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
HOWIE CARR: From Styx to Osama, Boston Common hippie rioters crying in their keffiyehs. “Look at these photographs — why do so many of the female hippie rioters have crewcuts and the guys have ponytails? You can learn so much about the latest fashion trends among the non-working classes from studying these latest filthy, trust-funded, Nazi-sympathizing hippies who got lugged downtown while, like, expressing solidarity with, you know, uh, somebody, dude.”
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather criticized CBS News on Thursday for making journalist Bari Weiss its editor-in-chief, as well as acquiring her independent news outlet, “The Free Press.”
Rather, age 93, argued on his Substack page that the hiring of the anti-woke reporter, as well as CBS coming under the control of billionaire David Ellison – whose father is a friend of President Donald Trump – meant that CBS News will be catering to the Trump agenda.
“The American people will pay the price for this move, as will the journalists of CBS News who can no longer credibly serve as watchdogs because the ones they are meant to hold to account are signing their paychecks and hobnobbing with the president,” the veteran journalist wrote.
At one point, he warned, “It is a dark day in the halls of CBS News.”
Curiously, it takes about a dozen paragraphs until just before the end of the Fox New article to read, “Rather stepped down from his role as ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor in 2005 and left the network the following year after reporting a discredited story about then-President George W. Bush.”
Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon did us a great service late Monday by collating an exhaustive list of the most ridiculous meltdowns over CBS News announcing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief and that parent company Paramount SkyDance purchased her site, The Free Press.
By Wednesday, the Associated Press got off the sidelines to offer a cartoonishly whiny piece that, if published earlier, would have made the roundup in sneering a “polarizing” person taking over a “fact-based” network that has supposedly never had “an agenda.”
Matt Sedensky sneered from the onset that this “polarizing voice” had “made a name for herself as an unflinching critic of mainstream news outlets,” but must now “run one.”
It is weird to me that these people don't see the irony of honoring "marginalized communities" by making a beautiful historical building really ugly. https://t.co/j7GEtCFsMY
Weigel was hired this spring by the Post to cover the conservative movement. Almost from the beginning there have been complaints that his coverage betrays a personal animus toward conservatives. E-mails obtained by the Daily Caller suggest those complaints have merit.
“Honestly, it’s been tough to find fresh angles sometimes–how many times can I report that these [tea party] activists are joyfully signing up with the agenda of discredited right-winger X and discredited right-wing group Y?” Weigel lamented in one February email.
In other posts, Weigel describes conservatives as using the media to “violently, angrily divide America.” According to Weigel, their motives include “racism” and protecting “white privilege,” and for some of the top conservatives in D.C., a nihilistic thirst for power.
“There’s also the fact that neither the pundits, nor possibly the Republicans, will be punished for their crazy outbursts of racism. Newt Gingrich is an amoral blowhard who resigned in disgrace, and Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite who was drummed out of the movement by William F. Buckley. Both are now polluting my inbox and TV with their bellowing and minority-bashing. They’re never going to go away or be deprived of their soapboxes,” Weigel wrote.
Of Matt Drudge, Weigel remarked, “It’s really a disgrace that an amoral shut-in like Drudge maintains the influence he does on the news cycle while gay-baiting, lying, and flubbing facts to this degree.”
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Weigel seems to harbor special contempt for a type of conservative he calls a ratfucker, a favorite phrase of his.
In a thread with the subject line, “ACORN Ratf*cker arrested,” Journolisters discussed how James O’Keefe, whose undercover reporting showed officials from activist group ACORN willing to help a fake prostitution ring skirt the law, had been arrested in another, failed operation at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) office.
“He’s either going to get a radio talk show or start a prison ministry. That’s was successful conservative ratfuckers do for their second acts,” Weigel wrote, likely alluding to Nixon aide Charles Colson who converted to Christianity after a stint in prison for obstruction of justice and founded Prison Fellowship.
Republicans? “Ratfucking [Obama] on every bill.” Palin? Tried to “ratfuck” a moderate Republican in a contentious primary in New York. Limbaugh? Used “ratfucking tactics” in urging Republican activists to vote for Hillary Clinton in open primaries after Obama had all but beat her for the Democratic nomination.
Dane Crockford is tired. Tired of the green energy crapping out and leaving his wife Rose gasping for breath when their air conditioning dies, tired of trying to hide his use of his own solar panels from the nationalized electrical company, and tired of worrying about his daughter and son-in-law, trapped in an abusive indenture program to pay off their student loans. He’s not the only one, either. Everyone in his home town is in a similar situation, many of them with their children doing dangerous jobs without pay to offset crippling student debt. So when his grandson Toby accidentally discovers an energy generation method that isn’t wholly owned by the federal government, he jumps on the possibility of building something that works, in spite of and around the federal monopoly.
But what the monopoly doesn’t realize is that their grip on Dane, and on his home town, is far less secure than they think. When they disconnect his house from the power grid, they have nothing to hold over him, to force him to work for small rebates on his monthly bill. The utility has unleashed the power of a cranky old man with a rare skill, and they’ve got no idea that they’ve tossed the pebble that starts an avalanche.
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