'Twas a good week for the good guys.
None of the progress going forward will be easy, but I continue to see ‘green shoots’ that the pendulum continues to swing away from the anti-human, anti-civilizational nonsense we’ve indulged in over the last 3 decades.
As I’ve written repeatedly, there are (at least) two battlefields in play.
The active, kinetic front in Gaza and the info-propaganda war front playing out on various social media and mainstream channels.
The biggest event this week took place on the info-battlefield, as the Presidents of several major Ivy League colleges (and MIT) were summoned before Congress to testify about the dangerous, moral cesspools their campuses have become.
In a stunning exchange that brings to mind Oliver Wendell Holmes famous quote that sunlight is always the best disinfectant, Representative Elise Stefanik dismantled all 3 Presidents by simply asking whether calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes harassment or bullying under the school’s codes of conduct.
The bumbling, morally vacuous response from all 3 of them was a sight to behold.
One of them even went so far as to suggest that only if those advocating for genocide began to act on their beliefs, would it then be considered unacceptable.
It’s good to see Ivy League schools still consider murder a violation of school policy.
Imagine if student ‘protestors’ held up signs and were screaming “Lynch all Blacks” or “Gays Off rooftops.”
Do you think the Presidents would tell you that type of speech and activity would be permitted? Would it depend on “the context”?
As somewhat a free speech absolutist, I understand the perspective.
And I might even have some sympathy if the rules were applied equally across the board.
However, this isn’t a First Amendment issue. Penn, Harvard and MIT are not government bodies infringing on free speech. They are private institutions that regularly create speech codes.
For the last 30 years, they’ve systematically and willingly silenced and deplatformed conservative voices and opinions and punished conservative students and speakers for using the wrong pronoun and the slightest microaggressions.
So let’s not pretend they care one iota about free speech or the free exchange of ideas.
In fact, they’re so abhorrent when it comes to speech, that Harvard and Penn consistently rank near the very bottom of all schools when it comes to free speech.
The Hamas barbarism and reaction from the deranged terrorist sympathizers in our country is a huge silver lining.
The Chinese symbol for ‘crisis’ is a combination of ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity, or ‘Crissatunity’ as Homer Simpson called it. That insightful ideogram holds true in this case.
The Hamas attacks have opened the door to cleaning out the rot in academia and eradicating the Bolsheviks that overtook campuses 30 years ago.
A recent poll of Harvard Faculty political leanings show only 2.5% of the entire school identifies as conservative (which I’m sure is a Nikki Haley type of conservative).
Let's face the hard truth: The Marxists have won. For over three decades, they've been steering American education with their own brand of extreme leftism. This isn't just a theory; it's a reality we're living in.
Despite the efforts of conservatives to highlight and challenge this ideological monopoly, it's like we're trying to bail out a boat with a teaspoon. The dominant narrative isn't just sidestepping American values; it's racing in the opposite direction, with a deeply anti-white, anti-American and anti-progress fervor that's as bewildering as it is frustrating. It feels like we're playing a game where the rules are constantly rewritten to suit one side, leaving the ideals of progress and diversity in the dust.
The good news is the mask is now fully off the DEI decolonization movement.
For the first time in 2 generations, there's an opening.
The Jewish Old Guard who comprise a high percentage of the Boards and mega-donors have finally had their ‘rub the dog's face in its own shit' moment.
For three decades, there's been a notable trend: either a blatant disregard or an overt endorsement of certain subversive elements, which seems driven by a perplexing mix of guilt, self-contempt, and perhaps an overcautious approach towards minority groups. This phenomenon might stem from a historical context of suffering (see David Sacks' insights below more on this), where there's a tendency, particularly among Jewish communities, to empathize with the oppressed, sometimes irrespective of the underlying merits.
This shift away from righteousness and moral clarity has nudged not just our campuses but also the broader American landscape onto a very disturbing trajectory.
Now it’s out in the open.
The shameful and disgusting testimony by Penn, Harvard and MIT’s college presidents has let the horse out of the barn so to speak.
And it’s also another cap in the feather for Elon Musk and the Power of X. Most of their testimony wasn’t carried on the mainstream media channels until the Twitter outrage grew too loud to ignore.
Some people dismissively state, "X isn't real life," yet it's noteworthy that college presidents, who manage endowments totaling over 100 billion dollars, were actively engaging on X to mop up their congressional testimonies. These testimonies gained global relevance and visibility through X, highlighting its significance as one of the most crucial platforms in human history.
So while Harvard, Penn & MIT all desperately tried to backtrack on X their disastrous testimonies, it’s too late. Immense legal, political and financial pressure should be brought to bear on the Boards to fire the President and completely revamp the faculty, curricula and leadership.
Again, all of this is good news. Their testimony before Congress was the perfect sunlight exposing what an absolute corrupt cesspool of moral ambiguity and Marxist claptrap that our colleges have become.
This is a much needed and long overdue wake up call for liberal Jews and other people asleep at the wheel for how truly compromised and infiltrated these campuses Marxist training grounds have become.
Messrs. McGill, Gay and Kornbluth should all be fired immediately.
Aligned businesses and individuals should loudly commit to refusing to hire anyone from these Ivy [cesspools] until the administrations are reconstituted like Bill Ackman and others have proclaimed.
And that’s just the start. The Board of Trustees should be purged of anyone that supported these subversives and their DEI garbage.
Additionally, we should push to:
“End DEI in its entirety. Fire all the administrators whose only job is to enforce its toxic orthodoxy. Admit students on academic merit alone. Save standardized testing — which in fact helps minorities, and it’s “the best way to distinguish smart poor kids from stupid rich kids,” as Steven Pinker said this week. Restore grading so that it actually means something again. Expel students who shut or shout down speech or deplatform speakers. Pay no attention to the race or sex or orientation or gender identity of your students, and see them as free human beings with open minds. Treat them equally as individuals seeking to learn, if you can remember such a concept.”1
Harvard and the other schools are not only shielding racists, it is the world's most efficient factory for producing them. Nearly all universities and institutions today are.
Wokism is a metastatic cancer that needs to be eradicated.
Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo have given us the blueprint with The New School in Sarasota on how to bring Marxists to heel. It's doable, especially in red states.
For the first time in a generation, there's an opening to eradicate the anti-American, anti-white, anti-human Marxists that have overtaken American academia and flooded colleges with DEI, decolonization inter-sectionalist nonsense.
Time to take it all back.
Let The Purge begin.
For more on this, read Andrew Sullivan’s excellent essay.
Hamas Losing
Now that the ceasefire has ended, it’s becoming clear that Hamas will face eradication in the coming weeks.
Israel’s military continues to make gains and the prospect of another hostage release/ceasefire has lost steam. This is likely due to the fact that the Satan worshipping rapists have continued to rape and abuse the women in their care and don’t want them to go free to bear witness to their savagery.
As State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller admitted, "It seems one of the reasons they don't want to turn women over that they've been holding hostage and the reason this ceasefire fell apart, is they don't want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody," Miller said, referring to sexual violence against Israeli men and women.
This should surprise no one as evidence has emerged in recent weeks that Hamas terrorists raped not only men, women and children during their initial attacks, but have continued to rape hostages during their time in custody.
Despite ample evidence that these subhumans should be given no quarter and eliminated as quick as possible, terrorist lapdogs in the mainstream and social media continue to howl loudly in an effort to make this outcome less likely.
The latest attempt to divert and deflect another military defeat was Hamas propagandists throwing tantrums over the ‘humiliation’ and capture of several dozen Hamas operatives.
The IDF did the correct thing by stripping them down, a cautious yet necessary move considering these people’s affection for suicide vests and IEDs.
While Hamas or Palestinian Jihadists would be gleefully gang-raping these prisoners if the roles were reversed, these captives will be protected and well cared for in Israeli prisons and likely used as bargaining chips for future hostage trades.
I’d take a different path if it were up to me.
Give them an expedited military trial and if found guilty, let them dig their own graves.
No more trades. Kill them all.
The only thing better than a captured terrorist is a dead terrorist.
Republicans should also take a page from the playbook of the Israeli government during this conflict.
Despite overwhelming propaganda and support on social media from weaponized info-warriors doing their best to kneecap the government and IDF and push for a ceasefire or worse, Israel has offered the simple and correct response:
“Don’t care. F*ck you. Not stopping.”
Israel understands what’s at stake in fighting both the kinetic and info-war against these Satan worshipping rapists, and has rightfully turned a deaf ear to the cries of their fans.
Republicans on the other hand, when faced with the most defensible and popular issues, usually fall apart and kowtow to the press and their opponents the minute the temperature gauge rises.
Imagine if instead of offshoring their spine and decency, Republicans pushed for the following basics that the country overwhelming supports:
Full accountability and release of evidence on J6.
Mandatory voting ID laws & additional election security.
Closed borders.
The banning of men in women’s sports.
Release the Epstein client list.
And any other issues that the majority of the country overwhelmingly supports only to be drowned out by the 5% against, who also happened to be the loudest and most deranged.
As I wrote last week, “If you’ve been quiet, it’s time to get off the sidelines. We are in a fight for the future of our country and civilization itself. We have the numbers but the Silent Majority fails when they stay silent.”
Draw the lines, and defend them.
Israel has demonstrated that it's possible to firmly uphold the principles of Western Civilization in the face of existential threats, regardless of the intensity of media criticism and the objections of terrorist lapdogs.
Run the same damn play here at home.
The Jack Smith Unraveling
I’ve written repeatedly about the laughably absurd and novel legal theories being used by State Attorney Generals and Special Counsel Jack Smith to pursue President Trump and remove him as the de facto Republican candidate in 2024.
This week Patrick Byrne returned to the arena to offer up explosive allegations against Jack Smith and tossed another big log on the cackling fire of corruption and Deep State intrigue.
According to multiple whistleblower complaints, it appears that Jack might have had a nice little side business at the Hague extorting Europeans with a ‘Pay or Pay’ scheme.
The alleged scheme had Jack contacting Europeans that were involved in the Yugoslav War and threatening to indict them unless they made a payment direct to Jack in Bitcoin.
This is a classic mafia style extortion scheme where the crooked cop on the beat threatens to arrest or burn down store owners unless they pay him protection money.
Byrne’s theory is that Merrick Garland and SDNY found out about Jack’s extracurricular activities and realized they had him by the neck and then invited him back to the States to go after Trump based on the absurd legal theories we’ve seen.
The setup makes sense as no lawyer worth his salt would attempt to try a former President on the absurdly weak, novel legal theories that don’t meet the straight face test.
In other words, according to Patrick:
1. As prosecutor in ICC Jack extorted Europeans: "We know you killed a guy in 1997, pay me or I indict you."
2. DOJ-SDNY knew since April 2022 & buried it.
3. DOJ to Jack: "You get Trump or we get you."
If any of this is true, Jack will spend the rest of his life in prison (assuming the good guys win in 2024 - if the good guys lose, we’re past the point of law and justice anyway).
Either way, I still expect the Supreme Court (or any sane juror) to laugh these cases out of the building.
Here’s Patrick with the rest of the dirt:
The superb 151-page whistleblower complaint (attached) speaks for itself. Three allegations to take from it:
Jack Smith is the current Special Counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on two grounds, one related to J6 (for which I take full responsibility) and the other related to the “crime” of being an ex-President with an active Department of Energy clearance possessing classified materials. Before pursuing such novel legal theories as are expressed in those indictments, Jack Smith was the US prosecutor in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where Jack Smith was a blackmailer.
Jack was sending henchmen to Eastern European to convey the following message to various parties (both innocent and perhaps not-so-innocent): We know that during the Yugoslavian Civil War you murdered some people, Jack is going to indict you but if you will put $X in a suitcase for me to carry back to Jack your problems go away.
$X = from $400,000 to $9 million (bribes of $7 million and $9 million were paid through Bitcoin, not suitcases).
Jack sought a $100 million bribe from a head of state who refused payment and is now in prison.
We learned of these allegations because of a passel of European whistleblowers who not only shared the stories, they wrote superbly detailed affidavits, provided texts and financial records, etc.
Read the 151 pages with exhibits yourselves. From where I sit, Jack looks shtuped.
In April 2022 (18 months ago) this information with supporting documentation was provided by these whistleblowers to the offices of the DOJ in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in lengthy phone calls.
SDNY arranged for these European whistleblowers to have a follow-on meeting with someone named Alan Tieger, someone whom they understood to be a high-level Internal Affairs officer. Alan Tieger had a phone call with some of these European whistleblowers from inside the SDNY offices in April, 2022.
Alan Tieger spent the first few minutes of the call trying to get the whistleblowers to recant, and when they refused, reluctantly walked through their allegations and evidence. We know this not only from the whistleblowers affidavits, but in addition, because they recorded the 90-minute Zoom call (which is dynamite to hear, and which, of course, we have).
The SDNY then buried the matter. That is likely explained by the fact that Alan Tieger turns out not to be from DOJ Internal Affairs, but a man who spent his career carrying Jack Smith’s luggage around the DOJ (and he has since replaced Jack as the American prosecutor at the ICC). So while the whistleblowers thought they were blowing the whistle on Jack Smith, they were tricked into doing so to Jack Smith’s own DOJ-butt-boy.
I infer:
Attorney General Merrick Garland learned about this material 18 months ago, and he (or Lisa Monaco, the Littlefinger of Garland’s DOJ) summoned Jack Smith back to Washington, DC to tell him something along the following lines: Listen you SOB, we know that you have been blackmailing people over in Europe and we are going to put you away for 30 years…. or you are going to come home and bring a prosecution against Donald J. Trump. We don’t care how far-fetched the legal theories, you are going to indict him and hound him to thwart his return to office.
This explains why Jack Smith has brought indictments against a man with an active DoE clearance for possessing classified materials, and also for whatever he did on J6 that no one can really explain.
Here’s the full whistleblower complaint for those interested.
Absolution for Your Sins.
It’s been a brutal few months for Liberal Jews.
Customarily, the playbook is to never criticize your own in times of crisis and I think most of the prodding of liberal Jews has been gentle.
However, it’s important to address past indiscretions and internalize the lessons learned if we want to avoid the type of devastating effects that led to a Biden Presidency and the woke cancer metastasizing across our country in the first place.
Generalizations are always painful, but the data indicates a pervasive leftward tilt in the political leanings of American Jews.
In light of American Jews support of the Democratic party and their leftist platform, here’s author Melissa Chen with the roll call on what Liberal Jews have wrought, unintended or otherwise. It’s a painful roll call, which makes it all the more necessary to imbibe.
Jewish leftists supported:
-DEI programs where diversity and inclusion clearly didn't extend to Jews
- Critical Theory curricula, even though it was obvious to anyone that Jews would be lambasted as ‘oppressors' under such a framework and equity would be used to brazenly redistribute perceived privilege from the “oppressors,” thereby successfully framing discrimination against Jews as a *moral good*
- postcolonial studies and decolonize movements, even when it was obvious that Israel would be considered a settler-colonial state and all kinds of violence against Jews in the name of decolonization would be tolerated and celebrated
- the Women's March, and wore a vagina hats even though the march was led by Linda Sarsour and Rasmea Odeh, brazen antisemites even though fellow leftist feminists would support the rape of Israeli women on Oct 7th as part of the resistance
- BLM, when BLM, even before Israel responded, put out graphics and messages that celebrated the Hamas attack
- dutifully voted for members of the Congressional Black Caucus despite multiple members having relationships with Louis Farrakhan
And now they are shocked that flagrant calls for genocide of the Jews does not count as bullying or harassment by the leading administrators of our top Ivy League universities?
I’m not Jewish but as a matter of first principles, it was obvious that this entire ideology that we loosely called “woke” was intellectually bankrupt, morally depraved and spiritually corrupt, and that it was an existential threat to civilization.
We were mocked for this back then in 2016. We, we who criticized all of this when it was not politically convenient to do so were called far-right, racists, bigots and even Nazis. Some of us lost our jobs over it. Many of us lost friends and family. Some of us lost our lives (RIP Mr. Richard Bilkszto).
Early warriors such as James Lindsay and Chris Rufo were treated with hit jobs in the press and disinvited from polite society for their work going up against the DEI regime.
And yet none of this takes into account the untold damage done to our cities, to our society, to our country.
Civilization. It is a fragile thing.
President Reagan once said that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. I’ll paraphrase him.
Sanity is very close to being extinct and with it, the very fabric of our civilization. We don’t pass the values that made America to our children in the bloodstream.
They must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where things were sane and society flourished and prospered.
You have let one generation squander what our ancestors have so painstakingly built by tearing down the virtues and values that formed the bedrock of this country.
It is time to wrestle it back. Or you will hand a wretched dystopia to your children.
Much of her criticism is fair (and deserved), but to declaw the depravity of overbroad generalizations, it should also be noted that Conservative Jews were the founders of a large portion of the right wing/populist/MAGA movements.
Yoram Hazony (NatCon), Paul Gottfried (NatCon), Ben Shapiro, Andrew Breitbart, and the classics: Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Mises. It is likely that Jews are just over-represented everywhere in intellectual life. Nevertheless, this doesn’t address the need to ‘cure’ liberal Jews of their dedication to the Democratic party and it’s deep anti-white, anti-American principles that it now represents.
It’s easy to be confused. The Democrats, while always weak on the misnomer ‘social justice’, weren’t so radical and misguided. The embrace of quasi-Marxist principles by the Democratic party over the last 3 decades means that most liberal Jews now identify with the principles of the Republican party, even if they’ve been conditioned to personally be repelled by a personality like Donald Trump (who again, is the best friend Jews and Israel have EVER had in office).
For those Jews still clinging to their TDS, let me remind you of the facts:
Trump formally declared and America recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
He moved America's Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
He recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
He recognized the permanent legality of all Jewish communities and cities (ridiculously called "settlements") in Judea and Samaria (falsely called the "West Bank") as legal in all situations that Israel's own courts regard them as legal.
He cut off hundreds of millions of dollars' funding for the Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) illegal government in the Palestine Authority on grounds that they pay monthly stipends ("Pay to Slay") to families of Arab terrorists who murder Jews or otherwise perpetrate acts of terror.
He closed down the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, D.C.
He pulled the United States out of the anti-Semitic U.N. Human Rights Council.
He cut off $300 million in funding that America had been sending to the Jew-hating UNRWA, a Jew-hating United Nations agency that runs schools in places like Gaza where Arab Muslim children are taught to hate Jews and to murder Jews.
He almost unilaterally brought about the Abraham Accords that induced several leading Arab Muslim countries for the first time to enter into true peace agreements with Israel without Israel ceding an inch of Jewish territory in Judea and Samaria.
Ttrump issues and executive order on combatting anti-semitism to enhance enforcement of TitleVI of the Civil Rights Act, to protect Jewish college students from the overt Jew-hatred now rampant on so many American campuses.
He ended the disastrous Iran deal and implemented crushing sanctions against Iran (which the current Administration rolled back and became Iran’s biggest monetary benefactor to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror).
He signed the Taylor Force Act, knocked off Qassem Soleimani & Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi (“he died like a dog”) and shattered State Department policy by authorizing American born in Jerusalem to list Israel on their American passports as their country of birth.
The above and dozens of other actions are a stark contrast to Biden and his puppeteer Barack Obama who have did nearly everything they could get away with to handicap Israel and promote Islamic terror in the region.2
While the above is a bitter pill to digest, the way back from and away from the self-loathing and destructiveness they’ve signed on to by aligning with the Democrats and Leftists will take some serious time and therapy to adjust. The mere realization that they no longer have a home on the left is an incredibly positive sign.
David Sacks offers his insight from the All-In Podcast how this is taking place:
"You're gonna see in the wake of this is that a lot of Jewish people are realizing that they don't have a home on the left anymore. And I expect that many Jews are going to start shifting right into the Republican Party, to a place where I've been for a while....
But I think what's happened over the last few decades is that the civil rights movement, in particular, and the left have moved to this woke ideology where it's no longer about color blindness. It's more about identity groups.
And instead of trying to get past racial differences, it's been about accentuating them. And so we've had this whole equity agenda, which is really defined as redistribution from one racial group to another racial group.
I think that, for whatever reason, a lot of Jews just hadn't confronted the reality that the left had really changed in this way. I think it goes back to the fact that they thought if we're going to be defining identity groups in this woke way, Jews obviously should be one of these victim groups, but they're waking up to the fact that Jews are not.
Jews are in the minds of this woke ideology, just white people with a Jewish background. As a result, they're part of an oppressor class. And I think that a lot of Jewish people who are waking up to this are realizing this is actually a very destructive ideology, and it makes us the bad guys.
So I would expect that, again, a lot of Jewish people are waking up to how the left has changed... and I would expect there to be kind of a pilgrimage now of more Jews in America towards the right, as opposed to remaining on the left where they've always been."
Finally, here was the opening blast in Tablet Magazine last month when the Hamas atrocities (and their morally depraved supporters) first burst on the scene. It sums up well our viewpoint here at Sovereign Sunday.
Stop Being Shocked Once and For All.
None of the horrors you are witnessing this week—not the massacre of Jews, not the betrayal by public figures and popular activist movements, not the moral insanity of our universities and cultural spaces—happened by accident.
For the past decade, an elite consensus began to emerge. It was marketed as a worldview of optimism, of progress and justice brought about by the dawning of correct morality. It favored using the power of digital monopolies and elite institutions to re-educate Americans in new and better ways of thinking, writing, speaking, and being.
Many of us at Tablet believed strongly, and still believe, in the possibility of creating a better world. But something bothered us from the very beginning about these ideas, and the people pushing them. Every time we pressed on one of the newly mass-embraced policy proposals or narratives—intersectionality, decolonization studies, the Iran nuclear deal, Russiagate, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March, critical race theory, COVID lockdowns—a weird thing would happen: The idea itself fell apart at the seams within seconds of contact with reality, and yet its defenders got more sure of themselves, more performatively boastful, more passionate and gleeful about smearing anyone who dared to question them.
The more we listened to freshly minted universal experts, the more we were struck by the increasing lunacy of their pronouncements on every topic under the sun, always backed by “studies” and “science”—where COVID-19 came from, how many genders there are, which skin tones and personal experiences qualify a person for protection status and which do not, whether it was OK for a Syrian dictator to bomb and gas 500,000 of his people, whether the U.S. should ally itself with a Holocaust-denying medieval theocracy, whether the president of the United States was secretly a Russian agent, whether large American cities should let drug addicts and violent schizophrenics get high on the streets and steal stuff—and more. Indeed, over time, we were struck by how little the ideas themselves seemed to matter; what so many people seemed most attached to was power.
As journalists, the increasingly strident calls for uniformity of opinion and perception struck us, from the very beginning, as dangerous and wrong. We believe in empirical investigation and analysis and in subjective personal observation and experience, not in party-line obedience to an instant consensus being formed and managed God knows how or where. As Jews, we had concerns, too. For as long as we’ve been in this country, Jews have relied on and sung the praises of stalwart American institutions like the federal government, universities, media organizations, corporations, labor unions, and more. We watched in horror as each of these institutions not only fell prey to the new mania, but also seemed increasingly unable to do the jobs they had historically been tasked with doing.
We were also alarmed that … no one else was alarmed, especially among communal leaders. Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the American Civil Liberties Union, once the protectors of the vulnerable, became handmaidens of power. Think tanks and politicians and journalists gave cover for policies that seemed obviously destined to set the world on fire. Internet monopolies merged with the federal government to produce a censorship and surveillance apparatus that would ensure that only the voices of some could be heard.
Tablet didn’t wade into the culture wars for its own sake. We did it because we feared we saw an emerging world in which the broad-minded American civic ideals and institutions that had kept us safe for so long were falling apart, which was bad for the country—and also meant that Jews would once again be seen as enemies to be eliminated.
As a result, our archive now looks like the answer to the question faced by so many people this week—namely: What the hell is going on?
Below is a selection from Tablet Mag addressing this issue over the past five years.
The Myth of Bidenomics
Rattner and others have engaged in a massive PR spin campaign to convince American voters not to believe their own 2 eyes or wallet.
That in fact, Bidenomics is really the Cat’s Meow.
The Biden and Democrat strategy when it comes to combatting the massive disapproval of the economy is simple: Lie to people about how much money they have and hope nobody's been to a grocery store for about three years.
The obvious reality is that no matter how much MSM propaganda, no matter how hard they spin it, the average person knows the Biden Presidency has been an economic disaster.
The latest propaganda push features former Obama Car Czar and private equity bigwig Steven Rattner trying to demonstrate to Americans that the “truth” is the polar opposite of everything they have experienced over the last 3 years.
I’m not going to take the time to dissect every single line but just a cursory reading of Rattner’s ‘Truths’ can be debunked with zero effort.
While 90% of Americans claim ‘Prices Have Risen Faster than Wages’, Rattner says that’s false. Read any chart over the last 3 years. Even based on the bogus government statistics that inflation has only compounded at a 7% or so annual rate (Truflation has it closer to 23% a year which means a solid doubling of prices over the last 3 years), every source will tell you Rattner is wrong. Rattner is right if you pick a single month or two and show that inflation has cooled while wage growth has remained moderate.
The reality is prices have nearly doubled over the last 3 years. Wages are up 10-15% if you’re lucky.
Rattner’s second claim is that Inflation has NOT risen in the past year despite 73% of Americans claiming it has. As I’ve written about in the past (scroll down to ‘Inflation’ section), the rate of inflation has cooled over the past year, but it’s still going up on average 4% a year. Yes, that’s less than the 10% government number (reality 23%) we saw over the previous year, but it’s still rising. Deflation means prices are falling. We’re nowhere close to that yet.
The rest of Rattner’s truths are equally fraudulent. Take a look at the ‘Can Afford a Better Lifestyle’ today than before Biden section which only 11% of Americans agree with. Any number of polls or statistics refutes that ‘Truth’.
Housing affordability is at its lowest point in American history by a wide margin. Inflation is higher over the last 3 years than anytime in history. Mortgage rates, credit card rates, health insurance, groceries - all more expensive and unaffordable than anytime in history. You get the point.
No matter how much Rattner and other Administration lapdogs lie, the American people know better.
Meanwhile in the real world…
Hunter Biden Indicted
Filed under better late than never, Special Counsel David Weiss finally found the courage to admit what the rest of the nation has known for 3 years and indicted Hunter Biden for a small sampling of the crimes committed by the First Son.
Notably missing were indictments for failure to register as a foreign agent or violations of the Mann Act for his human trafficking across state lines.
Either way, Hunters expenditures over four years are stunning: $4.9 million total — that’s almost $24,000/week & $3,300/day $872,000 for women & adult entertainment — that’s over $4,000/week & $600/day!
If nothing else, he will go down in history as one of the most prolific pimps of our generation.
Note the almost total lack of coverage here in the mainstream media.
Again, thank God for Twitter.
How Low has the Democratic Party Fallen?
How low has the Dem Party fallen?
One thing I definitely didn’t have on my 2023 Bingo Card is a stroked out John Fetterman sounding more rational and sane than 99% of the Dem party. Last year, this guy could barely form a sentence. This year he sounds like Andrew Breitbart....
So congrats Dems. A stroked-out Rutabaga who was moments away from a DNR check is now the most articulate and morally clear member of your party. 🤡
The Other Death Cult (Besides Islamic Jihadists)
Could this be the most evil post on X in its entire history?
Again, the experimental MRNA shot was recommended by the WHO, CDC, the American public health establishment and media for pregnant women despite NEVER BEING TESTED on them.
The damage and data continues to be awful.
And still the WHO out here promoting.
This is a death cult.
The only logical goal is destroying fertility and depopulation.
Like Cousin Eddie said about the Jelly of the Month Club, the clotshot is the gift that keeps on giving the whole year Clark.
Here's Igor Chudov with more:
What I’m Reading and Watching…
Tucker Carlson joins the cast of the All-In Podcast.
And if you need more Tucker and a lot more cowbell with Alex Jones, here’s two icons chatting for an hour. Few people have been more on point than Alex Jones in the last decade. The System hates him because he sees through their lies and is usually two steps ahead of the game.
If you run your own business or are in sales anywhere, do yourself a favor and pay attention to Alex Hormozi. He’s very good at what he does. Here’s a good podcast with him and Ed Mylett.
Never forget how the media was weaponized against the American people during Covid. And kudos to all of you who stood your ground.
Best of Twitter
Memetic Warfare
Parting Words….
No man ever steps in the same river twice.
Because it is not the same river.
And he is not the same man.
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Andrew Sullivan
Rabbi Dov Fischer
Can’t say “a man can’t be a woman” but I can call for the death of all Jews, no problemo.