Election 2026 and Voter Fraud is Real

"You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say? Yeah, I don't have that!"

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: My Voter Fraud Commentaries.

Is Maine reflective of all the kind of candidates being offered by the Democrats?  I think it is, as an example take Katie Porter.  While she's now out of it that doesn't change how unhinged she is and was right along.  The rest just hide their .... quirks.... better.  Otherwise people might think they're nuts.  Talking about nuts; there's James Talarico who now claims Christians are ‘Christofascists’ and Islam is a “path to truth”.  Yessir, he's really got a handle on faith, and how to win Texans over.  

Maine Democrats just had a debate with those wanting to take Planter's place as the Democrat candidate for 2026...... and to be kind.... it appears it was a remarkable clown show.  As one writer said before this debate he had trouble understanding how Planter got chosen in the first place, now he gets it.  

• Update 6:05 PM:  Here's how Planter got picked.  This Is What's Happening to the Consultants Who Made Graham Platner.  It's almost unbelievable just how incompetent the Democrat party really is. And here's the scary part that's seemingly going on all over the nations: "If Platner hadn’t been a total scumbag, he would have had a fighting chance as an outsider to win the race."  And that's the theme.... the desire for outsiders!  That's a theme being ignored by everyone except these activists.  I'll have more on that, and the DNC needs to be scared.  

Dems Find An Even Worse Candidate to Replace Graham Platner (VIDEO).  (Ya just gotta see the video) And the hits just keep on coming...... Maine, if this is your best, you have a problem.  The Maine Dem Senate debate could be summed up in seven words:

......."congratulations on your reelection, Sen. Susan Collins"........."The candidates, a motley crew of losers, were a healthy helping of milquetoast—they didn’t know anything"......

1.  Platner Proves Dems Will Put Up With Anything, Except Losing
2.  ‘Ginger Goebbels’: Jen Psaki Is ENRAGED for All of Us About the Whole Graham Platner
3.  If Only Democrats Had Some Sign of Platner’s Dubious Character
4.  Platner Is a Hilarious Symptom of Progressive Failure

Trump has declared the U.S. election system is ‘broken’ and ‘vulnerable’, and has called on the FBI to investigate ‘significant evidence of fraud’ in Michigan 2020 election. 

In 2024 I wrote:

 ........the battle in Michigan over voter fraud is hot and it's being claimed Michigan has about  500,000 on voter rolls other than eligible voters.   The "New RNC", that's working to end this corruption.   In March the RNC filed an election integrity lawsuit targeting Michigan’s handling of absentee ballots  and it appears they've won that ballot case: .......making this their tenth win against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson"for failing to follow the state's election security law.  Detroit appointed seven times more Democrat poll watchers than Republicans for its primary election, and the RNC Sues Detroit, Alleging City Did Not Hire Enough Republican Poll Watchers.  

That was in 2024, so I really get a kick out of this especially since my Michigan voter fraud file goes back to 2020.  And they're just now discovering it?  Remarkable!

• WATCH: President Trump Lays Bare Massive GBI Strategies Fake Voter Registration Scam in His Nationwide Address—The Gateway Pundit Broke The Story in August 2023

He also stated classified documents show China has actively interfered, and compromised’ at least 18 state voter rolls, which of course they're really upset over Trump’s "false allegations saying:

“This is a false allegation and serious smear that has long been proved to be unfounded. China adheres to non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told reporters during his briefing. “We never interfere in U.S. elections and have zero interest in that.”

Oh sure, they may murder a bunch of malcontents in order to harvest their organs but nothing so terrible as interfering with a U.S. election in spite of the release of the documents that proving otherwise.

 

“As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, ‘in mid-2018, the Chinese communist party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. president in an effort to reduce the U.S. president’s votes, and make him resign or prevent his reelection,” he said.

• Trump Speech: China Hacked 220 Million U.S. Voter Files 

Let's not have any delusions, in spite of all the ranting about how the 2020 election was clean.... it wasn't ...... and even the bug man knew that right from the beginning.  Trump states the only reason for the Congress to fail to pass the SAVE America Act is because they want to be able to cheat.  I can understand that for Democrats but what's wrong with the Republicans? 

1. Rep. Jim Jordan Says Senate Republicans Must Nuke the Filibuster Now to Pass SAVE America Act Before Democrats Do It Themselves
2. POLL SHOCKER: Socialism Is Infecting The GOP As Well 
3. Hey, Republicans, Spending Is Still Out Of Control

And of course Trump got the usual support from the Pravda media, they ignored him, and was the reason the Pravda media failed to cover his speech to protect their leftist masters?  The left believes the SAVE America Act ‘belongs in the trash’  And why does it belong in the trash?  Well, I gotta tell ya, I wonder if these nitwits realize what they're saying half the time.  Democrats Sen. Elissa Slotkin from Michigan stated the Save America Act was the Republicans way of rigging the election that would prevent Democrats from winning. 

 

“The other thing that we blocked yesterday was the SAVE Act, right?” she said to loud cheers. She claimed that act “would literally allow this administration to rig our democracy so that it would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.” She also claimed it would “disenfranchise all married women in the meantime.” 

 

First of all, this disenfranchising married women claim is a blatant lie, and secondly, now let me see if I understand this correctly.   She's saying that making sure the people who are voting are actually alive and American citizens with the right to vote will prevent Democrats from getting elected.    Did I get that right?  I didn't miss anything did I?

1. Michigan Democrat Slotkin Admits The Liberal Truth: Is Anyone Listening?

So, that brings us back to my original question.  Is Maine reflective of all the candidates being offered by the Democrats? Let's take a quick look at the party, who they support, what they support and who they've decided to run. 

1. The Hamas wing of the Democratic Party
2. 'Incendiary': Imam who prayed before Congress unleashes vile comment about Lindsey Graham
3. Tim Walz’s love affair with the illegal alien pedophile continues—even though the creep has been deported
4. Gov. Walz Attacks Trump for Deporting Child Rapist: “We Can’t all Be Judged by Our Worst Day.” .  To show just what a sick and warped mind Walz has is can be defined by one person's comment saying it wasn't this rapists worst day.  It was that poor ten year old child's worst day.  
5. Half of House Democrats, Including Pelosi, Vote to End Aid to Israel
6.  Of Marxists and morons 
7.  Democratic socialism is communism-lite
8.  Who are the actual racists in today's America?
9.  Bolshevik Russia and the DSA’s Democrat Party Project, Part I
10.  DSA Calls for Abolishing the Constitution
11. What Does Socialism Actually Deliver?
12.  How identity politics fuels Democratic Party schisms
13.  Bernie Sanders’ hostile takeover of the Democrat Party 
14.  Socialism is Always a Move Towards Communism -- with the Same Result
15.  Democratic Socialists of America Membership Sets Record as 58% of Democrats View Socialism Favorably
16. What’s Really In The Rebooted Democratic Socialist Platform
17. Dems Should Unite With Socialists for Election Victories 
18.  How do we explain the Democratic Socialists’ platform?
19.  Cotton: China Views Dem Socialists as 'Ideological Fellow Travelers
20.  They want reparations, and they’ve come to collect
21.  Sanctuary Massachusetts: 11 Illegal Aliens Accused of Stealing $1.4 Million in Food Stamps, Disability Benefits
22. Ro Khanna Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About His ‘Billionaire’ Tax
23. A Tale Of Two Governors
24. Democratic socialism’s rise: What they won’t tell you

So, after perusing these links I think it might be a good idea to ask and answer this question.  Why would anyone think Democrats couldn't get elected if it wasn't for voter fraud?   Believe me when I tell you all this lunacy didn't just start.  I goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. Please review, Woodrow Wilson’s War Against the Constitution.

Update 5:57 PM:  

• White House: More than Quarter of Million Foreigners Illegally Registered to Vote in Four States
• China Sought to Pay U.S. Journalists to Write Negative Stories on Trump to Sway 2020 Election

Update 9:50PM: 

• Exclusive — Nat Security Experts React to Chinese Election Influence: Revelations Should ‘Galvanize Our Resolve’ 

 

Death of the Pravda Media

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:  

At my age I've seen all the big names in journalism, and some like Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil were two of the good ones.  But that wasn't necessarily true of the rest, including Walter Cronkite, who was in reality a globalist, but Cronkite and the Matrix media were able to hide it back in those days.   

Here's a quote by Jim Lehrer worth reading.

People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are, and here they are. Do nothing I cannot defend. Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me. Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.

Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and as good a person as I am. Assume the same about all people on whom I report. Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise. Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything.

Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously. And, finally, I am not in the entertainment business." - Jim Lehrer

If that's supposed to be the standard for quality journalism, and I think it is, then it's clear what we've been seeing on the news and reading in the newspapers, is in point of fact, not journalism at all.  It's lies of commission, lies of omission, corruption and propaganda, all meant to deceive the public in order to promote leftism and the Democrat party. 

 

However, try as they might, neither side can fully explain the existence of left-wingers. For my part, I can far easier grasp the appeal of turnips and grits than I can the stranglehold that Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and Obama, have on leftists. I mean, how is it that anyone can look at the results of communism and socialism and not see them for the nightmares they are and always have been? After all, the evidence is in plain sight. - Burt Prelutsky

 

One well known leftist propagandist from the Pravda media outlet MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell. announced he's taking a week off" due to what he said was "exhaustion caused by President Donald Trump's administration."  Does that seem a little snowflakish to you?  It's actually understandable.  These leftist apologists have had to unendingly do remarkable mental gymnastics in order to make Biden, his administration, and the Democrat party look rational and sane, all the while claiming the normals who disagree with them are "weird".    But now they're dealing with a new sheriff in town — and he’s taking no prisoners.  He's striking back, and winning.  

 

Betrayal - "Trump has found them out. He has found their corruption, their greed, their fraud, their hatred, and their betrayal of the American people, and he's going to nail them to the wall."  Trump sued CBS for 

 

Trump sued CBS and they ended up paying $16 million to Trump for it's altered interview with Kamala Harris, in a deliberate attempt to defeat Trump in the election, and this was after "ABC News agreed to pay $16 million to the president to settle a defamation case against anchor George Stephanopoulos, who said the president was found “liable” for rape."

 

Monica Showalter posted this article, Mainstream media laments Trump's $16 million victory against CBS for its sleazy, deceptive editing, saying: 

“I deplore … the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them… These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief… This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.” - Thomas Jefferson described the abuses of a free press in 1814 in a letter to his friend Walter Jones 

• Facts to ponder while most of the media peddles Democrat talking points to destroy Trump and Republicans and to elect Democrats 
• House Judiciary Report Reveals GARM and Foreign Regulators’ Collusion to Censor American Speech and Silence Trump

Nothing has changed, nor it will ever change regarding the lack of integrity in the legacy media! It has been so from their founding, and will continue to be so until the end of time.  But right now, today, because of modern communications, they have more easily, and more thoroughly, corrupted the nation's perception of reality with the stench of their lack of morality, and stunning level of hypocritical ignorance. 

Worse yet, they work diligently to prevent anyone from exposing their perfidy!  As an example, YouTube suspended  One America News Network channel for what they're calling misinformation violations for COVID-19 policy.  That's a convenient way of saying anything that disagrees with the leftist agenda, AKA, free speech, is misinformation and must be censored.    Yet they have little trouble promoting outright lies. Which bothers them not the least because those lies promote false leftist narratives. What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? Intent! But they are none the less two sides of the same coin.   

I've seen them called sewer trout, but that's an insult to trout and sewers, since both serve a useful purpose

With the alternative media,  watching everything the left and their media lackey's are saying, are confronting them by exposing their half truths and lies, which has resulted in they're viewership being washed down the drain.  Now that their mental gymnastics no longer works, they're left confused, frustrated, and suffering from some serious mental fatigue.  Other than denial, the only recourse for recovery available to them is to start telling the truth, and that's an arrow into their hearts.  Why?  Because then they would have to become conservatives.   

 

Just like Dan Rather, they'll go down the tubes screaming denial, as Dan Rather, the "fake but accurate" talking head used to intone, "Questions remain".  As for the Rather/Mapes fake documents scandal, here's what I originally published in 2012: We Need to Get This: The Media Lies....Constantly!  I posted this interview with Mary Mapes saying: 

"Ross asked Mapes , "if she believed the story was true. She stated “The story? Absolutely.” the interviewer found it incredible that she found “this story to be up to your standards”. (Editor's Note: This is an important point. RK ) Mapes stated "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen."' 

Does this take you aback? It should. Ross asked: “But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?" Mapes responded by saying that “they haven’t been proven false.”  Ross asked what most of us would consider obvious: “Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really what journalists do?” Now the quote of the year…….Mapes said; "No, I don’t think that’s the standard." Which is the real kicker.  Why?  Because what she was demanding is called proving a negative, and that can't be done.  You can only prove what is, not what isn't.  

In short, the narrative is far more important than the facts. Just like they say in Hollywood as they take great liberties with their "history" based movies:

 “If it didn’t happen that way, then that's the way it should have happened!”

But we know that Hollywood is a fiction factory.  Entertainment is their job, and fiction is part of that story telling job!   But we expect the news to be non-fiction. After all, isn't truth supposed to be "their" job?"   If truth isn't their job, then propaganda and lies must be their job, and we're now finding USAID has been funding those lies.  

Nothing has changed, except now they're under a microscope, and Dan Rather played a huge role in making that transition happen.  It's taken time, but that's Ole Dan's actual legacy, lies and corruption. 

The Pravda media promotes a new Holocaust.  When Hamas supporters went on a rampage in Switzerland, the Pravda media was taking a nap that day.  They cry over a pedophile losing citizenship.  They claimed there was no Iranian nuclear program, but in order to discredit Trump, now there is.

Rigging polls to promote their latest meme is now and has always been standard operating procedure for these Marxist myrmidons claiming Trump's BBB is unpopular.  They ignored the obvious health issues of Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton, but a bruise on Trump's right hand draws gasps of horror in hopes of launching a crusade against him.    

They irrationally turn terrorists into heroes and prosecutors into monsters, and as for the Texas flood?  DHS says the mainstream media deliberately lied in its coverage of that catastrophe.

But the information world is changing, the alternative media is ascendant, and society is "awakened" to their corruption, and people are taking action.   A notorious leftist censorship organization known as Media Matters is in deep trouble after years of its "scorched earth campaign against the conservative media", making blatantly false and injurious claims to destroy their advertising revenue.   Now, after a series of lawsuits they're on the verge of total collapse. 

Its been reported that even the Biden administration couldn’t believe, how dumb and gullible the Pravda media was, which is a bit unfair.  They "believed" because they wanted to believe. It was a unfathomable desire to believe the lies Biden, Obama, Hillary, Kamala, and all the rest were telling because those lies are who they are and what they believe is truth, no matter how much reality may impugn those beliefs. So, who is more stupid, the fools who are "believers" or the fools who know they're lying and promoting corruption that's destructive to society and the nation?   

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.  The Pravda media is corrupt to the core, and the rot is killing them.  What we're seeing is the death of the legacy media, and it's more than justified. 

Schadenfreude!

Updates: 

• Washington Post reeling from buyout exodus as bosses hope to turn the page at embattled paper ......"It's been a bloodbath on editorial,"..... (My Take - This was long overdue, here's my 

• Former CBS Anchor: Paramount Merger May Signal Network’s End - A former “CBS Evening News” anchor told CNN on Friday that the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media may “end” journalism as she had known it.  (My Take - And she says this as if it's a bad thing? RK)

Israel is Killing Gaza With Obesity

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

In 2015, a decade after Israel had withdrawn from Gaza leaving it, as terrorist apologists in the media insisted, an “open-air concentration camp”, weight loss centers began to pop up.

Gaza’s Arab Muslim population was overeating badly.

A 2013 study found 1 out of every 5 adolescents in Gaza was overweight or obese which was comparable to rates in the United States. By 2020 in the combined ‘Palestinian’ occupied areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, overweight rates shot up from 20% to 34% among boys and from 24% to 32% among girls. If the Arab Muslim populations were living under oppression and terror, how had their adolescent obesity rates gone from 1 in 4 to as much as 1 in 3?

And it’s not just the adolescents.

A global nutrition report found that nearly 30% of men and 42% of women in the combined areas are obese. In Gaza specifically, 64% of mothers were overweight or obese. How could this wave of obesity be reconciled with the simultaneous claim that 60% of households in Gaza are “food insecure’” The mothers of quite a few of those “food insecure households” are obese.

The shortage of research studies being carried out under Hamas rule makes it difficult to estimate how fat Gaza’s occupiers were, but a revealing data point is that a study conducted in 2019 estimated that among adults over the age of 42, 45% had Type 2 Diabetes and 16.8% had undiagnosed Type 2.

Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% of one out of nine deaths. If Gazans were living in hunger, why do their diabetes rates look like those of America or Europe?

In 2015, a decade after Israel had withdrawn from Gaza leaving it, as terrorist apologists in the media insisted, an “open-air concentration camp”, weight loss centers began to pop up.

Gaza’s Arab Muslim population was overeating badly.

A 2013 study found 1 out of every 5 adolescents in Gaza was overweight or obese which was comparable to rates in the United States. By 2020 in the combined ‘Palestinian’ occupied areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, overweight rates shot up from 20% to 34% among boys and from 24% to 32% among girls. If the Arab Muslim populations were living under oppression and terror, how had their adolescent obesity rates gone from 1 in 4 to as much as 1 in 3?

And it’s not just the adolescents.

A global nutrition report found that nearly 30% of men and 42% of women in the combined areas are obese. In Gaza specifically, 64% of mothers were overweight or obese. How could this wave of obesity be reconciled with the simultaneous claim that 60% of households in Gaza are “food insecure’” The mothers of quite a few of those “food insecure households” are obese.

The shortage of research studies being carried out under Hamas rule makes it difficult to estimate how fat Gaza’s occupiers were, but a revealing data point is that a study conducted in 2019 estimated that among adults over the age of 42, 45% had Type 2 Diabetes and 16.8% had undiagnosed Type 2.

Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% of one out of nine deaths. If Gazans were living in hunger, why do their diabetes rates look like those of America or Europe?

The suffering of diabetes patients in Gaza during their Jihadist campaign against non-Muslims has been one of the narratives put out by the pro-Hamas humanitarians, none of whom have thought to ask why the condition is so prevalent in a place that supposedly has no food.What was the cause of these high rates? According to the study, “Palestinians consume large amounts of homemade desserts, cakes, sweetened tea, and coffee” and have a massive sugar intake. They eat too much and too well despite supposedly being “refugees” while starving to death in an “open air concentration camp” complete with lavish malls, restaurants and hotels.

Since Hamas launched the Oct 7 genocide campaign, its occupying population in Gaza has been painted as victims and bombarded with massive amounts of food supplies. Over the course of the war, the terrorist population was sent 92,000 truckloads of aid. The amount of aid coming into Gaza actually doubled after its residents began a genocidal campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping of regional minority groups. Compare that to 1,500 truckloads of aid for Sudan and even less for many struggling African populations dealing with actual famine.

Massive amounts of food were dumped on Gaza. The Biden administration, falsely claiming that there was an urgent famine and the population, according to Vice President Kamala Harris, had been reduced to eating “leaves”, air dropped supplies which the local population rejected and criticized on social media. It built a failed $250 million pier to deliver aid that cost the life of an American soldier and injured many others all to deliver food to the non-starving Gazans.

What’s been the result of this massive outpouring of free food? Hamas leaders, terrorists, spokesmen and media operatives have grown unmistakably fat as food has become a form of currency. Not only is there no famine, but Gazans are gorging themselves and even Hamas’ own dubious numbers show Americans are three times as likely to die of malnutrition as they are.

1.8 million tons of aid, including 1.3 million tons of food, have been delivered to Gaza since the launch of their genocidal Hamas campaign. That’s over 1 ton of aid for every adult in Gaza.

Is this good for the enemy population in Gaza? Probably not. When deaths due to diabetes and out of control glycaemic rates are soaring, the last thing it needs is more free food. The UN’s WFP deliveries included snack bars and the current GHF program overseen by the U.S. and Israel is likely also delivering foods not ideal for a population already eating itself to death.

The false claims that Israel is killing the invasive population in Gaza with hunger is false, but the massive truckloads of aid being brought in to save the Hamas supporters from a famine that doesn’t exist may be even more lethal. Gaza, like the rest of the ‘Palestinian-occupied’ territories is a massive welfare state subsidized by the U.S., the UN and the Europeans. And people in welfare states tend to do very little work, eat all the free food they can get, grow fat and violent, and then go off looking for something to destroy. Gaza may be the worst welfare state in the world, but it is a welfare state and its own habits are deadlier to it than Israel.

If Israel is killing Gaza’s enemy population with anything, it’s not hunger, it’s obesity.

But the obesity epidemic in Gaza is fed by the UN, international pressure from world leaders and diplomats, and their own lies about being reduced to eating leaves and dirt.

Gaza’s Arab Muslims are eating themselves to death on their own lies. The torrent of free food will lead to greater obesity, worse diabetes trends and other dietary diseases. And it’s their political allies and international enablers who are killing them with endless free food.

The UN and the EU can promise to save Gaza, but no one can save them from themselves. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Columnist at the Washington Post Lies About Poverty…Again

June 8, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty.

No person has ever been featured more than one time, but that changes today because Eduardo Porter outed himself as a poverty huckster while at the New York Times back in 2018.

Now, he’s done it again. Here’s a chart from his recent column in the Washington Post, augmented by my question about whether his numbers are accurate.

Simply stated, Porter’s chart is dishonest nonsense because it is not measuring poverty.

I’m not joking. If you read the fine print, what the chart really shows is the percentage of the population with less than half the median income.

Yet this conveniently ignores an all-important issue, which is whether a nation has a high median income (like the United States) or a low median income (like some of the nations in the chart that supposedly have much less poverty).

I debunked this dodgy methodology back in 2017.

…it’s total nonsense. …it’s a measure of income distribution. …Think about what this means. A country where everyone is impoverished will have zero or close-to-zero poverty because everyone is at the median income. But as I’ve explained before, a very wealthy society can have lots of “poverty” if some people are a lot richer than others. And since the United States is much richer than other nations, this means an American household with $35,000 of income can be poor, even though they wouldn’t count as poor if they earned that much elsewhere.

And here’s some of what I wrote in 2019.

It is indeed strange that so many folks on the left have decided to use an artificial and misleading definition of poverty. One that depends on the distribution of income rather than any specific measure of poverty. Which is insanely dishonest. It means that everyone’s income could double and the supposed rate of poverty would stay the same. Or a country could execute all the rich people and the alleged rate of poverty would decline.

Here’s a chart I shared back in 2020.

It shows that poor people in the United States would be middle class (or above!) in many European countries.

And since the U.S. has been growing much faster than Europe in recent years, an updated version of this chart would be even more dramatic.

I want to close by pointing out some remarkable, but surely accidental, passages from Porter’s column.

He openly admits America is far richer than most other developed nations

The United States is by many measures the most powerful, prosperous nation on earth, sitting on the frontier of innovation and consistently outpacing its peers in terms of economic growth over recent decades. …despite being poorer and further from the technological frontier, America’s social-democratic peers…spend more effort and taxpayer money… This raises the question: What’s the point of being the most powerful, affluent nation on earth?

Yet instead of arguing for other nations to be more like the United States (lower taxes, smaller welfare state, etc), the whole point of his column is to argue that America should copy the countries that have lower levels of income.

Amazing. And this isn’t the first time he’s urged a successful nation to copy less-successful countries.

One final point: It’s possible that Porter is not being explicitly dishonest in his column. He may have blindly looked at OECD numbers and simply regurgitated them, without bothering to look at the methodology.

P.S. Speaking of the OECD, any analysis of dishonest poverty data should include criticism of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That international bureaucracy is infamous for generating the dodgy data (see here, here, here, and here) that get cited by people like Porter.

Vaccine Cover-Up: The Greatest Biden Scandal of All

The lives of untold thousands have been lost or permanently diminished.

 

By Tim Donner | May 28, 2025 | Articles, Opinion, Politics

 

It is an undeniable scandal of mammoth proportions, but one that is – surprise, surprise – still being ignored by major media. It all began in February of 2021, shortly after Joe Biden took the oath of office with the pandemic still raging. Health officials in Israel sent a dire warning to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) detailing “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people” who received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Many doctors and vaccinated individuals witnessed the same phenomenon here in the US. The affliction strikes the heart muscle, and in many recorded instances has caused heart failure and even death. But those raising red flags were discredited, scorned, and silenced.

After years of anecdotal reports about perilous side effects from the vaccine, the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, headed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), finally conducted a hearing on the matter on May 21, 2025, and the revelations should have made headline news.

As you undoubtedly remember, we were repeatedly assured by top officials in the Biden administration that the vaccine, approved for emergency use and released during the waning days of the first Trump administration, was completely safe and effective. Every living former US president and first lady – except Trump and his wife, of course – participated in a public service announcement touting the vaccine in March of 2021 – after the warning from Israel about myocarditis.

What happened thereafter is truly chilling. As revealed in a thorough summary of the three-hour-long hearing by The Vigilant Fox, Sen. Johnson offered up a detailed timeline proving that the Biden administration deliberately withheld information from the public about risks associated with the vaccine, most especially for young people and pregnant women. By September of 2021, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had received reports of 384,270 “adverse events” following vaccinations and 4,812 deaths, including 1,736 within two days of injection.

When he was questioned about the startling data by Sen. Johnson, then-CDC Director Francis Collins responded by arguing that official government information at the time claimed just six vaccine-related deaths, and then said, “Senator, people die.”

The CDC had claimed that instances of myocarditis were “rare.” But that is patently false, according to Dr. Peter McCullough, a longtime cardiologist whose outlying views on COVID led to the revocation of his medical certifications. When he was called to testify, Dr. McCullough reported that he had seen just two cases of myocarditis in his pre-COVID career but that he has now “examined thousands of patients with the problem,” adding that “there’s 1,065 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID vaccine myocarditis.” He pointed to one particular case from Korea in which a young man died within eight hours of being jabbed, saying his heart was “fried with inflammation.”

Dr. McCullough shot down mainstream claims that the vaccine saved millions of lives, offering three alternative reasons for the ultimate drop in COVID-related deaths: natural immunity, early treatment keeping people out of hospitals, and the virus mutating into a milder form. He also provided irrefutable data proving that COVID-related deaths actually spiked after the vaccines were released, forcing health officials to admit one year later that, unlike what they had told us previously, the vaccine did not prevent transmission of the virus. He referenced three papers by Nathaniel Mead, a former writer for the National Institutes of Health, that contain nearly 1,000 references, all reaching the same conclusion: “The risks of COVID-19 vaccination far outweigh any theoretical benefits.”

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Nationwide Vaccine Fallout

Dr. Jordan Vaughn, head of the Alabama-based Long COVID Clinic, testified that up to 15 million Americans may be suffering from Long COVID (a persistent form of the virus) or COVID vaccine injuries. He warned that the mRNA injections led to uncontrolled production of spike protein, allowing the viruses to penetrate cells and cause infections that spread throughout the body, reaching the heart, brain, ovaries, and testes. A Yale study now shows some people are still producing spike protein more than 700 days after their last injection.

Next came the receipts on the effect of the vaccine on pregnant women. OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp testified that the vaccine “mirrored” the effects of chemical abortion drugs and referred to a study published by the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine indicating that almost 13% of expectant mothers who got the jab had miscarriages. He further went on to repeat the heavily debated claim that 82% of those women who got the vaccine in their first trimester miscarried.

 

Attorney Aaron Siri testified about the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), which immunizes pharmaceutical companies from vaccine-related lawsuits. Following the passage of NCVIA, the schedule of vaccinations for newborns under one year old increased by almost 1,000%, from 3 to 29, a direct result, according to Siri, of the fact that “[pharmaceutical companies] don’t have the financial incentive to make them safer … In fact, they have the disincentive.”

Sen. Johnson went on to summarize data from VAERS reporting 38,607 vaccine-related deaths to date, with 9,228 of them occurring within two days of vaccination. Considering that many such deaths undoubtedly were not reported directly to VAERS, these numbers are thought to be conservative estimates.

The damage from vaccines could be felt far and wide. This author’s son, diagnosed with epilepsy 25 years ago, had controlled the condition with medication and not experienced a seizure for 13 years – until six days after he was given a COVID-19 booster shot. We now live with the anxiety of not knowing whether that shot will cause more seizures or even permanent damage. Our story is far from unique.

President Trump has now replaced health establishment insiders like Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci with a team of what we might call vaccine realists. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, both of whom were demonized for their outlier views on the COVID vaccine, have now forged a new path, as evidenced by the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement. It comes as a welcome relief for millions of vaccine skeptics who were the victims of textbook gaslighting because they dared to speak truth to power.

Crickets From Big Media

One would have thought that responsible media would have reported on this long-awaited hearing, if only in an attempt to refute the testimony and defend their own role in toeing the government line. But there was precious little coverage, in fact almost none, from legacy media unashamedly aligned with the Washington establishment.

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The New York Times, famously the “newspaper of record,” did not even cover the hearing, limiting its transparently biased coverage to a preemptive strike in an article before the hearing headlined “The FDA May Restrict COVID Vaccines. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?” Washington’s most famous newspaper weighed in with a similar angle: “FDA to limit COVID shot approval to 65+, those with medical conditions,” with one author writing, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has falsely called the mRNA shots against COVID ‘the deadliest vaccine ever made’ … the lingering politicization of COVID is fueling the new attacks on science.” And here was the message in Google AI, which routinely offers responses to queries of all kinds, on the term “Biden vaccine scandal”: “An AI Overview is not available for this search.” In searches with similar descriptions, Google’s AI would not activate.

If it is possible for big government and big media credibility to descend even further into the gutter than it has in recent years, this scandal should do the trick. The government withheld devastating information about COVID vaccines, and the media refused to even report on hearings designed for the purpose of getting to the truth. We might have thought that things would change by at least a slight degree after the 2024 election. No such luck.

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Tapper’s Book Condemns Journalists In More Ways Than One

I & I Editorial Board May 27, 2025 @ Insight and Issues

Editor's Note:  I've not asked for nor have I received permission to publish this in full, but a link would in no way do justice to this really excellent piece, one of the best so far.  So, if the Insight and Issues staff objects, I'll delete it.  RK

The reaction to Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s book about how the White House “hid” Joe Biden’s mental decline has been brutal – and fittingly so. But their book inadvertently reveals something even worse about today’s corporate journalists.

Tapper and Thompson would have us believe that they were shocked! shocked! to discover that Biden was suffering serious and worsening mental infirmities while president, because the White House had so expertly hidden them. And that it was only through their intrepid reporting that the truth can now be told.

This is laughable on its face.

The stories the authors recount were all known by journalists all along. How else could they have churned out a book in a matter of months after Biden left office? Every story in that book, every one, was known to White House reporters who diligently refused to report them at the time. That includes “revelations” in the book such as that:

A small, tight-knit group in former President Joe Biden’s inner circle was running the White House like a ‘politburo,’ and they were the ‘ultimate decision-makers’ as Biden’s health and cognitive function continued to decline.

Media Picks a Fight With Trump Over South Africa – Big Mistake

When the left-wing press insists something isn’t happening, it’s happening. 

By Graham J Noble May 22, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News

The establishment media has gotten itself into another fine mess, as the late, great Oliver Hardy would have put it. And, once again, it is destined for humiliation at the hands of President Donald Trump. On May 21, he hosted Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, at the White House. This meeting came on the heels of 59 Afrikaners arriving in the United States – white South Africans of primarily Dutch descent who chose to flee a regime that is openly hostile toward them.

At one point during the encounter between the two leaders, Trump made his South African counterpart watch a video of a black South African politician, at a packed outdoor rally, inciting the murder of white farmers.

The US leftist media was not happy, but they have already picked out the paint and chosen the corner into which they will paint themselves – again. As if any more proof were needed that there is no independent journalism on the left and that these media outfits all draw from the same progressive talking points, the rebukes were swift and all but identical.

Trump’s claim that the white farmers of South Africa are the victims of genocide was attacked by much of the left-wing legacy media as “unfounded,” “false,” “unsubstantiated,” etc.

The New York Times and ABC News, in particular, took a drubbing on the X social media platform. Their attempts to deny the existence of a deadly situation for which the evidence is copious and beyond rational dispute drew much scorn and ridicule.

Reality in South Africa

The Encyclopedia Britannica defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.” Whether what has been happening in South Africa can be called genocide, then, is a matter of perspective. Race is not the only factor driving the undeniable victimization of Afrikaner farmers – but it is a factor. That’s hard to deny, given the videos of hundreds of black rallygoers chanting “kill the white farmer.”

The former African National Congress (ANC) leader and president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, once sang, “Shoot the Farmer, Kill the Boer” at a party rally, even though the song was officially banned. Boer means farmer, but only white South Africans call themselves – or are known as – Boers.

It should be noted that South Africa’s ruling Marxist ANC doesn’t allow unsanctioned rallies. If a huge crowd of people is whipped into a frenzy and chanting for the death of certain people, then the ANC has given that event at least tacit approval.

In 2017, the Australian website news.com.au published the story of Sue Howarth and her husband, Robert Lynn. They had a farm in Dullstroom, South Africa. One night, their home was invaded by three black men who tortured them for hours – partly with a blowtorch – before driving them out to the side of the road and shooting them. Somehow, Howarth survived and was found the next day by passers-by. However, she died in the hospital from her injuries.

This is just one of a great many similar attacks. The news report noted, “Nearly every day, horrific acts of rape, torture and murder are carried out on a community under siege.” The story also cited figures from the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) and AfriForum, a civil rights group. “In total, between 1998 and the end of 2016, 1,848 people have been murdered in farm attacks — 1,187 farmers, 490 family members, 147 farm employees, and 24 people who happened to be visiting the farm at the time.”

Not All Black and White

At the same time, there’s no all-out race war being waged in South Africa, which would justify the term “genocide.” The government isn’t openly killing whites, and there are in fact some minority political parties with white members of the government. Whites make up around 7% of the population. Most are descended from the Dutch, who began settling in what is now South Africa in the mid-1600s. Their language, Afrikaans, is predominantly a Germanic language, a form of Dutch but with its own characteristics.

It is also worth considering the overall crime rate. After the ruling white National Party ended the system of apartheid and ceded power to the ANC, South Africa – by far the most stable and prosperous country in sub-Saharan Africa – rapidly descended into chaos and poverty. For nearly three decades now, South Africa has been one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

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Trump’s claims, then, may need some context, but they are neither false nor unfounded. White farmers are indeed the targets of systematic violence, whether one calls it genocide or not. The media has chosen to downplay the many lethal assaults on white farmers as merely a part of South Africa’s out-of-control crime wave.

Yet, the statistics – never mind the homicidal threats by South Africa’s black government-approved activist community – point to the deliberate targeting of white-owned farms. TAU spokesman Henk van de Graaf in 2016 told Swedish newspaper Nya Tider, “The average murder ratio per 100,000 of the population in the world is nine, I believe. In South Africa, it is 54. But for the farming community it is 138, which is the highest for any occupation in the world.”

Media Opens Pandora’s Box

America’s legacy media is battered and bruised and, figuratively, near death after a brutal few years. Promoting stories that turned out to be hoaxes while refuting an almost countless number of claims that were eventually verified has taken its toll.

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This was not the hill anti-Trump editorial boards should have chosen to die on. The president has now shone a spotlight on South Africa. While the so-called mainstream media will not investigate the plight of the Afrikaners, others no doubt will. The more they dig, the more apparent it will become that the South African regime is allowing, or at least ignoring, an ongoing murderous campaign in which whites are the victims and blacks the aggressors. That’s not something the American left wants people to hear.

The cacophony of indignation over Trump’s remarks about South Africa was too swift, too loud, and too orchestrated. Now, a lot more people are going to be taking an interest in something about which the leftist media would rather Americans knew nothing.

That corner seems to be getting smaller and more uncomfortable – and that paint isn’t drying anytime soon.

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Corruption In Politics: The Case Of Trump And Cryptocurrency

 May 04, 2025/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

In the New York Times from this past Thursday (May 1), the lead story was a scathing exposé of alleged corruption of our current President. The headline and sub-headline (print version) were “Trump Shapes the Policy On Crypto, and Cashes In. Hushed Deals and Foreign Investors Propel President’s Digital Money Start-Up.” The sub-headline in the online version was even more scathing: “World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.” The story fills the entire upper right-hand quadrant of the front page, plus another full page and a half in the interior of the paper.

So according to the Times, this is not just some ordinary, every day, run-of-the-mill political corruption. Rather, it is corruption that has “eviscerated” boundaries between business and government, and is “without precedented in modern American history.”

Is there any substance to these charges?

As readers here know, my view has long been that the game of politics is inherently corrupt. Politicians are in a position to use the powers of their offices in a thousand ways, large and small, to benefit themselves and their friends and supporters, and to disadvantage adversaries. Almost no human being is immune from the temptation to use those powers for such purposes at least a little. And thus there is no such thing as a politician against whom at least some charge of corruption cannot credibly be alleged.

And it is far worse with today’s massive and intrusive federal administrative state. Essentially every business is under the thumb of federal regulation — and even if a business is not currently regulated, it could be. Every business is also taxed, and the taxes for any given business could be either increased or decreased at any time. So if a President is involved in changing regulation in any way, or in changing taxation in any way, or even in not changing regulation or taxation when some people say that he should, did he do that to benefit the financial interests of himself or his family, or did he do it because he thought it was good public policy? And don’t forget, it could be both!

Because every politician does things that can credibly be charged as corruption, I think that by far the most important question about any allegation of political corruption is whether the action in question is at least arguably illegal, and if so, what is the theory of illegality? Beyond that, it is also completely fair to ask whether something might not be right or good, even if legal. Just because something isn’t even arguably illegal doesn’t make it immune from criticism. All allegations of self-dealing are fair game for criticism of a politician, and for the voters to take into account.

With that background, let’s give the Times their best shot to make their case. The subject of the big May 1 article is a crypto start-up by the name of World Liberty Financial. WLF was launched in September 2024, shortly before the recent election. The majority owner of WLF is The Trump Organization (which the Times calls a “Trump family corporate entity”). Since taking office for his second term, President Trump has significantly eased the federal regulation of the crypto industry, including ending SEC investigations and disbanding a Justice Department task force focused on the industry. The Times calls this a “broad unwinding of Biden-era scrutiny of the industry.” From the Times:

Mr. Trump’s return to the White House has opened lucrative new pathways for him to cash in on his power, whether through his social media company or new overseas real estate deals. But none of the Trump family’s other business endeavors pose conflicts of interest that compare to those that have emerged since the birth of World Liberty. The firm, largely owned by a Trump family corporate entity, has erased centuries-old presidential norms, eviscerating the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in a manner without precedent in modern American history. 

Mr. Trump is now not only a major crypto dealer; he is also the industry’s top policy maker. So far in his second term, Mr. Trump has leveraged his presidential powers in ways that have benefited the industry — and in some cases his own company — even though he had spent years deriding crypto as a haven for drug dealers and scammers.

The gist of the Times’s claims against Trump in the piece is summarized as a “range of conflicts of interest trailing the company.” Here is their list:

• World Liberty has directly benefited from Mr. Trump’s official actions, such as his announcement of a federal crypto stockpile that would include a digital currency the firm has invested in. The president’s announcement caused a temporary jump in the value of World Liberty’s holdings.
• World Liberty has sold its cryptocurrency to investors abroad, including in Israel and Hong Kong, according to interviews and data obtained by The Times, establishing a new avenue for foreign businesses to try to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
• Several investors in World Liberty’s coin managed firms that the federal government accused of wrongdoing. They include an executive whose fraud case was suspended after he invested millions of dollars in World Liberty. Other investors and business partners, some of whom haven’t been publicly identified before, are looking to expand in ways that will require the Trump administration’s approval.
• World Liberty proposed swapping cryptocurrencies with at least five start-ups, and often used the Trump name to solicit steep payments as part of the deals. Even in an industry with a disreputable history, the deals raised alarm among veteran executives.

My reaction is, is that the best you’ve got? The most serious of the allegations is the first one, that “World Liberty has directly benefited from Mr. Trump’s official actions.” And so have hundreds and hundreds of other businesses benefited from the broad de-regulatory agenda of the second Trump administration. Trump himself may be benefiting from the de-regulation of crypto, but everyone else also has the opportunity to do the same. And any gains could be undone by a crackdown in a subsequent administration. Meanwhile, despite the frequently over-heated language of the Times piece, it never makes any suggestion of illegality. If there is any basis under which this may be illegal, I am unaware of it. Perhaps some readers may have a theory.

Looking at this situation at a more general level, our recent Presidents (and other prominent politicians) can be divided into three big categories from the perspective of exposure to corruption. In Category One, we have people, like Trump, who have come to office with substantial business interests that they have retained while in office. In Category Two are the politicians who have served in public office for their entire careers, and have never held a significant private sector job or business interest. 

Category Three consists of those who had a career in the private sector, but substantially cashed out before entering public service, and now just have investment portfolios. Examples from Category One include Lyndon Johnson and Jimmie Carter. Also, if I might take one non-presidential example, Nancy Pelosi. Examples from Category Two include Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. Examples from Category Three include Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes.

From the point of view of potential corruption, it might be best to have all politicians come from Category Three. However, nothing in the Constitution requires that. And nothing about Category Three makes it completely free from temptation to corruption either. Plenty of political decisions affect the value of investment portfolios, even diversified ones.

As between Categories One and Two, I’ll take politicians from Category One any day. Someone from Category Two who advances to the high office of the Presidency has tremendous temptation to develop personal wealth by accepting large payments from third parties to influence government policy. 

Both Clinton and Biden are clear examples of this. 

Bill Clinton created the Clinton Foundation in 2001 after leaving office, and the Foundation then raised more than $2 billion over the next 15 years, during much of which time his wife was widely expected to become the next President. Large donors included foreign actors with clear interests in influencing U.S. policy. The overhead of the Foundation provided hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the Clintons’ lifestyles and staff. 

This enterprise skirted extremely close to the edge of quid pro quo bribery. In the case of Biden, between 2019 and 2023 I wrote an entire eleven-part series titled “Biden’s — Stone Cold Crooked,” explaining why the publicly available facts about the Bidens’ conduct in Ukraine and China made for a lay-down case of quid pro quo bribery. Somehow the Biden Justice Department was never interested in pursuing the case.

Over in Category One, consider the case of Lyndon Johnson. Josh Blackman at the Volokh Conspiracy has a summary in a post from January 1, 2025. The summary is largely derived from the Robert Caro biography of Johnson. Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson owned television and radio stations in the Austin, Texas area. From Blackman:

As Mr. Johnson rose through the ranks in the House, and later the Senate, Robert Caro observed, there was a "twenty-year-long string of strikingly favorable rulings by the Federal Communications Commission" for KTBC. Caro at 286. Coincidentally, Austin was "one of the few metropolitan areas with only a single commercial television station."

When Johnson became President, he purported to put his holdings, including the broadcast stations, in a “blind trust”; but Blackman notes that the trustees were close personal friends and the trust would never meet the technical requirements for a true “blind trust.” Similarly, Jimmie Carter retained his heavily regulated (and subsidized) peanut farm business while President, while also creating a half-baked “blind trust.”

According to Reuters here on January 10, Trump has not created a “blind trust,” but has withdrawn from “daily management” of his business interests, and has turned that over to his sons. Reuters quotes a supposed “ethics expert” as saying that Trump’s arrangements are “not good enough.” Did that ethics expert ever criticize the arrangements of Johnson or Carter?

Is the insubstantial distinction between Trump’s arrangements and the Johnson/Carter “blind trusts” what the Times is referring to as “eviscerating the boundaries between business and government” and something “without precedent in modern American history”?

And then there’s Nancy Pelosi. Critics have noted multiple times over the years where Pelosi or her husband seemed to have done a profitable stock trade just before some Congressional action. This piece from Yahoo Finance on January 8 notes that Pelosi’s stock portfolio was up 54% in 2024, which beat the performance of every hedge fund in the country. At the same time, a bill to restrict stock trading by congresspeople somehow never advanced while Pelosi was Speaker.

Anyway, if you ask for my view of the biggest political corruption incidents of the past few years, numbers one and two would be:

1. ) the multi-hundreds of billions of dollars of funding for the institutions of the Left from the government, and 
2. ) the Censorship Industrial Complex put together by the Biden administration to suppress conservative speech. 

Those things don’t seem to draw big front-page articles from the Times.