Leftist Insurrectionists
Are Democrats pushing us toward another Civil War? Last week, Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice mayor of a small city in the greater Los Angeles area, posted a video on social media publicly recruiting gangs to fight federal immigration police. Here’s what she said:
“Not for nothing, but I wanna know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles? Eighteenth street, Florencia, where’s the leadership at? Because you guys are all about territory, and this is 18th Street and this is Florencia, you guys tag everything up — claiming hood, and now that your hoods being invaded, by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you. . . we’re out there like fighting [for] our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people, and like where you at?”
This is what Democrats did in the 1850s that led to the Civil War.
The country elected a Republican president who made it clear he was going to end slavery. The Democrat Party, the party of slavery, was furious and refused to follow the orders of the federal government. Later, they began to physically resist federal officers, leading to the assault on Fort Sumter.
Last year, the country elected a Republican president who made it clear he was going to end illegal immigration and enforce our immigration laws. But, inspired by the resistance of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom, Vice Mayor Gonzalez is recruiting her own army to fight the federal government.
Gonzalez is inciting a violent insurrection against federal authorities! If that’s not a criminal offense, I don’t know what is. The FBI is investigating Gonzalez, and I hope charges will be coming soon because she’s not alone.
More and more elected Democrats are resisting immigration police. Members of Congress, left-wing candidates, and radical judges have physically attempted to prevent federal immigration police from doing their jobs. A Democrat senator lunged at the secretary of Homeland Security during her press conference on immigration enforcement.
The Left’s dangerous actions and demonizing rhetoric are why there has been a 500% increase in assaults on federal immigration police.
Here’s a thought. Instead of recruiting gangs and thwarting the police, maybe the elected Democrats in Los Angeles County should start doing their jobs and keep people safe by stopping the gangs.
CBS News reported there are 34,000 highway lights along Los Angeles freeways, but 40% of them have been vandalized and don’t work, leaving long stretches of roads in total darkness.
No wonder Gonzalez can’t get the gangs to help her. They’re too busy vandalizing streetlights!
The Left’s Iran Insanity
I have been seething over the past 24 hours listening to Democrats make two completely contrary arguments about the strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. And, of course, their media allies refuse to point out the insanity of the Democrats’ arguments.
On the one hand, they are insisting that the attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program is an impeachable offense because President Trump failed to ask Congress for permission.
He didn’t need to. Previous presidents have used the military 125 times without congressional approval. But that didn’t stop some Democrats from trying to impeach Trump yesterday. It didn’t go well for them.
On the other hand, Democrats are quoting leaked intelligence to suggest that the attack failed. Buried nine paragraphs into CNN’s “exclusive” report is the fact that this intelligence was issued with “low confidence.” In other words, the intelligence analysts are skeptical of their own work, yet we’re supposed to take it as gospel.
So, Democrats are telling us we shouldn’t have bombed Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the attack wasn’t strong enough. Well, which is it?
Are they saying we should have used bigger bombs?
Or are they saying we shouldn’t have used any bombs? If that’s their position, we would soon have an intelligence report with high confidence that Iran had developed nuclear weapons.
Of course, Democrats will say that the correct choice was a “diplomatic solution.” What is the diplomatic solution when Iran refuses to give up its nuclear weapons program? We tried that -- and failed -- for the past 20 years.
Deep State TDS
The Deep State’s battle against Donald Trump continues. Someone inside the Pentagon with a serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome leaked the “low confidence” intelligence to CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand.
Ms. Bertrand has a history that adds some desperately needed context: She is the Deep State’s “go-to” reporter when it wants to leak fake information in the hopes of damaging Donald Trump.
It was Bertrand who “broke” the story on the Steele dossier and started the Russia collusion hoax.
It was Bertrand who “broke” the story that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.”
The fact that she is still employed after being factually wrong on two of the biggest stories in recent years proves the media are just leftist propagandists.
But think about her lack of concern for America and the leaker’s lack of concern for our country. They choose this moment -- when a war is still raging in Europe and the ceasefire between Israel and Iran remains fragile at best -- to attempt to undermine the strength of the United States and President Trump.
They tried to turn Biden’s humiliating Afghanistan retreat into a great success. Now, they’re trying to turn Trump’s bold Iranian operation into a disaster. Hopefully, the FBI will find this leaker soon!
The Trump Summit
How many times did we hear Sleepy Joe say that no world leaders respected Donald Trump? Last year, he told us that world leaders were terrified of Trump returning to the White House, afraid that America would abandon them.
President Trump just wrapped up a NATO summit that some are calling “The Trump Summit.” He looked like a rock star. World leaders were lining up to speak with the president. The message Trump received before the summit from NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte speaks for itself.
Rutte praised Trump for his “decisive action in Iran . . . something no one else dared to do.” Referring to the NATO Summit, Rutte added, “You are flying into another big success . . . It was not easy but we’ve got them all signed on to 5 percent!”
He concluded by noting how historic this is, writing, “You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win.”
Throughout Trump’s first term, a number of good friends and supporters asked me, “Gary, why is Trump undermining NATO?” which was a liberal media lie.
Time after time, I explained that if you’re leading a club where most members aren’t paying their dues, demanding that they step up or you’ll leave isn’t undermining the club. It’s making the club stronger, ultimately saving the club.
That’s exactly what Donald Trump has done with NATO. Because of President Trump’s leadership, NATO will be stronger.
Cuomo Gets Crushed
Another political dynasty went down to defeat last night. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, son of the legendary Governor Mario Cuomo, only got 36% of the vote in yesterday’s Democrat primary for mayor of New York City.
Even more embarrassing, he lost to a relatively unknown far-left state legislator, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.
As the likely Democrat nominee, pending final ranked-choice voting results, Mamdani could well be New York City’s first Muslim Marxist mayor. Mamdani is an avowed socialist just like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, both of whom endorsed Mamdani. His platform calls for:
- A $30 per hour minimum wage.
- A freeze on rents.
- Government-run grocery stores.
- Free buses.
- Free childcare.
- A Department of Community Safety instead of more funding for police.
- Expanded protections for so-called “gender-affirming care,” putting more children at risk.
- Massive tax increases on businesses, which will drive them away.
Mamdani recently attended a far-left rally where Donald Trump and our federal immigration police were compared to Nazis. And while most mayoral candidates aren’t that concerned about foreign policy, Mamdani is. He is very outspoken on issues in the Middle East.
- He started a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter in college.
- He supports the antisemitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel.
- He described Israel as an “apartheid state” and accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza.
- In the immediate aftermath of the October 2023 Hamas massacre, he was among those arrested during a “day of jihad” protest against Israel.
- He defended the phrase “Globalize the intifada.”
- He has refused to support resolutions recognizing Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- He condemned the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
- He has vowed, if elected mayor, to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York City.