NYPD Commissioner reminds New Yorkers who the heroes were on 9/11

THE LARGE APPLE — New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch appeared to deliver a subtle but unmistakable reminder to Mayor Zohran Mamdani Wednesday that there is, in fact, a difference between the people who attacked New York City and the Americans who ran toward the danger to save their fellow citizens.

Tisch made the apparently controversial observation during the unveiling of a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza honoring more than 469 NYPD members who have died from illnesses connected to their service following the terrorist attacks.

“Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity,” Tisch said. “The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.”

In what must have been an absolutely shocking development for modern New York politics, the police commissioner suggested that terrorists are bad and firefighters, police officers and other first responders are good. 

What an incredible reveal!

Many observers immediately suspected Tisch was speaking directly to Mamdani, despite the fact that she never actually used his name.

“Jessica Tisch said this with Zohran Mamdani sitting beside her. Public officials must show ‘moral clarity’ about 9/11 and never blur the distinction between heroes and terrorists. ‘Shame on those who do.’ She didn’t say his name. She didn’t have to,” former financial exec Sam Antar posted.

The timing was particularly interesting.

Just days earlier, Mamdani had signed official orders designating September 11 as a Day of Remembrance and addressing security concerns ahead of the 25th anniversary events.

Afterward, Mamdani gifted the ceremonial pen to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who has been directly linked to al-Qaeda terrorists and is considered by many decent patriots to be a scumbag who has no business being within a thousand miles of Ground Zero.

Unfortunately for everyone involved in the ceremony, Tisch happened to be standing between Mamdani and Kassem.

Mamdani therefore first handed the pen to Tisch and asked her to “pass it” to Kassem.

Tisch then reportedly made an abrupt exit from the room, presumably after realizing that New York's latest diversity initiative had somehow become a game of Hot Potato involving a ceremonial pen and an al-Qaeda-linked lawyer. She had another place in mind as to where the pen should be shoved.

Critics immediately accused comrade Mamdani of deliberately creating the bizarre optics and argued that he knew exactly how the gesture would look.

“This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC’s millions of 9/11 survivors,” Fox Business anchor David Asman said.

Matthew Hennessey wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Everyone deserves a lawyer. But by deliberately handing his ceremonial pen to this man, Mr. Mamdani mocked the loss his city suffered on 9/11. And he forced Ms. Tisch to participate in that mockery. He might as well have turned to the cameras and winked.”

Fortunately, Commissioner Tisch apparently decided that 25 years was long enough to remember the basic facts.

The men who flew airplanes into buildings were terrorist scum. 

The people who ran toward those buildings were heroes.

And apparently, in 2026, someone still has to explain the difference.

But you know and Mamdani knows the difference and he seems to be on the side of his 'brothers' who flew into those buildings 25 years ago.

Wake up, America and lose your suicidal empathy, to use the words of the great Gad Saad.

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Platner Kept a Profile on a Messaging App That Has Been a Playground for Predators for Years

If there is one thing that Graham Platner's Senate campaign has taught us, it's that every time people think they've hit the bottom of the opposition research barrel, the bottom is deeper still.

Over the course of this campaign, Mainers have learned about Platner's public restroom chicken-choking self-gratification habits, his phone-sex adventures on a network that was compromised by the Taliban, and his apparent emotional investment in a Thailand prostitution tax loophole. Most candidates spend campaign season talking about jobs, inflation, and national security. Platner has spent it providing material that sounds like it was rejected by the writers of a dark cable comedy.

Now comes another revelation.

According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, Platner maintained an account on Kik, the anonymous messaging platform that has spent years battling a reputation as a haven for sexual predators and child exploitation.

The account, operating under the username phustle0331, remains active. The profile picture is a mirror selfie featuring an individual who appears to be wearing nothing more than a bath towel. The tattoos visible in the image reportedly match tattoos Platner displayed during an interview with a local ABC affiliate last October. The username also matches a private Instagram account linked to Platner, as well as the Reddit account that has already generated plenty of unwanted headlines for his campaign.

Platner later acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that the account was his.

The account was created on June 26, 2016. By that point, Kik's reputation wasn't exactly a mystery. The platform had already become notorious for attracting predators looking to exploit children. That same year, a major sting operation led to the arrest of more than 2,600 predators. Concerns about the app became so widespread that the New York Times published an exposé detailing the dangers it posed to minors.

The issue has been especially relevant in Maine, the state Platner hopes to represent in the Senate.

Just last year, one Maine man received a sentence of 30 to 60 years for producing videos depicting the sexual abuse of children for users on the platform. Another case that surfaced in September involved a man who allegedly attended children's sporting events to obtain photographs that he later transformed into sexualized images using artificial intelligence.

Platner's Nazi tattoo

Experts estimate that roughly 70 percent of Kik users are between the ages of 13 and 24. Although the company has updated its rules to prohibit minors from using the app, there is no meaningful age-verification system in place to ensure users are actually adults. As a result, critics continue to describe the platform as a "Predator's Paradise."

Platner's campaign has insisted that he deleted the app from his phone, but apparently neglected to deactivate the account itself. They were apparently more concerned with him being embarrassed if the app was still there, than the idea that he is still on the platform. 

With the primary election only days away, Platner remains the favorite to secure the Democratic nomination, because, of course he is. If he does get the nomination, he is expected to face incumbent [RINO] Republican Senator Susan Collins in November in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

At this point, every new revelation about Platner feels less like opposition research and more like another installment in a series that nobody asked for, but everyone is reading anyway. He is disgusting, but he's Democrat disgusting and for that Party, it's okay.

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Platner's campaign in trouble: if you thought the Nazi tattoo was bad, check this out

Graham Platner, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maine who’s come under fire for a Nazi tattoo and apparently masturbating in port-a-potties sent sexually explicit texts to other women while he was married, the Wall Street Journal reported. And let us not forget his brutal comments about a U.S. soldier getting wounded and how he said he should have been killed instead.

But it gets worse.

Platner’s wife informed his campaign about the problem days after he announced he was running, the paper reported.

Platner and Amy Gertner got married in 2024. Within a year of marriage, she found sexually explicit text messages from several women in the spring of 2025, the Journal reported.

On May 30 this year, the Wall Street Journal detailed how his wife discovered those sexually explicit texts he exchanged with other women in 2025, quite early in their marriage. She flagged this to a trusted campaign aide last August, ahead of the comrade Bernie Sanders rally, as she was worried it might have a negative political impact upon decent people who find that kind of behavior repugnant and immoral. [Not that it seemed to be a serious enough problem for her to leave the pig.]

Anyway, the campaign saw it as a private marital issue that should be handled through counseling, and they went ahead with the events. Gertner later said they worked through it and came out of it with a stronger marriage.

Some social media and local reports also reference pre-campaign complaints from Maine women about Platner on dating apps (e.g., Tinder interactions followed by ghosting).

Platner has not publicly detailed any of these situations. Not the crude discussions of prostitution overseas and his defense of married men who have sex with prostitutes.

But despite the immorally bankrupt behavior of Platner and the many who don't see his scumbaggery as an issue, he leads Susan Collins in the polls.

Back in 2019, he made comments about avoiding taxes by "banging hookers in Thailand" instead of dealing with a wife at home.

What is happening to our country? 

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US plans to seize Iran-linked ships in several days as per WSJ

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine speaks as a map of the Strait of Hormuz is displayed during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2026.

The mullahs in Tehran are squeezing the Strait of Hormuz like it is their personal playground, even taking shots at several ships earlier on Saturday. Because nothing says "responsible regional power" like turning one of the world's most vital oil chokepoints into a floating shooting gallery.

According to a Saturday report from The Wall Street Journal, the US is gearing up to board and seize Iran-linked oil tankers and commercial ships in the coming days. And these operations will not be limited to the neighborhood. They will happen in international waters, potentially far outside the Middle East.

The US “will actively pursue any Iranian-flagged vessel or any vessel attempting to provide material support to Iran,” US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said. “This includes dark fleet vessels carrying Iranian oil.”

“As most of you know, dark fleet vessels are those illicit or illegal ships evading international regulations, sanctions, or insurance requirements,” Caine continued.

Caine was further quoted as saying that the new campaign, which would be operated in part by the US Indo-Pacific Command, would be part of a broader President Trump-led campaign against Iran, known as “Economic Fury.”

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told the WSJ that Trump was “optimistic” that the new measures would lead to a peace deal.

This all comes as Iran continues to tighten its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, with the WSJ reporting that the US has already turned back 23 ships trying to leave Iranian ports since the blockade began. Expanding naval action beyond the Middle East gives the US even more leverage by letting it snag a greater number of vessels loaded with oil or weapons headed for Iran.

“It’s a maximalist approach,” said associate professor of law at Emory University Law School Mark Nevitt. “If you want to put the screws down on Iran, you want to use every single legal authority you have to do that.”

Iran, never one to miss a chance for some chest-thumping, claimed earlier on Saturday that it had regained military control over the Strait. They plan to keep it locked down until the US guarantees full freedom of movement for ships traveling to and from Iran.

“As long as the United States does not ensure full freedom of navigation for vessels traveling to and from Iran, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will remain tightly controlled,” the Iranian military stated.

In addition, Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei declared on Saturday in an apparent message on his Telegram channel that the Iranian navy is prepared to inflict “new bitter defeats” on its enemies.

Because when your economy is circling the drain and the world's most powerful navy is about to start playing global Whac-A-Mole with your oil tankers, the only logical response is more tough talk from the Telegram account. What could possibly go wrong?

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BREAKING: 2,500 Marines head to Middle East

The United States Marine Corps is dispatching more than 2,000 men currently stationed in Japan to the Middle East, where the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury grows ever more intense.

The Wall Street Journal and ABC News first reported this shift in deployment, with Fox News later confirming it through a conversation with a federal official. Fox’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin posted on X: “US defense official confirms to Fox News that the Pentagon is sending the USS Tripoli, a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to Mideast. The Tripoli is stationed out of Japan and would take about 2 weeks to get to the Mideast. Accompanying the ARG and the MEU are approx. 2500 US Marines.”

Before the inevitable chorus of alarm over boots on the ground begins, it should be noted that this movement is tied chiefly to air and naval assets, the very instruments upon which Operation Epic Fury has relied from the outset, as ABC News made clear. The 31st MEU, permanently based in Japan and operating within the INDO-PACOM theater, has now received orders to proceed to the Middle East.

This redeployment does not signal an intention to employ the unit as a conventional ground force inside Iran. Rather, it furnishes commanders with a suite of land, amphibious, and aviation capabilities should they prove necessary. The MEU in question includes a squadron of F-35 fighter jets and a squadron of MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft.

For half a century the terrorist regime in Iran has killed Americans directly or through its proxies, constructed a vast international network of murder, and at intervals butchered its own citizens who have the temerity to rise against the rigors of sharia law (more than 40,000 in January alone). As Donald Trump remarked on Thursday: “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”

Trump clearly believes the campaign is advancing with such success that its conclusion draws near. He declared: “We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth.”

This is the language of resolution, not hesitation; of a determination long deferred but now fully engaged. The spectacle of a regime that has sown terror across decades finding itself dismantled with precision and speed ought to concentrate the mind wonderfully on the consequences of sustained ideological malice.

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US sends F-22s to Israel while Trump ponders pounding Iran

American F-22 fighter jets touched down at an Israeli Air Force base Tuesday evening as tensions with Iran continue to soar.

According to reports from Walla's Amir Bohbot and Israel's public broadcaster, at least a dozen of these stealth killing machines, among the most advanced fighters on the planet and exclusive to the U.S. arsenal, landed amid the escalating showdown between Washington and Tehran.

President Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the limits of U.S. military leverage against Iran, per sources familiar with the matter cited by left-leaning CBS News. This frustration follows briefings where aides told the president that, unlike the recent operation that removed Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, any move against Iran would demand far more than a single strike. The Monday CBS report noted that such an action could drag the U.S. into a prolonged military campaign across the Middle East.

Pentagon officials earlier this week voiced serious concerns about the potential costs of such a campaign, warning it could claim the lives of American troops and our allies, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The WSJ and Axios highlighted that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine strongly opposed war with Iran, a claim Trump pushed back against in a Truth Social post. The WSJ added that several other Pentagon officials echoed similar warnings to Caine, though he was the most prominent voice.

Trump himself said General Caine "would [not like] to see war in Iran, but if a decision is made on going against Iran at a military level, it is his opinion that it will be something easily won."Sources told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that Trump remains undecided on the path forward: whether to pursue a deal with Iran, launch a weeks-long war aimed at toppling the regime, or opt for a narrower strike to pressure Tehran into accepting better terms.

With fake news and wild speculation flooding the airwaves, even top American and Israeli officials sometimes appear as uncertain about Trump's next move as the rest of us. One emerging option, now being widely leaked according to sources, involves Trump hunting for a middle-ground approach: a limited, short-duration attack on the Islamic Republic.

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The Islamic Revolution's 2026 anniversary could well be its last.

Bottom line: the pieces are moving, the rhetoric is heating up, and the F-22s on Israeli soil are a very clear signal that the Trump administration isn't bluffing when it comes to Iran. Stay tuned; this story is far from over.

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Iran Protests Heat Up as Trump Draws a Red Line, and the Regime Feels the Heat

The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell on Saturday: "Admin officials have had preliminary discussions about how to carry out an attack on Iran if needed to follow up on Trump's threats." One option is reportedly on the table-- a large-scale aerial strike targeting multiple Iranian military sites.

This comes as the mullahs' grip is slipping fast and he's evidently in hiding because that "[W]e prefer death over life" doesn't apply to leaders. 

Protesters are out in force across Iran, with vehicles burning amid the anti-government unrest that kicked off on December 28th. What started as rage over skyrocketing inflation has morphed into full-throated demands to end the Islamic regime. Of course, the regime, predictably, is pointing fingers at the US and Israel for "fomenting unrest." Classic deflection from a government that's been bleeding legitimacy for years.

In the middle of all this chaos, President Trump made it crystal clear where America stands. On Truth Social Saturday, the President posted that the United States "stands ready to help" since Iran "is looking at freedom." 

You always know what Trump is thinking.

Trump has been consistent. Just days earlier, during his Thursday interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show, he laid down the law: if the Iranian regime starts "killing people," the US will "hit them really hard."

The ayatoilets aren't helping their case. On the same day the WSJ report hit, Iran's Revolutionary Guards' intelligence wing bragged about arresting a foreigner accused of spying for Israel, according to Tasnim news agency. 

Paranoia is running high in Tehran, and for good reason.

Bottom line: The Iranian people are rising up, the regime is cracking down, and President Trump is signaling that America isn't going to sit idly by if the killing continues, because as of this posting, there have been reportedly 200 Iranian freedom fighters killed. 

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The mullahs have spent decades poking the bear. Now they're finding out what happens when the bear has a leader who doesn't bluff, unlike Biden, who doesn't think.

Freedom might finally be knocking on Iran's door, and the regime knows it. Hoo boy, things just got interesting.

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Trump demands Israel clean up Gaza rubble and foot the bill

One watches with a certain weary incredulity as the United States, that great arbiter of other people's responsibilities, now insists that Israel should pick up the tab, both literal and figurative, for clearing away the 68 million tons of rubble that currently entomb Gaza.

A senior Israeli official, speaking with the resigned air of a man who has heard this tune before, confirms that Washington has tied the launching of Gaza’s reconstruction (that much-vaunted "Phase Two" of the ceasefire) to a thorough cleanup operation, with Rafah designated as the model zone. Israel, ever the reliable party in these arrangements, has agreed in principle to shoulder the physical and financial burden of the task, even though the debris in question was created, in no small part, by Israeli airstrikes and the relentless advance of D9 bulldozers.

The Wall Street Journal this week described Gaza as "blanketed by an estimated 68 million tons of rubble," with most structures in the enclave destroyed or damaged. The UN Development Programme, which has appointed itself overseer of the eventual clearing operation, helpfully informs us that this tonnage is "roughly equivalent to 186 Empire State Buildings." One is almost tempted to ask whether the United Nations will be supplying the hard hats and the invoices, or whether that too will fall to the Jewish state.

Clearing the ruins, we are told, is a "basic prerequisite" for any reconstruction. Quite so. Though one cannot help noticing the exquisite irony: the same international community that spent two years denouncing Israel's military operations as disproportionate now quietly insists that Israel alone must foot the bill for the consequences, consequences that arose, lest we forget, from a war launched against Israel on October 7, 2023, by the same Hamas regime that the bien-pensants still affect to regard as legitimate "resistance."

Thus does the world arrange its moral ledger: Hamas may fire rockets from hospitals and store munitions in schools, but when the inevitable reply comes, it is Israel that must sweep up the pieces and pay the contractors. One struggles to imagine a find a historical parallel for such a division of labour, but perhaps that is the point: there has never been anything quite like the expectations placed upon the world’s only Jewish state, and there likely never will be again.

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Israel demands Hamas release hostages or prepare for the worst

Picture this: a sun-scorched slab of Middle Eastern madness called Gaza, where the air smells like gunpowder and desperation, and the only thing moving faster than a Hamas rocket is Israel’s latest playbook to turn the screws. The Jerusalem Post dropped the scoop on March 8, 2025, like a Molotov cocktail into a quiet newsstand, and The Wall Street Journal picked up the shrapnel, reporting that Israel’s got a “maximum pressure” plan to make Hamas squeal—or else. It’s a step-by-step descent into chaos, and it’s got more phases than a prog-rock album.

Step one? Starve ‘em out. Israel’s already slammed the brakes on goods and supplies rolling into Gaza, turning the strip into a giant pressure cooker with no release valve. Next up, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich—think of him as the guy who’d cut the power to your grandma’s bingo hall just to win a bet—wants to flip the switch on electricity and water. 

Cabinet’s been chewing on that one like it’s the last falafel in Tel Aviv.

But wait, there’s more! If Hamas doesn’t cough up the hostages, Israel’s ready to escalate like a caffeinated schizophrenic on a booze-filled bender. 

Targeted airstrikes? Check. Special forces raids to pluck Hamas honchos from their spider holes? Double check. Then comes the real kicker: forcing Gazans who trickled back north during the ceasefire to pack up and hoof it south again. And if that doesn’t work? Full-on reentry, baby—Israeli troops storming Gaza with more boots on the ground than a Black Friday sale at a bootleg DVD stand. 

The goal? Hold the turf, reoccupy chunks of the strip, and smash Hamas’s military toys into dust. Sources say it’d be the biggest op yet, a blockbuster sequel to every prior dust-up.

“There’s a determination to go back in and finish Hamas no matter what happens,” barked Michael Makovsky, ex-Pentagon hotshot and current bigwig at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, to The Wall Street Journal. He’s betting Israel’s bringing the big guns this time—think less “surgical strike,” more “sledgehammer symphony.”

Across the pond, Donald Trump’s back in the game, tossing red meat to his base and warnings to Hamas like a reality TV host hyping the season finale. “If [Hamas] didn’t release all the remaining hostages in Gaza immediately, ‘you are DEAD!’” he bellowed on social media Wednesday, probably in ALL CAPS with a side of Diet Coke. His Middle East sidekick, Steve Witkoff, nodded along, hinting at a U.S.-Israel tag-team smackdown if Hamas doesn’t play ball.

Negotiations? Dead as a doornail. Israel wants its hostages back—59 still unaccounted for, at least 24 alive by their count—but Hamas is digging in its heels, demanding a permanent ceasefire. Israel’s like, “Nah, fam, you disarm and step off the throne first.” Hamas says, “Not a chance, infidel.” Israel’s dangling a one-month ceasefire extension like a carrot on a stick, but the clock’s ticking—Saturday’s the drop-dead date. No deal? Escalation city, population: everybody.

Trump and Witkoff are itching for war, while Israel’s military eggheads claim they’re locked and loaded—ammo stockpiles topped off, Biden’s leash loosened, and Hezbollah’s ceasefire up north freeing up troops. They’ve already smoked 20,000 Hamas fighters, torched their tunnels, and trashed their weapons labs. But Hamas keeps recruiting—like roaches after a nuke—thousands of fresh-faced kids ready to die for the cause.

Yaakov Amidror, a former Israeli security guru, told The Wall Street Journal it’s all or nothing: reoccupy Gaza or kiss the “kill Hamas” dream goodbye. Six months to a year, he figures, to grind ‘em down. Meanwhile, analyst Tahani Mustafa from the International Crisis Group says Hamas is tougher than a $2 steak, still pulling recruits from Gaza’s angry youth despite the carnage.

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If Israel goes all-in, they’ll have to rip out Hamas’s tunnel network—think Viet Cong meets Mad Max, but with worse plumbing. Analysts warn it’ll be a messy, destructive slog, and without a postwar plan, Israel could end up babysitting an insurgency forever. The hostages? Still the wild card. Public opinion’s split like a cheap pair of pants—most Israelis want ‘em home, but they’re cool with bombing the snot out of Gaza if talks tank.

So here we are, teetering on the edge of a full-scale fireworks show, with Trump screaming, Hamas digging, and Israel ready to unleash hell. It’s a geopolitical car chase, and nobody’s wearing a seatbelt.

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Tim Walz is an out of touch joke

"I give you the lovely and talented Kamala Hahaharris"

Tim Walz, in spite of his decisive vice presidential loss along with Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, retains his governorship of Minnesota. 

Walz and his cringeworthy body gestures has again shown us why he is out of touch with normal people as he attempted to virtue signal with his financial situation.  He described himself as the "poorest" vice presidential candidate in history, as if that is necessarily a virtue. But the truth about his income and lifestyle tell us a different story and show us how it's a far cry from what the average person experiences.

Part of the reason for his self-characterization and the reality, is not merely due to his being tone-deaf, but also due to his being a charlatan and not a very bright one at that. His attempt to relate to the entire public is an insult, bragging about what he called a "real flex," the Minnesota moron painted himself to be a guy who struggles with bills and financial responsibilities, just like everyman.

"I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I might have been the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president," he said during a recent interview. "And I thought that would be something. People say, 'Well, this guy knows where we're coming from. He's had to pay his bills. He had to do and still does.''

The vice presidential not-elect continued, "We've got to figure it out. And I feel like one of my roles is, going forward here, is figuring out a way to make the case to the public, the American public, is that the Democratic Party really is focused on the things they care about."

"Yippie doodle!"

Like chopping off body parts of confused children, keeping our borders open for our brothers and sisters of Tren de Aragua, and human traffickers, and freeing unvetted criminals, carte blanche. 

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), utilizing their 2023 tax returns, [Tim and Gwen "Crazy Eyes" Walz] had a total income of about $299,000, with $135,000 of that coming from pensions or annuities.

Yes, but eggs cost $7.00 a dozen.

But, the WSJ also recently reported that Walz withdrew $135,000 from his retirement savings to pay for his daughter Hope’s college education—something only available to the father-of-two through his accumulated pensions from the National Guard, Congress, and teaching. The publication reported that those pensions could add up to an additional $800,000 to the couple's net worth, which was originally appraised as between $112,000 and $330,000 in 2019.

Forbes actually estimates Walz’s net worth at just over $1 million as of 2024--not an incredible fortune, but enough to put him well above the average American consumer as the average American's household income is around $63,800 and as low as $50,000 in some states.

So while Walz rakes in about five times the average American household, he wants us to feel sympathy for him because he makes less than "Wall Street Genius" Nancy Pelosi and her ilk. He sees his so called financial struggle as something to brag about but doesn't even have the brains to look around and see what real Americans are dealing with in the Biden debacle of an economy.

Walz’s attempt to gain sympathy for his "struggles" is pathetic and an anemic ploy to distract from his incompetence.

The Democrats see themselves as the party of average Americans and while they attempt to show us how relatable they are to the average Joe, they only prove how alien they are to human beings.

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Hamas agrees to cease-fire deal, but demands "written guarantees" for negotiations on end of war

Hamas has accepted a proposal for a US-backed hostage release-ceasefire agreement with Israel Saturday, the New York Post reports. The Iran-backed terror group has dropped its most non-negotiable demand that Israel promises a total end to the war with the Hamassholes in Gaza.

Hamas is demanding that Israel provide "written guarantees" that mediators will continue to negotiate a permanent cease-fire so that they can attack Israel agian in the future when they least expect it. 

The terror group gave its initial approval for the proposal after they received “verbal commitments and guarantees” from the Egyptian and Qatari mediators that fighting will not resume after Israel receives the hostages and that the two sides will continue to negotiate toward a permanent truce, the Hamas official said.

“Now we want these guarantees on paper,” the Hamas official said, knowing they can trust Israel to abide by their promise, while Hamas can do whatever they need to do to wipe out the Jews wherever they find them. 

Israel’s Mossad intelligence director David Barnea went to Doha Friday and met with Qatari mediators.

Barnea rejected the demand for a written commitment on a second phase of the ceasefire deal, Axios reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to send negotiators back to Doha next week for follow-up talks. However, Bibi's office emphasized that there continue to be “gaps between the parties.” CIA Spook Director William Burns is also heading back to Doha to join the talks, Axios reported.

This proposal would have Hamas release women, children, and injured hostages. But as usual, Israel would release hundreds of scumbags in prisoned in Israel over an initial period of six weeks.

The IDF also would pull back from heavily populated areas in Gaza and allow people to return to their homes in the northern parts of the territory during this time where they can plot as families to kill Jews wherever they can find them. 

Phase two would have Hamas free all the remaining men they kidnapped and tortured, both civilians and soldiers whereas Israel would release Arab terrorists and criminals. These exchanges would only happen after "sustainable calm" takes effect and the IDF pulls out of Gaza in order to allow Hamas to rearm and regroup so that they can kill Jews wherever they find them.

Phase three would have the bodies of hostages who were tortured, raped, killed and otherwise died in captivity returned to Israel.

Netanyahu’s office warned that “gaps” between Israel and Hamas remain in the ceasefire proposal being discussed.

The plan received support from the families of many of hostages at their weekly marches in cities across Israel Saturday.

Hamas, whose top scumbag, Yahya Sinwar, would only release male hostages during the ceasefire deal’s second phase.

Sinwar

Israeli officials told Axios they worried that if they agreed to Hamas’ written commitment demands, the terror group would be able to indefinitely drag out the discussions about the deal’s second phase, thus giving Hamas time to rearm and regroup to kill Jews wherever they find them.

It would therefore be difficult for Israel to then resume fighting without it being seen as a violating the agreement, and could cause the anti-Semites in the United Nations Security Council to impose a ceasefire without securing all the hostages release, the officials said.

Mossad officials told mediators in Doha they were confident the Israeli cabinet would accept the ceasefire proposal on the table, an official familiar with the talks told The Wall Street Journal.

A source in Israel’s negotiating team said there was a legitimate chance to reach an agreement with Hamas, compared to previous discussions where Hamas had included demands that Israel said were impossible to accept.

Then once an agreement is reached and the hostages returned home to Israel, the IDF should bomb the crap out of Hamas, capture or kill Sinwar, destroy all UNRWA buildings and their jihad schools, rid Gaza completely of jihadis, and call it a day.

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President-lite Joe Biden's dumb ceasefire plan

With the presidential election coming up this November, our alleged President [aka President lite] Joe Biden thinks [I use the term loosely] that slowing down the flow of illegal aliens into the country will get him more votes than Trump, who wants to shut the door on all illegals. 

What's a few million illegal aliens a year anyway?

Biden also believes that coming up with a ceasefire plan for Israel, without taking the hostages or Hamas into consideration, will somehow get him votes from Hamasshole terrorist supporters and naive Jews who only watch "The View" or CNN. 

He also didn't make any demands that Hamas be removed from power, in spite of their rabid anti-Semitism.

But now, even the mainstream media can't pretend Biden's brain has gone past its 'sell-by' date.

For example, The Wall Street Journal has the headline: "Biden’s Cease-Fire Plan Seeks to Push Hamas and Israel Into an Agreement Neither Wants." They go on to say that Biden "is more interested in a deal than the two warring parties."

Our geriatric so called POTUS thinks a deal between Israel and terrorists who vow to destroy Israel no matter how many tries they need, will make him look good and gain a second term. Maybe some Hamasshole supporters go along with that thinking, but normal people, who refuse to be hating on other people for their immutable characteristics, can see through Biden's fog of flatulence.

Hamas, for one, hates Jews and wants to see them all dead. Hitler was their poster boy. Biden thinks that he can convince Hamas to hold off killing Jews, but they don't think they can--the temptation is too great when they see a Jew they can kill.

And Israel knows this; so do normal people.

So we can watch the debate on June 27th between a "convicted felon" and an "un-convicted felon," but we must remember who the real friend of Israel is, and who wants to close our sieve of a border. If Biden is still around for the election, voting for him makes as much sense as buying a yo-yo for an alligator.

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US intel confirms UNRWA ties to Hamas: report

If there was any doubt that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has a substantial number of Hamasshole supporters and actual members, a recent U.S. intelligence assessment removes that doubt and shows that it's highly probable and have participated in the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. However, the report says the U.S. cannot verify Israel's allegations that many UN workers are linked to Islamic militant groups.

While the Biden administration is no friend of Israel, in spite of Joe falsely claiming he visited the Tree of Life Synagogue after a 11 Jews died and 7 were wounded, he paused funding after Israel alleged that no less than 12l UNRWA employees were "involved" in the Hamas attacks and kidnappings on October 7th. But prior to the pause of support, the U.S. government gave UNRWA $51,000,000 for fiscal 2024.

"Israeli intelligence agencies said they concluded that 10% of all UNRWA workers had some kind of affiliation, usually political, with Hamas," the Wall Street Journal reported. "A far smaller number had ties to the militant wings of Hamas and another group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. UNRWA employs around 12,000 people in Gaza."

So if UNRWA has about 30,000 employees, Israel says that about 3,000 of them act upon their hatred of Israel and the Jewish people while the remaining 27,000 don't hate them enough to risk their lives to kill them, and some might not even hate Jews, although recent polls place doubt about a large number of Palestinians who don't foster Koran-inspired anti-Semitic sentiments.

In the new report, which the WSJ reported was completed last week, the U.S. National Intelligence Council said it assessed the allegations that 12 UNRWA staffers participated in the Oct. 7 attack as credible.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.

The new intelligence assessment, as described by the officials to the Wall Street Journal, "doesn’t dispute Israel’s allegations of links between some staff at UNWRA and militant groups, but it provides a more measured appraisal of Israel’s assertions than public statements by U.S. and Israeli officials."

A spokes-jihadi for the UN spoke with Fox News Digital and said that "in mid-January the Israeli Foreign Ministry communicated information verbally to our UNRWA colleagues in Jerusalem very serious allegations regarding 12 staff [members'] possible involvement in the 7 October Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel."

Did anyone here learn about this from MSNBC, CNN, or anywhere else?

"Immediate action was taken by UNRWA. Since then, the Israeli authorities have provided no further information to the United Nations regarding alleged activities of staff members. Should information be provided, it will be analyzed quickly, and action will again be taken swiftly," the spoke-jihadi said, because UNRWA got caught with their سِرْوَال   [Arab pants, aka seroual] down when their Hamassholes got exposed.

An Israeli official told the Wall Street Journal that Israel wasn’t familiar with the U.S. assessment and said, "We share intimate intelligence with our U.S. partners in all areas." The official, who was briefed on the matter, was unaware of American requests for additional intelligence.

The IDF said the Israel Security Agency (ISA) initially led them to a tunnel shaft near a school run by UNRWA: "The shaft led to an underground terror tunnel that served as a significant asset of Hamas' military intelligence and passed under the building that serves as UNRWA's main headquarters in the Gaza Strip."

The Israeli military said it seized a "wide variety of intelligence assets" while raiding the 700-meter-long tunnel, but they did not specify what exactly was found.

"The newly found intelligence will allow the forces to operate against additional Hamas targets," the IDF said. "The dismantling of the tunnel weakens Hamas' intelligence capabilities."

That discovery ultimately brought the military to UNRWA's headquarters, where Israeli forces found that the UNRWA building supplied the Hamas tunnel with electricity and there was an internet computer system that was used for Hamas' military strategy.

A UNRWA spokes-jihadi, Al Lou Akbar, told Fox News Digital that they "have not been presented with any evidence from the Israeli authorities. But given the fact that there is an investigation underway by the highest investigative authorities in the U.N., we invite any country, party or institution with information – including information available in the public domain – to provide it to the Office of Internal Oversight Services at U.N. headquarters to help advance this investigation."

Al then tried to sell reporters annual Gaza tunnel passes.

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Even some Democrats want Tlaib to be censured

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said Tuesday that House members should consider a vote to censure Rep.[ulsive] Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) due to her refusal to accept US and Israeli findings that show and conclude that Israel was not responsible for the bombing of a hospital parking lot in Gaza, but the Palestinian Islamic Jihad was the most likely perpetrator of the misfired rocket.

Tlaib, a Palestinian-American but mostly Palestinian and far-left member of the so called squad of House anti-Semites, called for an "independent investigation" into the bombing that Hamas claimed [in about 40 minutes] took over 500 Palestinian lives at the al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. 

Now that's incredibly fast counting. Literally. It's incredulous.

Tlaib claimed that it is the US and Israel, not Hamas or Palestine, that have  “long, documented histories of misleading the public about wars and war crimes.” So she'd rather believe her Hamasshole terrorists than the government which she represents.

This isn't Tlaib's first time either. On no less than two other occasions she blamed Israel for the bombing and parroted Hamas' claims.

“Look, Congress is unified in its support of Israel,” Moskowitz told Fox News “Outnumbered” co-host Kayleigh McEnany. “I continue to be disappointed in members of Congress who are not willing to listen to US intelligence and listen to the Biden administration, who have said Israel had nothing to do with the issue that happened in the parking lot of the hospital.”

But it's more than Tlaib and Omar and the rest of the squadette idiots spouting this nonsense. The problem is that such bile influences young, undeveloped minds, as we now see in global anti-Semitic calls for the death of Jews.  And it also give aid to the terrorists.

The video, audio and radar Israel obtained has clearly shown the rocket falling into Gaza City came from the same source firing a barrage at Israel, namely the Palestinian Islamic Jidhad (PIJ). Israel doesn't even fire rockets at Gaza and the metal used was from Palestinian sources, according to a phone conversation tapped into by Israeli intelligence of two Hamassholes speaking on the phone.

Both the White House and the Israeli government have determined that the explosion was caused by a misfired PIJ  rocket from the Palestinian side of the border. Period.

PIJ is a smaller, crazier,  more anti-Semitic Palestinian terrorist group that often works with the Hamassholes.

Israeli officials also said several dozen people lost their lives in the blast, rather than the 500 or so who Hamas reported perished. If that number was indeed lost, don't you think Hamas would have laid out the dead for the media to see? 

“There’s no proof of that,” Moskowitz, who is Jewish, said of the 500 person death toll cited by media outlets, including the New York Times, in the immediate aftermath of the blast.

“Any member of Congress who continues to trust Hamas’s information over US information is obviously deeply concerning,” he added.When pressed by McEnany about possibly censuring Tlaib for propagating “terrorist talking points,” Moskowitz indicated that once a new House speaker is in place, a censure should be considered.

When pressed by McEnany about possibly censuring Tlaib for propagating “terrorist talking points,” Moskowitz indicated that once a new House speaker is in place, a censure should be considered.

“Oh, listen, I think once we get a House speaker here, I think that censure resolution will come to the floor. And I do think it’s something that everyone should consider,” Moskowitz said.

“This is about US intelligence. This is about US information. This is about not willing to trust the Biden administration and US intelligence, but instead continuing to pretend like the Ministry of Health out of Gaza is nothing other than a terrorist organization telling people what we want to hear,” he added. “We just heard the leader of Hamas talking about genocide. I mean, good God, it is propaganda to the 10th degree. And people have to stop buying it and they have to listen to the facts.”

Investigations by the Wall Street Journal, CNN and the Associated Press have found evidence that the missile came from the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization — and not Israel — based on television footage they said appeared to show a misfired Palestinian rocket in the air above the hospital.

The New York Times, which initially pinned the bombing on Israel and changed headlines four times, had finally walked back its reporting on Monday, admitting it “relied too heavily” on information from the terror group.

And they did that because they would rather believe someone badmouthing the Jews than those Jews themselves. The Times has a long history of anti-Semitism, but sadly, they're not alone.

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BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein allegedly blackmailed Bill Gates over reported affair with Russian woman

The late, not so great, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly threatened Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, another not so great tech billionaire, with exposing him about an affair Gates allegedly had with a Russian card player, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

"Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes," a spokeswoman for Gates told the WSJ, hoping they would believe her. "Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates."

Gates met Russian bridge player Mila Antonova in 2010 at a bridge tournament. She was a fetching woman in her 20s and Gates was a homely, albeit bright man in his mid-50s. The alleged future bed partners played against each other at the tournament, according to the Journal. 

Antonova is originally from Mother Russia, but moved to the U.S. and began working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, as per her LinkedIn account.

She went public about meeting Gates in a 2010 video where she said she "didn't beat" Gates, but "tried to kick him with my leg." Gates is known to be a lover of bridge and an attempted lover of women not his who are not his wife.

Epstein, of course, was known to bring wealthy and important men to his so called Fantasy Island on his "Lolita Express" private jet to hook up with underage girls. Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump, Chris Tucker, the gay blade Kevin Spacey, and violinist Itzhak Perlman, to name a few.

Anyway, after meeting Gates, Ms. Antonova reached out to potential donors to back an online venture she wanted to start that teaches people how to play bridge. She contacted Gates confidant Boris Nikolic who connected her with Epstein, according to documents.

Then in November 2013, she and Nikolic reportedly met with Epstein in his New York City townhouse to pitch a proposal to attempt to raise half a million dollars. The WSJ citing Antonova reported that Epstein did not donate to the proposal named "BridgePlanet."

"I deeply regret that I ever met Epstein," Nikolic highlighted to the outlet. "His crimes were despicable. I never saw anything like his illegal behavior. My heart goes out to his victims and their families."

In November 2014, Antonova stayed at an Epstein provided apartment but said she "didn’t interact with him or with anyone else while there." It was that year when she decided to fold her hand and become a software engineer and sought out donors to help pay for programming classes rather than do what most people do, which is to either take out a student loan, or pay for their education themselves.

"Epstein agreed to pay and he paid directly to the school. Nothing was exchanged. I don’t know why he did that," she said, the outlet reported. "When I asked, he said something like, he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could."

And if you believe that, you might also believe that Osama bin Laden attended his son's Bar Mitzvah.

Gates and Epstein had met a handful of times before Epstein's non-suicide in 2019. Gates being outed now regrets ever having had anything to do with Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine, whose name nobody knows how to pronounce.

In 2017, years after Gates' allegedly ended his affair with Antonova and threw her to the proverbial curb, Epstein emailed him about her, sources with knowledge of the incident told WSJ. 

She denied providing any information to WSJ about Gates specifically, the outlet noted.

Epstein reportedly asked Gates to reimburse him for the funds used to cover Antonova's software programming classes. Gates did not send a payment, according to Gates' spokeswoman.

"Mr. Gates had no financial dealings with Epstein," the spokeswoman claimed with a straight face.

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Biden admin may ask Blacks on census if they're descended from slaves

"It was right on the tip of my, uh, that thing in my mouth"

The Biden handler[s] are considering asking Black Americans on the census and other government forms, whether their ancestors were slaves [mostly of the Democrats in the South] which is a ploy to lay the groundwork for a federal reparation distribution system.

The solution to this may be having everyone identify as Black and put that in all government forms asking that question and answer it in the affirmative. If Rachel Dolezal can say she's Black, Jessica Krug, a professor at George Washington University say she's Black, and Elizabeth Warren say she's a Native American, we can all say we're Black. In fact, here's a list of White liberals who said they were Black. If they can do it, we all can do it. Reparations for all!

The Biden administration is asking for public input on how to differentiate blacks descended from slaves in America from those who have emigrated from places like Africa and the Caribbean, the Wall Street Journal reported. Of course by asking people the question and knowing that if they say they're descended from slaves that they'll hit the jackpot, they just might not be totally truthful.

The White House is also torn between labeling the former group "American Descendants of Slavery," "American Freedmen," or "Foundational Black Americans." Questions about African Americans' ancestry would appear on forms including home and student loan applications.

There has been no talk about reparations for the families of the 2,000 British sailors who died on the high seas fighting against the slave traders, nor the families of the hundreds of thousands of Civil War Union soldiers who died fighting against the Democrat South. 

This move is obviously political and targeted to buy the Black vote forever because the Democratic Party has nothing to offer besides handouts, promises, and identity politics that has divided this country even before Barack Obama pushed it over the cliff.

The move is part of a push among Democrat politicians across the country to consider paying reparations to Black citizens. San Francisco this month moved to create a $50 million office that could pay out a proposed $5 million payment to each Black resident simply based on their skin color or whether they identified as Black for at least 10 years. One reparations committee member, Daniel Landry, suggested a $500 million payment per person because destroying the American economy is no big deal when you don't understand economics and consequences.

Economists advising a California state reparations panel said last week that California taxpayers who never owned slaves somehow owes Black residents, who were never slaves, at least $800 billion, nearly triple the state’s annual budget. Makes perfect sense if you're a Marxist.

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Biden seems clueless over $450K migrant separation payments

The face you make when something is amiss in your skivvies

Alleged President Joe Biden may have been kept in the dark or slept through a DOJ briefing about the Brandon administration is trying to do for illegal aliens. 

According to the ACLU [an oxymoron] Biden “may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department,” as evidenced by his labeling a news report as "garbage" that his administration is hoping to hand out $450,000 per person in payouts to families separated after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border.

ACLU Executive Director and big George Soros fan, Anthony Romero, warned the brain addled President that he risked “abandoning a core campaign promise to do justice for the thousands of separated families." This promise was to give each individual of illegal alien families who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border [in accordance with U.S. law that prohibits children from being place with their incarcerated parents who illegally crossed the border in order to reap the benefits of the taxpayer's labor] more money than the families of our dead military members who were killed in the line of duty. 

“We respectfully remind President Biden that he called these actions ‘criminal’ in a debate with then-President Trump, and campaigned on remedying and rectifying the lawlessness of the Trump administration,” Romero said. “We call on President Biden to right the wrongs of this national tragedy,” by paying off these miscreants for their crime.

Hours earlier, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy had asked Biden if the payments, which were first reported last week by the Wall Street Journal, could incentivize even more illegal immigration.

“If you guys keep sending that garbage out? Yeah. But it’s not true,” Biden shot back, sounding as if he had a clue about what he was saying.

“So this is a garbage report?” Doocy asked.

“Yeah. $450,000 per person — is that what you’re saying?” Biden replied. “That’s not gonna happen.”

See, the person behind the curtain forgot to tell him, or he forgot he was told.

When Doocy asked him about the reported plan several days ago at a G-20 press conference in Rome, Biden looked away and scratched his forehead and allegedly pooped his pants, according to anonymous sources.

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However, the Journal reported last week that the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services “are considering payments [of your money] that could amount to close to $1 million a family” for migrants detained during the Trump administration. 

A million dollars to break the law!

The Journal reported that around 940 claims have already been filed by immigrant families who were separated at the border.

It pays to come to the US illegally with kids and allow yourself to get caught. The payout might turn out to be a lot better than "Wheel of Fortune." Who wouldn't take a shot at this move?

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