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.
By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog
In 2019, the FBI recorded less than 17,000 homicides. After George Floyd died of a drug overdose while violently resisting arrest, we would not see numbers like that again.
4,870 more people were murdered in 2020. Those excess deaths meant that Floyd and BLM killed nearly as many people that year as AIDS. And those nearly 5,000 deaths were part of a total of nearly 14,000 more excess homicides in the FBI crime database since then. (And those numbers are still incomplete because of reporting changes made by the FBI.)
The anniversary of Floyd’s overdose death on May 25th, 2020 led to an outpouring of political
commemorations of his death and musings about the need for yet more ‘racial justice’, none of which accounted for the 2,000 more black people killed in 2020 than in 2019.
The Floyd reckoning killed more black people than Hurricane Katrina did. The real legacy of the BLM race riots were 2,000 dead black people. The real legacy of the fists and kneelings were entire cemeteries filled with dead black bodies over the course of only one single year.
And coffins being placed in cemeteries across the country, planted there by the ‘reckoning’.
More Americans died in the BLM wars than were killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined. Or at Pearl Harbor. To find a conflict that was more lethal to Americans, you would have to go back to Vietnam. Far more were killed by the BLM crime wave than perished in Hurricane Katrina, not to mention Sandy, Harvey, Maria, Ike and the California wildfires.
George Floyd’s death was the single deadliest non-drug or disease event of any war or natural disaster in the United States in the last 40 years.
The 14,000 dead, many of them black, are Floyd’s true legacy. Those 14,000 did not tour the nation in golden coffins. There were no multi-million dollar payments to their families. Members of Congress in cheerfully colored outfits did not kneel by their gravesides. Most simply disappeared and became footnotes.
In Floyd’s hometown of Minneapolis, 48 people were murdered in 2019. In the Year of Floyd that shot up to 82, then 94 in 2021, 82 in 2022, 70 in 2023, and 76 in 2024. That adds up to 164 more people murdered in the years since Floyd’s drug overdose. Shootings in Minneapolis increased 105% and the number of gunshot victims nearly doubled in 2020.
Five years later, Minneapolis politicians remember that one accidental death, not the 164 murders that they were complicit in while they promoted a ‘reckoning’ on racial justice.
Murders once again went up in Minneapolis last year even as politicians hail a safer city.
A cottage industry of pro-crime groups has spent the last 5 years denying that there’s a crime wave. The media will periodically run stories accusing the public of falsely believing that crime is a problem even as people are randomly slashed on the New York City subway and dozens of victims die in weekend shootings. The Biden administration tainted the FBI’s data collection so that it can no longer be trusted past a certain point, and yet the bodies do not go away.
The public expresses concern about crime in poll after poll. Voters came out for Trump in 2024 in part because of their worries about crime. The only counter-argument by a party that had told Americans that fighting crime was racist was to tell them that they were imagining the murders.
But no one imagined it when LA and San Francisco booted Soros pro-crime prosecutors.
Five years after their last reckoning killed nearly 14,000 people, caused billions in damage, destroyed small businesses and livelihoods and set back race relations decades, they want another ‘reckoning’.
Americans deserve a reckoning, not with the fictitious claim that racist police officers are roving the streets looking to choke black men to death, but with the forces behind a destructive movement that took a bunch of amateur activists and their hashtag, and used them to destroy the criminal justice system and unleash rioters and criminals on innocent Americans.
A political movement backed by top foundations, including the Ford Foundation, and leading corporations, led to the deaths of the equivalent of the population of St. Augustine, Florida.
That’s the reckoning that should be happening.
If the drug overdose death of one career criminal led to a national reckoning, what should the murders of 14,000 human beings lead to?
We don’t need more racial reckonings, diversity commitments and pledges to end policing that killed 14,000 people. What we need is a reckoning for the reckoning. We need a reckoning with the billionaires and foundations, like Soros and Ford, that led us here. Their radical tax shelters need to be stripped from them, their fortunes garnished to cover the losses suffered by families and shopkeepers across the country. We need a reckoning with every politician that tweeted, attended and enabled the violence that continues to claim lives every single day.
We need a reckoning with the “fiery but mostly peaceful” media that could position a reporter in the middle of a firestorm and still claim that the riots which claimed countless lives were peaceful. And finally we need a reckoning with prosecutors and law enforcement who practiced the two-tier policing that allowed violent criminals to run rampant across entire cities. The ongoing violence by Hamas supporters and whatever shape the riots of tomorrow take are a warning that while the BLM riots have ended for now, they legitimized the idea of rioting.
It will take a comprehensive national legal reckoning to shut down rioting once and for all.
A true reckoning with the 14,000 victims of George Floyd’s legacy will begin with unleashing the police to get back to enforcing the ‘broken windows policing’ and other measures that he[ped make America safe in the 90s, and filling the prisons with career criminals using measures like ‘three strikes’ to end the revolving door crime wave enabled by not only leftists or Democrats, but Republicans who went along with ‘criminal justice reforms’ promoted by the Kochs.
The reckoning of the 14,000 should bury liberal and libertarian pro-crime policies along with those bodies. We should never allow ourselves to be fooled into buying the idea that closing prisons and freeing criminals is a ‘conservative’ policy or good for America. The cost of prisons is cheap compared to the cost of a massive crime wave. The cost of preventing a crime is always cheaper than the crime itself. And when we forget that, criminals will remind us.
May 25th should not be the day we mourn a violent criminal who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint, it should be the anniversary of the day we pledge to be merciless to criminals.
Because when we are kind to criminals, we are cruel to their victims. When we kneel at the coffins of criminals, they will bury us in them. Forget George Floyd, remember the 14,000.
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.
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The Democratic Party is looking to rebrand, or, at least, has begun to consider a makeover of sorts. A crushing election loss and nose-diving approval ratings have finally spurred some on the left into action. It is not yet certain that the party has nailed down the real reasons it suffered an electoral collapse in November of 2024 – which should be obvious – but preparations are now underway to repair the damage. Whether it succeeds or not is yet to be seen, but a new Democratic initiative, code-named SAM, is in the works.
Several Democrats have decided that the onus is on them to make changes. That’s a shift from the period between last year’s post-election tantrum and April of 2025. During those six months, the narrative adhered to by just about everyone on the left was that racism, sexism, and ignorance had motivated most American voters to reject the party of tolerance and diversity in favor of Trump’s mean MAGA machine. It now appears that a few influencers within Democratic Party circles have accepted that it was the party and not the electorate that fell short.
One of the most obvious cultural misfires of many Democratic politicians has been the demonization of heterosexual masculinity. Progressives, including some identifying as journalists, have at one time or another linked right-wing extremism, white supremacy, and even fascism to masculinity, physical exercise, the eating of red meat, and, of course, guns.
This is where SAM comes in. Part of a new $20 million voter outreach scheme, SAM is short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan.”
Kamala Harris’ 2024 deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, recently told The New York Times, “Over a long period of time, our party overdrew our trust account with the American people.” That seems like a very clever way of saying Democratic politicians have, for decades, pandered to certain demographics, cynically courting their votes while doing little or nothing to improve their lives.
At the same time, they talked down to and alienated other demographics. Christians and blue-collar white males, in particular, appeared to have been pinpointed as groups many Democrats felt were beyond their reach or did not fit in the brave new world they imagined they were shaping.
The Harris presidential campaign appeared to operate in a fantasy world in which it was cruising toward a joyous and easy victory. However, it may have woken up to one of the harsh realities of the Democratic Party’s struggle. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was roped in as Kamala’s running mate. As Walz himself suggested in a recent interview, he was picked because he could “code talk to white guys.” The very fact that he put it like that is proof enough that he could not, in fact, code talk to white guys.
Not only was Walz not the man for the job, but he also probably made things worse. Prancing around on campaign stages in the most unserious – and unmanly – manner, pretending to change an air filter in a truck, which, clearly, he had never done before. Walz showed that Democrats – once considered the working-class party – had completely lost touch with the average American male.
Speaking of men, putting the SAM project into action does appear to undermine the progressives’ insistence that everything should be viewed through a non-binary – as opposed to a “gender-specific” – lens.
The SAM initiative indicates that the left, while realizing they have lost most working-class men – and perhaps a growing number of male college students – has learned little. Throwing millions of dollars at a problem to fund research and focus groups is how the Democratic Party seemingly tackles every issue – often without positive results.
As well, they don’t appear to have understood the root of this problem. Men are supremely uncomplicated. They don’t want politicians to speak with them. Men want politicians to enact policies that will provide good jobs and give them the ability to provide for and protect their families. Men want law and order, guns, beer, baseball, football, fishing, and barbeques on July 4th – without being maligned for celebrating. Men want real women, not screeching, angry, blue-haired harpies. Men want the Star-Spangled Banner – sung the way it should be sung and not the hip-hop version.
The article from The New York Times that quotes Rob
Flaherty also claims, “Communities that Democrats had come to count on
for a generation or more — young people, Black voters, Latinos — all
veered toward the right in 2024, some of them sharply.” That may be
true, but it seems, again, that it’s the voters who are being blamed.
Perhaps these voting blocs – if one is to assume they are monolithic –
did not veer anywhere. Perhaps the Democratic Party veered sharply to
the left, and these people saw Trump as a sane alternative.
Democratic officeholders may need to find some humility and figure out that most people, probably even a great many lifelong Democratic voters, quite likely do not want what they are trying to push. They do not want America remade into a dystopian, woke DEI fantasy world in which dissent or even a simple longing for traditional values is not tolerated. Maybe they want America, how it should be – how it was always supposed to be.
There is a final – and probably the most assured – reason why SAM will not solve the Democratic Party’s problems. It is almost certain that whoever is out on the streets, on the phones, and in focus groups will follow directives to do one of two things. They will be speaking with men in solid blue areas, and for the most part, they’ll hear things that validate what they want to believe men hope for and expect. Or, they will speak to men in solid red places and will be so mortified by what they hear that they will abandon SAM and return to vilifying those Americans who refuse to see things their way.
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Now more than four months into President Trump’s second term, there have been dozens of District Court injunctions blocking policies that the new administration has sought to implement. Deportations of gang members illegally in the U.S. back to El Salvador? Enjoined! Mass firings at USAID? Enjoined! Other mass firings at 22 other agencies and departments? Enjoined! Cancellation of funding of certain grants for Harvard? Enjoined! Ending of eligibility for Harvard to participate in foreign student visa program? Enjoined! Termination of federal funding for public schools maintaining DEI programs? Enjoined! Termination of security clearances for certain prominent law firms? Enjoined! And these are just examples among many more.
It seems that whatever new policy President Trump tries to implement, it will be enjoined within days by some left wing federal judge. Professor Adrian Vermuele of Harvard in a May 23 tweet called these pervasive injunctions “basically an automatic judicial veto on all new policy.” He commented, “let’s please not call it democracy.” It’s actually the opposite of democracy: President Trump tries to implement the policies he promised to implement and that the voters elected him to implement; and the unelected judges — almost all appointed by presidents of the party that just got voted out — stop him.
But before you get too outraged about the courts (and Democrat-appointed judges) blocking President Trump’s every move, let’s not forget about a few constraints that the courts imposed on prior President Biden. If you disagree with what the courts have just done in the list of injunctions in the first paragraph of this post, you might nevertheless find yourself agreeing with some big constraints that landed on Biden.
For example, in Biden v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court held that President Biden did not have the authority under the Higher Education Act to engage in mass forgiveness of student loans; and in West Virginia v. EPA the Supreme Court held that the Biden EPA did not have the authority under the Clean Air Act to force the closure of all electric power plants using fossil fuels. The Supreme Court justices who voted to imposed these constraints on Biden were all appointed by Republicans.
So almost everyone, left or right, would agree that the courts have at least some legitimate role in reining in overreach by the executive branch. But the cases are so politically charged that one’s view of the outcome of any given case tends to turn almost entirely on the party of the President who got blocked. Republicans cheer on the courts when they block Democratic presidents, and Democrats are currently cheering on the courts when they block President Trump. At the District Court level, both sides forum shop for a friendly judge appointed by a president of their own party when trying to block an action of a president of the opposite party.
What is badly needed here are politically neutral principles by which one can distinguish the legitimate uses of the courts’ role in restraining executive overreach from the illegitimate. Remarkably, the Supreme Court to date has not really laid down such principles to any significant extent. The reason for that is that before now cases have not come before the Court requiring it to do so. But now things are different. President Trump is challenging the rule of the permanent bureaucracy to a far greater degree than did the two Bushes, or even Reagan or Nixon.
I don’t think there’s any single easy bright-line test that can separate the legitimate from the illegitimate uses of the judicial power to rein in the president. Instead, as cases come before it, I think the Supreme Court needs to lay down a set of guidelines for the lower courts, and then enforce those guidelines via prompt reversals of lower courts that step out of line.
Here are some suggestions that I will make for some proposed politically neutral principles:
Analogous to President Biden’s overreaching with student loan forgiveness and greenhouse gas regulations is President Trump’s overreaching with tariffs. Perhaps you are wondering how it is that President Trump asserts the authority to impose a tariff of 100% on some country one day, make it 200% the next day, then back to 50% a week later, and so forth in a series of dizzying moves. The answer is that there is something called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, enacted back in 1977. The IEEPA grants power to the President to take certain actions, including imposing tariffs, in the event of the declaration of a “national emergency.” It turned out that giving Presidents the right to declare national emergencies was an open invitation to abuse. This is from Congress’s website:
As of January 15, 2024, Presidents had declared 69 national emergencies invoking IEEPA, 39 of which are ongoing. History shows that national emergencies invoking IEEPA often last nearly a decade, although some have lasted significantly longer. . . .
Numerous cases have been brought challenging President Trump’s use of the IEEPA and so-called “national emergency” powers for his series of actions on tariffs. The forum for these cases is the US Court of International Trade. Plaintiffs in the cases include many states (both red and blue) and something called the Liberty Justice Center. Here is a report from Professor Ilya Somin of the Scalia Law School on the argument of one such case that took place on May 24. Excerpt:
Judge Restani repeatedly noted that the government's position would allow the president to declare an "emergency" for any "crazy" reason, and then impose whatever tariffs he wanted.
I have not studied the details of these cases and the wording of the statute sufficiently to have a view of how it might come out. However, I do support the idea that the courts have a real role in restraining the President from making up the “law” as he goes along, thus usurping the legislative function that is delegated only to the Congress.
Additions:
Three Judges Blocking Trump’s Tariffs Have Decades-Long Histories of Democrat Activism -The judges on the U.S. Court of International Trade who ruled that President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are illegal have a history of Democrat Party activism. Each of the members of the three-judge panel issuing the Wednesday ruling – which was stayed Thursday by an appeals court, allowing the tariffs to continue – fit the profile of other activists judges who continued their political activism after joining the court.
I shared a very clever tweet back in 2018 that highlighted the huge gap between “almost capitalism” and “almost socialism.”
That column was entitled the “World’s Best Tweet about Socialism and Capitalism.” And capitalism won the comparison (needless to say).
Let’s do the same thing today, but we’ll replace socialism with communism. And our “Best Tweet” comes from Youseef Kazembe, who shared this gem.
I don’t know this person, but the profile lists Austrian economics and bitcoin, so obviously a sensible libertarian.
And the assertions in the tweet almost certainly are correct.
Here’s a chart, based on the Maddison database, showing inflation-adjusted per-capita GDP in the world’s most capitalist nations and the world’s most communist nations.
Compared to Cuba and North Korea, there’s probably no genuine poverty in Switzerland and Singapore.
But those two rich nations do have some redistribution spending. And they definitely are rich enough to have private charity. So Youseef Kazembe is basically right.
And there is hunger (and even starvation) in Cuba and North Korea, as well as a fear of murder-by-government. So Youseef Kazembe once again is basically right.
My two cents, after looking at this data, is that the dupes and apologists for communism are terrible people.
P.S. Technically, communism is socialist economics (government ownership, central planning, and price controls) combined with political dictatorship.
“ICE agents stormed the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and arrested 40 illegal immigrants — but Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Maura Healey demanded 'answers' and 'clarification' from ICE about the covert operation.” (DailyMail)
You’d think the irate Healey lived there, but you’d be wrong. She lives in Arlington, MA, with her partner Joanna Lydgate.
Healey may come to regret a comment she made: “It's one thing to go after and target those who have committed crimes, who are here unlawfully.”
So what’s the difference between those who are there illegally and those who are just there unlawfully? Healey didn’t define that for anyone.
“It's concerning when we see people, moms and dads, being ripped away from families,” Healey said. “Neighbors, coworkers taken away, literally it looks like, on the way to job sites in Nantucket and on the Vineyard.”
She must be worried about who is going to cut the grass, even though the apprehended included an MS-13 member and a child sex offender. But, damn, someone has to manicure the lawns and wash those pots and pans.
Healey must have forgotten that she was the MA Attorney General when forty-nine illegals were dropped off on Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022 and given the bum’s rush forty-seven hours later. She was silent on that matter.
But masked residents jumped right in 2022 and fed the illegals, gave some cots to sleep on, and waved goodbye to them within two days.
"Everything from beds to food to clothing to toothbrushes, toothpaste, blankets, sheets — I mean, we had some of it ... but we did not have the numbers that we needed," said Lisa Belcastro. She runs the island's homeless shelter in one of the wealthiest areas of the country.
Local high school students served as translators for the Spanish-speaking group, mostly from Venezuela, who arrived with the help of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Despite their false claims, residents wanted them out as fast as possible in 2022.
DeSantis, said during a speech in Iowa in 2023: “We even were able to deliver 50 illegal aliens to beautiful Martha’s Vineyard. They said they were a sanctuary area. They had signs saying nobody is illegal. They said all the refugees and the illegals are welcome and then they deported them the next day. Are you kidding me?”
His speech was met with cheers and applause. Everyone in the country knew by then the hypocrisy of the residents called “Bay Staters” or “Massholes,” if you want to be crude.
Tourist season is upon Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, extra hands are needed, and Healey claims she wasn’t notified about the raid.
According to the DailyMail: “Healey's comments sparked immediate and furious backlash from Trump administration DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
“She told Fox News that local authorities were notified about the operation.
“Before the Governor criticizes our brave law enforcement, she should get her facts straight—apparently, she is the one with ‘zero information,’ McLaughlin said.
“What we find ‘disturbing’ and ‘concerning’ is politicians like Massachusetts Gov. Healey fighting to protect criminal illegal aliens.
“Our ICE officers will continue putting their lives and safety on the line to arrest murderers, kidnappers, and pedophiles that were let into our country by the Biden administration's open border policies.”
And that’s the end of that story—for now.
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Susan Daniels is a private investigator and the author of The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama: A True Story which is available on Amazon.com.
Politics like we have never seen. Recommend Susan’s Newsletter to your friends.
Recently I published this piece, The Nitwit Brigade on Parade, II, and before that The Nitwit Brigade on Parade, and Nitwits on Parade, and the one thing they all have in common is they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome....they hate Trump. But what's really the height of hypocrisy and abject stupidity, many of them in the past praised Castro as one of the world's great leaders, but in reality, he was one of the greatest mass murders in the last 100 years,. All the while they cling to the lies of Castro having done all sorts of wonderful things for the people of Cuba. All lies.
This is from Discover the Networks and it goes into depth showing how the economic conditions before Castro were better than in many European nations, and how Castro destroyed that putting his nation into abject poverty and tyranny. The fact dystopia is the one constant when socialism/communism is imposed on a nation. Dystopia follows socialism just as sure as Sancho Panza followed Don Quixote, a madman.
Yet within three months of his entry into Havana, Castro's firing squads had murdered an estimated 600-1,100 men and boys, and Cuba's jails held ten times the number of political prisoners as under Fulgencio Batista, who Castro overthrew with claims to "liberating" Cuba…….
As with so much else regarding pre-Castro Cuba, major misconceptions abound in this editorial. To wit: in the 1950's the average farm-wage in "near-feudal" Cuba was higher than in France, Belgium, Denmark, or West Germany.
According to the Geneva-based International Labor Organization, the average daily wage for an agricultural worker in Cuba in 1958 was $3. The average daily wage in France at the time was $2.73; in Belgium $2.70; in Denmark $2.74; in West Germany $2.73; and in the U.S. $4.06. Also, far from huge latifundia dominating the agricultural landscape, the average Cuban farm in 1958 was actually smaller than the average farm in the U.S.: 140 acres in Cuba vs. 195 acres in the U.S. In 1958 Cuba, a nation of 6.2 million people, had 159,958 farms -- 11,000 of which were tobacco farms. Only 34 percent of the Cuban population was rural……To Read More....much, much more…..
By Rich Kozlovich
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Normal Americans have been abandoned by the party and I really don't know what many of them, like Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, and others of that ilk actually stand for, all of whom I think can easily be classified as the McCain Cabal. Whatever is the driving force behind their actions, conservatism isn't the foundational values they embrace.
For the most part Republican's haven't really been conservatives, they talk the talk to get elected, and once that happens the fail to walk the talk. They've been invertebrates who gutlessly go along in order to avoid being attacked, and the reason why is they're clueless and unable to intellectually defend conservative positions, and would do almost anything to avoid being attacked by the media. ... until now. Truth be told, the real honey badgers of the Republican party have been the women. Now the men are finding out it's really cool to be tough, smart, challenging the left, including the media, who they feared like death itself in the past.
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But the times are a changing as the Pravda media has not been all that hot on history, facts, or truth, especially where it’s in conflict with their political prejudices, and now is circling down the drain, and some will be out of business soon. The alternative media is ascendant! Now the lies, corruption, and truth be told, the treason of the left is no longer being hidden behind the arrogant sneers and smirks of the Pravda media. Transparency is ascendant, truth is ascendant, guts is ascendant, and glory follows guts.
By Robin Itzler
Editor's Note: This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons will have been added by me. If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.
James Comey is Suffering From TDS
Most America First Patriots who detested President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and the rest of the buffoons in the Biden administration wanted them replaced with conservative Patriots, not murdered. However, many on the left, such as former FBI Director James Comey, can’t breathe unless they are thinking about ways to “86” President Trump. The “86 47” beach fiasco, which at a minimum shows Comey for the stupid little man he is (even if he stands at 6’8”) might not be enough to put him behind bars. How about any/all of these reasons to give Comey an orange jumpsuit?Remember How Democrats Treated Rush Limbaugh's Death?
We join a chorus of Americans with functioning brains who know that Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis did not happen in mid-May. Now some Democrats say there should be no further inquiries into the misery caused by Joe Biden and his wretched administration. They seek sympathy for old Joey, which in our view is why the cancer announcement came after the Hur tape was released.Let’s remember the “sympathy” for Rush Limbaugh after he passed away:
-Huffington Post (HuffPost): Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King of Talk Radio, Dies at 70
Michigan Representative Shri Thanedar:
There were many people who first thought he was a joke seeking fundraising dollars and name recognition. So, when in late April Thanedar announced he was filing articles of impeachment against President Trump he really angered Democrats who did not want to go on record being for or against impeaching Trump. Minutes before the House was scheduled for floor votes, Thanedar said he would not force the vote. Even Democrats saw the multi-millionaire Thanedar as a joke. That’s why radical Democrat Donavan McKinney announced he is challenging Thanedar in the primary.
Note: There are reports that one of Thanedar’s bankrupt businesses in 2010 used beagles and monkeys for animal testing and let them starve to death when the business went under.
Read Who Are the Rising Stars on the Left by Keith Guinta.
Susan Daniels, who publishes Susan's Newsletter wrote to me saying: Democrats were anxious for Joe Biden to stop giving interviews. Maybe that’s why the Hur interview recording was released – to embarrass Biden. Then, as an excuse for “disappearing,” his cancer diagnosis is made public when he might have been given the news about the cancer a while ago.
My view is that I think they would have found the cancer years ago and didn't want us to know that he would die in office. And, yes, I think they did exactly what Susan thinks they did. I don't expect him to have a long life. How much good is all that stolen money going to do him now?
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Hamill has been an emotional Trump hater for some time, and in his latest unhinged rant he sneeringly calls him, ‘Dictator, Presi-Dementia', and apologized to Canada for Trump being President. Here's a recent picture of Hamil. And he looks sane? Don't you think?
But he's not alone. He's joined by Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn, Bono, Pedro Pascal, Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, and a host of other celebrities. Many of these people also think mass murderers Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were just the finest people in the world. How is it possible for leftists to vent their irrational and unhinged views and still be considered sane?
Big Philanthropy and Major League Baseball in cahoots, too.
By | May 27, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News
, Tags: Articles, Illegal Immigration, OpinionIt has long been feared that America’s number one geopolitical foe is weaponizing the illegal immigration crisis to strengthen its already considerable foothold within the United States. China is apparently doing so with the direct support of major Democrat political leaders in the fourth-most-populated state in the country, along with Big Philanthropy and Big Corporate money. This outside meddling highlights the glaring national security threat posed by the elaborate pro-illegal alien safety net constructed over the past 30-plus years.
“Numerous Chinese government-linked entities have bankrolled a nonprofit accused of offering tips on how to evade federal immigration authorities, a Daily Caller News Foundation [DCNF] investigation found,” the news site reported May 20.
The House Home Security Committee in April announced that it is investigating the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), a New York City-based NGO, “in response to a video reportedly showing employees … advising illegal aliens on how to evade apprehension by [US] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” an April 16 letter sent to CPC by committee Chair Rep. Mark E. Green (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chair Josh Brecheen (R-OK) read.
“CPC has received as much as $445,969 in donations from sources with ties to the Chinese government since 2018, according to financial records reviewed by the DCNF,” the news outlet related. “State-run enterprises such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank of China as well as other entities connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have provided financial assistance to CPC in recent years, records show.”
It gets more ominous than that.
“Additionally, CPC also appears to have significant financial and personnel links to a New York-based nonprofit, which, in turn, has extensive ties to Beijing and a CCP influence and intelligence arm,” The Daily Caller reported.
China’s exploitation of America’s porous borders during the Biden administration has been widely reported on since 2020. “There have been numerous documented instances of Chinese nationals, at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging in espionage, stealing military and economic secrets,” Thomas Duesterberg, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told the Federation for American Immigration Reform in 2023.
CPC’s 2023 annual report included a lengthy list thanking its “partners and funders.” It begins with “Public Support.” The first two names are those of the Empire State’s two sitting US senators, Democrats Chuck Schumer – the minority leader in the upper chamber – and Kirsten Gillibrand. Prominent US Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) immediately follow. Behind them comes Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
A dizzying array of New York state senators and assembly members,
New York City council members, and other city and state departments is
then featured.
The “Private Support” section’s highest category — “$100,000 +” — is led off by American Express. The Robin Hood Foundation — a philanthropy closely connected with global investment behemoth Goldman Sachs that has worked directly with New York City officials to help further the illegal alien migrant influx of the Big Apple — is also in this expensive grouping. Dina Powell McCormick, a former Goldman Sachs executive and wife of Republican Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), is currently a board member and former board chair of Robin Hood.
Interestingly, the first name listed under CPC’s second-most-expensive private support category — “$50,000-$99,999” — is that of the philanthropic arm of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets. Other CPC private donors include Charter Communications, DoorDash, George Washington University, and JPMorgan Chase.
As The Daily Caller probe makes clear, all these respected entities are working side by side with organizations pledged to serve the tyrannical Beijing regime’s interests abroad in aiding illegal alien-abetting CPC.
“The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a NYC-based health services provider catering to the local Asian-American community,” has given the Chinese-American Planning Council “as much as $229,993 in donations” since 2018, the news site reported. “Charles B. Wang – a Chinese-American billionaire and major donor to the health center – frequently met with CCP influence and intel leaders in China, state-run media reports reveal,” The Daily Caller chronicled.
Wang served as “executive director” of “an organization controlled by the [Chinese Communist Party’s] United Front Work Department,” the report continued. United Front operates as a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” a House Select Committee memorandum detailed.
Wayne Ho is president and CEO of the Chinese-American Planning Council and a highly respected member of New York’s private-public social support pipeline. In 2023, Gov. Hochul named him to the state’s Not-For-Profit Contracting Advisory Committee.
Ho is quoted at length in an August 2023 press release from Hochul’s office touting her formal request to then-President Joe Biden “to take executive action and direct additional federal resources to the State of New York as it manages the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers arriving in New York.”
“The humanitarian crisis urgently needs additional resources and support from the federal government,” Ho said in the release. “We must ensure that asylum seeker families can survive and thrive in New York, which will require increased collaboration between the federal, state and city government and CBOs. We join our allies in calling for increased housing, job, legal, health, and social supports for our newest New Yorkers.”
It is no coincidence that this manifest threat to US national security exploded in scale during the Biden era.
“In recent years, CPC reported significant revenue levels, especially since 2021,” House Home Security Chair Green spelled out. “From fiscal years 2017 to 2020, CPC reported an average revenue of about $30.9 million. In fiscal year 2021, however, CPC reported a revenue of about $50.1 million, which then nearly doubled to $97.4 million in fiscal year 2022.”
We all know why Chinese regime money would be behind something like this. That key New York state Democrat elected officials, uber-powerful corporations such as American Express and Goldman Sachs, and even the New York Mets are all involved should be ringing loud alarm bells in Washington.
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On Sunday (May 25), President Donald Trump granted the European Union a brief lifeline in his quest for reciprocity on tariffs, extending the proposed 50% burden imposition to early July. “Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively,” declared EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shortly after the hiatus was announced. However, her situation, and that of the 27 participating member states, is far more precarious than one might initially assume.
Without doubt, the EU bloc is a big and valuable trading partner to the United States. Indeed, America purchased more than $600 billion worth of goods and services from the Union in 2024, with members, in return, buying around $370 billion. Princely sums, but uneven – especially considering that there are more potential consumers in the EU market than the US one (450 million souls compared with 347 million).
In fact, currently, the European Union is considering stripping Hungary of its voting rights within the EU parliament for attempting to implement a law on transparency in its own parliament. This supranational behemoth has gone well beyond scripting rules on single-market access. But therein lies the issue with negotiating a tariff deal with the Trump administration: If the EU is not a protectionist market for its members, it serves no real purpose.
The EU describes its “single market” like this:
“The EU aims to enable EU citizens to study, live, shop, work and retire in any EU country and enjoy products from all over Europe. To do this, it ensures free movement of goods, services, capital and persons in a single EU internal market. By removing technical, legal and bureaucratic barriers, the EU also allows citizens to trade and do business freely.”
Sounds fine, but such boilerplate is strictly for the tourists. In reality, the EU commission enacts rules and regulations in a highly partisan manner for each country in order to support and protect certain industries.
For example, the champagne industry – comprising some 16,000 producers in the region – gets subsidies from the EU courtesy of taxpayers in all 27 countries in the bloc. Or how about the German car industry? As a special carve-out, manufacturers no longer have to hit their global emissions deadlines by this year and can instead average emissions over a number of years, putting other carmakers at a serious disadvantage. Such climate-forgiving largesse will not be extended to foreign producers, naturally.
But if the European Union wants to avoid the fast-approaching 50% tariffs, it may have to do the unthinkable.
In the run-up to the 2016 Brexit vote that saw Britain leave the EU, doom-mongers predicted economic turmoil for the tiny UK as it would not have specialized access to the single market that comes only with membership in the bloc. Almost a decade later, Trump is trying to do just that.
If the EU cannot offer intimate protections for specialized markets that tip the scales in favor of bloc members, why should such industries support the Union at all? After all, its sole purpose is trade protectionism within member states to the exclusion (and cost) of those outside its hallowed markets. The days of European Union exclusivity are surely coming to an end and, with it, the false sense of Pax Romana that globalists worldwide have long sought to emulate.
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Here’s the way I see it now. In 1963 the Congressional Record published the 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America. Goal number 15 was, “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States”. They captured one party in it’s entirely, and the other among the leadership, but that leadership is changing.
About 15 years ago or so…. probably closer to 20… they did a breakdown of the make up of the Republican party. Approximately 35 percent were Rockefeller Republicans, mostly the North Eastern leadership, 5 percent were Ron Paul Republicans and 60 percent were Reagan Republicans. But that’s changing as the leftist Rockefeller Republicans numbers have diminished dramatically, the Ron Paul Republicans are blending with the Reagan Republicans.
So, let the Republicans fight it out among themselves until the Thom Tillis faction becomes extinct, and let the Democrats stay true to who they are, and watch them dwindle in numbers. The may vote in lockstep, but they have no leader, they have no agenda except for hidden agendas they dare not publish, and they have no solutions.
Here's their agenda that's known by their actions. Attacking Jews on American campuses, destroy Israel, uncontrolled immigration, promoting transgender athletes, promoting the murder of the innocent unborn, carving out special privileges for select groups, attacking Christians, and unrestrained spending and borrowing, their entire election strategy for 2026 and 2028 is to attack Trump, use a corrupt judiciary to thwart his efforts to save the nation economically, socially, domestically, and internationally, and be rude, crude, stupid, and violent. With AOC and Jasmine Crockett being the current voices of the party, what could possibly go wrong?
If You Think the GOP Is Screwed Up, Check Out the Democrats - You may feel terrible about being a member of the Republican Party because it’s the stupidest party in American politics until you remember that the Democrat Party exists – and no, the Libertarian Party is not actually a party; it’s the motley crew of pot-addled sophomores holding forth in the dorm suite common area at 2 a.m. of American politics.
For all the failures, foibles, and follies of the inept GOP, the current Democrat Party is much, much worse off. I mean, just look at them. They’re treading water in a swamp of narcissistic mediocrity, abandoned by former allies like the working class, controlled by over-credentialed echo-chamber neurotics, and in thrall to a coalition of sexually confused neo-Marxist weirdos, losers, and mutations............
There Is Nothing Democrats Will Not Ruin - Is there a place in the country better off because Democrats have control over the local or state government? I mean, I guess if your hobby is getting pregnant so you can have an abortion, living in Chicago or Boston is a plus, but not if you’re a fan of things like not being robbed or shot. Otherwise, only slumlords and progressive “organizers” thrive in a world controlled by the left. And if you want to get your kid an education, forget about it. There is nothing Democrats can’t ruin, and there is nothing even potentially good they will not ruin.............
Anybody notice what's happened to San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf?- It's well known that San Francisco is a urban disaster area, what with malls moving out, hotels shutting doors, conventions moving to other cities, thieves looting retailers with impunity, little shops fleeing, and entire districts full of homeless drug addicts looking like Dante's seventh circle of Hell. But has anyone asked what's going on at Fisherman's Wharf, the city's most famous tourist destination? Sure, it's known as a tourist trap. But everyone likes to try its famous Italian and seafood restaurants at least once. Now it's a ghost town:..........
No sane person can believe those who are making noise to become the 2028 Democrat nominee: Cory Booker, AOC, Pete Buttigieg, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett, Josh Shapiro, Andy Beshear, Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, and now it appears Beto O’Rourke is making noise for the nomination, can push their party back into control of the Congress or the White House. At least not without voter fraud on a massive scale, at which they’ve been expert.
My prediction for their 2028 nominee? As of right now, I think Rahm Emanuel has the best shot.