A Terrible Tragedy
While millions of Americans celebrated Independence Day with friends and family, many in Texas were experiencing a living nightmare every parent dreads – the death of a child. I am referring, of course, to the tragic flooding that struck central Texas and Kerr County especially hard.
At least 90 people are dead, including more than two dozen Christian girls, many of them only eight-years old, who were attending a summer camp. Hearts have been broken and dreams have been crushed.
The Trump administration and FEMA immediately provided resources to the area. The White House Faith Office also issued the following statement:
“The White House Faith Office asks you to join us in prayer for the precious lives lost in the Texas floods. Amidst this tragedy, our nation must come together to pray for the victims, their families, and the first responders conducting rescue missions to find those still missing. May God wrap his loving arms around all those in Texas. Psalm 34:18 – ‘The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.’”
Unbelievably, there are haters trying to exploit this tragedy. They want to “score” disgusting political points. Some are expressing their happiness that it happened in a county that voted for Donald Trump. Others are mocking God and the prayers of men and women of faith. Here’s a sample:
“It’s not awful. It’s what Texas deserves.”
“Texas deserves every flood. God has spoken and it hates Texas.”
“The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott. That is exactly what they are getting.”
“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry. Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
That last quote came from a pediatrician in Houston. She has been fired.
This hate is coming from the same people who support abortion on demand and celebrate those deaths. It’s difficult to get accurate figures on the numbers of abortions in America each year, but the estimates are around 800,000 a year. That’s nearly 2,200 deaths of pre-born children every day.
This hate isn’t coming just from internet trolls. Powerful Democrats like David Axelrod and Larry Summers are claiming that cuts to federal government programs led to this tragedy. ABC News host George Stephanopoulos claimed the National Weather Service in the area was understaffed. These are disgusting lies!
Severe Weather happens. Natural disasters happen. Donald Trump does not control the weather any more than Greta Thunberg does.
The National Weather Service in Texas had extra staff on duty. Flash flood warnings were issued in time for at least one camp to evacuate, while others closed early.
The Left’s hate has no limits.
The Bolshevik Left
There’s a shocking news story out today exposing the growing desire for violence on the Left. The liberal media outlet Axiosspoke with two dozen congressional Democrats who say their grassroots activists are literally demanding “blood” in the streets.
One House Democrat said that a “sense of fear and despair and anger” among the progressive base “puts us in a different position where . . . we can’t keep following norms of decorum.”
Another Democrat lawmaker said progressives are telling them that “what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when physically confronting immigration police.
Here’s more of what the unhinged Left is demanding from elected Democrats:
“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough . . . [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.”
“People online have sent me crazy sh*t . . . told me to storm the White House and stuff like that.”
“What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence. . . a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people.”
“I actually said in a meeting, ‘When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher.’ And someone at the table said, ‘Have you tried gasoline?’”
This is what happens when people are told over and over that Donald Trump is “Hitler” and conservatives are “Nazis.” Now they’re shocked that their own voters are demanding “blood” and telling them to die if necessary.
Democrats spent four years telling us that the January 6th protest was “an insurrection.” Now, their voters have gone “full Bolshevik” and are demanding a violent, bloody, real insurrection!
There is a real threat to our constitutional Republic. Whether it’s radical environmentalists, pro-abortion extremists, Antifa, or Transtifa, the threat is coming from the unhinged violent Left.
Ratcliffe vs. The Deep State
CIA Director John Ratcliffe is taking on another threat to our Republic -- the Deep State.
When Ratcliffe assumed the leadership of the CIA, he immediately ordered a review of the Intelligence Community’s 2016 analysis on Russia’s attempts to interfere in the election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
That review has now been declassified. Ratcliffe summarized the review, writing on social media:
“Today’s report underscores that the 2016 IC Assessment was conducted through an atypical & corrupt process under the politically charged environments of former [CIA] Dir. Brennan & former FBI Dir. Comey.
“All the world can now see the truth: Brennan, Clapper and Comey manipulated intelligence and silenced career professionals -- all to get Trump. Thank you to the career CIA officers who conducted this review and exposed the facts.”
Among the revelations from the new report is the fact Brennan overrode senior CIA Russia specialists who told him the Steele Russia collusion dossier was garbage and should be ignored.
Over their objections, Brennan ordered the dossier to be included in the 2016 election analysis to justify the absurd claim that Russia favored Trump’s election and worked on his behalf.
However, in public statements to the media and in testimony before Congress, Brennan has repeatedly insisted that he never read the dossier and dismissed its relevance, saying that the dossier “was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done.”
As recently as 2023, Brennan told members of Congress, “I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. . . And the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier. You can direct that to the FBI and to others.” He went on to state that the FBI wanted the dossier included in the Intelligence Community Assessment, not the CIA.
But with that intelligence assessment in hand, then-FBI Director James Comey waged a jihad against the new Trump administration. One former CIA agent who worked under Brennan wrote, “My former boss -- CIA Director John Brennan -- should rot in prison.”
Former CIA Director Brennan could be facing perjury charges any day now.
The Big Beautiful Law
President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is now the Big Beautiful Law. Predictably, the leftist media are full of doom and gloom about how this new tax law will destroy America. And when they aren’t wailing and gnashing their teeth, elitists like New York Times columnist David Brooks are mocking it, saying the no tax on tips provision is “peanuts.”
The biggest problem facing American families is affordability, a crisis caused by Bidenflation. Trump’s new law shields $25,000 in tips from taxes. Depending on the person’s tax bracket, they could potentially save $6,000 in taxes, which is the equivalent of getting an extra $500 a month.
You have to be really clueless, even for a New York Times columnist, to say that’s only “peanuts.”
Contrary to all the leftist hysteria, the social safety net has not been gutted. Medicaid has not been decimated. As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “Only in D.C. is a 20% hike in Medicaid over ten years considered a ‘cut.’” All the handwringing over people losing Medicaid coverage isn’t about budget cuts but work requirements.
Here’s more of what the Big Beautiful bill accomplishes.
- The 2017 tax cuts are made permanent, with the 10%, 12%, and 22% brackets receiving an extra inflation adjustment to further reduce taxes.
- The standard deduction, claimed by 90% of all taxpayers, is raised by $1,500 for married couples to $31,500.
- The standard deduction for seniors is going up by $6,000.
- The child tax credit is going up from $2,000 to $2,200.
- Newborn babies will get $1,000 deposited into an account that can be accessed later in life for college expenses, purchasing a home, or starting a business.
- In addition to no tax on tips, there is a $12,500 overtime pay deduction for individuals and a $25,000 deduction for married couples.
- There is a $10,000 deduction for interest on qualified car loans.
- Taxpayers claiming the standard deduction can still claim a deduction for charitable donations ($1,000 for individuals, $2,000 for couples).
- For tax filers who itemize, the state and local tax deduction is expanded from $10,000 to $40,000.
- There is $165 billion for border security and immigration enforcement.
- There is a $157 billion boost to defense spending, including $25 billion for the Golden Dome missile defense system to protect the United States of America.
No Billionaires
Socialists Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani say America should not have billionaires. For anyone who thinks that would create some kind of “utopia,” think again. There are countries with no billionaires. They include Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, North Korea, and Venezuela.
All of these countries are socialist or Marxist. That’s not a coincidence. The radical policies of Sanders and Mamdani would make America broke!