It’s been five years since the nation was terrorized by Antifa militants rioting, attacking cops, throwing Molotov cocktails, setting streets ablaze, breaking shop windows, vandalizing cars, targeting journalists and hurting innocent people.
They used the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police as an excuse for strategic mayhem designed to destabilize Donald Trump’s first administration and strike fear in the hearts of law-abiding Americans, some of whom wrongly thought that if they voted out Trump, the pain would stop.
In one sense, they were right.
Store owners on Madison Avenue boarded up their windows before the 2020 election in preparation for another bout of violence if Trump won.
But it was all sweetness and light when Joe Biden was installed in the White House.
The price of peace is giving the left what it wants — the destruction of this country.
Biden was happy to oblige, most notably by deliberately enabling an invasion of 10 million to 20 million illegal aliens, a disproportionate number of whom seem to be criminals, gang-bangers and child molesters.
Now that Trump is again in charge, the calm is over.
Antifa is back with a vengeance.
David Marcus spots the 21st century Patient Zero in letting chaos reign in America’s cities:
Michael Bloomberg’s greatest failure as mayor of New York City was not kicking Occupy Wall Street out of Zuccotti Park on night one. It’s set a national precedent for “acceptable lawlessness.”
That was the directive from White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, excoriating former President Barack Obama for the latter’s petulant statement on the Israel-Hamas peace agreement secured by President Donald Trump this week.
Though, by reading the post, you’d never know Trump’s role in the historic deal.
‘We should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight,’ Obama wrote, in part, never mentioning the big orange elephant in the room.
Why can’t the de facto leader of the Democrat party bring himself to acknowledge the Don’s triumph?
Could it be peace envy?
Easy, Freud.
And sad sack Barry’s not alone!
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Another DC denier who is happier burning Trump in effigy than tossing him a shred of credit is musty Senator Bernie Sanders.
He holds the distinction of being the first member of Congress to claim Israel was guilty of ‘genocide’, so shouldn’t he be the loudest champion of the end to war?
Nope. On his podcast, broadcast the day the agreement was announced, ol’ ‘Feel the Bern’ laid into Trump as a ‘demagogue’ who was exploiting ‘powerless minorities.’
“It’s kind of shocking to see these kind of accolades for — I’m sorry, it’s not a very good movie — because of its political ideology, and it’s so obvious that’s what they’re responding to,” Ellis said on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” (via MovieMaker) about the critical reaction to Anderson’s latest. “Why it’s considered a masterpiece, the greatest film of the decade, the greatest film ever made [is] because it really aligns with this kind of leftist sensibility.”
Ellis predicted the movie will soon be seen as “a kind of musty relic of the post-Kamala Harris era — that thing everyone gathers around and pretends is so fantastic and so great when it really isn’t, just to make a point… There’s a liberal mustiness to this movie that already feels very dated by October 2025. Very dated. And it just doesn’t read the room. You know, it reads a tiny corner of the room, but it does not read what is going on in America.”
Of course it feels dated. According to IMDB, One Battle After Another was shot last from January 21st to July 30th of last year, so the film began production only a few weeks before Joe Scarborough declared, “f*** you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I’ve known him for years. … If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.” Which means that most of the principal photography occurred while its makers assumed it would debut in a Biden-Harris world – or at least a Harris world.
What if director Paul Thomas Anderson dropped a far-Right movie into this year’s awards season mix?
The project, dubbed “One Battle After Another,” features alt-Right radicals battling it out with government officials during a Democrat administration.
The protesters ignite incendiary devices around a center where January 6 defendants are being held in solitary confinement, even those who merely entered the Capitol during the “insurrection.” A few milled around outside the building that day, never joining the riot.
Some radicals in the film detonate bombs in government buildings, unsure if any people are still inside. They don’t seem to care.
One radical kills a security officer in a heated moment, helping several J6 activists escape in the process. She’s a heroic figure, sultry and uncompromising in her beliefs. A triumphant image of her firing a machine gun while very pregnant causes a stir.
Her beta male beau (Leonardo DiCaprio) can only hope to keep up with her revolutionary pluck.
By all accounts, the couple and their colleagues represent the film’s complicated but unabashed heroes. If they ever regret their murderous ways, it isn’t captured on screen.
As Toto concludes, “Would that film’s Rotten Tomatoes score stand at 96 percent ‘fresh?’ What if its release coincided with real-world violence that eerily reflected the film’s messaging? Doubtful, at best.”
We saw that play out in 2020. Hoist Nancy Pelosi’s podium over your shoulder? “75 days in prison followed by one year supervised release. The judge also ordered [Adam] Johnson to pay a $5,000 fine and perform 200 hours of community service.” Burn down Minneapolis? The mayor’s wife responds by saying that sometimes you have to stop and “smell the burning tires,” and drink in the sweet sweet eau de cologne of revolution.
Here’s the Critical Drinker’s take on One Battle After Another: “Depending on who you talk to, it’s either the greatest cinematic triumph of the past two decades, on par with Sicario, Gangs of New York, and No Country for Old Men, or a pretentious, morally bankrupt Hollywood circle jerk that glorifies domestic terrorism and is more interested in taking shots at the current administration than crafting a compelling story.”
COLUMBUS, YES OR NO: Was Christopher Columbus the genocidal European maniac who sought out the New World in order to exploit its riches, commit genocide among its peoples and spread incurable plagues to finish them off? Or was he rather closer to the traditional understanding of the significance of his discovery of the New World?
Thank goodness for Prager U to provide a superb 5:30 video hosted by Michael Knowles that lays out the good, the bad and the mythical about the Italian explorer who launched the age of exploration that ultimately led to the founding of America. As explained on HillFaith this morning, the bottom-line issue here is how you view western civilization.
Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad, whose notoriously brutal rule over the country earned him the nickname “The Butcher,” was deposed in 2024 after years of bloody civil war.
Now, in a surreal cyberpunk twist, according to a report in German newsweekly Die Zeit, the former dictator is largely holed up in a luxury high-rise in Moscow, where he routinely spends hours playing online video games.
Assad, who practiced as a physician and was reportedly thought of as “geeky” during his medical training years, also appears to enjoy stunning views of Moscow landmarks from his apartment, and has access to a villa outside the city. He also reportedly makes occasional visits to a shopping mall below his apartment. Assad apparently resides in Russia under President Vladimir Putin’s protection, according to Die Zeit.
THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT “JOURNALIST” IS SOME KIND OF TITLE OF NOBILITY:
ANTIFA: WGN video editor & producer Debbie Brockman was off duty (no video equipment) in Lincoln Square today throwing objects at federal officers. When she was arrested she demanded to be released because she is a ‘journalist’. https://t.co/gLP7fqS7s8
