Flotsam and Jetsam - Democrat Civil War Heats Up

Stacey Matthews at LI thinks The ‘Moderate’ Left’s Campaign to Distance Themselves From Their Socialist Wing Isn’t Going Well. “They should not be the face of our party. We need to be organized and clear in our vision.” From Twitchy, SOUND THE ALARM! Fire Marshal Bowman Attacks Josh Shapiro as Democrats Continue to Eat Each Other. Althouse cites Trump, "And the Democrats aren't fighting back.... They didn't beat us, but they'd be victorious against the Communists." "But they don't have the courage to do so. So, they're turning Communists themselves, becoming a Communist Party." Sundance at CTH hosts Barbara Boyd Outlining The DSA New York Communist Program. Jeff Blehar at NRO outlines Darializa Chevalier and the Left’s Tea Party Moment. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "Everything as a matter of record and was well known that The New York Times could have reported on before the primary. Bang up job, Team." Quote Peter Baker @peterbakernyt, "Who is Darializa Avila Chevalier? She has called Biden a "rapist," said "fuck Kamala Harris," seemed to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine, denigrated interracial relationships and supported abolishing police, borders and prisons." Ace, Democrats Recruited Antifa As their Zombie Street Enforcers. Now the Antifa Zombies Are Running the Show. "Darializa Avila Chevalier, founder of the pro-Hamas, pro-October 7 group CUAD and committed to -- quote -- the "total eradication of Western civilization," will soon officially be a Democrat congresswoman." Matt Taibbi at Racket writes about Zohran Mamdani and the Nitwit Revolution "New York's Mayor proved he's a generational political talent this week, re-shaping the Democratic Party and setting America up for a referendum on its founding principles." At Da Signal, Victor Davis Hanson Sets the Record Straight on Tucker Carlson and Graham Platner. Gregg Keller @RGreggKeller, "One of the benefits of working on a campaign effort against Talarico is that they make all of our commercials for us. #txsen." Quote RNC Research @RNCResearch, "CRINGE Texas Dems have lost their minds defending James Talarico: “They say that James is trans, we’re all trans. ..." PJM's Dave Manney thinks The Obama Halo Is Starting to Flicker. Finally!

Party Like It’s October 1917

From Liberty Unyielding, New York City imposes rent freeze on one million apartments, resulting in huge losses for some. Hat Hair's Steve Moore sees Democrats Declare War on School Choice. Insty worries about BLUE POLITICS IN TENNESSEE GETTING CRAZIER: Is Hamilton County Slipping From Red To Blue Or Just From Sane To Unhinged?, "As noted yesterday, the Democrat candidate for county mayor in Hamilton County made threats against school board members as part of his unhinged promotion of the LGBTQ in Hamilton County schools." Meanwhile, up the road in Knoxville: Knox County mayor candidate Beau Hawk marched in Venezuela for Nicolas Maduro." From the Right Scoop, Big Pharma, hoping Dem stooges will retake congress, start BLOWING OFF federally mandated discounts. Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, ""Abolish ICE," "Defund the Police," and "Free Palestine" aren't a working class agenda. They're the cries of an over credentialed gentrifying elite consumed with resentment and the belief that the taxpayer should fund their vanity degrees and podcasts." John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre, "Homeless, yachtless Elon Musk, who actually builds rockets, EVs, and neural tech trying to benefit humanity, should apparently cough up $50 billion in taxes on unrealized gains. Meanwhile, Laurene Powell Jobs ($15B inherited), Nancy Walton ($20B inherited), and MacKenzie Scott ($40B divorce) never built shit, never risked shit, and never shipped a single product that changed the world. But they get the praise and zero scrutiny. Because they have the right politics. (BTW ~25% of Walmart employees are on government benefits.)" From Shooting News Week, We Won’t Let Anti-Gun Billionaires Who Finance Civilian Disarmament Live in the Shadows Anymore.

From the College Fix, Trump admin caught $150 million in fraudulent student loans in past months. The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial, "Trump Education Dept. blocks $150 MILLION in fraudulent student loans amid California 'ghost student' scam: "We have turned education in this country into a piggy bank for the worst people you can imagine, and the Biden administration did nothing about this!"" Scott McLallen at TownHall, DOJ Sues Four States That Refused to Hand Over SNAP Data. John Solomon at JTN reports Treasury Secretary vows law-breaking leftist nonprofits to face prosecution, asset seizures. "Bessent's crackdown comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last fall asking federal agencies to better police tax-exempt organizations, which have exploded in size and mission far beyond traditional charities." I'm not entirely sure we need tax-exempt organizations.

Driscoll at Insty, BUTTIGIEG SEPARATED FROM CHILDREN AFTER BEING TARGETED BY FALSE CPS REPORT: “Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he was briefly separated from his 4-year-old twins after an anonymous caller filed a false report with Child Protective Services concerning his family. Buttigieg wrote about the swatting-like incident in a lengthy Substack post on Friday, detailing his encounter with Michigan State Police.” Scalito @Legally_Italian, "Amy Coney Barrett was swatted last month. Neither Pete Buttigieg nor Mark commented on it. The New York Times did not do a story on it. I like Mark, but the truth is the only thing new about this story is that it happened to a Democrat. It’s ho-hum and commonplace for conservatives." Quote Mark Halperin @MarkHalperin, "Everyone, including those who oppose @PeteButtigieg politically, should speak out about this in a forceful manner. x.com/jason/status/2…" At Althouse "A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family," writes Pete Buttigieg. "At Substack. I don't think he's accusing Child Protective Services or the police of handling the complaint improperly. Should they have done anything differently? Read the essay carefully and tell me what you think. I believe the answer is no." Has anyone considered the possibility that whoever reported Buttigieg saw something concerning. At least CPS doesn't usually break down the door, use flash-bangs and start shooting.

Also from Althouse, "How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green.... Bulky 'nanobubbler' machines were carted off ahead of a promotional event for President Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship birthday party." "The NYT reports. ... In recent days, the water has become clear again, reflecting the sky and the surrounding monuments. The temporary nanobubblers have been replaced with more discreet, permanent purification systems. Still, the Park Service plans to drain the pool again soon to fix the peeling coating...."

TownHall's Matt Vespa thinks This Bill Maher Episode Was Wild...and the Libs Are Not Going to Like It. RedState's Nick Arama says The Dems Are Going to Lose Their Minds Over This Bill Maher Show With JD Vance.

Nick Arama again, Iran Launches Strikes Against Bahrain - and the Excuse Is Incredible. "He literally blamed the U.S. for Iran's own violation." At Hat Hair, Dave Strom sees Tit-for-Tat in Strait of Hormuz; UPDATE: Iran Attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraqi Government Upheaval and Larry Elder cites Trump: The Greater Risk Was Waiting. wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "The WSJ says the relatively small number of Iranian hits on US facilities in the Gulf are 'devastating'. "Iran shot more than 8,000 missiles and drones and only two hits resulted in U.S. fatalities,” said Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East. Hawkins also said the U.S. military inflicted far more damage to Iran than it received, with the U.S. striking more than 13,500 targets." My comment: that's not how narratives work. Any damage to the US not equal to zero is devastating; 13,500 targets Iranian targets hit without regime change means the IR is winning or has in fact won."

John Sexton at Hat Hair observes The Lack of Gasoline is Getting to Russians. Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko, "Russia is suffering a supply and corruption driven fuel shock to its economy that is bigger than the USA's twin energy shocks of the 1973 oil embargo and the 1979 fall of Shah in Iran. 1/" Quote 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝕯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝕯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱△ @TheDeadDistrict, "In Zabaykalsky Krai, one of the strictest fuel sales limits has been introduced — 15 liters per fill-up. The regional authorities have declared a state of heightened readiness due to a shortage in the fuel market." At Althouse, "In response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, Central Asian governments have drawn closer together as a bloc, while welcoming Mr. Trump’s transactional approach to foreign policy." ""They are seeking opportunities to reduce their reliance on Moscow, even as they tread lightly so as not to cross the Kremlin or antagonize China. 'For the business relationship, it has never been better,' said Jeff Erlich, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan, who has worked in and around the region since the late 1990s. 'In my experience, that is clear.'" From "Kazakhstan’s Leader Deepens U.S. Ties, Saying Trump Was ‘Sent by Heaven’/The Central Asian nation is aggressively courting President Trump’s Washington to counterbalance its powerful neighbors, Russia and China" (NYT)(gift link, so you can try to figure it out for yourself). That's one of 2 stories about Kazakhstan at the top of the front page of the NYT right now. The other is: "Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten."" Sundance has a theory on Why The Ukraine War is Hardest to End? "Mike Steger from Promethean Action PAC argues the reason the Ukraine war is hardest to end is simply because Ukraine represents the proxy state of all the globalist stakeholders who need another large conflict in order to eliminate the problem of a moral-based Christian perspective within the ‘West.’" Drek. The war is hard to end because both sides have a lot at stake. At this point Putin has his reputation at stake and I suspect that he truly believe Ukraine should be part of Russia. Moreover, given that defense is generally easier than offence, the greater size and population of Russia is largely offset. And superior Ukrainian innovation in drone is starting to make inroads. 

Mitch Berg at Hat Hair VIP is happy SCOTUS Strikes Down Hawaii's "Vampire" Gun Carry Ban. Jonathan Turley doesn;'t think much of Justice Jackson’s Curious Call to Overturn Bruen: The Burden of History ."The burden of actually seeking to understand the intended meaning of a constitutional provision is certainly greater than the more free-style approach of Jackson who focused on how to “resolve contemporary problems” under a living Constitution." At the Balmer Sun, Supreme Court betrays America’s founding promise, by treating all races equal regarding redistricting.

From RCP, Fauci, the CIA, and the Unanswered Questions of COVID. Why was the CIA involved in an attempt to propagandize the American public? Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike, "No joke. I'd actually read all the books and seen several films and TV movies about Watergate by 1997. That was the year I read Silent Coup, by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. It literally blew my mind that Bob Woodward was a high-level Naval intelligence officer, doing briefings for the JCOS and other intel work. All the coverage of Woodward's past glossed over his intelligence official past with a line or two about him 'briefly serving in the Navy'. So a ONI guy doing top level briefings for the Pentagon brass just happens to start a new career as an intrepid cub reporter for the Washington Post, just in time to be fed THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL STORY in US history."

At Da Signal, Judiciary Committee Threatens to Hold the SPLC in Contempt for Withholding Documents. Just do it. 

The Free Bacon is shocked, shocked A Media Watchdog Released An AI ‘Fact-Checker.’ It Says There May Be 72 Genders. "NewsGuard's AI tool denied that biological sex is a binary and said affirmative action has 'benefited' white men." AI is only as good as it's input. Bullshit in, bullshit out. Ace is ecstatic Elon Musk Posts Entire Film "Citizen Vigilante." "The Uwe Boll/Armie Hammer violent revenge thriller Citizen Vigilante has been banned in Germany for being too closely linked to actual crimes the establishment insists aren't even happening, Racists." Sundance hosts Trump’s Social Media Advisor Alex Bruesewitz -vs- Tucker Carlson.

Stars n Stripes FC @starsnstripesfc, "This aged like milk. Everyone is having the time of their lives." Quote Fetty Waf @Wafunya, "The World Cup is about to expose just how a shithole of a country the USA is." At Althouse, "Installing AC simply wasn’t the British thing to do. He’d have to break a stiff-upper-lip mentality and make peace with a trade-off..." "From "European soccer fans enjoy a brief fling with America’s air-conditioned culture/Despite a deadly heat wave at home, many say they won’t permanently embrace Americans’ electricity-guzzling amenity" (WaPo)." Salena Zito sees the Ghost of Alexis de Tocqueville Returns -- What America Can Learn From Him.

GBN, King Charles will now 'protect the multi-faith nation' as new role defined. Breccan Thies at Da Fed, UK Needs To Ditch Censorship And Mass Migration, Not Just Keir Starmer. Bo French @bofrench, "I have been criticized, even from people on my side, for saying this is their goal. The problem is this is not my opinion. They admit it. How long are our leaders going to continue to ignore this imminent threat?" Quote Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar, "An imam in Alabama, Ragab Abdelmoneim of the Islamic Academy of Huntsville, openly told his audience that Muslims must be ready to sacrifice their lives through jihad in order to establish “the religion of Allah” in the United States. He claimed that victory over America is closer than ever. This isn’t being preached in some remote village overseas. This is being said openly on American soil. At what point does this stop being protected “religious speech” and become a national security threat? How is he not arrested?" The JC, Our holiday landlord realised we were Jewish. What happened next was deeply troubling. "Once the property owner worked out that Yoni Birnbaum was a rabbi, he quizzed him on whether he was opposed to Israel." France.