The 2026 Midterm Election, Part I

By Rich Kozlovich 

There are things Trump has done that make me role my eyes and shake my head, but.... that's Trump....the alternatives in either of his elections were totally unacceptable.  But it you take an honest look at what he accomplished in spite of the resistance from rabid Democrats, cowardly Republicans and the Deep State, he accomplished more in his first administration than all the other five Presidents combined who occupied the White House after Ronald Reagan.  If you add what he's accomplished in his second term, there may never be a more accomplished and successful President.... ever.   

An article in America Thinker,What Midterm Voters Prefer, outlining all the very real accomplishments of the Trump administration and hoping they would remember.  Well, here's my take on that.

There are only two classes of people in the world. The powerful elite, and the masses. The powerful only want to maintain or expand their power, and the masses only want security. The ability to feed, clothe and house their families in safety. In America the elite is primarily divided into two camps, the Democrat party and the Republican party. The Democrat party is out of power and will do what ever it takes to reacquire their lost power, including lying, making false accusations and violence, all of which is promoted with a steady drumbeat by the Pravda media supporting their lies and justifying their violence. 

The Republicans need to have the backbone to unendingly attack them…without mercy….. for their lies and corruption making sure the public is well informed. The Republicans, as a party, is terrible at it. So then… no…. a large percentage of the people won’t remember. How large is that percentage? That remains to be seen. 

Every election parties wait for "the October surprise", when information that's can be as devastating as a nuclear blast comes out of nowhere.  Well... it's here.... and it's big... and I mean really big... and it has emerged in France.

As you've heard many times, watch out for the October Surprise, a late-breaking event that impacts, one way or another, our elections...... The October Surprise is happening in Paris. Have you checked the news lately? Who would have believed a few years ago that "students" would be destroying symbols of French history? Is France even French anymore?........ In a nutshell, everything that President Trump is talking about, from open borders to a breakdown in order, is coming to you in living color in the evening news. This is not the October Surprise that Democrats were hoping for.......

The uprising in France by Islamo/Marxists has forced some globalists to recognize multiculturalism is an effort in national suicide, and make no mistake, America isn't immune.  What you're seeing in France could end up occurring in France could end up happening in America, especially since these riots are now being used to train American radicals the best way to "commit terrorist acts and destroy historic sites".  

Will it be Islamo/Marxist tyranny, or will it be the Constitution?  That's the issue.  Everything else is window dressing.  

While France Is Burning Macron Grooves

By Rich Kozlovich

It's been said that Nero fiddled as Rome burned, which wasn't true. The fact is as soon as he found out about it he returned to Rome and acted very responsibly to make sure the poor were fed and housed.   But Nero being Nero, he blamed the Christians. 

In the case of French President Emmanuel Macron, he didn't fiddle as France burned, he cluelessly spent the evening grooving with his wife at a Celine Dion concert,  but the people of France had nothing to worry about. He was right on top of it all telling the people of France, who were being physically assaulted and watching their nation being set on fire, to just show "calm and respect".    Imagine that.    

One thing he's sure of it's not the Muslim immigrants who are responsible, but he had to blame someone, so he shifted blame entirely away from Muslims to France's far left radicals, and accused foreign leaders, including .....watch out now.... here it comes.... President Trump....  of trying to "exploit unrest in France for political gain", calling their views stupid.  Well, stupid is as stupid does, and he's an expert at stupid.  I'm just surprised he didn't blame the Jews. 

I guess one of these "stupid" leaders includes German Chancellor Friedrich Merz who outright states that immigration and a failure of assimilation is what caused these riots in France, with him expressing legitimate fears these riots will spread to the rest of Europe, and it is, from Belgium to Berlin.

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As the violence rampages throughout France and other parts of Europe we're seeing shock and confusion from the talking heads, most of which are leftist enablers offering excuses and justifications for this "mostly peaceful" violence and destruction.   And everyone is shocked.... shocked I tell you!  Why?  C'mon man, this is France, and France has been a mess for decades, but that mess is all coming to a head now.  All of this was as predictable as night follows day, because the were warned and none of this is anything new.

This article, "French riots show the future of Joe Biden’s America", was published on July 14, 2023, with the author saying:

As the U.S. deals with the consequences of mass immigration, important lessons can be learned from our oldest European ally.  Over the past few weeks, France has been engulfed in riots after a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. The rioting and looting have largely been centered in communities with many migrants from North African and Islamic nations. The rioting has caused more than one billion dollars in property damage, and has led to thousands of arrests. It has also led to a renewed debate in Europe about the costs of mass migration and whether or not those costs are worth it.

It’s not just the U.S. that has experienced an influx of foreign nationals in recent years. France took in a record number of migrants in 2022, both legal and illegal. The European Union resettled nearly one million migrants last year, not including refugees from war-torn Ukraine. The main countries of origin for these refugees were Syria, Afghanistan, Turkey, Venezuela, and Columbia. Just as we’ve seen in the U.S., these large influxes of migrants have had a destabilizing effect on the continent’s cultural, economic, and political life. The carnage occurring in France is the result of long-simmering tensions finally coming to the surface. It’s the results of migrants from third-world, war-torn countries not assimilating into their new country, but bringing the baggage from their old countries with them.

This synergy of "migrants" and Marxists is vile to the bone promoting corrupt actions that are totally devoid of decency, morality or honor. In one case a French Antifa activist told a woman that being raped by a "migrant" is merely "collateral damage".  I wonder if all these celebrities coming out in support of these savages would find that acceptable if it was one them being raped? North African migrants have been seen chanting “f*ck France,” and “We’re just here for the welfare!”, and now these welfare states are crumbling right before of our eyes.   And we're shocked why?

Finally, someone in France miraculously grew a back bone, and are now sending in the military, which they should have done long before this, but the question still remains:  Is it now too late?

Update, 12:51 PM:

•  France Is Gearing Up for Another Massive Wave of Riots -  France is bracing for more protests and riots this weekend. Over the course of the last week, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets across France. What began as demonstrations over deteriorating conditions in public schools quickly expanded into protests over the cost of living. Many descended into riots, with opportunists looting stores, setting fire to historic buildings, and clashing with law enforcement...... 
  
  
  
  

Is This the Best You Have Maine?

By Rich Kozlovich

Over at the Babylon Bee they ran a satirical article over Maine's Democrat party issues finding a candidate to run against Susan Collins, entitled, Maine Dems Explain They Can Either Do 'No Rape' Or 'No Incest' But Not Both saying: 

"What do these people expect from us when they say we can't run a rapist?" said party leader Mike Prather. "Once you take all of the rapists out of the equation, it's just a bunch of liberals sleeping with their cousins. Those are your options, Maine. Honestly, we're getting pretty frustrated with these voters and their ridiculous expectations. Deal with it, people."

Despite the party's statement, some voters have remained hopeful that at least one Democrat could be found that had not committed rape or incest. "Surely, there's one liberal in this state who hasn't slept with his cousin or committed sexual assault," said local woman Denise Gaines. "I just have to believe we have at least one non-rape, non-incest option. I'm not giving up yet."

At publishing time, the state Democratic Party of Maine had announced the discovery of a "no rape or incest" candidate, but with the caveat that he died in 1902.

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What's Wrong With Canada? Everything!

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

In a recent Canada Free Press article the author discussed what the Alberta referendum on declaring independence from the Canadian Confederation means.  Answer?  Nothing!  Given the complexities in Canadian law that allows for a Canadian province to separate itself politically from the rest of Canada... it's pretty much impossible, unless you're from Quebec, then Anglophone Canadians will do whatever it takes to placate them, and I think its because they're afraid of them.  It's my view it wouldn't take much for the French Canadians to resort to violence to get their way...after all.... they are French. 

He also outlined how great it would be if Canada would become America's 51st state militarily, financial and socially.  But the truth of the matter is, Canadians don't like America, and they hate Trump, in spite of all the tyranny, a very badly broken health care system, where euthanasia is more important than the medical profession's oath to do no harm.

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Their taxes are massive compared to America's, and regulations being imposed on them from their central government are downright tyrannical.  Yet, they wish to keep their nation as it is, as the vast majority of Canadians simply do not wish to become part of the United States.  Well, Canadians aren't the only ones who don't want Canada as a 51st state. If Canada came in as a single state, (which I doubt that would happen that way) conservatives would lose the House of Representatives forever.

If Canada came in with each Province having statehood the Senate would also be lost forever with 20 Marxist/Islamist/globalist/multiculturalist Canadian Senators who would immediately set to work imposing the same kind of insanity on the U.S. they've imposed on Canada, including ending freedom of speech, except for Islamic attacks on Jews, freedom of the press, and attacks on religious freedom, unless you're a Muslim. 

So, as it turns out Canadians don't like Americans, and we don't really care about them. We don't need them or want them! If they fix their own problems by kicking out the Marxist/Islamist/globalist/multiculturalists and the false conservatives, then they won't want or need us, and we'll have harmony.  See, simple!

•  Dear Canadians: Listen to the great Victor Davis Hanson No, we don’t want Canada as a 51st state; yes, we want to trade with you; and yes, your Prime Minister is on a crazed personal vendetta that could destroy you.

Well, none of that matters since Alberta rejected separation by 70%, which was expected.  But getting 30% of the population to support independence was actually impressive, and that may be the start of something politically in Canada, but independence isn't it, and the USA dodged a bullet. 

While justice is supposed to be administered equally in America (at least officially that's what our laws require) their justice system suffers from Wokeism and has officially imposed as "parallel system of Justice" reducing the punishment for crimes committed by "indigenous" peoples, which the Canadian Supreme Court has ruled in favor of.  Canada is failing socially and culturally, as it embraces Islam and Marxism in effect making Canada a police state.  As Eric Utter says: If you must act like you’re living under Sharia Law, you are effectively living under Sharia Law.

Also in The Great White North, anything that you say, post, blog, or infer, can — and quite possibly will — be used against you via its ludicrous hate crime laws (“319, sub 2, ‘Willful Promotion of Hate.’ 

Canada is failing economically as it's being taken for a ride on Carney's Marxist train.  Canada's economic freedom index has fallen from 9th  to 18th, and six Canadian banks are quietly creating "digital handcuffs for your cash".  And as usual for leftists, nothing is their fault, as both Canada and Britain blame Trump, Putin, and ‘White Supremacy’ for their ails.   The reality is Anti-American PM Mark Carney is burning down Canada to satisfy his Trump Derangement Syndrome, while looking to strengthen ties with France.  Ya just gotta see the humor in that.

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Carney lives in a fantasy world with delusions of grandeur by putting on a big show to impress the globalist leaders of the world's nations (all of which are collapsing socially and economically) by standing up to Trump and preparing to defend Canada against a U.S. invasion,  All the while professing love for Muslims, China and the European Union.  What's clear to me is there is something seriously wrong with Carney, everything is wrong with Canada, and nothing will fix either. 

 

Hello! Europe is Erupting, Is Anyone Paying Attention?

By Rich Kozlovich 

It seemed clear to me, and should have been clear to the most casual observer, (provided they're not blind pathological liars) these French rioters were not just a student protesters.  It also seemed clear to me this was going to be a lingering story, and I think for the rest of the year as the consequences of this plays out over time.  Not only in France but all of Europe and even America.   

Well, as it turns out these rioters really aren't student protestors, they're Islamo/Marxist insurrectionists. Unlike the so-called insurrectionists of January 6th, they're violent, they're massively destructive, they're thieves and they're a cabal of radicals who want to destroy France, openly calling for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution in France.  

The BBC still claims these are mostly peaceful demonstrations..... kinda like when they burned down "the bell tower at the Limoges City Hall"...... and the crowd cheered as the building collapsed into a fiery heap.  

But hey........ maybe they cheered in a "mostly peaceful" way.... Right?   What this was in reality is a violent demonstration of the total contempt these anarchists feel for France.

The BBC isn't alone in their lack of shame, it's a worldwide media phenomenon.  In Australia a pro-Palestinian activist ran over an Australian politician, and they blamed conservatives.   I'm surprised they didn't try to claim he "accidentally" ran over her.... all three times...... just like these are "mostly peaceful" demonstrations.  

During this time these "mostly peaceful" rioters have been waving the Palestinian flag....Why? Because: 

 It’s a historic flag of the Islamic conquest of Christians and Jews.....to them, France is Israel and they’re the ‘Palestinians’ out to destroy it and replace it with their own terrorist state. The ‘white’ in the ‘Palestinian’ flag represents the Umayyad caliphate which had once invaded France, conquered Narbonne, and genocided its Christian population, until it was thrown back by indigenous Christian resistance at the Battle of Toulouse and the Battle of Tours.........  Everywhere is a few million Muslims away from becoming Israel.  And Israel is a symbol of what the mobs intend to do to Europe and every nation they invade.......

It's a civil war and France is falling to the new Jacobins:

Europe cannot possibly survive the continued onslaught of Muslim immigrants. The ever-increasing numbers of Muslims, disenfranchised or not, with their much, much higher birth/fertility rates will eventually simply subsume existing European cultures. (The same is true of Canada. When Prime Minister Carney says “Muslim values” are “Canadian values,” he is simply informing Canadians what their future holds)...

And of course the nitwit celebrity crowd just has to share their views.  Bono attacked Christians and Jews, over spending cuts, and Christina Ricci just felt compelled to defend these rioters who are just "protesting the state of the world"..... and who exactly is Christian Ricci?  Apparently she thinks these "mostly peaceful" rioter's rap song of choice that praises Muslim murderers who killed a Rabbi and his two sons, ages four and five and an eight year old girl, is just a protest about the state of the world.  Imagine that!

This is spreading throughout Europe, but unlike France, Italy isn't going to tolerate any of this.  After the Milan riots Italy is sending troops and toughing their security laws.  Prime Minister Meloni and the Italian government  has enacted an Emergency Decree against these young Muslim.....excuse me, my bad........ "multicultural" insurrectionists, making it clear "if you break it, you pay".   A part of this decree makes it a crime for using "a computer or other electronic device to promote the formation of a violent demonstration, with a penalty of between four and 12 years in prison".  

Apparently Italy was paying attention, meanwhile we're finding neither Poland or Hungary are having to send troops, nor are they toughing up their security laws because all the major cities in Poland and Hungary are peaceful!  Really!  Why?  Because they told the EU to shove it over their "multicultural" immigration demands.   

As for the rest of Europe deciding to ignore the suicidal immigration policies of the EU and adopting strong immigration policies this question remains.  Is it now too late?  

What I'm Reading

 By Rich Kozlovich

 

I do love irony, which is why I posted this cartoon without dialogue. Some pictures just don't need dialogue, and this most certainly is one of them.  Besides, anything I put in words couldn't possibly say it better than this picture. 

So, now let's move on with France, a story that isn't going away any time soon.  Yesterday I posted this piece, What I'm Reading: France and Europe is Doomed, which I followed up with eight updates... at least at this writing...... and it's amazing how these "media weirdos, losers, mutants", nitwits and pathological liars, keep insisting these are just students protesting education issues.  One thing is clear, the public has grown exhausted at these unending emotional outbursts by "nags, scolds, and harpies trying to pester their way into power" with what's being called Woke 2.. 

....... it’s not going quite the way they want. It’s not happening quite the way they envisioned. Yeah, they’re whining and complaining like the shrill shrews they are, but people have finally figured out how best to deal with these yakking malcontents. You either mock them or ignore them, and when you do, they’ve got nothing.

In France they can fall back on The Riot Act, which allows the police to use deadly force.  This isn't just a riot, it's a civil war, and what I keep wondering about is if or when the French are going to declare a "State of Emergency" and unleash the military against these rioters.  

Europe is a mess, economically, socially, and culturally.... at least that's true of western Europe, for which the EU bears a great deal of blame.  Now the EU has decided they aren't spending anywhere near enough money (money they don't have) and is promoting a nuclear blast in new spending.  

It’s remarkable just how clueless these pinheads really are. The fact is Europe is doomed, with these planned riots in France spreading throughout Europe, which may well end France’s Fifth Republic and trigger a massive European wide civil war. Make no mistake, they can budget all the money in the world as they please, but they don’t have it, they can’t pay back what they’ve borrowed, and the day is fast approaching when they won’t be able borrow any more of it.  Europe has Brussels leading them down the economic rabbit hole.  

 

Talk about a nuclear blast!  Amy Acton is the Democrat's offering for governor of Ohio. She's also the one who caused the economic disasters over falsified claims about covid.  Claims she later admitted were all "guesstimates".   No, they weren't guesstimates, they were lies, and it appears even her mother says she's a liar and always have been and is in need of help, claiming she's not fit to be governor.  Ya just can't make this stuff up.  This is a nationwide trend, and ya just gotta wonder, where do the Democrat find these mutants and who picks them to run?  It's almost as if there's a Republican mole in the party leadership making those decisions.  Truth be told...... I feel much the same way about Vivek Ramaswamy.  What's the biggest thing going for him?  He's not Amy Acton. 

The left will scream about violence and claim conservatives are trying to violently overthrow "our democracy", as they falsely claimed about January 6th.  But they have no problem threatening conservatives as has Senator Elissa Slotkin who threatening "GOP prosecutions to deter young people from Trump administration jobs", if the Democrat party takes over the Congress.  She, along with other Democrat's also encouraged the military to disobey Trump's orders claiming they were illegal and they didn't have to obey.... then admitted she had know what illegal orders he issued, if any. 

The case against Jack Smith keeps growing and getting worse...much worse.... when will he be prosecuted?  The information that's been made available demonstrates he's committed serious crimes, which could potentially be prosecuted under RICO, and yet.... we wait.  Why?  How long?  

The same is true of Ilhan Omar. On the 14th I published this piece, What I'm Reading: Ilhan Omar and No One is Above the Law, but story has really metastasized, and I've added 18 updates keeping up with it.  There's talk about the statute of limitations, but it seems clear... at least to me.... her story is a story of a criminal conspiracy involving her family and will be tried as a RICO case, where there are almost no statutes of limitations. 

The benefits of multiculturalism?  Trash, lots and lots of trash... and feces.  Who's to blame?  Well it depends on what day it is. Russia, Israel, and you know they'd love to blame Trump. but the U.S. Navy has a rule, and I think it's a good one.  Only he who commands can be blamed, and right now the Spanish are blaming their Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez.   

There's a lot more going on I've read, but, those are another tales for another days.  More to come.   

What I'm Reading: France and Europe is Doomed

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:   The World's Nine Orders

Well, it's pretty clear France's Fifth Republic is heading into the toilet.  Will there be a Sixth Republic?  Well, I have doubts there will be a France at all.  Their stocks and bonds are crashing and Macron has completely failed to restore order.  His days in power is bound to come crashing down also.  And the rest of Europe isn't far behind.  And everyone is shocked why?  This was as predictable as night follows day, and I did so 15 years ago. 

This is a civil war that's part of a global Islamo-Marxists conspiracy ...... yes... there it is..... I said it.... the "c" word.... conspiracy... and this article lists the conspirators, who are planning to spread this destruction and rioting to 12 nations   

The same people are not waiting for the next spontaneous spark. An international coalition of 28 communist and socialist youth organizations is already organizing a coordinated strike across 12 European countries on November 20 under the slogan “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!”

Let's try and get this right for once....just once, please.... the only reason European nations exist now is because the United States funded their recovery after WWII with the Marshall Pan and the Bretton Woods Agreement.  In their arrogance the French were against the Marshall Plan as they felt it diminished France.  Better to starve than say thank you for one of the most unselfish humanitarian acts in human history.  Without the Bretton Woods Agreement, which opened American markets to European goods,  costing America trillions over the last 80 years, the European economy would never have recovered, and in point of fact, Europe wouldn't exist except as a geographic designation.  

These Islamo/Marxist rioters are promoting violence and deception.  Their history of false promises, repression and violence is historical fact that is incontestable.  Just like communist promises of "reform" that comes with every revolution they foment, they never outline what that means, and the reason why is it's lie, they know it's a lie, and they haven't a clue what needs to be done socially, economically or culturally to make society safer, happier, and better off.  No matter how bad it was in Russia under the Czar, that was paradise compared to the horror Stalin perpetrated against the Russian people, right along with Mao in China, Castro in Cuba, Pot Pol in Cambodia and Maduro in Venezuela to name a few.  

Europe embraced the welfare state, globalism, and the multiculturalism promoted by Henry Kissinger, along with his acolyte Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum.  At the end of Kissinger's life he proclaimed it was a grave mistake for Europe to have listened to him on immigration.  His life was a grave mistake.   

Between Europe's embrace of suicidal immigration policies, along with just about everything else they've embraced, their welfare states are collapsing.  As Allan J. Feifer states:

The greatest danger is not that Europe fails to recognize its mistakes, but that it recognizes them, understands their consequences, yet still cannot bring itself to act.... Europe is approaching the point where choices become consequences: guaranteeing cradle-to-grave social benefits, taking in millions of unskilled immigrants, struggling with vastly different cultural expectations, and transferring national sovereignty to an all-powerful European Union aligned more with the World Economic Forum than with its citizens. All the while, economic growth, public finances, and a lack of political cohesion present unprecedented challenges that compound every problem......

Identifying a problem doesn't translate into having the will to fix it. Leaders may understand the cost of inaction yet decide that confronting entrenched interests, rigid rules, or dominant narratives can end their careers. Institutions form core social beliefs that amount to a shield, deflecting blame for failures and hiding behind "We were following the rules" as their defense........

This is what happens when ignorant, cowardly, arrogant ideologues take power and make decisiond about things they clearly don't understand, nor do they care about.   When Ignorant Ideologues Take Control Of Major Economic Decisions

Update, 1:35 PM:

• France Curfews Announced After Paris Rioters Targeted Residential Apartments for Looting - French Prime Minsiter Sébastien Lecornu has announced that there will be localised curfews put in place in a bid to stem the rioting and looting which have ravaged the country over the past two days.  

 My Take -  When society is collapsing and the army is called in it's called Martial Law in America.  In France it's called "State of Siege".  France has yet to declare a State of Siege and call in the army.  Why?  I know the answer, but I'm waiting for the French to say it. RK

• Farage: ‘If We Don’t Wake Up, The Carnage in France is Our Future’ - As France burns again in what critics have called a conflagration born of decades of open borders and failed multiculturalism, other European states consider the risk of the violence spreading, including the United Kingdom, where Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned border control is urgently needed..... 

My Take - Britain's elite will never "wake up" since if they do that they'll have admit they've taken the UK down the rabbit's hole into disaster, and they're to blame for the disasters that's occuring.  It's the British people who need to wake up and stop caring if they're called racists or xenophobes and kick these monsters back to their country of origin.  As for the leftists in their midst, they have to confront them without flinching, and that includes government bureaucrats, police, judges and Members of Parliament, some of whom need to be arrested for their enabling of Muslim rape gangs, or the UK will be lost forever. RK

Update, 10/20/26:

• The EU's Spending Explodes -  Brussels’ budget negotiations are entering the home stretch. Ireland wants to put the brakes on Ursula von der Leyen’s spending frenzy, at least a little. That is not enough for the German chancellor. Europe’s well-known king of debt is playing the fiscal disciplinarian, putting on yet another media performance for the public.  An increase of almost 70 percent from one financial framework to the next is not merely a budget expansion -- it is fiscal megalomania.......

My Take -  It’s remarkable just how clueless these pinheads really are. The fact is Europe is doomed, with these planned riots in France spreading throughout Europe, which may well end France’s Fifth Republic and trigger a massive European wide civil war. Make no mistake, they can budget all the money in the world as they please, but they don’t have it, they can’t pay back what they’ve borrowed, and the day is fast approaching when they won’t be able borrow any more of it, and Europe isn’t alone, China isn’t far behind.  Europe has Brussels leading them down the economic rabbit hole, and China has Xi, who has decimated the leadership in the party apparatus and the military of anyone other that sycophants and is orchestrating another Moaist economic collapse like Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” that cost the lives of millions of Chinese. You might find this podcast regarding China’s future by Peter Zeihan more than a little interesting. RK

•  Poland, Hungary: France Riots Are Why We Have Border Control - “Perhaps it is now clear” why Central European states maintain strict border control to “preserve our continent as the most wonderful place in the world for our children and grandchildren”, national leaders say as the rest of the world looks on in horror at the failure of multiculturalism in France.....
• Here's What Caused a Liberal Journalist to Suffer a Total Meltdown on Katie Pavlich's Show -France has become Mogadishu, and we have an NFL game this weekend between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints at the Stade de France in Paris. I’m not sure it’s safe to hold a game unless French authorities take steps to restore law and order. The Left and their allies in the media want to frame this as an education and cost-of-living scuffle. It’s not a yellow vest event, folks. It’s what you get when you import too many Muslims into the country. They’re rioting, looting, setting things on fire, and targeting Jewish businesses. The communist and Palestinian flags give it away — these aren’t students............... 
• France Has to Stand Up or Europe Could Fall - Paris is burning. So is much of France and other places across Europe. What was billed as a “student protest” was soon overrun with communist and Palestinian flags (but I repeat myself), Arafat doilies draped over heads and shoulders, and “newly arrived” Muslims from across the Mediterranean Sea. Unless schools are very different in France, I don’t think we’re dealing with students here.......If Europe is going to be Europe in 20 years, its leadership in the next 2 months needs to be more Korean store owner in the Rodney King riots than old lady swinging a baguette like it’s a lightsaber and remove the cancer its society has imported and deal with the carcinogens funding and organizing them with whatever means are available to them.......
• You Know the Media Wants to Bury the French Riots - The stock footage from the outset of the French riots is unusable. It’s now devolved into a maelstrom of looting, vandalism, and mayhem — all spurred by Muslim migrants who have decided to destroy France. The media are trying to couch this as an offshoot of the ongoing ‘yellow vest’ movement, which is a student protest over the cost of living and education funding. That narrative dies when the rioters are waving communist and Palestinian flags........
• You Know the Media Wants to Bury the French Riots - The stock footage from the outset of the French riots is unusable. It’s now devolved into a maelstrom of looting, vandalism, and mayhem — all spurred by Muslim migrants who have decided to destroy France. The media are trying to couch this as an offshoot of the ongoing ‘yellow vest’ movement, which is a student protest over the cost of living and education funding. That narrative dies when the rioters are waving communist and Palestinian flags. ......

Abdul El-Sayed's Electability

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags, 

According to the Pravda media and pollsters the race in Michigan between Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers is a toss up.  We already know the media lies and we know no one lies like professional pollsters, so what is the real story on El-Sayed's electability?  I don't think it's all that good.

First, after all his denials over his connections with terrorist movements he remains close to his terror-linked mother and has unsuccessfully attempted to detach she and her connections from his campaign.  In short, he lied about his terrorist ties.

Secondly, when you breakdown the demographic of his voter base it's clear he's in trouble.  Black voters don't like him, and there’s a cultural reason for that.  I was and exterminator for 40 years and went into every neighborhood in the area, and I'd forgotten how blacks felt about obnoxious Muslim store owners until I read that article.  It's an emotional cultural thing El-Sayed will not be able to overcome since blacks have real life experience with Muslims in their communities, and those experiences are not positive. 

Given the antisemitic mind set of the Democrat party Jews are not only refusing to vote for him, many are now considering voting for Republicans.  CNN reported that Jewish support for Democrats, who have "unleashed a national hate campaign against Jews of a kind that hasn’t been seen since WWII", has fallen dramatically.  That's a massive cultural shift the Democrats will find impossible to overcome in the short term, and may find this will actually become a permanent shift, as he's not the anomaly, "he's the common thread" of those Democrats who are running for office.  And truth be told, he and his ilk are the face of the new Democrat party. 

During his primary run the polls declared he would win hands down.  Calling that an overestimation was being kind.  It was polling corruption in support of  El-Sayed, as he only beat his opponent by one percent, and there's valid evidence of voter fraud ..... wow that's a shocker.... and only 57% of his primary opponents supporters, all Democrats, will support him in his run for the Senate.  That in itself could be enough to sink him, and as it turns out he's unpopular among rural voters.    

• The Media’s Michigan Primary Polls Were Media Voter Suppression  

Third, and this has got to be a huge kick in the pants for El-Sayed.  The Democrats in general don't like him. He's losing local party support, and there's a party revolt against him.  The former Press Secretary for Jill Biden said he's endorsing Republican Mike Rogers "over Islamo-Marxist Abdul El-Sayed."  The fact is he's scared a lot of people, including Democrats who've adopted the view you simply cannot give power to lunatics.  If you really want to understand who and what El-Sayed is, this article condemns him thoroughly, Abdul El-Sayed: The Enemy Inside the Gates.

So how does his supporters like Hasan Piker, the hate America lunatic, view all this?  Piker calls Democrat's who refuse to vote for El-Sayed Islamophobic pieces of s**t’.  Wow!  Piker really knows how to win friends and influence people.  The fact is his voter base is a solid Muslim voting bloc, after that, his numbers aren't good at all.  

Fourth, when having to face media types who aren't myrmidons of the left he's embarrassed himself, as he did with this Jesse Watters interview, and the mess he made on ‘Meet the Press’,  Also, having to bribe a Detroit pastor for $75,000 to get his endorsement, is hardly a suggestion of confidence.

Here are additional links you may find worth your time:

1.  Abdul El-Sayed Is Either Lying or Very Stupid Health care 
2.  Speaker Mike Johnson Delivers Strong Warning on Communism: ‘The Barbarians Are Inside the Gate".
3.  ‘Privileged Idiot’ DSA Co-Chair Has Absolute Porridge for Brains 
4.  El-Sayed, the DSA, and the Battle for Michigan
5.  Peter Schweizer: One Third of Democrats Now Call Themselves Socialists
6.  Democrat Establishment Declares ‘War’ on DSA

Editor's Note: This is the end of If you like this piece and would like to forward it to others, do it now, as it appears I have a personal censor at Blogger who doesn't like anything that tells the truth about Islam and deletes any of my commentaries that deal with it, which I protest .... over and over again. RK

 Update, 10/20/26

1.  Mosques Campaigned for El-Sayed From the Pulpit, MEF Report Finds - Forum Calls on IRS, FEC, State and Local Election Authorities, and Congress to examine tax-exempt groups named in the report, several with ties to Iran, Türkiye, or the Muslim Brotherhood........At the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, an Iranian-trained cleric who once directed the Political-Ideological Bureau of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, welcomed El-Sayed to the pulpit and told congregants, “I’m going to vote for this man,” adding, “voting is as wajib [religiously required] as prayer … everybody vote and let us vote for Brother Abdul El-Sayed........  

My Take - There can be no doubt as to who and what El-Sayed really is.  He's part of Islam's march through America in and effort to make the Islamist chant "Death to America" a reality.  RK

Update, 10/21/26:

1. Abdul El-Sayed Gets Roasted After Fried Chicken Stunt to Woo Black Voters -  Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is taking a fierce online roasting after a Black voter outreach video featured a restaurant order that critics viewed as painfully stereotypical. His attempt to connect with Black voters instead became fresh material for ridicule. El-Sayed has struggled to win support from Black voters who are alarmed by the radical direction associated with the DSA wing of the Democrat Party. The party is even calling on Barack Obama in an effort to help his campaign.......
2. Abdul El-Sayed Says Israel Isn't Our Ally or Our Friend - This may be the least surprising and most honest thing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has said during this campaign. We all know that El-Sayed doesn't like Israel and has spent months attacking his opponents for taking money from AIPAC; accusing some of them of "dual loyalty.".......
3. The right to bear WHAT?: Watch Abdul El-Sayed twist 2nd Amendment into bizarre new meaning  "When they promised the right to bear arms, they had muskets. So, yeah, everyone should have like equal rights to a musket."......
4. Abdul El-Sayed campaign official reveals candidate knowingly gets illegal donations from overseas - The O'Keefe Media Group on Monday released an undercover video of a campaign official for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed admitting that El-Sayed knowingly receives illegal donations from overseas. Foreign nationals are prohibited from making campaign contributions. "You know, he [Abdul El Sayed] has people from overseas that donate to him," Abdul Beckwith, Regional Field Organizer for Abdul El-Sayed's campaign, said........
5. Abdul El-Sayed's Events Are Astroturfed, and Here's the Proof - It's just the latest in a long line of lies from El-Sayed, of course. He's lied about being a physician. He's lied about his citizenship in Egypt. He's lied about allowing Americans to keep their private insurance plans under his Medicare for All scheme, and he's lied about his family's ties to radical terror groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.  The reality is this: the El-Sayed campaign is using buses to bring college students and others to his campaign events. This isn't organic support or campaign enthusiasm. It's a carefully-crafted narrative meant to bolster El-Sayed, who is far too radical for the U.S. Senate.......

Observations From the Back Row

By Rich Kozlovich

Well, another week has flown by and Power Line has published their weekly, "The Week In Pictures," edition.  As I've said in the past for some reason I can't copy and paste most of their pictures, with the exception of the one below.  So ..... here's my take on some of what they've presented, along with some observations of my own.  

 

The Islamist/Marxist of the world chant, "from the river to the sea", demanding the Palestinians have their own country, and now it appears they do.... France.... "from the Seine to the Mediterranean".  Perhaps Israel could negotiate a treaty between the ethnic French the Muslims living if France by suggesting a two-state solution.  Kinda like they did with the Nazi's in WWII.  Now there will be two Muslim dominated nations with nuclear arms, Pakistan and France.  The upside?  Iran will no long have to build their own nuclear arsenal. In an apparent effort to stay "relevant" Greta Thunberg has joined the French Islamist/Marxist protestors.  So, can we assume she thinks burning down Paris, Marseilles, and other French cities is good for the planet?  

Who would by my picks to star in another Dumb and Dumber movie.  I have a few suggestions. My first recommendation would be Oman Ilhan who was thrilled when federal agents raided President Trump's home since "no on is above the law", and then was outraged when they raided her home.  Don't they know it's Trump whose not above the law, not Democrats.  

My second pick would be  AOC who thinks Elon Musk is the dumbest billionaire she ever met.... ya just gotta see the humor in that!   My third pick would be Abdul El-Sayed who would love to issue a fatwa against journalists who dare to ask questions about his attachment to terrorist movements. 

If these investigations keep going on the first thing you know they'll start questioning voter fraud, food stamp fraud, funding fraud, Medicare/Medicaid fraud, grant fraud, Actblue fraud, and who knows....they might actually put a lot of Democrats in jail. Clearly, going after these Democrats is a dangerous move against "our democracy" .....Right?

When leftist are asked about affordability they're really outraged at the price of gas.  When asked what should be done, they confidently say they're going to vote for the party that blocks pipelines, restricts drilling, and raises gas taxes.   What could possibly go wrong?

Definition leads to clarity, so what does the media call illegal aliens who crash into stores and loot them?  Undocumented shoppers!  When leftist women demand more women in politics, so why are they upset at Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen, Alice Weidel, and Kemi Badenoch?  Those are the "wrong" women, since they don't support progressive efforts to destroy western civilization.  After all, you just gotta have priorities.  Right?  

Ya just gotta be amazed at leftist logic and values.  The left is upset at the execution of Nidal Hasan who murdered a lot of innocent people.  Would they be so upset if they executed a baby?  Feminists claim its okay for mothers to murder their children because hormones make them do it. They also claim if women ruled the world there would be world peace.  They're upset that all these ICE raids will make illegal aliens afraid to vote, after all, if dead people can vote why shouldn't they?

 

Chaos and Destruction is the Guiding Light of Leftism

“Frenzy and disorder are not defects of the progressive mind, but are features.  Chaos is the guiding light for leftists.  Insanity is much like being a slave to a frenzied and chaotic mind. Royce Ferguson

By Rich Kozlovich  

Even to the most casual observer it must be clear the Democrats have fielding a really weird radical group of clowns.  It's almost as if they they have a Republican mole inside the party deciding who should run.   On October 15, 2016 Patricia McCarthy posted this article, The frenzied, disordered American left, at American Thinker, and she hit all the high points about leftist's corrupt thinking and hypocrisy saying:

If the 2026 midterm campaigns have brought anything to light, it's the chaotic, two-faced nature of the now-Marxist left. We know that they will go to any lengths to protect illegal migrants, no matter how violent.  No matter how many crimes they commit, they release them onto the streets of their sanctuary cities and blame ICE for ay injuries incurred when these illegal criminals attempt to flee rather than submit to law enforcement.

 She went on to hit all the high points about the insanity of leftist thinking.  They care more about illegal aliens, including those committing heinous crimes than they do Americans.  They've made it clear they will not stop in their efforts to create permanent unsecured open borders for whomever wishes to come here, even if they're here to commit acts of terror, not to mention those like the Somali's who've reaped billions of American tax dollars through fraud. 

 

Their outrage over affordability is "hilarious", especially they outrage over fuel prices.  These are the same people just a few years ago insisted on.... and worked for.... the price of gas to be raised to ten dollars a gallon to prevent global warming.   And they all cheered as if this was a good thing, including one of the greatest hypocrites of all.... Barack Obama. Another gigantic scientifically fraudulent scare in an effort to impose a socialistic form of world governance under the auspices of the United Nations.   

 

That progressive paradise commonly known as California has closed one refinery after another, as a result they're approaching nine dollars a gallon.  Who should bear the blame for that, and why isn't the media screaming about affordability there?

 

They oppose drilling, they oppose fracking, they oppose pipe lines, they oppose building new refineries, they oppose the importation of oil.  They oppose sanity.  

 

"The leftists hate fossil fuels but complain bitterly when the prices rise to the levels they have long hoped they would."

 

They hate Israel falsely accusing them of genocide, but they love Iran where protestors are arrested, found guilty of treason and shot, provided they didn't get shot while protesting, and where Christians really are being persecuted, which is easily proven, a violation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 18).  Yet they're still a member of the UN, even worse, Iran "was unanimously elected as the chair of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Asia-Pacific Group in January 2025".

 

A nation that since the fall of the Shah of Iran has chanted Death To America unendingly, and for almost 50 years they have funded and supported terrorist groups in an effort to make that happen, and tried to develop nuclear arms to make that happen.  They claim Iran would have never used the bomb.  And they know that how?  But even if they didn't, does anyone actually believe they wouldn't have armed one of their client terrorist groups with a nuclear device, including those willing to commit suicide in the process?

 

The frenzied thinking of leftists is universal, as Patricia discusses the Lindsey Clancy jury saying:  

 

The women on that jury were, by their own account, feminist activists who lobbied for Clancy to be found not guilty of killing her three young children due to her claim of postpartum psychosis. Clancy had very carefully planned and carried out the murders, surviving her jump from a second-story window.  Her first words when she awoke were to say she needed a lawyer..........But while the trial was ongoing, she amassed a tribe of activist women defending her right to kill her kids if she was severely depressed.  That just is not how the world is supposed to work.  We are living in an upside-down world.

 

She discussed the Cornell "rape" case, which as more information comes out the claim of rape is heading into the toilet since it's been shown that:

 

Jane Doe believed that orgies like the one at Cornell are acceptable? That they are normal?  Jane Doe’s own account of that night certainly indicates she thought it was all well and good and had no concept of the cost -- her self-respect? ....... After years of feminist preaching sexual freedom, instructions and advice from the likes of wicked women like Alex Cooper of Who’s Your Daddy, these mistresses of sex advice now act shocked! Shocked!  And furious at what they hear of what occurred at that frat party when they have been promoting exactly such “sexual freedom” for years and years.

 

Frenzied minds care little for history, facts, or reality.  The damage done to this nation by Obama, who is an incompetent Islamist/Marxist disgrace and has always been, will haunt the nation for decades. He’s managed to turn race relations in America back with his race hustling and race baiting to the point the nation is on the path to a national race war. His ability to turn stability into chaos is almost legendary…. and they gave this dingle berry the Nobel Peace Prize. 

 

Their tolerance for what Joe Biden did to destabilize America, and in point of fact the world, is beyond comprehension. Under his guidance 20 million illegals entered the nation, all the while claiming the border was more secure than ever, which even the most casual observer could see that was a lie.   His policies created higher cost for energy than we're seeing now, and his nod to Putin for a "small incursion" into Ukraine created the mess they're blaming on Trump.  

 

"The Biden administration was the most tyrannical in U.S. history.  Thousands of conservatives were surveilled, punished, harassed, etc.  Trump was relentlessly persecuted by leftist DAs and AGs and Biden’s DOJ.  Parents who showed up at school board meetings were hounded, and even arrested, for expressing complaints....... Thousands of conservatives were surveilled, punished, harassed, etc  Transgenderism was aggressively promoted, including the mutilation of young children, as was the inclusion of boys' and girls’ sports, defying common sense ........ All of which was and remains counter to basic American values.  If this left takes the House and Senate, the country will decline so fast, our heads will spin."  

 

Jack Smith's story is the story of Biden's tyrannical administration: 

1. It's become clear he had aa mandate to weaponize government.  
2. He illegally collected information on "thousands of Republicans. 
3. He spied on n Trump's family.  
4. He  tracked Trump's defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone.  
5. He not only traced Susie Wiles phone, he tracked her e-mails "with journalists, lawyers, and political advisors".  He even had a code name for that: Plasmic Echo’! 
6. He illegally gathered banking information on thousands Of Trump supporters.  
7. He labeled parents who while exercising their Constitutional rights to peacefully protest as ‘Terrorists’.  And Biden was warned against such an action, so he was aware of this corruption of government power. 
8. He subpoenaed nearly 5,000 checks from Trump donors as part of Arctic Frost. 
9. Preparing for Jack Smith’s testimony requires a roadmap made from history of Arctic Frost scandal as he and his "team accessed the private text messages of more than 40 lawmakers from Jan. 6, 2021, which he lied about testifying before Congress.
10. He took illegal spying to a whole new level.  
11. Jack Smith didn't just cut Constitutional corners, he shredded the separation of powers.  

I think his actions tell a lot about the left's mindset. They believed they would win the White House in 2024, just as Hillary did in 2016, so they didn’t have to worry about all those silly laws they were breaking.  Because another Democrat administration wouldn’t investigate and/or prosecute them for their illegal behavior. An unending pattern of thought for the Democrats.  

For all these people, and I include those far higher than Smith, to be brought to justice the nation needs an AG who has a mad dog in the meat market mentality.  A fearless AG who can willingly face the slings and arrows shot in his direction and has no desire to be popular.  If Jack Smith is guilty of treason, and I don't quite know what else you can call it, then those who enabled and/or promoted his corrupt actions must also be guilty of treason.  Even if the charge isn't treason, he's clearly guilty of something substantial other than lying to Congress, and they all need to be charged with any crimes for which he is responsible under RICO.  I don't see how this can't be considered a criminal conspiracy.    

Update, 10/20/26:

1. With MAGA Enemies List, Jack Smith Trashes The Constitution Once Again - Evidence disclosed last week confirms what many have long suspected: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department assembled a massive database of political opponents.  Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has disclosed that Smith’s operation collected personal data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters. The records included names, addresses, email addresses, occupations, employers, donation histories, and even the last four digits of credit-card numbers. Some entries tracked purchases of ordinary red MAGA hats. Grassley has called this indefensible—an effort that went far beyond any legitimate investigation into the 2020 election or January 6 and instead mapped the Republican political apparatus itself......The Constitution is not self-enforcing. It depends on public officials who will apply it equally and on a Department of Justice willing to prosecute those who trample it. With the enemies list now public, the choice is clear: Either the rule of law reaches the most powerful prosecutors, or it reaches no one. It is now or never.......

Update, 10/21/26:

1. More Evidence Jack Smith Was Mapping the Entire GOP Apparatus - As reported, Jack Smith was gathering information to map the entire Republican apparatus. It had little to do with J6, which is all he was charged to investigate. Beyond what we know so far, Senator Grassley released additional whistleblower information about the type of data collected from one conservative organization....... Grassley’s information shows that Jack Smith’s team collected personal payroll data from the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI). The financial data included CPI employees’ medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, along with a CPI bank statement.......

Cartoon Roundup And P&D and The Week That Was

By Rich Kozlovich 

I gotta tell ya, this election is the strangest election I've ever seen, and a sad commentary of what has happened to the culture that was the envy of the world, bringing more people out of misery, poverty and suffering than any culture in the world's history.   What's worse, this appears to be a worldwide phenomenon.   Here are my commentaries for this week.  

P&D and The Week That Was 

1.  Even de Gaulle Couldn't Stop the French From Being French
2.  Abdul El Sayed: Birds of a Feather Flock Together
3.  Culture is King, and Corruption is Queen
4.  Abdul El-Sayed: Who is He Really?
5.  Is This the Best You Have? Abdul El Sayed
6.  Observations From the Back Row
7.  If Half of the Body Is Saturated With Cancer, What’s the Prognosis?
8.  What I'm Reading: Ilhan Omar and No One is Above the Law 
9.  P&D Geopolitics Edition
10.  Observations From the Back Row

Cartoon Roundup