Iran’s D-Day Has Begun

 Iran has spent months threatening the world over the Strait of Hormuz.

Don’t cross us. Don’t challenge us. Don’t ignore our rules. Don’t cooperate with the Americans.

Or else.

Well, the ships are moving.

That’s the part Tehran can’t explain away.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has begun recovering despite Iran’s threats, even as the regime announces new penalties for vessels that refuse to play by its rules. Some ships are using routes Iran doesn’t recognize. Others are sailing with their transponders switched off, making the precise traffic picture difficult to measure. But the larger point is becoming harder for Tehran to hide: intimidation isn’t working the way it used to.

Iran, naturally, is handling this with all the composure you’d expect.

Mohsen Rezaei, the regime’s new security chief, warned that countries cooperating with America’s economic campaign could be treated as committing an “act of war.” Tehran is also threatening retaliation against neighboring countries and economic interests if they help Washington tighten the screws.

Threats. More threats. And then some threats about the previous threats.

Here’s a thought.

Maybe they’re nervous.

Because while Tehran is busy telling everybody what terrible things it might do, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing to tell the world what the United States actually will do.

Bessent calls it an “economic D-Day.” He says the administration intends to marshal America’s financial power to isolate Iran and force countries still doing business with the regime to make a choice. Keep financing Tehran, or maintain access to the world’s most important financial system.

That’s not another bomb run.

It’s potentially more painful.

Iran needs money. The regime needs oil revenue. The IRGC needs resources. Terrorist proxies don’t operate on good intentions. Missiles aren’t free. Neither are drones, weapons programs, internal repression, or the sprawling security apparatus required to keep an increasingly unhappy population under control.

Follow the money, and eventually you find the regime’s oxygen supply.

And right now somebody is stepping on the hose.

The Iranian rial opened Monday at roughly 2.02 million to the dollar on the informal market — another record low.

Two million.

Let that number sit there for a second.

China remains Iran’s most important oil customer, and that’s where this gets especially interesting. Reuters reports Iranian exports to China fell to an estimated 534,000 barrels per day in August, down from 823,000 in July. Washington has already targeted smaller Chinese refiners and is increasingly forcing the question Beijing would rather avoid: how much economic pain is China prepared to absorb for the privilege of keeping Tehran afloat?

That’s the ballgame.

Not another speech at the United Nations. Not another European diplomat announcing that everyone had a very productive meeting. Not another Iranian official threatening Armageddon before lunch and asking for negotiations after dinner.

Money.

Take away enough of it and eventually the regime has to choose what it can still afford.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has acknowledged the economic pressure his country faces even as other regime officials insist the new American campaign is an act of desperation.

Both things can’t really be true.

If America’s economic pressure is meaningless, why threaten countries that cooperate with it?

Why warn Gulf neighbors?

Why rage against sanctions that supposedly won’t work?

Why all the noise?

Because Tehran understands what’s coming.

None of this means Iran suddenly becomes harmless. Quite the opposite. A wounded regime with the IRGC still at its disposal can be exceptionally dangerous. Iran has spent decades using terrorism, proxies, and regional intimidation as instruments of state power. Nobody should expect the men running that system to discover humility because their currency is collapsing.

Desperate regimes do desperate things.

So watch them.

But don’t rescue them.

That’s the mistake Washington has made too many times: apply pressure, watch it begin to work, become frightened by the consequences of success, and then offer Tehran an escape hatch before the pressure finishes the job.

Not this time.

Bessent is promising the toughest economic isolation campaign yet, aimed not merely at Iran but at the foreign buyers, banks and commercial networks that allow the regime to keep functioning.

Good.

Iran’s leaders have spent years telling the world that they control the Strait of Hormuz.

The world believed them because they could make shipping companies afraid.

Now the ships are beginning to move again.

The rial is collapsing.

Oil revenue is under attack.

And Iran’s leaders are threatening practically everybody within shouting distance.

Funny thing about power.

When you actually have it, you usually don’t have to spend this much time telling everyone you do.

Iran wanted the world to believe it owned the Strait of Hormuz.

This week, the ships themselves started saying otherwise.

Why There Aren’t More Prosecutions

 

ll day long on my X feed, I hear people angrily complaining why there aren’t more prosecutions of corrupt leftists, especially in the area of election wrongdoing. Well, as a former Maricopa County prosecutor and the Maricopa County Elections attorney, let me explain. 

From what I’ve learned over the years, the main reason prosecutors don’t bring charges against corrupt Democrats is because of the fear of retaliation by Democratic prosecutors — either from state prosecutors (think former Fulton County D.A. Fani Wills) or from DOJ prosecutors after Democrats take back the White House. 

We’ve all seen how horrible the retaliation is. It’s not just prosecution. The prosecutors will also lose their law licenses. They’ll be doxxed and receive death threats. Their reputations will be destroyed and it will be difficult to find jobs, even outside of the law. Most of them don’t have any other skills; they’ve spent their entire careers in the law. One of my friends who was wrongly disbarred by the corrupt State Bar of Arizona after a lengthy career in prosecution now works as a lower paid paralegal.

I always say I’m ironically lucky the left destroyed my law license, because if I’d gone to work for the DOJ under President Donald Trump, as soon as a Democrat gets back into the White House, I’d be one of their juiciest targets for disbarment and prosecution. I fear for all of Trump’s top DOJ attorneys. 

The next main reason prosecutors don’t bring charges is because they know all the bogus requirements left-leaning or sold out/blackmailed judges will insist on in order to allow a conviction. The standard for overthrowing elections used to be if the actions cast doubt on the results of the election — so even minor problems like waiting in a long line to vote or encountering problems with the voting machines that caused an hour's delay or so were enough to overturn elections. Now, judges insist that prosecutors prove the legal definition of “election fraud,” which is an extremely high bar. One honest judge, Iowa District Court Judge Ian Thornhill, said fraud wasn’t the standard, since “From a practical perspective, once fraud has occurred it will already likely be too late…”

If no judge will rule that there was election fraud, then it’s impossible to prosecute any official since there wasn’t any “wrongdoing.” 

So far, the only prosecutions of election wrongdoing are where the cases reach this newer high standard. In Maricopa County, former temporary Maricopa County Elections worker Walter Ringfield Jr., a Democrat activist, was sent to jail for several months after getting caught on surveillance video stealing a key FOB that was capable of reprogramming all of the county’s voting machine tabulators on Election Day.

Although Trump has appointed numerous Republican judges, Democratic appointees still retain a significant lead. There are 496 Democratic appointees on the federal bench to 405 Republican appointees. And many of the Republican appointees are compromised due to blackmail or “follow the money.” Evidence is finally coming out regarding this with elected Republican officials. No one ever understands why RINOs vote the way they do, but it’s really this simple — it’s not “principles” as they claim. 

Prosecution is also dominated by the left. Years ago, there was a perception that prosecution attracted more Republicans. Now, in large part due to leftist billionaire George Soros funneling money into prosecutorial races, the left dominates. A 2025 study in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics found that Democrats make up 41 percent of prosecutors and Republicans make up 39 percent. 

This doesn’t even account for the fact that the prosecutors with all the power are in the big cities, which are run by the left or at best RINOs. Conservative prosecutors dominate rural areas or are line attorneys where they have no power over high-profile cases. 

So when people complain about former Attorney General Pam Bondi or Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, not aggressively prosecuting enough corrupt actors, I don’t think they understand the full situation. 

We’ve seen the playbook too many times since 2020. Trump’s former DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark merely drafted a letter — that was never even sent — from the DOJ to be sent to Georgia elected officials, advising them on how to handle the election anomalies. The D.C. Bar is now trying to disbar him, and Willis charged him with crimes. Fortunately, Willis’ prosecution of Clark, Trump and others went nowhere since her own corruption was so vast.

We saw how the left put Trump’s associates behind bars — Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Allen Weisselberg. General Michael Flynn and Roger Stone were prosecuted but escaped incarceration.

The left is already gearing up to hold hearings in Congress over Trump’s appointees; they are gloating about it if they retake the House of Representatives this fall. 

Republican prosecutors play a juggling act when they go after Democratic corruption. It’s not IF the left will come after them afterwards, it’s WHEN. Even if Democrats don’t take over the House this fall, plenty of rogue Democratic state and county prosecutors will target them. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is still prosecuting Arizona’s 2020 alternate electors for Trump and their associates, despite the fact Arizona courts have thrown out her indictments. 

Local prosecutors won’t do anything about it here — the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is controlled by RINO Rachel Mitchell. Mitchell represented the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors asking for sanctions twice against Kari Lake and her attorneys over her election lawsuits. She also represented them again recently in their litigation with election integrity champion Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap. The supervisors took away parts of Heap’s office from him, until the Arizona Supreme Court finally stopped the steal. Mitchell could have recused herself from these cases but didn’t.

It’s easy for us in our armchairs to demand prosecutions and berate Trump’s prosecutors for not putting more corrupt Democrats behind bars. But the situation is far more complex. What Republican prosecutor wants to go to prison?

Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Destroyed American Deterrence

 

person 2: It is five years since, I don’t know if it’s today or yesterday or the last few days, five years ago, roughly around now, that Joe Biden commenced the bugout of Afghanistan. I don’t remember any of the generals at the time, or any military leaders, saying, “I’m resigning because this is just going to be a horrific outcome for the United States and for the world.”

But Biden did what he did. He praised it. “This was great. Look what we did.”

And your thoughts five years out?

person 1: Well, it was the greatest military humiliation, and I think as great or greater than the 1975 flight from the American Embassy in Vietnam of the last few American advisors, troops, and Vietnamese, and the boat people that followed. We had been there 20 years.

Joe Biden reportedly, allegedly, wanted to get out by 9/11 because he was going to broadcast that he was the first president to end the misadventure, he thought, in Afghanistan.

And we should remember at the time that Donald Trump had negotiated a withdrawal down to about 3,500 troops, and he was going to take the $300 million remodeled Bagram Air Force Base, which was defensible, I think 60 or 70 miles from Kabul, and basically control the airspace of all those critical nexus of power, whether it’s Pakistan, India, China, Russia. You had this huge recently remodeled base.

In addition to that, we had just put a billion dollars into the American Embassy. A billion dollars. And [Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman] Mark Milley spent the summer, along with [Secretary of Defense] Lloyd Austin, misinforming, in Fauci style, to us that, and they assured us that the, what, 350,000-person Afghan Army was viable. “Don’t worry, it’s viable.” And it wasn’t.

So once they heard that we wanted to get out and get out quickly with no conditions, and we weren’t going to do it from Bagram, which they couldn’t touch because they would have had to go out in the country and surround that place, and there was no way they could have entered and disrupted the flights.

But once they heard it was gonna be in Kabul, and once they knew that we were gonna run away, and once they saw that there was multi… The figure is controversial. The top figure I’ve seen is fifty billion, the lowest is seven billion. But it depends on the cost of transporting those weapons over there, maintaining them, and replacing them, etc., and the maintenance personnel involved in storing them.

But whatever it was, a multibillion-dollar gift of some of the latest weaponry, from small arms to machine guns to rockets to helicopters to heavy trucks to armored vehicles, and we gave it to the worst terrorists in the world.

And they opened a terrorist mart, so to speak, and those weapons have been showing up everywhere, that they’re selling to their fellow Islamist terrorists.

And it could have all been avoided. It could have all been avoided, and they lied to us repeatedly.

And that one incident, coupled with DEI, at the same time they were doing that, they were testifying at Congress—the head of naval operations, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Army chief of staff—they were all telling us that they were reading Professor [Ibram X.] Kendi. He’s in the news again, audience.

They were reading his books, and there was systematic racism in the wake of the George Floyd riot, and they were gonna ferret it out, and they could assure Congress that they had fully implemented diversity, equity, inclusion.

And the result of that humiliation and no contrition about it and the DEI new protocols that would, what, privilege race and gender and sexual orientation over merit in terms of recruitment, promotion, advancement, etc. All of that led to a 40,000- to 50,000-person shortfall.

And as soon as we got a confident military again, and as soon as we dropped the DEI racial prejudice and sexual prejudice and gender prejudice, as soon as we did that, guess what? We more than met all of our recruitment goals.

But there was one other footnote to this, Jack. That was the point of August 2021 that Joe Biden had a honeymoon. He had been kept away during the campaign. Nobody had seen the level of cognitive decline. They were just starting to see it. He was in carefully-scripted Jen Psaki press conferences. “I’ll circle back on that. I’ll circle back on that question.” Stonewalling.

But after that, he never got over 50% again. People just… And then they started reading what we were doing. We had a $80 million gender studies program at the University of Kabul in a traditional Islamic society. We were like British colonialists trying to, you know, not bring the rule of law and the end of suttee in India, but crazy stuff.

And then there were George Floyd posters we saw on the streets of Kabul that we had sponsored artists. And then, I think, he went to the website. I guess it was superimposed, a Pride flag on, I don’t know if it actually flew, but you could go to the website and see it on the U.S. Embassy in an Islamic country from left-wing, our left-wing people who lecture us on cultural sensitivity.

And so it was a misadventure, and he wanted to get credit for taking it out at the expense of the safety of our troops and the interest of our national security. And 13 people died.

And then in our retaliation, Mark Milley and the hierarchy lied and said it was collateral damage. It was not. There were civilians killed. There were.

And the low point for me is when that plane took off again, and people were hanging from the wheels and grabbing, trying, you know, falling off on the tarmac. And then a spokesman for the Army came on CNN. I was watching. He said, “And I want to assure you that when they’re in the air and when they land, they’re going to have culturally-appropriate food. We’re going to have Mediterranean Afghanistan gourmet meals for them.”

And one of the reporters, I don’t know who it was, said, “Have they been vetted? Do you know?”

“Well, I mean, yes. They’re contractors, assistants, or they were trained.”

They weren’t. They weren’t vetted at all. In fact, there were American contractors and pro-American Afghans that were left behind. A lot of those pro-American Afghans got murdered because they couldn’t get out. And we took some people who had terrorist ties on the plane. It was just a typical Biden border operation. You know what I mean? Just like the border. Just a joke.

person 2: Bum rush. Bum rush America.

person 1: Yeah. And it was really humiliating. That was the nadir of that.

They tried to lie about it. They said everything went well. It was planned, da-da-da. But they couldn’t hide that from the American people. He never regained 50%.

They tried to say, “Well, Trump was the one that ordered us out in his last few…”

No, Trump had told the Taliban, “I know where you live. We have satellite imagery of all of you. If you break this deal and try to go after Bagram, etc., we’re going to kill you.”

And there hadn’t been a problem.

Maybe some of our listeners will say, and it’s legitimate, “Well, Victor, we have no business over there anyway. You can’t create constitutional government out of a medieval tribal society. And one American life is not worth it. Not even one. Losing one American life is not worth all the billions.”

And there’s a point. But it could have been scaled back carefully, not the way it happened. And it really hurt our deterrence because everybody should remember who was watching this. Vladimir Putin was.

And so Vladimir Putin, in his little notebook, said, “Biden, disgraceful, humiliating withdrawal from… Unlike our withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was measured, they couldn’t even do this. Oh, and number two, Biden also said for me to knock off hacking of American institutions. If I were to do it, at least stop hacking nonprofits, not stop it at all, at all costs, just the nonprofits and the humanitarian targets.”

Oh, and Putin’s little book said, “Oh, he put a hold on offensive weapons that Trump had approved to Ukraine. Oh, here’s another thing I’m looking at,” Putin thought. “He said that he would react accordingly whether it was a minor or major invasion. So we’ll just invade and say it’s minor and he won’t do anything.”

So he destroyed American deterrence, and it started with Afghanistan. It was no accident that in February, just a few months later, this was in mid-August, right where we are now, 2021, on Feb.24, about six months later, he went into Ukraine.

Republicans Can’t Just Trash the Left—They Need a Plan to Win

The anticipation of the November midterms is mounting every day, and the polls show that, typically, in midterm elections, the in-party in the White House, i.e., the Republicans and Donald Trump, are going to lose seats.

And because the House is so close anyway, with a five- or six-seat Republican margin, it might be even easier. And so, the Democrats are ecstatic. They look at the statistics and historical context and say 39 out of the last 41 midterm elections, the in-party lost seats in the midterms.

And this will be no exception because Donald Trump is polling around 40%, and the Democratic generic poll is 5% to 6% ahead of the Republicans.

The Republicans counter, “Well, maybe it’ll be different. Who can predict what Donald Trump will do or say? Who can predict what’ll happen in Iran in the next 60 days? There might be a revolution. Gas prices could drop.”

There are seats that will accrue to the Republicans because of the Supreme Court ruling on racial gerrymandering and the preponderance of red states. Maybe five or six more red states will gerrymander than blue states.

And, of course, the Republicans were given a gift by this radical Democratic Socialists of America takeover of the Democratic Party and the crazy things that these candidates up for election in the midterms have said in their past.

And then finally, the Republicans say, “Well, we have more money, at least in the PACs and the Trump funds.”

But I think they’re missing something because we haven’t heard from the Republicans any strategy, and the time is getting close.

What do I mean by that?

It seems to me that it doesn’t work just to trash the socialists. They should be trashed, but there has to be more than that.

So, I would start first with a Contract With America and say, “We are going to do this, accomplish this in the White House and in the Congress over the next two years.”

And I would say:

We are going to complete the work at the border, and we’re going to continue to deport people who are not here legally, especially criminals. And then we are going to hold the bureaucracy and the university accountable for the racial prejudice and bias that’s intrinsic to DEI.

We’ve already said to countries that receive massive U.S. remittances, sent from people here, often illegally and subsidized by the federal government, that they will have a tax on them. We’ve started with 1%, and that may climb.

We’re now pumping the most natural gas and oil in the history of any nation since the onset of fossil fuels. We’re going to continue and increase that.

One thing we are going to do that no one has really done for the last 30 years, we are going to address the debt. We are going to put a hold on federal spending, and we’re going to take a look at entitlements because we are now not just $31 trillion to $32 trillion in debt, but the debt is increasing geometrically, not arithmetically. And we can envision that if something is not done, it will be up to $40 trillion. Already, the interest is over $1 billion a day, and it’s larger per annum than the defense budget.

A second thing that we’re going to do, it’s not just that we’re going to have a Contract With America, we’re going to tell you what we’ve done.

And first of all, crime has dropped 70%. It is at a historic low. Washington, D.C., the political capital of the world, was not safe. Its monuments were decrepit. The streets were dirty. We sent in federal troops working with local police, and we can say now that Washington, believe it or not, is one of the safest large cities in America, given crime statistics. And its monuments are in the process of being refurbished, cleansed, and are sparkling. And we have even bigger projects at the White House and the Reflecting Pool to make people proud of their national capital.

We all talk about affordability, but we forget something. Even with the war in Iran, and even with a temporary spike in oil prices, this administration has an annual inflation rate during its first term of 1.9%. It’s about 2.5%, and it may climb to 3%. But we are still way below the average 5% to 5.1% each year on average of the prior administration.

We talk about affordability in terms of housing. Typically in America, 62% to 67% of the population owns their own home. It’s 65% right now. The problem is not that people cannot buy homes. The problem is they can’t buy homes in blue states and urban environments. We’re going to work on that, but let’s be clear. There has not been a sudden drop in homeownership.

The border is closed. It’s not just closed. Illegal immigration has ceased to exist. Ninety-nine percent of the border crossings are legal. There is no illegal immigration. We are controversially but lawfully and humanely sending back people from that influx, 10 million to 12 million, that came in under Joe Biden without any audit, without vaccinations, and without any knowledge of who they were, at a time when we would never allow American citizens to do so.

We were, after all, expelling 8,500 service members, some of them combat veterans, from our military by the Biden decrees that they had to have a COVID-19 vaccination and mRNA experimental vaccinations, where we didn’t even require that of the people who fled from countries across the border into the United States.

We should also say that South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean are not going communist. There’s not a pink tide. During the Obama administration, about 75% of those countries were heading left. John Kerry, the secretary of state under Barack Obama, said that there is no more Monroe Doctrine.

There is a Monroe Doctrine now, and almost all of South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean is pro-American and conservative except three or four countries.

And the Chinese are not controlling the entries and exits of the Panama Canal, and there’s not a communist client state doing the work of China and also Russia in Venezuela, exporting terror and drugs to North America.

Finally, they need to say something about the dangers of socialism. It’s not just that we have a Contract With America of what we’re going to do that brings normality back to the country, and it’s not just that we can tell you what we have done that has improved lives.

We’re also going to tell you about this socialism.

Start off with the idea that there really isn’t a socialist system that is democratic and liberal. The USSR during the Cold War was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Nazi Germany, the Nazi term was an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. So socialism is a euphemism for totalitarianism.

Every time a socialist is elected, the first thing that happens is they bump into resistance, and when they bump into resistance, they become authoritarian.

One last thing to remember about our opponents: They are not the party of workers. They’re the party of the downwardly mobile, college-educated, formerly upper-middle class, and a new phenomenon of first- and second-generation immigrants coming from failed states, mostly because of socialism, that upon arrival are attacking the United States.

And finally, Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani, Ro Khanna, Ilhan Omar, Dr. [Abdul] El-Sayed in Michigan, they’re not poor, they’re not middle class. They’re very, very wealthy, just like all socialist architects throughout history.

Mamdani comes from the 1% in Uganda as an immigrant. Hasan Piker is a multimillionaire who drives a Porsche. Ro Khanna’s children have trust funds with ownership of golf courses in their names. They drive a $200,000 Range Rover. Ilhan Omar says she’s worth $30 million.

This is an elite group of people who are using us as their lab rats.

Again, if the Republicans can talk about what they did, what they plan to do, and what the alternatives are, they can still win.

When Normal Becomes Strange

 

Normal is harder to find every day.

There is a great deal of mental illness in the U.S.. One sees people losing their minds over the removal of people who have illegally entered the United States. A few died when attacking legal officers of the government whose job is to remove people who are in the country against the duly-passed laws of the same. Entire cities and states threaten not to let ICE do its work because it likes illegal aliens. Is it any surprise that such places also have high levels of other crimes, when the laws are like desert, you can have it or just take a pass?

It’s getting harder to know what “normal” is in the United States and Western Europe. And while any system has its definitions of normal behavior, there seems to be a shift towards lunacy by much of the public. It’s always a tricky thing to compare behaviors. For Jews, even not very religious ones, there is Yom Kippur once a year and most Jews fast. So fasting at least one day a year is quite a normal thing for Jews. For someone who has no reason or interest in fasting, refraining from food for even just one day seems like some type of extreme behavior. So how do we know what is normal? And without that definition, how can we say, in the words of Igor in Young Frankenstein, what is “Abby-Normal”?

Let’s first take a look at some behavior that for most normative people would be considered nuts.

1. A young mother murdered her children by strangling them with athletic bands. The event itself would seem tragic. Three lives snuffed out by their very mother, the one who brought them into this world. Yet, here we are at the time of her trial and several hundred (mostly) women show up near the courthouse to show their support for the murderer. Their argument would apparently be that Lindsay Clancy was not responsible for her actions. The accused has pleaded insanity due to post-partum psychosis. The court will do its job but let’s say that Ms. Clancy had shot a black man who had entered her house to rob her. There would be nobody outside the court supporting her innocence. Let’s say that her kids had been made “trans” before she killed them. The ones screaming in her favor would be demanding the death penalty instead. As I have written before, one can’t say today if he is in favor of a protest or violence until he figures out if those involved are on his team.
   
2. Many Westerners have marched in favor of Hamas. It’s one thing to hate Jews and dress up this hatred as anti-Israel or anti-Zionism. Many people try to make that distinction with very little success. When Jews are harassed in the West, nobody bothers to give them a questionnaire on their support for Israel, possible IDF service, views of Hamas and Bibi Netanyahu and other relevant topics. No, they simply start screaming at them that they are baby killers and accomplices in genocide. But Hamas? They filmed much of their activities, and witnesses and terrorist confessions have provided additional details. How can one be in favor of groups that raped dead women? Cut off parts of their bodies? Killed young adults attending a music festival? When one dons a keffiyeh and demands the end of Israel via slogans “from the river to the sea” and “intifada revolution”, he is endorsing a group that murdered the Bibas mother and children in Gazan captivity. One can hate Jews. It’s a free country. But does one have to run into the arms of people who have murdered many of their fellow Palestinians for not toeing the Sharia or Hamas line? Can’t they take a stand: “I am opposed to the actions of Israel and the IDF, but I will not support the actions of Hamas terrorists and rapists. I want a fair outcome for Palestinians but not at the price of murder of innocent civilians”? Okay, stop laughing. It’s not funny.
3. We have seen the deification of people who deserve little to no praise. I was not happy to learn of Jason Arday taking his life, but he was not Cambridge professorial material. Those who have come to his defense completely ignore the stories he invented, such as running 30 marathons in 35 days, partly with a broken leg. He was a fraud and just as I would not want to learn at 36,000 feet that my pilot was just pretending, Cambridge had no business putting him into a professorial position without the accomplishments required for such an august position. George Floyd, who once held a knife to the stomach of a pregnant woman, was made the subject of endless posters and murals. Michael Brown tried to take a cop’s gun but became the patron saint of “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Luigi Mangione killed Brian Thompson in cold blood. He didn’t even shoot him from the front! Yet, he is being praised by the left for murdering a father and husband. They think that United Healthcare doesn’t have a deep enough bench to replace him? Did his murder change anything in the health insurance space? Many on the left have glorified criminals and even murderers, if their targets are the right kind of people.
4. The left is once again into political violence. The murder of Charlie Kirk and the attempted murder of Donald Trump brought out support from various individuals. James Comey playing dumb on “8647” does not remove the fact that there are many people on the left who do not see physical violence as being unacceptable to advance political goals. The murder of Charlie Kirk changed TPUSA and the course of the conservative movement. Nobody has the clarity of thought, force of conviction, and gift of argument that the young husband and father had. Remember the loons burning Tesla dealerships? Since when is setting fire to environmentally-friendly cars a good idea for battling “climate change”? Violence to get rid of perceived enemies is kosher if it makes their side stronger. And the supposed leaders of the Democrats refuse to condemn it because they too benefit.
5. Since we touched on “climate change”, we see massive numbers of lefties who believe in everything east of the tooth fairy. The climate is not changing in any way that merits radical changes in the way we live. Wind and sun do not offer the reliability and availability of coal and oil. “Trans” is also rubbish. A person has 30 trillion cells. Declaring that one is of the opposite sex, and even taking drugs and/or undergoing surgeries will not change the reality of boys being boys and girls being girls. Look at the demand for destruction of bringing babies into the world. From Massachusetts allowing abortion until birth to many states encouraging and supporting sterilization of children in the name of trans mania, the goal seems to be not bringing new lives into the world. Collapsing Western birth rates support the success of such efforts.

It seems so quaint to think about the 1970s when I grew up. Democrats and Republicans argued about tax rates, how to deal with the Soviets, and whether to support more welfare. We didn’t seem to have people like Ilhan Omar who says that her fealty is to Somalia over the country whose Congress pays her salary. We didn’t have people who supported terrorists like Rashida Tlaib. We didn’t have entire movements dedicated to chemically and surgically harming children because their teachers or parents concluded that they were “born in the wrong body”. Normal values generally come from religion; without it, abnormal becomes the rule.