Who is the Real Agent of Chaos? While many on the left like to call Trump an “Agent of Chaos” Americans are figuring out that the truth is, in fact, the opposite. Biden, along with the progressive left, is leading the way with open borders, soft on crime policies, out of control inflation, and a property squatter crisis that is destroying the country. Biden and the Democrats are completely out of control and people are noticing.
Senior Vote: You know it’s an election year when the scare tactics on the left kick into high gear. The Senior vote is extremely important, and the political left will do ANYTHING to get it.
The false claims that Republicans will cut (or even eliminate entirely) Social Security have been a staple in the left’s dirty tricks book for a very long time. Don’t fall for the lies…
The Middle East: Keep the region in your thoughts and prayers as events continue to unfold in Israel. This could get out of hand very quickly.
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This Week: Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds get tough on illegal immigration, Biden losing support with black voters, and protestors demand closer location near Democrat convention in Chicago this summer!
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US lawmakers will move forward with legislation backing Israel following Iranian attack
Congress will advance legislation supporting Israel following an attack by Iran over the weekend, top House leaders announced on Saturday.
The House will adjust its previously determined schedule to include votes on legislation “that supports our ally Israel and holds Iran and its terrorist proxies accountable,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said in a statement. It’s not clear what the legislation will entail, but it marks a change in course for lawmakers as they have disagreed for months on how to provide aid to Israel.
“The House of Representatives stands strongly with Israel, and there must be consequences for this unprovoked attack,” Scalise said. “More details on the legislative items to be considered will be forthcoming.”
The Senate passed legislation in February seeking to provide aid to foreign allies such as Israel and Ukraine, although the bill has been deemed “dead on arrival” in the House by top Republican leaders because of its lack of U.S. border provisions. Instead, lawmakers have sought to move forward with a different path, although no progress has been made.
However, that now may change after Iran’s attack on Saturday, which has prompted several U.S. lawmakers to share messages of support for Israel.
Consumers Knew Prices Were Rising, the Media Refused to Believe Them
In shocking news, prices are rising.
Dow drops by 500 points after a surprisingly bad inflation report – CNN
Surprisingly bad.
This comes after the media had spent weeks insisting that Americans were mentally ill or delusional for thinking that the economy was bad. And no, I’m not exaggerating. Headline after headline pretended to psychoanalyze the country.
Americans are unusually down on a solid economy. NBC News
Why Americans Hate a Good Economy- The Atlantic
‘The economy isn’t sick right now,’ economist says—here’s why Americans still feel like it is – CNBC
Meanwhile, any normal human beings who still shop for goods and services knew this was coming.
Democrats’ Systemic Normalization of Property Theft Birthed America’s Squatter Crisis
The ultimate goal of Democrats and their far-left allies is to destroy property rights and replace capitalism with socialism.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said last week that squatters have “no rights.” He should try to convince his Democrat colleagues and their far-left allies because their systemic effort to normalize property theft has led to the unprecedented squatter crisis in America. Their ultimate goal is to destroy property rights and replace capitalism with socialism.
Squatting is a form of trespassing as squatters use properties without the owners’ permission or any legal documentation. Nor do squatters offer property owners financial compensation. Atlanta, Georgia, is the epicenter of the squatter crisis. Squatters have overtaken about 1,200 homes.
One of the victimized homeowners, Lt. Col. Dahlia Daure, said she felt “violated” after learning that a squatter with a lengthy criminal history lived in her home rent-free with a fake lease while she was away on active duty. In Dallas, Texas, squatters have occupied an estimated 475 homes. Even high-end communities are not free from squatters. In Beverly Hills, California, a group of squatters took over a $4.3 million mansion, tormented their neighbors with loud all-night parties, and dumped trash all over the property. It took a dramatic police raid to eventually get rid of these settlers.
Why Inflation Is Biden’s Most Stubborn Political Problem
President has few tools to combat rising prices, which are weighing on his effort to beat Donald Trump in November
Inflation has emerged as the most intractable domestic policy issue facing President Biden less than seven months before the election—but there isn’t a whole lot the White House can do to fix it.
The issue roared back to life this week, undercutting a string of positive economic and political developments that have helped improve Biden’s standing in recent polls. The consumer-price index, a measure of goods and services prices across the economy, rose 3.5% in March from a year earlier, a stronger-than-anticipated inflation reading that was met with exasperation by many of the president’s advisers.
MSNBC is fine with convicted felons, just not GOP operatives
Two weeks ago, NBC personalities threw a tantrum over the network hiring a milquetoast Republican to be on their “sacred airwaves.” On Tuesday, those sacred airwaves were handed over to a convicted felon.
The tantrum from NBC and MSNBC “talent” over the hiring of former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel stemmed from the distaste they had over having to include McDaniel in their shows. As MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said, MSNBC’s airwaves are “sacred.” Former Democratic operative turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki said she was good to be on the network because she is completely honest and unselfish, while former Republican operatives are not.
Enter Michael Avenatti, the former MSNBC darling who was convicted of extortion in 2020 and defrauding his clients in 2022. Avenatti returned to the network’s “sacred airwaves” in an interview with host Ari Melber, for some reason. Avenatti gave the interview via phone from federal prison, because apparently it was necessary for him to provide his expertise in being a convicted felon to discussions about former President Donald Trump’s legal problems.
Aside from some light tax fraud and extortion, Avenatti also led a witch hunt against then-judge Brett Kavanaugh with an absurdly false story that Kavanaugh was leading gang rape rings. Who could be more honest and trustworthy and deserving of time on MSNBC’s “sacred airwaves” than that?
Becerra weighs exit from Biden administration for California gubernatorial bid
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is considering leaving the Biden administration to mount a run for California governor in 2026, people briefed on his deliberations told POLITICO.
Becerra and supporters have had conversations over the past weeks where the secretary and former California attorney general indicated to fellow Democratic officials and operatives that he would leave Washington after the November election and join the crowded field to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom in two years.
The people were granted anonymity to describe private conversations, which they characterized as more serious in recent weeks.
Becerra has parked nearly $1.55 million that’s usable in the governor’s race in a committee for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2030.
Will Biden’s boomer polling bump translate to senior votes in November?
As President Joe Biden‘s popularity has dipped among young voters, he’s outpacing past Democratic presidential candidates with the opposite demographic, senior citizens, who routinely vote to the right of the general electorate.
A string of polls show the president leading former President Donald Trump among the over-65 crowd, and though carrying seniors alone won’t help Biden overcome concerns surrounding his 2020 base, it does offer a degree of security in battlegrounds such as Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Adam Geller, a Republican pollster and CEO of National Research Inc., told the Washington Examiner that “hippie grandmas” aging into the 65 and over demographic account for the leftward swing among seniors.
“Today’s seniors are yesterday’s hippies, and so I subscribe to the theory that the Vietnam War protesters of the 1960s are today’s 65-plus voters. Young seniors let’s call them, and young seniors are still pretty liberal,” he said. “It’s just the evolution of generational politics.”
In 2020, exit polls showed Trump carrying 51% of the senior vote, with Biden pulling 48%, marking the strongest showing by a Democratic candidate among voters over 65 in nearly two decades. Fast-forward to 2024, and polls conducted in recent months by the New York Times, Quinnipiac University, CNN, and the Daily Kos now show Biden leading Trump by a margin of up to 22 points among senior voters. Polls conducted by Fox News and Echelon Insights still show Biden trailing Trump among seniors.
Progressives are gearing up for a platform fight on Israel at the Democratic convention
Activists at odds with President Joe Biden over his handling of Israel’s war with Hamas are planning to shift the focus of their pressure campaign from the ballot box to the Democratic Party platform at this summer’s nominating convention in Chicago.
The Biden campaign is anticipating the effort, which could extend a bruising, and divisive, political battle over several months to the Democratic National Convention, according to multiple activists and party insiders.
Progressive Democrats already have identified a list of issues where they hope to influence the party platform, including calling for filibuster reform in the Senate, declaring a national climate emergency and ending private funding of elections. But the war in the Gaza Strip and potential conditions on future U.S. military assistance to Israel is poised to be the most contentious as Democrats prepare for their convention this August.
“We’re gearing up for a fight and we’re drawing a line in the sand, though we hope it doesn’t come to that,” said Joseph Geevarghese, the executive director of Our Revolution, which spun off from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ first presidential campaign.
Biden’s Medicare Advantage Cuts Are Tantamount to Throwing Grandma Over the Cliff
Cutting Medicare in any year is a politically perilous task. Doing so in a presidential election year by an historically unpopular president displays a trust in the tribal narratives designed to override voter intelligence. Partisans evidently think voters will never believe that President Joe Biden would dare cut Medicare. However, to the shock of many, rates were cut in the popular Medicare Advantage program as the Biden administration finalized its latest budget.
During the 2012 campaign season, a man who looked a lot like then-Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was featured in a TV ad wheeling an elderly woman through a park as America the Beautiful played over the sounds of chirping birds. Ryan, who was the vice-presidential candidate for the GOP in 2012, then dumped poor grandma out of her wheelchair and over a cliff as viewers were directed to call their representatives and tell them to leave Medicare alone (to keep America beautiful).
The 2012 Romney-Ryan ticket was ridiculed by the mainstream media for Ryan’s nerdy attempts to begin the long-overdue discussion about entitlement reform. Of course, his polite analysis was met with relentless ads claiming that “Republicans want to gut your Medicare and Social Security!” That narrative was punctuated with the exclamation point of grandma being flung from her wheelchair by the Ryan doppelganger.
Biden Went to the Mat for Young Voters on Student Loans. Now They’re Abandoning Him
President Joe Biden has made student loan forgiveness a top priority after young voters elected him by large margins in 2020. Ahead of another matchup with former President Donald Trump, the voting bloc might just abandon him, anyway.
Despite Biden’s continued efforts to cancel massive amounts of student loans for millions of Americans, along with various other left-wing policy achievements, polling indicates his lead among young voters has dropped significantly since last cycle. The loss in support is partially attributable to Biden’s support of Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, as young individuals largely express support for Palestinians in Gaza, several Democratic pollsters and strategists told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“He’s doing all the right things that you would think that young voters would flock to, but unfortunately, they haven’t been able to put that message out there in the community,” Adolph Mongo, a Democratic strategist based in Michigan, told the DCNF. “Well, you’ve done eight things, but this ninth thing is unforgiven. And you put your arm around this war monger in Israel, and then, you know, you can’t unwrap yourself from him.”
Biden has already forgiven billions of dollars worth of student loans for more than 3.6 million Americans, according to the White House.
Still, polling indicates Biden is on track to have much less support from youth voters in November that backed him by large margins in 2020.
How and Why Biden Destroyed the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Instead of unleashing more American energy, Biden has chosen to use America’s emergency reserves to solve his own political problems.
Last Wednesday, President Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) canceled a pair of oil purchases to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), leaving America’s energy reserves dangerously low at a time of global uncertainty.
The DOE originally planned to buy oil at $79 per barrel. But oil prices have stubbornly refused to cooperate and remain above $86 per barrel, leading the DOE to cancel the purchase.
When former president Donald Trump attempted to fill the SPR to the brim when oil prices were at a rock-bottom price of $24 a barrel, congressional Democrats blocked the purchase.
Seniors Support Medicare Options as Proposed by House Republicans
Medicare, the huge government health program that serves 66 million senior and disabled citizens, is at a crossroads.
With huge demographic and fiscal challenges straight ahead, there are two dominant approaches at hand.
One focuses on improving and modernizing the program by building on the best features of Medicare’s popular system of competing private health plans, harnessing the benefits of personal choice and market competition. The other focuses on building up the powerful Medicare bureaucracy and doubling down on its complex system of central planning and price controls.
The Medicare trustees reported last year that the trends in Medicare administrative payment and price controls, governing both hospital and physician payment, already threaten seniors’ future access to quality care.
With the enactment of President Joe Biden’s absurdly named Inflation Reduction Act, supplanting private market negotiation with government price-fixing, Americans can expect a slowing of investment in research and development and consequently a reduction in the number of new medications and breakthrough drugs, especially cancer drugs.
The only debate between analysts of the Congressional Budget Office and private sector economists is the severity of the coming shortfalls.
The House Republican Study Committee clearly “gets it” and grasps the urgency of this moment. The proof is its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal, “Fiscal Sanity to Save America.”
