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IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH THE FOUNDERS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING:

Great argument for the electoral college. Thanks, Norm! https://t.co/92zB31t9Yj

— Mike Fragoso (@mike_frags) July 19, 2026

PROGRESSIVES OF BOTH PARTIES, DEMOCRATS, LEFTISTS, AND OTHER STATISTS HAVE BEEN CHIPPING AWAY AT IT FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY:

Correct. This is what they want. https://t.co/3B0074ZNPV

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) July 18, 2026

And here is what Charles Cooke was replying to: “Democratic Socialist co-chair Ashik Siddique says the DSA would abolish the Senate: ‘We do believe that government should be proportional to the population… We just don’t see the point of the Senate.'”

SAME REASON HILLARY DOES IT — THEIR AUDIENCES EAT IT UP:

I'll admit to having struggled to find coherence or consistency in liberal rules of identity politics.

But even given this "complexity,", I will never understand why AOC has license to use a fake black preacher accent when speaking to black audiences:pic.twitter.com/ziyKbzi9xd

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 18, 2026

I’ve never understood the desire to be pandered to in that way, but apparently, Democrat audiences love it.

UPDATE (From Ed): Indeed they do. From last year: She Don’t Feel No Ways Tired: Nancy Pelosi Chews Up Six Minutes Claiming Democrats Didn’t Move America ‘Too Far To The Left.’

“[T]here are certain people in the country who don’t want to see … women, LGBTQ people, people of color, immigrants taking their place in anything,” she said. “And that’s just the way it is. That’s their problem. That’s not America’s problem. America is this great country with this beautiful diversity.”

Pelosi also ranted about her Catholic views to claim she valued all different types of people — before appearing to attack Republicans while seeming to use a southern accent.

“You’re people of faith? You go to church on Sunday and pray in church on Sunday and prey on people the rest of the week. What is this? What is this?” she asked, laughing.

“Pelosi chuckles, but not even the moderator or Harvard student crowd seems to find it funny:”

🚨NEW: Nancy Pelosi appears to use southern accent while attacking Republicans' Christianity🚨

"You're people of faith!? You go to church on Sunday and pray in church on Sunday and prey on people the rest of the week!? What is this!?"

*Pelosi chuckles, but not even the… pic.twitter.com/Lal4wK2nYe

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) October 29, 2025

There’s no doubt that Pelosi already has the support of Zohran Mamdani, Hilaria Baldwin, Jasmine Crockett, Kamala Harris, and Hillary Clinton, but seems little interested in growing the party’s base much beyond the code-switching far left:

SUICIDAL EMPATHY:

If you ever wonder why migrant rapists get slaps on the wrist while white people go to jail in Europe –

It's because the majority of their judges are female. https://t.co/7xZS7PQRn5

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) July 18, 2026

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB:

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sec. Marco Rubio just got a MASSIVE standing ovation in Germany after he told Europe we need to move back toward Christianity and against 3rd world migration

Marco is CRUSHING it and the whole world sees it! 🔥

We LOVE MARCO. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/MT6S9ieZK0

— Alex West Q (@RealAlexWest_Q) July 16, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Meet Andy Burnham, Britain's soon to be new PM.

• Nobody voted for him
• Nobody asked for him
• He is haunted by allegations over his handling of the rape gangs
• His main concern seems to be that Starmer wasn't enough of a tyrant
• He will make everything worse
• He will… pic.twitter.com/MjuwzWNuBJ

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) July 18, 2026

MEDIA… I HATE THOSE GUYS:

The Boston Globe’s headline: “She came to Boston for a Noah Kahan concert. Now she’s in ICE custody”

The actual story: she missed a 2017 immigration court hearing, which triggered an outstanding removal order years ago

The concert isn’t why she’s in custody. The removal order… pic.twitter.com/KPEeT4b5ln

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) July 18, 2026

BEEGE: Maine Dems Dump Rape-y Nazi and Get a Freak Parade.

I thought, since I love you all so much, I would set you up for the weekend first thing with a big old helping of the steaming Carnival Side Show tryout mess the Democratic Party of Maine held last night, cleverly disguised as the Maine Democrat U.S. Senate Debate.

Oh, the little dickens – they almost had us fooled. ALMOST.

And then these stellar individuals, like, opened their mouths, and poof! All of a sudden, a hairy, rapey, fake oystering Nazi MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

Oh, gosh, I can’t wait for you to meet them.

There were two back-to-back debates of a slate of four at a time, and some were just so darn memorable.

One of the sterling individuals on the stage was Shenna Bellows, Maine’s infamous Secretary of State. I say ‘infamous’ because you might remember her attempt to keep Trump off the Maine GOP primary ballot over the insurrection clause until crushed like a bug by SCOTUS.

So much more at the link.

Meanwhile:

Maine voters: "Can we have just one more look at the guy with the Nazi tattoo?"

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) July 17, 2026

OLIVE GARDEN NOW MORE SECURE THAN ELECTIONS:

Valid Photo I.D. for Olive Garden ✅
Valid Photo I.D. to Vote ❌ pic.twitter.com/TkgM1iwqwn

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 17, 2026

AND NOW FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™” Remember the Time Guys on Skid Row Got Paid to Impersonate Voters? “Before we get into the lawfare lawsuits against the Trump administration that Oregon, Washington, and California are wasting taxpayer dollars on, let’s take a walk down memory lane about election integrity. Of course, this was the concern discussed during President Trump’s speech on Thursday night.”

UGH: Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Map and Foods to Avoid as Parasite Reaches 34 States

CCP IS ASSHOE — AND SO ARE CERTAIN AMERICANS:

Once Upon A Time … A crazy man claimed that voter data for every American was in China, and the CCP had used secret illegal U.S. election computer access to switch votes in 2020.

And the crazy man was mocked & sued.

But times changed, and new information came to light … https://t.co/Dyue3HUyKj pic.twitter.com/1V84Lx0XGS

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) July 17, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Recreational Vehicle Is Not an Escape Vehicle. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the wrong car for a quick getaway, how to piss off your local deputy, and what the Wyoming Tourism Board doesn’t want you to see.”

YES: Pay for your own master’s degree in puppetry. “If a program cannot show that it leaves its graduates financially better off than if they had never enrolled, it should not be underwritten by federal taxpayers.”

IF YOU DON’T FOLLOW NOBUNAGA, YOU SHOULD:

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water…

— NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 (@japan_nobunaga) July 17, 2026

LATE BUT WELCOME: US Air Force turns to cheaper cruise missiles it can buy by the thousands. “The deals fall under the U.S. Air Force’s Family of Affordable Mass Missiles program, or FAMM. The Defense Department said it reached agreements with Anduril for its Barracuda-500, CoAspire for its Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile and Zone 5 Technologies for its Rusty Dagger.”

You can’t help but notice that none of the old, established defense contractors are on that list.

PEOPLE DON’T TRUST A SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T ENGENDER TRUST…:

It's not necessary to believe in a specific instance of US voter fraud or system corruption to realize that the current system falls far short of the standard one required of any professional database. Essentially there should be an indexed table of voters with primary keys and a…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 17, 2026

…which is why election integrity is an 80/20 issue everywhere but Capitol Hill.

UPDATE (From Ed):

Last night the entire media establishment was spooked. Selfie videos and posts from Dems including Kamala. That says it all. https://t.co/sH5sfQdorW

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 17, 2026

CYNICAL PUBLIUS: Something About England. “A few weeks back, I visited the United Kingdom (mostly England, with some time in Scotland) for the first time in almost a decade. Having been there many times before, I was excited to discover whether all of the horrific news of a swing to tyranny was true or false. Although I started in London for a cruise to Norway, I arrived days earlier so as to explore the heart of London and the countryside of southern England. When I travel internationally, I try to eschew the usual tourist experiences and instead dig into the social milieu of a place. What I found disturbed me. Not only are the reports of a “1984“-style police state true, but the issues of social class, which have always plagued England, have taken on a new and disturbing twist, which I believe will soon result in the wholesale destruction of one of the greatest civilizations ever to exist.”

It’s CP, so read the whole thing.

I’d just add that the birthplace of English liberty — the thing the Founders waged a Revolutionary War to protect here — has become something entirely else. The special relationship wasn’t built on a common language, but on that shared love of liberty.

The British don’t seem to share it any longer. Or at least not the ruling class and the foreigners they continue importing.

THE KING OF MISDIRECTION:

My guess is that the networks thought that President Trump would be speaking about Fulton County last night. They likely had all of their talking points set.

Instead he threw them a curveball, and spoke about the fact that our media had been compromised by foreign entities.…

— ConfirmBias (@Fulcrumbs44) July 17, 2026

SADLY THIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE: Tillis Has One Foot Out the Door and Both Hands on the Senate Brakes.

AT LEAST FROM OVER HERE, HE SEEMED TO BE DOING A FINE JOB: Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s tech-savvy defense minister in government reshuffle.

HE BENT THE KNEE:

BREAKING: Rep. Adam Smith says he voted to cut off military aid to Israel because of sustained threats against his family and staff, describing a violent, relentless intimidation campaign by far-left anti-Israel activists.

Threats and fear should never dictate public policy. pic.twitter.com/F1QvPTBNAS

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 16, 2026

Never bend the knee.

YOU MEAN, THE ONE THEY PRETTY MUCH MEMORY-HOLED? Bessent Has a Personal Message for the Fake News About His Assassination Attempt.

“THE DEEP STATE IS A MYTH,” THEY TOLD ME:

Who instructed this NSA employee to obfuscate CCP election interference and hide it from the President of the United States? pic.twitter.com/TETsSaTRAv

— Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) July 17, 2026