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Almost exactly a year ago the city of Oakland accidentally published a report which stated just how dire the city’s financial situation was.

The report, which had the signatures of the city’s top officials on it, also warned that “Fecklessness and failure to take dramatic and immediate steps to reduce expenditures will almost certainly result in insolvency.”

Almost as soon as that report started circulating, it was pulled down and replaced with a new report which didn’t have the same dramatic language about insolvency and bankruptcy. 

As I wrote at the time, the problem facing Oakland was crime. The city had unwisely decided to defund the police in 2021. That led to an immediate spike in crime and the city was forced to pay millions for police overtime.

All of that is preface to a story published today which suggests some sort of bankruptcy is once again looking likely in Oakland. This is another case of get woke, go broke. This time it involves a coal producer in Kentucky which has sued the city and won. It’s likely the city is going to be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.

We’ll get to the cost of this in a moment but let’s start from the beginning, which is back in 2013.

At the foot of the Bay Bridge, far below where cars zoom along the white ribbon rising over the water toward San Francisco, the Oakland Army Base once sent supplies and troops overseas during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. After the base was decommissioned in 1999, the city of Oakland received some of the land.

In 2013, the city gave permission to a local developer, Phil Tagami, to build a $250 million shipping terminal on that land. He then signed a lease with a company that planned to ship as many as 12 million tons of coal per year, according to court documents. It was set to become the largest coal export facility on the West Coast, opening up Asian markets as demand dipped domestically.

But in 2015, a Utah newspaper called the Richfield Reaper wrote a story revealing that Oakland was about to become a conduit for coal heading to Asia. California environmentalists caught wind of it and began demanding the city reverse course.

Local activists and environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, lobbied the Oakland City Council to stop coal from entering the city. Hundreds of “No Coal” demonstrators showed up to City Council meetings…

City officials, however, found themselves in a pickle. They had already approved a contract with Mr. Tagami to export bulk commodities from the terminal — and nowhere did it say coal was prohibited.

Mayor Libby Schaff tried to persuade Tagami, the developer, not to allow coal to be transported from the shipping terminal. He refused. So in 2016 the city council did something really dumb. It unanimously passed a rule banning the transport of coal through the city.

“Oakland cannot afford to ignore the scientific evidence that clearly show the harmful effects and risk associated with coal,” said Dan Kalb, a City Council member who proposed the ban along with the mayor, Libby Schaaf. “With this new law, we’re taking the steps needed to protect our community, our workers and our planet.”

So, to sum up, the city made a deal to build and export terminal with Mr. Tagami and then undermined that contract three years later by disallowing him from shipping coal from that terminal. He sued and won. In fact he’s now won twice, once in 2018 and once in 2023. Two months ago, the city’s final appeals were exhausted. They have lost and Mr. Tagami will be building his shipping terminal. 

But here’s where things get really bad for Oakland. The long delay has caused major damage to the coal producer in Kentucky which was contracted to ship its coal through the new terminal. That company is now in bankruptcy. A bankruptcy judge has decided this is largely Oakland’s fault.

Last month, Bankruptcy Judge Joan A. Lloyd of the Western District of Kentucky ruled that Oakland’s “improper and unjustified conduct significantly disrupted and burdened” the Kentucky-based company that had been contracted to ship coal out of Oakland’s terminal, forcing it into bankruptcy.

The judge suggested the damages were between $654 million, before interest — what the coal company is pushing for — and $230 million, what Oakland’s own expert estimated the coal company had lost.

The exact amount hasn’t been determined yet but it looks very likely that Oakland is going to be on the hook for several hundred million dollars, maybe even half a billion or more. Needless to say, the city doesn’t have this money. It was on the verge of insolvency a year ago when it was looking at a budget shortfall just shy of $100 million. So there’s no possible way it can pay this judgment (which again isn’t final yet). If the judgment happens, Oakland will almost certainly have to declare bankruptcy itself.

As for the progressive geniuses that put the city in this position, Libby Schaff is no longer Mayor of Oakland and Dan Kalb is no longer on the city council. He shrugged it off as a mistake, saying he really thought the city would win in court. “Sometimes you think one thing and it turns out the other way in court,” he said.

If the city goes bankrupt, they should set up a plaque with the names of all the city council members who voted for this disaster. But of course that won’t happen. The best part of working in government is that no one is ever held responsible for abject failure.

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Dang. They cannot help themselves slip-sliding away into complete authoritarianism in Europe.

The excuse behind this measure, from the very beginning, has always been:

FOR THE CHILDREN

…so you know it’s a doozy.

Back in October, I told you about ‘Chat Control,’ a proposal the European Union was considering ostensibly to protect ‘the children’ from online predators and porn. The EU government would have access to everything you did online. No chats, no texts, no video, and no message would be safe – they would all be read by government monitors.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Even the Germans had never been very hep on the idea because of its overarching intrusiveness – I mean, every last shred of online privacy would be stripped. But eventually, even they were gradually being worn down towards acceptance, to the point that Signal, the encrypted app, was so alarmed that the company issued a warning about the legislation, calling it ‘catastrophic.’

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://t.co/015qmQnIS2

— Signal (@signalapp) October 3, 2025

Alice Weidel’s Alternativ for Germany (AfD) entered the fray, as well, arguing that the Danish measure was simply a ruse to turn Europe into a surveillance state under ‘the guise of child protection.’

After Germany dropped its long-standing opposition to EU chat control, leading encrypted messenger Signal issued a dire warning about privacy in Europe, with the post going viral.

However, now European parties such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have joined in the criticism, with the party warning just before the EU Council vote that so-called “chat control” could end privacy entirely in Europe.

The protest from the AfD comes after Signal threatened to pull out entirely from Europe if the EU implements its surveillance plans. If Signal went through with such a move, it would be a major black eye for the EU, putting it on par with surveillance states like China.

Ruben Rupp, the digital policy spokesperson for the AfD parliamentary group, warned against “total surveillance under the guise of child protection.”

So much evil done ‘for’ the children.

It is odd that in the face of Brussels going after Hungary and refusing the country funds owed to it due to measures it has taken to protect children, the EU has now decided to push legislation that would give it the power to view and seize your private online conversations — in the name of protecting children. 

Denmark is leading the charge, as it is the presiding EU president, but it is Germany’s veto that will be needed to push “chat control” through, come the vote on Oct. 14, writes Welt.

Emotions ran so strongly against the measure that it seemed a victory for freedom of speech was about to occur when Friedrich Merz’s party declared they would not support the regulation. People certainly were buoyant at the time, thinking they had vanquished their oppressors.

pic.twitter.com/FnCVt9pVxc

— @levelsio (@levelsio) October 7, 2025

Denmark reportedly shelved the mass surveillance plan it had initially offered, which started the whole firestorm. 

Good times for a brief shining moment. They should have paid attention to the details of exactly how Chat Control ‘failed.’

EU Chat Control (scanning messages and files in EU countries) failed to pass in the October 15 vote but is scheduled for a re-vote in December 2025.

Instead of a decisive “no” due to insufficient majority, the vote was canceled to allow countries time to reconsider. pic.twitter.com/UDHa7dmHjG

— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) October 25, 2025

Not so much a failure as a time out. That’s never good.

I’m pretty sure those happy balloons deflated as word came that much like Freddy Krueger or Michael Meyers, Chat Control was back a month later. This time, it came wrapped in a new, improved form, with the same restrictive, dystopian effect, just with different wording.

Just a month later and…

🇪🇺 ChatControl is back!

Now they’re trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes

The new proposal:
-… https://t.co/z0xK7i032K pic.twitter.com/1VobaMXtS5

— @levelsio (@levelsio) November 13, 2025

Unbelievable. ‘Risk mitigation’ is so much more palatable than surveillance, isn’t it?

The EU was hoping that, if anyone heard about it, they would think so, too. 

NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND ENTIRELY BENIGN FOR THE CHILDREN

1. MANDATORY CHAT CONTROL – MASKED AS “RISK MITIGATION”

Officially, explicit scanning obligations have been dropped. But a loophole in Article 4 of the new draft obliges providers of e-mail, chat and messenger services like WhatsApp to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures.” This means they can still be forced to scan all private messages – including on end-to-end encrypted services.

“The loophole renders the much-praised removal of detection orders worthless and negates their supposed voluntary nature,” says Breyer. “Even client-side scanning (CSS) on our smartphones could soon become mandatory – the end of secure encryption.”

2. TOTAL SURVEILLANCE OF TEXT CHATS: A “DIGITAL WITCH HUNT”

The supposedly voluntary “Chat Control” goes far beyond the previously discussed scanning of photos, videos, and links. Now, algorithms and AI can be used to mass-scan the private chat texts and metadata of all citizens for suspicious keywords and signals.

“No AI can reliably distinguish between a flirt, sarcasm, and criminal ‘grooming’,” explains Breyer. “Imagine your phone scanning every conversation with your partner, your daughter, your therapist and leaking it just because the word ‘love’ or ‘meet’ appears somewhere. This is not child protection – this is a digital witch hunt. The result will be a flood of false positives, placing innocent citizens under general suspicion and exposing masses of private, even intimate, chats and photos to strangers.” Under the current voluntary “Chat Control 1.0” scanning scheme, German federal police (BKA) already warn that around 50% of all reports are criminally irrelevant, equating to tens of thousands of leaked legal chats per year.

3. DIGITAL HOUSE ARREST FOR TEENS & THE END OF ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION

In the shadow of the Chat Control debate, two other disastrous measures are being pushed through:

• The End of Anonymous Communication: To reliably identify minors as required by the text, every citizen would have to present their ID or have their face scanned to open an email or messenger account. “This is the de facto end of anonymous communication online – a disaster for whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who rely on the protection of anonymity,” warns Breyer.
• “Digital House Arrest”: Teens under 16 face a blanket ban from WhatsApp, Instagram, online games, and countless other apps with chat functions, allegedly to protect them from grooming. “Digital isolation instead of education, protection by exclusion instead of empowerment – this is paternalistic, out of touch with reality, and pedagogical nonsense.”

They also decided that it was a waste of time to debate this and, you know, have everyone vote on it. I mean, things might come out during such public discourse that would make this regulation look bad. A ‘Europeans might learn what was in the bill before they passed it,’ scenario.

Despite a huge public outcry, the EU’s dangerous plans to read every message you send have returned.

This Wednesday, both the EU Parliament the the EU Council will consider revived proposals for CHAT CONTROL#ChatControlpic.twitter.com/vr3h9xiUvd

— MCC Brussels (@MCC_Brussels) November 24, 2025

So the EU parliament and commission is going to do it all behind closed doors this Wednesday.

Isn’t being the unelected overlords of darn near all of Europe the neatest, most convenient thing when you want to do what you want to do with no backtalk?

The EU plans to pass the controversial Chat Control legislation “behind closed doors.” This law threatens user privacy by potentially allowing the scanning of private chats.

The draft is scheduled to be on the agenda of the EU ambassadors on Wednesday. It is expected to be approved “without discussion,” as MEP Martin Sonneborn (Die Partei) reports on X.

Although the formal requirement for state-mandated oversight is removed, the new draft allows providers to implement “voluntary risk mitigation” strategies that could still lead to chat scanning. Experts warn that this might open the door to future state intervention.

I knew you’d think so, too.

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There’s bad news and good news in these rulings from Judge Cameron McGowan Currie. The bad news: the federal indictments against James Comey and Letitia James have been dismissed. The good news: the DoJ can refile once the Senate confirms a properly appointed US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 

However, there’s bad news on that point as well:

A federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against both former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor President Trump chose to bring the cases was unlawfully appointed.

The decisions from Judge Cameron McGowan Currie deal a significant setback to the Justice Department, which brought charges against Comey and James within weeks of Trump publicly calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute several of his prominent critics.

Comey and James both contested Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as unlawful while also pointing to Trump’s public statements to argue that his prosecution was rooted in the president’s desire for retribution against a perceived adversary.

That’s actually another piece of bad news. Judge Currie didn’t actually rule on the question of retribution in today’s rulings. The motions for dismissal in both cases on the issue of retribution have yet to be decided. If Currie decides that the prosecutions were the result of retribution, she may well decide to dismiss either or both cases with prejudice, which would end any more efforts to prosecute either — pending appeals on those points, of course. 

This also relates to the other bad news in Comey’s case, specifically. The statements that Halligan cited in the prosecution are now more than five years old, which means that the statute of limitations applies. The DoJ barely beat that statute in filing the case in September. Even if Currie denies the motion to dismiss on the issue of retribution, the DoJ will have to issue a new indictment after the expiration of the limiting statute, and that would almost certainly spell an end to this prosecution. The DoJ can complain all they want about the dismissal, but they had several months this year to pursue the case against Comey and waited until almost literally the last moment. 

Today’s dismissals are based on the Trump administration’s failure to get a US Attorney appointed and confirmed in time. They appointed an interim US Attorney early on, but federal law only allows interim appointments to continue for 120 days. After that, the judicial circuit appoints an interim US Attorney, an issue that the White House is already fighting in other jurisdictions. Currie refuses to accept any indictments from a second interim US Attorney appointed by Trump, calling it “defective“:

According to the Government, this case is “simple.” ECF No. 137 at 8. In its view, the “one and only” limitation on the Attorney General’s authority to appoint interim U.S. Attorneys under section 546 is subsection (b), which bars the Attorney General from appointing anyone whom the Senate has refused to confirm. Id. at 3, 8, 15. “Nothing in the text,” it continues, “explicitly or implicitly” precludes the Attorney General from making multiple interim appointments during a vacancy. Id. at 8. Thus, it concludes, because “the Senate has not refused advice and consent to Ms.  Halligan,” the Attorney General “lawfully appointed [her] as interim U.S. Attorney” on September 22. Id. at 8.

Mr. Comey counters that section 546 “limits the total tenure of the Attorney General’s interim appointments to 120 days” and therefore “precludes an additional appointment by the Attorney General after the expiration of that 120-day period.” ECF No. 60 at 16. Accordingly, he argues, Ms. Halligan’s appointment was unlawful because the district court possessed the “exclusive authority to appoint an interim U.S. Attorney” once Mr. Siebert’s appointment by the Attorney General expired on May 21. Id. at 17. Mr. Comey has the better reading of the statute. …

Section 546 is unambiguous. Subsection (a) begins by authorizing the Attorney General to “appoint a United States attorney for the district in which the office of United States attorney is vacant.” 28 U.S.C. § 546(a). Subsection (c)(2), however, imposes a time limit on appointments made by the Attorney General. It specifies that “[a] person appointed as United States attorney” under the statute “may serve until . . . the expiration of 120 days after appointment by the Attorney General.” Id. § 546(c)(2). Subsection (d) then provides a single option for how subsequent interim appointments may be made: “If an appointment expires under subsection (c)(2), the district court for such district” — and only the district court — “may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled.” Id. § 546(d).

Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to get around Section 546 by making Halligan a “special attorney” for the DoJ as well as an interim prosecutor. Currie rejected that as well, noting that Bondi only did that after the indictment was filed and attempted to make it retroactive in an attempt to cure the Section 546 defect:

In support of this argument, the Government relies on the Attorney General’s October 31 Order, which purported to retroactively appoint Ms. Halligan to the “additional position” of “Special Attorney,” effective September 22, 2025 — three days before Mr. Comey was indicted. Att’y Gen. Order No. 6485-2025. Although the Attorney General has “the power to appoint subordinate officers to assist [her] in the discharge of [her] duties,” United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 694 (1974), the Government has identified no authority allowing the Attorney General to reach back in time and rewrite the terms of a past appointment.

Nor can the variation between the September 22 and October 31 Orders be dismissed as a mere “paperwork error,” as suggested by the Government. ECF No. 137 at 28. The September 22 Order was unambiguous. The Attorney General stated she was appointing Ms. Halligan under 28 U.S.C. § 546 to “serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia . . . for the period of one hundred and twenty days or until replaced in accordance with law, whichever occurs first.” Att’y Gen. Order No. 6402-2025. The October 31 Order then purported to appoint Ms. Halligan to an entirely different position (Special Attorney), under entirely different statutes (28 U.S.C. §§ 509, 510, and 515). Att’y Gen. Order No. 6485-2025. I reject the Attorney General’s attempt to retroactively confer Special Attorney status on Ms. Halligan. Regardless of what the Attorney General “intended,” ECF No. 137 at 23 (emphasis omitted), or “could have” done, id. at 28, the fact remains that Ms. Halligan was not an “attorney authorized by law” to conduct grand jury proceedings when she secured Mr. Comey’s indictment, 18 Fed. R. Crim. P. 1(b)(1)(D), 6(d)(1).

What does this mean? At one level, it demonstrates a rather high degree of incompetence. At the most basic level, Halligan did not have the authority to issue an indictment on 22 September, as her appointment as interim US Attorney was invalid under Section 546, and her appointment as “special attorney” didn’t take place until weeks later. All of this will likely become relevant when it comes to deciding on the motion that accuses the DoJ of acting out of malice and retribution too, because it certainly looks like Bondi tried playing games to respond to Donald Trump’s public demands to prosecute both Comey and James. 

Currie isn’t the only judge to signal that these prosecutions were in serious danger, as Mediaite briefly notes:

Halligan has also been accused of improperly presenting evidence to the grand jury that indicted Comey. Last week, U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff questioned “whether the entire grand jury ever saw the two-count indictment that a magistrate judge received after the grand jurors rejected one of three charges” presented by Halligan, reported Politico at the time. The case was already under heavy scrutiny as a different judge warned last Monday of apparent “government misconduct” in charging Comey.

Halligan had never tried a federal case before, and her experience was largely in real estate and insurance cases.

If anyone expects the appellate circuits to intervene, that last point should cast some cold water on those hopes. These two cases have all sorts of irregularities and arguable incompetence woven through them, and appellate courts are not likely to rescue the DoJ from its own bungling. Halligan and Bondi have given appellate jurists plenty of reasons to wash their hands of this mess. 

In the end, the Comey prosecution looks dead in the water. The Tish James prosecution might be salvageable, assuming that her motions to dismiss for malicious prosecution don’t result in a dismissal with prejudice. Given the machinations at the DoJ in producing these indictments – and Trump’s very public demands for these prosecutions for purposes of political retribution – I’d put the chances of salvaging either case somewhere between slim and none. 

Update: John Hinderaker concurs to a point, although he’s more hopeful on the James prosecution:

The question is not free from doubt, but I think the court’s ruling is probably correct. Judge Currie cites relevant legislative history, and the ultimate point of § 546 (c) and (d) is, I think, to prevent presidents from circumventing the requirement that U.S. Attorneys be confirmed by the Senate by making interim appointments that could last indefinitely. It is notable, however, that there have been several instances in which presidents (Clinton and Bush) have “stacked” interim appointments in the manner now argued for by the Trump administration.

Having found that Halligan’s appointment was invalid, and having noted Halligan’s personal role in procuring the Comey indictment, Judge Currie concluded that the appropriate remedy is dismissal of the indictment without prejudice. While I have only read the Comey order, I take it that an identical order was entered dismissing the Letitia James indictment.

The administration’s rush to appoint Halligan and procure a grand jury indictment arose from the fact that the statute of limitations was about to expire on the perjury charge that the administration wanted to bring against Comey. The statute has now run, so it appears that Comey is off the hook. The James prosecution is still good, and I assume it will be renewed.

Update: Jonathan Turley thinks that the James indictment may still be salvageable:

Turley responded by saying, “First of all, Letitia James might be celebrating a tad too early. The problems here are not with the charges themselves, but essentially with the cop, or in this case, the prosecutor.” …

Turley continued to explain why he believed James is not completely in the clear just yet.

“The court is not saying that she was innocent of these charges. The court is simply saying that the person who signed off on the charges did not have authority to do that,” Turley said.

He continued, “So the obvious thing here is to get someone who is lawfully in a position to perform this role.”

Turley is correct to note that this decision does not reflect on the merits of the case. However, James and Comey challenged the indictments separately for political motives, and the messy way in which Halligan got inserted into these indictments will likely bolster those claims. Stay tuned. 

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The last time I checked in on Candace Owens, she had just directly accused Charlie Kirk’s friends at TPUSA of pre-approving his assassination by a cabal of US and foreign killers. But at the same time, she also embarrassed herself by reading a letter from an alleged tipster who claimed the whole plot was operating out a joint federal office building located at 920 North King Street, Wilmington, Delaware. What Candace seemed to have forgotten is that this is the address of her own attorneys in Delaware. The ones who took receipt of the lawsuit filed against her by the Macron family. We know that because that exact address is on the filing which she has referred to when mentioning the lawsuit. It’s on the last page of this document. 

Candace tried to brush that off. She claimed that while there was a law office there it still really was a hotbed of federal activity. But one of her fans called the law office and asked them if there were any FBI or other federal offices in the building. The law office receptionist said no. So unless Owens’ own attorneys are in on the plot, she’s wrong. Also, you can look up the location of the FBI office in Wilmington, Delaware. There is one not far away at a federal building.

Anyway, we’ve moved well past that now. As of last night, Owens really upped the ante by claiming she learned of a combined French/Israeli plot to assassinate her. 

🚨 URGENT
Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something…

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 22, 2025

Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens. In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination. Yes, you read that correctly. More specifically, that the green light was given to a small team in National Gendamarie Intervention Group. I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assasination squad and the plans were formalized. 

Again, this person provided concrete proof that they are well placed within the French government apparatus. 

Further to this point, this person claims that Charlie Kirk’s assassin trained with the French legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement. Journalist Xavier Poussard’s life is also at risk. This is deadly serious. The head of state of France apparently wants us both dead and has authorized professional units to carry this out. 

I ask that every person RETWEET and share this. 

I do not know who in the American government can be trusted, since this source claims our leaders are aware. But I have more specific information which is definitively verifiable, should they care to reach out to me. To the brave official in France who did this because they were so moved by the evil of Charlie’s public execution to risk their own life— May God bless you. Truly. 

Let all be revealed.

She then predicted that there would be no official response to her claim because it is true.

There will be no official response from the L’Elysees palace because what I have shared is TRUE and I have evidence to support my claim.
I even have names.
They are likely trying to figure out where the leak came from.
We are talking about the murder of citizens for speech. https://t.co/0i2w3Gq6P7

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 22, 2025

And then this:

I am told that payments for assassinations are running through the Club des Cent in France.
This means there is a paper trail and I encourage the patriots of France to do what you can to uncover it.

I would again like to stress that there was a French female assassin but also…

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 23, 2025

I am told that payments for assassinations are running through the Club des Cent in France. This means there is a paper trail and I encourage the patriots of France to do what you can to uncover it.  I would again like to stress that there was a French female assassin but also a male, Israeli assassin that were selected to kill me.  These are joint state operations.

Plus she claimed to have the names of the two assassins.

I have informed people in the Federal government and the White House of the France and Israeli assassination plot and am willing to provide full details, as well as the name of the assassins and international accounts in France and Canada through which money was exchanged.…

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 24, 2025

And this morning there’s one more tweet about it.

When everything is said and done, and the public learns that Macron allegedly moved 1.5 million dollars for my assassination, how will the world respond?

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 24, 2025

This is probably the craziest thing I’ve ever seen someone claim. There’s no point in arguing about any of this because it’s all nonsense. Playing along with her delusional clams only lends them credence they don’t deserve.

I will say that there are 10 people on trial in France right now for making the same claims about Brigitte Macron that Owens has made. None of them have been murdered. Also, as mentioned already, Candace Owens is also being sued for her claims by the Macrons. No court date has been set yet.

In any case, lots of people are having fun with these crazy claims.

This is so funny but by far the funniest part is that she’s basically like “among the French assassins is at least one jew” https://t.co/1uiGVxBvSi

— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) November 23, 2025

It’s been a while since I’ve re-introduced myself, so I just want you to know you will be getting very authentic American content here, concerned with very American things, from a person who most definitely lives in America. I also have 19 children, live on a farm, and all my…

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) November 24, 2025

It’s been a while since I’ve re-introduced myself, so I just want you to know you will be getting very authentic American content here, concerned with very American things, from a person who most definitely lives in America. I also have 19 children, live on a farm, and all my authentic opinions happen to enrage enough people to give me clicks and/or get me targeted by three Frenchmen and an Israeli bc I’m too close to the truth about raw milk and submissive wifing. Also Brad Pitt is mid. Please follow and yell at me!

Candace Owens needs to be kept safe from this multinational team of assassins. Perhaps inside some sort of padded room, so they can’t throw her against the hard walls. Also maybe put her in a garment that holds her arms in place so they can’t grab them to kidnap her.

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 23, 2025

Candace I hope you read this!

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a U.S. military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a max security prison, today still wanted men, they survive as soldiers of fortune, if you have a problem, no… pic.twitter.com/dNBHwAvVz0

— thehoch (@hochalicious) November 22, 2025

On a more serious note, Candace is a master at gaslighting people. This clip breaks down a bunch of the techniques she uses to draw people in to her claims without offering any evidence.

The Dangerous Deception Behind Candace’s Method.
This video breaks down how Candace Owens persuades millions—not with evidence, but with a powerful psychological formula that turns questions into conviction and outrage into certainty. pic.twitter.com/ZPX7yUQjPk

— Whaddo You Meme?? (@WhaddoYouMeme) November 23, 2025

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Generally speaking, it’s wrong to judge people based on whether they fit into a category rather than on their individual character. 

Right? If you judge people based on their country or origin, race, or other immutable characteristics, when participation in that category is not directly the cause of some desirable or undesirable trait, it is discrimination. Assuming a young black man is a criminal, for instance, based on the greater propensity of young black men to commit crimes, is painting with too broad a brush. Most young black men are no more inclined to sell drugs or commit violent crimes than those of any other group. 

“Somalis committing welfare fraud and stealing US tax dollars proves they are smart!”

Yes… that’s why Somalia is a very successful nation at the forefront of drone technology, and not a third-world shithole filled with fraud and corruption. pic.twitter.com/IOJmladYbB

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) November 23, 2025

So why do I, and many other commentators, single out groups like the Somalis as bringing with them all manner of troubles and as being a rather large net negative addition to our society?

Somalia is routinely listed as the most corrupt country in the world. pic.twitter.com/yhAJCXGbNV

— JLaw (@yoopermomma) November 22, 2025

Well, first of all, because as a group they HAVE been a huge net negative, just as mass Muslim migration into Western societies has been a disaster. That statement is just a fact, and demonstrably so. Billions of dollars of fraud and corruption have been committed by Somalis, and that is just in Minnesota, and our government and politics have been completely warped by their growing influence in the state. 

Minnesota taxpayers are the largest single source of funding for Somali terrorists, and there is not a single government welfare program that has not been the target of massive fraud by Somalis. 

Mass Muslim immigration in Europe, and to a lesser extent here, has brought with it rape gangs, social discord, and subcultures that are explicitly hostile to the larger social order. 

And that same community united in support of one of their own who kidnapped a 12 year old from her yard and rap*d her. pic.twitter.com/IECjmcsOAH

— Amy 🇺🇸 ♀️ (@amy_likes_owls) November 24, 2025

And, it must be said, these migrants have been invited into our society not on the basis of judging individuals as individuals, but on the basis of their participation in a category. If you let somebody into the country because they are a Somali, not because they are likely to be a good citizen, why is it unfair to kick them out based on the same characteristic, because, as a group, the Somalis are horrible members of society?

Somalis in Minneapolis are stealing billions from American taxpayers, loading bags of cash onto commercial flights, and funding terrorism back in Mogadishu. This is an insane system, and it must be stopped. pic.twitter.com/9lwcFJtphj

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) November 20, 2025

I have met many Somalis who seem like nice people, just trying to live a better life and working, as best they can, to fit in. In any personal interaction, I try to judge them based on who they are as individuals. I have never had the pleasure of working with a Palestinian, but I am told that many are smart, ambitious, and disinclined to be terrorists. 

If we vetted people carefully as individuals, it’s likely we would have few problems and that the delta between various immigrants would not be great. 

🚨 BREAKING: Minnesota’s entire Republican congressional delegation is calling for a full investigation into Somali fraud that funneled taxpayer dollars into the hands of the Al-Shabaab terrorist network in Somalia.

Accountability is coming. pic.twitter.com/KTDm8S6V9N

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) November 23, 2025

But we don’t really do that, especially today. And some categories of migrants are much more troublesome or even dangerous than others. 

As a group, migrants from dysfunctional “s**thole countries” bring horrible problems with them and cost societies a lot. Study after study in Europe shows that Middle Eastern migrants bring crime and are huge net drains on social welfare systems for several generations. Migrants from Western countries contribute more than native citizens on average, probably because they bring in skills that are in demand, and migrants from the third world are the most costly, and for multiple generations. 

And that doesn’t include the crime, the slums, the “no-go” zones, and the rape gangs. 

The reason Somalis have been so successful at fraud in Minnesota is very simple: they never call the cops on each other, no matter what. Zero sense that defrauding MN is a bad thing. pic.twitter.com/MbM5LS2rhP

— arctotherium (@arctotherium42) November 16, 2025

Noticing this is not racism. Arguing that these facts should guide public policy is simply smart policy. It’s not like there aren’t people from around the world who want to immigrate to any Western country, so why do we have preferential policies for those who we know are likely to bring trouble?

If migrants from Germany, the UK, Argentina, and Japan are found to, as a class, bring with them entrepreneurialism and add to the stability and wealth in society, and migrants from Somalia tend to do the opposite, it’s stupid to prefer the latter to the former. 

“Would you rather live near a million Jews or a million Somalis” is a question that answers itself.

Nice try, Glenn. pic.twitter.com/S31QQzuPNc

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 23, 2025

All human beings as individuals deserve respect, and we are all God’s children. No doubt in Heaven God will sort the wheat from the chaff. 

But civilizations are built on cultures more than anything else. As Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and other countries have shown, strong and basically healthy cultures can create stable and wealthy societies despite having few resources and even challenging strategic situations. 

As Venezuela and Cuba show, being blessed with abundant resources but a bad culture can create total disasters. 

Everything is downstream from culture. 

It’s not wrong to notice that and make policy based on that, even if a culture overlaps with other categories such as race or religion. Discrimination based on legitimate variables, such as culture, is not only fine but necessary. It’s not racist to exclude people based on being from a corrupt culture, even if that corrupt culture also overlaps with something like race. 

It’s not the race you are excluding, but the culture. We shouldn’t be ashamed of exercising good judgment and acting in self-defense, just as it’s not racism to avoid walking around certain parts of Chicago. 

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This weekend, the last before Thanksgiving and the true start of the holiday season, is a traditional one for kicking off the things that signal that time of year.

Our son’s godfather had a beautiful, heartwarming video from his town in Virginia, where they had a community tree lighting on the town square. He jokingly called it ‘Hallmark town,’ and I have to admit, that’s what it looked like.

Only it was real.

So was this little get-together with folks in what looked to be a frosty Cleveland, TN. The master of ceremonies counted down with – don’t take this wrong – ho’s, and everyone ooed, aahed, and clapped when the beautiful lights came on, and the Christmas music began playing.

There is something special in a communal gathering like that, large or small, at this time of year that just melts your heart…or maybe grows it three sizes, depending on who you are.

Bigger American cities have their treelightings festivities, too. New York City has its Rockefeller Centre tree, whose arrival is always a huge deal that I remember vividly from growing up. This year, they’ll light it on the third of December.

Washington, D.C., has, of course, a long, multiple-tree tradition. There’s the White House Christmas tree to celebrate with. The lighting ceremony will be on the fourth, and Melania Trump is already awaiting the delivery of the tree, this year from Michigan, which will go in the Blue Room.

The Capitol Christmas Tree, nicknamed ‘Silver Bell,’ arrived Friday from Nevada. And the 103rd annual National Christmas Tree Lighting also takes place on the fourth on the Ellipse.

Americans are crazy for Christmas trees.

In Chicago, I think they’re just crazy.

Chicago does what seems to be a pretty cool big city Christmas market, with all sorts of vendor shopping, and entertainment – very much mirrored on the traditional German model. It was all set to kick off this past Friday on The Loop with the lighting of a locally donated tree.

Chicago holiday festivities kick off with tree lighting, Christkindlmarket opening on Friday

Had to be spectacular-looking, and folks were looking forward to wandering through the Christkindlmarket, grabbing some food, and listening to the various entertainers.

Chicago’s official Christmas tree is glowing bright with 119,000 lights in Millennium Park.

Anchors Joe Donlon and Irika Sargent helped flip the switch as the 68-foot Norway spruce donated by the Mason family in Glenview was lit up Friday night. The tree is now the largest Christmas tree in the city’s history.

Homeowners Ryan and Jody Mason said the tree has to come down because its roots are causing problems with the foundation of their house, and they are going to be doing some renovations to their house soon. They figured as long as the tree had to come down, they might as well apply to the Chicago Christmas tree contest rather than just having the tree chopped up for firewood..

How cool.

But the Hallmark moment didn’t last, not in Chicago anyway.

Shortly after midnight, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ‘youths who do silly things’ began to do what they seem to do pretty frequently in Chicago, and the evening went downhill rapidly.

They ruined it for everyone, besides wounding and killing each other.

One person was killed and eight others wounded in a pair of shootings late Friday night in downtown Chicago’s the Loop district, just hours after Chicago lit the city’s official Christmas tree just blocks away in Millennium Park.

Seven teens were injured in the first shooting, which police said happened near the intersection of State and Randolph streets near the Chicago Theatre at around 9:50 p.m. local time. Two people were shot, one fatally, during the second shooting near Adams and Dearborn streets about 30 minutes later.

During the first shooting, officers were on patrol and heard gunshots being fired into a large group in the 100 block of North State Street, Chicago police said.

Officers found the seven victims, who were taken to both Stroger Hospital of Cook County and Lurie Children’s Hospital, in fair to good condition. Police said the victims range in age from 13 to 17 years old. 

After the second shooting in the 100 Block of South Dearborn Street, police found two victims with gunshot wounds. Police said one of the victims was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Look at the ages on these ‘youths,’ these ‘kids.’

What is a thirteen-year-old doing out running the streets well after midnight? I don’t care what the occasion is.

The child – and he was a child – whom they found later shot dead in the street?

All of fourteen.

14-year-old Armani Floyd, who was shot and killed Friday night in the Loop, only hours after the city’s Christmas tree lighting, is being remembered as a funny, basketball-loving teen with a bright future.

READ MORE: https://t.co/LUrSTdyhAj pic.twitter.com/7VtG4V1evD

— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) November 24, 2025

Other people apparently feel the same way.

Stop with the bs.
He had no business being downtown.
I remember PSA right after the 10pm news “it’s 1030pm. Do you know where your children are?”

But you all don’t broadcast that anymore, do you?

— 🎰 Random thoughts. 🛫🌎 🎰 (@Emma508111) November 24, 2025

This video is so horrible to watch, not only for the chaos ensuing as everyone out for a wonderful evening has to try to scatter from the gunshots. But because thinking of the terror the poor older couple in the lower left-hand of the scene had to have felt (2:04 in), who cannot physically run away. They can barely walk. And who, thanks to these juvenile monsters, were now looking desperately for somewhere to duck, and wind up cowering by a transit entrance as bodies fly by.

It just makes you sick.

Oh, well done, Mayor Johnson and your fat, complacent, porcine billionaire overlord.

🚨 Chicago’s Christmas tree lighting turned into a bloodbath just after midnight when gunfire erupted near the Chicago Theatre, killing one teen and wounding seven others (all 13-17) as 100-300 juveniles surged through the Loop in pure chaos.

Minutes later, another shooting at… pic.twitter.com/J8FoUkQpgk

— Laszlo Varga (@LaszloRealtor) November 22, 2025

…Minutes later, another shooting at Dearborn and Adams left an 18-year-old fighting for his life with a leg wound.

Officers trying to restore order were maced and stunned; one cop hospitalized, several more injured while making arrests and seizing guns.

A night meant for cocoa and carols became screams and sirens.

This is the city’s 1,100+ shooting of 2025.

Pray for the kids who won’t make it home, the ones who will carry scars, and the officers who ran toward the fire.

Chicago, we deserve better than this.

Do you know what the Bear of Little Brains had to say about this?

…Mayor Johnson said 18 arrests were made Friday night, and five guns were recovered in the aftermath of the shooting. The mayor called the shootings a setback for the city.

A ‘setback’ after 18 arrests and five guns? Surely the mayor had something more to add about hundreds of literal children running wild and terrorising his streets?

He’s such an unmitigated buffoon.

DON’T DO THAT, KIDS

…Mayor Johnson said the city was aware of social media posts alluding to a teen takeover Friday night. He said letters were sent out to Chicago Public Schools families.

The Chicago Police Department even put an extra 700 officers on patrol.

“What we put in place did not do enough for what we were concerned about from actually manifesting,” Mayor Johnson said. “Our young people have to understand that they should not attend these unauthorized events that are advertised on social media.”

Police as of Sunday morning still did not have anyone in custody. Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 cash reward for any information leading to an arrest.

Chicago print media buried the story on page 17.

Weitzel, “A mass shooting in Chicago’s Loop—our central business district—gets buried on page 17 of the @Suntimes. That’s not journalism, that’s editorial malpractice. Public safety belongs on the front page, not page 17.” @CWBChicago @ChicagoContrar1 @MorningAnswer @John_Kass pic.twitter.com/EsO88Zxz56

— Chief Thomas Weitzel-Retired (@ChiefWeitzel) November 23, 2025

Saturday night went ahead as planned, even though the Christmas Market closed down. Chicago had another 300 cops on the street on top of the extra 700 they already had staged there for the event.

The holiday festivities continued Saturday evening with the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival parade and fireworks showcase in Chicago’s downtown. 

Chicago police now remain in the Loop, with 1,000 additional officers patrolling downtown just one night after two shootings that left a 14-year-old boy dead and eight others hurt. 

The Christkindlmarket closed up shop for the night on its opening weekend. Elsewhere in downtown, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets earlier for the Mag Mile Lights Festival parade and fireworks. The event with added police presence following Friday night’s downtown shooting.

People said they felt ‘safer,’ go figure.

There was some cognitive dissonance in the reporting though.

From all the additional police necessary to keep people safe from rampaging, ‘stupid’ and deadly ‘youths’…

…”I feel safe knowing we have the Chicago police out here. I feel safe out here. I know we’re in good hands,” Chasity said.

Chicago police said on top of 700 extra police brought in to support district one officers, 300 more were brought in to staff the event Saturday evening, following Friday night’s shooting that left one teen dead and others wounded.

…to, ‘Oh, yay! We’re healing!’?

…It was Tracy Monticello’s first time visiting the market.

“It’s wonderful, great atmosphere, it’s very nice, beautiful weather,” she said.

A sign that the downtown area is continuing its resurgence, post-pandemic, drawing in visitors of all ages.

I don’t think so.

🚨BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Christmas Tree Lighting MASS SHOOTING, 1 dead, 9 shot, bodies everywhere, 300 juveniles rioting, multiple police officers attacked and injured with 1 officer hospitalized.

Johnson will say, “this is an isolated incident”. https://t.co/AxGBcZEaVT pic.twitter.com/QSHqOoDK6x

— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) November 22, 2025

YMMV

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Almost exactly a year ago, Israel signed a 60-day ceasefire with Lebanon that paused – not ended – the October 7 war with Hezbollah. The agreement required Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah and for both to abide by UN Security Council 1701, which decades earlier had ordered Hezbollah to evacuate the sub-Litani and Bekaa Valley areas of the country. The government in Beirut has since ordered Hezbollah to disarm but has taken no steps to force the issue, and Hezbollah continues to operate in both prohibited areas of Lebanon.

In recent weeks, Israel has increased military strikes on Hezbollah positions and personnel. Yesterday, however, the IDF took aim at Hezbollah’s top leadership and killed the man most responsible for their recent attempts to reconstitute their position in southern Lebanon:

Israeli forces killed Hezbollah’s military chief of staff on Sunday with an airstrike on Beirut, the first attack on the Lebanese capital in more than five months.

The attack, which hit a residential building in the densely packed neighborhood of Haret Hreik in southern Beirut, targeted Haytham Ali Tabatabai, a Hezbollah veteran considered one of its highest remaining military officials. Israeli and Hezbollah officials confirmed Tabatabai’s death. …

“We will not allow Hezbollah, the terror organization, to recover and rebuild its strength and threaten Israel from anywhere inside of Lebanon,” said Shosh Bedrosian, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. Hezbollah’s “activities continue to constitute a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” she added, without providing details about how the group has been trying to rebuild its capabilities.

The fact that Hezbollah still operates in the southern parts of Lebanon is evidence enough of their desire to rebuild. Both the ceasefire and UNSC Resolution 1701 prohibit their presence in those areas. The UN’s peacekeeping force is supposed to enforce the latter, but instead has become a co-conspirator to their continued grip on the region, acting as human shields against IDF actions to force compliance. 

The Washington Post notes that the Israelis have run out of patience after a year of non-compliance with the ceasefire:

The attack adds to a growing unease in Lebanon that Israel may renew a broader offensive against Hezbollah. The Israeli military has carried out near-daily strikes in Lebanon since a U.S.-brokered truce last November ended a two-month war, which devastated parts of the country and eviscerated much of Hezbollah’s military prowess.

But the strikes have intensified in recent weeks and their scope has expanded, with Israel increasingly accusing Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its strength and the Lebanese government of being too slow to disarm the group.

After a year? Yes, that’s just a wee bit tardy, one might conclude. 

As is customary in Muslim society, Hezbollah held the funeral for Tabatanai today. Turnout was strong on the ground, and in the air:

The funeral of Hezbollah’s Chief of Staff, Tabatabaei, in the Dahieh area of Beirut. pic.twitter.com/AHaDkz71we

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 24, 2025

Israeli drones reportedly patrol southern Beirut as Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai’s funeral takes place, according to Lebanese media. pic.twitter.com/MYn4sGiA2c

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) November 24, 2025

That’s not the only warning that Israel is sending today. The Times of Israel reports that the Israeli government believes it can set Hezbollah back years with just a few days of open military operations:

Israel has been escalating its strikes on Hezbollah in recent weeks, accusing the terror group of violating the year-old ceasefire and increasingly attempting to rebuild its capabilities, and expressing frustration at lagging Lebanese efforts to disarm the group.

An unnamed Israeli security source told the Saudi-based Al-Hadath outlet that with just a few days of warfare, Hezbollah could be significantly weakened for many years. The source said that the Lebanese government is not going to deal with disarming Hezbollah, as it has committed to do, and that Israel will not sit back and wait. The source stressed that if Israel does not act against Hezbollah by the end of the year, the terror group could launch a surprise attack on the country.

Israel says that under the terms of the ceasefire, it has the right to strike at Hezbollah threats.

That is certainly true, but there’s even more to this new strike. Until October 7, Israel had felt compelled to ignore defiance and violations of previous ceasefire agreements with both Hamas and Hezbollah to avoid embarrassing their Western partners. After October 7, Israel has made clear that those days are over. They gave Lebanon a year to make good on its commitments to disarm and remove Hezbollah, and the Beirut government has done nothing to meet its obligations. That leaves Israel with all options open to them, and they are clearly prepared for all possibilities. It didn’t take them long to find and take out Hezbollah’s top military commander, and their intelligence will likely lead them to more key targets in the days ahead.

The lesson: Israel is in the FO business for those who FA. And that message is not just intended for Beirut, but also for Gaza City and Tehran. 

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Is committing identity theft and making the life of a man and his family hell a bad thing?

Apparently not, as long as you were also breaking the law by entering the country illegally and working illegally, racking up debts without paying them, and committing other crimes. In fact, once you are caught, the Times will classify you as a victim in need of as much sympathy as the man you have terrorized for a decade. 

At least, that is the take of the geniuses at The New York Times. 

Hope the Bishops who signed the letter against immigration enforcement read this article. Two Men—an American citizen and an illegal immigrant. One Identity. The American citizen gets screwed over for 20 years due to lack of immigration enforcement. Illegal immigrant commits…

— Mark Davis (@davis_kertwang) November 23, 2025

The Times profiles the two men in question. The two victims, as they call them. 

Dan Kluver saw the police lights flashing in his rearview mirror late last year and eased his car onto the shoulder, thinking there had been some kind of mistake. He had spent four decades in rural Minnesota without ever getting into trouble. He prided himself on a life built around dependability and routine, working at the same factory where his father once did and spending his weekends coaching baseball and teaching Sunday school. He had never fired a gun, or smoked a cigarette, or missed a payment, or been arrested.

“License and registration, please,” the officer said. Kluver, 42, handed them over and waited while the officer went back to his patrol car. He listened to the church bells that rang every hour and watched sunlight reflect off the grain silos in downtown Olivia, where he knew most of the 2,400 residents, including the officer who was walking back to his car.

“Is everything all right?” Kluver asked.

“It’s strange, but it looks like your license has been suspended,” the officer said. “You’ve got another driver’s license with some issues down in Missouri.”

“What?” Kluver said. “I’ve barely ever been to Missouri. How’s that possible?”

The officer had no answers, but Kluver feared he might know what was happening. Over the years, there had been signs that something wasn’t right — stray letters about wages earned in unfamiliar towns and collection notices for debt that wasn’t his. Kluver had tried to untangle the mess several times by hiring tax specialists and driving to government offices across the state only to run into the same bureaucratic dead ends. But now the problem was bigger than unpaid taxes. Someone was impersonating him, moving through the world as Dan Kluver, building a life in his name with a government-issued ID.

We’ve all been inundated with the horrors of identity theft, right? So much of our lives in the modern world is tied to our driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers that having somebody mess with them is a nightmare, and one that can eventually net you a visit from the police, or having to deal with debt collectors, or any number of other things. 

Some years the other Dan Kluver had earned more than his own salary at a local sugar beet factory, which pushed the total income under his Social Security number into a higher tax bracket as the debt started to mount. Twice, he’d contacted law enforcement and filed an identity theft report with the federal government, where it landed in a pile along with tens of thousands of similar reports filed each year. He waited for relief while the I.R.S. docked his annual tax returns and garnished a few of his paychecks, costing him thousands. Finally, a few months before their wedding in 2012, Kristy decided to pay off the balance, emptying her savings and sending in a check for $6,000. Their relief lasted until the next tax season, when a new bill arrived — this one for $22,000.

They spent the next decade living with the consequences — annual tax audits, budgets that never added up, whispered arguments after the kids went to bed. Kluver kept calling government numbers and waiting on hold until he eventually resigned himself to a payment plan. He agreed to send the I.R.S. $150 each month, which he’d done more than 35 times. “I can’t keep obsessing over this and getting nowhere,” he told Kristy. “I need to think about something else.”

Sounds pretty awful. The man is being bankrupted, and the person doing it is making more money than he, and walking away from debts and leaving them in Dan Kluver’s lap. 

Illegal aliens are of course the victims when illegal aliens steal the identities of citizens.

Always the victims. https://t.co/xLi5y3ZHYo

— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 24, 2025

Stealing somebody’s identity is a crime for a reason. People spend billions of dollars a year to prevent it from happening to them. Billions more are wasted trying to untangle the messes caused by identity theft. The people who commit it are criminals, not victims, and the idea that the criminal can trot out the excuse that their lives were made better by stealing others’ is hardly an excuse. 

Criminals commit crimes because they believe they will be better off by taking the things of others, obviously. That is a motive for the crime, not an excuse. 

Except, of course, if you are an illegal alien. 

He had lived under enough names and numbers in the United States that they started to blur together. Vincent Trujillo. Reynaldo Guerra. And then, for more than a decade, Daniel Kluver — the name he used until he could barely remember what it felt like to exist as himself: Romeo Pérez-Bravo, 42, a Guatemalan immigrant who had spent most of his adult life working under borrowed identities.

By the start of 2025, he was preparing for another graveyard shift in St. Joseph, Mo., lacing his work boots in the darkness of his drafty rental while his wife and five children slept. He packed their school lunches for the next day, drove to the dog-food factory and gathered with his co-workers to say their nightly prayer. Then he swiped his badge to begin another 12-hour shift as Daniel Kluver, sinking deeper into an identity that wasn’t really his own.

“Daniel?” his boss always shouted, taking attendance before they went out to their lines.

“Here,” he said.

Perez-Bravo had come to the United States for the first time at 16 to help earn money for his family, traveling alone to join his father in Marshall, Minn. He hiked out of the Guatemalan highlands, rode atop a freight train for three weeks across Mexico, nearly drowned in the Rio Grande and took a Greyhound to Middle America, where life somehow felt harder. He slept on a couch in his father’s apartment and enrolled in high school despite speaking almost no English. Then he began to look for a job, but no one would hire an underage worker without papers.

Cue the violins. Vincent came here looking for a better life, and, unfortunately, in his judgment, the only way to get it is by stealing the lives of others. So, of course, he did. What a hero. 

The first years were lonely and exhausting. He started to drink, which led to a string of D.U.I.s and other minor offenses. He was deported back to Guatemala in 2005, 2008 and 2009, but each time he returned to the United States and purchased a new ID for work. Some of the Social Security numbers were connected to child support or other debts, which meant his paychecks were garnished. Others were flagged as suspicious by H.R. departments. He sought out new documents from the black market, sending a few text messages and then meeting a middle man on a street corner in Nebraska to pay in cash. This time the Social Security card was for Daniel Kluver. Perez-Bravo didn’t know if that person was fake, or dead, or a victim of identity theft, or somehow in on the scheme. But the number worked at a succession of factory jobs across the Midwest.

Like millions of undocumented immigrants, he paid federal and state taxes that were automatically deducted from his paycheck. To Perez-Bravo, that meant he was contributing thousands into a Social Security fund from which he would never collect. But to the I.R.S., it looked like one Daniel Kluver was working several jobs, making more than $130,000 and paying a tax rate for someone living just above the poverty line.

The debts accumulated in Olivia, Minn., but the paychecks kept coming in St. Joseph, Mo. By the time Trump was elected to his second term, there were five children in Perez-Bravo’s house who also depended on the money that came each Friday in Kluver’s name. Most were U.S. citizens, ranging in age from 4 to 19, who answered his Spanish with English and hosted birthday parties at Olive Garden.

You could write this story for any number of criminals in some version or another. That drug dealer down the street? He has 4 baby mommas he has to keep fed. That pimp? His girls gotta eat. And all that cash he brings in keeps the economy moving, right? 

The narrative, man. Stick to the narrative. The law-abiding citizen whose life is being turned upside-down may be a victim, but Perez-Bravo has a story to tell, too. 

This is exactly the kind of logic that lets criminals walk the streets after tens of arrests. They are people too, so if you look at it the right way, everybody is a victim. 

And Kluver is white, so really, he is the privileged one and should be happy to help out his brown brother, who suffers from oppression that is almost as bad as Michelle Obama’s. 

Perez-Bravo wanted to live and work under his own name, so he signed up for extra shifts and stacked overtime until he could afford to hire an immigration lawyer earlier this year. He paid $4,000 upfront only to learn that the pathways to citizenship were essentially closed under the Trump administration for someone with a history of D.U.I.s and deportations, even if he’d stopped drinking and kept his record clean for the past 15 years.

“All I do is take care of my family and go to work,” he told his lawyer. “Is there no way to fix this?”

“The situation right now is very complicated,” the lawyer said.

His brother-in-law had already been pulled over on his way to work and detained as part of Operation Take Back America. Three other Guatemalan families had disappeared from church. The governor had ordered the local police to assist ICE in making arrests, and Missouri was turning some of its county jails into immigrant detention centers.

A group of far-right activists in St. Joseph had organized a tip line where people could report neighbors who they suspected were in the country illegally. Perez-Bravo called them “the hunters,” and increasingly he felt like prey, living close to the ground. He stopped going for evening walks to the park with his 4-year-old son. He drove back roads into work. He turned down promotions that would have required extra paperwork and then cashed his paychecks each Friday rather than risking the record of a bank account.

Again, cue the violins. Sure, Vincent is ruining another man’s life, but he WANTS to be a good citizen. And sure, he has escaped punishment for all his crimes for a decade. 

But really, he’s Guatemalan, so he is the real victim here. Trump is being mean to him. It may be the case that “Nobody” is above the law, but Vincent is willing to change his name to “Nobody” so he can be above the law, OK? 

And then came a detail from a police report that Kluver couldn’t shake. In the summer of 2022, the other Dan Kluver had been driving to work in St. Joseph when the serpentine belt broke in his car, causing him to lose control at a red light and collide with a grandfather and his 9-year-old granddaughter as they rode on a motorized tricycle. The girl sustained minor injuries, but the 68-year-old man flew off the bike, broke his pelvis in two places, struck his head and died. The driver stayed on the scene, praying and cooperating with the police as he handed over a license and registration for Dan Kluver. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. The crash was ruled an accident. But the victim’s family had filed a wrongful-death lawsuit — with Kluver listed as the defendant.

“It just keeps getting more unbelievable,” Kluver told Kristy. “I can understand doing whatever you have to do to provide for your kids, but now somebody’s death is attached to my name?”

“And it could be worse,” she said. “What if he was violent? What if he was a terrorist?”

Still, we learn from the Times that Vincent is a salt-of-the-earth kind of guy, so really, is it so bad that he stole somebody else’s identity, cost him tens of thousands of dollars he couldn’t afford—Dan often made less than Vincent—and landed him with other debts and a lawsuit for killing somebody. 

He was charged with aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number and was held in detention for six weeks before an initial bond hearing in April. The State of Missouri argued that he was a flight risk who needed to remain in custody until the trial. “What’s to stop him from going out and getting another identity and just living underneath that,” the prosecutor told the judge. “We’ve seen that before.”

But Perez-Bravo had most of his family and several members of his church at the hearing, and his lawyer said that he was “connected to the city in deep ways.” He regularly cooked for 60 people at church barbecues. He had a son who was about to graduate from high school, a boss who wrote letters testifying to his work ethic, and a pastor who was willing to pay a $1,000 bond on his behalf and risk her house as collateral. “This is a kind family and they help everybody,” the pastor testified. “We’re going to help him.” The judge ruled that he could return home with an ankle monitor until his next court date as long as he stopped using Kluver’s name and Social Security number.

Obviously, Vincent is the victim. The whole community, which has never met his victims, rallies around Vincent. Because they are kind. 

This is the logic of the liberal mind, which focuses on the sob stories of the “victims” they choose to care about, and only those people. It is because of such people that career criminals walk the streets and terrorize others. 

“Sure, that guy has 72 arrests and eventually throws gasoline on a woman and lights her on fire, but he had a tough childhood!”

In recent pieces, I have written about the necessary cruelty that makes society possible. It is true enough that Vincent came here for a better life than he could have had in Guatemala, and that he has not been intentionally cruel as far as we know (although, really, do you trust the Times to tell us if he were a wife-beater?), but society has rules for a reason. 

Something like 3 billion people want to live in the United States. We already groan under the weight of tens of millions of illegal aliens. Even the pope, who criticizes how cruel Trump’s immigration policies are, admits that countries need borders and must enforce them. 

Pope Leo XIV responding to the US bishops’ statement on the detention and deportation of migrants:

“No one has said that the United States should have open borders. I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter. But when people are living good… pic.twitter.com/1wK9suWlNJ

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) November 18, 2025

But he is wrong. Plenty of people say we should have open borders, and if you only focus on the desires of the people who want in you ignore the larger picture. People want to live here because we have built a country and a culture that is superior to others, and opening the doors will destroy that. It will bring us to the lowest common denominator. 

And, along the way, it will victimize people like Dan Kluver. But he doesn’t count. He’s privileged. 

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Welcome to Day Six of the latest stupid and dangerous stunt pulled by Capitol Hill Democrats. I say Day Six, but for all intents and purposes, when you add the six days of Code Redgate to the 43 days of the government shutdown orchestrated by the very same Democrats in Washington, you’re nearing 50 days of rhetorical and political warfare on America’s military in order to weaken President Donald Trump. 

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin was the first of six members of both chambers with military experience to voice their part in a 90-second video warning rank and file military servicemembers not to obey illegal orders. Joining Slotkin was Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, House Representatives Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of a rented apartment in New Hampshire she had to lease after she won a carpetbagger campaign, and Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlihan, both from Pennsylvania. It’s a recklessly dangerous and stupid video, and one that should cost all six their seats in office if the country weren’t so polarized right now. In case you missed the triggering video, here it is.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship. pic.twitter.com/N8lW0EpQ7r

— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) November 18, 2025

In short, it’s wildly absurd, and about the dumbest presentation Democrats have offered since…Chuck Schumer’s defense of the government shutdown. There have been no illegal orders given. None. Every court challenge that has been fully adjudicated with respect to any military activities understaken by this commander-in-chief has resulted in Trump’s favor. 

So why is this still a story almost a week later when it’s so obviously a political stunt timed to drop after the Epstein Files stunt ran out of gas last week? Three reasons

1. Resistance media was on board with this story because it helped them turn the page from the shutdown and Epstein, and this media class in the Beltway-Manhattan Bubble has never met a Russiagate-esque smear job they didn’t love to promote,.

2. Donald Trump, thus far fairly disciplined in his social media presence this term compared to his first stint in office, nevertheless threw a spoke and poured gasoline all over this fire by referring to those in the video as the ‘Seditious Six.’ It gave a story that should have been a 1-2 day stunt enough oxygen to continue for the foreseeable future, or until the next Trump-hating shiny object emerges.

3. Democrats are now portraying themselves as victims of potential right-wing violence. 

Media’s role in the latest anti-Trump psyop was pretty represensible for the first few days, becasue with a story like this, there’s really only one question to ask any of the six in the video. It’s Journalism 101. If you are collecting a paycheck as a reporter or journalist, especially one on the cable outlets, there is only one question: What orders are being given to the troops that they should not be obeying? That’s it. That’s the entirety of the question set for the interview of any of the six. 

Jake Tapper, who is still on extended holiday from committing journalism, at least when Democrats are involved, brought on Maggie Goodlander, who is emerging as the ringleader of this band of malicious misfits. Could he be bothered to ask her what her evidence was for making this video? No. Not one question asked her directly what illegal order or orders were given. Instead, this is what we got. 

Insurrectionist Maggie Goodlander’s husband, Russiagate Conspiracy architect Jake Sullivan, arranged for her to see his co-conspirator Jake Tapper. pic.twitter.com/6BNpFcJ9xa

— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) November 21, 2025

Goodlander is not just an innocent rube here, being caught up in the latest Trump gotcha video. She is married to Jake Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s bagman and Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor. If you want to know how Russiagate was even remotely possible and taken seriously when it was created out of whole cloth, Sullivan was right there in the middle of the fiction writing. As for Mrs. Sullivan, she clerked for former Attorney General Merrick Garland when he was a D.C. Appellate Court judge. She also has been fighting back against campaign financial disclosures, which are bizarre to say the least. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have worked together on bull excrement scandals before, and this time seems no different.

This entire stunt reeks of a Sullivan-Clinton-Biden-Obama dirty trick. It’s coming on the heels of the military being screwed out of paychecks for almost two months, and the left-wing establishment would love nothing more than to drive a wedge between Donald Trump and the U.S. military, which thus far loves the actions and decisions of this administration. 

A day later, Wolf Blitzer on the same network got a little closer to the only salient question, but still couldn’t get there, and yet Goodlander still struggled on the hook. 

WATCH: New Hampshire Democrat Maggie Goodlander BRUTALLY struggles to answer whether members of the military have told her they have been given unlawful orders.

GOODLANDER: “Well… you know… what I’d say is…the, the…” pic.twitter.com/S6K31c9rAK

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 21, 2025

On the main five Sunday shows, Goodlander didn’t appear. But she did appear on MS-Something Timely with Alex Witt, about as friendly an outlet as she’s going to get outside of CNN. Except Witt, to her great credit, finally asked her the only real question. And Mrs. Sullivan lapsed into a Kamala Harris word salad.

Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH) is asked to her face what illegal orders she wants the US Military to disobey.

She refuses to answer. She doesn’t even say what she thinks may have been illegal.

Goodlander is terrified because she’s committed sedition.pic.twitter.com/2j0SYLo6b8 https://t.co/IWJUOcHCQe

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 23, 2025

You see, of course, why if the real question is asked to any of the six, the story ends, right? They can’t name an illegal order, because there has been no illegal order given. What you’re left with then is a video meant to insinuate there has been, and give military servicemembers doing their jobs and obeying lawful orders pause, because they might be politically prosecuted under a Democratic administration. 

Is it sedition? No. Sedition includes a conspiracy to overthrow the government. These six just want to throw wrenches at Trump any way possible, not overthrow it. If it’s the President’s desire to end this controversy and keep others from pulling a stunt like this in the future, he’s creating the opposite effect. Democrats since January 20th have been looking for a part of Trump’s skin to crawl under and get him sidetracked. Thus far, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been a positive influence in keeping everyone in the administration rowing the boat in the same direction. This, however, isn’t helping. 

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just posted a video of the 6 Congressional Democrats BEHIND BARS after they fomented sedition from the military and CIA

Hope you’re watching, AG Bondi!

MAKE IT HAPPEN. Or seditious behavior will GROW in the United States. pic.twitter.com/zVe7zV0Yiq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2025

Senator Slotkin, who appeared on ABC’s This Week with Martha Raddatz, gets the gold for the wildest spin when confronted with the reality that there’s no there there to the illegal orders video. 

Slotkin is using an accusation in former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s 2022 memoir that Donald Trump allegedly told him to order the military to shoot protesters in the legs. There were other people in the room, and there are plenty of people in the chain of command who would be able to corroborate that claim. To date, exactly zero have. It’s Esper, who hates Trump, and his word versus the rest of the military serving during Trump’s first term. Even after Raddatz pushed back that there’s no corroboration to that allegation, Slotkin is still holding onto it as though it’s the Gospel truth. 

But then, Slotkin takes it one step further. Remember, the same Washington, D.C. Democrats have been warning ICE agents doing their job enforcing the immigration laws of the United States that when Democrats do regain power, those agents face criminal prosecutions. The threats aren’t just implicit; they’re very real. But to military servicemembers, Slotkin is speaking very directly to them, too. Keep up what you’re doing, enforcing Trump’s legal orders, and you’ll face your own Nuremberg trials once we get voted back in. 

Democrats, because of Trump’s social media comments, are complaining about threats they’re receiving now that the Sedition rhetoric has been invoked, but the actual threats being issued, to anyone willing to see them, are to those wearing the uniform and obeying the chain of command from the commander-in-chief down. 

Deranged.

Senator Slotkin (D-MI) says no unlawful military orders have been given, yet goes on to say US service members could be prosecuted like Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg:

“Go back to Nuremberg: ‘Well, they told me to do it’ is not an excuse… People were prosecuted.” pic.twitter.com/GLZuQc4Aca

— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) November 23, 2025

Raddatz got down to the one question to Slotkin that matters. Her answer? “To my knowledge, I’m not aware of things that are illegal.” Oh? So there’s no predicate for the video at all then? 

Slotkin said, “No, comma, but…” Her ‘but’ shifted back to Nuremberg and A Few Good Men, the Tom Cruise/Jack Nicholson movie about the Code Red, and whether the two Marines should have followed what they should have known was an illegal order. That’s Slotkin’s case for the video. You want Slotkin on that wall. You need Slotkin on that wall. She wants “her” truth, even though she can’t handle the actual truth, which is that Trump has acted legally as commander-in-chief. In her world, as soon as Democrats come to power, they will retroactively make anything Trump did illegal, and go prosecute anyone who followed out what they should have known in the future Democrats would have a problem with. That’s what is so dangerous about the video the six made. 

On Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan displayed a case of the Journalistic Bends. She landed two of the six from the video in question – Mark Kelly and Jason Crow, and treated them wholly differently from each other in the span of 20 minutes. In the case of Kelly, whom she obviously likes, he got a total pass. 

WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan offers NO PUSHBACK to Sen. Mark Kelly’s gaslighting about Trump allegedly ordering protesters be shot in the legs as the basis for the “seditious” video, pivots straight to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/fMNqsb3dTa

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 23, 2025

The laziest question any interviewer can ask a book author is, ‘So why’d you write the book?’ The book, if the interviewer did their due diligence by reading before the interview, should purportedly answer that question at length. This question by Brennan was just as lazy. “Why’d you make the video?” It was a softball on a tee, and she got out of the way for a minute-plus and let Kelly have his say. Once he was done, she moved on to Ukraine without a single follow-up. No pushback whatsoever. 

A few moments later, Rep. Crow from Colorado was up, and Brennan apparently doesn’t have the same cozy relationship she has with Kelly. 

CBS: “How do you respond to the allegations…from your colleagues, fellow veterans that what you put out there is weakening and corrosive?”

CROW: “They know better. We were very clear in the video that what we are talking about is unlawful orders.”

CBS: “Specifically what?’… pic.twitter.com/ovbwpkJHt1

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 23, 2025

Brennan asked him directly what the illegal orders were, and when he came up with his list, she immediately pushed back, saying none of those had been ruled as illegal. So she knows. She didn’t have to consult her notes. She knows the story is crap, yet she let Kelly advance it for inexplicable reasons. 

I’ll leave you with this. Amy Klobuchar, who is regarded to be the brain trust for the Democrats in the Senate should Chuck Schumer lose his position of leader, was on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. Welker asked her the question: What are the illegal orders? This is what Klobuchar offered. 

Welker: “Do you know what the specific illegal acts are that your Democratic colleagues were referring to?”

Klobuchar: “If [a National Guard] commander were to tell [troops], hey, go out on the streets and do this and that, that’s not following the order that is in law. So I… https://t.co/viCkHoAxMJ pic.twitter.com/Qht2S09sNg

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 23, 2025

I’ve listened to that answer three times now in an attempt to provide cogent analysis for my rebuttal. I got nothing. I don’t know where Klobuchar’s answer starts, and where Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians ends. 

I’m not aware of too many things.
I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

My friendly advice to the White House? Op-Dray the edition-say, and call it what it is – stupid, and a threat to the military. Both Trump and Vice-President Vance should remind voters who are in service to this country, or have members of their family wearing the uniform, that under this administration, from the President down through the chain of command, they have the backs of the military. If Democrats get elected, not only will they not pay you for months on end without losing a wink of sleep and treat you like a political pawn, they’ll put you on trial for following orders.

Republicans: Use the words and threats of the Democrats against them with the very people to whom those threats were made. And then do it again and again. 

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“Nobody is above the law” is one of those appealing phrases that liberals love. They love words that pluck your emotional strings and that, at best, turn off your rational faculties. 

The principle, of course, is sound. Application of the rules should not be arbitrary or depend on one’s station in life or what social circle one belongs to. That is why Lady Justice is portrayed as blind. 

But really, do the people who invoke that mantra really believe it? 

A story in three parts:

Pritzker calls DHS report on people boxing in and ramming federal vehicles “propaganda”

Duckworth says DHS is “lying” about people boxing in and ramming federal vehicles

24 hrs later: CPD Sup demands people stop boxing in and ramming federal vehicles pic.twitter.com/mO39u0cw7F

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 6, 2025

The question answers itself. Like so many phrases it is deployed in the most sophistical manner possible. When they say “Nobody,” they use it as a proper name, not as a category that applies to the population. Substitute “Democrats” or “Liberals” in the phrase and it is far more accurate. 

MS NOW panelist Jason Johnson celebrates ICE vehicle tire-slashing in Charlotte:

“It is a demonstration that the American public, when they’re not being listened to, these are the options they will take.”

He’s absolutely giddy. pic.twitter.com/uaRowAKvt3

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 23, 2025

There are countless examples of this fact. Liberal activists routinely break the law, assaulting people, impeding law enforcement, vandalizing property, leaking classified information, and even lying to courts or Congress. Liberal judges will dismiss charges against people who have committed heinous crimes, and the entire liberal establishment is on a jihad to protect millions of people who entered the country illegally. 

Man holding a “You proved Charlie right” sign was ATTACKED and pushed to the ground by anti-ICE leftists.

After getting up, an activist tried to steal his sign while another threw a liquid on him.

The Left loves violence. Charlie was right.pic.twitter.com/GaFxnnghfj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 3, 2025

In other words, there are a lot of people in that category, “Nobodies” who are, in fact, above the law. And, come to think of it, “law” is one of those categories that gets awful squishy with Democrats, who seem to rewrite it in their minds whenever it suits them. 

I think the Secret Service or the FBI needs to visit this woman over what her sign says about President Trump. pic.twitter.com/oBIXg7mcYc

— SonnyBoy🇺🇸 (@gotrice2024) October 21, 2025

Democrats went to bat for Antifa. They celebrated riots to the point that they got on their knees to honor people burning down our cities. 

When Luigi Mangione gunned down an innocent man who worked in an industry liberals love to both criticize and subsidize to the tune of billions of dollars a year, liberals became clapping seals, and even lawmakers trotted out the old “I don’t approve of violence, but…”

🚨 BREAKING: Masked rioters are blocking and ATTACKING ICE agents’ vehicles at the Broadview ICE facility outside outside Chicago

It’s time to send in the National Guard

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! pic.twitter.com/BOqpKK2PrR

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 26, 2025

Judges have housed illegal aliens in their homes, escorted criminal illegal aliens out of their courtrooms, and state government officials have declared that they will impede federal law enforcement agents as they do their jobs. 

The Dems/MSM are claiming that Portland is completely peaceful and that there is no need for Trump to send troops to the ICE facility.

Meanwhile, in reality, this is what the ICE facility in Portland goes through almost every night.

The Dems/MSM are defending these people…… pic.twitter.com/uG2Y4aX2XC

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) September 28, 2025

The fact is that liberals believe that the law is not a tool to be used to ensure that society runs fairly and according to the will of the electorate. As much as they talk about law, norms, democracy, and all the fine principles that we all associate with civilization, when faced with following the rules or deferring to the expressed will of the electorate, they refuse to. 

Classic theater kid Democrats.

If you’re trying to fear-monger about Trump giving “illegal orders” and the best examples you can come up with are not Trump, but the Nazi’s in WW2 and a fictional example from the movie a Few Good Men, you might not be a serious person. https://t.co/SJW6vFOK9e

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 23, 2025

Democrats produced a video last week with their usual appeal to important principles we all embrace, but it is clear that the intent is to encourage exactly the opposite of what they claim. While encouraging members of the military and intelligence community to refuse unlawful orders, they conveniently ignore the fact that they cannot name a single unlawful order that has been given. 

Elissa Slotkin ADMITS Democrats lied about President Trump issuing illegal orders to the military:

ABC: “Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?”

SLOTKIN: “To my knowledge I am not aware of things that are illegal.” pic.twitter.com/63F8AHkK7E

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 23, 2025

They pull out the Nazis again, because everything they disagree with is Nazi, but what they are trying to do is normalize questioning orders. The goal is to politicize the military and suggest that unlawful orders are common enough under Trump. 

Given that Democrats define “the law” to mean “things I approve of,” what they are encouraging is for people whose job is to execute orders to question every single one. “We have your back,” these legislators say. Just as they have Antifa’s back, or the people attacking ICE. 

🚨The Democrats Have Normalized Political Violence

Death threats. Bomb threats. Swatting attacks. The UNPRECEDENTED wave of violence targeting President Trump and his Cabinet continues.

🧵Here’s what they DON’T want you to know… pic.twitter.com/NHNepGENpa

— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) May 20, 2025

Democrats normalized members of the Executive Branch disobeying the president in his first term, lionizing the #resistance. Their goal was to render the 2016 election as irrelevant as possible. Sure, Trump was elected, but the goal was to make it impossible to be the Chief Executive. 

The entire establishment cheered. Then lectured us about “norms,” the “rule of law,” and “saving democracy.” 

What they meant, though, was simply “rule by Democrats.”

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