It’s no secret that we live in a culture of death today, marked by abortion, sexual confusion, and the mutilation young bodies. In fact, all of the profoundly corrupt ideology is targeted directly at our children.
In an eye-opening documentary, activist Seth Gruber explains, with the help of other conservative opinion leaders, where this menace got its start and how it is that we have been enveloped in a culture of death. I strongly urge you to watch this film; make the time to do it.
It’s hard not to believe that the momentum and energy is with Donald J. Trump nine days from the election. It’s amazing to see figures like RFK Jr. from the storied Democrat dynasty standing and addressing a sold-out crowd in MSG who are all wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and holding “Dream Big Again” and “Trump Will Fix It” signs.
Add Tulsi Gabbard (former Democrat candidate for president) and Elon Musk (who didn’t vote Republican until 2022) to Trump’s supporters—then consider Liz Cheney traveling with Kamala Harris and it’s clear that we’re experiencing a total political realignment. (I’ve heard, but can’t verify, that Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney have threatened to leave the Republican Party if Trump wins. Big deal; they’re barely Republicans anyway.)
I heard that there were 20,000 people inside the Garden, with up to a reported 20,000 outside who couldn’t get in (I couldn’t verify that final number). According to Eric Trump, almost 200,000 people tried to get into the event. We’re living in truly historic times.
Several MAGA celebrities preceded Donald Trump at the podium, including Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., Tucker Carlson, Dr. Phil, Hulk Hogan, Dana White, JD Vance, and several of Trump’s family members, including Don Jr., Eric and Lara Trump, and a rare appearance by Melania Trump to introduce her husband. Even Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was there (boooo … or, yay, I guess).
Trump started off with Ronald Reagan’s question: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” and promised a “new golden age” in America. He used inspiring imagery and words such as “dream big again” and “I will bring back the American dream.” He said that “this election is a choice between four more years of incompetence or the four greatest years in American history.”
That sounds like hyperbole, but Trump has earned the right to make big promises. The man created a peaceful America the last time he was in the Oval Office, survived an assassin’s bullet, and has been tirelessly campaigning for 56 days straight. He’s unstoppable.
Meanwhile, no one knows where Biden is, and Harris pulled a bait-and-switch with a rally in Houston, where Beyonce was promised to perform but only spoke for 3 minutes before walking out of the room.
LOL. Way to fire up your support!
Trump also declared that “The United States is an occupied country” and that on January 20, 2025, he would launch the largest deportation effort in our history, citing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. From the text of the Act:
An Act Respecting Alien Enemies
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.
You know that if Trump invokes that law the deep state will sue to prevent him from using it. If SCOTUS is smart, they will allow Trump to make the determination if what we’re experiencing is an “invasion or predatory incursion.”
The other thing Trump said about illegal aliens is that he’s “calling for the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.” I’m all in on that. We need to meet intransigence and violence from foreigners against our citizens with unrelenting force.
Trump also reiterated his promise not to tax tips and announced a new policy—a tax break for caregivers who are caring for family members, which should encourage families to care for elderly or otherwise incapacitated loved ones.
Elon Musk addressed government efficiency during his remarks, saying, “all government spending is taxation.” You got that right. He promises they will “get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook” and that “America is going to reach heights never seen before.” Somewhere I saw that he thinks he can save us on the order of $2 trillion dollars once he takes on government inefficiency.
Tucker Carlson said, “Donald Trump is going to win” and “Trump gave people permission to tell the truth.” I think both are right. Before Trump started calling things as they were (fake news, Sleepy/Crooked Joe) I think Americans pretty much trusted they were being told the truth. If nothing else, Trump exposed the deep state and the Uniparty for all to see.
Most polls are showing Trump and Harris in a very close race—too close to call. I personally don’t understand how the contest can be so close when you look at Harris—a vapid and incompetent empty pantsuit, whose whole campaign is built on fear and bashing Trump with extreme rhetoric that no one but the far Left believes.
Then you have Trump who, while imperfect, has been unjustly persecuted and vilified, but who obviously loves this country and wants to protect us and is promising exciting changes to government.
While I think that the mood in the country favors Trump, I won’t breathe easy until he takes the oath of office on January 20, 2025.
We’ll see. In nine days, we’ll know just what we’re in for the next four years.
Yesterday I wrote about my caution with receiving Tulsi Gabbard into the Republican Party. On the one hand I welcome her. She’s intelligent, authentic, and seems like a genuinely nice person who’s guided by common sense. On the other hand, she’s been a Democrat for 20 years and an Independent for two, and she has a terrible record on abortion, gun rights, and fiscal policy. Time will tell exactly what she brings to the party (see what I did there?).
Today I have a similar caution with respect to the recent kerfluffle over pro-Jesus comments being shouted in a Harris and in a Trump event and how the two handled it.
First, Harris: “Oh you guys are at the wrong rally.”
Here’s the same moment filmed from a different angle, where you can see the person who yells about Jesus being Lord and Christ being King being kicked out of the rally.
Note that Kamala mocks the students—a “sick burn” if you will—and the crowd immediately laughs and applauds her one-liners. Setting aside the fact that shouting while someone is speaking is rude and disruptive, Dr. Ben Carson made the point that Kamala didn’t have time to prepare an answer … she just said what was on her heart.
A day or so later, JD Vance was speaking at a Trump/Vance rally, and again, someone shouted “Jesus is King!” Here’s how Vance handled it:
A stark contrast to Kamala’s response, no? And then, Donald Trump weighed in on the exchanges: “In our movement, we love Christians, we welcome believers, and we embrace followers of Jesus.”
It’s heartening to hear that the MAGA movement embraces believers; as Christians, we should always count it a blessing when those in authority—and in the culture at large—have favorable attitudes towards us. But here’s where I think we should be cautious about being embraced by either political party.
We owe our allegiance to only one Man, Jesus Christ, and it is too easy to get caught up in putting our trust in a political leader or a political party to do the work of reforming a culture’s moral makeup. It cannot and will not be done through laws or other political means.
We certainly can vote for politicians who support policies that align with Christian principles and obedience. But as we’ve seen, politics follows culture and as the culture decays, Christians are at risk of being demonized (ironically) as what’s holding the culture back.
But once we surrender any of our dependence on God to a political party, we can be played by that party. Be thankful for the support we have from a major political party but maintain your independence as a Christian so that you don’t allow yourself to be lulled into a false sense of security just because a political party embraces your faith.
Keep God first. Then family and country.
This is truly historic because she was a Democrat candidate for president just four years ago, having served as a Democrat in the Hawaii Legislature and then in the House from 2013 to 2021, as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016 and as a combat veteran.
The first Hindu member of the US Congress, she left the Democrats in 2022, saying they were an “elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.” While I welcome her to the Republican Party, I’m a bit cautious.
Part of that caution is because, as I’ve written before, I don’t trust either of the parties in Congress. They’re effectively a UniParty, separated only by the degree by which they want to take my money and restrict my freedom.
Plus, Tulsi had been a lifelong Democrat. Just because she has switched parties doesn’t mean she’s now a conservative.
Gabbard’s most recent endorsements and ratings reflect something other than conservatism. In the area of gun control, Gabbard has a 0% rating from both the National Rifle Association and National Shooting Sports Foundation. In recent years, she has publicly supported bans on assault weapons, among other legislation supported by the gun control lobby.
Regarding abortion, Gabbard received a 100% rating from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and 90% from NARAL Pro-Choice America, both in 2020. She received a 0% rating from both the National Right to Life and Susan B. Anthony list in the same year.
When it comes to fiscal conservatism, she received an 11% rating from Americans for Prosperity, 7% from Heritage Action for America, and 9% from the Club For Growth, all in 2020.
That’s from an article in 2022.
Maybe Gabbard has moved further to the right than we know. She’s part of Trump’s transition team, along with RFK Jr. (who is most definitely not a conservative or a Republican).
Then again, she’s a smart woman. Why not align herself with a winner like Donald J. Trump since she no longer has a major party to call home? I worry that she may be embraced by Republicans who begin to compromise their principles (if they have any to start with) while in proximity to her.
I welcome her to the party, but let’s wait to see whether she is truly conservative.
From the Issues and Insights Editorial Board.
Eight years ago, the mainstream media told us in no uncertain terms that noncitizens don’t vote in American elections. “There is no evidence,” they said. The likely number “is zero.”
They were provably wrong then – there’d been multiple accounts of noncitizens who’d registered and voted in elections. In the years since, the evidence of this problem has piled up higher. But the media are still at it. It’s “extremely rare,” they say. It never “affects the outcome of a race.” Republicans are looking to “blame illegals” if Donald Trump loses, etc.
Here’s one example of the disconnect.
An audit of Texas voter rolls in 2019 found 95,000 noncitizens who’d registered, 58,000 of whom voted in an election. This year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he’d removed 6,500 noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, nearly 2,000 of whom voted.
58,000 non-citizens voted in an election. That’s enough to swing an election. In 2020 Biden “defeated” Trump in Arizona by 10,457 votes (0.3%) out of 3.4 million ballots cast. The number of non-citizens who voted in Texas are more than five times the margin of Brandon’s “victory” in Arizona.
Dozens of lawmakers are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland about what he is doing to stop noncitizens from voting. “Clearly, there is a non-negligible amount of voter participation by noncitizens in federal elections,” they say, “which is not only a serious threat to the integrity of our elections and the democratic process they represent, but also has the potential to reduce Americans’ trust and confidence in election results.”
But the Biden-Harris Justice Department appears more interested in preventing states from cleaning their voter rolls of noncitizens.
Last week, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a statement: “With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.”
And Democrats blocked a bill – the SAVE Act – that would have simply required some proof of citizenship in order to vote.
It’s almost as if Democrats want to let noncitizens vote.
Viriginia isn’t the only place trying to clean up its voter rolls.
The State of Florida is trying to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is fighting that effort, so Florida has gone to court:
Florida authorities on Oct. 16 sued the U.S. government, alleging that U.S. officials are illegally refusing to cooperate with Florida’s effort to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls.
State law requires state authorities to maintain accurate voter registration records. Federal law requires the federal government to respond to inquiries from federal, state, and local government agencies that are “seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency.”
But when the Florida Department of State asked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for data on individuals whom Florida authorities identified as potentially being noncitizens who are registered to vote, USCIS’s director wrote back and said the agency could not offer any information that is not contained within the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program.
Then there are the states who fight any effort to clean up their voter rolls. Like Michigan.
Many states have been conscientious about cleaning their voter rolls — removing deceased voters, voters who have left the state, voters who are not U.S. citizens but who were registered through their driver’s license applications, and so forth.
States such as Michigan, however, have not been so fastidious, as the GAI report and the Drill Down hosts explain. “We always talk about this because this continues to be a problem in [battleground] states that are poised to matter,” says co-host Eric Eggers. “In Michigan, we’re seeing the number of counties with voter registration rates over 100 percent.”
And also Michigan:
Oregon’s Secretary of State admitted in September that the state continues to give voter registration documents to illegal aliens and that at least 1,259 were registered. Oopsie. SOS LaVonne Griffin-Valade says she’s sorry. The governor, the unfortunately-named Tina Kotek, claims it will have “no impact” on the November election.
The Heritage Foundation runs an Election Fraud Database which to date has catalogued more than 1,560 cases of proven instances of election fraud from across the country. Fraud happens everywhere in our elections. Regularly.
Back to the I&I article:
Consider these recent examples:
Meanwhile, a local news investigation found mailers sent to noncitizens by their union – LIUNA – urging them to “Stop the Steal” and vote for Kamala Harris in November.
The Breitbart article goes on to talk about the five threats to election integrity:
GAI’s new report explains how those rule changes, which in many states have since been repealed or replaced, may have affected the 2020 outcome and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. The report divides the risks to our elections into five categories:
Well, a couple of weeks out from the election, here’s what’s going on.
Michigan is gearing up for a delayed announcement of election results this year, reminiscent of the 2020 scenario. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has indicated that an additional 24 hours will be required to tally all the votes.
Pennsylvania election officials – in a bid to avoid controversy in November – are telling voters ahead of time not to expect the results of the high-stakes presidential race to be ready by Election Night.
Let’s hope a toilet in Arizona doesn’t overflow and flood all the swing states again this year.
For instance, I call them a “garbage party” here and here, the “un-American party” here, and call for the Democrat party to be outlawed, here and here. Others smarter than I are beginning to voice their concerns about the party, too.
First, you might remember Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and long-time Democrat donor who announced he was supporting Donald Trump for president three months ago. He recently outlined his reasons why on X, and it’s spectacular.
Three months ago, when I endorsed Trump on the day of the first assassination attempt, I promised to share my thinking about why I came to this conclusion in a future more detailed post. I intend to do so in possibly more than one post, with the first, this one, explaining the actions and policies of the Biden/Harris administration and Democratic Party that were the catalysts for my losing total confidence in the administration and the Party.
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While the 33 actions I describe below are those of the Democratic Party and the Biden/Harris administration, they are also the actions and policies that unfortunately our most aggressive adversaries would likely implement if they wanted to destroy America from within, and had the ability to take control of our leadership.
He sees it like I see it: our enemies could hardly be doing a better job of destroying America than the Democrats are. I encourage you to read the full expanded list by clicking through to X, but here is a summary of them by The Vigilant Fox on X.
It’s a great list. I’m not sure if Ackman realizes that all of these actions/policies are intentional. This is the Democrat party, the extremist anti-American element in our country.
But the best example of someone who pulls no punches and clearly explains how he views the Democrats from a Christian perspective is Pastor Jonny Ardavanis of Stonebridge Bible Church in Franklin, Tennessee. Here’s how he starts the clip I’ve embedded below:
“People have asked me this week if I have opinions politically. I have opinions, a lot of them. I’m not a political commentator. I’m a preacher of the Bible. But certain things politically are more theological than they used to be. So let me just give you some things about where I stand, because people have texted me a few things and I’ll just … this stuff is not hard for me to say.
“Number one, the Democratic Party is a demonic death cult under the power and influence of Satan … To vote for the Democrats is to vote for a platform … that is building their platform upon everything God hates.”
He got a lot of angry and butthurt comments in the replies to the post. But I am in full agreement with him. Unapologetically. The Democrat party is an extremely corrupt organization both spiritually and politically. It is anti-Christian, anti-American, irrational, and degenerate. I don’t believe confessing Christians can authentically follow Christ yet vote Democrat.
I’ll say it again, with more vigor: the Democrat Party must be outlawed, along with its Marxist ideology. And we conservatives must stay vigilant and teach vigilance to those who follow us.
Have a good day.
He now rues the day that he cursed the God of the Christians and the Jews.
As I wrote about bin Laden in August, I also despise Yahya Sinwar and his henchmen for what they did to Israelis on October 7, 2023. While I believe that redemption is possible for everyone, no matter how evil they are, this man’s evil saturated his physical body. He looked evil.
I celebrate his departure. Thank God he’s no longer with us.
Frankly, Israel has been mighty impressive in how they’ve prosecuted the war against Hamas and Hezbollah (and, by extension, Iran, against whom they have yet to retaliate for their bombardment of Israel on October 1).
May they crush what remains of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Have a good weekend.
Kamala Harris is flailing in the presidential race and agreed to a sit-down with Bret Baier of Fox News because she obviously needs to reach more than her ideological base. I was surprised because, ever since Faux News’s Chris Wallace hosted the first 2020 presidential debate and turned out to be a liberal, and then when they canned Tucker Carlson, I’ve considered Faux more center-left than outright hostile to progressives. They’re certainly not conservative in the way I think about being conservative.
I’ve even thought that about Bret Baier. But after watching his interview with Harris, even I have to admit that he went after her like no other interviewer. And she completely failed.
Without regurgitating the entire conversation (which, if you didn’t see it, you didn’t miss anything), let me sum it up by saying that her only tactic was to take every question Baier asked and answer it by trashing Trump. She didn’t answer one question about her policies or regrets or what she’d do differently than the last three-and-a-half years. In fact, in one of the most stunning non-answers I’ve ever heard since I’ve been paying attention to politics, she pivoted from Baier’s question about what she’d do differently to talk about “the last decade” of rhetoric from Donald Trump.
The woman is a fraud. Totally and completely. Just another empty pantsuit that will do what the administrative state and Barry Obama tell her to do.
Forgive the short post this morning, but it’s been a rough couple of days of not feeling well.
* Reference to classic NFL moment in title.
Political polls are notoriously imprecise, but they do give us a sense of what the electorate might be thinking. Some recent polls have put Democrats into a tailspin, including this one from NBC “News.”
In the new poll — which was conducted Oct. 4-8 — Harris gets support from 48% of registered voters in a head-to-head matchup, while Trump gets an identical 48%. Another 4% say they are undecided or wouldn’t vote for either option when forced to choose between those two major-party candidates.
That’s a change from September’s NBC News poll, which found Harris leading Trump by 5 points, 49%-44%, though that result was within the margin of error.
An expanded ballot including third-party candidates also shows this shift, with 47% of registered voters in the new poll picking Trump, 46% supporting Harris and a combined 7% picking other candidates or saying they’re undecided.
Because national polls are also notoriously biased in favor of Democrats, the latest findings mean that Trump has opened up a considerable lead.
The results align with a recent Wall Street Journal poll. Via Breitbart:
The NBC poll reflects other poll results, with the Wall Street Journal poll showing Trump leading Harris, 46%-45%, nationwide. The Journal says that the result in swing states is too close to call but currently gives Harris the edge.
CNN is worried too, now that Republicans have a “GOP ADVANTAGE for the first time in many years.”
If swing states are becoming “too close to call” (as the WSJ puts it above), that bodes well for Trump; if one swing state is in play, it essentially means that all swing states are in play. The GOP ADVANTAGE is beginning to show up in some swing states. Activist Scott Pressler, who leads Early Vote Action PAC, is seeing the difference in Pennsylvania.
“Let’s talk about the data for a second and why I think, objectively, we’re in the best place to win Pennsylvania [compared to] four or even eight years ago,” Presler told Morning Wire.
“Two things that really stick out to me are, a.) Since 2020, we have actually cut in half the amount of registered Democrats in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where they had an advantage of 650,000 four years ago,” he explained. “Now that advantage has been narrowed to 333,000.”
“But the other thing that leads me to believe that President Trump has a real shot at winning Pennsylvania is that Democrats are down 416,000 mail-in ballot requests from where they were four years ago at the same time,” Presler revealed.
Voters are also reassessing their experience under President Trump’s first term.
He then noted further polling indicating that only a quarter of families say Biden-era policies are helping their family, whereas 45% say they are “hurting” them.
“And then here’s the interesting twist. We also asked folks, ‘Think back to when Donald Trump was president. Did his policies help or hurt your family?’ And look at the difference, 44% helping, 31 hurting. Trump’s — the retrospective, you would say, opinion of Trump’s presidency among voters, arguably higher now than when he was president,” Kornacki said.
For some people, the biggest indicator that Trump will win is his lead in betting odds.
Former President Trump took a double-digit lead in the betting odds over Vice President Kamala Harris for the first time since July, signaling potential momentum for the former president as Election Day draws near.
Trump opened up a 10-point lead in the Real Clear Politics betting average on Sunday, his largest lead over Harris and the largest lead any candidate has enjoyed since the former president’s 10-point lead on July 31.
The lead comes as some in Democratic circles have attempted to quell panic within the ranks after recent polling that has seemingly trended toward Trump,
This is all good for president-in-exile Donald J. Trump. But as I’ve said before, especially since the last presidential election, don’t get cocky. The Democrats don’t want to, and don’t intend to, lose. The only way we can prevent the inevitable cheating that they will engage in to preserve their power is to make the margin of victory so big that they can’t possibly manufacture enough votes to win.
Get registered (if you still can) and make every effort to get out and vote on November 5. And bring someone with you to vote too.
A friend of mine has co-created and produced a docuseries about Israel called “Hope in the Holy Land.” He reached out to me a couple of days ago and asked if I could help him to get word out that the next two parts in the series are now available.
I’ve watched both parts and can tell you that they are very helpful to understanding the situation between the Palestinians and the Israelis leading up to October 7, 2023, and then seeing and hearing from those who lived through October 7, which is incredibly sobering.
If you have the time, I strongly encourage you to watch both parts. Part II examines the history of Gaza leading up to October 7, and Part III takes you through that horrible day from those who were there. You’ll see below that Part III is age restricted; that’s because of some graphic violence shown from October 7, including cell phone footage from Hamas terrorists or victimized Israelis.
You may also want to consider watching the first video in the series, which you can find here along with the background on the series. If you’d like to just jump to the trailer, you can click below.
I hope you’ll make time to watch them all. Have a good weekend.