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The radical far-Left has crossed a line that no civilized society should tolerate. The neo-Marxist troglodytes targeting Tesla dealerships with violent, destructive attacks—smashing windows, torching cars, and destroying property—are not activists. They’re not noble defenders of some grand cause. They’re domestic terrorists, plain and simple, and it’s time we stop coddling them with soft words and weaker consequences.These thugs deserve to be hunted down, locked up, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Anything less is a betrayal of justice and a green light for more chaos.Let’s cut through the nonsense. These attacks aren’t random outbursts of frustration—they’re calculated assaults on a company that dares to innovate, dares to challenge the sacred cows of the eco-fanatics and their anti-capitalist cronies. Tesla, for all its flaws, represents progress: cutting-edge technology that pushes humanity forward created by a guy who rescues purposely stranded astronauts.But that’s not good enough for the far-Left radicals. No, they’d rather burn it all down than admit the world isn’t bending to their pseudo-utopian delusions. They hate Elon Musk, they hate success, and they hate anything that doesn’t grovel at the altar of their sanctimonious ideology. So they lash out like spoiled, ignorant brats, smashing and destroying what others have built.What’s happening at Tesla dealerships isn’t protest—it’s terrorism. The Department of Justice defines domestic terrorism as acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law and are intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence government policy through violence. Tell me, how does hurling Molotov cocktails through showroom windows not fit that bill? How does vandalizing cars and terrorizing employees not qualify as intimidation? These cowards aren’t holding signs or chanting slogans—they’re wielding weapons and leaving wreckage in their wake. That’s not free speech; that’s a felony. And every single one of them should be treated like the threat they are.The far-Left loves to cloak their violence in self-righteous drivel—claiming they’re fighting climate change or corporate greed. What a load of unmitigated bullshit. If they cared about the planet, they’d applaud Tesla’s mission, not attack it. This isn’t about principle; it’s about selfish power. It’s about tearing down anything that doesn’t fit their narrow, neo-Jacobin authoritarian worldview. They’re not saving the Earth—they’re just arrogantly self-righteous bullies with a fake cause, and they’ve picked Tesla as their punching bag because it’s a symbol of everything they despise: ambition, innovation, and individual freedom. Well, I’ve got news for them: we’re done tolerating their tantrums; the American people are tired of their destructive, criminal, adolescent crap!Look at the damage they’ve caused. Dealerships in California, Oregon, and beyond have been hit—windows shattered, vehicles torched, and livelihoods threatened. Employees who just want to do their jobs are now dodging bricks and breathing smoke. Customers who dared to buy a Tesla are having their property trashed.This isn’t some victimless crime—it’s an assault on innocent people, all because a bunch of unhinged infantile radicals can’t handle reality. And what’s the response from the bleeding-heart apologists? Excuses. “They’re passionate.” “They’re frustrated.” To that, I say, “Fuck you!” Passion doesn’t give you a free pass to destroy. Frustration doesn’t justify terrorism. These are grown adults choosing to break the law, and they need to face grown-up consequences.The law isn’t optional—it’s the line between order and anarchy. When you let these criminal provocateurs off with a slap on the wrist, you’re telling every other wannabe pseudo-revolutionary that violence pays. That’s why prosecution has to be relentless and unforgiving for these assholes.Charge them with vandalism, arson, assault—whatever sticks. Throw in domestic terrorism enhancements and make it federal. Lock them up for decades if the evidence holds. No plea deals, no community service, no second chances. They wanted to send a message with their Molotovs? Let’s send one back: you don’t get to terrorize people and walk away.And don’t even start with the “but the system’s unfair” whining. The far-Left loves to play martyr when they’re caught, crying about oppression while they’re the ones oppressing everyone else with their intolerance, ignorance, and violence. They don’t get a pass because they’re mad at capitalism or Musk’s tweets. The rest of us—members of a civilized society—don’t smash things when we’re upset, why should they?Equal justice means they face the same hammer as anyone else who pulls this crap. Anything less is favoritism, and it’s an insult to every law-abiding citizen who recognizes that it’s a crime to torch a building when life gets tough.This is a war on sanity, waged by a radical fringe that’s been indulged for far too

President Donald Trump, in his relentless pursuit of a leaner, more efficient federal government, faces a formidable obstacle: the insidious tandem of judicial activism and anti-DOGE Democrat politicians. These forces, cloaked in sanctimonious rhetoric about "protecting workers" and "preserving institutions," are hell-bent on thwarting his agenda to downsize bloated government agencies and eliminate redundant federal jobs, not to mention fraud and graft.The federal courts, increasingly a playground for partisan tyrants masquerading as impartial arbiters, have repeatedly overstepped their constitutional bounds to block Trump’s efforts. But Trump, more of a shrewd tactician than the far–Left suspects, has a card up his sleeve: the power to transfer non-compliant and shielded federal workers to the most undesirable corners of the country, effectively forcing them to quit. This strategy, while ruthless, could be the key to dismantling the entrenched bureaucracy and restoring accountability to a government long overrun by unelected busybodies.The federal judiciary’s descent into unconstitutional activism has reached a fever pitch since Trump’s return to the White House. Judges, many appointed by Democrat predecessors with an eye toward preserving the administrative state, have issued injunctions and rulings that defy both logic and the will of the electorate.Take, for instance, Trump’s push to streamline agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the Department of Education—entities that have ballooned into inefficient behemoths, churning out regulations that stifle economic growth while employing armies of paper-pushers. When Trump moved to cut jobs and consolidate functions, the courts swooped in, citing dubiously union-centric legal theories about "worker protections" or "agency mandates." These rulings aren’t about law; they’re about power—specifically, the power of a neo-Jacobin elite to shield its Deep State bureaucratic allies from the consequences of a Trump presidency.Meanwhile, anti-DOGE Democrats in Congress have cheered on this judicial overreach, clutching their pearls at the thought of crony political foot soldier federal workers losing their cushy gigs. These are the same politicians who decry "income inequality" while defending six-figure salaries for mid-level functionaries who spend their days drafting memos no one reads. Their hypocrisy is galling. They claim to champion the little guy, yet their real loyalty lies with the entrenched Deep State DC swamp creatures who thrive on taxpayer largesse. Together, the activist courts and their Democrat enablers have created a firewall around the administrative state, daring Trump to find a way through.Enter the transfer gambit.Under federal law, the President, as head of the Executive Branch, has broad authority to manage the workforce of government agencies. This includes the power to reassign employees to different locations, provided the moves align with “operational needs.” Trump could exploit this authority to target the most recalcitrant, anti-reform elements within the bureaucracy—those careerists who clog the system with resistance, leak to the press, or slow-walk directives they dislike ideologically. By transferring these malcontents to remote outposts—think desolate field offices in Alaska, rural North Dakota, the sweltering Texas border, or even Guam and American Samoa—they’d face a stark choice: uproot their lives and families to places with little appeal, or resign and seek greener pastures elsewhere. It’s a blunt instrument, to be sure, but one that could break the back of the “resistance” without firing a single shot.The beauty of this approach lies in its legality.The courts, for all their activism, would struggle to block such transfers. Precedents like United States v. Fausto (1988) affirm that federal personnel decisions fall squarely within Executive discretion, and judges have historically been loath to micromanage agency staffing. Even the most zealous anti-Trump jurist would find it hard to argue that a transfer to, say, a Customs Service outpost in Montana violates some sacred constitutional principle. The Democrats would howl, of course, accusing Trump of "weaponizing" his authority, but their outrage would ring hollow—after all, they’ve spent years cheering when their own presidents shuffled personnel to reward loyalists or punish dissenters.Consider the practical impact.The federal workforce, numbering over 2 million civilian employees, is riddled with dead weight. Agencies like the EPA employ thousands whose primary function seems to be dreaming up new ways to harass small businesses, while the redundant Department of Education churns out edicts that burden local schools without improving outcomes. Trump’s DOGE agenda aims to slash these ranks by at least 20%, saving billions and redirecting resources to priorities like border security and infrastructure. But every time he moves to cut, the courts slap injun

Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 promised a seismic shift in the federal government—a long-overdue reckoning for the bloated, inefficient, overreaching, and corrupt bureaucracy that has choked American liberty for decades. But his agenda, rooted in deregulation, fiscal restraint, and a reassertion of national sovereignty, although nothing short of revolutionary, is in trouble.To deliver on these promises—and to capitalize on the mandate he received from the American people, Trump will need more than a slim Republican majority in the US House and Senate. He needs a commanding, unassailable supermajority. Why? Because the twin forces of an activist judiciary and the relentlessly obstructive Democrat Party in Congress stand poised to derail every move he makes.These entrenched enemies of reform wield their power not to govern, but to obstruct, subvert, preserve, and expand a centralized governmental status quo; a Deep State status quo, corrupt and entangled, that serves their unattainable ideological fantasies over the will of the American people.Trump’s vision is clear: Slash the federal government’s sprawling footprint, dismantle—to an acceptable level—the regulatory state that strangles businesses, and restore transparency and accountability to a system that has grown fat on taxpayer dollars while delivering little in return.He’s promised to gut agencies like the Department of Education—which has achieved next to nothing throughout its existence but to facilitate power to the teacher’s unions, rein in the Environmental Protection Agency’s overreach—which is now recognized a loyal arm of the transformative global elite, and impose fiscal discipline on a bought-and-paid-for Congress addicted to reckless spending. These aren’t modest tweaks—they’re radical reforms that strike at the heart of the Progressive neo-Marxian leviathan.But such an agenda requires legislative muscle. Bills must pass both chambers of Congress with enough votes to override inevitable Democrat filibusters in the Senate and survive the gauntlet of partisan gridlock in the House. Even then, the real battle begins when these reforms collide with the courts—where activist judges, cloaked in black robes, eagerly await to twist the Constitution into a weapon against Trump’s reformative policies. Without a significant Republican majority, this vision lays squarely behind the eight ball.Let’s start with the courts, the most insidious obstacle to Trump’s reforms.The activist judiciary—stacked with liberal ideologues and spineless moderates—has spent decades unconstitutionally expanding its purview and usurping the role of elected lawmakers. These unelected black-robed tyrants don’t just interpret laws; they invent them, striking down duly enacted legislation with smug pronouncements that reek of elitism. Look no further than their track record during Trump’s first term: the travel ban on people coming into our country from nations that routinely gather at weekly prayers to chant “Death to America”—gutted by judges who fancied themselves arbiters of morality; tax reforms that boosted the economy and wealth for all demographics across the board—endlessly litigated by partisan hacks; and regulatory rollbacks that allowed small businesses to thrive—stalled by injunctions from district courts in deep-blue strongholds like California and New York.A perfect example comes in a ruling by US District Court Judge William Alsup in San Francisco—a Clinton appointee—who recently ordered President Trump’s OPM director to re-hire probationary workers at six different agencies including Defense, Agriculture, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, executing the bidding of the government-sector labor unions. How can a president reform and streamline a bloated bureaucracy when the judiciary consistently interferes with the culling of the payroll?Judges like Alsup aren’t guardians of justice—they’re saboteurs of democracy. They hide behind vague notions of “equity,” “precedent,” and “standing” to impose their Progressive dogma, overriding the will of voters and their elected representatives.Trump’s plan to streamline the federal government by abolishing redundant agencies, eliminating corruption, redundancy, and waste, and slashing funding for the special interest projects of the far-Left will face an avalanche of lawsuits from activist groups, cheered on by these judicial autocrats. A slim Republican majority might pass a bill, but it takes only one rogue judge to issue a nationwide injunction, halting progress indefinitely.A supermajority in Congress is Trump’s only shield against this judicial overreach. With enough votes, Republicans can codify reformative legislation so airtight—crafted with explicit language and overwhelming legislative intent—that even the most brazen activist judge will hesitate to strike them down.Better yet, a dominant majority could expedite judicial appointments, flooding the courts with constitutionalists who r

Since Donald Trump’s emergence on the political stage, a Deep State-induced and media-supported force majeure has gripped a significant swath of the American populace, particularly those ensconced in the Progressive and Democratic Socialist camps. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (Trump Derangement Syndrome) describes an irrational, visceral hatred of President Trump that transcends policy and political disagreements and veers into unhinged obsession, emotional instability, and a rejection of reason itself.Far from a mere political buzzword, Trump Derangement Syndrome has roots in established psychological principles—groupthink, cognitive dissonance, and tribal identity—and its spread reveals the rot at the core of Progressive ideology. Worse, it poses a direct threat to the United States’ foundational principles of individualism and liberty, corroding discourse and empowering collectivist dogma over personal freedom.Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just hyperbole slung by opportunistic right-wing pundits; it’s an observable condition marked by an inability to engage rationally with Mr. Trump—or anything associated with him. A perfect example was Democrats' inability to acknowledge a young boy who has beaten cancer or the parents of slain children during Trump’s speech to the joint session of Congress.Sufferers exhibit symptoms ranging from pious self-righteous indignation, like the aforementioned, to unhinged rants on social media and outright denial of reality when confronted with Trump’s achievements, like economic growth pre-COVID or Middle East peace deals.The term, first popularized during his 2016 campaign, captures how otherwise functional adults devolve into frothing ideologues at the mere mention of his name. It’s not about policy critique—reasonable people can debate cutting fraud and waste, tax cuts or border security—but about a Pavlovian meltdown triggered by Trump’s persona.Progressives and Democratic Socialists, who fancy themselves “champions of tolerance and nuance,” are Trump Derangement Syndrome’s primary vectors. Their reaction isn’t rooted in Trump’s actions alone but in what he represents: a brash, unapologetic rejection of their sanctimonious worldview. Trump’s refusal to bow to political correctness or genuflect before the altar of collectivist orthodoxy and Cultural Marxism sends them into a tailspin, exposing the fragility of their ideology. What’s billed as “moral outrage” is often just psychological overload—an inability to reconcile their self-image as enlightened saviors with a reality that doesn’t bend to their whims.Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t a random outburst; it’s a textbook case of psychological mechanisms gone haywire, fueled by the usual suspect echo chambers of Progressive thought.Start with groupthink, the phenomenon where conformity trumps critical thinking (no pun intended). In Leftist enclaves—be it academia, media, or urban bubbles (or the smoky back rooms of K Street)—dissenting from the anti-Trump narrative is social suicide. The result? A hive-mind conviction that Trump is not just wrong but evil incarnate, with no room for debate. This isn’t principled opposition; it’s a cult-like obsession, where questioning the orthodoxy risks excommunication and the telegraphing of that cult-like mindset onto those free from Trump Derangement Syndrome is tantamount to mandatory.Then there’s cognitive dissonance, the mental strain of holding conflicting beliefs. Progressives pride themselves on being the "party of science" and compassion, yet Trump’s electoral success and policy wins—like record-low minority unemployment—clash with their narrative of him as a bumbling bigot. Rather than adjust their worldview, they double down, concocting elaborate conspiracies (Russian collusion, anyone?) or dismissing facts outright. This isn’t reason; it’s a tantrum of the petulant dressed up as analysis.Finally, tribal identity seals the deal. Democratic Socialism thrives on dividing the world into oppressors and oppressed, a Marxist tenet, with Trump cast as the ultimate oppressor. For the Progressive faithful, hating him isn’t just politics—it’s a badge of pseudo-moral-superiority. This tribalism blinds them to their own contradictions: championing “diversity” while demanding lockstep conformity, or preaching “equity” while sneering at working-class voters who backed Trump, or lauding transparency while attacking Elon Musk for finding waste, corruption, and fraud in the departments and agencies of Deep State Washington, DC and it’s manufactured NGO world.Psychologically, Trump Derangement Syndrome is less about Trump and more about the Left’s need to cling to a crumbling identity as society’s self-appointed guardians.Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just a personal quirk; it’s a wrecking ball smashing through America’s civic fabric.The United States was built on debate, compromise, and a shared commitment to democratic norms—values Progressives claim to uphold but abandon the moment

On March 4, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress, laying out a vision of American renewal rooted in constitutional fidelity, individual liberty, and economic freedom. The response from Democrats was telling: self-righteous anger, sophomoric antics, and indignant posturing that underscored how far the party has drifted from the nation’s core values. Once a formidable force championing the working class, the Democrat Party has been hijacked by radical ideologues—progressives and Democratic Socialists—whose neo-Marxian agenda has alienated voters and eroded trust.With polls showing the Democrat brand at historic lows and internal dissent bubbling to the surface, the party stands at a precipice. Its obsession with radical, transformative extremism may well signal its end, while the “New-Republican” embrace of constitutionalism, individualism, and deregulation offers a path America craves—and one Democrats ignore at their peril.The unraveling of the Democrat Party was laid bare at a recent retreat in Loudon County, Virginia, where Democrat consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials, and party leaders gathered to confront their declining fortunes. Jonathan Cowan, president of the centrist Third Way, delivered a scathing critique, accusing Democrats of clinging to “comforting platitudes” instead of grappling with their diminishing relevance. New DNC chair Ken Martin chimed in, suggesting the problem lies not in the party’s agenda but in its messaging—a tired dodge that sidesteps the real issue. While hinting at pragmatic shifts that, with present leadership, would be impossible to achieve, the retreat produced a five-page strategy document that exposed a deeper rot: the party’s capitulation to progressive extremism and Democratic Socialism has left it severed and disconnected from the American people.The document acknowledges a litany of failures—a growing rift with working-class voters, a reliance on “ideological purity tests,” and the deteriorating state of Democrat-run cities. Its proposed fixes—patriotism, support for institutions like churches and police, and a focus on local governance—sound suspiciously like a page from the Republican playbook. It’s as if, bereft of original ideas, Democrats are quietly conceding that their rivals have been right all along.Yet, this half-hearted pivot is overshadowed by a palpable fear of the party’s far-Left wing, whose neo-Marxian demands—open borders, defunding the police, the application of identity politics, and expanded government, among a host of other radical notions—threaten to drown out any hope of moderation. The retreat’s revelations point to a stark truth: the Democrat Party’s survival hinges not on better spin, but on a wholesale rejection of its radical drift and a return to the timeless principles of constitutionalism, individualism, and deregulation.Progressivism, as embraced by today’s Democrats, is a doctrine of centralized power, identity obsession, and self-righteous moralizing. It dismisses individual agency, favoring collective solutions enforced by an ever-growing state. Democratic Socialism takes this further, promising paradise through government control of industries and wealth redistribution. Both ideologies, steeped in Marxist roots, view the Constitution as an obstacle to be overcome rather than a guardian of liberty. The result is a policy agenda that clashes with the values most Americans hold dear—and a track record of failure that’s impossible to ignore.Progressive dogma has spawned divisive initiatives like race-based reparations and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, which prioritize group identity over merit. These policies alienate working-class voters—White, Black, Hispanic, or otherwise—who see fairness, not favoritism, as the American ideal. Democratic Socialists, meanwhile, peddle fantasies like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, trillion-dollar schemes that defy economic reality and saddle taxpayers with unsustainable burdens. In Democrat strongholds like San Francisco, Portland, and Chicago, progressive governance has delivered soaring crime, rampant homelessness, and fiscal collapse—proof that utopian intentions don’t facilitate competent outcomes.The cultural fallout is just as damning. Progressives have turned language and institutions into tools of control, wielding cancel culture and Critical Race Theory to enforce ideological conformity. Democratic Socialists applaud this as a dismantling of “systemic” wrongs, oblivious to the cost and the divide it causes: trampled free speech, eroded parental rights, and a growing backlash from voters who reject woke (read: Cultural Marxism) orthodoxy. The Loudon County document admits that “unpopular cultural positions” are dragging the Democrat Party down—an understatement when millions see Democrats as out-of-touch elitists more interested in policing pronouns than solving real problems.This extremism isn’t just a political liabil

Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist from Vermont who has literally never held a private sector job in his life, has spent the past few months crisscrossing the United States, rallying against what he calls an “oligarchy” threatening American democracy. This is an obvious exercise in projection.From Omaha, Nebraska, to Iowa City, Iowa, and now targeting Republican-held congressional districts in Wisconsin ahead of a pivotal state Supreme Court election in April 2025, Sanders has positioned himself as the torchbearer of a “progressive resistance.” His “Fighting Oligarchy” tour has drawn significant attention from the rudderless far-Left, with viewership often reaching six figures and a recent video amassing nearly 3 million views.Sanders’ neo-Marxist message resonates with a segment of the far- and radical-Left emboldened by former President Joe Biden’s farewell address, in which he warned of “an oligarchy taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence” that endangers democracy itself.Yet, beneath the propagandistic fervor and viral optics lies a deeply flawed ideology—Democratic Socialism—as championed by Sanders.His campaign against “oligarchy,” his critiques of the Trump administration’s billionaire-heavy roster, and his attacks on policies like the 2017 tax cuts and the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts reveal not a coherent vision for America, but a patchwork of economic fallacies, political opportunism, and moral posturing. Sanders’ rhetoric and ideology, along with Democratic Socialism as a whole, are not only impractical but also disingenuous, relying on exaggerated class warfare narratives that fail to withstand scrutiny.Sanders’ self-identification as a Democratic Socialist invites immediate skepticism when one examines the term’s historical and practical implications. Democratic Socialism, in theory, seeks to blend socialist economic principles—centralized control of production, wealth redistribution, and the abolition of private profit motives—with democratic governance. Yet, Sanders’ version of this ideology often veers into a muddled hybrid, neither fully socialist nor pragmatically democratic, raising questions about its intellectual coherence.Historically, socialism has been associated with state ownership of the means of production, as seen in the Soviet Union or Maoist China, where economic centralization led to inefficiency, stagnation, and authoritarianism. Sanders distances himself from these examples, pointing instead to Scandinavian countries like Denmark or Sweden as models.However, these nations are not socialist in the traditional sense—they are market economies with robust welfare states, high taxes, and private enterprise thriving alongside significant government intervention. Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen famously rebuked Sanders in 2015, stating, “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.” Sanders’ insistence on the “Democratic Socialist” label thus appears more as a branding exercise than a precise ideological commitment.This mislabeling matters because it obfuscates the policy debate.Sanders rails against “oligarchy” and billionaires like Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, and Linda McMahon, who populate the Trump administration, yet his solutions—massive government expansion, wealth taxes, and nationalized industries like healthcare—do not align with the flexible, market-driven systems he claims to admire in Scandinavia. Instead, they echo the top-down control of traditional socialism, which has consistently failed to deliver prosperity without sacrificing individual liberty. His critique of the Trump administration’s billionaire class, while emotionally compelling, lacks a clear alternative that avoids the pitfalls of centralized power—ironically, the very thing he accuses oligarchs of wielding.Sanders’ central thesis—that America is sliding into an oligarchy—gained traction when Biden echoed it in his farewell address. The image of Trump flanked by billionaires at his inauguration, coupled with Musk’s DOGE-led cuts to federal agencies like the intensely corrupt and ideologically agendized USAID, fuels Sanders’ claim that a handful of ultra-wealthy elites are seizing control of democracy.Talking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in February 2025, Sanders called Musk’s USAID cuts “unconstitutional,” arguing they bypass Congress’ authority over appropriations. His “Fighting Oligarchy” tour amplifies this narrative, spotlighting affected individuals like former park rangers laid off due to National Park Service reductions.As an aside, Sanders is also dead wrong about the DOGE effort sidestepping congressional appropriations. DOGE is a repurposing of the congressionally funded United States Digital Service (USDS), an agency created under the Obama administration in 2014. The US Constitution allows a President to manage the Executive Branch as he sees fit, including rebrandi

In the aftermath of the dust-up in the Oval Office between Vlodomyr Zelenskyy, President Trump, and Vice President Vance, I find it stunning that so many, quick to their opinions, can be so blind—and stubbornly so—to the realities of what happened and the opportunities that were refused. First, Zelenskyy is the leader (for now) of what the World Bank calls a “lower-middle-income country.” It is by no means in any position to claim the mantle of what we would have called “first world” status during the Cold War. Additionally, Zelenskyy is the leader of a country that needs foreign aid—both militarily and financially—to survive in the immediate.So, his outrageous demeanor in the Oval Office toward President Trump and Vice President Vance—not to mention his backstabbing of Secretary of State Marco Rubio in changing the terms of the Rare Earth Minerals Agreement—is and was completely and absolutely unacceptable. Zelenskyy is not of equal station or stature as the President of the United States. Put bluntly, you don’t come asking for foreign aid and start dictating what you will accept, how the benefactor will feel, and what the donor country will do.And it wasn’t just Americans, sans the radical Left, who must consistently and inanely take the opposite position of everything Donald Trump says (every House Democrat voted against eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits, tips, and overtime). Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Dubinsky called for an emergency session of the Ukrainian Parliament to initiate impeachment proceedings against Zelenskyy. It needs to be noted that Dubinsky is currently imprisoned in Ukraine for his alleged Russian influence (Zelenskyy didn’t like what he was saying, so he put him in prison).In a completely unscientific social media poll (and I don’t put a lot of stock in polling, but when one is substantially lopsided, it’s hard to argue that the sentiment isn’t there), 71.4% of the respondents said they believed Zelenskyy’s actions in the Oval Office diminished the American people’s support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.And how could we not. Zelenskyy sat defiantly in the Oval Office declaring with a full-throat that he would both not accept a ceasefire and not negotiate peace with Vladimir Putin. Regardless of what you may think about Putin (I am not a fan, by far), if you are unwilling to enter into dialogues with your nation-state adversary, how do you expect to craft an avenue to peace; how do you stop the killing?Zelenskyy’s attitude on those points alone validates Mr. Trump’s statement that Zelenskyy isn’t “ready for Peace if America is involved.”But even more arrogantly egregious was Zelenskyy’s pivot away from the Rare Earth Minerals Agreement in his demand for “security guarantees” from the United States. This is where the “drive-by know-nothing” social media opinionators expose their complete lack of critical thinking skills and intellectual comprehension of geopolitical issues involving Ukraine and Russia.Zelenskyy’s insistence on “security guarantees” from the United States equates to the United States committing to military engagement should Russia violate any agreement to cease hostilities. That would mean a direct US military conflict with Russia—US troops on the ground—and with Russia having China's unwavering alliance and recent assurances on the matter.Further—and again, this is where the “drive-by know-nothings” fail to think things through, with China (a nuclear power with a 2 million person active-duty roster) both existing adversarially to the United States and in contracted concert with Russia (a nuclear power)—and with both of them seeking to end Western (read: American) hegemony—any US military engagement on Ukraine’s behalf on Ukrainian soil would light the fuse to a global conflict, again validating Mr. Trump’s point that Zelenskyy is playing with World War.However, the larger demonstration of Zelenskyy’s inability to grasp a concept is his complete ignorance of what the Rare Earth Minerals Agreement would have meant for his country. Thus, my contention that Zelenskyy is not even close to being an adequate leader for the Ukrainian people.The Rare Earth Minerals Agreement would have achieved two things.First, it would have immediately affected a cessation of hostilities—and that means the killing would have stopped—because it would have hobbled Putin from advancing, the United States would have established a vested interest and, therefore, an official presence in Ukraine. So, any aggression by Putin against US interests in that country would have been an act of war against the United States directly.Putin may be ruthless, but he’s not foolish. He understands that the United States and its aligned European powers have identified his military’s vulnerabilities through their actions against the Ukrainian Army, and he recognizes that in the face of a US-led (or even NATO-led) military coalition, he would lose unequivocally.Just as importantly, the Rare Earth Minerals

Change is never easy, and it is especially tough when that change has to right the wrongs committed by opportunists, ideologues, and spendthrifts from times past. Such are the realities of the pains many in the federal government are realizing in the reformative measures being executed by the Trump administration.This corrective pain will also be felt across our nation to some degree and by everyone, although it won’t be nearly as painful as the far-Left alarmists of the woke ilk are prognosticating.To be frank, and if we are honest with ourselves, the federal government has turned into a bloated enterprise that—until now—refuses to operate within the constraints of the constitutional framework that created it, with its rank-and-file employees so sheltered from the realities of the world they have come to think they have a “right” to their positions. They do not.Regardless of what the ideologues and opportunists of the public-sector union leadership and the encroaching judges of the judiciary contend, every federal employee existing under the Executive Branch—that’s every employee of every agency, department, administration, and commission—serves at the pleasure of the President of the United States in one form or another.So, what does that mean?To "serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States" means that a person holds their position—usually a high-level government job—only as long as the President wants them to. It’s a phrase rooted in the US Constitution and applies to certain officials, like cabinet members, ambassadors, or other appointees in the Executive Branch. These people don’t have fixed terms or job security in the usual sense; the President can fire them at any time, for any reason—or no reason at all—without needing approval from Congress or anyone else.It’s tied to the President’s authority to run the Executive Branch as they see fit. The thinking is that the President, as the only leader elected by the whole of the nation, gets to pick a team that aligns with his agenda. So, if a cabinet secretary or an agency head isn’t cutting it in the President’s eyes, they’re out—no legal protections or formal process required, just the President’s say-so.On the flip side, it also means these officials are directly accountable to the President, not to, say, the public or another branch of government. It’s a loyalty gig. You’re there because the President trusts you to carry out his vision, and when that trust is gone, so are you.For rank-and-file federal employees—your everyday government workers like clerks, analysts, or technicians—the phrase "serve at the pleasure of the President" doesn’t apply in the same way it does to high-level appointees, but it still applies. These folks are part of the civil service, a system designed to keep the government running smoothly regardless of who’s in the White House. They’re supposed to be hired based on merit, not because of politics or ideology, and that affords them some protections that make their jobs far less shaky than, say, a cabinet secretary’s.Civil service employees—think of the bulk of people at agencies like the IRS, EPA, or Social Security Administration—fall under laws like the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which abolished the US Civil Service Commission and replaced it with three entities: the Office of Personnel Management, the Merit Systems Protection Board, and the Federal Labor Relations Authority, establishing a process for discipline and termination. This gives federal employees (civil servants) a degree of job security: they can’t just be fired on a whim by the President or anyone else.Although the hyperbole of a federal employee being unfireable, unless a murder has been committed, has lost its comedic value, there is a process (as convoluted by union and judicial interference as it is) to terminating a federal employee that involves documentation, providing reasons—like poor performance, misconduct, or failure to comply with the directives of superiors. That process also allows the employee(s) in question the ability to appeal through systems like the Merit Systems Protection Board. The idea is to shield them from political pressure so they can do their jobs without worrying about ticking off the boss upstairs.That said, the President’s influence isn’t zero. Rank-and-file workers answer to supervisors, who answer to higher-ups, who ultimately answer to political appointees serving at the President’s pleasure. Therefore, the President’s agenda significantly impacts the direction and spirit of a federal employee’s work—say, through policy changes, agency or department re-branding and re-purposing, or budget cuts.Ultimately, everyone—from the cabinet secretaries to the department and agency heads, to upper- and mid-level management personnel, to the rank-and-file employees in the Executive Branch—serves at the President's pleasure in one way or another, or, at least, they’re supposed to.But since the Clinton years, when hi

If you only get your information from social media or the usual suspect media outlets, you probably believe there are a significant number of Americans who oppose Elon Musk’s efforts at exposing the spendthrift practices of our bought-and-paid-for, corrupt, Deep-State-monopolized federal government. Don’t believe it. Not for a New York minute.For those who genuinely seek accurate and truthful information, it may surprise you to learn that the mainstream media complex and its toady polling organizations—you know, the ones that had Kamala Harris winning over Donald Trump in the 2024 General Election—want you to believe a significant portion of the Republic doesn’t want waste, fraud, and corruption exposed and eliminated. Further, they want you to think that everyone hates Elon Musk.Ten of the most “prestigeous,” and for those listening to the podcast I am using the word facetiously, polling institutions report a mixed but often negative view of Elon Musk and his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE):* AP-NORC Poll (January 9-13, 2025): This poll found that 52% of US adults have an unfavorable opinion of Musk, compared to 36% with a favorable view. Regarding DOGE, only 29% approved of its creation with 60% of respondents viewing it as a "bad thing."* YouGov/The Economist Poll (February 9-11, 2025): This survey reported that 52% of Americans view Musk unfavorably, compared to 42%. For DOGE, 42% viewed it favorably, but 38% were unfavorable, and notably, it was less popular than many federal programs it aims to cut.* Morning Consult Poll (Published February 5, 2025): Among 2,000 registered voters, 46% disapproved of Musk's involvement in the government, compared to 41% who approved.* Reuters/Ipsos Poll (Completed February 18, 2025): This poll revealed that 58% of Americans were concerned that Musk’s efforts to slash government spending could delay critical services like Social Security and student aid.* Groundwork Collaborative/Public Citizen Poll (Hart Research, Published February 5, 2025): This survey showed 54% of voters with an unfavorable view of Musk, rising to 63% by the end after respondents learned more about DOGE’s operations and Musk’s “potential” conflicts of interest. Additionally, 57% felt Musk has too much influence, with 61% less favorable toward him due to unregulated access to government systems and his business interests.* Quinnipiac University Poll (Published February 19, 2025): A majority, 54%, disapproved of Musk’s role in the Trump administration, with 42% approving, placing him 12 points underwater in public opinion.* Pew Research Center Poll (January, 2025): This poll found 54% of respondents with an unfavorable view of Musk, compared to 42% favorable.* CBS/YouGov Poll (Published February 5, 2025): Nearly half of respondents (49%) wanted Musk to have less or no influence over government spending and operations, with 31% saying he should have none at all.The results of these polls are being trumpeted in the usual suspect Left-wing alphabet media, and special interest publications including: Politico, Axios, Newsweek, MotherJones.com, GroundWorkCollaborative.org, Reuters, The New Republic, NBC News, and others.Incidentally, two of the most accurate polls in the 2024 General Election—Rasmussen Reports and the Trafalgar Group—both reported a majority support for Musk and DOGE.So, what is it that the Deep State masters of the propaganda polling outlets hate so much about Elon Musk and his activities with DOGE? Within 30 days of its inception, DOGE found $55 billion in fraud, waste, redundancy, and corruption in federal spending, and that’s just in 30 days.At the center of the Deep State grift—the US Agency for International Development (USAID), until recently headed by Samantha Power, DOGE exposed that a significant portion of USAID funds—up to 82%—never reaches intended recipients. Instead, it is pocketed by prime contractors and NGOs, turning aid into a “personal slush fund” for Washington, DC insiders.Some of those USAID-funded projects include:* Funding for a $20 Million "Sesame Street" project in Iraq* $1.5 Million for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) projects in Serbia* Millions of taxpayer dollars to nonprofits linked to terrorist organizations ($9 million in aid diverted to groups like the Al-Nusrah Front in Syria and millions for food aid reaching al Qaeda-affiliated fighters, also in Syria)* Millions to EcoHealth Alliance for Wuhan lab gan-of-function research* $70,000 for a "DEI Musical" in Ireland* Printing "Personalized" Contraceptives in Developing CountriesAnd this is just a sampling of the list of abuses the American taxpayer has had to endure under the grotesque campaign of grift perpetrated by the Deep State uniparty.Most recently, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has asserted that DOGE, targeting three main areas for acts of fraud at the Social Security Administration (duplicate payments, payments to deceased individuals, and broader sy

There has been a lot of uneducated debate on the legitimacy of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the effort headed by Elon Musk. As those who see their seats at the taxpayer-funded government feedthrough threatened and panic about having to do without out, the idea that the new entity is illegitimate needs to be laid to rest. It is.Recently, 14 state attorneys general were denied their request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to obstruct Musk’s DOGE efforts, claiming that eliminating waste and fraudulent spending in the many federal agencies and departments would cause “harm” to their states. Ironically, it was US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the same judge who presided over the criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, who ruled against them.As FOX News' Breanne Deppisch reported:“Plaintiffs argued that the leadership role held by Musk, a private citizen, represents an ‘unlawful delegation of executive power’ and threatened what they described as ‘widespread disruption’ to employees working across various federal agencies and government contractors.“‘There is no greater threat to democracy than the accumulation of state power in the hands of a single, unelected individual,’ said the lawsuit, filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez.“Attorneys general from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington also joined him in the request.”Chunkin was correct in denying the attorney generals their TRO, but not for the reasons she stated, which centered on proving “irreparable harm.” Instead, the denial—which should have been dismissed with prejudice—should have centered on the fact that DOGE exists as a re-purposed department already codified by Congress.The DOGE effort under the Trump administration is, indeed, a re-purposed version of an initiative initially established during the Obama administration.The Obama administration created the United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014 to improve government technology and address issues like the HealthCare.gov rollout. The Trump administration rebranded and expanded this effort into what is now known as the DOGE, which focuses on government efficiency, cutting waste, and modernizing federal technology.DOGE, like other government initiatives, has a legal basis for operating with that basis rooted in executive authority and existing budgetary approval through discretionary spending.The President has the constitutional authority to issue Executive Orders to establish or direct the operations of initiatives such as those tasked to Musk through DOGE. Executive orders do not require congressional approval and can be used to set policy and/or reorganize federal agencies or offices.Further, the Constitution grants the President broad executive authority to reorganize and manage the Executive Branch as deemed necessary for the efficient operation of the government. This includes creating, rebranding, or repurposing offices or initiatives like DOGE.Regarding funding sources, DOGE service falls under the Executive Office of the Presidental Budget, and its fiscal year 2025 budget is available for DOGE activities. This budget typically covers staff salaries, technology, and advisory initiatives. Further, agencies hosting DOGE teams can redirect portions of their discretionary funds (Departmental Expenditure Limits, or DELs) to support embedded personnel or system upgrades, as suggested by the framework for efficiency initiatives.Therefore, DOGE does not require new legislation for its operations. It operates under the existing legal framework that supported its predecessor, the US Digital Service, codified by executive actions and legislation pertaining to government efficiency and technology.For DOGE operations to be considered unconstitutional, several scenarios or arguments would have to be satisfied before judicial interference would be constitutionally appropriate:* If DOGE were to execute functions explicitly reserved for Congress or the judiciary, like making laws or adjudicating disputes, it might be seen as an overreach, violating the Separation of Powers principle. However, as DOGE is narrowly tasked with seeking out waste, fraud, and spendthrift expenditures, neither of these lines in the sand has been crossed.* If DOGE were to spend money that has not been appropriated by Congress, it could violate the Appropriations Clause of the US Constitution, which states that “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.” As DOGE operates exclusively under the fiscal umbrella of discretionary spending, this red line has not been approached.* If DOGE's actions led to the deprivation of rights without due process (e.g. if it implemented policies or technology that affected individuals’ constitutional rights without providing a fair hearing or

It’s interesting how the mainstream media useful idiots wail about a “politicized” Department of Justice after spending four years during the Biden administration running interference for some of the most egregious acts of political persecution our country has ever had to endure.In reporting on reformative moves made by Attorney General Pam Bondi at the DoJ—reformative actions mandated by the American people in the landslide re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency, the Associated Press’s Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer had the unmitigated gall to report:“Even for a department that has endured its share of scandals, the moves have produced upheaval not seen in decades, tested its independence, and rattled the foundations of an institution that has long prided itself on being driven solely by facts, evidence, and the law. As firings and resignations mount, the unrest raises the question of whether a president who raged against his own Justice Department during his first term can succeed in bending it to his will in his second.”Tucker and Richer completely ignore this inarguable fact: When a government agency or department has been corrupted, sometimes a complete reformation is needed. Wrongs must be righted for that department or agency to be reclaimed for the nation's service.Where Tucker, Richer, and the AP see a radical deviation from the politically motivated corrupt practices of the Obama and Biden administrations (not to mention the Clinton tenure), that deviation isn’t one that goes from legitimacy to corruption. Rather, it is a course correction that moves from “swampateer” corruption and opportunism to legitimacy, a return to constitutional law—to the rule of law—and the rejection and termination of the lawfare that the Deep State status quo seeks; that the Deep State status quo is and has been perpetrating on their political opposition.The irony here is that the Fourth Estate, which is supposed to be bound to a quest for objectivity and truth, an entity that speaks truth to power, exists now as a blinded entity the public cannot trust, an entity that exists in Jerry Seinfeld’s “bizarro world” where everything is the opposite of what it should be. Today’s mainstream media speaks the language of power and opportunism to truth and fact.As the Trump administration and its newly seated cabinet and agency heads expose corruption executed for decades by the Deep State uniparty insiders, media organizations like the AP, New York Times, Washington Post, and the like, so used to the status quo of the swamp, can’t differentiate between legitimate moves to return the federal government to the people and the criminally opportunistic moves that moved it away from the people in the first place.In a statement made about the termination of what appeared to be a case of political retribution against New York’s Democrat Mayor, Eric Adams, Bondi’s spokesman, Chad Mizelle, said:“The decision to dismiss the indictment of Eric Adams is yet another indication that this DOJ will return to its core function of prosecuting dangerous criminals, not pursuing politically motivated witch hunts.”He went on to accuse the prosecutors of acting without evidence and executing their offices with “disordered and ulterior motives.”And isn’t that what the Department of Justice is supposed to be, a department of the federal government that serves the people through the application of the letter of the law and the facts—the facts—of any investigation that leads them to a move to a prosecution?Did the mainstream media players get so used to writing and hearing their own ideologically motivated false narratives championing corrupt political persecutions of retribution that they have come to believe their own falsehoods? That indicting your political rivals without true justifiable cause and for the sole purpose of ending careers and political movements is a legitimate role for our US Justice Department? That it is good government and the legitimate use of law enforcement to jail and hold non-violent protesters who executed their First Amendment Rights to redress government and in defiance of their Sixth Amendment Rights to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury?The winds of change–a legitimate change meant to restore us to the US Constitution—have come to the Deep State swamp that is the Washingtonian inside-the-beltway world. For the swampateers and political status quo bottomfeeders of that world, change will be difficult, like kicking a heroin addiction. But in the end, our Republic will be healthier for it, and our federal government will be returned to a state where it serves the people, not the swamps' pocket-filling reprobates.Alinsky wrote about this concept in his book Rules for Radicals. When pushing for reform, change often requires a degree of chaos, pain, and disruption to challenge the status quo. Alinsky may have been ideologically evil, but damn if he wasn’t right about that.Then, when we return, our segment

In the face of what many see as an egregious judicial overreach into the Trump administration's policy implementation, Vice President JD Vance recently challenged the courts' encroachment on the Executive Branch's constitutional prerogatives. It is undoubtedly time to re-establish the Separation of Powers based on the US Constitution.Vance’s arguments center on an accurate reading and understanding of the fundamental principle of the Separation of Powers. His interpretation—which has been validated over the years in various US Supreme Court Rulings—highlights how anti-Trump judicial actions have repeatedly attempted to usurp the Executive Branch's rightful authority over key functions like military command and prosecutorial discretion, not to mention its exclusive purview of branch organizational operations.The Separation of Powers doctrine, codified in the Articles of the US Constitution that establishes the three branches of government, is meant to ensure that each branch of government checks the others to prevent any one from becoming too powerful. However, judicial activism, such as what we see in the politically motivated actions of today’s courts against Trump’s executive actions, can upset this balance by allowing the judiciary to encroach on the powers of the legislative or executive branches.Robert Bork, in his book The Tempting of America, critiques judicial activism as “a political enterprise masquerading as law.” And the late Justice Antonin Scalia, in his book, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, frequently argued against judicial activism, advocating for originalism, where judges interpret the Constitution based on its text and the original understanding of its terms.The current controversy ignited when a federal judge brazenly blocked the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, from accessing critical Treasury Department systems. This act blatantly infringes on the Executive's operational autonomy.This judicial intervention is but one example of how the courts have systematically challenged President Trump's executive orders to restructure and optimize federal government operations. These orders included significant policies that would reorganize and streamline operations, eliminate the wasting of taxpayer dollars, and, specifically, dismantle the Deep State monetary feed-trough that was the US Agency for International Development (USAID).With over two dozen lawsuits filed directly opposing the President’s executive directives, Deep Staters and Democrat judicial appointees have undertaken an alarming trend in lawfare where judicial blocks have become political tools to thwart the administration's reformative agenda. This politically motivated lawfare obstructs the people’s mandate given to Trump in his 2024 landslide victory.Critics like the disgraced Liz Cheney and US Senator Adam “Boy Do I Have A Problem With Telling The Truth” Schiff (D-CA) have ignorantly painted Vance's defense of executive authority as “advocacy for lawlessness.” However, when presented with examples of how former Presidents Biden and Obama abused Executive authority for purely political purposes—in particular, Biden’s repeated orders to ignore the US Supreme Court in his advancement of student loan forgiveness, these two political numpties were notably silent.This obstructionist view starkly contrasts with the insights offered by legal scholars like Yale Law's Jed Rubenfeld, who supports Vance's stance that certain Executive Branch functions are inherently outside the judiciary's scope and purview, and Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, who also argued that such judicial blocks violate the Separation of Powers, saying, "Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the Separation of Powers.”Vance himself put it this way:“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the Executive's legitimate power.”As the administration navigates these legal challenges through what is rightfully recognized as politically weaponized and biased lower courts, the expectation is that these cases will reach the Supreme Court, where a more constitutionally minded review will restore balance.But, Mr. Trump, his advisors, and legal minds would be wise to borrow from Andrew Jackson's attitude. The 7th president viewed the US Constitution from an originalist viewpoint (as all federally elected and appointed officials should) and often had a contentious relationship with the Judicial Branch.Jackson often emphasized the sovereignty of states and the limited role of the federal government as mandated by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This viewpoint extended to opposing and sometimes ignoring judicial review when their decisions cou

There comes a time when, after being sucker-punched by someone you considered a friend and ally, you have to exact a comeuppance: establish a definitive understanding of a realignment in the relationship. Just such a time has come for US Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).Yes, it’s common knowledge that McConnell and Donald Trump have a deeply-seated dislike for each other, although, by all accounts, Trump has been more adult about their differences than McConnell. But, it is not McConnell’s prerogative or political station to not only put himself above the President’s agenda but also to usurp the mandate of the American people.He is and has done both. His vote against Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is the latest example. His vote was vindictive and shallow, and it should have significant consequences, most of which the Deep Staters will be reluctant to pursue.This week, the US Senate voted to confirm Gabbard as the DNI, The New York Post reporting:“The US Senate confirmed former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as President Trump’s spy chief Wednesday, elevating the ex-Democrat and privacy hawk to a cabinet-level position in the Republican administration.“The upper chamber voted 52-48 to confirm Gabbard, with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joining all 47 Democrats in opposition.”In his descent, McConnell stated that Gabbard was “unworthy of the highest public trust” and that he feared that future intelligence assessments could be “tainted” given her “history of alarming lapses in judgment.”What are those lapses that McConnell is so troubled by? Well, those lapses included not condemning National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s “treasonous betrayal” of the US and refusing to condemn Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, as well as not acknowledging that the growing threat of the communist Chinese on the world stage is not a result of “threat inflation” by the West.“Entrusting the coordination of the intelligence community to someone who struggles to acknowledge these facts is an unnecessary risk,” McConnell said.It should be noted here that McConnell voted for these Biden cabinet nominees:* Antony Blinken for Secretary of State* Janet Yellen for Secretary of the Treasury* Lloyd Austin for Secretary of Defense* Alejandro Mayorkas for Secretary of Homeland Security* Avril Haines for Director of National Intelligence* Jennifer Granholm for Secretary of Energy* Pete Buttigieg for Secretary of Transportation* Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior* Gina Raimondo for Secretary of Commerce* Merrick Garland for Attorney General* Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture* Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health & Human Services* Marty Walsh for Secretary of Labor* Marcia Fudge for Secretary of Housing & Urban DevelopmentIn fact, McConnell only voted against one of Biden’s cabinet nominees, Neera Tanden, for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who withdrew her nomination after it became clear she did not have enough support for confirmation.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.Additionally, McConnell voted for these Obama cabinet nominees:* Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State* Eric Holder for Attorney General* Janet Napolitano for Secretary of Homeland Security* Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health & Human ServicesAs an aside, McConnell is married to Elaine Chao, who, while serving as the US Secretary of Transportation in President Trump’s first administration, elicited concerns about potential conflicts of interest due to her family's business connections with China.Chao's family founded Foremost Group, a shipping company with significant business dealings in communist China. Foremost Group has constructed ships in Chinese state-owned shipyards, and some of these ships were even financed by the Chinese government. From January 2018 to April 2019, 72% of the company's cargo was shipped to and from China.In 2004, McConnell's net worth exploded from approximately $3.1 million to between $9.2 million and $36.5 million by 2014. This was partly due to gifts from the communist-Chinese affiliated Chao family. Additionally, members of the Chao family, including those associated with Foremost Group, have donated over $1 million to McConnell's political campaigns over the years.All of that should have been enough to have ended anyone else’s political career, if not at least see him/her under investigation for any possible illegal relationship with the communist Chinese. But McConnell? He was elevated to Majority Leader in the US Senate by the go-along-to-get-along Deep Staters in the Republican hierarchy.Today, McConnell, having descended from his throne of leadership after doing all the damage he could to the Trump 2024 campaign and the campaigns of those running for US Senate under the GOP banner, exists as the proverbial thorn in the side of a desperately needed reformist agenda being spearheaded by Elon Musk and the Department of Govern

As details of the USAID scandal continue to emerge, Wikileaks has added fuel to the fire with a recent information drop on February 7, 2025. This sometimes controversial nonprofit revealed a disturbing but verifiable link between the USAID slush fund and an organization that seeks to gain control of the international narrative by co-opting the mainstream media.Throughout history, the information sphere has been a coveted acquisition for ideological and political power players. It is said that if you control the narrative, you control the discourse, and if you control the discourse, you control the minds that direct the future. Enter Internews, a USAID-connected nonprofit that claims to champion independent media. In reality, Internews is a government-funded narrative-control globalist information war machine of an insidious force.Internews boasts of training over 100,000 “journalists” in over 100 countries. That sounds noble, doesn’t it? But the fact of the matter is this. Internews is an ipso facto globalist-aligned media cartel that manipulates narratives to facilitate and advance far-Left ideologies while undermining populist and conservative movements—and even the sovereignty of nations—worldwide.Internews promotes a neo-Marxist progressive orthodoxy while pretending to uphold the credibility of a free press and journalistic integrity. At the same time, it silences dissent through censorship and the deliberate omission of critical information.The organization has indoctrinated over 38,000 media educators, reporters, and fact-checkers under the guise of combating "misinformation," a term increasingly deployed to delegitimize viewpoints that deviate from the preferred and anointed Left-wing narratives. In reality, their efforts constitute a targeted effort to advance select ideological perspectives while delegitimizing opposing viewpoints.Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. As reported by Wikileaks:“USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, ‘Internews Network’ (Interworks), which has ‘worked with’ 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people…[Internews] has also supported social media censorship initiatives.“The operation claims ‘offices’ in over 30 countries, including main offices in the US, London, Paris, and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok, and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k annually. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget and other revolts or conflicts at critical times before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to [Internews].“Bourgault’s [Internews] bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org.“Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democrat donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m [Internews] fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The [Internews] page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.“[Internews] has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names, including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records began, more than 95% of [Internews]'s budget has been supplied by the US government.”USAID's historical entanglement with regime-change operations and its promotion of neo-Marxian New World Order social engineering policies should alone raise suspicions about the kind of "independent media" that Internews claims to support.To add credence to the idea that Internews is nothing but an oligarchical neo-Marxian propaganda front serving the whims of the globalist class is the revelation of financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.As reported by Amuse on X:“Internews has played a direct role in creating political instability and chaos in Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan, where clandestine organizations and USAID foreign policy interests have leveraged Internews to foster dissent, support opposition movements, and ultimately engineer instability. By flooding these regions with Internews-trained journalists and media networks, the organization has been instrumental in shaping narratives that align with US geopolitical objectives, undermining sovereign governments in favor of pro-Western factions.“Former high-ranking US officials, including Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power, have been key figures in overseeing agencies that fund Internews, reinforcing its ties to globalist foreign policy objectives. Nuland, in particular, played a pivotal role in utilizing Internews to control Ukrainian media. Under her direction, Internews and USAID effectively took control of 9 out of 10 major media companies in Uk

Recently, I wrote about the increasing scrutiny facing nonprofit and NGO organizations that receive substantial amounts of taxpayer money to carry out partisan and politically motivated activities, all presented under the guise of philanthropy. Despite the outcry from the connected Left over the withdrawal of their funding, the rationale for denying them taxpayer dollars is becoming clearer every day.President Trump has embarked on what he describes as a mission to dismantle the Deep State, with his latest focus being the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Radical Leftist and Obama holdover Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein, the co-author of the political book on transformative activism, Nudge, lead the USAID until January 20, 2025.Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Trump administration, has criticized USAID, calling it a "ball of worms. " This indicates a network of corruption that permeates the organization far beyond mere individual cases of misconduct.Musk emphasized in a recording shared on X:“As we dug into USAID, it became clear that this isn’t just an apple with a worm in it; we are dealing with a ball of worms. If you find a worm in an apple, you can remove it. But with a ball of worms, there’s no saving it. USAID is unfixable. There’s no apple left; it's just worms. It needs to be completely eradicated. It's beyond any repair.”Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) outlined how the USAID has been “stonewalling” her office for years as she sought documents to audit and account for taxpayer dollars wasted at the agency:“USAID’s spending shows a blatant disregard for the wishes of American taxpayers, and it is time to disrupt the system. The agency has been wasting millions of tax dollars on things like tourism in Lebanon, Sesame Street in Iraq, sending Ukrainians to Paris Fashion Week and so much more…No more stonewalling,. We need to scrutinize every last dollar being spent by this rogue agency.”The involvement of Bill Kristol, a known anti-Trump figure who has received millions from USAID, casts serious doubt on the agency's neutrality and suggests it might be driven by political vendettas. Mike Benz has highlighted how USAID has allegedly funded prosecutors targeting Trump, like Alvin Bragg, through entities such as Fair & Just Prosecution (FJP), which is significantly funded by both USAID and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).FJP, which operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Tides Center, is supported not only by USAID but also benefits significantly from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) led by George Soros. "They're more than just Soros prosecutors; they're prosecutors linked to USAID," Benz emphasizes, highlighting the substantial impact these organizations exert on American legal proceedings.In 1991, an operative associated with the Defense Intelligence Agency, who will remain nameless due to the sensitive nature of this information, indicated that Teresa Heinz Kerry (the wife of former US Secretary of State and failed Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry) was deeply connected then and likely still is through the dark money channels that rule the Deep State funding machine.“One of the heads of this multi-headed hydra was Soros' Open Society Foundation, which funded drug legalization NGOs in Europe, all web-connected, leading directly into Colombia. These efforts supported the 'cocalero' movements (the coca leaf growers of Peru and Bolivia) and then legal lawfare support to the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). That is where the term 'lawfare' started.”“Having served in and around five US Embassies from Panama to Kabul, nothing about the conduct of DoS or USAID surprises me.“But the corruption and abuse of USAID funds going to left-wing media in the US and Britain, such as Politico and BBC and who knows yet who else beyond them, must be criminal; it must be seen as political money laundering, especially dark money funding.”The Vera Institute of Justice, another recipient of OSF funds, further entangles this web, getting millions to ostensibly promote "fairness and equity" in the justice system. However, this funding raises questions about whether these financial ties steer legal outcomes to serve particular political and ideological ends.From 2018 to 2022, USAID and HHS provided substantial funding to the Tides Center, which in turn has supported numerous far-left initiatives, including Black Lives Matter, movements to defund the police, pro-abortion advocacy, and aggressive climate change activism, all under the guise of social justice.Moreover, USAID has been accused of spending $20 million on what critics label as "hit piece journalism" against Rudy Giuliani. This money was strategically used to support the 2019 impeachment efforts against President Trump. This misuse of taxpayer money for what appears to be partisan political gain starkly illustrates the potential abuse of power by these government

These days, you can’t broach a subject without hearing someone say, “I have a right to…” Whether the subjects are mainstream, like healthcare, education, or abortion, or more axillary, like employment or access to exclusive venues and groups. But the fact of the matter is this: Our rights are enumerated, and we do not have rights that extend to everything within our purview.We have the right to freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the petitioning of government, although some would argue that was infringed upon during and after the events of January 6th.We have the right to keep and bear arms, to be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the right to due process, as well as protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy.We have the right to a speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to counsel, although, again, some would argue those rights were usurped during and after the events of January 6th.We have the right to exist outside the bonds of slavery and are guaranteed equal protection and due process under the law regardless of race, gender, or religion.Over the years, these enumerated rights have been extended to axillary but related issues in rulings by the US Supreme Court. Nevertheless, these core rights belong to all men and women who are created equal in the eyes of our Creator.The 9th and 10th Amendments reserve to the states what is not specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights and the amendments to the US Constitution.One right not included in these enumerated rights is the right to a job in the federal government. This brings me to my point: the recent purging of Department of Justice federal prosecutors and the review of the employment of FBI agents who participated in the political persecution of the nonviolent January 6th protesters.As Victor Nava of The New York Post reported:“The Justice Department fired dozens of federal prosecutors involved in January 6th cases on Friday and informed the FBI that it would initiate a ‘review process’ to determine if thousands of agents that worked Capitol riot investigations should also be terminated…“Interim DC US Attorney Ed Martin told the 30 or so fired federal prosecutors that they were being removed as a direct result of their role in the prosecution of some of the more than 1,500 individuals who [took part in the events at ] the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021…“The Supreme Court ruled last June that the charge of “obstructing an official proceeding of Congress”–-used on more than 300 riot defendants—was too broadly applied.”Now, we can have a frank discussion about January 6th: the constitutionality of the prosecution against nonviolent attendees and the tactics used to hunt these people down and hold them. I, personally, believe several constitutional rights were blatantly violated, including the right to redress government, the right against unreasonable searches and seizures, the right to due process, the right to a speedy and public trial, to an impartial jury, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to counsel.But that is not the point I want to highlight today. Today, I want to spotlight the pure, entitled narcissism of the federal employees affected by the Trump administration’s move to terminate them for actions they should have refused to execute, actions that were—and there is no other way to couch this—actions that were unlawfully orders.In responding to the announced investigations toward the terminations of the offending FBI agents , the labor union representing over 1,400 FBI agents responded with indignant outrage.Again, from The New York Post:“‘If true, these outrageous actions by acting officials are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents,’ the FBI Agents Association said in a statement.“‘Dismissing potentially hundreds of Agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure,’ the union added. ‘These actions also contradict the commitments that Attorney General-nominee Pam Bondi and Director-nominee Kash Patel made during their nomination hearings before the United States Senate.’“‘They also run counter to the commitment that Director-nominee Patel made to the FBI Agents Association, where during our meeting he said that Agents would be afforded appropriate process and review and not face retribution based solely on the cases to which they were assigned.’”No federal employee has a right to their job. Each federal employee operating under the Executive Branch—as FBI agents and administrative staff do—serves at the pleasure of the President and can be dispatched from their station to any assignment commanded, even if that station and mission is to watch ice melt at the South Pole. This was evidenced in President Rea

With the arrival of Trump 2.0, the winds of change are being felt across the Washingtonian swamp. For the status quo, spendthrift Deep Staters, those winds have a sub-zero windchill. But the usual suspects on the political and ideological Left aren’t taking the freeze sitting down.A cadre of those who routinely feed at the governmental taxpayer monetary feed trough, including the National Council of Nonprofits and other Non-Government Organization (NGO) entities, have taken legal action against the Office of Management & Budget and its Acting Director, Matthew Vaeth, following a directive that halted the disbursement of federal grant and loan funds.This move by Democrat attorneys general from states like New York, California, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island to sue over the policy seems less about legality and more about protecting the flow of “free” taxpayer federal money into Leftist and Left-leaning politically aligned non-profits and NGOs. Attorney General Letitia James of New York—you remember her, she’s one of the Soros-installed AGs that went after Donald Trump over business practices that no one had a problem with—James branded the directive as “dangerous, reckless, illegal, and unconstitutional.” She’s undoubtedly more concerned with maintaining funding for organizations that align with her specific political agendas rather than addressing the broader implications of fiscal responsibility.Vaeth's rationale for the funding pause—to ensure that federal dollars are spent in alignment with the President's policy goals—highlights much-needed (and long overdue) scrutiny of how taxpayer money is funneled into special interest groups and non-profit organizations. This review is crucial, considering the vast sums often allocated to these entities, which may not reflect the interests or needs of the general populace but serve radical niche political ideologies.As reported by The Hill.com:“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accused the Trump administration of ‘blatantly’ disobeying the law ‘by holding up virtually all vital funds that support programs in every community across the country.’“‘Congress approved these investments, and they are not optional; they are the law,’ Schumer said. ‘These grants help people in red states and blue states, support families, help parents raise kids, and lead to stronger communities.’“He said the move could jeopardize ‘billions upon billions of community grants and financial support that help millions of people across the country. It will mean missed payrolls and rent payments and everything in between: chaos for everything from universities to non-profit charities.’”The plaintiffs' claim that the guidance will devastate non-profits dependent on government grants paints a picture of organizations addicted to federal funding. This presents a legitimate point: questioning their sustainability and true independence. If these groups are so reliant on federal funds to operate, one must ask how effective or necessary their missions truly are without such support.Furthermore, the argument that this guidance breaches the Administrative Procedure Act by being “arbitrary and capricious” reveals how the far-Left manipulates the law to advance their transformative and spendthrift agendas. It evidences an overreach by these organizations to shield their financial interests under the guise of legal rights. The assertion that this could infringe on First Amendment rights, particularly for groups advocating for Left-leaning causes like LGBTQ rights, suggests a fear that funding might be more critically evaluated based on merit rather than political alignment.Basically, this lawsuit is less about protecting the constitutional rights of non-profits and NGOs and more about defending a profligate system where federal funds—taxpayer dollars, and taxpayer dollars in an age of incredible national debt—are disproportionately directed towards far-Left special interest groups at the expense of broader, more equitable—and constitutional—public policy goals.The reaction to this funding pause indicates how entrenched some non-profits and NGOs have become in relying on government support (read taxpayer dollars), raising questions about the efficiency and impartiality of the federal funding distribution qualifying process.Bottom line: If a non-profit organization or a federal grant-eligible non-government organization is worthy of support, that support should come exclusively from the private sector, not through the extraction of tax dollars—under threat by the taxman—from the general public. If you want to support a non-profit or NGO, I applaud you; more power to you. But government shouldn’t force me to support auxiliary organizations outside the constitutionally required entities of the federal government.That’s the very meaning of “unconstitutional.”In the end, the temporary funding freeze to evaluate which initiatives were receiving taxpayer dollars was rescinded, but no

In 1975, Ronald Reagan famously remarked, “The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t true.” The truth of that statement couldn’t be more apparent than it is today.The advent of social media and interactive internet platforms has validated Reagan’s statement and proved that this truth is even more prevalent than we suspected.At every turn—on any given day and on any given subject, erroneously advanced inaccuracies and untruths can be found because someone “liked,” forwarded, and/or posted a meme, statement, or opinion on something without actually taking the time to validate the meme or statement or read the provided content.This intellectual cancer isn’t just an attribute of “our liberal friends.” It exists just as prevalently on the ideological Right, and instances of this are getting more frequent.Recently, I had an old acquaintance from high school—by all accounts, a solid guy; thoughtful and an engaged member of the community, completely out himself as someone who finds it more important to opine on what he thinks he knows rather than what he actually would have known if he had taken the time to read what he was opining on.He is not alone. I have been guilty of this at one time or another, although today I make a conscious effort never to do it. We will read a headline and maybe the first paragraph of an article, and because we believe we understand the gist of what the author is saying, we feel confident that the opinion we’re about to craft for the consumption of others is valid; and based on a full knowledge of the subject at hand. Yet it’s not because we didn’t read the full article, white paper, research, or book or listen to the full podcast or presentation.This is a dangerous practice because when a not-fully-informed opinion is advanced—and then re-advanced, again and again, and liked and quoted—it takes on the appearance of fully researched truth, and a non-truth co-opts the appearance of legitimacy.Disingenuous actors, those who manipulate the public for ideological and opportunistic purposes, prey on those who engage in such acts—those who exist intellectually vulnerable because of their “excitability”—to seed statements that sound legitimate but aren’t. This allows them to create division and discontent while capturing the power of narrative control. Think of the Steele Dosier and the Trump-Russia scam, the Hunter Biden laptop denial, or, today, the Obama-Jennifer Aniston rumor.This intellectual susceptibility in our society makes us incredibly vulnerable to maleficent actors—government agencies as well as political organizations and ideological NGOs—employing PsyOps.Some of the more egregious PsyOp campaigns in recent years include:* Trump's Business Dealings: Accusations of money laundering and illegal business practices at the Trump Organization, circulated often without substantial evidence* Republican Voter Suppression: The claim that Republicans are actively suppressing minority votes, an allegation repeatedly disproved and lacking in both evidence and context* Trump's Mental Health: Speculation during Trump’s first term about the President’s cognitive abilities and mental fitness, allegations completely baseless and without evidence* Republican War on Women: The notion that Republicans are waging a war on women's rights, even as conservatives are on record as supporting policies that empower women.* COVID Mask Use: During the COVID pandemic, it has now been proven that a purposeful PsyOps campaign was employed to encourage the widespread use of face masks. This operation aimed to instill fear and compliance among the population by exaggerating the effectiveness of masks and the ineffectiveness of natural herd immunity. Inconsistent messaging from health authorities, along with the constant bombardment of frightening statistics and images in the media, created a state of panic that made people more willing to accept unconstitutional restrictive measures like mask mandates and the closing of businesses, maintaining that the information on mask-wearing and social distancing was based on scientific evidence.And the list goes on and on and on.In each case, well-meaning individuals were duped into advancing these untruths on social media and interactive internet platforms, as well as directly into the public square. They were duped because they failed—they failed—to do their due diligence in ascertaining the facts of the matter, to any responsible extent, before they opined on the matter.Now, I’m not advocating for the restriction of free speech in any way, shape, or form. I believe that the way to combat mis– and dis–information is by applying more free speech (which facilitates access to the truth), not less, and it certainly doesn’t facilitate the discovery of truth when the government (or any arrogantly self-important NGO) assumes the mantle of arbiter of the truth.What I am saying is this—and I specifically urge this

Most of the nation—and the free world—is breathing a sigh of relief at the exit of Joe Biden and Obama 2.0 from power. We see this as the beginning of the end of neo-Marxist wokeism. But while we celebrate the probable return to constitutionality and the downsizing of our federal government, some well-funded far-Left disruptors see an opportunity to create chaos.A small group that played a role in the effort to disqualify Donald Trump from ballots before the 2024 General Election is already propagandizing for impeachment proceedings against the 47th president. The Free Speech for People nonprofit organization is spearheading the call for impeachment, insisting:“Trump has refused to sell his ownership stake in companies through which he is assured to receive substantial payments from foreign governments in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause. At least five foreign governments pay a combined $2 million per month in fees for their units in Trump World Tower; and because all five of these foreign governments are currently paying Trump these monthly fees, Trump is in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause from the moment he took the oath of office.”The group is pursuing this ridiculousness even though CBS News and myriad other news outlets reported in January 2017 that Trump “resigned from all positions of authority and management within the Trump Organization and its affiliates” and that “his sons, Don and Eric, are fully in charge of the company.”Expecting Trump to sell his shares in the Trump Organization while he is not in an official capacity decision-making role is similar to requiring members of Congress to sell stocks in companies and organizations that could be impacted by the legislation they are considering. So, the expectation exposes the gross hypocrisy of the hyper-partisan Trump-hating Left at the Free Speech for People organization.The real issue is not so much the Free Speech for People non-profit itself but rather the typical neo-Marxist progressive donors and philanthropic organizations (using the term “philanthropic” very loosely) that finance groups like this one. It’s the dark money of the far-Left transformative Deep State oligarchy and their neverending financial commitment to undermine the will of the American people that is the problem; that is the cancer in the system that needs to be exposed and then expunged.Two main groups behind the new effort to divide our nation, purely for opportunistic partisan, transformative, and power-play purposes, are The Tides Foundation and Arabella Advisors.According to the Independent Journal Review:“The Tides Foundation — a key cog in the wider left-wing Tides philanthropic network, which combined to shell out $850 million in 2022 — is a major financial backer of Free Speech For People. The Tides Foundation gave grants exceeding $250,000 to the legal nonprofit in 2020, 2022 and 2023, and a combined $925,816 since 2019.”Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.The article’s author, Nick Pope, goes on to say that the Hopewell Fund granted the Free Speech for People anti-Trump efforts $20,000 in 2023. The Hopewell Fund is one of several nonprofits boosting transformative neo-Marxist causes under the management of liberal dark money juggernaut Arabella Advisors, a major for-profit consultancy established by Clinton administration veteran Eric Kessler and funded by some of the worst anti-freedom advocates around the globe, including:* Bill Gates: Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he has been one of the largest donors to the Arabella network, focusing on various globalist policy advocacy issues.* George Soros: He has provided multi-million dollar donations to the network, with affiliations noted through his funding to groups like the Sixteen Thirty Fund.* Mark Zuckerberg: Specifically, his philanthropy through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed significant funds, particularly noted for social justice issues.* Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund: This organization has been identified as the largest institutional donor to almost all of Arabella's nonprofit entities, providing donor-advised funds to wealthy individuals.* Hansjorg Wyss: A foreign national billionaire, he has donated substantial amounts, notably $500 million, to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has been used for various Leftist political initiatives.Incidentally, the same cast of characters—and more of the usual suspect far-Left advocate cabal (Google, Soro’s Open Society Foundations, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and Pierre Omidyar and Warren Buffett)—financially supports The Tides Foundation.These are the kinds of organizations that cause the divide in our country. It's less about the radicals they dupe into subservience, who constitute the far-Left ideologue voting public, and more about the agitators in organizations like these that stoke partisanship by advocating for destructive and baseless actions like the impeachme

In his final hours as President of the United States, Joe Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, the members of the January 6th Committee, and his extended family. This action was one of the most disgusting uses of presidential power to grant reprieves and pardons in the history of our Republic. And the action’s constitutionality should be questioned. In Article II, Section 2 of the US Constitution, the president is vested with the power to “grant reprieves and pardons” through these words:“The President shall…have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”The keywords here are “for offenses against the United States,” which infers a criminal conviction in federal court. In fact, the US Supreme Court has already ruled on that. If you accept a pardon, there is an inference of guilt. Therefore, the question that begs to be asked is valid: Are pre-emptive presidential pardons constitutional?Biden, in the early days of his presidency, lauded the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, both of which expanded presidential authority and the purview of the Executive Branch unconstitutionally. Roosevelt’s New Deal was choke-full of presidential authority expansion beyond the limits of the Constitution. Brion McClanahan documents each—and the expansionist agendas of Wilson and Truman, as well as several others, in his book, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her. It’s definitely worth the time.So, it should come as no surprise that Biden felt unencumbered by the Constitution in his actions, specifically with his precedent-setting issuance of pre-emptive presidential pardons. It’s never happened before, and, through an originalist's view of the Constitution, it appears unconstitutional.Some would attempt to defend Biden’s actions by juxtaposing them with President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon after his resignation stemming from the Watergate scandal. But there are significant differences between the two.Ford’s pardon of Nixon was singular, focused solely on Nixon, covering all federal offenses he committed or was under investigation for during his presidency. It was a direct response to a specific legal threat—a threat that had already been initiated. Ford’s action prevented any further legal action against Nixon.Biden’s actions, conversely, were preemptive because no investigative or legal actions had commenced against anyone receiving a pre-emptive pardon. Biden’s actions were aimed at protecting individuals from potential future legal actions regardless of any criminal conduct.Biden issued pre-emptive pardons to Fauci, Milley, the J6 Committee, and his family members. However, according to the Constitution, presidential pardons are only valid for issuance in instances of transgressions against the United States. So, how could they be valid and binding?But what to do? Well, if Biden can execute precedential actions, so can President Trump.President Trump should instruct his Solicitor General to file an emergency petition with the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to definitively rule on the parameters of the presidential reprieve and pardon clause in Article II, Section 1.It can be successfully argued that Article III, Section 1 gives the SCOTUS purview over establishing the defining parameters associated with Article II, Section1, through the words:“The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party…”Because the SCOTUS is a co-equal branch of our federal government—and the one charged with judicial review—it does not need to be presented with a case to accept or decline because the Executive’s action has already taken place. All it needs is a petition from the Solicitor General.This petition isn’t even an act of partisan politics because it concerns constitutionality; the definition and parameters would apply to all presidents regardless of party.The Supreme Court should be motivated to make this ruling because failure to do so would create a constitutional crisis.For example, suppose presidential pre-emptive pardons are allowed to stand. What is to keep every president, at any time, from issuing pre-emptive pardons to the entirety of his staff and cabinet? What would prevent a president from issuing pre-emptive pardons to sycophantic private citizens or crony foreign nationals?Inaction by the SCOTUS would render moot its ruling on presidential immunity because a POTUS could, theoretically, issue himself a pre-emptive pardon for any and all actions undertaken before, during, and after his or her tenure. Hunter Biden’s pre-emptive pardon serves as precedent for t

It’s finally here, Liberation Day; liberation from the caustic, divisive, neo-Marxist Biden administration, liberation from the underhanded, shadowy Obama 2.0 neo-Bolsheviks, liberation from the heavy hand of our globalist oppressors, liberation from wokeism.But just like in any successful “revolution”—and frankly, that is what we have achieved, a revolution in restoring governmental leadership that thinks the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights don’t suck—just in any revolution, We the People have to see it through, which means keeping the pressure on.I’ve said this before, and I will say it many more times as we move forward. It’s an Alinsky rule, Rule. No. 8.Alinsky understood that creating constant tension and conflict was the key to transitioning power. This rule—“keeping the pressure on”— was and remains crucial to the far-Left's agenda because it focuses on wearing down their opposition through relentless pressure. They understand that if they can keep the pressure applied, they can exhaust and divide their opponents, making it easier to push their transformative, neo-Marxist agenda. It's like a never-ending political battle where the farthest of the Left never lets up.They use this tactic in various ways, including endless protests, media smear campaigns, and constant calls for change. By keeping the pressure on, they aim to create an atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty that will make people more likely to accept their radical ideas.Well, I have always thought that if your opponent uses a tactic—or in this case, a set of “rules”—that works, why not co-opt that rule book and turn those tactics against them? Quite frankly, the Trump campaign (and now administration) understands this and leverages it to its advantage.But now, the time has come for us to understand our role in our restorative revolution. We cannot go back to being complacent. We cannot foolishly believe that just because we watched President Trump get sworn in as the 47th president, everything will be fine. We are at the beginning of the process, not the end.While wokeism is now dying, just like a mortally wounded wild animal that is cornered, now is the time when those in that movement are the most dangerous. We all must continue to accurately and factually educate our fellow citizens on why wokeism—its DEI and ESG tenets and its climate change and identity politics—why wokeism is so incredibly damaging to our freedom and to our ability to thrive. That takes engagement, not just liking posts and forwarding memes.We must immediately shift part of our attention to the 2026 mid-term elections and adding to the majority numbers in the House and the Senate. Why is this important? Well, we do have usual suspect RINOs in the Senate and the House, and our majorities in both houses are not large. We need to be able to have numbers that make the usual suspect RINOs inconsequential. That can only happen if President Trump doesn’t have to count on their votes.In the meantime, we must make sure that those currently elected to office feel our breaths on the back of their necks every minute of every day. We cannot let them fall back into the “self-importance” routine. They need to hear from us—with both positive and negative reinforcement, just like a child—when they do things that are both good and bad. The American people gave Donald Trump a mandate to re-establish constitutionalism across our nation, and that’s what we have to demand: that return to constitutionalism.We cannot tolerate those elected to the House and the Senate to derail the mandate that we, the voters, bestowed on the 47th president. They must feel pressure from we, the voters, so they know it is unacceptable for them to exhale and return to the bureaucratic, political, inside-the-beltway status quo. Again, that requires engagement, not just poking a button on a social media platform.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It costs less than a monthly cup of coffee at Starbucks.President Trump, now inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, has an incredible amount of work to do in just one term. He must:* Secure the border, deport criminal aliens, and advocate for legislation to permanently establish immigration laws that make it impossible for transformative neo-Marxists to flood our nation with illegal immigrants ever again* Completely rework the century-old income tax system to work to our strengths as a nation instead of the current unconstitutional system of inequity and carve-outs for the connected* Re-establish our energy self-sufficiency and position the US as a net exporter of energy to the world while establishing the US energy industry as a leader in common sense innovative energy development* Purge our federal government—including all departments and alphabet agencies—of partisan political activists* Streamline and balance the federal budget while expunging overreaching and unconstitutional regulations and the

Well, Joe Biden said his official goodbye to the nation—allegedly—in his farewell speech to the nation, which most people decided not to watch. The fact is this. Biden has been beyond a lame-duck president since the Obama machine shelved him as the Democrat candidate.But his farewell address had some things worthy of being addressed, even if for their obvious hypocrisy and the telegraphing of his and his administration’s misdeeds.I have edited his speech down to a few points and hurried his speech along, so if you are someone who thought Biden was a good president, no, I’m not taking him out of context. So, feel free to go about your day in your bizarre pseudo-utopian bubble.In this first clip, Biden discusses the importance of treating everyone with dignity, justice, and fairness.Without time enough to blink, the question erupted: So, what happened to Donald Trump’s right to be treated with dignity, justice, and fairness? He was denied each for his tenure and Biden’s term. He was called Hitler; they mocked his appearance, turned a blind eye to his benevolence to call him greedy, and denied him fair treatment both socially, professionally, and judicially.But that set the tone for Biden’s speech. He would go on to disingenuously serve up one hypocrisy after another even as he telegraphed his own opportunistic actions before and during his presidency.In this following clip, Biden has the unmitigated gall to say that we all must have the backbone to stand up to those who abuse power.You have to wonder if he really doesn’t understand that he is describing exactly what he and his administration—Obama 2.0—have done for eight years. He talks about “respecting” the institutions of government. Yet, at every turn, he transformed whole departments and agencies of our federal government into weapons against his enemies and the American people.And to even suggest that he is a proponent of a “free and independent press” when his and his party’s relationship with the mainstream media was both nepotistic and sympathetic stinks a vomitous stench of untruth. We haven’t had a free and independent press since the days of Woodrow Wilson, and it’s only gotten worse over the years.And then Biden made these obnoxious claims.The claim that this administration did anything to protect our children should earn Biden his own private circle in Dante’s world. There has never been a more egregious push to normalize gender dysphoria than during the Biden administration. The entirety of his staff—appointees et al.—were obsessed with sexuality and the sexualization of our children. And they were so to the point where they attempted to come between the sacred bond of parent and child. The Biden administration did more to corrupt the family unit than 100 years of Planned Parenthood, and that’s saying a lot.He then went on to falsely claim that crime—violent crime—is down across the nation. This is a flat-out lie. In fact, crime is so bad in many locales that people have stopped reporting crimes because there is too much of it for our law enforcement officers to address. Listen to any urban area police scanner on any given night—and especially Friday and Saturday nights—and all you hear is “shots fired.” Those aren’t the radio calls of a lower crime rate.And I suppose it’s easy to claim you’ve created 17 million jobs when you first eliminated 17 million jobs by destroying businesses during a so-called pandemic. But don’t worry, there are more people with health insurance than ever before. Now, all they have to do is schedule appointments thirteen months into the future because there are too many illegal immigrants in the waiting rooms thanks to the Biden administration giving them all free healthcare on the taxpayer’s dime.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It costs less than a monthly cup of coffee at StarbucksThen we come to Biden’s warnings for all to heed. For some reason, Biden felt he had the mental acuity to channel his inner Eisenhower to forewarn of ghosts of the future.A peaceful transition of power? I suppose the Bidens and their White House staff won’t barricade themselves in the Oval Office. Still, with the rapid-fire executive orders coming out of Biden’s administration in the waning days of his presidency, he is certainly setting Rome on fire for the incoming president. I’m half expecting to hear he has posthumously pardoned Charles Manson and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.But the most sickening thing in his speech to me is his telegraphing of the dangers of a new oligarchy. Yes, he was trying to paint that color onto Trump, his incoming administration, and his potentate supporters, but he was describing exactly what he, the Democrats, Hollywood, the Silicon Valley billionaires, George Soros, and the World Economic Forum Orcs have had assembled since the days of the Clinton administration. Biden was speaking of the Deep State inside-the-beltway bureaucracy, the very en

The aware understand that free speech is required for freedom to reign. Our Framers understood it well, and that’s why it is enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution in the Bill of Rights. But how does a free society protect free speech from nefarious charlatans who abuse that right for personal and ideological gain?Such is the question we face today when we examine the partisan politics that have metastasized like cancer throughout the mainstream media complex and, to drill down into one aspect of that niche, the pollsters.In an era of high political polarization, trust in polls has waned, particularly among certain voter groups. This distrust manifests in lower response rates and sometimes (and this is growing) dishonest responses, further skewing poll results. There has also been a trend where polls “herd” their respondents towards an expected result to avoid being an outlier, which can lead to a uniform but inaccurate picture.The American Association of Public Opinion Research published a white paper on herding that read:“Herding” specifically refers to the possibility that pollsters use existing poll results to help adjust the presentation of their own poll results. "Herding” strategies can range from making statistical adjustments to ensure that the released results appear similar to existing polls to deciding whether or not to release the poll depending on how the results compare to existing polls. By drawing upon information from previous polls, herding may appear to increase the perceived accuracy of an individual survey estimate…”The white paper said that one troublesome consequence of herding is that pollsters who engage in the practice will produce artificially consistent results that don’t accurately reflect public attitudes. This perceived polling consistency instills false confidence about who will win an election, thereby artificially impacting how the media covers the race. The white paper’s author goes on to say that the faux consistency becomes a major factor in whether political campaigns and parties “devote resources to a campaign, and even if voters think it is worthwhile to turn out to vote. “So, by the conscious decisions made by the polling companies and, most of the time, by the individual pollsters themselves, even the associations that champion their “science” admit that industry practices artificially affect elections.In 2020, Maddy Weinberg, writing from the University of California at Berkeley, noted that data analyzing over 1,400 polls from 11 election cycles revealed that only 60 percent of polls conducted the week before an election included the actual outcome. This doesn't sound too bad to those defending the “science” of polling, but to the consumer, that result is a failing grade.The defenders of this failure spin it this way:“It’s really important to remember that these polls are not forecasting who’s going to win. They are an estimate of likely vote share. So this is about whether the truth falls inside the confidence interval, not whether the poll calls the eventual winner.”And pollsters often use statistical models manufactured to adjust or “weight” their data to—as they see it—to better reflect the broader population. However, these adjustments often introduce errors if the assumptions or methods used are ideologically tainted, dishonest, or flawed. For instance, weighting by “recalled vote” or education level has been criticized for possibly skewing results. The 2020 election highlighted that national polling errors were among the highest in 40 years despite these adjustments.So, it goes without saying (although it must be said) that the “science” of polling is inaccurate, to say the very least. Yet, the mainstream media complex and the political opportunists of all political parties routinely cite polling results as intently sincere and an accurate harbinger of the coming election results predicated on that snapshot in time.This presents the action in question recently reported by TheHill.com. Ashleigh Fields reported:“The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) announced on Tuesday their decision to represent an Iowa pollster entangled in a lawsuit with President-elect Trump stemming from a November poll from renowned pollster Ann Selzer that showed him losing to Vice President Harris.”The group, in Selzer’s defense, claims the poll was an “outlier that projected inaccurate predictions unintentionally” and, therefore, did not violate the law.The poll in question—Selzer’s poll, was published in The DesMoine Register just days before the November 2024 Presidential Election. Her poll results stated that the people of Iowa favored Kamala Harris by three percentage points over Donald Trump. In reality, Trump won in Iowa by 13 points—a 16-point deviation from Selzer’s results.Yet FIRE maintains:“Trump’s lawsuit, brought under an Iowa law against ‘consumer fraud,’ violates long-standing constitutional principles. It’s also entirely meritles

This terrible, tragic story about what is happening in Southern California isn’t about wildfires or climate change, no matter how badly the elected class in California tries to spin it as such. Wildfires have been a part of everyday life since Los Angeles was created. And climate change didn’t cause the explosion in the size of this wildfire. But blame for the utter devastation has a home.Woke-brained ideologues and eco-zealous activists who have captured California government—at every level—have instituted reckless and dangerous utopian ideas and unrealistic and imbecilic initiatives, which have made this tragedy 100 times more dangerous and deadly than it had to be.Wildfires in California are nothing new. No one should have been surprised about a wildfire in Southern California. No one should have been caught unprepared for the annual arrival of the Santa Anna winds. What is happening in California right now was bound to happen sooner or later. However, the inability of California’s state and local governments to mitigate the emergency has caused this natural disaster to become an unnatural disaster propagated by inferior intellect at the hands of social engineers of a dysfunctional ideology.Traditionally—or until the woke mob assumed the throne—a large portion of California’s state, county, and city budgets were allocated to a reasonable amount of fire prevention, water management, and forest maintenance. But since the invasion of the woke, fire prevention budgets have been slashed, water management doesn’t exist, and forest maintenance is considered a crime.At a time when a large portion of the budgets should have been devoted to securing the safety of the citizens of California by evolving fire prevention abilities, hiring more firemen and training them for wildfires, and solving the decades-old water crisis—the exact opposite has taken place.Over 2,000 homes have burned to the ground (so far). Let that number sink in. It will take decades to rebuild all that was lost if, in fact, the people who lost their homes are allowed to get permits to do so for all the bureaucratic bullshit people have to go through in California. So, the overarching question for the moment is this: Why did this happen?Los Angeles elected a radically extreme neo-Marxist activist for its mayor, Karen Bass. She is woke in a devout way; fully invested in the DEI culture that manufactures the equity of outcomes instead of the equality of opportunity.Bass cut the fire department’s budget by $17.6 million in deference to the institution of DEI programs and their accompanying taxpayer-funded administrative salaries. At the same time, Bass’s budget found money for housing, educating, and healthcare for millions of illegal immigrants and the homeless.By the way, with full knowledge that a massive wind event was to bear down on Los Angeles and its surrounding area, Bass went to Africa to celebrate the inauguration of Ghana’s president. Why would attending such an event serve the people of Los Angeles?Then, we have the DEI hires who are the Fire Chief of Los Angeles, Kristin Crowley, an LGBTQ+ community member, devoted to DEI (and damn proud of it, according to her official department bio), and her deputy chief, Kristine Larson, also of the LGBTQ+ community. Larson heads up the department’s DEI Bureau. Both have publicly bragged about their devotion to ridding the Los Angeles Fire Dept of “old-school white guys” and hiring for “diversity.” In fact, Crowley said shewas “super inspired about bringing more women and LGBTQ-identifying persons in to fight fires.”Honestly, if your house is on fire and you are trapped, do you give a damn who the person coming to rescue you is sleeping with? It’s inconsequential to the job at hand and the position. To base the hiring of a firefighter—or any first responder— on gender, sexual orientation, or skin color over the candidate’s ability to do the job is not only imbecilic, it’s a dereliction of duty.This is illustrative of the whole of governments—with few exceptions—in the state of California.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It costs less than a cup of quarterpounder with cheese at Mc Donald’s once a week!During COVID, Bass and the Los Angeles Fire Department administration fired hundreds of professional firefighters who refused the vaccine. It goes without saying that those fire-tested professionals could have been valuable during this emergency, but then they would have needed equipment. To that point, were you aware a large portion of Los Angeles’ firefighting equipment was sent to Ukraine to aid in the war effort?Then we have Janisse Quiñones, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, the nation’s largest publicly-owned utility. Under Quiñones, firefighters responding to the fires were met with fire hydrants that didn’t produce water. Within 24 hours, the tanks used as reservoirs for the hydrants wer

The conservative block recently celebrated the paring down of the 1500-page Continuing Resolution that kept the government open. Part of that celebration centered on the defunding of the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which the learned pointed out was an integral cog in the Deep State anti-First Amendment censorship apparatus. However, the reports of the Center’s death have been greatly exaggerated.The so-called "Global Engagement Center" sounds about as threatening as a high school debate club. But in the wise words of Vivek Ramaswamy, it was actually a linchpin in what we might call the "censorship industrial complex." Its mission? Supposedly to combat "foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations." Foreign, they emphasized, because: a) apparently, the truth is only offensive when it comes from outside our borders, and b) political censorship is forbidden in the First Amendment.Here's the kicker: the GEC, like its cousins in the Deep State alphabet soup of government agencies (think CIA, FBI, and all those other three-letter nightmares), was supposed to be our shield against foreign threats. But—and especially over the Obama and Biden years, this shield has been turned inward, targeting those pesky American citizens who dare to think differently, especially on topics like COVID or Hunter Biden's laptop or the manufacture of the J6 events. The GEC, it seems, was more like a junior partner in Big Brother's surveillance state, keeping tabs on “Wrongthink.”Because heaven forbid, they couldn't directly censor Americans (that pesky First Amendment thing gets in the way, don’t you know), the GEC played it coy. They funded the British-based Global Disinformation Index. This group was less about fighting disinformation and more about creating a blacklist for publications like The Washington Examiner, RealClearPolitics, and The New York Post. The result? A financial guillotine for conservative voices, with ad revenues drying up faster than the initiatives promised by the BLM activists who bilked millions from their supporters and immediately abandoned them.Then came the bureaucratic masterstroke. The GEC’s funding was tucked away in that behemoth 1500-page legislative monstrosity—the Continuing Resolution to keep the government open. It was like serving a scoop of bureaucracy with a side of contempt, drawing the ire of Elon Musk and others. But, after much outrage and protest, the spendthrifts of Congress managed to shave it down to a mere 120 pages, cutting the GEC's funding and retreating from the legislators’ pay raises intact. Crisis averted? Not quite.The joy (no, not Kamala Harris “joy”) was fleeting. Like a magic trick, the State Department pulled a rabbit out of its hat, rebranding the GEC as the “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub.” Isn't that just a mouthful? Same people, new sign on the door, and a budget that miraculously “re-aligned” itself. It's like watching a bad magician perform at a second-rate political fundraiser.Now, with Donald Trump's second term looming, the questions are these. Will he be able to successfully play whack-a-mole with these bureaucratic hydraheads? Or will Republican infighting and the voraciousness of the Deep State apparatus mute his efforts to rein in the bureaucracy and tame the beast?There's talk of a "vibe shift," a cultural sea change where even former center-leftists and moderately inclined never-Trumpers are jumping on the MAGA bandwagon. But as some pre-maturely celebrate, we must all remember that rebranding doesn't mean reform. In fact, it’s not even close. It’s a re-packaging of the very initiatives we determined were outrageous in the first place. The GEC lives under an assumed alias. The Deep State bureaucracy, so focused on chiseling away at our First Amendment rights, lives on.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriber and supporting the free speech/truth effort at just $5 a monthSo here we stand, at the precipice of what could be a significant cultural, governmental, and political upheaval. We have a real chance to tame the Deep State beast and protect our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. But that will require us—all of us—to keep the pressure on. That means making sure our elected creatures in Congress hear from us regularly about the consequences they will face if they don’t support the reformation—from top to bottom, including the CIA, DoJ, FBI, State Department, and the IRS—that was mandated by the people in the re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency.If we don’t keep the pressure on (an Alinsky rule, by the way), everything we have achieved to date will be just another episode in the endless saga of government inefficiency and overreach.Will Trump and his team truly be able to dismantle the Deep State bureaucracy apparatus? They wi

It might just be possible that you are as tired of hearing this bullshit as I am. Almost daily, it seems, we see items in the news that declare outgoing lame-duck president Joe Biden is enacting this order of that initiative to hobble the agenda of the incoming Trump 2.0 administration.Evidently, one of two things is happening here. One, the mainstream media narrative crafters never showed up to or were always stoned for civics classes. Or two, the neo-Bolshevik spinners of the Clinton-Obama-Biden regime are working overtime to make the public believe something that simply isn’t true.Where presidential executive orders are concerned, a lame-duck president cannot enact executive orders that are inherently irreversible by an incoming president.Executive orders, directives from the POTUS, are legally binding but can be revoked, modified, or replaced by subsequent executive orders from a new president. This is because executive power resides in the office of the President, not in an individual president after they leave office.While a lame-duck president can issue executive orders, these are subject to the same legal scrutiny and practical limitations as any other executive action. They can be challenged in court, and their implementation might very well depend on the cooperation of the federal agencies, which can shift with a new administration.Congress can also affect the longevity of executive orders by passing legislation that contradicts or nullifies them, subject to the president's veto power or lack thereof if there's enough support to override a veto.Historical examples show that new presidents often review and sometimes reverse executive orders of their predecessors. For example, Biden reversed almost all of President Trump's executive orders shortly after taking office. Trump did the same with Obama's orders.Through the federal rulemaking process, a president can influence regulations managed by federal agencies. However, these can be changed by subsequent administrations, though this might involve expediting the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment period.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberThis applies to one fear-porn item floating around the usual suspect partisan media outlets—you know, the ones that are choke-full of asinine clickbait articles and ads— that reads:“President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to restrict offshore oil and gas drilling in his final days in office, a move that would placate the environmentalist lobby and potentially obstruct President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to unleash the US energy sector...“Biden’s reportedly forthcoming order would permanently ban new lease sales for oil and gas drilling in certain regions of the outer continental shelf…Some elected Democrats and many well-funded green groups have pushed Biden to implement permanent environmental policies in the waning days of his presidency to fluster Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda…”So, when you read or hear bullshit like that, remember your civics class in understanding that all agencies, departments, and commissions in the federal government fall under the Executive Branch and that the Executive Branch is under the control of the White House, not the other way around.That means, when a president with a working knowledge of the US Constitution and an actual set of balls—and not transgender balls either—takes office, he is the ultimate executive authority, not the Deep State bureaucracy of the agencies, departments, and commissions, and the myriad assholes of K Street.That’s important to remember this to fight the fear-porn that’s coming out of the mainstream media as we head towards January 20th.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

The questions beg to be asked. Are our political and academic classes that fatuous and dense? Or are they so jaded in their partisanship that they are willing to commit an actual insurrection against the American people because of their political power greed?Such is the question that we are presented with in scrutinizing an opinion editorial in The Hill (and, by the way, if you are under the delusion that publication is fair and balanced or conservative, you’re smoking something Hunter Biden would share) by two established far-Left operatives, Evan Davis and David Schulte.Davis, a former editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and counsel to New York Governor Mario Cuomo (D), and Schulte, an investment banker and former editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal—and good friend and financial supporter of Barack Obama, are ignorantly parroting the nonsense promoted by US Rep. Jeremey Raskin (D-MD), that somehow, Donald Trump is ineligible to hold the presidency because of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states:“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof...”Davis and Schulte, like Raskin, insist that there has been some sort of adjudication that insurrection occurred on January 6, 2021, and that is was planned and executed by Donald Trump.Davis and Schulte write:“Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government,” the authors write. “The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums, two of which were fully contested with the active participation of Trump’s counsel.”Davis and Schulte, like Raskin, cite the main charge of Trump’s second impeachment trial, “incitement of insurrection,” which all 222 Democrats voted in favor of, as proof. Trump was acquitted by the Senate on February 13, 2021.Davis and Schulte went on to cite “the Colorado five-day judicial due process hearing, during which the court found “by clear and convincing evidence” that President Trump engaged in insurrection as those terms are used in Section Three.And lastly, the authors cited the farce that was the Nancy Pelosi House Select Committee that investigated January 6, arguing that evidence from witnesses leads to “the inescapable conclusion…that Trump engaged in insurrection against the Constitution.”For men educated at Ivy League universities, these two are as constitutionally illiterate and devoid of critical thinking skills and common sense as they come, maybe but for Raskin.Let’s take each piece of “evidence” in reverse order. Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberThe House Select Committee's investigation of the events of January 6th was contested in its legitimacy from the start because the minority party was denied the right to seat members from its caucus, thereby making the exercise one of political persecution and partisan politics.Further, the committee selectively presented evidence to support a predetermined narrative. The committee cherry-picked evidence and refused to release or discuss all relevant information, particularly anything that might contradict their findings or narrative. This includes exculpatory evidence, which was hidden or not adequately explored.In addition, a former ABC News producer helped stage the hearings, and it’s easy to see that the committee was more focused on creating a compelling narrative for public consumption than on conducting a legitimate investigation.Then there is Davis and Schulte’s citation of the Colorado court hearing, not a trial but a hearing, and a hearing that invalidated itself from the very beginning.Set aside, for a moment, that after the “verdict” was affirmed by the Colorado Supreme Court, it was sent on appeal to the US Supreme Court, which did “not address the finding that Trump had engaged in insurrection.” For the SCOTUS not to address that point, basic to the appeal, is an action of ipso facto “denial of certiorari,” dismissal for lack of jurisdiction.And, to put a legal and constitutional cherry on top of that, let’s not forget that Colorado, like all states, is bound to the Supremacy Clause—Article VI, Clause 2 of the US Constitution—which states:“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be b

The heads of far-Left and usual suspect media outlets are exploding all over the world at Donald Trump’s recent statements about Canada and Greenland, and maybe a bit less so about the Panama Canal. But those who are so alarmed fail to understand the “art of the deal” type of thinking being employed here.Recently, Trump extended his holiday wishes to “Governor” Justin Trudeau of Canada. Of course, Trudeau is the prime minister of Canada.In his holiday message, Trump pointed out that Canadian citizen's taxes are far too high. In mentioning that fact, he playfully said, “but if Canada were to become our 51st State, their taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world.”In a separate statement, he went on to say that he had just met with hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and suggested that he run for prime minister of Canada, alluding to Gretzky in saying he would soon be “the Governor of Canada.”Trump also extended his holiday cheer to the people of Greenland, who he said “is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the US to be there, and we will!”And he didn’t forget his favorite target, communist China. To which he said:“Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in ‘repair’ money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about ‘anything.’”Of course, Trump’s words toward the communist Chinese came after he addressed the issue of excessive shipping fees assessed by the Panamanian port authority operating the Panama Canal. Reliable reports indicate that Chinese nationals—most likely PLA soldiers—operate the canal daily. Trump proposed that if they did not stop “ripping off” the US by charging obscene fees for using the canal (built and owned by the United States until President Jimmy Carter), the United States would retake it.Can’t you hear the exploding of the heads of the usual suspects in the mainstream media and on the radical Left?Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberIn typical kneejerk fashion, those who feel anyone cares whether or not they get in front of a microphone immediately did so.Múte B. Egede, Greenland's Prime Minister—who obviously takes thighs way too seriously, stated: "Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom. Greenland is not for sale."José Raúl Mulino, President of Panama, who equally lacks any sense of jocularity, stated: “Panama's independence is non-negotiable. The canal and surrounding area belong to our country and will remain so.”And Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada—who many believe to be the illegitimate son of Fidel Castro, raced to the microphones and cameras and declared: “This is not a laughing matter. Threatening tariffs and then joking about annexation shows a lack of understanding of our sovereignty and the respect due between allies.”To borrow a phrase from Sgt. Hulka in the movie Stripes to apply to each of these pearl-clutching Karens, "Take it easy, Francis."To cite another age-old adage—albeit to apply it in reverse (and anyone with an intellect larger than that of figgy pudding understands this), what Trump is doing here implementing a strategy where he is asking for much more than he expects to get, settling for less but still achieving his actual goal.So, let’s look at what Mr. Trump did and how Egede, Mulino, and Castro—oops, I mean Trudeau—were played.In the aftermath of Trump’s statement about Greenland (which is a nation in the kingdom of Denmark), Denmark announced a significant increase in defense spending aimed at strengthening Greenland's defense capabilities. This included a package worth at least $1.5 billion for new inspection ships, drones, dog sled teams, and upgrades to civilian airports to handle military aircraft.Trump threatened annexation and received a bolstered native defense of Greenland that would help protect the United States and the free world…at zero cost to the US.In Canada, Trump not only kept the issue of high taxes front and center for the Canadian people, but throttled up the pressure on the Trudeau administration, currently under attack and facing a vote of no confidence that would end Trudeau’s term as prime minister. That pressure also aids the budding conservative movement in Canada at the national level.Trump talks about Canada being annexed as the 51st State and helped advance a more fiscally responsible and conservative government in Canada while taking out one of Klaus Schuab’s World Economic Forum golden boys.And in Panama, Trump put a spotlight on the continued aggression and expansion of the communist Chinese in the Western Hemisphere, refoc

Christmas is here, and I thought I would take a different tack, away from the overt politics of the day, and talk a bit about what I speak of at the end of each podcast.Everyone recognizes the spirit of Christmas when the season approaches. Sadly, a lot of that spirit centers on material things because the profiteers and marketers never miss an opportunity to exploit our consumer society to their benefit. I’m not saying they’re bad people for it, but it would be nice if it weren’t “so slam it in your face” and “jam it down your throat” 24/7/365.No, the Christmas spirit I am talking about is the “peace on earth, goodwill toward men” spirit. The spirit of brotherhood—and sisterhood, I don’t like to play those woke word games, so you know what I mean. If you’re offended by that sort of thing, well, I don’t think you listen regularly anyway.At the end of each podcast, I always ask people to talk about politics, religion, and current events with their family, friends, and colleagues. My point in doing so is that when we have these conversations, we start to realize that we all have a lot more in common than we do in difference. It helps us—all of us—realize we aren’t in this thing called life alone, that we are part of a brotherhood—the brotherhood of man.Now, I’m not naive enough not to see that there are some nefarious people in the world. There are. They are the weak, even though they see themselves, most times, as powerful and influential. These outliers, sadly, we won’t be able to reach with any message of brotherhood in the time we have on this earth. These are the people we must keep in check every day so that their egos and greed don’t damage our lives any further than they already have.But those outliers are the exception, not the rule. The common rule, the commonality of natural law, is the brotherhood of man.The brotherhood of man is a powerful thing, even emerging during times of war and revolution.During the American Revolution, the faithful gathered in their churches regularly and heard messages of unity and brotherhood from their priests and preachers. These messages fostered unity among the diversity of the colonists who, through that message, achieved e pluribus unum, out of many, one.These messages promoted a shared identity and common purpose, emphasizing the idea that all of the colonists were part of a greater American family fighting for liberty and freedom from the tyranny of King George. This sense of brotherhood was vital in rallying support for the revolutionary cause, encouraging mutual aid and sacrifice among the populace.This message, this brotherhood of man message of unity, was instrumental in mobilizing both soldiers and civilians, reinforcing the shared resolve needed to endure the hardships of war and to envision a new nation built on principles of equality, freedom, liberty, and fraternity.During World War I, an extraordinary event known as the Christmas Truce occurred—spontaneously—along various parts of the Western Front in December 1914.On Christmas Eve, soldiers from opposing sides, primarily British and German troops, began to fraternize, singing carols, exchanging gifts like cigarettes and food, and even playing impromptu games of soccer. This unofficial ceasefire saw men emerging from their trenches to meet in “No Man's Land,” sharing moments of peace and humanity amidst the horrors of war.Although the truce wasn’t universal and varied in duration, with some areas seeing brief moments of ceasefire while others lasted for days, it remains one of the most poignant examples of human solidarity—of the brotherhood of man—during wartime, showing that even in the darkest times, the spirit of Christmas, the sentiment of “peace on earth, goodwill toward men,” could momentarily halt the brutality of conflict between peoples.Today, as our society, our brotherhood, exists threatened by ideologues who purposely attempt to gin up discontent and division at every turn—all for their own greeds; power, wealth, influence, it is important that we understand—or reacquaint ourselves with the fact—that we are all—all of us—a part of that brotherhood of man. In the spirit of this brotherhood, this commonality, this reality, we awaken to the truth that, in the grand scheme of things, we are all in this crazy and sometimes maddening ride together.This is why my Christmas wish for you—for all of you—is the gift of talking with one another about the issues we face—as a brotherhood, as a brotherhood in liberty and freedom—that we all talk about the things we have been told never to talk about in public so that we can arrive at the realization of that brotherhood.So, grab a glass of whatever it is that you choose when you are setting yourself to revelry, and take just a few moments to talk with your family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances about politics, religion, and current events. Please employ a tone appropriate for the holidays—a tone steeped in peace on earth, goodwill toward men—and li

As we approach the start date for Trump 2.0, it appears some of the more partisan Deep State, uniparty Democrats—and their RINO compatriots—are starting to regain their confidence after the election slap down they received from the American people, not Donald Trump, although he was on the ballot and was the vehicle. The slap down came from the American people, the voters.Some are desperately trying to ignore the mandate for change the American people voted for in November, but then, we can’t expect the grifters of the inside-the-beltway bureaucracy to change just because the people demand it. That would be like having representative government. I mean, really!No, they will have to be expunged from Washington either through the electoral process—which, given the lack of critical thinking skills among the progressive electorate, is nothing more than a pipe dream—or by the process of that age group dying off of organic, granola-like natural causes, of course. One of those two things will have to happen before we are rid of their Constitution Avenue palmistry.One arrogant uniparty tool—and yes, I am using the word in the way you think I am—is US Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who recently attacked the existence of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s influence in the Trump 2.0 administration. In a pathetic attempt to define the narrative away from the federal government’s bloated budgets, spendthrift spending, and overall fiscal irresponsibility, Murphy said:“Why do we, all of a sudden, decide to take this government efficiency task force seriously? Like, why are we acting as if this is legitimate?...[DOGE is] “not a department…it’s being run by two billionaires, people who have no idea how important basic government services like Medicaid, Social Security, Veterans Benefits are to regular people.“But there are a lot of Democrats, you know, openly saying, ‘I wanna work with them, I want to sit down with this group' giving the appearance that this is something other than either than just a TV show or an effort by the billionaire class to privatize government to benefit themselves, which would be par for the course because all Donald Trump has shown us is that he wants to monetize his power for the benefit of himself and his friends…”Let me get this straight. The guy who gave—and plans to give— his presidential salary away to charity is only out for himself. That’s some twisted and convoluted stuff right there.And as for Musk and Ramaswamy working to kill a Continuing Resolution, how was killing a bill that was packed with politics, pork, and opportunistic protection, “privatizing government to benefit themselves?”Let’s look at some of the more egregious things that Deep State uniparty reprobates—from the Left and the RINO classes—tried to stuff into that now dead bill:* Immunity for J6 Committee members* Nullified Statutory PAYGO so the government doesn’t have to pay for programs by offsetting spending elsewhere* Funding for a new Washington Commanders stadium* Congressional pay increases of $70,000 annually* Renewal of the Global Engagement Center (a vassal for government censorship)* Expansion of vaccine and mask mandates, as well as pandemic policy* Redistribution of Social Security Funds* Exempted members of Congress from having to enroll in Obamacare* Redefined “criminal offenders” to “justice involved” individualsAdd to that the ideological spending that seems to be mandatory when you are a Deep State unipartier; things like $15 Million for Egyptians' college tuition—the tuition of Egyptian college students, $400 thousand for clothing for transgenders, and $500 thousand for a DEI zoo.Aside from the fact that none of this—none of it—has anything to do with the core functions of government, we must come to the realization it’s all pork bullshit. How does any of what the Far-Left and RINO classes wanted in the original CR “benefit” Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or Vavek Ramaswamy? How does it benefit anyone but the devout special interest groups of the neo-Marxist transformative Left?Yet, that’s what Murphy insisted. That hacking the spendthrift bullshit from a bill meant to fund the core obligations of government is somehow benefiting the billionaires.I said this recently, and I will say it again. People who have awakened to be pissed off at the opportunistic grifter class that our federal government has become must keep the pressure on! Yes, Donald Trump—a disrupter if there ever was one—emerged victorious in the election, thank God. But that is not the total of the battle. Not by a long shot. It is just the beginning.In this war to reestablish the people’s dominance over a now tyrannical federal bureaucracy—and one that has no understanding at all of fiscal restraint, we cannot let usual suspect uniparty operatives—like Murphy, Mitch McConnell, Hakeem Jefferies, Susan Collins, The Squad (or at least those remaining members), Lisa Murkowski, and the like—we can not let them reassume the ability to craft the narrative away

While social media and the information sphere buzz about the drones inundating the coastline approximate to New Jersey and New York, I can’t help but wonder if we are being blind to the real problem here.With credible reports coming out of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that radioactive material was lost in transit earlier this month from a cargo ship headed into New Jersey, the simple explanation that the NRC and/or US military is searching for that material becomes probable.Also credible, but further down the list, comes the truth that 80 nuclear warheads that existed in Ukraine during the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980s are unaccounted for.According to John Ferguson, CEO of Saxon Aerospace LLC and an expert in unmanned aerial systems—as reported in GatewayPundit.com:“Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan had dismantled the nuclear program with Russia. There were countless nuclear missiles that were disarmed and disposed of. Well, there were over 80, I believe, over 80 nuclear warheads that were in Ukraine that came up missing.“We don’t know where they are. Maybe somebody does, but nobody really knows where these are. I speak with some pretty high-level government officials on this stuff. It seems as though that is the case.“I spoke to a gentleman a few months ago who was trying to raise the alarm to the highest levels of our government, who had their ears closed, about this one particular nuclear warhead that he physically put his hands on.“He physically touched this warhead that was left over from Ukraine. And he knew that that thing was headed towards the United States. That is a very serious deal…”If, in fact, this is the case, that the drones are of the US government in origin and they are looking for lost nuclear materials—a warhead or otherwise—then we have a serious and actionable problem on our hands.If, in fact, one of the two aforementioned scenarios is the reason for all the drone activity, that makes Biden’s National Security Communications Advisor, John Kirby’s, statement all the more infuriating:This brings me to my point and a point that I believe has been and is being somewhat overlooked. Our federal government has become a behemoth apparatus where secrecy is the order of the day, and transparency is a rarity.Secrecy is supposed to be the rare exception for the most serious of issues and subjects, not the automatic default for anything and everything the government does. Using secrecy as a default sets the stage for the co-opting of government by the nefarious and opportunistically connected. It’s a warm petri dish for the bureaucratic Deep State to manipulate government to their will. And when the government bureaucracy, the Deep State government bureaucracy, is so entangled and controlled by K Street and the global elite—as it is today—the people kneel as slaves to the master, and that master has become the federal government.I talk about this to a great extent in my book Nullification: The Case for Decentralizing the Federal Government. The free Constitutional Republic of the United States was never—ever—supposed to have an all-controlling centralized government in Washington, DC. The fear of just such a centralized control was palpable as far back as the last days of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency when Jeffersonian Republicans went head-to-head with the federalists on the subject.It has been an issue our nation has been battling and debating ever since, but in this day and age—what with the many levels of greed present in the elected and activist classes; greed for money, greed for power, greed for being seen as correct—the dangers presented by a centralized federal government are ten-fold from those of Jefferson’s era.The secrecy surrounding the drone activity is just a by-product of the centralization of power at the federal level and a byproduct of a federal government that has gotten entirely too large. When coupled with the fact that this centralization of power is being controlled not by those duly elected to represent us in government, but by a bureaucracy that really answers to no one; that is never held accountable…well, Houston, we have a problem, a serious problem.That means we don’t live in a Constitutional Republic any longer. Since the US Constitution created our government as a Constitutional Republic, it presents a reality and a few questions.The reality is that a coup has taken place in the transformation of our government away from its rightful state as a Constitutional Republic.The questions: When did that happen, who is responsible, and when will they be held accountable?Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.Underground USA is reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

So, how much of a complete asshole is Mitch McConnell? Well, I can argue that he is an emotion-exploiting, Deep State, K Street whore of a magnanimous proportion. Put succinctly, he’s quite an asshole.Anyone who listens regularly understands how much I loathe McConnell; a demonstrated Republican In Name Only who clings to his lust for power and control like Charleton Heston clung to his Second Amendment rights.McConnell, the titular head of the Deep State Republican “Gang of Six”—comprised of himself and US Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Curtis, Lindsey Graham, and John Thune, recently took a shot at Trump Health & Human Services nominee, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on the issue of vaccines and the vaccine approval process.Kennedy, many would argue, is a bit more informed on the issue of vaccines than Mitch, “the Sino-Bitch,” who, with regard to the COVID vaccines—now proven to be choke-full of side effects and absent the promise of immunity—infamously stated:"I can say as a Republican man, as soon as it was my turn, I took the vaccine. I would encourage all Republican men to do that." (March 2021)And…"It was a modern medical miracle. That doesn't work if people don't get vaccinated. So for whatever influence I can have over those decisions, I want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine." (June 2021)And…"These shots need to get in everybody's arm as rapidly as possible or we're going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don't yearn for, that we went through last year." (July 2021)Now, the oracle of RINO-ism and purveyor of pseudo-science is feigning a superior scientific intellect in attacking a Kennedy ally, Aaron Siri, singling out Siri’s questioning of one vaccine to blanket suspicion over the whole of his opposition to BigPharma’s addiction to profiteering off of vaccine creations for anything and everything the commercial marketeers can concoct, all under the guise of “protecting” the American public.McSino-RINO said:“For decades, I have been proud to work with devoted advocates—from Rotary International to the Gates Foundation—and use my platform in public life to champion the pursuit of cures for further generations. I have never flinched from confronting specious disinformation that threatens the advance of lifesaving medical progress, and I will not today…Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed – they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.”So, the 82-year-old—whose own physical capabilities have informed him that he shouldn’t be navigating the halls of power, let alone doing it on behalf of the people of Kentucky or the United States—is using his position to coerce those who weren’t duped by the pseudo-science of the COVID vaccine movement, into being just as ignorant in their thinking as he and his profit-motivated RINO, Deep State compatriots?I don’t think so, Tim.In fact, this is just more evidence of the need—the intense need—for the American people and their duly elected representatives, by virtue of the established Trump mandate, to turn the page on the opportunistic politics of the McConnell/Pelosi era. It’s time for those two reprobates and their henchmen to vaporize from public life. I mean, really, haven’t they done enough damage to the American political system over the years? Haven’t they enriched themselves to saturation at the taxpayer-funded governmental monetary feed trough?So, to answer my own question, I guess McConnell is an asshole of historical proportion. And we should all be pretty sick and tired of his slurred bullshit.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

In a world where we have been duped into believing that everyone’s individual truth must be accepted and embraced, even at the expense of facts and reality, I suppose the statement “there is no defense for what they do,” could apply to many people, entities, and organizations. But as the virtue-signaling globalist Left in the United States continues to turn a blind eye to the lethal dangers streaming by the tens of thousands over our open borders each month, it’s time to over-state the blatantly obvious.There is no defense, no rationale, no excuse for the US federal government–as well as the many state, county, and local governments–to do absolutely nothing to thwart and, in fact, facilitate, in many cases, the entry into our Republic of criminal gangs from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Mexico. With every passing day, they embed themselves into our country like roaches in a tenement building.This is not about extending a benevolent hand to Third World downtrodden in an effort to help them live better. This is about well-financed and organized criminal gangs–aided by foe governments to the United States–strategically rooting themselves in our country to occupy and profiteer from their chosen trades: Drug and human trafficking through the use of obscene and horrific uses of violence.As reported in The New York Post:“The vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has expanded its territory to at least 16 US states–an area that includes half of America’s population...“Homeland Security officials last week were warned in an internal department intelligence memo about TdA’s growing presence across the country, most recently in Washington, DC, Virginia, Montana and Wyoming.“The gang already has footholds in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, according to the memo...“The gang has only increased its violent tendencies’ as it spreads, the memo added.”In late August 2024, shocking videos surfaced of gun-wielding Tren de Aragua members storming an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado. This incident was part of a series of events leading local authorities to acknowledge the presence of the gang in the community. Incredulously–and assumably because it was during the heat of the 2024 General Election cycle, local authorities downplayed claims of the gang having “taken over” the city.In June 2024, a 19-year-old member of Tren de Aragua was charged with shooting two New York City police officers in Queens. This incident was cited as part of a broader pattern of criminal activities by the gang, with the suspect showing no remorse about the shootings, stating it was “common practice” to open fire on police in Venezuela.Tren de Aragua is heavily engaged in the following:* Human trafficking, particularly women and girls for the sex trade and debt bondage* Kidnappings for ransom* Extortion of “protection fees”* Drug trafficking, including cocaine, MDMA, and "pink cocaine," a mix involving ketamine* Arms trafficking* Theft and robbery, including retail theft, street robberies, and home invasions.* Money laundering* Prostitution, particularly in migrant shelters or areas with high migrant populations* Violent crimes, including murder, assault, and intimidation to maintain control or expand their influence, including high-profile incidents like shootings of law enforcement and civilians.And like Tren de Aragua, the El Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) is entrenched in the United States with a significant presence in California (particularly in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the Central Valley), New York (notably active on Long Island and New York City), Virginia, Maryland, Texas (in Houston and Dallas), Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, DC, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, and Florida (particularly in Miami). Their presence has also been felt in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.In September 2016, two teenage girls, Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas,16—both civilians—were viciously attacked and killed in Brentwood, New York. They were beaten, hacked, and stabbed to death by members of MS-13. One of the victims was stabbed over 50 times, and both were mutilated in an act meant to terrorize the community and establish MS-13's dominance. The attack was in retaliation for perceived slights against the gang.These are just two of the more than 33,000 organized criminal gangs—including street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs—currently operating in the United States. Of those 33,000, thousands of the most vicious groups, with splinter groups numbering in additional thousands, come from Mexico, Central America, and South America.Currently, the top five most violent street gangs in the United States based on notoriety, reported violence, and law enforcement focus, are:* Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)* Barrio Azteca* 18th Street Gang* Mexican Mafia (La Eme)* Bloods & CripsLeft unaddressed, this list will soon include

First, let me state this for the record so no one can try to manipulate my words. The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is nothing short of an act of murder. I condemn the act and hope the perpetrator is apprehended and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, left to the justice meted out by a jury of his peers.I also extend my sincere condolences to Mr. Thompson’s family and close friends.That said, it would be wise to examine the possible motives that spurred the shooter to engage in murder, in the taking of another human being’s life.The security camera footage of the shooting is chilling, even in a world where violence is over-glorified in the entertainment industries. The shooter, calculated and cold in his simplicity, stalked Thompson and very simply pulled the trigger…three times.VIEW VIDEO HERE Investigators have discovered that etched onto the bullet casings found at the murder scene were the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose.” These words are eerily similar to the title of the book, Delay, Deny, Defend, which discusses why “insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it.”The book is a critical examination of the insurance industry in the United States, delving into how insurance companies often operate through strategies encapsulated by its title:Insurers often use delaying tactics to slow the claims process, hoping claimants will give up or settle for less. When that doesn’t work, they often reject claims (even valid ones) by finding any reason not to pay out. And if those two tactics don’t work, many, if not most, insurers will proceed to litigation, aggressively defending and leveraging their resources to outlast or outspend the policyholder.The book’s author uses numerous examples and case studies to illustrate these practices, highlighting how they affect individuals and the broader economy and society. He argues that these strategies prioritize profit over policyholder welfare, often at the expense of those who have paid for coverage expecting protection in times of need. The book also explores regulatory failures and suggests reforms to make the insurance industry more equitable and consumer-friendly.So, it is reasonable to speculate that the shooter was adversely affected by the health insurance industry and decided, like the character Howard Beale in the movie Network, that he was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore.Of course, that wouldn’t rationalize an act of murder, and it certainly doesn’t excuse it. But who hasn’t had a run-in with a health insurance company and ended up enraged and disgusted? At every turn, there seems to be a loophole or fine-print caveat that excludes what an insured patient needs or saddles him or her with co-pays that are just about as expensive as paying out-of-pocket.Then there is the unholy alliance between the health insurance industry and BigPharma.Insurance companies influence drug costs through their formulary, a list of insurance-covered medications. BigPharma often colludes with insurers to ensure their drugs are included in these formularies through financial incentives or exclusive deals, which usually aren’t in the best interest of patients or based on the drug's effectiveness.Further, there have been legal actions regarding price-fixing and collusion in drug pricing, where insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies agree on pricing strategies that limit competition and keep prices artificially high.For example. The average price for a 30-day supply (60 tablets) of the anticoagulant medication Eliquis is approximately $185 in Canada. In the United States, where we are told we have a superior healthcare system, the list price for a 30-day supply is approximately $594. That’s a $409 difference.The average price in Mexico is approximately $85. This translates to slightly more than $1 per pill. In the United States, the land where the US federal government tried to mandate health insurance for all each tablet of Eliquis costs approximately $9.90.That’s just one medication. Now use that as a loose base-line in contemplating how the costs of other medicines and medical procedures are affected by this unholy alliance.Consider this. One report of cost inflation after an Emergency Room visit detailed a case where a $629 bill was issued, with $7 attributed to a Band-Aid and the rest to the facility fee for emergency services. In another example, the cost of a Band-Aid was part of a $478 bill for a minor injury treatment. The retail price of a Band-Aid is anywhere from $0.05 to $0.50.Then there are plain old visits to a doctor. The average non-insurance out-of-pocket cost for a visit to the doctor in 2024 is anywhere from $150 to $300 for a basic visit. In 2000, that same visit cost $61. In 1980, it cost $14. These costs are based on data from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.But what about major life-threatening illnesses and how health insurance companies issue payments to cover those?Let’s

It never, ever fails, ever. Democrat Deep Staters always, always, always telegraph their deeds, transposing them onto their opposition. It’s been happening since the days of Woodrow Wilson and it continues to this day.Today’s uniparty Deep State tool is a frequent flier: Dick Durbin, a Democrat senator from Illinois. This Chicago-machine-anointed partisan hack has demonstrated his partisanship almost every second of his career, and his latest remarks don’t deviate from his far-Left fealty.In response to President-elect Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Durbin issued an infantile protest full of name-calling and “it’s not fair” whining, fully unbecoming of someone seated in the most prestigious legislative body on the planet.“President Biden kept Director Wray in office because the FBI is supposed to be insulated from partisanship. Now, the president-elect wants to replace his own appointee with an unqualified loyalist…The Senate should reject this unprecedented effort to weaponize the FBI for the campaign of retribution that Donald Trump has promised.”What? There is so much wrong with that statement it’s hard to know where to begin. But let’s take it from the top, shall we?Durbin’s insistence that Patel shouldn’t be seated because President Biden kept Wray in place is an imbecilic notion. Under Wray, the FBI has been used in numerous ways to affect the political persecution of Americans.The FBI was found to have labeled parents speaking out at school board meetings as potential “domestic terrorists.” This stemmed from a memo issued by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) in 2021, which served as an attempt to categorize outspoken parents as threats. The FBI response involved investigating these parents over their legitimate concerns about how the school districts were treating and educating their children.In 2023, a subpoenaed document from the FBI's Richmond Field Office revealed coordination with multiple field offices to produce a memo targeting traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists. This memo was later withdrawn, but the incident exposed the FBI’s religious profiling and political bias.The FBI under Wray has targeted agents based on their political beliefs, particularly those with conservative views or military backgrounds. This includes claims of harassment and retaliation against whistleblowers who spoke out against political biases within the agency.The FBI has also been called on the carpet for not only not aggressively pursuing investigations into Hunter Biden, suggesting a protective stance towards political figures aligned with the Democrat party, but also covering up the facts surrounding what was on his laptop, couching it all as an exercise in Russian skullduggery.Then we have the SWAT raid at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022 where we now know the FBI was being used as a political tool against Trump and his 2024 election campaign.And lastly, for our purposes here, we now know the FBI worked with social media companies to suppress information, particularly around the federal government’s COVID disinformation campaign and the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.By Durbin’s “ethical” standards, Trump should leave Wray in his position, well, just because Biden did, ignoring the fact—the indisputable fact—that under Christopher Wray, the FBI has been corrupted and politicized almost beyond repair.Not only has Wray failed in his sworn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same,” he allowed partisan ideologues to rise to positions of power that allowed them to thwart investigations, hobble the search for truth and justice, and use the power of the FBI and its sacred public trust to benefit political ideologues.Wray is a failed FBI director and rightfully deserves to be fired for dereliction of duty if not scrutinized for true acts of insurrection and sedition.But, back to Durbin and his idiotic statement.Durbin infers that Trump appointing an “unqualified loyalist” is ludicrous in both uses of the words.First, why would any president, Trump, Biden, Obama—any of them, appoint someone who wasn’t loyal to their agenda? The idea is psychopathic on its face. In fact, it’s absurdity is self-evident to those with an IQ over that of a grape.But “unqualified”? Durbin dares to use the term “unqualified” in the same sentence as the name Kash Patel?Okay, quickly, because it would take hours to fully explain why Patel is more than qualified to be a reformative FBI director in the Trump administration:* Patel holds a Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law and has a certificate in international law from the University of College London.* He worked as a federal prosecutor within the Justice Department, focusing on national security cases, which gives him direct experience in law enforcement re

Never let it be said that establishment operatives within the Republican Party apparatus can’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The only questions that remain are these: Do they do it because they are power-hungry Deep Staters? Or are they just that incapable of recognizing a mandate when they see one?The latest in the long line of “are you shitting me” moments comes in the elitist and tone-deaf remarks emanating from George W. Bush’s “architect,” Karl Rove.In a recent op-ed penned for The Wall Street Journal, Rove is quoted as saying:“While his nominees prepare for their hearings, the president-elect must turn to what is in many respects an equally important task: picking the No. 2s for his cabinet secretaries and administrator…It will be especially important for Mr. Trump’s picks to have capable No. 2s as undersecretary, deputy secretary, and chief deputy administrator — titles vary from place to place — especially if the No. 1 is new to government or that department’s function.”Rove states that those “No. 2s” (I am sure that no pun was intended) should be people who have served in the agencies, departments, and commissions and know how they function; adding the entire process might be “confounding even [to] the most purpose-driven leader.”Rove finishes up his piece by saying, President-elect Trump:“...needs people who have been in the trenches, grappled with the bureaucracy and have some sense of its powers to distract, delay and misdirect…Shaking things up works only if doing so helps rather than hurts the American people. Doing the right thing the right way matters. Who’s No. 2 matters almost as much as who’s No. 1.”Well, Rove has that last part right, anyway. And I do agree with him on his overall point. Trump cannot make the same mistake as during the first Trump administration (Trump 1.0). He must appoint and place people who understand the Washingtonian game and who won’t get gamed by the system. The problem here is this. The Republican and conservative inside-the-beltway bench is sprinkled with careerist, inside-the-beltway Deep Staters who, like last time around, would be quite tempted—if not motivated—to inject their self-preservative ideologies rather than faithfully carry out Trump’s Deep State destruction agenda with fidelity.So, if we are to follow Mr. Rove’s advice and saddle the Trump nominees with establishment Republican “No. 2s,” how are we to have a reasonable expectation that those “No. 2s” won’t obstruct the administration’s anti-Deep State efforts just like many of Trump’s “No. 1s” did during Trump 1.0?There can be no guarantee with a Washingtonian insider because that cohort has repeatedly proven to the American people that they have either a loose or non-existent relationship with the truth. Truth is “subjective” to that peer group. They can justify almost any action or infidelity, no matter how egregious.One need only look at how the so-called Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collin (R-ME) abdicated their fidelity to their party’s leader during Trump 1.0.Collins and Murkowski are two of only three GOP senators advancing to the 119th Congress who voted to convict Trump in an impeachment trial. Each has voted in line with GOP colleagues a scant 36% of the time this year. In most instances, their votes helped Chuck Schumer hammer through radically-Left judicial nominations. This voting fidelity is a far lower percentage than any other senator.With the news that the “Deep-Statiest” Senator of them all, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is set to step aside to pave the way for Collins to take the reins of one of the most influential committees in Congress, the Senate Appropriations Committee (a role that wields unparalleled control over discretionary federal spending), following Rove’s advice would detract from the almost impossible task of taming the federal government.To follow Rove’s advice to install “No. 2s” from the establishment Republican and conservative bench, to install those who “have been in the trenches” and “grappled with the bureaucracy” would almost guarantee that the most necessary of reforms and deconstructions would never come to fruition.In fact, rather than heed Rove’s advice, the Trump 2.0 transition team—and the President-elect himself— should consume the underlying sentiment of Rove’s point and take it in another direction.Instead of placing establishment GOP bench-sitters into the “No. 2” positions as Rove suggests, why not seek out, vet, and appoint those who understand the Washingtonian inside-the-beltway games but who have been screwed over by the Deep State establishment? Strategically gather a group of potential second-in-commands who have a vendetta against those defending the status quo and the Deep State bureaucracy itself.A battle-hardened “No. 2” with a burning desire to shatter the Washington swamp, adept at navigating Trump’s appointees through the minefield of bureaucratic sabotage laid by Deep State parasites, will be the linchpi

I get a certain satisfaction from those social media memes that joke, “For every Christmas light that goes up before Thanksgiving, an elf dies.” Not that I have anything against elves. I am sure they are very nice. Thanksgiving comes before Christmas, and it is a uniquely American holiday that should be properly recognized.We see it increasingly every year. Immediately after Halloween, the Madison Avenue marketers and profiteers start the push to “buy, buy, buy” for the Christmas holiday. In some cases, stores are starting to put up Christmas merchandise even before the Halloween candy goes on sale. Jack Skellington riding a reindeer. How pithy.In my humble opinion, it diminishes both Halloween and Christmas. But more importantly, it completely ignores the uniquely American holiday that is Thanksgiving, and that is really disheartening.Everyone should know the story of the first Thanksgiving and the formative history that brought it to be a national holiday. I say should because, as you all know, accurate and fact-based history isn’t taught in our schools today. Another reality that is disheartening, but I digress.To give a brief overview, I turn to The History Channel, which, for most of what they do, at least attempted to have fidelity to the truth:And so it is that the Thanksgiving holiday is one that is born of Americanism. It is ours as a nation, yet today, we give it short shrift as a day when we eat well, watch football (if you’re into that, my football-watching days ended with the brilliance of the 1985 Chicago Bears), and end up arguing with the outspoken and/or over-imbibed relation who just needs to display his or her ass about politics and current events, all as the whisper of Christmas licks at the window.The fact of the matter is this. We, as individuals and as a nation, have quite a bit to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, and we should take the time to breathe and give thanks for it all.Politically, whether you are a Trump supporter or one of the vocal few who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (a real affliction, I might add), we now have a government in waiting that is one of the most diverse and focused in recent history. Kennedy, Gabbard, and a plethora of individuals from outside the Deep State bureaucratic complex are focused on dismantling the inside-the-beltway apparatus, one that does very little but serve itself, in a quest to decentralize the federal government and return the taskmasters' whip to which the government is meant to obey to the people.Societally, it appears that the abstract lunacy—and I use those words to be consumed literally—the abstract lunacy of wokeism seems to be on the wane. DEI—Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion—is being abandoned by corporations all over the country and, in fact, the world. People are slowly becoming more comfortable discussing the ridiculousness of the transgender appeasement movement (true cases of gender dysphoria are documented at just 0.014% at the high end, internationally). And the identity politics charlatans of the genderism and racism activist crowds are fast losing the sympathies of an awakening public who sees their efforts as those of division and opportunism.But personally (and that’s what it all boils down to, doesn’t it), we all have a great number of things to be thankful for. While not a “land of perfection,” we live in the United States, and she is still the shining beacon on that hill that signals hope reigns eternal both for her citizens, those who quest to be included in her citizenry—legally, and the world.Many of us have family and friends that, sad to say, and just about everyone is guilty of it, have family and friends that we don’t embrace enough. Thanksgiving gives us a day, if only one out of 365, to dedicate ourselves to making sure they know how we feel, whether it’s a full-on embrace or just a smile and a nod of the head.Thanksgiving also gives us an opportunity to extend the brotherhood of man to those less fortunate than ourselves, to let those who feel they have been forgotten know they haven’t been. And to let those who serve us each day, out of sight and out of mind—the first responder firefighters, EMTs, and police officers; the nurses (both home health and institutional) and doctors, and our military men and women—to let them know we see them and are thankful for the protection they provide.So, while you prepare your Thanksgiving feast or sit on the couch watching football while someone else does, take some time—before the eating and drinking and before the conversations that sometimes may become heated—to give some thought to all you and yours have to be thankful for. When we stop and consider that singular question, we really come to understand how “wealthy” we really are as individuals, as a society, and as a nation.After the turkey is relegated to the sandwich-maker's heaven that the day after Thanksgiving affords, then—and only then—should we be forced to suffer the onslaught of the marketeers' “b

Well, the election is over and my stock in U-Haul hasn’t gone up any. I mean, come on, man! I thought the entirety of the caustic Left glitterati promised the American people—their fans included—that they were going to leave the country if Donald Trump won the 2024 election.Cher, a jaded elitist, said she would leave the planet if Trump were elected—again—and more recently mentioned she would leave the country.The comedic has-been and member of The View coven, Whoopi Goldberg, has threatened twice to leave the US if Trump became president, although she later walked those declarations back because, hey, nobody recognizes her as famous anywhere else in the world, where would she go?Miley Cyrus, who so nauseatingly donated the “twerk” as an art form to the American petri dish of inanity, initially declared she would move out of the country if Trump won in 2016. I guess she’s waiting for the bellhop to load her luggage.Barbra Streisand, who hasn’t done anything but shake down her sycophant buddies for $000 concert tickets for decades, suggested she would move to Canada or Australia if Trump returned to power.Lebron James, JLo, Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller (who?), Tom Hanks, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift (gack), Stephen King, Julia Roberts and George Clooney (who both voiced commercials for Harris with Roberts voicing the “lie to your husband about who you vote for” commercial), Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Rosie O’Donnell, Lady Gag (I mean Lady Gaga), Sharon Stone, Lena Dunham (who, again?), the list goes on and on. Elitist megalomaniacs so caught up in their own self-importance that they believe people actually give a shit whether they exist in the United States as citizens or not.Did they really believe that the threat of leaving the country would change someone’s vote? Is their narcissism and detachment from reality that extreme? Are they that out of touch with reality?I mean, what does their existence on US soil provide everyday Americans anyway? Is their leaving the country going to deprive us all of something critical in our lives? Will our nation suffer because they have expatriated? Were we all supposed to shriek in terror at the notion of an America without JLo or Lady Gaga, without Whoopi “Caryn Johnson” Goldberg (boy, isn’t “Caryn” appropriate in this case), or Cher? Nobody gives a shit whether you’re here or not because what you do isn’t that important to our daily lives. You’re not here half the time anyway, and people manage to have fulfilling and fruitful lives without the blessings of your egotism and “look at me” neediness.Do us all a favor and stop talking about it; stop “announcing it” as if it’s some once-in-a-lifetime world premiere event, and just pack up and get the fuck out! Leave already. Be gone. Vanish.I at least give Ellen DeGeneres and Portia Rossi credit for actually leaving after making the declaration, but that won’t stop them from selling their wares to the American people, so it really doesn’t matter whether they live here or not.But hey, maybe that’s exactly what these egotistical, self-centered maniacs need: a shot of reality.We, in the United States—and anyone who has spent time overseas can attest to this—exist under the protections of the Bill of Rights. Not all free countries of the Western World have those protections, although some give it a good shot.Even those who break the law have better protections in the United States than in other Western nations—and definitely in non-Western nations worldwide. Just ask any American who has had run-ins with law enforcement in a foreign country.Truth be told, the people we really can’t do without in our daily lives are those who don’t obsess about fame, importance, and the spotlight. While we can do without Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep, we can not exist safely without firefighters, paramedics, or police officers. While we can go about our daily lives without Ben Stiller or Rosie O’Donnell, we cannot function comfortably without sanitation workers, plumbers, electricians, or carpenters. These are the people who we need in our lives—especially if one is not completely self-sufficient, not the ego-bloated narcissist of the elitist coddled class.So, why should we give a baboon’s red ass what the pompous glitterati think about politics or anything else, for that matter?Let’s face it: a has-been, millionaire comedian with a caustic attitude telling you who you have to hate every day doesn’t amount to much when your goal is to put a roof over your family's heads and food on the table; their egotistical demands aren’t worth much when you have to make real-life decisions for the future, for your children’s future, or the care of an elderly parent.Joy Behar’s inane and intellectually stunted diatribes of “agree with me or you’re a racist” hate each weekday add nothing to anyone’s life but division and conflict, and quite frankly, it’s hard to understand why she is even on the show. I mean, can you remember even one piece of comedy she ever cre

As the mainstream media in the United States suffocates itself—superficially—on President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, an important international story goes unreported. It has everything to do with geopolitics, and the perceived act of sabotage warrants concern.The Swedish Prosecution Authority has launched an investigation into suspected sabotage related to disruptions of two crucial undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea. One cable connects Lithuania to Sweden, while the other links Finland to Germany. This investigation comes on the heels of Finland's announcement of its own police inquiry into these incidents, indicating a broader concern about the integrity of critical infrastructure in the region.On Monday at approximately 0200 GMT, the 745-mile cable connecting Helsinki, Finland, to Rostock, Germany, ceased functioning, as reported by Cinia, the Finnish state-controlled cybersecurity and telecom company responsible for the cable. Simultaneously, at around 0800 GMT on Sunday, Telia Lietuva, a subsidiary of Sweden's Telia Company, reported a severed 135-mile cable between Lithuania and Gotland Island in Sweden.The Baltic Sea, bordered by nine countries, including Russia, is a vital commercial shipping route. As such, ensuring the integrity of its underwater infrastructure is of utmost importance.In a joint statement, Finland and Germany expressed deep concern regarding the severed undersea cables, emphasizing its broader implications for European security. They stated, "We are deeply concerned about the severed undersea cable," underscoring that "Europe’s security is threatened by Russia’s war against Ukraine and hybrid warfare by malicious actors," though no specific actors were identified. The statement highlighted the critical need to protect shared infrastructure, essential for national security and societal resilience.Henrik Soderman, a Swedish prosecutor engaged in the investigation, announced that the cutting of the fiber optic cables is currently being treated as an act of sabotage. At an EU defense ministers' meeting in Brussels, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius addressed the situation, noting, "No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally…[we] must assume, although we do not yet have confirmation, that this is indeed sabotage."Recent damage to underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea has raised significant regional security concerns. One notable incident in 2023 involved a Chinese container ship that was implicated in dragging its anchor across telecommunications cables. The exact cause of this incident—accidental or deliberate—remains uncertain. However, the repeated occurrences of such events have sparked suspicions of potential hybrid sabotage. As a result, there are increasing calls for enhanced protective measures to safeguard Europe's underwater networks.The ongoing incidents in the region highlight a significant concern. Recently, similar actions have been scrutinized for their potentially malicious intent. Last year, incidents involving a gas pipeline and other undersea cables raised suspicions of sabotage. This situation echoes the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, which are under investigation by German authorities.One EU source with deep knowledge of the situation stated that other available information indicates that Russia has been behaving increasingly provocatively along its borders with Norway and Finland:“Russia must be behind what looks like an attack, in which case it is a ‘casus belli’ (act of war, not simply sabotage).” Russia must be behind what looks like an attack, in which case it is a ‘casus belli’ (act of war, not simply sabotage). They should stop trying to reassure the public. [They] sound silly. This was to be expected in a sense. As regards the Baltic states, Putin must be trying to isolate some countries from the rest of the NATO and EU spheres. Normal tactics.”What Should Americans Care About ThisVladimir Putin's aggressive maneuvers in the Baltic Sea, particularly in relation to NATO countries, are significant in light of his ongoing conflict with Ukraine. These actions carry important implications for the United States, especially for the incoming Trump administration.The Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are members of NATO, and as such, any attack on these countries could trigger Article 5 of the NATO treaty. This article stipulates that an attack against one member is considered an attack against all. Consequently, the United States, as a founding member of NATO, would be obligated to respond militarily. Such a scenario could potentially lead to direct conflict between the US and Russia, significantly escalating tensions in the region.The potential for conflict is heightened by North Korea’s deployment of military assets in the region to support the Russian war effort. This situation is further complicated by President Biden’s dangerous decision to permit Ukraine’s military to utilize US-made long-range

As the American people prepare to step back into the light from the darkness cast upon them by the progressive neo-Marxist minions of the globalist “New World Order,” we must all be keenly aware that the road back to liberty and freedom will not be an easy one. We will all have to endure some hardship as we disengage from the claws of an overreaching federal government. But it will be worth it.The idea that the results of an election can somehow afford immediate solutions to problems and government entanglement that took decades—if not a millennium—to create is the stuff of the naive and the foolish. And while many in our Republic have been conditioned to expect instant gratification, enough of us have awakened from the stupor of the mainstream media’s disingenuous and false narratives to understand that a radical course correction away from the influences of the New World Order and toward a return to constitutionalism is desperately needed.This awakening is why Donald Trump won the Electoral College by a landslide and captured the popular vote in the 2024 General Election. It is also why the people of all fifty states voted to give conservatives and Republicans the majority in both chambers of the Legislative Branch. And while the Republican Party goes about disenfranchising the Deep State uniparty operatives that exist within its ranks, there are enough people who have been elected to office who understand the depths of the corruption in our federal government and how it is now subservient in its station to the Deep State, and why both must come to an end.The good news for us all is three-fold.First, we have elected a bona fide change agent in Donald Trump and delivered the House and the Senate to him. When a conservative US Supreme Court is added to the equation, the result is an opportunity to effect some serious and real change in the federal government. Yes, the Deep State Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) can do great harm to this opportunity. Still, the ideological pendulum has recovered so far to the constitutional swing after twelve years of woke nonsense that even the most opportunistic politician knows the business-as-usual status quo cannot stand.Second, the American people are finally ready to reduce the federal government’s footprint in their lives. Having survived the despotism of government overreach during the COVID pandemic and the onslaught of societal restriction that wokeism inflicted on them, they are starved to be left alone; to embrace a freedom unencumbered by the mandates of government not authorized by the minimalism of the US Constitution.Americans—who identify as from both sides of the political aisle—are ready to listen to the serious conversations that surround restructuring our tax system away from one that is income-based, securing our borders and instituting a sovereignty-first immigration system, drastically culling Big Pharma and BigAg from the halls of power, expunging the totalitarian extremism of wokeness from our government departments, agencies, and commissions, and limiting the use of the US military to interests exclusive to the security of the United States.And last but certainly not least, we have a working model proving that disengagement from government overreach and dependency results in a thriving nation and a thriving people. This model comes to us in Javier Milei’s Argentina.What Milei has done in Argentina is nothing short of historical.The Miracle In ArgentinaJavier Milei, who became President of Argentina in December 2023, has implemented a series of reforms based on libertarianism and the disenfranchisement of governmental overreach to alter the country's economic and political landscape.Milei's economic policies have significantly reduced monthly inflation rates. Initially, inflation was extremely high, but by February 2024, it had slowed to 13.2% from 25.5% in December 2023. By October 2024, it reached a three-year low of 2.7%, indicating a cooling of the hyperinflation that Argentina had been experiencing for decades.One of his significant accomplishments was achieving a fiscal surplus within the first few months of his term, a feat not seen since 2012. This was accomplished by drastically cutting public spending, which included reducing the number of government ministries and firing numerous public sector employees.Milei reduced the size of the government by more than 50%, which included reducing the number of ministries from 19 to 9. This was part of his broader policy of minimizing government intervention in the economy.He introduced an omnibus bill aimed at giving him sweeping executive powers, which, although stalled in committee, was indicative of his aggressive approach to reform. His government passed historic reforms through the Chamber of Deputies, including repealing over 300 articles of laws, revoking regulations, and promoting the privatization of state-owned entities.And although plans for dollarization have been delayed, Milei's admini

Don’t get me wrong. I am ecstatic that we have re-elected Donald Trump to his rightful second term as President of the United States. But as a realist—a pragmatic realist—I understand that it will take much more than four years of Trump 2.0 to damage and dismantle the Washingtonian Deep State and reform the federal government.The current “expert-dominated” federal bureaucracy (commonly referred to as the Deep State when you factor in K Street and the many special interest “complexes”) has been metastisizing for over 120 years. It first arrived on the American political scene with the Wilson administration and has been growing and encroaching on our individual and state rights ever since.That’s why the recent move by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in the wake of reports that a FEMA official allegedly directed employees to skip over the homes of Trump supporters while assessing damage from Hurricane Milton is so important. This move could symbolize the first shot in a constitutional confrontation between an overreaching federal government and the states.The Shot Heard Around The StatesAs reported by a plethora of honest information outlets, including X and TheGatewayPundit.com, a whistleblower has come forward with text messages that reveal FEMA official Marn’i Washington ordered relief workers working in the area to purposely skip over homes in Florida displaying Trump signs in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.According to TheDailyWire.com on X:“Whistleblowers say that relief workers were told it was ‘best practice’ to pass over houses ‘advertising Trump'...The workers would enter into the system that they made no contact with the residents, blaming the directive: ‘Trump sign, no contact per leadership.”In another post on X, one FEMA volunteer who was exposed to the directive stated:“I thought we could go help and make a difference. When we got there, we were told to discriminate against people. It’s almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that’s okay.”In the aftermath, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell posting on X, called the all-but-admitted act “reprehensible,” and said the employee had been fired and will be referred to the Office of Special Counsel.A Long Awaited Push-BackIn response to this blatant discrimination by our federal government towards its citizens, DeSantis issued a terse but warranted statement and directive:“The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days.“At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.“New leadership is on the way in DC, and I’m optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.”The key words to focus on here are these: “...launching an investigation into the federal government’s…”This marks a historic moment in time, and one held long in the waiting. For the first time in US history, a state government—in this case, the State of Florida, at the direction of its governor—is launching an investigation into the federal government that could end in criminal, civil, and constitutional consequences.With DeSantis' order for the Florida Division of Emergency Management to investigate Ms. Washington, the total effort of FEMA’s actions in the state will be investigated. It is all but certain that any discriminatory and/or illegal actions taken by FEMA in the state will end up being referred to the State’s Attorney General for actions, as this precedent has been set in the second Trump assassination attempt.Given the wide latitude established by recent federal investigations into private citizens and government officials alike, this would mean Florida’s Attorney General, Ashley Moody, would be able to look at not only Washington’s actions and directives but every aspect of FEMA operations in the state, including finances.So, it must be asked: If criminal, civil, and constitutional malfeasance is discovered, prosecuted, and adjudicated, what would be the consequences? Criminally, we know fines and jail time would be the order. Civilly, we know the Floridians affected would have to be made whole. But what would it mean constitutionally?Why This Is A Good Shot Across The BowIf, as reported by this whistleblower, FEMA supervisors openly discriminated against people affected by Hurricane Milton in Florida, what kind of discrimination and agency slow-walking took place in northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and especially in western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene?Each of these locations voted heavily, if not overwhelmingly, for Trump in the 2024 General Election. Are we to believe that in these rural areas, where people lost everything they’ve owned for generations, FEMA was on the up-and-up in their responses and aid? Are we really to believe that the Florida FEMA superv

Before I get into the main topic of today’s America’s Third Watch segment, I have to issue (as if this podcast is a disseminator of the old Civil Defense alerts), I have to alert everyone to a pretty despicable move that the Deep State establishment RINOs in the US Senate are trying to get away with.This Wednesday—and after a three-day weekend when people won’t be paying attention, Mitch McConnell—the Senate Minority Leader—has called for leadership elections. McConnell, a decrepit RINO who has proved himself a tool (no pun intended) of the inside-the-beltway establishment and blatantly outed himself as a Trump-hater, is attempting to install Deep Staters loyal to him and the establishment Uni-Party before his authority to do so expires at the end of his reign.Slating this election prior to the newly elected Senators being seated is to disenfranchise them—and the voters they represent—from having a voice in who leads them in the next Congress.How is it that any US Senator on the Republican conservative side of the aisle is allowing this communist Chinese-friendly Uniparty reprobate to have any voice in what happens in the next Congress? Isn’t it bad enough that the Republicans and conservatives in the Senate have to combat the never-Trumpers amongst them? Isn’t it enough that this moldy gas bag clandestinely ruined the chances of winning for several change candidates—MAGA candidates—for US Senate in the 2024 General Election by withholding desperately needed campaign funding?Mitch McConnell and his Igor-like minion, John Thune—who masked himself up as a Tea Partier, did a great amount of damage to the first Trump administration’s attempt to rein in the Deep State bureaucratic establishment. At every turn, they aided the Uniparty while quietly working against reforms the American people voted for in their election of Donald Trump.Now, as Trump 2.0 stands to assume the Oval Office, are we supposed to swallow the same self-serving, degenerate, Deep State, establishment, “good ol' boy” network political bullshit that McConnell has been serving up his entire tenure?Hell, no to that! Hell no!This is one of those times that we must contact our US Senators. Tuesday morning, after they return from their out-of-office weekend, we must demand that they move to postpone the leadership elections until the newly elected Republican US Senators are sworn in and seated to the Senate. Use the link (provided here) to email your demand, post your demand on social media, and call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to be connected to your Senator’s offices. Demand that they postpone the vote until the next Congress and to stop their Deep State games.We haven’t come this far—defeating the Obama-Biden-Harris regime soundly—only to lose to the Uniparty, to lose to the Deep State establishment, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.The election isn’t over until the reform and anti-establishment, anti-Deep State apparatus is firmly in place and operating. And to make that happen, we must all act against McConnell’s power grab right now!Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.The top substacks are chosen for AI-generated search engines based on the number of likes and paid subscriber comments. That shows engagement. Liking and commenting are ways to show your support for our work. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

As we witness statements of disunity and declared opposition—right from the get-go—from New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul and New York State Attorney General Letitia James toward Trump 2.0, we should all recognize that they are simply embracing the time-honored New York political tradition of self-serving, opportunistic, “preservation cowardice.”From Francis Lewis to Tammany Hall, Hillary “The Carpetbagger” Clinton to Chuck Schumer and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York politicians have always put themselves and their special interest causes ahead of their constituents and have—routinely—exited office much wealthier than their paychecks would afford for doing so.Today, the main self-involved “Sorosian” loyalists from New York are Hochul (D), James (D), and Judge Juan Merchan (D), the Colombian-born former prosecutor and current acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan) who presided over the legal abomination that was President-Elect Donald Trump’s “hush money trial”:* Hochul announced the formation of the Empire State Freedom Initiative to prepare to fight “policy and regulatory threats” from the incoming Trump administration* James announced her office was “ready to fight back again,” in announcing that “[t]ogether with Governor Hochul, our partners in state and local government, and my colleague attorneys general from throughout the nation, we will work each and every day to defend Americans, no matter what this new administration throws at us.”* And Merchan, in a meeker move of political cowardice, is considering tossing out Donald Trump’s felony convictions following Tuesday’s election results.As an aside, Hochul, James, and Merchan aren’t the only Sorosian malcontents to display their arrogance.The Biden-Harris Department of Justice is said to be furiously winding down its fraudulent Jack Smith-led federal criminal cases against President-Elect Trump. This would end the spate of politically motivated lawfare against the President-Elect, actions that threatened to transform our federal government into one akin to a third-world dictatorship.And California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has called a special session of the California State Legislature to protect his state’s neo-Marxian policies from the Trump administration, with the Los Angeles Times opining, “The new special session provides an early look at the governor’s plan to wage an aggressive and highly visible campaign to shield California from the Trump White House.”A Long Tradition Of ObstructionIncidentally, did you know that in the quintessential move that started it all for the United States—the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the New York delegates to the Continental Congress were so cowardly in their fear of King George that they could only muster enough courage to “abstain” from voting against a move toward independence for the colonies?When the Declaration was voted into existence on July 2, 1776, New York's delegates—Francis Lewis, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, and Lewis Morris— abstained from voting for independence. In a politically disingenuous and strategic move, the New York delegates were instructed to wait for further guidance from their Provincial Congress as they put their fingers into the wind to divine which would be the more advantageous course to take…for themselves and their elitist brethren.The colony of New York was politically divided. There was a significant loyalist presence in the colony who remained loyal to the King and gleaned significant wealth from remaining British subjects. So, to preserve their status and success, many were unwilling to break away from British rule. This division, especially with the wealthy elites on the loyalist side, meant that the Provincial Congress was purposely slow to give the go-ahead for independence.As a result, the colony of New York took a knee rather than standing with the other twelve colonies whose delegates had the courage to confront the most powerful military on the planet at the time.Yesterday Predicates TodayToday, the self-serving arrogance of New York’s political elites outshines the opportunism of those who previously held their stations. In their declarations, Hochul, James, and Murchan have announced to the country—in the face of an overwhelming national mandate—that they intend to lead a charge against the people’s full-throated choice and the choice of a growing and significant number of voters in the State of New York.This is a perfect example of the elitism that has gripped not only New York City and “The Empire State” (and especially among those of the woke Leftist class) but also the nation’s many Blue urban areas.Of the 141.025 million votes cast in the 2024 General Election for President of the United States (roughly 41.8 percent of the American people), New York cast 7.778 million votes. This is for a population of 19.571 million people, or approximately 39.75 percent of those living in New York.Of those cast

Now that the election is over—for what that’s worth—(but for the arguing about it all and perhaps some very far-Left disruptions), I believe it’s fair to say that the American people (and I usually hate when a pundit “speaks for” the American people, but I feel I’m safe here) I believe it’s fair to say that we are thoroughly exhausted with all of the unmitigated bullshit the potentate class has been cramming down our throats for the last eight years…non-stop. I warn you in advance: If you are offended by profanity, well, this podcast segment will not be for you because after all of what this election cycle has put us through, I need to vent, and it’s going to make Dan Bongino’s podcast sound mild. And quite frankly, what I have to say—and how it is being said—is long, long overdue.This “open letter” is to all of the self-important, elitist, annoying, never-shut-up, activist, ideological, and political potentates—elected and not. It’s time for you all to shut the fuck up and let the American people recover from the onslaught of spin, narrative pushing, disingenuous intellectual manipulation, and outright deceit. Shut up, do your jobs, go about your pathetic, shallow lives, and leave us alone!!To the media: Your model of opinion journalism and the special interest, partisan editorialization of the news, has failed miserably. That’s why people despise you more than Congress and trust you less than the slimiest shyster lawyers. We’re tired of you elitist, self-important bullshit. We’re exhausted at getting lectured by you and then told when we point out your hypocrisy, that you know better than we how we feel.How about this? Take your opinion journalism and stuff it so far up your asses that you begin to taste the shit you’ve been dishing out to us for decades? Stick to reporting the facts, but if you simply must masturbate your egos, at least have the courtesy of saving it for an opinion show.We are tired of the Rachel Maddows, the Lawrence O’Donnells, the Morning Joe’s, and we are nauseated by the entirety of MSNBC and The View. The alphabet news networks have consistently demonstrated that they think the general public is stupid and intellectually malleable in their coverage of anything and everything political and ideological. But they have misread the public. Their credibility is shot. To this reprobate class, you best take a break from your elitist preaching lest you be replaced—once and for all—by alternative media.Shut…the fuck…up, report the damn facts, and leave it at that.To the political and elected classes: Do the fucking jobs you were elected and appointed to do and give the partisan, “me, me, me” bullshit a rest. We’re tired of it. We’re tired of government—at every level— needing to make every fucking thing you do an act that benefits your political parties instead of those you were elected to serve. This goes for everyone on both sides of the aisle. Enough!We’re exhausted from the power trips. We’re tired of the narrative manipulation. We have come to hate the press secretary and spin doctor classes. And we are through with the behind-the-scenes, Deep State jagoffs that defend the grift; from the slimiest offices of K Street to the dimmest offices on Capitol Hill. That goes for the Mark Elias', the David Axelrod’s, the Mark Plouffe’s, the inside-the-beltway PACs and orgs, law firms, and lobbyists, and the entirety of the bottom-feeder Washingtonian white wine set.And don’t even think about making election campaigning a full-time, 24/7/365 thing like you’ve been doing the last couple of decades. Stop begging for contributions from the people. You get rich off the K Street corporate assholes you carve up the government to serve, so get it from them. Fuck off!Oh, and lower our fucking taxes or, better yet, scrap the income tax system altogether and restructure everything to glean revenue from our strength—consumerism. Use the thirteen brain cells you all share and start making it easier for the people to attain the American dream, and take your special interest projects and jam them up your asses! Leave us…the fuck…alone and just do the bare minimum so you don’t screw things up any more than you already have. It’s almost unfixable now, thanks to you reprobate assholes!And to the incessantly whiny activist and community-organizing Karen class: Just shut the fuck up!! Shut up! We are done with you believing you can bully us into doing what you want. We don’t care how “passionate” you are about your “cause” or how entitled you feel about getting your way. Leave us…the fuck…alone. Live your life the way you want to, and stop thinking that we have to care about how you feel. We don’t! And we won’t!We have put up with enough of your self-important, selfish, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing bullshit to last seven lifetimes over. Fuck you and fuck your feelings. We don’t care if you’re offended, too bad! Grow a thicker skin or crawl away to some bullshit “safe space” and cry yourselves to sleep. You’re a l

As we stand on the brink of one of the most crucial presidential and General Elections of our lifetimes, the time to act is now. With November 5th being tomorrow, if you haven’t cast your vote yet, it should be your top priority today or tomorrow. You've had ample time to make your decision, and now it’s time to fulfill your constitutional duty to our country, your fellow citizens, and future generations. I say “future generations” because this election is not just about the media-contrived personality contest foisted upon the American people by the political and ideological opportunists who hold an ironclad grip on narrative marketing. It’s about the direction of our Republic and whether or not we are setting it up for self-termination.The damage these opportunists and neo-Marxist provocateurs have done to our society–and, in fact, the people of the free world–is grotesque and unforgivable. A great example of that damage comes to us in a recent Gallup poll highlighted by Statista.com in which they proclaim that “fifty-five percent of Americans polled…in October 2024 said they're either very or somewhat concerned that ex-President Donald Trump is aligned too closely with radicals…”We have the most openly neo-Marxist presidential and vice presidential candidates in American history in Kamala Harris–whose father taught Marxian economics at Stanford–and Tim Walz–who openly praises communist China–and the people of the United States are polling 55 percent that it is Donald Trump who has connections to radical extremists?Where is the evidence that could possibly lead someone to that conclusion? That he actually executes diplomacy by talking to our enemies rather than plotting proxy wars against them? Isn’t it better to have a relationship with other world leaders so as to prevent armed conflict? Isn’t “dialoguing” with those holding opposing viewpoints exactly what the hell Democrats and liberals have been saying we should do for the past 60 years?The only possible explanation for these polling results–this absurdity–is that the narrative merchants have succeeded in advancing their opportunistic storyline of political fiction to a point where the intellectually vulnerable have been captured at fifty-five percent. This is a failure of the education system to cultivate critical thinking skills in our society and a failure of our society to protect truth from ideological bastardization.Gallup has, many years ago, abdicated its responsibility to truth in deference to profit, influence, and political alignment. So, I am less concerned with being shocked they would push such a complete bullshit poll than I am worried about those they targeted for the manipulated answers.But like the Associated Press–which is now useless for the purposes of truth, because Gallup has been institutionalized into our culture, people have abandoned their obligation to verify truth before forming an opinion. Couple this with the amplification of unsubstantiated opinion via social media, and we arrive at the recipe for fifty-five percent of the electorate believing that the candidate who isn’t a bonafide neo-Marxist is somehow the one with the radically extreme connections.When the narrative manipulators of the ideological and political classes control the messaging machine, even good and thinking people fall prey to being led around by the nose. This is how true fascism, socialism, and communism continue to breathe life when these political ideologies have been proven to fail everywhere and every time they are inflicted upon people.This is what Election Day 2024 is all about, Charlie Brown. It’s not the over-glorified junior high school popularity contest the media, the Harris campaign, the Democrats, and the disingenuous fascistic global elites want you to see it as.It’s time to execute. It’s time to vote and to make sure all of your freedom-loving friends vote as well. Pick them up and drive them to the polls if you have to. This is not about a singular act of casting a ballot. It’s about advocating for the existence of the only country on the face of the Earth, the only country to exist in human history, to have been brave enough to create a government based on self-governance.We have gotten away from that to a damaging extent. This election can change that.The choice is not only clear, but it is also inarguable.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.The top substacks are chosen for AI-generated search engines based on the number of likes and paid subscriber comments. That shows engagement. Liking and commenting are ways to show your support for our work.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe

As we head into one of the most contentious elections since the debacle of the recount in 2000, Virginia is entangled in a heated legal battle over its efforts to cleanse approximately 1,600 non-citizens from its voter rolls, an action that highlights the federal government's overreach into state sovereignty.The state has rightly escalated the matter to the US Supreme Court after a federal judge—appointed by the Biden-Harris administration—blocked these removals. This judicial intervention was spurred by lawsuits from the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, alongside advocacy groups like the League of Women Voters (which has become decidedly partisan to the radical Left in recent years) and the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights. All are arguing that federal regulations prevent Virginia’s changes to voter rolls within 90 days of an election, as dictated by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration, attempting to uphold the integrity of Virginia's electoral process in the face of the Biden-Harris administration’s massive importation of illegal immigrants, issued an executive order for daily voter registration data updates from the Department of Motor Vehicles to identify those who did not affirm US citizenship during license applications. Virginia's Attorney General, Jason Miyares, has criticized this federal interference, asserting that failure to remove these individuals not only undermines state autonomy but also sows confusion among voters, strains election resources, and suggests to non-citizens that illegal voting is permissible, thus diluting the votes of and disenfranchising legitimate voters.This scenario underscores a significant conflict between Virginia’s state rights under the 9th and 10th Amendments and what many see as overbearing and unconstitutional federal election interference. It raises questions of whether current federal laws are unconstitutionally overly restrictive and detrimental to maintaining electoral integrity at the state level.I cite the 9th and 10th Amendments as they mandate the following, respectively:“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”And:“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”So, according to the text of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, it is the purview of the state to, among other provisions, establish federal election voter registration procedures and to protect the integrity of the electoral process by assuring an accurate and current voter registration roll for elections for Federal office.Aside from the fact that Youngkin’s executive order upholds the direction of the legislation, one overarching point—and it’s a big one—comes into play.The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 unconstitutionally usurps the authority of the State of Virginia—and all other states—to conduct its state elections by effectively nullifying the 9th and 10th Amendments.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberThe Constitution does not explicitly grant the federal government broad, direct authority over state or local elections, therefore the prescription mandated under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 violates both Amendments.Over time—and specifically, since the Wilson administration and the puss-like eruption of neo-Marxist progressivism in the United States, abusing opportunistic interpretations of the Commerce Clause, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and other regulatory provisions, Congress has enacted laws that unconstitutionally influence or regulate aspects of state election processes, under the disingenuous guise of ensuring the right to vote free from racial discrimination.The far-Left has been playing this deceitful game ever since they realized they could bastardize and abuse the Civil Rights movement to their opportunistic benefit.This is a perfect opportunity for Virginia’s state government to band together to invoke nullification to assure their state’s free and fair elections.Since the federal government, through its arrogance and greed for centralized power, is blatantly seeking to co-opt—completely—the authority over Virginia’s elections, the State of Virginia’s use of nullification in refusing to recognize the authority of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 over their voter rolls is an appropriate use of that action.Make no mistake, the far-Left and Obama 2.0 are not going to go quietly into the night should Harris-Walz be defeated on November 5th. They will use lawfare at every turn to attempt to steal the will of the people for their own transformative purposes; for their lust for power, their greed for control.As was said in Madson Square Garden, it is time to “Dream big again,” and in order to do that, we need

To say that this election is one of critical importance is to make an understatement of historical proportions. Never before has so much hinged on how the American people vote. We truly stand at a crossroads. In one direction is—as Barack Obama declared in 2008—the fundamental transformation of the United States of America, and in the other a return to constitutionalism to repair our severely damaged Constitutional Republic.But in a more contemporary opportunity, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we—as a society, as a center-right society—cannot pass up. We have an opportunity to render the hateful and divisive energy of the Machiavellian identity politics game—that Barack Obama and his masked Marxists have unleashed on our country—to the ash heap of history, ending one of the darkest and most divisively subversive periods in American history.Anyone who is being honest has come to realize that the Progressive ideology—of which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not to mention Kamala Harris—emanate is an ideology fully krausened in neo-Marxism. At its roots, at its genesis, progressive neo-Marxism spits on the idea of opportunity for all through equality and individualism and, instead, seeks to install equity outcomes through the totalitarian hand of centralized government and a centrally-planned society, both of which are grotesquely antithetical to freedom and liberty unencumbered by government intervention.Yes, this Machiavellian master plan started with Wilson, advanced under Roosevelt and Johnson, and became the “new normal” under Clinton. But it kicked into an arrogant and elitist high gear with Obama and the Obama 2.0 reign. In fact, the arrogance rose to such a level that Obama and Hillary Clinton themselves see this moment as one in which they can cross the transformative goal line to spike the ball.But there is a wrench that has been tossed into the machine, and today, the progressive neo-Marxist, neo-Bolshevik Left is absolutely petrified that they have overplayed their hands. This reality is manifesting in plummeting poll numbers of the Harris-Walz campaign and Senate races in which traditionally center-left Democrats are abandoning the divisive social issue policies to align themselves with the center-right policies of Donald Trump and conservatives.Nothing illustrates this panic better than the full-on application of fear porn and deceit that Barack Obama himself is trolling out on the campaign trail on behalf of the intellectual midget that is Kamala Harris, and I apologize to all the midgets out there:Obama’s full-throated, Machiavellian divide-and-conquer identity politics of smear, untruth, and deceit is in full swing there, and his attempt to shame “the brothers”—he only trots that crap and his bullshit ethnic accent when he is pandering to the Black community— is transparent in its desperation.And then the indignant prick had the unmitigated gall to say this:The hypocrisy makes me want to vomit.And then we have the vice-dolt-in-chief, Kamala Harris, rolling out the old standby, “Trump is Hitler,” in one of the lamest attempts at stoking fear that the American people have seen since the propaganda campaign of the imperialist Japanese and Tokyo Rose during World War II:Important to note is this. Both of these attempts to stoke fear took place in Pennsylvania, a must-win state for the Harris-Walz campaign and where evidence in exit polling suggests traditionally reliable voters—especially Black voters—are abandoning the Democrat Party in startling numbers.This all culminates in this singular point. This election is so much more than the contrived, over-glorified junior high school popularity contest the mainstream media complex is trying to impose upon the American people. It is not about whether you like Kamala Harris or hate Donald Trump enough to vote one way or another. It is about that crossroads and choosing which direction our Republic travels from here. Do we continue down the liberty-killing road to totalitarian-ruled serfdom with a vote for Kamala Harris and a vote for the fundamental transformation of the United States of America? Or do we vote for Donald Trump and a return to constitutionalism to repair our severely damaged Constitutional Republic so that liberty and freedom—so that representative government that serves the people—is preserved for our children and future generations?I begged anyone who would listen in 2008 not to allow the neo-Marxism of Barack Obama to ooze out of the Chicago machine, to allow that neo-Bolshevik genie to escape the bottle. Once out, I warned, it would take divine intervention to jam that destructive genie back into the bottle.Well, miracles do exist, evidently, because we have an opportunity—now that Obama has exposed himself as the wannabe tyrant kingmaker he always envisioned himself to be— to end Obama’s national and international influence, once and for all. We have an opportunity to cut his political balls off and, at the same ti

As we get down to brass tacks where the issue of the election and voter fraud is concerned, many people are asking what can be done to reduce the chances of voter fraud taking place and, especially, what we can do to make sure that none of the 10 million to 20 million illegals immigrants now in our country vote illegally in our election.It is always smart to explore who should be notified when you witness voting irregularities at the polling place. You can determine the proper chain of communications by contacting your county election commission, county district attorney’s office, and/or state election authority. Put these contact cards on your cell phone for immediate and easy access.But there is one authority that can be lobbied to action with the authority to act in real-time. That authority is your county sheriff.A Sheriff’s Jurisdiction, Purpose & FunctionSheriffs in the United States hold a unique position within the framework of law enforcement due to several factors.Typically, a sheriff's primary jurisdiction is county-wide. This includes unincorporated areas of the county and any municipalities that contract with the sheriff's office for law enforcement services. Unlike city police, whose jurisdiction ends at city limits, sheriffs have authority across the county. This can sometimes lead to overlapping responsibilities with other authorities, with sheriffs often taking a superseding role.Sheriffs are responsible for a broader range of duties than typical city police officers. These duties include operating county jails, providing security for courthouses and county buildings, serving warrants and court documents, law enforcement in areas not covered by municipal police, and sometimes acting as coroners or conducting autopsies, particularly in less populated counties.Recently, sheriffs' authorities have expanded and become particularly notable for several reasons.Sheriffs are predominantly elected officials, which gives them a direct mandate from the public. This election process can lead to a greater degree of independence from local government oversight compared to appointed police chiefs, allowing for more discretion in how they enforce laws.The role of the sheriff dates back to medieval England and has a legacy of broad authority. In the United States, this role has adapted but retained significant power, especially in rural areas where the sheriff might very well be the most prominent or only law enforcement presence.Court rulings have occasionally affirmed or expanded the powers of sheriffs, like in cases where sheriffs have challenged federal laws or when their role in local law enforcement has been upheld against encroachment by other agencies.This brings me to my overarching point where the authority of our county sheriffs is concerned: Immigration Enforcement.Sheriffs, Illegal Immigrants & ElectionsSome sheriffs have taken on roles in immigration enforcement, especially in border states or counties with significant immigrant populations. Their involvement can range from cooperating with federal immigration authorities to actively detaining undocumented immigrants, which has expanded their role significantly in recent years.The authority of a sheriff over an election polling place in the United States can be understood through several lenses:Security & Order: A sheriff or their deputies are often responsible for maintaining peace and order at polling places. This includes preventing disturbances, ensuring that no one is intimidated or obstructed from voting, and dealing with any criminal activity, such as voter intimidation or disruption. They might be present or have deputies stationed at polling places, especially in contentious elections or areas with a history of electoral disputes, to ensure that the voting process is conducted smoothly.Enforcement of Election Laws: While the primary enforcement of voting rights might fall to election officials or federal authorities in cases of significant violations, sheriffs can ensure that local and state election laws are followed. This includes addressing issues like illegal campaigning too close to the polling place or ensuring that only authorized individuals are in areas where voting occurs. Sheriffs can enforce laws against electioneering at or near polling places, which involves campaigning or trying to influence voters within a certain distance from where voting occurs.Response to Violations: If any criminal activity occurs, like assault, voter fraud, or significant disruption, sheriffs have the authority to make arrests or detain individuals until further legal action can be taken.Coordination with Election Officials: Sheriffs often coordinate with election officials. While election officials manage the voting process, sheriffs support it by ensuring the environment around voting is safe and lawful. They might respond to calls from election judges or clerks regarding any issues that require law enforcement.It is important to note here that

The latest attack talking point being marshaled for the Harris-Walz campaign by the Obama 2.0 team and their sycophantic mainstream media mouthpieces is that Donald Trump is calling half of the American electorate “enemies from within” and that he is prepared to unleash the US military onto his foes. Of course, this is unmitigated bullshit of the highest order.A more perfect example of unsubstantiated fear porn has seldom been seen or heard. The Harris-Walz-Obama 2.0 team had to contort and edit, cherry-picked soundbites into shapes that origami experts would envy to arrive at the current disingenuous narrative.Both Harris and Walz—along with the usual suspects on cable news—are floating this absurd idea:Of course, just like everything that oozes out of Harris’s reptilian mouth, there isn’t a shred of truth to it.As Megyn Kelly pointed out on her podcast on Wednesday:The Harris-Walz-Obama 2.0 crew is so infuriatingly disingenuous—and arrogantly so—that this election needs to be a landslide message against the far-Left that the American people are simply done with their—now obvious—soft Marxist revolution.In fact, when you examine what Trump said—as exposed by Kelly—he was alluding to the radical, unimpeded violence perpetrated by the radical Left that plagued his first administration, violence that was promoted and facilitated by the far-Left elected and activist classes through their Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa proxy protest groups.From 2016 onward, the United States experienced a series of ongoing protests that almost always escalated into violence.The BLM movement began in 2013 but gained significant momentum after the death of George Floyd in May 2020—six months before the 2020 General Elections. These protests spread nationwide, with Minneapolis becoming an epicenter of unrest. Violence erupted in just about every major US city, with incidents of arson, vandalism, and confrontations with law enforcement. The scale of destruction was significant in some areas, leading to billions in property damage across the US.Antifa activists were almost always present at BLM protests, especially in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. Their involvement was always marked by direct confrontations with police and counter-protesters, property damage, and attempts at true constitutional insurrection to create autonomous zones, like the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle.In each outbreak of violence across the nation, one thing presented as a common denominator. The urban areas plagued by the continuing violence had Democrat-led governments that refused to serve the general public in keeping the peace; in maintaining law and order. And anyone with half a brain understood it was all for political gain looking to the election; a manufactured, condoned, and facilitated chaos meant to sway an election in favor of Biden-Harris-Obama 2.0.These are the “enemies within” that Donald Trump is talking about: the anarchists, the far-Left Progressive activists, the Marxists, the neo-Bolsheviks; those who make up Obama 2.0, just as they made up Obama 1.0, the people puppeteering the Harris-Walz ticket as we speak. The American Fifth Column.Now that we have defined who Trump was referring to, his declaration makes sense, doesn’t it? Setting entire cities on fire and executing violence in the streets—destroying peoples' livelihoods and lives' works isn’t about redressing government. It is a criminal act of unlawful violence. Looting isn’t a political statement; it’s opportunistic theft. And those who condone and facilitate these unlawful acts are just as guilty of these crimes as those who are executing the criminal acts.The primary purpose of government—and, in fact, the only legitimate purpose of government—is to keep the citizenry safe under the rule of law. There are no exceptions to that responsibility, and it applies to all citizens, not just the preferred classes as defined by the Machiavellian activist class that is trying to Balkanize the American people for their electoral benefit.Yes, Virginia, there is an “enemy within.” They are the American Fifth Column who seek the fundamental transformation of the United States of America from a Constitutional Republic to a Socialist Democracy. This is the Harris-Walz ticket, as was the Biden-Harris ticket before them and the Obama-Biden ticket before them. This is the entirety of the Obama and Progressive movements, and you damn well better start realizing that this choice—the choice on which direction our country is going to travel—is on the ballot on November 5th.Then, when we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL AM930 & FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.And please remember the people who lost everything during the current storms, especially the people in Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, and Northern Georgia. Just because the mainstream media complex has moved on from the st

I wanted to take an unusual—but evidently necessary—detour from politics, the election, and world events today to set the record straight on the history of Christopher Columbus.Today is the day we celebrate the achievements of Columbus—and seeing as the far-Left has Columbus in its crosshairs as one of its targets in their re-writing of history campaign, someone needs to point out the facts of the matter.Christopher Columbus, during his voyages in the late 15th century, never actually set foot on what is now considered the mainland of North America. He did not “discover America” and he never met or came across an Native American Indian. Therefore, he had no part—no part—in any history that involved Native American Indians. In fact, there are several misnomers about Columbus that anyone paying attention in world history class would already know. But since we don’t teach accurate history anymore—and if you are relying on the history books authored by Howard Zinn, you have a politically and ideologically polluted version of revisionist history—because we don’t teach accurate accounts of history anymore in our schools, these falsehoods havebeen repeated again and again and again.But let’s clear some up…* Educated Europeans in Columbus's time, including his contemporaries, knew the Earth was round. The dispute was about the Earth's circumference, not its shape. Columbus underestimated the Earth's size, believing he could reach Asia by sailing west rather than encountering the Americas.* Columbus did not "discover" America in any meaningful sense. Indigenous peoples were already living here, and Norse explorers, particularly Leif Erikson, reached the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus. Additionally, other Europeans are recorded as having made landfall before Columbus; however, his voyages did lead to sustained contact between Europe and the Americas.* Columbus died believing he had reached Asia, not a new continent. His initial goal was to find a direct sea route to Asia, not to "discover" new lands. And as mentioned, Columbus never set foot on the mainland of what is now the United States. His explorations were limited to the Caribbean islands, parts of Central America, and the South American coast.* The mutiny on the Santa Maria was due to the crew's frustration over the seemingly endless voyage with no land in sight, not because they believed they would fall off the Earth. And it is worthy to note here that the three ships of Columbus's first voyage, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Niña, were small by modern standards. The Santa Maria, the largest, was only about 100 feet long.Underground USA is reader-supported…Please consider becoming a paid subscriberAs to Columbus' landings:* On his first voyage, which took place from 1492 to 1493, Columbus landed on several Caribbean islands, including what are now known as the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola (which is today divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic).* On his second voyage, which took place from 1493 to 1496, he explored more of the Caribbean, establishing settlements on Hispaniola and discovering other islands, including Puerto Rico and Jamaica.* On Columbus' third voyage, taking place from1498 to 1500, he reached the South American mainland, landing in what is now Venezuela, and explored more of the Caribbean islands.* And on his fourth and final voyage, from 1502 to 1504, he explored the coast of Central America, landing in places like Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.So, Columbus did not land in what is commonly referred to as North America. His explorations were primarily in the Caribbean islands and along the northern coast of South America, as well as Central America.It is likely that the first documented European to reach the North American mainland was John Cabot in 1497, who explored parts of the northeast coast of North America, perhaps reaching what is now Newfoundland and/or Nova Scotia.Do you see how the activists and the revisionist historians pervert the actual accounts of history to demonize the innocent—and in this case, a captain and crew that braved the unknown to help map the world?You may ask why anyone would do this. Well, the answer is simple, if not diabolically so. Those who control history have the ability to manipulate the way people see the present. It’s all about power and control. That’s why an accurate recounting of history is so important. That’s why an accurate knowledge of history is relevant to the present…and the future.So, now that you know the truth about Columbus, when do we start re-erecting the statues honoring him that the far-Left activists demanded we pull down?And please remember the people who lost everything during the current storms, especially the people in Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, and Northern Georgia. Just because the mainstream media complex has moved on from the story doesn’t mean they still don’t need our help’ materially, financially, a