Fetterman Discovers He May Be the Last Democrat in Washington Who Still Likes Israel

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) appears to have reached the end of his political relationship with the Democratic Party's progressive wing, announcing that he no longer sees "any more common ground" with fellow Democrats who have made hostility toward Israel a defining feature of their political identity.

Appearing Saturday on Fox News' "Saturday in America," Fetterman delivered an unusually blunt assessment of his party's growing affection for the far left, suggesting that Democrats have become so consumed with progressive politics that recognizing an enemy of Israel has somehow become a controversial position.

Speaking with host Kayleigh McEnany in his first interview since the midterms, Fetterman criticized efforts to replace Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). He also took aim at his own 2028 primary challenger, whom he described as "pro-Hamas."

Comrade Chris Van Hollen

"I have a strong, strong difference of opinion on Israel and the Jewish community overall now. I don't think there's going to be any more common ground," Fetterman told Fox News.

"Now I think if someone can't identify [that] Iran is an enemy, and that it's committed to destroying Israel and our nation as well, too — once again, this is the kind of individual that the Democratic Party elected," he added.

Apparently, recognizing Iran as a hostile regime intent on destroying Israel and threatening America has become a qualification that some members of the Democratic Party would rather leave off the job application.
Fetterman Sounds Alarm Over Democratic Leadership Coup

Following the midterm elections, Democrats wasted little time returning to their favorite Washington pastime: fighting each other.

Schumer is facing an aggressive challenge to his leadership from Van Hollen, whose candidacy has attracted support from progressive heavyweights, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen.-elect Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (D-MI).

El-Sayed

Fetterman warned that replacing Schumer with someone whose political reputation is built largely around opposing Israel would be a troubling development for the Democratic caucus.

"It would be troubling if my caucus elects someone like Van Hollen, that has really made his name being very... hostile to Israel," Fetterman said, pointing to Van Hollen's history of strong anti-Israel positions and his controversial trip to El Salvador to meet with deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Fetterman was also less than impressed with Van Hollen's qualifications for the leadership position.

"Other than that, I can’t really think of what Van Hollen's known for, but he became like a progressive darling, but I don't see that he has a path to be leader, but overall it's possible because just last weekend I had a lot of people protesting, demanding that we vote against Schumer," Fetterman said.

"We have to find a way forward. After our massive wins, we immediately go back to fighting amongst ourselves. Can't we just, you know, take the win?"

It's a reasonable question, although one that apparently requires an explanation for a political party that has turned internal warfare into a governing philosophy.

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Fetterman seems to be suggesting that Democrats might benefit from spending a little less time trying to out-progressive one another and a little more time figuring out why voters are losing patience with their party.

Unfortunately for Fetterman, telling progressives to stop fighting, reconsider their hostility toward Israel, and perhaps recognize Iran as an enemy may prove to be a rather lonely political position in today's Democratic Party.

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SPLC's War on Hate Takes an Unexpected Turn: Former Intelligence Director Indicted in Informant Money Scandal

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that has spent decades identifying, tracking, and denouncing hate groups, is now facing an uncomfortable question of its own: What exactly was happening with all that donor money?

On August 12 of this year, federal law enforcement officials and the Department of Justice announced the arrest and indictment of Heidi Beirich, the former director of intelligence for the SPLC, as part of a criminal investigation into the organization's paid informant program.

Beirich initially appeared in court in Riverside, California, before later proceedings in Montgomery, Alabama. She was subsequently named as a defendant in a second superseding indictment in the DOJ's criminal case against the organization.

The former intelligence director faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The allegations involve the funneling of donor funds to informants between 2007 and 2023.

According to federal prosecutors, millions of dollars in donations were routed through the organization to sources and informants connected to extremist groups. Prosecutors also allege that some of the money was diverted for personal expenses.

Apparently, the business of fighting extremism had a financial operation that investigators would now like to discuss.

The Department of Justice charged the SPLC in April over its now-defunct program that paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist organizations.

Federal prosecutors allege that the civil rights organization committed financial crimes by laundering money through bank accounts established under fictitious entities to conceal the identities of its informants.

The government's contention is particularly damaging: Donors allegedly believed they were contributing money to combat extremism, while prosecutors say their contributions were actually helping finance it.

The SPLC has vigorously denied the allegations, describing the prosecution as politically motivated.

 Experts have also raised questions about the charges.

But the indictment contains another rather awkward detail.

Prosecutors allege that Beirich was in a romantic relationship [as in knocking boots] with one of the informants and that $140,000 in donor money eventually found its way into a joint bank account belonging to the two.

That is quite a development for an organization whose business model involves scrutinizing the personal associations and financial activities of other people.

Beirich, who previously served as an executive overseeing the SPLC's efforts to monitor hate groups, is now the chief strategy officer and co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

She remains a frequently sought-out expert on far-right organizations and even submitted testimony to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, where she discussed the alleged extremism of the Proud Boys.

Her attorney, Michael Proctor, portrayed the indictment as an attack on a woman whose career has supposedly been devoted to fighting dangerous extremists.

“A free and fair society does not use the justice system to silence its political opponents. Heidi Beirich has dedicated her life to fighting hate groups and extremist movements like the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other white supremacists,” her lawyer, Michael Proctor, said in a statement. “She has combatted these hateful, ugly, and un-American extremists and their repeated uses of violence and intimidation in order to promote a fairer, safer, and more just America. Her decades-long record of success dismantling hate groups – and the resulting threats to her life – speak volumes. For this, she has been indicted.”

The SPLC and Beirich maintain their innocence and insist the prosecution is politically motivated.
The Case Moves Forward

Last week, a federal judge in Alabama declined to dismiss the case, allowing the prosecution to proceed.

The judge rejected an argument from the SPLC that the charges should be thrown out because they constituted a vindictive prosecution.

Of course, an indictment is not a conviction, and the allegations have yet to be proven in court. The SPLC and Beirich are entitled to defend themselves against the charges.

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Still, the irony is difficult to overlook. An organization that built its reputation by identifying America's alleged purveyors of hatred now finds itself defending a federal indictment involving allegations of secret payments, fictitious entities, donor deception, and a romantic relationship with an informant.

The people who spent years investigating everyone else's associations and financial arrangements may soon have to explain some of their own.

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Thousands of US Flights Canceled Due To Unplugged Router

The following is satire, so don't have a cow.

While millions of passengers transformed airport terminal floors into impromptu California-style campsites, the entire architecture of American commercial aviation was brought to a screeching halt by a single, unglamorous reality. 

Somewhere in a dusty utility closet, a piece of hardware was sitting unplugged.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford took to the podium on Saturday morning to explain that the nation's sky lanes were temporarily converted into a parking lot because a contractor may have accidentally kicked a plug out of its socket on their way to a coffee break.

The catastrophic technological failure, which stranded over 1.5 million travelers and triggered a nationwide ground stop, was not the work of sophisticated cyber warfare or malevolent artificial intelligence, or so they tell us.

Instead, we are to feel better over the crisis of the unplugged router because it wasn't caused by a cyber attack by Iran, or China, or Russia, or Bernie Sanders.

Officials spent frantic hours looking high and low, trying to untangle why seventeen different air traffic control facilities were suddenly losing radar feeds and radio frequencies. For four agonizing hours, the guardians of the skies stared at blinking lights while wondering if decades of aging infrastructure were finally collapsing under their own weight. 

As it turns out, the multi-billion-dollar aviation apparatus was brought down by an router hungry for its electric food.

Duffy used the catastrophe to pitch Congress for fifty billion dollars in emergency modernization funding. Yet the public is left to ponder a sobering thought about modern progress: human civilization can engineer supersonic flight and orbital tracking, a man on the moon, and flying cars, but our entire national transit grid remains vulnerable to an unplugged router, possibly caused by a guilty-looking feline named Aisha.

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Canadian pop singer solves Israeli-Palestinian kerfuffle with Instagram with a "free Palestine" whine

Has and causes indigestion

LOS ANGELES—In a geopolitical breakthrough that has finally brought peace to the Middle East closer than ever, pop singer Shawn Mendes has bravely solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the comfort of his multi-million dollar Instagram account.

The "Treat You Better" singer courageously risked his Spotify royalties on Thursday by sharing a "Free Palestine" post to his 68.4 million followers, officially securing his status as a certified expert in centuries-old territorial disputes.

"There is a genocide happening before our eyes," he wrote in a butt-backwards claim. "The senseless killing in Gaza must stop. The children and families in Palestine have suffered for far too long, and they need our help." 

Senseless? After the Hamassholes and their terrorist jihadis attacked innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023 this mental cripple calls the Israeli response 'senseless' is obviously an antisemitic, newly minted trope that not only fails to take the massacre of over 1,200 Israelis slaughtered on that day, but also fails to take into account how exponentially the Gazan population has grown enormously over the years. If Israel wanted to commit genocide on the Gazans, there would be no Gazans. And Israel has Arabs [non-Jews, mostly Muslims] in the Knesset with the same political clout as Jewish members. 

As an added bonus, the Jewish state is a safe place for LGBTQ+yadda, yadda folks to coexist--not so much the case in any Islamic-majority countries, and certainly not Gaza. They hang or throw gays from buildings for sport.

Historians immediately discarded volumes of geopolitical research, realizing that all they needed was a 28-year-old Canadian guitar player who watched three TikTok videos and attended a concert benefit in Los Angeles. Mendes revealed he had been meticulously educating himself, which apparently meant bypassing actual Middle Eastern history and heading straight to the vanity metrics. We refer to people like Mendes as 'schmucks.'

"My friends and fellow artists, I know it can feel scary to speak up; I feel it now as I type this," he continued, clearly knowing he was in no danger. "I also feel the need to do something to help. The more of us that use our voice, the closer we are to change. If you agree please search your heart, find your courage and do what you can to help. These children in Palestine have had to be brave for too long. It’s our turn to do the same now."

Really now, this guy is a dolt at the highest level of dolt-ness. 

Critics at the United Nations were reportedly scrambling to replace their diplomatic corps with washed-up pop performers who understand that international borders can be fixed by simply urging people to vote and vibe.

The halfwit then added, "Lets normalize speaking up and standing up for those suffering from oppression," while asking fans to donate, educate, encourage, challenge, "hold those in power accountable, and vote."

Naturally, social media users were ungrateful for his sudden elevation to Secretary of State.

"You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about," one commenter wrote on his Instagram. "Not to mention there’s been a ceasefire FOR MONTHS. If a genocide is when you’re population continually increases then sure it is one."

Did I mention that Mendes is not the sharpest knife on his "Winter Holiday" tree?

Another person said they were "heartbroken" over his post, adding that they have "been adoring you since I was nine years old, never expected you to be the one to listen to people’s lies."

A third commenter told him to "Educate yourself more," and a fourth advised him to "Do some Research before you speak."

He may have wanted to but his brain was full.

"How sad it is that you are posting about a subject that is so far away from you and your knowledge," another added.

On X, a cynical observer noted that artists "literally only do this to revive their career it’s actually so pathetic and narcissistic" while another snarked, "Thank God for Rich privileged celebrities talking about political issues."

Despite the friction, a legion of devoted fans rushed to defend the cretin's profound sacrifice of tapping a screen between latte sips.

"Damn Shawn didn’t know you had game like that brb downloading all your songs," one mouth-breathing fan wrote.

"I won't lie shawn, [sic] these comments are showing their true selves and im [sic] glad you've shown yours," another person said, referring to the negative comments. "We knew you were there to treat us better," the sic fan said.

Another added, "Thank you for being human Shawn. I’m so so proud of you. Let’s keep the momentum going and never stop fighting for Palestine." 

At press time, world peace was delayed by approximately three business days while Mendes figures out how to fix inflation next.

Did I mention he's a schmuck?

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Trump Yanks Vance Off Iran File After Deal Gives Regime Extra Time To Count Oil Money, Reassigns Him To Full-Time Blue-State Corruption Beat

President Trump has removed Vice President J.D. Vance from any further involvement with Iran, a move sources describe as correcting the sole tactical error of the recent conflict. Officials say the notion that Tehran’s leadership would approach talks with anything resembling good faith proved unworkable in practice.

Just days earlier, Vance had pushed for direct negotiations with Iranian hard-liners. Two officials told reporters that Trump privately questioned the June memorandum of understanding Vance helped broker.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

“Trump in recent weeks has privately criticized the June memorandum of understanding that Vance helped negotiate and questioned whether it was a costly mistake, two officials said, arguing that it gave Iran critical time to regroup and rake in oil revenues before the U.S. imposed a naval blockade.”

In a public statement, Trump reassigned Vance entirely.

“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters. Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity. CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood! We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”

Administration aides say Vance will now devote his schedule to examining how multiple blue-state governments continue to lose track of large sums of federal money while main

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N. Carolina Dem flips 14th District, has Class H Felony Case

BREAKING: In a stunning upset that somehow still feels entirely on-brand, Democrat Lakesha Womack has flipped North Carolina’s 14th District, defeating Republican incumbent Tim Moore by a razor-thin 51.14%–48.86% (about 6,500 votes). 

Results remain unofficial pending certification.

Meanwhile, Womack has a pending Class H felony charge from Mecklenburg County for alleged willful failure to return a hired motor vehicle valued over $4,000 (N.C.G.S. § 14-167). 

Court records indicate she rented a 2019 Toyota Corolla from Budget in October 2019, due back by October 23, and the summons alleges she willfully failed to return it (vehicle valued around $20,000). Summons issued January 2020, originally unserved, then served in October 2026. 

Attorneys appeared for her on November 10; next hearing scheduled for December 1.

Womack has said she returned the car late while homeless with her young son, dealing with a medical emergency and ICU stay, living in a hotel, buying Dollar Tree food, and that Budget eventually retrieved the vehicle. She says she didn’t know a criminal case existed. These are her explanations; the case is still pending and she has not been convicted.

Reminder for anyone keeping score at home: a felony conviction does not automatically disqualify someone from serving in the House. Expulsion takes a two-thirds vote. House rules do address charged or convicted members regarding committees and floor privileges, but the Constitution sets the qualifications.

Just another Tuesday in American politics, where the only real crime is noticing the timeline, the statute, or the double standard.

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Amy Klobuchar Shows Us What She Really Wants Now That She's Governor-Elect

Behold the miracle of modern political metamorphosis. Just one day after being crowned governor-elect, former Senate wallflower Amy Klobuchar shed her carefully cultivated "moderate" costume faster than you can say bipartisan brunch. 

Fresh off an election victory where she swore up and down she was just a harmless centrist neighbor who loves hot-dish and moderate consensus, she bounded up to the microphone with unconcealed glee to announce her absolute favorite hobby: dismantling the Second Amendment, our right to bear arms.

Forget about the crushing tax burdens, the runaway government fraud scandals left behind by her predecessor, or the simple dignity of letting people afford groceries. No, the burning crisis keeping Minnesota awake at night is clearly that too many citizens own scary-looking plastic pieces on their rifles.

"The gun safety bill is going to get passed, and I am so excited to be working with the leaders on this, and it certainly should be one of our top priorities," Klobuchar said during a press conference. "I think that bill makes a lot of sense. I’m sure that we’ll make some changes … but the basics of that bill I hope will remain in place."

The legislative masterpiece she is so giddy to inflict upon the populace is SF 4067. 

Under this brilliant blueprint, ordinary law-abiding Minnesotans who want to keep the semi-automatic rifles they already legally own will just need to politely ask the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for permission slips, and then pay to renew those permission slips every three years like clockwork. Fail to do so, and you graduate from a peaceful taxpayer to a gross misdemeanor criminal in one easy step. It is compassionate governance at its finest.

Naturally, social media erupted as the sweet scent of authoritarian bureaucratic overreach filled the crisp Minnesota air.

"Democrats don't care about affordability. They only care about taking away our Second Amendment rights," conservative communicator Steve Guest posted on X. "Amy Klobuchar can't contain her excitement as she goes after law-abiding gun owners."

"In one of her first acts as governor-elect, Sen. @amyklobuchar affirmed that she will go after Minnesotans' firearms under the guise of ‘safety,’" the National Rifle Association (NRA) posted on X.

"When Amy Klobuchar told you over and over she was going to do a top-to-bottom audit, she meant of your guns, not your tax dollars," Minnesota attorney and former immigration judge Nathan Hansen posted on X.

"Why are you babbling about gun control?" Minnesota Miners, a pro-mining grassroots nonprofit in Minnesota, posted on X. "Instead you should be coming out with your plan to stop government fraud and lowering taxes. But you can't do that you have to come out attacking & trying to violate lawful gun owners constitutional rights."

"We have a duty to our nation to not comply," Minnesota Republican state Rep. Ben Davis posted on X. "Resist."

"AMY KLOBUCHAR ISN'T EVEN SWORN IN AND SHE'S ALREADY COMING FOR MINNESOTA'S RIFLES," conservative influencer Gunther Eagleman posted on X.

Fox News Digital reached out to Klobuchar’s team for comment on what aspects of the bill she does and does not support but did not receive a response, for some reason.

Perhaps her campaign handlers were too busy trying to figure out how to spin taking people's constitutional liberties away as a form of centrist harmony. After all, the governor-elect insists she is just trying to steer the ship forward.

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"I am committed as ever to moving our state forward, not moving our state to the left or to the right, but moving our state forward," Klobuchar said during the press conference.

Just forward, please. Straight off a cliff of government overreach, but at least you will be moving. Klobuchar easily defeated her Republican opponent earlier this month to inherit the desk of outgoing Governor Tim Walz, who wisely decided to exit stage left before the fallout from massive state scandals fully consumed him. Now, the torch of progressive utopia-building has been safely passed to a veteran politician who spent decades in Washington learning how to smile while telling you she knows what is best for your toolbox.

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House GOP Heroically Prevent Massie From Impeaching Hegseth, Thus Preserving Nation From Another Round Of Meaningless Hearings

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth remains free to continue doing his job after House GOP leaders successfully blocked a privileged resolution from Rep. Thomas Massie (RINO-KY) that would have forced an impeachment vote. The measure, which accused Hegseth of various high crimes related to military operations, was instead referred to the Judiciary Committee by a 211-204 vote Tuesday evening, a procedural step that in practice ends the matter.

So it seems that doing your job, one that requires cold decisions that put men and women in harm's way, is now considered a high crime. I guess if you hate the United States, it qualifies as such.

President Donald Trump, one of the most eloquent and loquacious  presidents in the history of presidents, marked the occasion on Truth Social by labeling Massie a "major LOSER" and praising Hegseth’s record on operations involving Venezuela and Iran. "The Democrats’ attempt to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has miserably FAILED!" Trump wrote, calling the result the "EXONERATION of a Great American Patriot."

The resolution itself contained eight articles covering the Iran conflict, strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, and Hegseth’s response to a seditious video from Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), that urged troops to disobey "unlawful orders." Massie had filed it as a privileged measure, requiring consideration within two legislative days and overriding the normal preferences of House leadership. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) nevertheless secured enough Republican votes to table it, even after the party’s recent midterm losses left leaders concerned about attendance.

Hegseth addressed the effort directly at a Tuesday morning news conference. "What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight, and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment," he said.

Every Democrat present voted to advance the resolution. Every Republican except Massie voted against it. Some members had expressed private worry earlier in the day that thin attendance could produce an unintended outcome.

"I'm going to vote no," Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX), told Fox News Digital. "I don't know if any Republicans other than Massie will be in support of his articles of impeachment, but I don't even know how many Republicans will be here by the time of the vote. The real question is how short are we. Numerically, if they're all here and we're not, what happens then?" Ellzey added that the push was "a ridiculous waste of time."

Even Republicans who have criticized Hegseth declined to back the sour grapes articles. 

"I think it's an effort to scapegoat Pete Hegseth for Congress shirking their own duty and, frankly, the president taking action that, in my view, is unconstitutional. but it's also not unprecedented," said Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH). "What would be unprecedented is to hold the secretary of defense accountable for a decision the president makes. Or, frankly, it would have been unprecedented for the secretary of defense to kind of break ranks on something that is clearly not unprecedented in terms of what has become the standard operating procedure for administrations going back to the Korean War."

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), a frequent Hegseth critic, was similarly unmoved. "I'm personally not a fan of the secretary. I don't think he was the right guy in the job. But, also, when you read Massie's impeachment, I don't agree with it," he told reporters.

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