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So much for reconciliation. This weekend, Donald Trump suggested that he would work with a judge’s order on Friday to restore SNAP funding through emergency reserves, although Trump wanted the court to clarify how that would work. By Sunday evening’s interview on 60 Minutes, however, Trump had begun hardening his position again:

Norah O’Donnell (33:00): Under your presidency, we’re talking about more than a million federal workers who are not getting a paycheck, including our air traffic controllers. You see, there’s traffic snarls out at the airports now. This weekend, food aid for more than 42 million Americans is set to expire. What are you doing as president to end the shutdown?

Donald Trump (33:21): All we’re doing is we keep voting. I mean, the Republicans are voting almost unanimously to end it, and the Democrats keep voting against ending it. They’ve never had this; this has happened like 18 times before. The Democrats have always voted for an extension, always saying, “Give us an extension. We’ll work it out.” They’ve lost their weight. They’ve become crazed lunatics, and all they have to do, Norah, is say, “Let’s vote.” And you can open… The economy could open up during our interview. Maybe it did. 

…

Norah O’Donnell (34:51): So your plan…

Donald Trump (34:52): And all they have to do is raise five hands; we don’t need all of them.

Norah O’Donnell (34:55): So you’re saying your plan is to tell the Democrats to vote to end the shutdown.

Donald Trump (35:00): Correct. Very simple.

Earlier today, Trump explicitly refused to budge on SNAP until Democrats voted to open the government: 

Yesterday, however, the USDA and Department of Justice told the court they would comply with the Friday order, albeit with insufficient funds for the month’s benefits. It might take a while to create an equitable plan for disbursements, given the limited funds available. The time frame looks pretty similar to an outright refusal:

The $4.65 billion that remains in the contingency fund would cover about half of the benefits for November, according to a declaration from Patrick Penn, the deputy undersecretary for the USDA’s Food Nutrition and Consumer Services.

The DOJ said in another filing it would soon produce a “table” for states to calculate the reduced benefits available for each household, and that it would begin disbursing the funds once that table is produced.

Penn wrote it could take states “anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months” to update their systems to distribute reduced benefits.

“Given the variation among State systems, some of which are decades old, it is unclear how many States will complete the changes in an automated manner with minimal disruption versus manual overrides or computations that could lead to payment errors and significant delays,” Penn wrote.

In other words, the partial distribution might not take place until after the first of the year, thanks to the necessity of creating entirely different tables to calculate benefits. It’s not an appeal, but the use of bureaucratic inertia accomplishes the same outcome. Nothing will move until Senate Democrats pass the clean CR. 

Will they throw in the towel? There may come a day when the partisanship of Democrats fails, when they forsake their radical allies and break all bonds of TDS, but … it is not this day, unfortunately:

Senate votes 54-44 on 14th test vote for government funding. Needed 60 yeas
Dems voting yes: Cortez Masto, Fetterman, & King (I). GOP Senator Paul voted nay

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 4, 2025

So what now? Tonight, the elections in New Jersey and Virginia will end, at which point Chuck Schumer can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no reason to keep stirring the pot — and stiffing the poor — in order to keep radical organizers on side. Perhaps as early as tomorrow, Senate Democrats will generate enough flips to enable a final floor vote on a clean CR, and all of this will have been for nothing at all. Nothing, that is, except for Schumer to have protected his career from the Democratic Socialists and their minions. 

The latest episode of The Ed Morrissey Show podcast is now up! Today’s show features:

•  Donald Trump took a victory lap on 60 Minutes Sunday, and Andrew Malcolm and I break it down. 
• Chuck Schumer’s midnight confessions come up as well. 
• We also discuss new data on foreign money flowing into Democrat politics, and its impact on the party’s orientation.  

The Ed Morrissey Show is now a fully downloadable and streamable show at  Spotify, Apple Podcasts, the TEMS Podcast YouTube channel, and on Rumble and our own in-house portal at the #TEMS page!

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British right-wing firebrand and anti-immigrant crusader Tommy Robinson (born ‘Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’) has spent a fair bit of the past couple of years at loggerheads with the British government, and particularly the new Labour one of Sir Keir Starmer. The woke bunch in White Hall are most definitely not members of Robinson’s fan club, and have gone out of their way to make sure that every single complaint against him – and there are many, as he is both a target and a pretty obnoxious character – is thoroughly investigated as far as its potential for some hoosgow time.

The government believes it works to their advantage to have the voluble bad boy locked up for as long as they can swing it, even though it turns out to be very much an Obi-Wan situation of being struck down and becoming more powerful.

Incarceration enhances Robinson’s rebel appeal to an increasingly oppressed British public as they watch their country disappear around them in real time with the government’s full blessing.

In July of 2024, Robinson was in a quite expensive car and headed out for what was a pretty regular visit to Benidorm, Spain. He was planning to take the Chunnel, whose entrance is in Folkestone, Southeast England. Robinson was stopped in the inspection lane by police and questioned, who found he also had quite a bit of cash on him.

Things then took a twist when police demanded that Robinson turn over his phone and the passcode so they could inspect the contents.

Robinson said, ‘No.’

…An officer was suspicious of Robinson because of his behaviour, the expensive car he was driving, a friend’s silver Bentley Bentayga SUV, and the fact he had only bought a ticket to travel on that day, prosecutors previously told Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Police asked the 42-year-old for the pin for his iPhone, but he refused because he said it contained “journalistic material.”

That was insufficient for the police, who had, of course, recognized Robinson, who was none too pleased about what seemed to be purely political harassment. 

 …“He gave short, vague replies and made no eye contact,” she said.

Robinson, who was recognised by police, was led to an interview room and his phone was seized, the court heard.

…Asked to hand over the phone’s Pin, Robinson replied: “Not a chance, bruv… you look like c—s so you ain’t having it.”

“It’s my work, I’m a journalist,” he said, adding that the phone held information about “vulnerable girls”.

“The process by which journalistic material would be protected was explained to him,” Ms Morris said.

After his refusal, Robinson was held and then charged under the UK’s terrorism code. 

…At the time, Kent Police said a 41-year-old man was detained by officers under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Under the legislation, police are allowed to stop anyone passing through a UK port “to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism”.

The person who is detained can be held for up to six hours, is legally obliged to answer questions and must provide the password or Pin for electronic devices, or be held to have committed a criminal offence if they refuse.

Robinson was charged with one count of failing to provide the Pin to his mobile phone under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, police said.

He was turned loose for a trial to be scheduled later.

In October of last year, Robinson was sent to prison on a contempt of court citation, but was released early this past May after the original 18-month sentence was reduced.

He still had some court dates to keep when he walked out, and one of them was for the Chunnel incident.

…Robinson was charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence between August 5 and 7 2024.

He is also facing a separate trial in October next year over an accusation that he failed to provide the Pin for his mobile phone when stopped by Kent Police in Folkestone in July 2024.

There’s also been some interesting discussion about the amount of cash Robinson had on him. It seems that’s often the case anymore, as he’s been debanked in the UK courtesy of his various court cases and status as a dangerous ‘right-wing’ agitator.

Three weeks ago, the hearing on the terrorism charge began, and from the very beginning, the police seemed to have problems justifying the stop. Robinson’s lawyer, paid for by none other than Elon Musk, hammered home the biased and targeted nature of the entire episode.

…Alisdair Williamson KC, defending, said the reason police stopped Robinson for the “fishing expedition” was based to a “significant degree on a protected characteristic”, his Right-wing views.

“We say it is obvious,” he told the court. “He was stopped unlawfully, detained unlawfully for 40 minutes and asked questions that were something to do with his political beliefs.”

Pc Mitchell Thorogood, the officer who detained Robinson, told the court on Tuesday that he did so because it was “unusual” for someone to drive alone in a luxury car that was not his own all the way to Benidorm.

However, Mr Williamson told the court that Robinson’s passport showed he often travelled to Benidorm and the officers’ line of questioning was focused on current affairs, suggesting Robinson’s political beliefs were their “predominant influence”.

There was a break of another few weeks before a decision was rendered, as Robinson – again, accused of a terrorism-related offense – was allowed to go ahead with a previously planned visit to Israel.

Yesterday, everyone was back in court for the verdict and holding their collective breaths.

We live in a totalitarian state.

These snivelling cretins will imprison those who dissent.

Be aware and be awake, your thoughts are criminal and your words are violence to these people.

— The Native Hare (@thenativehare) November 3, 2025

Somehow, Robinson had lucked into a British judge who still believed in freedom.

I CANNOT CONVICT YOU

Tommy Robinson was stopped by police and charged with a terror offence because of his political beliefs, a judge has ruled.

On Tuesday, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was cleared of the terror charge at Westminster magistrates’ court.

He was stopped in his Bentley at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone in July 2024 and accused of “frustration” of police counter-terrorism powers after refusing to give police his mobile phone password.

District Judge Sam Goozee found Robinson not guilty of failing to comply with the counter-terrorism powers during the incident on July 28 last year.

Mr Goozee said: “I cannot put out of my mind that it was actually what you stood for and your political beliefs that acted as the principal reason for this stop.”

He also said Pc Mitchell Thorogood’s decision to stop Robinson was based on a “protected characteristic”, adding: “I cannot convict you.”

That is actually a very powerful comment to have been made by a British judge.

Making it clear a UK citizen was targeted and falsely arrested by British police for personally held beliefs, of which many are based in fact.

The Police either seriously change their direction from…

— LJ 𝕏 (@LORDLJS) November 4, 2025

…Making it clear a UK citizen was targeted and falsely arrested by British police for personally held beliefs, of which many are based in fact. 

The Police either seriously change their direction from here or they will lose all trust and respect from the public.

Robinson’s post-verdict interviews and ones such as this with Ezra Levant emphasize the judge’s scathing criticism of the police in his decision and the illegality of the entire episode.

🚨Tommy Robinson acquitted of all charges under the Terrorism Act.

The judge was blistering in his criticism of the police, saying their testimony lacked “credibility” and that they had in fact targeted Tommy for political reasons, which is illegal.

Incredible outcome. pic.twitter.com/SdtpP5UqjM

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) November 4, 2025

As Robison predicted, if one watched the mainstream media reports, would any of those salient points make their broadcasts?

I WAS TARGETED BECAUSE OF MY POLITICAL BELIEFS!!

Thank you @elonmusk for fighting in my corner, you’re an absolute legend!!! pic.twitter.com/vx405cCP6d

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) November 4, 2025

In fact, they did not.

Robinson was simply found ‘not guilty’ of a terror-related offense. The SkyNews anchor looks so sad and confused about the outcome. 

No mention of the ‘Unlawful Arrest’
No mention of the Judge’s scathing attack on the Police
No mention of the appalling way he was treated

Sky News omits as much as possible regarding the NOT GUILTY verdict on Tommy Robinson

This is why the mainstream legacy media is dying… pic.twitter.com/kMx53qQghZ

— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) November 4, 2025

As another analyst said, this does throw a wrinkle into the next court session, the harassment case. This apparently revolves around two reporters who photographed Robinson and his family on vacation, so Robinson returned the favor and photographed them photographing.

Robinson was arrested and charged with harassment. The reporters were not.

His defense team will now be able to argue that the charges were politically motivated targeting as part of their case.

To his credit, Robinson has been effusive in his thanks to Musk for the generous assistance covering the over £100,000 cost of defending this one legal action.

As he says, though – what a shame an American businessman is the only one willing to pay to defend an Englishman from the overreach of his own government.

The ‘rights’ of Englishmen hang by a slender thread.

At least there’s still one judge who recalls what that phrase used to mean.

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I did not know this until I ran across a post on X, but come December 27, 2025, every internet search any person makes will require Digital ID verification before it can be completed. 

If the search engine provider fails to check for your ID, they face a $50 million fine. For each “breach” of the law. 

Needless to say, I am pretty sure that search engines will comply with the law. 

Australians will soon be subjected to mandatory age checks across the internet landscape, in what has been described as a huge and unprecedented change.

Search engines are next in line for the same controversial age-assurance technology behind the teen social media ban, and other parts of the internet are likely to follow suit.

At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users, in an effort to limit children’s access to harmful content such as pornography.

But experts have warned the move could compromise Australians’ privacy online and may not do much to protect young people.

“I have not seen anything like this anywhere else in the world,” said Lisa Given, professor of Information Sciences from RMIT, who specialises in age-assurance technology.

“As people learn about the implications of this, we will likely see people stepping up and saying, ‘Wait a minute, why wasn’t I told that this was going to happen?'”

From December 27, Google — which dominates the Australian search market with a share of more than 90 per cent — and its rival, Microsoft, will have to use some form of age-assurance technology on users when they sign in, or face fines of almost $50 million per breach.

The search results for logged-in users under the age of 18 will be filtered for pornography, high-impact violence, material promoting eating disorders and a range of other content.

Despite the apparent magnitude of the shift, it has mostly gone unnoticed, in stark contrast to the political and media fanfare surrounding the teen social media ban, which will block under-16s from major platforms using similar technology.

It’s for the children, you see. Because of course it is. Everything is for the children. 

DIGITAL ID – Australia lets the cat out of the bag!

In order to ban under 16s from social media, EVERYONE will have to have digital ID or they won’t be able to get on the internet

It wasn’t a conspiracy theory was it 🔥

pic.twitter.com/yN07eSf3dy

— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) November 11, 2024

This is one more example of how privacy protections are eroding faster than a dam built of loose straw in the Anglosphere. Age restrictions on pornography, or, less convincingly, on social media, can be justified as necessary to protect children from genuinely harmful content. But requiring every search to be tied to a specific identified person is an outrageous invasion of privacy and ripe for abuse. 

Australia Just Normalized Mass Online ID Checks—Your Country Could Be Next

Starting December 27, Australians will be forced to upload government ID every time they search the web while logged in. Google, Bing—it doesn’t matter. No ID, no search.

The excuse? Protecting kids from… pic.twitter.com/k8HxL87v4n

— Camus (@newstart_2024) November 3, 2025

Starting December 27, Australians will be forced to upload government ID every time they search the web while logged in. Google, Bing—it doesn’t matter. No ID, no search.

The excuse? Protecting kids from adult content. The reality? A full-scale experiment in digital control.

– Mandatory ID uploads for all users—teenagers, seniors, everyone.

– Facial recognition or digital ID linking as the “convenient” alternative.

– No opt-out. No transparency. Just compliance.

This isn’t just about Australia. It’s a test case for global surveillance. Once the infrastructure exists, what’s stopping other governments from adopting it? Tracking searches? Censoring results? Who decides what you’re allowed to see?

If this stands, your country will be next.

The slippery slope starts here. Will you let them build it?

I almost never agree with The Guardian, but their description of how dystopian the Digital ID requirement is and how it has been slipped in through the back door is one place I can do so. 

If this is the first time you’re hearing about it, you’re not alone. Despite the significance of the changes, these latest rules are the result of industry codes, which differs to regular legislation. These codes don’t go through parliament. Instead, they’re developed by the tech industry and registered by the eSafety commissioner in a process called co-regulation. On one hand, this can be good: it can allow for more flexibility or technology-specific detail that is less appropriate in legislation. On the other: it creates risk of industry co-option, and by bypassing parliamentary process, can give an enormous amount of power to an unelected official (in this case, the eSafety commissioner).

Greens senator David Shoebridge has called the implications of age verification for search engines “staggering” and noted that “these proposals don’t have to go through an elected parliament and we can’t vote them down no matter how significant concerns are. That combined with lack of public input is a serious issue.”

The age verification policy development process has been littered with blunders that make a mockery of meaningful consultation and evidence-based policy development. It is particularly striking that these codes were drafted before the completion of the government’s $6.5m trial into the efficacy of age assurance. Later, the trial’s preliminary findings conceded the technology is not guaranteed to be effective, and noted “concerning evidence” that some technology providers were seeking to collect too much personal information.

You see how they did this? Not through a law, where there are democratic checks on lawmakers, but through regulations, which are designed and implemented behind closed doors. Bureaucrats—technocrats—run our lives for their convenience. 

Everybody needs a digital ID, say heads of state and high-tech leaders. They give many reasons: it will stop illegal migration; it will increase efficiency; it will protect privacy; and it will prevent online fraud and data ransoming.

But we don’t need digital IDs for any of… pic.twitter.com/PxFlUy5weH

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 27, 2025

Soon enough, the government will be able to conveniently track you across the internet without effort. Your travels will be tagged with your ID, and your search inquiries will be there for all to see. 

Social credit system, here we come. 

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It’s not the first time Trump has said it. Just four days ago he called for Senate Republicans to “INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION.'” As Ed pointed out here, that was quickly batted down by Sen. Thune.

But this morning, Trump has put out two messages on Truth Social about it. The first one is pretty lengthy.

The Democrats are far more likely to win the Midterms, and the next Presidential Election, if we don’t do the Termination of the Filibuster (The Nuclear Option!), because it will be impossible for Republicans to get Common Sense Policies done with these Crazed Democrat Lunatics being able to block everything by withholding their votes. FOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED.  Elections, including the Midterms, will be rightfully brutal. If we do terminate the Filibuster, we will get EVERYTHING approved, like no Congress in History. We will have FAIR, FREE, and SAFE Elections, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everybody, Strong Borders, Major Tax and Energy Cuts, and will secure our Second Amendment, which the Democrats will also terminate, IMMEDIATELY. If we don’t do it, they are far more likely to do well in the upcoming Elections, which would mean a PACKED Supreme Court, 2 more States and 4 more Democrat Senators (D.C. and Puerto Rico), and 8 more Electoral Votes. Remember, Republicans, they are going to end the Filibuster as soon as they get the chance We know this because they already tried, and the only two people who didn’t go along are now out of office. But they have much less chance of WINNING if we have Great Policy Wins after Wins after Wins. IN FACT, THEY WILL LOSE BIG, AND FOR A VERY LONG TIME. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW, END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY, AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY WONDERFUL REPUBLICAN POLICY THAT WE HAVE DREAMT OF, FOR YEARS, BUT NEVER GOTTEN. WE WILL BE THE PARTY THAT CANNOT BE BEATEN – THE SMART PARTY!!!

And a couple of hours later Trump tweeted this for emphasis.

I think whoever goes nuclear on this is going to live to regret it. But even putting aside the long-term argument, I think there’s a good short term argument that Republicans shouldn’t be doing it now.

Democrats spent a month openly preparing to climb out on this limb with no plan to accomplish anything besides make demands and hope the media would back them up. They’ve since spent another five weeks pretending their planned stunt is the GOP’s fault. But in the past week or so we’ve started to see the pain of this shutdown finally bite some real people. On top of that, the media are starting to (finally) get a little tougher on Democrats and framing this as their choice, which of course it was all along.

The best outcome here for Republicans is that Democrats have to awkwardly climb off this limb on their own. Of course they’ll claim it was a triumph of political strategy, but a lot of Americans won’t buy it. Once it’s clear they accomplished nothing, even some Democrats will start asking, what was the point of all that? And maybe a few media outlets will actually ask Chuck Schumer and other Dems that very question.

The alternative to that is the nuclear option, ending the filibuster. If the GOP does that, suddenly Dems are completely off the hook. They have been claiming that this was the GOP shutdown all along specifically because the GOP could, in theory, end it by taking this step. Ending the filibuster would vindicate that message.

See, we told you this was the GOP shutdown and the GOP finally decided to end it.

In that case, there will be no media attention on Democrats and no pressure on them to explain their role in all of this. All of the media attention would go to the GOP, asking if they are being too extreme. 

Meanwhile, Democrats can sit back and claim they have achieved a result with their stunt. Instead of handing them an awkward, pointless defeat, the GOP would be handing them a short term excuse and a PR win.

Now, you can certainly argue that what follows will be something the Dems don’t like very much. That may be true, but in the immediate term it’s still saving Dems from themselves after two solid months of stupidity. So, again, why would the GOP want to come to their rescue when they need it most? Let them instead stand in front of the voters and stutter stupidly about the point of their shutdown when it accomplishes nothing and they wind up voting for the clear CR anyway.

Sen. Thune hasn’t responded directly to Trump’s calls to nuke the filibuster, but he did post this video a few minutes ago. He notes at the end of this that a 15th vote to end the shutdown will be held today.

“Every day gets better for us.”

Those were the words of the Democrat leader one week into this shutdown, reflecting on the supposed benefits of the shutdown for Senate Democrats.

But thanks to Senate Democrats, every day is getting worse for the American people. pic.twitter.com/dL5IGFkXGh

— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) November 4, 2025

Democrats are drowning. Don’t hand them a life raft. Just make them own this absolute failure.

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John Fetterman may be the most surprising comeback story in modern politics. He defeated a so-called moderate in Conor Lamb to win the Democrat senatorial nomination in Pennsylvania three years ago, just as he suffered a major stroke. He refused to back out of the election and defeated GOP nominee Mehmet Oz to win his seat in the US Senate. Fetterman battled his way back to health, only to then spend the next two years battling his own party’s sharp turn toward radicalism, especially in regard to Israel, terrorism, and now socialism.

You simply cannot do all of that without integrity, as well as an innate sense of optimism. Fetterman shows both in this exchange with Jesse Watters from last night, but his optimism is clearly misplaced when it comes to the Democrat Party. As all of the signals on the direction of his party turn the same color as Mao’s little book, Fetterman insists that socialism does not represent the party’s mainstream:

🚨 Q: Will you SWITCH to Republican if socialism takes over the Democrat Party?

SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN: No. Socialism isn’t taking over the Democratic Party. NYC’s politics are NOT a national model.

Hate to break it to you, John. Socialism is taking over your party. pic.twitter.com/KbIjBOMUzm

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 4, 2025

Ahem. This is not just “New York City’s politics.” It’s also the politics in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland (OR), Seattle, Minneapolis, and other urban cores. Socialism has become the mainstream of Democrat politics and policies over the past couple of decades at least, largely driven by foreign money infiltrating both political orgs and Academia, as I wrote yesterday at length for our VIP members. 

It’s not just the cities, either. Fetterman is practically alone in the Senate caucus, and few moderates exist in the House Democrat caucus, too. Those who still do have faced primary fights funded by radical Leftists, such as Henry Cuellar, who barely survived challenges to his southern Texas seat after begging Joe Biden to stop the flood of illegal aliens across the southern border. In the last open presidential primary for his party, Biden was the only traditional Democrat on stage, where most of the others positioned themselves on the Bernie Sanders wing. Biden picked Kamala Harris as a promise to the socialist wing of a graceful transfer of leadership to their cadre at the end of his presidency.  

Fetterman is fooling himself. He’s not lying about this; rather, Fetterman simply has too much loyalty to see where his party is not only going, but largely has already arrived. He’s so far outside the mainstream of the Democrat Party that he no longer gets interview requests from MSNBC, Fetterman told the Daily Wire, in what should be a wake-up call about who and where the party’s fringe actually is:

It’s not just that Fetterman doesn’t understand some of the positions his colleagues have taken — though, to be sure, he doesn’t — but that he literally doesn’t know what they’re thinking. And how could he? They won’t talk to him.

“Not a single Democrat reached out to me,” Fetterman said about the lack of response to his Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, during which he said that Democrats “need to own the shutdown.” …

So, has the Gentleman from Pennsylvania heard from the Senate Minority Leader?

“I haven’t,” Fetterman says.

Such is life for the self-proclaimed “regular Democrat,” whose refusal to toe the party line has made him a bit of a loner on his side of the aisle.

“I mean, honestly, I’m on The Daily Wire having this conversation,” Fetterman says with just a hint of incredulity. “I’m not having this conversation on MSNBC because they haven’t — I’d be happy to have this conversation there.”

His party won’t talk to him. His party leadership won’t talk to him. MSNBC won’t talk to him, despite being desperate for intelligent content. 

Fetterman’s loyalty and optimism are laudable, but only insofar as they don’t cross over into sheer delusion. Fetterman believes in a Democrat Party that has been dead for about two decades everywhere it matters, including and especially at the national level. The swooning over socialists like Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and now Zohran Mamdani is not merely a Big Apple phenomenon, but a national shift to hard-Left radicalism by a party hollowed out by socialists in FDR’s clothing. If Fetterman wants to rescue his party from the Red Brigades, he’d better snap out of it soon and start working to pull it back from the brink … or rethink his loyalty to a party that only exists in name. 

Whichever Fetterman chooses, we can at least be grateful for his integrity. We may not often agree with him, but he’s one of the most honest politicians to emerge in this era. 

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Who better to advise the Oregon state government on policy areas such as behavioral health, “health equity,” and healthcare for all than a Venezuelan illegal immigrant sex offender?

I can think of a few people, but apparently, Oregon state government officials couldn’t, so they invited Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia to sit on several advisory committees to help set state policy in these areas. 

An illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes in Oregon, a sanctuary state for unlawful immigration, held various advisory positions on state policymaking committees as a so-called “Latinx” community leader. https://t.co/WdYugjW916

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 4, 2025

If you know anything about who runs the state of Oregon, it makes perfect sense. While the state has its share of perfectly normal and decent people, they aren’t enough of a political force to outweigh the degenerates who wind up in power. 

Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nabbed Garcia, a Portland-area activist and “educator,” he was on Oregon’s Community Engagement and Communications Committee to the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, which is tasked with creating a comprehensive plan for financing and administering a single-payer healthcare system that covers all Oregonians, no matter their immigration status.

Garcia’s committee is responsible for developing community outreach recommendations and informational material, as part of the universal health plan that the board will present to Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) and the Oregon legislature.

The board looks to committee members for “expertise and lived experience.” Committee members are recruited by the governor-appointed board and are supposed to embody “equitable representation from every region and population around the state.”

On the Oregon government website, the board’s community engagement committee describes Garcia as the executive director of LatinX Recovery Center, who is “currently in recovery from substance abuse with a criminal justice history.”

Over video conference, Garcia attended the committee’s monthly meetings as recently as Sept. 24 and would offer insight in Spanish.

Garcia, whose record reportedly includes sexual abuse and bestiality, was also an active member of the Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Committee, which advises the Oregon Health Authority, the state’s health department, on overseeing the statewide crisis response system.

Bestiality. Let that sink in for a minute. A governor-appointed board selected this man because of his “lived experience” as a sex offender and illegal alien to advise the Oregon State Legislature on health and mental health matters, including how to design and implement universal health care for everybody who lives in Oregon. 

It is SICKENING this monster was hiding in Oregon thanks to the state’s sanctuary policies.⁰⁰Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, was in our country on a B2 tourist visa overstay. His rap sheet includes three counts of sex abuse, BESTIALITY,… pic.twitter.com/zAbCbRGA5b

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 30, 2025

At the same time, Garcia served on the Oregon Health Policy Board’s Health Equity Committee, a policymaking body formed to eliminate health inequalities in the state. 

Committee members are selected by the board, which has oversight of the Oregon Health Authority, and must receive a vote of approval as part of the recruitment process.

Using an “intersectional scoring rubric,” the enlistment practices are designed to ensure that the committee is representative of “racially and ethnically diverse populations, linguistically diverse populations, immigrant and refugee populations, [and] LGBTQ+ populations,” among other “disadvantaged” communities.

Garcia’s membership bio says he uses “they/them” pronouns and represents “indigenous populations in South America from a culturally humble level, as well as Spanish-speaking BIPOC communities in Central America.”

All of Garcia’s committee work over the past year came post-conviction.

Oregon citizens, this is your tax dollars at work. It must be nice to know that your health care and mental health policies are being guided by the “lived experience” of a Venezuelan illegal alien sex offender with a taste for sex with animals. 

For God’s sake, man. Is there any level of degeneracy that is considered disqualifying by liberals? 

ANY?

No, and that is because, as you can see, degeneracy is seen as a qualification for being high up the intersectional ladder. While this scumbag didn’t hit the lottery by being trans, he apparently still uses “they/them” pronouns, making him apparently “nonbinary,” which is close enough until they find an illegal Muslim trans drag queen with 3 rape convictions and a stint in prison for having an orgy with dogs in a women’s bathroom while quoting Karl Marx and Franz Fanon. 

Irony of ironies, my liberal friends will say that the culture war is conservatives’ fault, because we oppose bestiality. 

Love is love, after all. 

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So, this is news, huh? That Democrats have problems relating to and connecting with working-class folks and particularly working-class men?

Huh.

Whoda thunk it, no?

I KID, I KID

Only everyone with half a brain and an ounce of testosterone that hadn’t been injected, but yeah. While we were all in on the loop here that formerly core constituencies of the Democratic Party weren’t just drifting, but running away from them as they lurched toward the trans-loving, radical hugging, anti-American, illegal, and illiberal lauding elite progressivism they are now thoroughly wrapped in, Democrats have yet to emerge from the shock of their loss last November.

You know, when they woke up with one of the worst hangovers ever, broke and wondering where all the taken-for-granted folks had gone. There was no curative hair-of-the-dog, either, when they found that disgruntled Hispanics, blacks, and union workers hadn’t sat this one out, but actually voted Republican instead.

Gloom, despair, and befuddled agony on thee.

How could such whimsical, testosterone-infused efforts as this ‘White Dudes for Harris’ ad not appeal to, say, a totally with-it longshoreman?

And when you’ve gone out to find men-men to talk about being man-mans, how could that miss? How could that fail to reach the guy with the dad belly mowing his lawn after his shift?

Democrats knew they’d done the least little bit they could do to reach those males of the species. Why, they even had The Lightbringer™ berate members of his own group of cool dudes, using his own peculiar blend of arrogance and disdain to tell these puny manlings in his exalted presence what miserable sacks of poo they were for not being better Democrats. To ‘speak some truths,’ his truth anyway. Maybe not theirs, but the inference being that it should be theirs.

BETTER MEN WANT TO BE ME

None of the finger wagging worked, no matter what the consultants drew up and the Dems wrote a check for.

The problem, I believe, is that Democrats have moved so far beyond dirty fingernails, Saturdays spent with the kids, hugging your wife, and accepting responsibility for anything from a bounced check to a blown election, that their academically driven elite world feeds on itself. It no longer accepts input it feels is inferior to what it already knows to be true, whether it is or not, in fact, the truth. You see, they’ve already got their truth constructed, which is how all these ads and Obama’s lectures bounced off the ears they were intended for, after much uproarious mockery.

To Democrats, that only proved how much more education the knuckle-dragging classes require and why they are so unworthy of time and effort.

To the subjects these pretty clear vignettes were constructed for, the message was loud and clear, even to the youngest of former followers.

Democrats despise us, and we are done here.

EXIT, STAGE RIGHT

The Democrat Party treats masculinity like a disease and common sense as a threat.

Young men are DONE being treated as the enemy in our own country.

That’s why we’ve LEFT the Democrat Party! pic.twitter.com/7CmSONjxmc

— Brilyn Hollyhand (@BrilynHollyhand) July 9, 2025

Over and over. Harris picked a supposedly everyman running mate to appeal to working-class Americans.

What did the guy who actually knows what end of a shotgun the boom comes out of think of giggly, prancing, buffoonish poltroon Tim Walz?

One year ago today.

“I used to think Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods, but then, I met Tim Walz.” pic.twitter.com/HYnsFkrM6l

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) October 17, 2025

Yeah.

Their contempt is so palpable that, to this day, you can spread it with a knife. This is Batya Ungar-Sargon talking about it back in May.

The Democrats have lost the working class because as the party of the rich and the credentialed, they have contempt for regular people, who they believe they have the right to rule, but no idea what those people want—hence attempts to trick them into voting for the Left again. pic.twitter.com/BS5w1RWetb

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) May 28, 2025

Now we find out that the bubble world navel gazing has once again been taken to absurd, expensive heights by Democrats, who can’t see the forest for their weak knees and thick glasses.

The party has actually paid God knows how much for a nine-month-long survey collecting data about the failed election caused by the loss of their formerly loyal to the death working-class constituencies, titled ‘Why Does Everyone Hate Us When We’re So Coolsers?‘

Okay. Maybe that’s not the title, but it sure is the gist of information that we all had for free, and these spendthrifts blew good money on bad work again.

Working-class voters see Democrats as “woke, weak and out-of-touch” and six in 10 have a negative view of the party, concluded a frank internal assessment of the hole the party finds itself in.

The nine-month, 21-state research project is the latest in a wave of post-mortems and data dives aimed at solving the Democratic Party’s electoral challenges after their sweeping losses in 2024. It was funded by Democracy Matters, a nonprofit aligned with flagship Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, and backed by months of polling, dozens of focus groups and message testing.

American Bridge’s project focused exclusively on working-class voters, shedding light on a once-core constituency for Democrats that’s drifted away from the party over the last decade. And the initial feedback is grim: Working-class voters don’t see Democrats as strong or patriotic, while Republicans represent safety and strength for them. These voters “can’t name what Democrats stand for, other than being against [Donald] Trump,” according to the report.

The Democratic brand “is suffering,” as working-class voters see the party as “too focused on social issues and not nearly focused enough on the economic issues that impact every one, every day,” the report said.

“We lost people we used to get [in 2024], so why did we lose them? Why don’t we go ask them,” said Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Democracy Matters and senior adviser to then-President Joe Biden. “They said what they thought about us and it was painful to hear … They feel forgotten, left out, and that their issues are not prioritized by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.”

Welp. There are five paragraphs of stunning revelations…NOT.

There were many more, but I’ll touch on two that will have you guffawing like Hee Haw was still on.

Try this on for size first.

…But it also found one-third of independents would be “much more likely” to support Democrats if they said “transgender women should not play in women’s sports,” the second highest testing message in swaying these voters.

They paid good money for something so obvious and yet so unattainable for the Democrat Party at the moment as to be a fairy tale.

Democrats will never climb off this hill with progressives at the helm.

The second item I wanted to point out is the very last portion of a very lengthy article. These researchers were shocked to find the flyover country, Bible-clinging, knuckle-dragging, low-info voters were…nothing of the sort.

They just don’t get their information from approved Democrat sources. And you know what that means.

…The report included a detailed media consumption study, finding that working-class voters are “consuming less news and using YouTube and playing video games more than the overall electorate.” They rely on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook for news, and they’re more likely to use TikTok specifically for news than the overall electorate.

They also are constantly tuned into audio throughout the day, be it radio, streaming or podcasts.

“We heard time and again in the groups that these are not low-info voters and they’re not traditional news readers, but they’re getting inundated with information,” said Ryan Berni, a Democratic consultant who advised on the project. “It’s almost a slur to call them low-info voters. They’re getting a lot, but not from Democrat-aligned sources.”

If these lunatics ever, EVER get their imperial hands on power  again, the first thing they’re going to do is shut down all those ‘non-Democrat-aligned sources.’

The snotty Democrat consultant perfectly illustrates the attitude that drove off the working-class. It’s ‘ALMOST A SLUR‘ to call us lo-info voters, he says.

ALMOST

Yeah. 

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It’s the end of an era in American politics. And in a way, the passing of Dick Cheney not only closes his own chapter in US history — a chapter that stretched nearly 40 years of profound influence — but marks an end of the identities of the two major American political parties.

The Wall Street Journal offers a balanced and occasionally affectionate obituary for the first Vice President to make the office worth substantially more than “a bucket of warm spit,” as his predecessor John Nance Garner put it. Cheney’s legacy will mainly fall on the 2003 Iraq War, but the WSJ reminds us that Cheney’s influence on American policy goes deeper and broader than the media obsession with his last great project reveals:

Dick Cheney, who served four Republican presidents and whose role as an architect of the post-9/11 war on terror made him one of the most powerful—and controversial—U.S. vice presidents in history, died. He was 84.

He died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said in a statement.

A national-security hawk with a penchant for working the levers of power, Cheney will be remembered for his relentless advocacy for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a move that many Americans came to view as a strategic and humanitarian disaster. The war also had far-reaching policy and political consequences, helping turn the public against intervention and upheaving Republican politics.

Cheney continued to defend the Iraq invasion long after he left office in 2009. He often suggested the George W. Bush administration’s success in preventing more attacks after 9/11 had fed Americans’ skepticism of foreign entanglements.

He also continued to press his dark view of international threats and his interventionist leanings.

Cheney started his career in national politics as an advisor to Gerald Ford, then won a seat in the House and immediately became a part of leadership in the Reagan years. He focused on national security and the rebuilding of the US military in the 1980s, then became Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush. Between the two Bush presidencies, Cheney went into the private sector and made a fortune with Halliburton, a leading supplier for the oil industry. Only when George W. Bush asked him to lead his running-mate search team did Cheney get back into electoral politics, and he accepted the position himself when Bush agreed to remake the office into a real partnership rather than a listless experience. 

My friend and colleague Guy Benson offered his thoughts on Cheney’s passing:

The clip: pic.twitter.com/5yHWuZsoXM

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 4, 2025

Cheney and Bush himself lived to see a profound shift in the identities of the two major American parties. I wrote about this yesterday to some extent, analyzing the impact of massive amounts of foreign money on the Left that turned a working-class party into a globalist, socialist party that has now almost entirely detached from the American electorate. Few if any Democrats of note have stuck with the party’s identity as a farm and labor party representing blue-collar Americans; John Fetterman may be alone (and I’ll have more on him in a later post). By the time Barack Obama won office the first time, the transition to a party more oriented toward the European cognoscenti than rural America and tradespeople had been completed; the socialsm emerged from the shadows over the next sixteen years. 

Republicans also transformed, in part because of the failure of Cheney’s efforts to change the world through democratic reforms imposed by American arms. Referred to as “neoconservative” both then and now, it required the same kind of global engagement and massive resource expenditures, only to not just fail but also backfire in key ways. Cheney certainly didn’t intend the failures, and there were some significant successes too, such as the way in which our forward strategy against terrorists prevented more attacks on the American homeland, at least on the scale of 9/11. Cheney never tired of pointing that out, and with justification. 

Still, the impossibility of that overall mission became clear, and with it the costs of failure. Put together with rising resentment over poorly managed “free trade” with China and other countries that got shrugged off as the costs for the net benefits of globalization, populists demanded a party that focused on the working class and their concerns, as well as a return to an America-centric policy set. That opened the door for Donald Trump, who flirted with a presidential run in 2011 only to commit four years later. He blew more than a dozen Republican politicians of the older order out of the water, because Trump spoke to voters who had found themselves marginalized when both parties embraced “globalization” over support for American workers. 

In that process, long overdue, Cheney found himself the target not just of reasonable criticism, but also unreasonable attacks on his character and patriotism. That may have been unavoidable, but it was still unfortunate. Cheney was a man of the Cold War, whose vision was formed by the need tor global alliances and trade-offs to achieve larger goals. The world shifted and Cheney shifted with it in the era of Islamist terror, but he and others failed to recognize that Americans didn’t apply that Cold War filter on the world after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. Cheney never let go of his belief in global ties, so much so that he ended up voting for Harris last year rather than Trump. In a way, that was Cheney being authentic to his values rather than the party that had transformed itself in another direction after he left office — and in some ways because of his own efforts. 

Regardless, Dick Cheney worked tirelessly for both American security and freedom for most of his adult life. Perhaps at his passing, we can discuss the profound currents that flowed through and around his life, his successes and failures, not with bitterness but with an appreciation for his service. 

Requiscat in pace, Mr. Vice President, and thank you for that service. 

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CNN really, really hates the Trump FBI, so when it announced that it had arrested terrorists plotting a terrorist attack in Dearborn, MI, it ran with an article that all but said the plot was fake and concocted to discredit Islam. 

The original archived link vs the updated piece:https://t.co/3e89jPv8mmhttps://t.co/rnfZZpuj2f

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) November 3, 2025

Earlier today, CNN cast doubt on the ISIS attack being planned by residents of Dearborn, Michigan, framing it as “Islamophobia.”

Later, the DOJ released a 70-page criminal complaint revealing that Dearborn residents Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud possessed multiple assault rifles, over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and detailed plans to carry out an attack on behalf of ISIS.

Following that development, CNN stealth-edited its article, effectively deleting it by transforming it into a piece about the DOJ complaint — not about “Islamophobia.”

When new details emerged in a criminal complaint against the plotters, CNN memory-holed the original piece and replaced it with one that merely detailed the accusations. 

Here’s some of the spin from the first article:

Shortly after, FBI Director Kash Patel boasted on X the agency had “thwarted a potential terrorist attack” and arrested “multiple” people in Dearborn “allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend.”

Considered to be the heart of Arab America, Dearborn is home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States and has frequently faced Islamophobic and hateful remarks. Abdullah Hammoud, the son of Lebanese immigrants, became the first Arab American mayor of Dearborn when he was elected in 2021.

Members of the community, including neighbors and attorneys for the people taken into custody, say they are skeptical of the allegations.

One of these neighbors is Laraib Irfan, who says his Dearborn community is a close-knit, peaceful place where everyone looks out for each other like family. … 

Patel’s initial X post applauded the FBI for “crushing our mission to defend the homeland,” yet he gave no explanation or evidence to support claims of a foiled terrorist plot.

“More details to come,” he wrote — but so far, none has been alleged.

The FBI has not released any additional information, offering no clarity on when, where or how the alleged plot was meant to unfold.

“It’s curious to me,” Colin Clarke, a domestic terrorism and international security expert, told CNN. “What it makes me think is that the plot wasn’t maybe as mature as they led people to believe.” … 

“An allegation like this is dangerous to this community,” Makled said. “So when you have the national director of the FBI putting out a statement that there was a thwarted terrorist attack and then the news covers the raids of homes in the city of Dearborn, immediately the backlash on the internet is homegrown terrorist cell.”

Footage of the raid posted on Facebook sparked bigoted comments: “A real shocker that they reside in Dearborn,” one person wrote. “Well, Dearborn does have a major Islamic population who aren’t exactly friendly to anyone else,” said another. Some accused the people in the home of being “sleeper cells.”

Although Dearborn’s large Arab population, which makes up nearly half the city, makes it an easy target for Islamophobic, racist comments, the city has been ranked the second-safest large city in Michigan, according to the FBI’s 2024 annual crime report. … 

A neighbor, who asked to only be identified as “Ahmed,” said the people who lived in the home were kind, and he was not convinced the raid was based on credible suspicion.

“You never hear anything from them, they are perfect, smiling, and I do not believe anything happened (from them), they are very good people,” he said.

When asked about the FBI’s claim they stopped a terrorist plot, Ahmed interrupts and rejects the possibility completely: “No, no, no, no,” he says. “I don’t think so.”

Another neighbor, Kathy Sisson, also speaks highly of her community; she says she’s disabled and her neighbors, who are from Brazil, Pakistan and Iraq, are constantly checking on her to make sure she’s OK.

A person in the home where the FBI activity took place who did not want to share their name told CNN the people taken into custody “were just kids” and the situation was “being blown out of proportion and shouldn’t have happened.”

It goes on and on about how Islamophobia is out of control, everybody is so nice, and Dearborn is the greatest place on earth. The charges, whatever they are, are overblown, and how Dearborn is the subject of unjust hate because of slanders against Muslims. 

Islamists gather in Dearborn, Michigan for a pro-terrorism rally chanting:

“Death to America!”

54% of residents in the city are Muslim with the city being dubbed the ‘Jihadi Capital of America.’

pic.twitter.com/NGn8PqYgg9

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 8, 2024

Dearborn, you may recall, is the city where the mayor screamed at a citizen for objecting to having a street named after a terror supporter. 

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to a resident: “You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe! Get out!”

The resident opposed naming a street, in Dearborn, after pro-jihad Osama Siblani pic.twitter.com/hGTuTD4FFI

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 16, 2025

So, how did the replacement story frame things? Well, let’s just say that it doesn’t quite match the memory-holed one in the least. It even omits quotes from the lawyers that appeared in the first story, and replaces them with  the equivalent of “no comment.” 

Dearborn, Michigan — Two men face federal charges for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in the US – possibly on the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks that killed at least 130 people, authorities say.

An FBI raid on Halloween morning stunned neighbors in Dearborn, the second-safest city in Michigan and home to the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US.

Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud face charges of “Receiving and transferring, and attempting and conspiring to transfer, firearms and ammunition knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that the firearms and ammunition would be used to commit a Federal crime of terrorism,” according to a criminal complaint.

“Our newly unsealed complaint reveals a major ISIS-linked terror plot,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X.

“According to the complaint, subjects had multiple AR-15 rifles, tactical gear, and a detailed plan to carry out an attack on American soil,” she said, thanking officials for averting an attack “before innocent lives were lost.”

Agents seized two vests that can hold ammunition magazines from a storage unit rented by Mohmed Ali, according to a criminal complaint. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

If convicted, Ali and Mahmoud could face up to 15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said.

Mahmoud’s attorney, William “Bill” Swor, told CNN his client and Ali are both 20 years old. He declined to provide additional details.

This wasn’t an update on a breaking story; what they did was completely memory-hole their initial framing and replace it with a “just the facts” approach, as if they hadn’t essentially slandered the FBI. 

It may be that not every Muslim in Dearborn is an Islamist radical; but it is also true that Dearborn is a hotbed of Islamist radicals who quite openly say that they want to Islamize America. 

Yes, this is the USA! Dearborn, MI,
now Muslim-majority, leaves non-Muslims displaced.

Arabic signs, mosque conversions, school bullying, economic pressures, and biased leadership make locals feel aliens in their own country. pic.twitter.com/DpDQC5y985

— Islam Invasion 🚨 (@IslamInvasion) September 17, 2025

CNN’s framing of Dearborn is all about how peaceful it is, without mentioning the fact that it is filled with an awful lot of anti-American Islamists. Which, one would think, is highly relevant to the subject of a story where two people who have sworn allegiance to ISIS were plotting a terrorist attack in a city adjacent to Dearborn. 

Dearborn Michigan Chief of Police speaks in Arab “Hamdullah. Hamdullah,” All praise is due to Allah

He proudly talks of replacing the American Dearborn police force with Arabs. The police force went from 3% Arabs to now 45% Arabs/ Muslims

This is what being conquered looks like pic.twitter.com/orp6sEcqIs

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 28, 2025

The obsession with Islamophobia is based on an entirely concocted narrative. 70% of all religiously-motivated hate crimes are directed at Jews, who make up about 2% of the population in America. Muslims, on the other hand, are the victims of 10%. 

Make of that what you will. 

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A few minutes ago, our colleagues at Twitchy caught up with the latest development in the Virginia election for Attorney General. Incumbent Republican Jason Miyares tweeted out last night that the Washington Post editorial board “agrees that decency is on the ballot,” and had blasted Democrat challenger Jay Jones as “deranged.” 

Curious as to the context, I clicked through to the link, and then to the editorial. I scrolled to find the passage. And scrolled. And scrolled. And scrolled.

Literally, at the very end of a very long paean to “moderate” Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, the editorial board of the Post added this final paragraph, almost as a post-script:

The most suspenseful race in Virginia on Tuesday is for attorney general. Republican Jason Miyares is seeking reelection against former Democratic delegate Jay Jones. The revelation of deranged text messages in which he mused about violence against children, among other things, has cast doubt on Jones’s temperament to be the state’s chief law enforcement officer. If Jones rides Spanberger’s coattails to victory, it would be a sad reflection of a discomfiting willingness among voters to prioritize partisanship over human decency.

“Cast doubt”? Jones put in writing his desire for the children of a political opponent to be murdered in order to advance Jones’ own policy agenda. He allegedly told the same person whom he texted that he also wished more law enforcement agents would be killed so as to teach them to avoid lethal force. Jones denies the latter, but his credibility isn’t exactly at its zenith in this cycle. 

The man who seeks to become the commonwealth’s chief law enforcement officer cheered the idea of murders, so long as it helped his career — and this only “cast[s] doubt” on Jones’ fitness for this office? Whoa there, WaPo, let’s not rush to judgment here!

Then I read back over the rest of this editorial. The Post’s editors filled several paragraphs preceding their “by the by” addendum on Jones with descriptions of Spanberger’s moderation and pragmatism. “If Spanberger governs as a pragmatist,” they opine, “she could be successful.” They also ask, “If she wins, to what extent might Spanberger serve as a check on the most liberal impulses of the General Assembly?”, as if she’d be inclined to do so. 

Let’s ask the most pertinent question about Spanberger’s “moderation” and “pragmatism.” When Jones’ texts and alleged remarks endorsing murders of children and police went public, what did Spanberger do? Did she choose “moderation” and “pragmatism” by denouncing Jones and his deranged comments? Did she pull her endorsement of Jones? Did she stand for “human decency,” or did she “prioritize partisanship”?

The answer is no. Spanberger kept her endorsement of Jones and refused to distance herself from him. 

Spanberger failed the very test that the Post’s editors demand from Virginia voters today. 

Why didn’t the Post’s editors hold Spanberger accountable for that choice? Why did they fail to include that in their review of Spanberger’s supposed moderation and independence from partisanship? That’s their acid test for human decency, and Spanberger failed it.

And so did the editors of the Washington Post. 

Addendum: Miyares is making this part of his final pitch to voters today. This cuts off before Steve Doocy loops this back to Spanberger, but everyone knows that’s what he means. Everyone, that is, except the Washington Post. 

“A NATIONAL REFERENDUM ON DECENCY.”

Virginia AG @JasonMiyaresVA makes his final pitch to voters after his opponent’s violent text messages were leaked. pic.twitter.com/lRP6xPm4FH

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 4, 2025

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