Labour Loss

They've become working class heroes:

A survey of over 17,000 Britons from YouGov has found that those earning more than £70,000 per year are more likely to vote for Labour compared to any other party, at 31 per cent, compared to just 19 per cent support among those earning less than £20,000. Conversely, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party now stands as the top party of those earning less than £20,000 per year at 32 per cent, compared to 17 per cent among those earning more than £70,000. Overall, Reform holds a commanding lead among those explicitly classified as living in working-class households at 35 per cent, enough for a 16-point lead over the Labour Party. The stunning transformation of the electorate comes as Mr Farage has consciously courted the working-class vote, and as the Labour Party, which was literally founded as a working-class party, has increasingly shifted its focus to cater to the niche concerns of woke urban elites.

They're no longer the peoples' party...

No Pride

It's the unpatriotic generation:

Only about 4 in 10 U.S. adults who are part of Generation Z, which is defined as those born from 1997 to 2012, expressed a high level of pride in being American in Gallup surveys conducted in the past five years, on average. That's compared with about 6 in 10 Millennials — those born between 1980 and 1996 — and at least 7 in 10 U.S. adults in older generations. "Each generation is less patriotic than the prior generation, and Gen Z is definitely much lower than anybody else," said Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup. "But even among the older generations, we see that they're less patriotic than the ones before them, and they've become less patriotic over time. That's primarily driven by Democrats within those generations." America's decline in national pride has been a slow erosion, with a steady downtick in Gallup's data since January 2001, when the question was first asked.

The bottom is coming up fast...

Canadian Cave

Trump effect, Canuck style:

The decision follows President Donald J. Trump’s announcement on Friday that the United States would end trade negotiations with Canada over the levy. Trump described the tax as “a direct and blatant attack on our country” and threatened new tariffs in response.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stated, “Today’s announcement will support a resumption of negotiations toward the July 21, 2025, timeline set out at this month’s G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis.”The former Biden regime also opposed the tax, with former U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai calling it “discriminatory” and suggesting it may violate the USMCA trade agreement. Carney’s government has now announced plans to introduce legislation to rescind the tax, noting their preference for a multilateral agreement to address tax issues with tech firms.François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of finance and national revenue, emphasized that removing the tax would allow progress in negotiations with the United States, create jobs, and boost Canadian prosperity. “Rescinding the digital services tax will allow the negotiations of a new economic and security relationship with the United States to make vital progress,” he said.

There are some benefits to being the 51st state...

Pen Names

The autopen saga gets stranger:

“As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she said, according to the Washington Examiner. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents.” While Tandem was not linked to the most recent pardons, Biden pardoned six individuals convicted of various drug-related crimes and murder via autopen while vacationing in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on December 30, 2022. Tandem also admitted that she could not confirm whether those orders came directly from Biden, as the authorization system was inherited from previous administrations. “We had a system for authorizing the use of the autopen that I inherited from prior administrations. We employed that system throughout my tenure as staff secretary.” According to WCSI, Tandem would send decision memos to members of Biden’s inner circle and receive the necessary authorizations to use the autopen. However, she could not confirm the actions they took to obtain the former president’s approval.

She was only following someone else's orders...

Cost Cutters

DODGE does its duty:

According to the DOGE website, it has, thus far, saved an estimated $180 billion in government spending as of June 3, which comes to $1,118 per taxpayer. The savings are the result of contract and lease cancellations and renegotiations, grant cancellations, deletion of fraud and improper payments, asset sales, and workforce reductions. Agencies that have accounted for the most of the $180 billion savings include the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and the Department of Education. Some of the major cost-cutting initiatives include canceling $2.9 billion for the Department of the Interior for a refugee resettlement program, a $1.9 billion tech program at the Treasury, and a $1.7 billion grant program at USAID.

Billions more to go...

Trump Triumphs

Even CNN admits:

President Trump had a historically good week. In fact it might be the best week of President Trump’s presidency.

Don’t take my word for it, take CNN’s.

Watch.

🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/M731AMoOZP

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 28, 2025

DOGE Report

DOGE is still going strong:

Though the Iran-Israel conflict understandably pushed DOGE out of the news, the work goes full steam ahead. DOGE posted on X June 26: Over the last 7 days, agencies have terminated 312 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2.8B and savings of $470M, including a DoD $286k professional and management development contract for an “entrepreneurship course at Harvard University”, and a $485k USAID contract for a “senior general development advisor at USAID Madagascar." Fortunately, that’s not all DOGE is doing. It provided an update Friday on the National Weather Service (NWS) modernizing its Weather Radio system, since around 380 of their stations still relied on copper lines from the 1960s. Since the last DOGE update, 33 NWS stations had upgraded to wireless, which DOGE claimed saves $118,000 monthly in copper contracts. Similarly, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is upgrading its phone lines. DOGE estimates savings of around $2.84 million annually following the SBA phone audit. This includes: * Traditional Landlines: 96% (661 of 686) terminated, saving ~$650k/year * Mobile Phone: 55% (2,940 of 5,340) deactivated, saving ~$1.7M/year * VOIP licenses: 70% (6,505 of 9,195) eliminated, saving ~$469k/year Furthermore, DOGE is coordinating with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in implementing the “Radical Transparency about Wasteful Spending” effort launched by the Trump administration. DOGE praised USGSA on June 18 for its new efforts to save American taxpayers money: Effective today, the public contracting database, Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), will now have 3 new data fields to increase transparency related to contracting actions for active contracts, such as “has this contract been closed out?” and “has there been a descoping action?”. Previously, modifications were limited to vague termination and cancellation actions. This update has been sent government-wide to all agency Senior Procurement Executives for immediate adoption. With our national debt now over $37 trillion and climbing all the time, Congress needs to take inspiration from DOGE and get serious about slashing wasteful spending. We literally cannot afford to do otherwise.

Let DOGE lead the way...

United Moneymakers

The people who run the UN make a pretty good living:

At $418,348, Guterres earns a higher base salary than President Donald Trump while running a body accused of anti-American bias, corruption and waste. Hugh Dugan, former National Security Council special assistant to the president and senior director for International Organization Affairs, told Fox News Digital, "Frankly, we put [Guterres] on this plateau as being on par with a pope or head of state, when, in fact, he's really an employee, and he's the country club manager, not the father of the bride, but he's calling all the shots when it comes to the ceremony and who sits where. "You flatter him right away," Dugan said, when comparing Guterres with Trump, "when in fact he is one of the president’s employees – in fact, the employee of all the heads of state. And to outearn [him]… is really indicative of managerial capture of the organization and of the Deep State U.N. on the books." .... Not including expenses and extras, Trump receives some $18,348 less than Guterres at $400,000. The presidential extras include a $50,000 expense allowance and other benefits. Guterres’ salary, provided to Fox News Digital by his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, only includes his salary and multiplier. It does not include the considerable array of other benefits that Guterres enjoys. In an email to Fox News Digital, Dujarric said the "Net base salary as of Jan 2025 – $238,375 per year (reference resolution 58/265 adjusted in accordance with the same procedures as those applicable to staff in the Professional and higher categories).

It's a good job if you can get it...

Judge Retort

Don't criticize my fellow judges, he said:

Without identifying anyone by name, Roberts clearly referenced Republican President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York when he said he has felt compelled to issue public rebukes of figures in both parties in recent years. “It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem,” Roberts said at a gathering of lawyers and judges in Charlotte, North Carolina. “And the danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that. And we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work. So I think the political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.” Roberts appeared at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judicial conference on the day after the Supreme Court issued the final decisions of its term, including a major victory for Trump that limits judges’ ability to use court orders with nationwide reach to block his agenda. C-Span carried Roberts’ conversation with Judge Albert Diaz, the 4th Circuit’s chief judge.

He's just trying to protect the club...

Peace Man

The "warmonger" helps make peace:

“We’re here today to celebrate a glorious triumph, and that’s what it is for the cause of peace, and this is a long time waiting: The signing of a historic peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda,” Trump said. Trump said the conflict in the Great Lakes region of Africa “displaced countless people and claimed the lives of thousands and thousands.” “But today, the violence and destruction comes to an end, and the entire region begins a new chapter of hope and opportunity, harmony, prosperity, and peace,” Trump said.

True peace in our time...

Loud Riot

He wants a riot going on:

Mamdani stated: “While politicians & pundits condemn the uprising in Minneapolis from TV studios thousands of miles away, those at the center of it – even those who are hurting – understand why it’s happening. And why it has to happen. Black + brown solidarity will overcome white supremacy.”The post was a response to journalist Molly Hensley-Clancy, citing a restaurant business destroyed during the riots whose owner stated, “Let my building burn, justice needs to be served.”Critics say Mamdani’s statement shows explicit sympathy for violent rioters and a willingness to frame destruction as a justified tool of political expression.Mamdani has a long history of advocating for the abolition of police, so-called “decarcerations” of jail and prison inmates, and systemic dismantling of the criminal justice and law enforcement apparatus, stating in 2020, “White supremacy has many faces, from the police & prison systems in America to occupation & apartheid in Palestine.”The Uganda-born “Twelver” Muslim previously wrote that “as socialists, we believe people should not have to endure the violence & coercion of a criminal-legal system.”

When in doubt, riot...

Tax Man

He's got a plan:

According to a housing policy memo on Mamdani’s website, he has pledged to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.” It’s amazing that a mayoral candidate can say this out loud with little backlash — at least from his own party, which claims to revile racism. The plan is part of his overall strategy to supposedly make it less expensive to live in the Big Apple. He plans to “triple the City’s production of permanently affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes – constructing 200,000 new units over the next 10 years.” And how does he plan to do this? By taxing the hell out of wealthy “whiter” residents. “Our tax base is stable and growing, with new millionaires minted every year. But New York City taxes everyone at the same rate, regardless of whether you make $50,000 a year or $5 million,” another Mamdani memo states. “And our state corporate tax rate is lower than all our neighboring states—New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Rhode Island, and even New Hampshire.”

They like keeping their money...

Supreme Supremacy

Two big wins for Trump. First, this one:

Justices ruled 6-3 to allow the lower courts to issue injunctions only in limited instances, though the ruling leaves open the question of how the ruling will apply to the birthright citizenship order at the heart of the case. The Supreme Court agreed this year to take up a trio of consolidated cases involving so-called universal injunctions handed down by federal district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state. Judges in those districts had blocked Trump's ban on birthright citizenship from taking force nationwide – which the Trump administration argued in their appeal to the Supreme Court was overly broad. The Supreme Court's arguments in May focused little on the merits of those universal injunctions – and on Friday, the court made clear that it is not ruling on whether the birthright citizenship orders are constitutional. Instead, it instructed the lower courts to "move expeditiously to ensure that, with respect to each plaintiff, the injunctions comport with this rule and otherwise comply with principles of equity." They also stayed any enforcement of the orders from taking effect for 30 days. "The applications do not raise – and thus we do not address – the question whether the Executive Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act," Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, writing for the majority. "The issue before us is one of remedy: whether, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions." "A universal injunction can be justified only as an exercise of equitable authority, yet Congress has granted federal courts no such power," she added.

Rogue jusdges have been put on notice. Also, this:

The Supreme Court held that the parents met the legal burden required for a preliminary injunction to block the school board’s policy not to grant opt-outs. “A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses ‘a very real threat of undermining’ the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill. And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents’ acceptance of such instruction,” Alito wrote. The court held that the parents were likely to succeed in their challenge to the board’s policies.

Overall, a good day for the rule of law that liberals are always claiming they want...

D Word

Diabetes is racist, or something:

“We are not dealing with America's original sin and its disease of hate and racism towards black and brown people, and sexism towards women, and anti-LGBTQ sentiment,” the deranged former congressman began. “We are not dealing with that. Your colleagues in the Republican Party do not hold each other accountable when it comes to the racism that comes from the party on a consistent basis.” Bowman continued, “Listen to what I'm saying. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day. If — if your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow, and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country.”

Darn those racist blood cells in your own body...

Title Removal

Team Trump fights sexism:

“Although Governor Gavin Newsom admitted months ago it was ‘deeply unfair’ to allow men to compete in women’s sports, both the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation continued as recently as a few weeks ago to allow men to steal female athletes’ well-deserved accolades and to subject them to the indignity of unfair and unsafe competitions.” “The Trump administration will relentlessly enforce Title IX protections for women and girls, and our findings today make clear that California has failed to adhere to its obligations under federal law,” McMahon said. “The state must swiftly come into compliance with Title IX or face the consequences that follow,” she added. Title IX “prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.” President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to formally recognize only two genders, based on a “fundamental and incontrovertible” reality. Under this framework, male participation in women’s sports counts as sex discrimination under Title IX.

Women still matter...

Disaster Masters

Goodbye, New York:

Mamdani's socialist victory is not a fluke; it is rather a telling sign of the policy direction that Democratic voters are willing to adopt, and how popular they are. It is no longer far-fetched; socialism has become politically viable in America. The legality of Mamdani’s proposals is almost beside the point. Pure democracy, even restrained by constitutional limits, risks turning popular support into a blunt instrument that will trample property rights and economic freedom. This is a massive victory for a candidate who started this race unknown, with 1 percent support, and who beat Andrew Cuomo in the first round of voting by 7 points. Zohran Mamdani's victory has sent a dangerous message to other socialists across the country that their ideas are overwhelmingly popular and have been tested in an election. A socialist America is becoming more possible by the minute.

Unless it's nipped in the bud before it starts...

Not Her

Nobody liked her:

“When asked how they would have voted, people eligible to vote who did not do so were fairly evenly split in their preferences: 44% say they would have supported Trump, while 40% say they would have backed Harris,” the study states. Our four-part strategy to protect the freedom to vote: —Call on federal agencies to make sure Americans have the information they need to know how and where to vote —Promote voter participation for students —Protect election workers —Work together to fight voter suppression laws pic.twitter.com/Xt0FiEslQc — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 10, 2024 Conversely during the 2020 election, nonvoters favored former President Joe Biden by 11%, according to Pew.

They still made their choice...

Blogging In The Years: 2006

El Rushbo lays down his laws:

Weather Report

Don't mention the weather:

“Sunday morning I found that my personal Facebook account was locked, and I had a message from Meta … to show me how to unlock my account, which I did,” Lupo said in a recent telephone interview regarding the disappearance of the page earlier this month. After he unlocked his account on June 8, he said he “found that the weather page was gone.” Among Lupo’s initial suppositions for why the page was taken down was that one or more of his posts may have been flagged by another user, or an algorithm, for referencing climate change as part of larger discussions regarding Missouri weather. However, Lupo acknowledged he does not have more than circumstantial evidence of this, as Facebook did not provide him with a reason for why the page was taken down. He said the page offered weather forecasts, and also sometimes summarized Missouri climate and the seasonal climate. “Occasionally, when I’ve done that, I got messages about violating community standards,” Lupo said, adding that this baffled him as the page was “just summarizing numbers.” “I would get this warning that your post may violate community standards and that would appear on the page itself for a short time,” he said. He said it was confusing, as he was just informing people whether the temperature was above or below normal, almost saying nothing about climate change itself.

Don't bother them with facts...

Wray Link

Patel says he has proof:

Specifically, he will detail to leaders how FBI headquarters ‘recalled’ a report solely because it contradicted Wray’s claims under oath to Congress that China was not conducting a foreign influence campaign in U.S. elections. The FBI field office in Albany, New York produced an Internal Intelligence Report (IRR) that was published and then pulled back without justification, Patel reveals. FBI bosses at the time shut down this legitimate investigation into the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to shield Wray from fallout, sources tell the Daily Mail. The FBI was investigating at the time the existence of CCP-produced drivers licenses to obtain paper ballots and the Albany office published an IRR on the claims. They were then told by headquarters to pull the report and pretend it didn’t exist, Patel will reveal. The current Director will tell Congress that the reason the IRR on this investigation was never released was because they admitted that ‘the reporting will contradict Director Wray’s testimony.’

Where the real collusion was...

Bad Apple

It's rotten to the core:

Shark Bites

Jaws was elitist, or something:

In a cramped, $50-a-month room above a New Jersey furnace-supply company, Peter Benchley set to work on what he once said, half-jokingly, might be “a Ulysses for the 1970s.” A novel resulted from these efforts, one that Benchley considered titling The Edge of Gloom or Infinite Evil before deciding on the less dramatic but more fitting Jaws. Its plot is exquisite in its simplicity. A shark menaces Amity, a fictional, gentrifying East Coast fishing village. Chaos ensues: People are eaten. Working-class residents battle with an upper-class outsider regarding the best way to kill the shark. The fish eventually dies in an orgy of blood. And the political sympathies of the novel are clear—it sides with the townspeople, and against the arrogant, credentialed expert who tries to solve Amity’s shark problem.

Somebody needs to go swimming with sharks...

Blue Cheeseheads

It just got harder for Wisconsin Democrats to rig an election:

In May, Democrats asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where liberal justices hold a 4-3 majority, to reconsider the state’s congressional district boundaries ahead of the 2026 midterms. “It’s good that Wisconsin has fair maps at the state level, but we deserve them at the federal level as well,” Democratic Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan said, as reported by the Associated Press. “Unfortunately, gerrymandered maps for members of Congress will remain in Wisconsin.” In April, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) notably unveiled a list of 35 competitive House districts it is hoping to flip in the upcoming midterms, which included two seats in Wisconsin, currently held by Republican Reps. Bryan Steil and Derrick Van Orden. The state’s Supreme Court in 2022 approved Wisconsin’s current election maps. The court’s decision comes after it similarly rejected a Democratic lawsuit aiming to toss out Wisconsin’s congressional maps in March 2024. “The bipartisan rejection of the radical Democrats’ desperate and politically motivated attempt to redraw the map in their favor offers a strong preview of how Wisconsin voters will reject the Democrats’ out of touch and radical agenda next year at the ballot box,” National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Zach Bannon told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.

Better luck next time...

Pen Name

The signer who wasn't there:

Tandem appeared before the committee under oath when she admitted to having been authorized to use the autopen between October 2021 and May 2023. However, she denied having misused or wielded the pen without Biden’s authority. “As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she said, according to the Washington Examiner. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents.” While Tandem was not linked to the most recent pardons, Biden pardoned six individuals convicted of various drug-related crimes and murder via autopen while vacationing in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on December 30, 2022. Tandem also admitted that she could not confirm whether those orders came directly from Biden, as the authorization system was inherited from previous administrations. “We had a system for authorizing the use of the autopen that I inherited from prior administrations. We employed that system throughout my tenure as staff secretary.” According to WCSI, Tandem would send decision memos to members of Biden’s inner circle and receive the necessary authorizations to use the autopen. However, she could not confirm the actions they took to obtain the former president’s approval.

It signed all on its own...

Ad Men

Merge with caution:

The FTC said it has accepted a proposed consent order that will prevent such “anticompetitive coordination” from Omnicom once its acquisition of IPG is completed. The order restricts Omnicom from colluding or coordinating to take advertising away from any media publisher based on the publisher’s ideological or political viewpoints, except in situations when the ad client insists on avoiding certain publishers. “Coordination among advertising agencies to suppress advertising spending on publications with disfavored political or ideological viewpoints threatens to distort not only competition between ad agencies, but also public discussion and debate,” said Daniel Guarnera, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition. “The FTC’s action today prevents unlawful coordination that targets specific political or ideological viewpoints while preserving individual advertisers’ ability to choose where their ads are placed.”

Watch your political preferences...

Pregnant Pause

Whoops:

BBC reporter Martine Croxall, CORRECTS her teleprompter to "women" after trying to make her refer to women as "pregnant people"

Incredible pic.twitter.com/CvqmMfiu43

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 23, 2025

People Pause

The world's population isn't growing:

For decades, we’ve been told that the world’s biggest problem is too many people. From Malthus in the 18th century to “The Population Bomb” in the 1960s, the warnings were dire: More people would mean more famine, more poverty, more environmental destruction. But something unexpected has happened. The demographic math has changed. And the United Nations, the world’s most cited authority on population forecasts, has taken notice. Until recently, their models predicted that the global population would continue to grow throughout the 21st century, reaching a peak of nearly 11 billion by the year 2100. But in its 2022 and 2024 revisions, the U.N. quietly lowered its global population projections. The most recent estimate puts the peak at just 10.3 billion, and it comes nearly two decades earlier, around 2084. .... Over the last decade, several independent teams of researchers have developed alternative population projections. Most of them show that fertility will drop faster than the U.N. is predicting. A team at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), for example, gained wide attention in 2020, when it projected that the global population would peak around 2064 at just over 9 billion and decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100. Wolfgang Lutz, one of the world’s most respected demographers, has also published projections showing a lower and earlier population peak. Lutz’s group at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital bases its models on education and urbanization trends, which are closely tied to fertility behavior. In a 2024 analysis of surveys involving over a million women in Sub-Saharan Africa, Lutz and his co-authors concluded that fertility rates there are falling faster than expected, especially as female education improves.

We're not running out of room:

Red Health

Conservatives are saner:

Nine in 10 conservatives self-report their mental health to be excellent (51%) or very good (39%). Those who consider themselves liberals are struggling, with only 20% saying their mental health is excellent and 26% believing it is very good. Only 19% of conservatives say their mental health is poor, while 45% of liberals say they have poor mental health. This is not a new development related to Trump returning to the White House. A decade ago, University of Toronto researchers looked at a history of academic literature suggesting “that conservatives in the United States are happier than liberals” through the lens of neuroticism. They found that conservatives are more emotionally stable than liberals. “It is understandable,” they said, “that the happiness differential between liberals and conservatives can be largely accounted for by differences in their mean levels of emotional stability.”

Leftists are always looney...

Gender Gaps

The war is over:

The modern "Battle of the Sexes" has left both men and women less happy than they otherwise would be. The problem with modern feminism is not just that it relies on fundamentally unjust means--holding back men and elevating women to create an artificial statistical equality--but rather its attack on the natural inclinations of people to gravitate to different types of pursuits. Men and women are different, with different inclinations. The feminization of men and the masculinization of women are ruining lives.

But we're more "equal" now...

Blue Snobs

Democrats have become the new elitists:

The gist of this piece is that Democrats used to be seen as the party of the working class, including the white working class, but they aren't that any longer, at least not exclusively. In fact, there has been quite a shift among people at the top of the income ladder toward the Dems. The numbers show that white voters in the 68th to 100th income percentiles — the top third — cast 49.05 percent of their ballots for Joe Biden and 50.95 for Donald Trump. White voters in the top 5 percent of the income distribution voted 52.9 percent for Biden and 47.1 percent for Trump. These figures stand in sharp contrast to election results as recent as those of 2008. Among white voters in the top third of the income distribution that year, John McCain, the Republican nominee, beat Barack Obama 67.1 percent to 32.9 percent. So Republicans used to dominate top earners but not anymore. This shift has been taking place since the 1990s but in the past ten years the Democrats have become the party of the wealthy and well-educated. And the problem is that Democrats haven't really adjusted to this new reality. They still see themselves as the party of the working class even though they really aren't that anymore. As the founder of a Democratic consulting firm put it, "Democrats are lost without that core idea."

The Blues aren't blue collar anymore...

Hot Hysteria

Summer's here:

Sure, a heat dome is a real thing: A massive, stagnant high-pressure system that traps hot air over a large area, leading to prolonged, extreme temperatures. But in the hands of headline writers, it’s transformed from a technical weather pattern into a boogeyman…one that’s always lurking, always expanding, and always “putting millions more people at risk”. The American Meteorological Society only added “heat dome” to its glossary in 2022, but the media have been using it with wild abandon for years, often interchangeably with “heat wave” or even just “hot weather.” The graphics used to convey the hysteria are a vivid palette of red, redder, and hellscape red. No “heat dome” story is complete without a nod to climate change. Scientists and politicians alike are quick to link every hot day to global warming, and the media is happy to amplify the message.

Never let a heat wave go to waste...

Free Law

It doesn't work that way:

School Ties

We own you, she said:

The remarks came after she noted that “one of the first social studies lessons taught in kindergarten classrooms is of community” and because of this, kids “come to understand the connectedness of people and institutions.” “The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point,” she said, pointing to the “right-wing outrage” over a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year: “The children are always ours,” she said. “Every single one of them, all over the globe.” “And what comes next is, ‘CTU, you think your children are its children,’” she said with a derisive sneer. “Yes. Yes we do,” she said to applause. “We do. ‘CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology,’” she said, lapsing into the sneer again. “Well, I don’t know about all that, but we like children. We educate them, we nurture them, we protect them, we support them, we negotiate for them, we create space for them, we even have them in our homes.”

They love your kids for themselves...

Das Spiel

Free speech survives in Germany:

Back in May, the ‘right-wing extremist’ label attached to AfD party was removed by the Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) pending an appeal. And now, the Federal Administrative Court ruled that the right-wing ‘Compact’ magazine may continue to be published, finding that its content is covered by freedom of the press and freedom of expression. This overturns the ban by former Liberal-Globalist Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. Welt reported (translated from German): “The right-wing extremist magazine ‘Compact’ can continue to be published. The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has lifted the ban issued by the then Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) in the summer of 2024. The federal judges thus confirmed their decision from the summary proceedings last August. At that time, they had temporarily suspended the ban, so that the paper could continue to be published for the time being. Now the competent 6th Senate has made its final decision in the main proceedings. The Leipzig judges are responsible in the first and last instance for lawsuits against bans on associations. […] According to court information, the circulation of the ‘Compact’ magazine is 40,000 copies, the online TV channel reaches up to 460,000 [views].” The court ruled that the media company’s content is covered by freedom of the press and freedom of expression, rather than being anti-constitutional and posing a concrete threat.

Censorship is not progressive...

Identity Problem

Heh:

Staying Question

Give her a reason:

On a recent episode of "The Morning Meeting," a woman named Sharon appeared on the podcast with former Democrat strategist Dan Turrentine, political analyst Mark Halperin, and former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer. She described herself as a "lifelong Democrat." She also had this to say: “I have been super active in campaigns — I’ve worked on them, I’ve volunteered for them, I’ve contributed to them. I’m so appalled by the Democratic Party. I have no idea what they stand for. I have no idea what their policies are. The things that I see that they most talk about feel very, like, bad for the country, bad for the people — super fringy. So why would — how would you convince me to stay in that party and support it, given what is happening today?” Dan Turrentine attempted to tackle Sharon's challenge. He replied: “It’s a great, great question, Sharon, and I think you speak for a lot of people. And at times you speak for myself, right? Which is just the immense frustration with being rudderless and leaderless and just kind of — often what we talk about is just our dislike of [President Donald] Trump, right? It’s just — we scream and pull our hair out and say he’s a king, etc.” Sharon went on to say that the Democrat Party is "in fear of a highly vocal group — like the far, far left.” Halperin then asked who her ideal presidential candidate would be. She cited Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA). She also said that being from Pennsylvania, she followed Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), but thought that Khanna was a more appealing candidate. She continued, saying that for Fetterman to recently make the statement that he supports the military, and for that to be a controversial position in the Democrat Party, "It’s just — I don’t understand what they’re up to.”

Neither does anyone else...

Blueprint Backfire

they need a new plan:

The “Democrats’ Daily Blueprint” launched June 9 as a bid to counter conservative media dominance — but after drawing about 9,000 views on its debut, many episodes have struggled to crack quadruple digits. Trump War Room’s single mocking tweet hit 83,000 views as of Tuesday, dwarfing the Blueprint’s entire combined viewership of about 21,000 across 12 episodes. .... The cold reception reflects a deeper problem still haunting Democrats after a bruising 2024 cycle: they lost ground with nearly every demographic they took for granted. Trump made historic gains with black and Hispanic voters, and younger men fled the party in droves. Their attempts to reverse the slide so far haven’t landed. In 2024, Democrats rolled out Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as their vice presidential hopeful — packaged as a Midwestern everyman with a folksy demeanor and blue-collar roots meant to reconnect with working-class voters. But the rollout struggled to resonate beyond DNC circles, and online attempts to brand Walz as relatable were widely mocked.

They just can't relate anymore...

Con Job

You've been had:

Great Dividers

Why we're so divided:

Religion, race, social class—none of that matters so much as political identity. And, according to the Political Psychology study, "out-group animosity is stronger than in-group sentiment," meaning anger at perceived enemies is the driving factor in how we express our partisan affiliations. That anger can only increase when government officials use their position to torment those across the political divide. As it is, after years of a metastasizing state, Americans must go hat-in-hand to officialdom to request permission to take licensed jobs, renovate homes, open businesses, and so much more. That creates vulnerabilities among people who live their lives at the pleasure of an overpowerful government and the creatures who control its instruments. Without explicitly exercising censorship or invoking the apparatus of authoritarianism, it's all too easy for bureaucrats, prosecutors, and regulators to hurt those they don't like. Democrats and the Biden administration infamously leaned on social media companies to muzzle critics, engaged in obviously politicized prosecutions of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, and applied regulatory pressure on banks to deny financial services to opponents.

The people always lose when the government protects its power...

Their Generation

Zoomers continue their right turn:

Gen Z appears to be divided in politics primarily between how they experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest Yale Youth Poll, there is an 18-point gap between younger and older members of Generation Z. Those between the ages of 22-29 favor Democrats by 6.4 points, while those aged 18-21 favor Republicans by 11.7 points. Youth political analyst Rachel Janfaza broke Gen Z down into two groups, with one being comprised of those who graduated before the COVID-19 pandemic and those who were in high school or middle school during this time. The latter group appears to view policies that fall under "MAGA" as counter-cultural and more appealing. "It's part of this shift among Gen Z post-COVID," explained youth political analyst Janfaza said, according to Axios. "They got really tired of being told what they could or could not do and what they could or could not say."

Those darn kids...

Over Time

The trans rights movement is dead:

the National Pulse reports that Evan Low, who is the CEO of the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, is telling Democrats to back off from the gender agenda and to quit pushing the cultural fights. For example, Low feels it is time to stop giving the transgender sports issue so much oxygen when people are concerned about real-world, real-time issues. Regarding men masquerading as women in sports, Low commented, “This is not a top 1, top 5, top 10, or top 30 issue.” Low is urging the Dems to focus on kitchen-table issues.

Low’s comments come as the Democratic Party wrestles with how to appeal to working-class voters post-2024, while President Trump continues using gender identity as a key wedge. Yet Low insists identity politics shouldn’t be front and center, even as LGBTQ+ individuals face regular targeting by Republican messaging. “We are running to serve the people, not to distract on issues that divide,” he stated.

Victory Fund Executive Director Elliot Imse echoed Low’s statement: “We are not going to win elections by pandering just to the nine percent of voters.” Whether this view is the product of honest self-assessment or an attempt to woo voters with a centrist approach before circling back to the rainbow is yet to be seen, but both gentlemen have a point. Americans are sick of the whole thing and have become bored with watching people whine about their pronouns into a steering wheel on a TikTok video. The movement may have been infuriating to some, but its moment has passed.

The rainbow has faded...

Inconvenient Response

Joe Rogan isn't having it:

NEW: Joe Rogan fact checks Senator Bernie Sanders after he tried shaming people who think Climate Change is a hoax.

Sanders: Some people think climate change is a hoax. It ain't a hoax. I think the last 10 years have been the warmest on record.

Rogan: Did you see the Washington… pic.twitter.com/HPyWoWe7hZ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 24, 2025

Senatorial Smackdown

This is not the discimination you were looking for:

VA Secretary Doug Collins absolutely demolished Senator Patty Murray when she tried to quote a fallacious Guardian article on discrimination at the VA.

"Nothing was changed that actually affected [discrimination policies]."

"I'm not gonna let you get away with this."

"No one… pic.twitter.com/KRZWl0WMn3

— Media Lies (@MediasLies) June 24, 2025

Family Business

Fighting to save the family farm:

Store Story

New York's next mayor literally wants to mind the store:

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani outlined his platform on his website saying people in his city are struggling with the cost of groceries. The site then declared Mamdani “will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit. Without having to pay rent or property taxes, they will reduce overhead and pass on savings to shoppers. They will buy and sell at wholesale prices, centralize warehousing and distribution, and partner with local neighborhoods on products and sourcing. With New York City already spending millions of dollars to subsidize private grocery store operators (which are not even required to take SNAP/WIC!), we should redirect public money to a real ‘public option.'” The Journal article by Adam Lehoday cited the owner of Appleton’s Marketplace on West End Avenue, Hamza, who said Mamdani might have good intentions but the idea could spiral into “corruption and money laundering, like we’ve seen in some of the other agencies.” The report also said more problems could arise because opening such ventures would fail to address the crime and poverty that is shutting down grocery stores in some neighborhoods. The Journal article continued: Another argument for the city-owned stores is that they would be able to cut prices by minimizing profit margins. But private grocery chains aren’t exactly price gouging—net profits average a razor-thin 1 percent to 2 percent. One woman I spoke with, a member of a food cooperative in Lower Manhattan, said she wasn’t sure “how it could work given the prices at our own nonprofit aren’t any lower than regular grocery stores.” Mamdani explained his idea in a video and appeared to accuse grocers in the area of price gouging.

Wait until he actually tries this idea...

History Review

The Department of Education has been failing for decades:

In 2023, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 report said there had been no return on investment in the Department of Education between 1980 and 2022, as the agency’s budget grew to $80 billion and reading and math scores across the nation declined. Moreover, the report said, 41 percent of its funding went to state education agencies instead of classrooms. A “shadow department” of 48,000 workers at the state level—or 10 times more workers than the federal agency employs—were employed to keep up with the paperwork burden imposed by federal mandates. The report also criticized the Democrats’ “disparate impact” policy that prioritized racial parity for school discipline and discouraged the use of detentions, suspensions, and expulsions. “Getting the federal government out of the business of dictating school district policy is a good start,” Lindsey Burke, director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, wrote. Poor test scores in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress report, coupled with disappointing results in international standardized assessments for high school students, further ignited the Republican flame for eliminating the Department of Education. .... Democrats today have not attempted to refute Republican arguments about stagnant or decreasing academic performance, despite massive federal spending since 1980. However, they maintain that the agency has provided critical services, protections, and a pathway to college for special needs students and those from low-income communities who would be further marginalized without its assistance. Robinson said while the Department of Education has yet to show a return on investment, he believes that it is not a total failure, filling a need as a “one-stop shop in D.C. and a place to call with questions.” “It was never meant to increase student achievement,” he said. “It didn’t fail on something it was not created to do.”

It was an honest failure...

Side Snide

Focus on the real extremists, or something:

When it comes to covering the “far Right,” Spencer urged reporters to “avoid features that glamorize and glorify these people,” and to avoid “both-sides-ism”—the journalist’s practice of presenting a point and a counter-point in reporting. “Do not ‘two-side’ stories,” she said. “Their fascism is not a side. Destroying people’s right to vote is not a side.” Spencer also advised reporters not to merely use the names that conservative organizations adopt for themselves. She claimed they “use propagandist tools,” employing “words that we associate with democracy, with humanism” for groups that “are doing the exact opposite.”

Like the Left...

Bad Birds

Don't mention the classics:

California Queen

Kamala may be looking for a sequel:

“She has a lot of people in her ear telling her that it makes the most sense and she can do the most good,” the source reveals. However, the outlet cautioned that Kamala has not “made a final decision yet and is still considering all her options.” Nonetheless, the former Vice President “says she has made it clear that she is not done with public service and is giving the race strong consideration.” Sources said Kamala is observing a “self-imposed end-of-summer deadline” to decide on whether to join the “crowded” gubernatorial race, which includes Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Lieutenant Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis has also expressed her interest in the gubernatorial seat, but will step down if Kamala decides to run. Former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA-47) will also run unless Kamala does. Former Speaker of the California State Assembly Toni Atkins has also declared her interest. Gov. Gavin Newsom is leaving the seat after serving the maximum of two terms, making him ineligible for re-election. He has his sights on running for U.S. president in 2028, and he is considered to be the Democratic Party’s frontrunner. Kamala is the currently most preferred candidate, with over half (57%) of California Democrats supporting her, according to an Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics/The Hill poll.

Californians are gluttons for punishment...

Table Talk

No impeachment for them:

Lawmakers agreed to table the measure in a 344–79 vote. A vote to table is a procedural mechanism allowing House members to vote against consideration of a bill without having to vote on the bill itself. The resolution was offered by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was infamously ejected from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year for repeatedly interrupting the president. A majority of House Democrats joined Republican lawmakers to kill Green's resolution, a sign of how politically caustic the effort appears to be. Just 79 Democrats voted to proceed with the impeachment vote, while 128 voted to halt it in its tracks.

Better luck next time...

Party Pooper

It's not his Party:

“I never was a Democrat to begin with,” Maher said during his “Club Random” podcast released on Saturday with his guest, actor Esai Morales. “I always like caucus with the Democrats and I generally vote for them,” the comedian added. But Maher said that he is anticipating the day when the Democratic Party will be as “insane” as the Republican Party. “I think, always vote for them, but I always look at it and like no, I’m gonna actually make up my mind, they just always are less scary and insane than the Republicans, but I wait for the day when it evens out,” Maher said. He added that, “We’re approaching that because they have gotten crazier, and that’s a lot of what you’re referencing. But I never said I left the party ’cause I wasn’t there to begin with.”

I wish more of his celebrity friends would feel the same...

Counting Crying

Here we go again:

The comedian shared a post to her Instagram Story from social media influencer Joe Braxton, who claimed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk “hacked and stole” the 2024 presidential election in his demand for a “recount.” “We Demand A Recount!” the online influencer exclaimed in the caption of his Instagram post, which was shared by O’Donnell. Braxton went on to bizarrely alleged that “Elon hacked and stole the election, then created a department where he could spend months deleting the evidence and firing the workers that could find out.” “There’s seriously no way he won 7 swing states,” Braxton asserted in his post. Notably, President Trump won the 2024 election in a historic landslide that included not only winning the Electoral College (the only thing needed to secure victory in a U.S. presidential race), but the popular vote and every swing state in the nation as well.

He won, get over it once and for all...

Green Crush

Turnabout is fair play:

Bad Review

Racism gets challenged:

The lawsuit is backed by America First Legal, a nonprofit legal firm founded by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, which argues the “anti-American scheme corrupts legal education and undermines equal justice under the law.” “No American should ever face discrimination based on their race. Yet, despite clear law on point prohibiting such discrimination and numerous Supreme Court decisions, racial discrimination continues to be pervasive throughout academia,” Gene Hamilton, AFL President, said in a statement. “AFL will not tolerate this unconstitutional discrimination at the University of Michigan and is taking decisive action to restore meritocracy and protect American values.” AFL contends UM, which is subsidized by tax dollars, “brazenly defies Title VI, the Equal Protection Clause, and (federal law), employing secretive selection committees to enforce diversity quotas and discriminatory citation policies that favor ‘underrepresented’ authors while penalizing white scholars, including underrepresented Republicans and Protestant Christians.” “Until recently, membership on the Law Review was an academic honor reserved for students who were selected on account of their first-year grades and their performance on a writing competition,” according to the lawsuit. “But left-wing students and affirmative-action devotees at the University of Michigan Law School were unhappy with the demographic makeup produced by merit-based selection,” it continued.

The Left loves its own bigots...

Street Sweepers

Keeping the idiots off the roads:

“I’ll be reintroducing the Safe and Open Streets Act to make sure activists who resort to these reckless tactics are prosecuted by the federal government and held accountable for endangering public safety,” tweeted the bill sponsor, North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis. If passed, individuals convicted of blocking roads or causing intentional traffic would face fines or a federal prison sentence of up to five years. Leftist groups, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), pro-Hamas agitators, Antifa, and now anti-ICE rioters, are notorious for blocking roads. “The emerging tactic of radical protesters blocking roads and stopping commerce is not only obnoxious to innocent commuters, but it’s also dangerous and will eventually get people killed. It needs to be a crime throughout the country,” Tillis told Fox News Digital. Senators Tillis and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) had introduced the same bill, S. 3492, in January 2024 in response to pro-Hamas protesters. “The Safe and Open Streets Act is in direct response to radical tactics of pro-Palestine protestors who have intentionally blocked roads and highways across the country,” Tillis said.

Tell them to stay off the street...

Court Time

Trump gets a win on immigration:

Justices on the high court ruled 6-3 to stay the lower court injunction, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting. "Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to man­age this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeat­edly defied," Justice Sotomayor said. "I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion," she added. At issue was a group of migrants challenging their removals to third countries, or countries that were not their country of origin. Lawyers for those migrants had urged the Supreme Court earlier this month to leave in place a ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who previously ordered the Trump administration to keep in U.S. custody all migrants slated for deportation to a country not "explicitly" named in their removal orders – known as a third-country deportation.

For now, at least, the party's over for them...

California Confusion

California, the can't do state:

when it comes to building things, California is not only not competitive with Texas, but it’s also not competitive with India, an actual, real-life Third World country. Once the economic engine that drove the nation, California is now an anchor, dragging everyone and everything down with it into the mire. All of that said, it’s probably not fair to single out California here. These days, no American state—no city, no county, not even the federal government—could build a high-speed railroad on budget and on schedule. The federal government, with its massive military budget, struggles to build ships. Heck, it struggles even to maintain the ones it has. America just doesn’t build things or complete large, complex projects anymore. Or at least it doesn’t do them well or effectively. We used to build things, but we don’t anymore. Once upon a time—and not that long ago—we built the greatest system of roads ever known to man, spanning the entire continent, east-to-west and north-to-south. Now, the interstate system would never even be started, much less finished. Somehow, sometime along the way, American governments at all levels lost their ability to do or build much of anything. The biggest part of the problem here can be summed up in one word: “bureaucracy.” Now, I know that just two weeks ago, in these very pages, I wrote that “For all the criticism it receives, bureaucracy remains the most rational and effective organizational structure known to man for the effective and efficient operation of large systems.” While this remains inarguably true, American government bureaucracy seems not to operate at all. It appears irrational, ineffective, and, at times, totally dysfunctional. But why? The good news is that the problem with American bureaucracy is actually fairly easily diagnosed. The bad news is that this “problem” is entrenched in American administrative practice and is unlikely to be excised without concerted and prolonged effort.

Good luck with that in the former Golden State...

Bad Argument

Another loss for liberal "logic":

Stage Performance

Politics really is show business for ugly people:

Court Jesters

That's not their job:

Paint Sinner

Everybody's a critic:

Last Generation Canada claimed responsibility for the act, saying it was part of a campaign urging the Canadian government to establish a national climate disaster response agency to assist those impacted by extreme weather. The group has also targeted the Montreal Casino and the BMO Museum with similar paint demonstrations in recent weeks. According to the Montreal Gazette, police were called to the museum at around 10:40 am. Their investigation determined that a 21-year-old man threw the paint while two others filmed it. Montreal police said the man was arrested for mischief and later released with a promise to appear in court. The other two were detained but released without charges. The group identified the man only as “Marcel.” In video footage of the incident, he was seen speaking in French and calling for a government agency to address climate disasters.

Another loon on the loose...

Toon Patrol

Be vewy vewy quiet:

Home Zones

When housing and politics collide:

Because they’re used to preempting cities on other issues, preempting local zoning feels like a natural move for red-state Republican legislators, especially when they can focus it on larger cities and exempt suburbs and small towns, as recent legislation in Texas and Montana has done. But “blue-state Republicans are anti-housing” doesn’t explain California, where Republicans from rural and inland areas joined just over half of Democrats in the state Senate to pass SB 79, requiring upzoning near transit stops. Of course, many Republicans in California are anti-housing – conservative Huntington Beach has even flirted with imposing strict rent control to stop apartment construction – but some of them are not. .... My impression, admittedly anecdotal, is that most of the vociferous opponents of zoning reform in New Hampshire grew up near Boston or New York, and have internalized the view that zoning is some kind of symbolic totem with which to stave off the darkness. The details of legislation don’t matter; what matters is maintaining the status quo at all costs. By contrast, Republican farmers in rural northern New England have the same mentality as western ranchers and miners: hands off my property!

A man's home shouldn't be the government's castle...

Leadership Blues

Liberals turn their lonely eyes elsewhere:

Yesterday afternoon, Newsweek released a story, “Almost Half of Democrats Say a Third Party Is Necessary — Poll” The Democratic Party has struggled with unpopularity and internal dissatisfaction since the sweeping defeat, facing pronounced ideological and generational divides, compounded by widespread voter frustration with congressional leaders and the party's overall direction. According to this latest poll, 47% of Democrats believe a third party is now “necessary.” Potentially, this could leave the Donkeys divided for the midterms and beyond: Forget about trying to win over independents, moderates, or even conservatives — if they split, it’s only a 50-50 shot they’ll retain their own! The article continued: The poll comes as voters' disapproval of Democratic members in Congress has increased since February, per a recent Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 registered voters nationwide, conducted between June 5 and June 9. Seventy percent of participants said they disapprove of how Democrats are handling their jobs in Congress, while 21 percent approve. Among Democrats, 53 percent disapprove, and 41 percent approve. Just 9 percent of Republicans approve of Democrats' performance, while 84 percent disapprove. A similar Quinnipiac University poll of 1,039 registered voters in February found that 68 percent of participants disapproved of congressional Democrats and 52 percent disapproved of congressional Republicans. Several high-profile Democrats have either switched parties or identified as independent, with former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announcing her departure from the party in June. It beckons the very obvious question: Why hasn’t a liberal leader with presidential aspirations exploited this opening?

Will the next liberal leader please step up...

Gender Benders

Democrats still don't get it:

An American Principles Project poll looking at the impact of campaign ads on various transvestite-related issues in the 2024 election found that 52% of voters who were made aware of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris' support for sex changes for minors were more likely to vote for President Donald Trump. APP president Terry Schilling concluded, "There should be no question now that Democrats' gender insanity is a massive political vulnerability for them that Republicans should continue to exploit." Schilling then urged Republicans "not to forget the main lesson from the election and to keep the pressure on Democrats for as long as they continue to defend their extreme agenda." .... Britain's National Health Service in 2020 appointed Dr. Hilary Cass, a British medical doctor who previously served as president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, to lead an independent investigation into the efficacy of sex-change procedures on minors. Blaze News previously reported that Cass' 388-page multi-year report revealed that: the "systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence"; puberty blockers compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on "gender dysphoria or body satisfaction"; there is "insufficient and/or inconsistent evidence about the effects of puberty suppression on gender dysphoria, mental and psychosocial health, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk, and fertility"; there is "a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormones for masculinisation or feminisation in adolescents with gender dysphoria or incongruence and few studies that undertake long-term follow-up"; and so-called gender-affirming care is "an area of remarkably weak evidence."

The real science doesn't support them...

Bomb Runs

The Left isn't happy about Trump's decision to bomb Iran:

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) stated, “Dear colleagues: Don’t make another mistake in dragging our country into another war,” Tlaib tweeted. “You can stop the President and the war mongers in Congress by signing on to our War Powers Resolution.” “Trump struck Iran without any authorization of Congress,” Ro Khanna (D-CA) posted. “We need to immediately return to DC and vote on @RepThomasMassie and my War Powers Resolution to prevent America from being dragged into another endless Middle East war.” Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican, joined Democrats in blasting the strikes, writing, “This is not Constitutional,” in response to Trump’s post. Former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg also weighed in,“What happened to no new wars?” Hogg asked. “Also how are we paying for this? If we can’t afford to spend trillions on healthcare we sure as hell can’t afford to spend trillions on another endless war.” Former Florida Democrat Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell fumed,“The President of the United States just informed the world on a Truth Social tweet the US has bombed Iran,” she wrote. “Only Congress, under the Constitution, has the authority to declare war Congress must demand that the President inform and coordinate any military action and explain to the American people why he’s brought our country into war.”

It seems he already explained his actions...

Gas Attack

Gas is back:

As evidenced by increasingly frequent blackouts and faulty grid performances, the so-called “alternatives” favored by self-labeled “environmental groups” have proven to be poor substitutes for affordable and reliable traditional energy resources. Among those resources, natural gas leads the way in both cost effectiveness and cleanliness. Natural gas has become increasingly “green” with a low carbon footprint compared to other fossil fuels. Shutting down the natural gas pipeline projects led to predictable consequences – a shortage of gas in New York and New England, leading to understandable worries about sustaining reliable energy. As demonstrated by the blackout that hit Spain, Portugal and parts of France in late April, natural gas is essential to producing electricity and rescuing residents from grid failures caused by the weaknesses of wind and solar. But there’s renewed hope for New York and the surrounding region. Because of the Trump administration’s posture favoring traditional energy sources, the Williams Companies – owners of the Constitution and NESE pipeline projects – announced in late May that they are working with government officials to revive both projects.

Green can't beat gas...

Speech Scene

The EU seems awfully concerned about what other people say:

The theme of this year’s No Hate Speech Week is about as pithy and inspiring as you might imagine: “Enhance legal and non-legal measures against hate speech through a multi-stakeholder approach.” In practice, this means brainstorming the ways in which the European Union can keep control of the narrative, especially on social media. Council of Europe chief Alain Berset made this clear when he opened the festivities with a speech in Strasbourg yesterday. “Hate speech is not an isolated issue,” he said, “but a part of a deeper challenge—to trust, to truth, to democracy itself.” This might be true according to the topsy-turvy definitions of Eurocratic newspeak. But in reality, free speech is a fundamental part of any democracy. The right for people to say whatever they like, no matter how crude, offensive, or hateful, is crucial for a society to remain open and free. Berset also declared: “Hate begins with words but does not end there. The Council of Europe has been clear: hate speech and hate crime are not separate problems—they exist on a continuum.”

The continuum of censorship...

Parent Pride

Bill Maher sides with parents:

After CNN Political Contributor and Democratic strategist Paul Begala said politicians shouldn’t tell parents what to do by banning gender transitions for minors, Maher said, “And by the way, the issue is quite the reverse. Like, out here in California and in New Jersey, it’s the schools who are not allowed to even tell the parents.” Maher further stated, “I think they’re not protecting the children from people coming in and taking advantage, I think, of young folks who don’t know what’s going on, I didn’t know what the f*ck was going on when I was eight years old. I was unhappy when I was a teenager. If someone offered this as the solution, I might go for it. And they have done studies since then, that’s why America is an outlier country with this. All the other countries pulled back on this, because they said, we don’t know, and, sometimes they’re just gay and sometimes they’re just confused and sometimes they’re just depressed, but once you start taking off body parts, you can’t reverse it.”

Bodies are for using, not always changing...

Peace Prizes

President Trump helps make peace:

In a post on Truth Social, Trump revealed he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had worked to arrange a “wonderful Treaty” between the two countries. Trump added that representatives from both countries will be in Washington, DC, on Monday “to sign documents.” “I am very happy to report that I have arranged, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a wonderful Treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Rwanda, in their war, which was known for violent bloodshed and death, more so even that most other Wars, and has gone on for decades,” Trump wrote, adding that it was a “Great Day for Africa” and the world. Trump lamented how he would not get a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to secure a peace treaty between the two countries, nor “for stopping the War between India and Pakistan.” The post from Trump came as Pakistan revealed that it was nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in helping to prevent a war between India and Pakistan.

Give real peacemaking a chance...

Cost Cutters

No more government funded propaganda:

Kari Lake, the Trump administration senior adviser working with those projects, confirmed a massive layoff program at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. The layoffs hit that agency, as well as Voice of America. Hundreds of jobs are being terminated. “This move follows USAGM’s firing of more than 500 contractors last month. It spells the death of 83 years of independent journalism that upholds U.S. ideals of democracy and freedom around the world,” claimed several VOA staff members who went to court to try to keep their salaries. It was a victory for Trump. “When Trump signed an order in March to drastically shrink USAGM and several other federal agencies, the president and his pick to run VOA, Kari Lake, depicted U.S.-funded international broadcasting as biased, bloated and obsolete,” a report from the legacy media claimed. A report at Just the News said Lake confirmed, “USAGM now operates near the statutory minimum; lean and focused. This is a clear example of responsible government—cutting waste, restoring accountability, and delivering on the promise to put American taxpayers first.” Lake continued, “Today, we took decisive action to effectuate President Trump’s agenda to shrink the out-of-control federal bureaucracy.”

Reining in the waste...

American Story

Why Whoopi is wrong:

Losers Club

It's a loser's circle:

For most Democrats, as Ruy Teixeira notes, ‘the progressive moment’ has not ended, despite all evidence to the contrary. This has been made clear by their reluctance to denounce the recent riots in Los Angeles. A recent poll found that Ocasio-Cortez – who simultaneously downplayed the riots and blamed them on Donald Trump – is most likely to be considered the ‘face’ of the Democratic Party, followed by Bernie Sanders and foul-mouthed Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. This sounds like a potential dream team… for the Republicans. Democrats pose as upholding ‘fundamental values’, as Newsom puts it. Essentially, this means forsaking public safety and defending criminals and violent protesters. Harris has even insisted, contrary to all evidence, that those LA protests were ‘overwhelmingly peaceful’. Even though most who participated only exercised their rights, the demonstrations provided cover for the keffiyeh-wearing, Mexican-flag-waving mob. In the bizarro world of the current Democratic Party, the police (in 2020) and the National Guard (in 2025) are responsible for the unrest, rather than the politically driven militants. So far, the only internal pushback from this fraught stance comes from senator John Fetterman and some newly elected Democratic mayors, like San Francisco’s Daniel Lurie. Unlike most Democrats, this small group is aware of the primacy of law enforcement as a pillar of democratic order, and they know that to be seen to be embracing violence, particularly from people in the US illegally, is electorally disastrous outside the deep-blue lunatic zones. Yet if current trends are anything to go by, their relative sanity will condemn them to an unsuccessful career in the Democratic Party.

Sanity has no place here...

Blogging In The Years: 1871

A Black Congressman has had enough:

If the Democrats are such staunch friends of the Negro, why is it that when propositions are offered here and elsewhere looking to the elevation of the colored race, and the extension of right and justice to them, do the Democrats array themselves in unbroken phalanx, and vote against every such measure? You, gentlemen of that side of the House, have voted against all the recent amendments of the Constitution, and the laws enforcing the same. Why did you do it? I answer, because those measures had a tendency to give to the poor Negro his just rights, and because they proposed to knock off his shackles and give him freedom of speech, freedom of action, and the opportunity of education, that he might elevate himself to the dignity of manhood. Now you come to us and say that you are our best friends. We would that we could look upon you as such. We would that your votes as recorded in the Globe from day to day could only demonstrate it. But your votes, your actions, and the constant cultivation of your cherished prejudices prove to the Negroes of the entire country that the Democrats are in opposition to them, and if they [the Democrats] could have sway our race would have no foothold here.

They can't be trusted on their word...

Job Loss

That's one way to get fired:

Men Matter

Make men great again:

Chat Grad

This isn't the best way to show off your acedemic skills:

UCLA graduate celebrates by showing off the ChatGPT he used for his final projects right before officially graduating 😭 pic.twitter.com/hZAvrY1fJk

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) June 18, 2025

Trust Time

The Reds do it better:

The public as a whole sees the GOP as relatively effective. It’s true that for decades, Democrats were widely seen as the party of the middle class. In 1989, they held a significant 23-point advantage on the question of which party best represented middle-class interests. But that has all changed. A May 2025 CNN/SSRS poll shows Republicans with a 7-point lead when people are asked which party is closer to their economic views. In a different poll, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, asking which party has the better economic plan, the GOP lead grew from +9 in May 2024 to +12 in May 2025, signaling increased confidence in Trump's economic leadership during his second term. Unless you’re still at home hiding from COVID under a blanket and isolated from the real world, this shouldn’t be a surprise. And yet, CNN hosts were completely baffled when reporting on the issue — another sign that today’s Democratic Party is completely disconnected from the average American.

Blues just don't understand...

Truth Troll

Obama still wants a Ministry of Truth:

Obama pines for a social media Ministry of Truth:

"We want diversity of opinion. We don't want diversity of facts...it will require some government regulatory constraints."

"There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard, versus a business model that… pic.twitter.com/CVnTJHqZ13

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 19, 2025

Blogging In The Years: 2010

Guam could tip over, or something:

The Organization

These aren't organic protests:

Crazy Talk

He's senile, or something:

O’Donnell opened The Last Word with a monologue where he insulted Trump’s cognitive state and questioned whether anyone would know if the president, 79, was suffering from “dementia” as he took issue with Trump floating the idea of appointing himself as Fed chair. “If Donald Trump gets dementia, how will we know? Donald Trump’s mental decline, which is more and more obvious, started from such a low level of mental processing power that it’s hard to track his decline. It’s from low to lower,” the MSNBC host said. “And then there are days like today when Donald Trump asks himself out loud in public if he is allowed to appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve.”

Joe Biden was unavailable for comment...

Land Save

A farming family in New Jersey is getting help:

"On the phone with Andy Henry of Highland Ranch in Cranbury, NJ. The city govt has approved seizing his 175-year-old family farm via eminent domain for affordable housing units," wrote Rollins. "Whether the Maudes, the Henrys or others whom we will soon announce, the Biden-style government takeover of our family farms is over," she added. "While this particular case is a city eminent domain issue, we @usda are exploring every legal option to help." Andy Henry says he has received many multimillion-dollar offers for the farm, but he has denied all of them. “Didn’t matter how much money we were offered,” Henry said. “We saved the farm no matter what. We turned down all the offers to preserve the legacy for our family, city, and even state.” In April, he received a letter from the Cranbury Township Committee telling him that he can either accept an offer or the farm would be taken by eminent domain. Eminent domain is a power of the government that is enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, but its application has been significantly expanded, improperly according to critics, to include seizures that indirectly benefit the government through increased taxes. “My family sacrificed on this land for 175 years,” Henry added. “All the other farms disappeared. We did not. We will not.”

Now they have help...

Heat Strike

Blame it on the oil companies, or something:

On June 28, 2021, Seattle experienced unprecedented temperatures, reaching as high as 108°F, which marked the city’s hottest day on record. Juliana Leon, a 65-year-old woman, was driving home from a medical appointment when she was overcome by the extreme heat. Her vehicle’s air conditioning was not working, and she had rolled down the windows, but the intense outdoor conditions proved fatal. A passerby found her unconscious in her car, and emergency responders were unable to revive her. Her official cause of death was hyperthermia, or overheating. Misti Leon’s lawsuit argues that the oil companies named as defendants knew for decades that their products would contribute to climate change and lead to deadly weather events, yet they concealed and downplayed these risks from the public. It’s worthwhile to point out that globally, Earth’s temperature averages are among the coldest that have been determined for the last 485 million years.

Another climate lawsuit going nowhere fast...

Fraud Patrol

Time to investigate:

“Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD!” the America First leader wrote on his Truth Social platform. “The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin!”Trump lamented that “What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable!”—citing new figures showing that, while the Trump administration released zero illegal aliens into the U.S. in May, Biden released let loose an incredible 62,000 in May 2024.

No fraud for him...

California Crush

Why the Supreme Court's decision against California's climate crusade matters:

Court watchers are familiar with the Article III standing requirements that every lawsuit must meet: injury, causation, and redressability. Kavanaugh’s opinion is thick with economic math from California’s filings, which predict multi-billion-dollar drops in gasoline demand over the next decade; see supremecourt.gov. That evidence, plus the commonsense link between mandating electric vehicles and selling less fuel, persuaded the Court that the challengers were not crying wolf. This was no minor technicality. Environmental activists wanted the Court to erect a procedural fence that would keep most industry plaintiffs out for lack of “direct” harm. The conservative majority refused, and even uber-liberal Justice Elena Kagan quietly joined five Republican appointees and Chief Justice John Roberts. .... The Economic Stakes in Plain English Imagine a lemonade stand that must compete with a city-owned juice bar offering free drinks paid for by ratepayers. Few neighborhood kids will buy your lemonade. That's how Valero and ethanol farmers view California’s rulebook: a direct subsidy for electric vehicle makers disguised as environmental virtue. The Court agreed that if the city hands out free juice, the lemonade kid can sue. Billions ride on this fight. California alone accounts for roughly 10% of U.S. gasoline demand. Suppose every major state copied its zero-emission mandate; refined fuel demand could crater. Ethanol producers in Iowa, biodiesel plants in Texas, and refinery workers in Pennsylvania all see existential threats. Friday’s ruling gives them a chance to plead their case before a judge rather than a bureaucrat.

Put the law where it belongs...

Sad USAID

The USAID saga continues:

A federal contracting officer and three businessmen have pleaded guilty in a scheme involving bribes like cash, NBA tickets, and a country club wedding in a scandal the Department of Justice (DOJ) said was part of a $550 million scam, Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent Mike Emanuel reported Friday. Roderick Watson, 57, worked as a USAID contracting officer, according to a DOJ press release, and pleaded guilty to "bribery of a public official." According to the DOJ, Watson sold his influence starting in 2013, with contractors Walter Barnes, owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, funneling payoffs through subcontractor Paul Young to hide their tracks.

It was a good scam while they had it...