Sec. Markwayne Mullin announces DHS is drawing up plans to BLOCK ALL international flights into sanctuary cities by ending Customs screening there

This would DEVASTATE those cities.

Mullin is doing it as a direct result of sanctuaries refusing to cooperate

GOOD! We need consequences where it hurts!

"Why are we processing international flights into the airport there? And we are currently, which we're not issuing it yet, but we're currently drawing up plans to say, listen — in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren't allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn't be processing international flights into their cities either, because they don't want us to enforce immigration, but they want us to process immigration at their facilities!"

It’s kind of an epic idea, but Fox News’ Bill Melugin notes that it could cause chaos at blue-state airports:

NEW: Last night on @FoxNews, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin again said he is considering pulling CBP out of sanctuary city airports, adding that "we are currently drawing up plans" to do so. His comments came in response to protests at ICE's Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, NJ, where he says local police won't respond to assist due to sanctuary policies.

Pulling CBP out of sanctuary airports would have an enormous chain reaction impact, as international travelers would no longer be able to fly into airports like LAX, JFK, San Francisco, Chicago, Newark, Seattle, Denver, Philly, etc, as there would be no customs agents to process them.

Additionally, Mullin points out that Democrats have refused to fund CBP.

It's unclear how serious/advanced this idea is, as Mullin has said no final decision has been made - but such a move would likely have enormous ripple effects if it were to come to fruition.

Thoughts?

That may be true, but it’s far past time that cities that openly defy the federal government and its law enforcement efforts should be made to feel the consequences, whether they’re from this plan or alternative ones.

Meanwhile, Mullin spoke at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting about the anti-ICE protesters who have been demonstrating at a detention center in Newark, New Jersey, over what they claim are poor conditions. Mullin was not sympathetic:

“This isn’t Holiday Inn.” I love it.

Pulling Customs and Border Protection agents from certain airports would certainly be a drastic step — but then again, sanctuary cities took the first drastic steps when they started actively undermining federal law enforcement and making our neighborhoods less safe. We’ll see if he follows through with this big move.