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Why Democrats Caved To David Ellison’s Megadeal

antitrust

david ellison

gavin newsom

paramount

rob bonta

I’m calling it. The political debate over Flock is over. They lost.
They lost so quickly that it’s actually astonishing. To witness a company valued at over $8 billion become so politically toxic in both parties at such speed is a rarity, unless you’re guilty of an oil spill, poisoning dogs, or strangling babies.
Scratch that last one. Lindsay Clancy probably has a bigger political constituency than Flock at this point.
“The numbers are crazy. They’re worse than data centers,” one consultant told me. And it seems like they know it.
The decision by the CEOs of the mass surveillance cameras unit of our economy to no-show for the Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and rDick Durbin — not exactly a common political alliance — was an act of surrender. Maybe the surveillance bros thought that if they didn’t show, the scene would get less attention. Instead, Fox News made the rare decision to run a huge chunk of a subcommittee hearing. That’s what you do when people are watching.
The big news today is that Flock is actively weighing a <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/09/23/2026/flock-safety-weighs-selling-itself">selloff</a>, either to Motorola or Axon, as its public profile takes hit after hit — likely with the knowledge that more is coming. The number of states and cities taking down cameras and ending contracts is only accelerating. And then there&#8217;s the legal ramifications — add the five cops <a href="https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/this-is-just-the-beginning-5-current-former-impd-officers-charged-alleged-misuse-of-flock-license-plate-reader-technology/531-22f87ec2-78e1-4e70-98da-c2a24063b036">charged</a> in Indiana yesterday to the pile for the future class action. &#8220;Were you stalked by Flock? Sign up here.&#8221;
It isn’t hard to see why. The testimony from those innocents wrongly targeted or identified through the use of Flock, thrown into jail in the middle of the night, is the stuff of nightmares right out of “Fargo”: &#8220;This is a problem, you understand, because for you to be right the state would have to be wrong. Is that what you&#8217;re saying? That the state is wrong?”
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Lindsey Isaacs, driver wrongfully accused and jailed with Flock AI camera speaks about incident: &#8220;13 days in jail for a crash I had nothing to do with.&#8221; https://t.co/pVLUetMiEf
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The hand-waving solutions Flock offers — changing a dropdown menu, shortening data retention times — aren’t going to satisfy any of these basic objections. It reads as dismissive, a series of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/facing-congressional-scrutiny-flock-details-new-search-guardrails-5d47e0dc?mod=article_inline">tweaks</a> to a product people just plain do not want.
The big mistake Flock seemed to make was assuming that their utility for law enforcement, and promises to greedy local officials eager for potential income, would win out over an American populace with a decidedly different attitude toward mass surveillance than citizens of other nations. The second mistake they made was recruiting a bunch of advocates who seem to think mass surveillance, the second you leave your house, is something Americans would accept. And the third was treating their critics as if they were a bunch of loud, dumb cranks who don’t know what’s good for them — something Flock CEO Garrett Langley did repeatedly.
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Flock&#8217;s CEO mocks people showing up at council meetings, saying we should &#8220;trust that the system works.&#8221; Meanwhile, his &#8220;huge team whose entire job is going to city council meetings&#8221; went to &#8220;close to 10,000 city council meetings&#8221; just last year. https://t.co/5XbiFDvBqs
— Have I Been Flocked? (@HIBFlocked) <a href="https://x.com/HIBFlocked/status/2092048985993167000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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What I’ve come to agree with is the notion of a horseshoe mentality, that it’s just a very very small number of people, incredibly small, that tend to be really loud.
I imagine you’ve never been to a city council meeting.
Interviewer: I never have.
And I imagine you never will, because generally, I hope you vote, you should vote, and then you trust that the system works, that the person you voted for as generally aligned views, and like they’re going to go do the hard work, because that’s what you elect them to do.
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As a general rule, “trust the government, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear” hasn’t had much purchase in the American mindset — and in the post-Covid era, it has even less. The Left already doesn’t trust cops. And while the Right is generally pro-cop, they are extremely uncomfortable with the idea they’re being constantly watched.
The tolerance Americans have for being constantly watched is an odd thing. Your phone, your television, your car — they’re all listening to you pretty much all the time now. But that ubiquity makes many Americans more on edge about intrusions into their privacy, not less. Americans don’t actually want to live in a world where privacy is reserved for the few cubic centimeters in your skull.
After sacrificing so many of our liberties in recent years, that’s a heartening thing to see.

Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network

The Flock Debate Is Over. They Lost.

flock cameras

josh hawley

law enforcement

politics

privacy

surveillance

The built-in post-midterm assumption in Washington has been, and continues to be, that Democrats will try to make Donald Trump – already the leader in the clubhouse – the first president to be thrice impeached. That’s probably a good bet, though as I noted in this week’s District Club, I think they’ll go after a cabinet secretary or two as well. Could be DOGE, could be ICE, could be measles – imagine the scene of RFK Jr. surrounded by a sea of fiery-eyed MAHA moms in the committee room. The party of law, order, and science can find a way to impeach anyone, and will, if only for the sideshow that plays to their base.
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Yet since none of these picks are going to get shoved out the door, what is it really about? The real aim of presidential impeachment for the Democrats at this point involves no realistic plan for removal from office, and following an election cycle they claim is all about jobs and affordability, a Quixotic impeachment quest would be a marked break from why voters gave the Speaker’s gavel to Hakeem Jeffries (or a W.A.R. equivalent Speaker To Be Named Later). The abortive Russiagate/Ukraine phone call impeachment wasn’t a great lead-up to the 2020 election for Democrats, and it’s unlikely to be any better headed into 2028. So what’s really going on?
Washington just tipped its hand this week, and the call came from inside the house – or, well, the Senate. Freshman Republican John Curtis of Utah, who has slid happily into an even squishier-than-Mitt Romney role early on, sent a <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/22/congress/curtis-has-questions-01086970">letter</a> to Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley demanding that Donald Trump Jr. be subpoenaed by the committee in connection with a ProPublica <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin">report</a> laying out a financial relationship with a Russian oligarch. Curtis claims he wants to know more about it, writing in part:
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[Q]uestions have arisen about the relationships of President Trump&#8217;s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., with foreign business figures and the acceptance of significant gifts. These include a lavish wedding afterparty, on a private island, provided by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who reportedly traveled to China as part of a delegation accompanying Vladimir Putin shortly before giving the gift. These concerns are compounded by Donald Trump Jr.’s active promotion of family-backed cryptocurrency ventures, his continued pursuit of international real estate deals involving direct meetings with foreign heads of state, and his reported investments in defense contracting. This pattern extends to his significant financial and advisory ties to prediction-market platforms that depend on favorable federal regulatory decisions being considered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Presumably to offset the allegation that he’s just targeting the president’s son, Curtis also called for subpoenaing Hunter Biden for his own history of wheeling and dealing (now that’s good television, by committee standards). None of this is likely to happen, but it’s important that Curtis is indicating his willingness to go along with Democrat efforts to target the Trump family so early – he’s not waiting for the votes to be counted in November. And that indicates where things are headed.
What voters should expect to see after this election isn’t movement on affordability, on housing, on jobs. Maybe they’ll get some desperate flailing at health care costs, because those scare Republicans too. What they should expect to see is Democrats building their case for another go-round of their favorite tactic: sustained, over-the-top, and well-funded lawfare, targeted at Trump associates and the Trump family, where the process is the punishment. The job of Hill Democrats will be to shake loose everything they can through witness depositions and wildly broad subpoenas, any way they can and with the help of the still very real deep state.
Everyone’s going to be on the target list – from the crypto bros to the foreign investment funds to the various slimy (but in a pretty normal swampy kind of way) hangers-on. But the biggest targets will be on Trump’s family and anyone who’s become a business partner since his 2024 victory – including the tech industry, which has moved in his direction.
Democrats aren’t going to be about changing the country, not after this midterm. They’ll be all about getting every scalp they can. And if they can’t get the president himself, they’ll settle for ruining the lives and businesses of the people he loves, and who love and work with him. It’s not about the future. It’s about revenge. If you vote Democrat in November, that’s what you’re voting for – whether you know it or not.

House Judiciary Committee Holds Second Hearing In Trump Impeachment Inquiry

Democrats Want Their Scalps

2026 midterm election

chuck grassley

donald trump jr

impeachment

john curtis

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Infidels Producer: ‘We Used So Many Squibs We Ran Out’

daily wire

dallas sonnier

entertainment

entertainment industry

run hide fight infidels

Punch Video Games

Why It’s Good For Your Kids To Play Video Games

modretro

nintendo 64

palmer luckey

parenting

screen time

video game

First, a few questions: Are you a single white woman in America in 2026? Is the only correct take on Lindsay Clancy the one you have adopted after scouring TikTok like the world’s greatest true-crime detective? Do you own one or more items of “Hot Girls For Zohran” flair?
Then this message is for you: This pumpkin spice season, don’t miss out on the must-have accessory of the season — your new jihad-adjacent boyfriend. He’s intense, he’s problematic, and his opinions on 9/11 are sure to anger all the relatives you hate the most over the holidays.
Kathy Hochul showed the way when she rocked that hijab in exchange for a group of very important Muslim men having to suffer the rare experience of listening to a woman talk. It’s a natural progression – you go from hashtagging for Gaza to embracing this inventive new idea called socialism to realizing that sure, Luigi murdered a guy, but have you noticed he’s hot?
The speediest path to Karen-izing Islam in the West is personalizing the narrative, and you have the power to do it. And trust me, the internal satisfaction of this accessory boyfriend will be immense. It comes when you post your orchard-infused Uggs-resurgence Instagram story about taking him apple picking for the first time. (For the record, you’ll be doing all the picking). It comes when you tell your mother no, it’s not that you don’t like Leinenkugel’s anymore; it’s just that it’s haram. It comes when your uncle storms out of Thanksgiving muttering about Ann Coulter (who?) and turning the Middle East into a “sheet of glass,” whatever that means. Probably something racist. Come on. It’s twenty-five years after 9/11, and it’s time people just grow up and let it go.
The best part about this move isn’t just that you’re trendsetting; it’s the emotional rush of getting ahead of where everything is going and gaining the moral authority to pass judgment on all of it. Let the weirdo right-wingers eat each other on X arguing about the cost of burritos and welfare for tradwives and the Latin Mass. You’re staking out ground that will infuse the next iteration of America’s human resources departments as part of a new protected class. And what’s the personal cost for you? Some hijab-prompted dermatitis? Big deal, your hair was shedding from the SSRIs anyway.
Some of your best friends will judge you, but that’s how you know this is so right. Someone posted a beautiful quote you saw the other day – it was from a French author; you haven’t read the book, but it’s a good summary: “the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.” Don’t you have the right to be happy? They’re just jealous they don’t have a man who believes in anything beyond prediction markets and Patagonia.
So this decorative gourd season, don’t just run things back with all the tired old tropes you embraced the past few years. Head up to a rally in Michigan. Be the first in your friend group to get that new must-have accessory. Sure, sometimes he can seem a little bossy. But what’s the worst that can happen?

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The Hottest Pumpkin Spice Accessory Is Your New Jihadi Boyfriend

dating and relationships

islam

kathy hochul

opinion

zohran mamdani

There they were, crammed in the close quarters of the filled-to-capacity Capitol Rotunda to shield our aged political leaders from the cold outside, flanking the once-and-future president as he took the oath of office for a second time. The richest and most powerful people in the world rubbing shoulders awkwardly – there were Elon, Jeff, Tim, Sundar Pichai from Google and (ominously) Shou Zi Chew of TikTok shifting in uncomfortable folding chairs designed to put them on display. The most natural thing that happened was Mark Zuckerberg accidentally reminding the world that he’s straight.
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They were there to give homage to the man who had beaten them, and who now they needed to woo back to their side. Big Tech did a terrible job navigating the Trump years, and they knew it. They let their woke control freak employees go wild after 2016, and were forced to debase themselves as having not done enough to stop Hillary’s collapse. Pronouns and politics became mandatory in an industry that had been all about whatever nerd could build the best company in their dorm room. The media pressure was enormous. Out of nowhere, they were deemed the new pontiffs of the Trumpian era: what their platforms decided was okay was an endorsement. They had an obligation to censor, to silence, to shadowban, to debank, and, above all, to fund dying newspapers. They suddenly had to throw a gigantic pile of money at race problems because a random drug addict died in Minnesota. They caved to the forces of censorship in the 2020 election and indoctrination during the Covid years, becoming synonymous with a leftist authoritarianism totally at odds with the rebellious hacker mentality that birthed their industry. They didn’t care about politics – but it cared about them. So they did what they had to do, or so they thought at the time. And they lost.
Now here they were, sitting and grinning, as just off stage their high-paid consultants and their NGO partners and their Aspen and Sun Valley and DAVOS friends were all losing their minds. But what else were they supposed to do? If the rule they followed brought them to this, of what use was the rule?
It was time to make amends. They would do the work of politicking; they would shake hands and smile and talk about working together. They would survive the return of the president they had tried and failed to ban. Because all this came just as the next stage of technological advancement, long burgeoning and anticipated, was about to skyrocket. And that would reorder not just our economy, but the world.
This moment was more significant for our politics than many grasped at the time. It represented a dramatic shift where, for the first time, Republicans were about to become the party of Big Tech. Where Silicon Valley had been a punching bag for conservatives for years, what with their climate change nattering and San Francisco values, they left California behind for the welcoming arms of pro-business red state leaders. The taxes were low, the regulations more forgiving, and their employees could finally afford a house. They were flush with consumers and data and cash after years of lockdown. And for the GOP’s influential investor class, the A.I. spark made these companies synonymous with skyrocketing market success. The sides had flipped.
Few states were more welcoming to this shift than Texas under Republican Governor Greg Abbott, which became a haven for Big Tech headquarters. The attitude from the state’s Republican leadership wasn’t just advocacy but cheerleading advancement and a Western agreement with moving fast and breaking things. That’s why it should serve as such a stunning warning to these same companies that it’s the same governor who promised to lead the country in A.I. who is warning them now that they’ve gone too far, too fast:
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ABBOTT: One thing is the rapidity that these data centers are coming online, that people didn&#8217;t see coming. The other is the way that the data centers, they didn&#8217;t do their job to get the support of people in local communities. Gaining the support of people in local communities is essential.
Because they did not do that, that&#8217;s why I am now coming in as governor saying, listen, if you&#8217;re a data center and you want to operate in Texas, you have to first get the approval of those in local communities…
KARL: It was last year that you said that Texas was the epicenter of the A.I. industry. In hindsight, did Texas move too fast?
ABBOTT: It wasn&#8217;t Texas that was moving fast, it was these data centers.
KARL: But they needed approval from, you know, from the government.
ABBOTT: Well, so what data centers we&#8217;re doing, and this is the problem that we are facing here in Texas, but you mentioned what&#8217;s going on nationally. And that is, they pop up in places that nobody ever heard of before, until they started the construction. And so they had not been working in collaboration with the state, they&#8217;d not been in collaboration with local governments, and so they basically dug their own grave for the problem that&#8217;s been caused for them. And that&#8217;s why they got the backlash they deserve.
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“They got the backlash they deserve.” The frustration of Texas communities and voters is what’s driving Abbott’s shift, just as it is across the country for politicians who welcomed a tech boom without thinking about the attendant risks. It’s as if these companies thought that the A.I. race was something they could win with just top-down approval from Washington and the governors – not convincing local voters and communities they wouldn’t raise their costs or wreck their environment.
You can hear the lunacy of this hubris expressed by the leader of one tech company, which is clearly the next in the barrel. The backlash to Flock cameras is growing in parallel to the animosity toward data centers, at an astonishing rate considering how quickly the issue has taken hold. It’s easy to understand why when you hear Flock CEO Garrett Langley talk with obvious irritation about the intransigence of local voters who have the audacity to… go to a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/flock-cameras-are-spreading-across-america-the-backlash-is-growing-just-as-fast-fff74ed2?mod=mhp">council meeting</a>.
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Flock&#8217;s CEO mocks people showing up at council meetings, saying we should &#8220;trust that the system works.&#8221; Meanwhile, his &#8220;huge team whose entire job is going to city council meetings&#8221; went to &#8220;close to 10,000 city council meetings&#8221; just last year. <a href="https://t.co/5XbiFDvBqs">pic.twitter.com/5XbiFDvBqs</a>
— Have I Been Flocked? (@HIBFlocked) <a href="https://x.com/HIBFlocked/status/2092048985993167000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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What I’ve come to agree with is the notion of a horseshoe mentality, that it’s just a very very small number of people, incredibly small, that tend to be really loud.
I imagine you’ve never been to a city council meeting.
Interviewer: I never have.
And I imagine you never will, because generally, I hope you vote, you should vote, and then you trust that the system works, that the person you voted for as generally aligned views, and like they’re going to go do the hard work, because that’s what you elect them to do.
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The political problem Big Tech failed to realize still exists: the views of the electorate still matter. It’s not just about gladhanding with the guys at the top. In the wake of the past decade, the American people’s level of trust in these companies is practically nil. It doesn’t matter to the normal voter if we’re in an A.I. race with China. It doesn’t matter that these companies have promised to back off of politics (Elon and Larry Ellison excepted). It doesn’t matter that they stood in that Capitol Rotunda to be publicly shamed. They have no depth of faith among the American people who use their products because they have to, even through a mist of resentment and laziness. We know we said A.I. is going to take all your jobs, but wasn’t it enough to give to the Inauguration Committee? No, it is not.
For Big Tech, the problem is easier to solve: work and spend. They have to make the case for themselves instead of dismissing the valid concerns of Americans. But somewhere there’s always going to be a state and a community to take their money and make a deal, even with the political costs.
For Republicans, though, the potential problem goes deeper. They are unused to navigating a world where being pro-business isn’t necessarily good for their voters. And they may find out they became the party of Big Tech just as much of the country turned against it. Billionaires are fun to play with, until they aren&#8217;t. And then, you find out they can be a real drag.

The Inauguration Of Donald J. Trump As The 47th President

Did Republicans Embrace Big Tech Billionaires Just As America Turned Against Them?

big tech

data center

greg abbott

texas

Election 2026 has multiple storylines, but one of the more interesting is the through line to the Left that rejects the entire vision of modern Western man and embraces something very different.
Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff&#8217;s carefully scripted line attacking cancer survivor Natalie Harp, the president&#8217;s assistant, by intentionally implying an inappropriate relationship between the two is just another example. Before that, we had The New York Times writer Jodi Kantor, one of the most aggressive MeToo advocates, excusing and downplaying the behavior of Maine&#8217;s Graham Platner. And then we had the absurdity of the Abdul El-Sayed pool party surrounded by fashion-obsessed influencers — Hasan Piker included — when his wife can&#8217;t even wear a swimsuit.
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Jon Ossoff attempts to clean up his &#8220;travel with Natalie&#8221; line by claiming it was a commentary about all of President Trump&#8217;s White House aides in general.
Yes, I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s exactly what he meant by referring to that one specific person in the way that he did <a href="https://t.co/5fZc5emEyd">pic.twitter.com/5fZc5emEyd</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2089529577970282517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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From Platner to El-Sayed to now Ossoff, there is a decidedly Middle Eastern tone to these supposedly masculine lefties: Rape doesn&#8217;t really exist. Your wife can&#8217;t wear a swimsuit to a pool party, but the man of the house can hang with influencers who do. We can now slut shame you for having a high-profile job — how unwomanly.
It&#8217;s a particular kind of misogyny, different from the kind that came before. Instead of offering a perspective on American Democratic men that is of the cheap Nina Burleigh variety — the Time magazine reporter who said of Bill Clinton, “I’d be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal,” an offer there is no indication Bill took up — this is an attitude right out of Michel Houellebecq&#8217;s Submission. Sure, at first that Handmaid&#8217;s Tale outfit was a protest — but what if you learned to love it?
Consider it a MeToo aftershock, a corollary to American men who seek to date more foreign-born women. The Left, having embraced the idea that they are the party of the Moral Majority, is now openly advocating for a form of female subjugation that is notably at odds with the Western understanding of what modern manhood and womanhood look like. It&#8217;s as if the lesson they took from their precipitous loss of young male voters in America was to Eat Pray Love their way into a burkini.
This goes beyond the excuse-making, slut shaming, and blatant partisan talking points of the past. Those have been with us always, since the days of James Carville&#8217;s comment about dragging a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park. The Pod Save Bros (ever the willing supplicants to Islam) are happy to take up the legacy in its perverted form today.
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Fresh off of defending Graham Platner until they couldn&#8217;t, the PodSaveBros are deciding to accuse a random staffer of banging her boss based on zero evidence. <a href="https://t.co/Q3DVF7aJyP">https://t.co/Q3DVF7aJyP</a> <a href="https://t.co/5OCViE6AlV">pic.twitter.com/5OCViE6AlV</a>
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) <a href="https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/2089429750766883301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2026</a></blockquote>
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This isn&#8217;t just craven politics; it&#8217;s a fundamental break with modern America. It is a direct descendant of the pathologizing of normal relationships, especially of men’s roles in relationships. The Right has veered into tradwives and tradmen with a cross on the wall, so here comes the Left&#8217;s equal and opposite reaction with crescent and star.
From the Left&#8217;s perspective today, if a man forces you to have sex, well, you must understand the needs of his war-weary PTSD. If women are forced to wear the hijab, well, that&#8217;s just their culture, which you must respect. If a woman gets far in her political career, well, they must have slept their way to the top. Meet the new Man of the Left, avatar of this old-made-new red-green alliance. And he can&#8217;t be sexist, mom and dad — he&#8217;s Muslim!
Besides, he&#8217;s down with our vision for the country: a spiral minaret atop a Planned Parenthood, a sign in front welcoming all refugees, all of it paid for by the tech billionaire about to meet the guillotine in the town square.
The Left&#8217;s broken compass is pointing in this direction, leading the Democrats to a space previously unoccupied because it was anti-Western and anti-American. But when the guardrails are removed in a desperate bid for power, self-importance, or influence, this becomes the destructive path.
What a beautiful future, if only they can seize it. If only you will let them.

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Democrats Want America To Eat Pray Love Her Way Into A Burkini

abdul el-sayed

graham platner

jon ossoff

natalie harp

Punch-Kroenig

Is The American War Machine Dead?

defense industrial base

donald trump

henry kissinger

national defense budget

nato

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had just about enough of these pompous establishment Democrats defending their party severing the last vestiges of its rationality and patriotism to trans itself into Commie ISIS.
We’ve seen all this before. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-marxist-democrats-are-a-warning-sign-for-the-country">union of Marxists and Islamists</a> has a long history, a high-low combo of academics with a surplus of graduate degrees and guilt entertained by the youthful passions of the proletariat into supporting the vilest anti-human agenda devised in modern times.
This way to the gulag, comrade – walk faster, you know you deserve it.
The Abdul El-Sayed victory in Michigan, even if it came more narrowly than expected and was rebuffed by rural and black voters, is just the confirmation of what was already clear. Today the organizing energy of the Democratic Party – the party that less than a generation ago stood shoulder to shoulder with fellow Republicans and Independents against the Reds and the terror-supporters alike – is driven by a group of craven, manipulative liars and a bevy of followers whose understanding of history doesn’t start til iPhone 6. 
These wannabe red diaper babies want to run back the losing side in the Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen debate and repackage it for morons on TikTok, and they do it well. Pick your reasoning for why they do it. Is it all to ease the horror of their meaningless existence by creating a community of followers who hang on their words of hate for people who are more successful than they are?
Whatever is wrong in your life, you can blame it on a corporation, a billionaire, or a Jew. Sometimes you hit the jackpot with all three at once.
This isn’t crazy. This isn’t radical. It’s the Democratic mainstream now. And after the results of the major primary elections across the country, it’s a genuine wave that will swamp a once truly American party that held Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners every spring until Donald Trump came along and liked them both.
The man who helped usher in that era of post-American politician, David Axelrod, took to the CNN airwaves last night to lecture the country on why it’s so bad that American Jews are spending money defending their interests. Keeping in mind that the overwhelming majority of AIPAC dollars (again, in the case of last night’s primaries) have always gone to Democratic politicians, Axelrod’s smear that this represents “foreign influence” found a fitting rebuttal from Van Jones.
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David Axelrod and Van Jones debate AIPAC re: <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/MISen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MISen</a> ⬇️
Axelrod: “It&#8217;s a legitimate question. Should essentially an agent of any foreign government, whether it&#8217;s Israel or any other, be able to spend.. $30 million in a race like this to influence the outcome of that race?”
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— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) <a href="https://x.com/jacobkornbluh/status/2084798524722475330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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David Axelrod is showing where the Democratic Party is drifting. In a bid to stay relevant, he’s trafficking in conspiracy theories and calumnies against patriotic American Jews. It falls to Van Jones, a non-Jewish Black American, to call him out and set the record straight and… <a href="https://t.co/96l1vHjjFf">https://t.co/96l1vHjjFf</a>
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) <a href="https://x.com/mdubowitz/status/2084954694124704216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Whether you care about Israel or not, the point for Americans is the weaponization that anti-Semites have achieved within the Democratic and, with less success, attempted to achieve within the Republican coalitions. Michigan proved once again that the AIPAC approach to American politics is a loser. Their highest-backed candidate just lost to an army of Democratic Socialist influencers, for whom FOMO is the most powerful motivation, who anointed a dog-electrocuting 9/11-supporting double-breasted nepo baby as their activist champion. What was October 7th but just some bros on Blue Chew flying Mario Karts into a festival? What’s so wrong with that? The streams did numbers after all.
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Hasan Piker acknowledged his role in reshaping Michigan&#8217;s Dem Senate primary but tells our <a href="https://x.com/adamwren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@adamwren</a>: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say I&#8217;m a powerbroker.&#8221;
&#8220;People call me a kingmaker. I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m just fortunate enough to be a part of a much broader movement.&#8221;
Follow our live election night… <a href="https://t.co/0dYaVzEbTP">pic.twitter.com/0dYaVzEbTP</a>
— POLITICO (@politico) <a href="https://x.com/politico/status/2084829402983252281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Michigan’s outcome was actually good for Democratic hopes in the fall, though, because it will likely force Abdul El-Sayed to do something he wouldn’t have done otherwise: moderate his tone. In the past few weeks, ebullient with the aura of inevitability (thanks in part to what now looks like a bunch of juiced internal polls), El-Sayed was taking on an attitude of “I don’t need you any more” toward the party.
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This is classic dumb savior complex politician stuff, complete with the Beto “born to be in it” energy. But this <a href="https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-to-make-of-michigan">outcome</a> will likely temper that heat and push him back towards the Democratic politicians he needs to get him over the finish line — to give him the veneer of normalcy he needs to win Michigan. And they’ll be there for him.
For the rest of us, we should recognize what a danger it is to have a major party just become Commie ISIS, a coalition that joins all the people who want to seize your property, eliminate the nuclear family, re-educate your children, and also sometimes slaughter a goat in their backyard.
As an independent, I&#8217;ve voted for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and The Rock.
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The ol&#8217; trust write in. Thank you sir for the vote of confidence. This strangely makes me hungry for carbs. 🇺🇸🍗 <a href="https://t.co/R94b4VAL7E">https://t.co/R94b4VAL7E</a>
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) <a href="https://x.com/TheRock/status/788939489280274432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2016</a></blockquote>
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My question going into a voting booth is always what a good friend calls &#8220;the beach test&#8221;: &#8220;Can you imagine this person on the beach with a machine gun fighting back against the Chinese invasion?&#8221; It obviously applied to the likes of Jim Webb. But do any of these Democrats pass that test today? Forget it – they&#8217;d be turning those guns around.
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Al Sharpton used to warn Democrats about the Republican Party hijacking the Bible and the Flag. Today’s Democrats just don’t care. They have other flags to follow.

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