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Daily Broadside | Not All Transgenders Are Killers But Those That Are Share Similar Traits

There are a lot of significant political developments happening across the U.S. and it’s hard to choose what to focus on. Today I want to highlight something that has faded from the headlines but which is important to know because it doesn’t align with the official (Leftist) narrative that our betters want us to believe.

Newly leaked pages from the Nashville school shooter’s journal depict a profoundly disturbed young woman with intense daddy issues.

Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who identified as a trans male, targeted the Christian Covenant School on March 27, 2023, killing three children and three members of the school’s staff before being shot dead by responding officers.

Even though police shot the suspect dead inside the school, the FBI has repeatedly refused to release Hale’s writings, arguing that doing so “could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.”

The FBI has been dragging its feet because of, in the hackneyed expression, “ongoing investigations.” Yeh, the girl was shot dead by police after she rampaged through the Christian school killing indiscriminately and they’ve needed to “investigate” for more than a year.

The partisan FBI colludes with the Left and expects us to respect it as a non-partisan institution.

On the next page, Hale focused on her “Dad problems,” complaining that he always turns “the other way” like she’s not there.

“I hate when my dad loves on the cats; not me. FAGGOT!!!” she wrote. “He never once loved on me for years, maybe like ever (as a child maybe)”.

Psychologists have found that people with “daddy issues” tend to have pathological “dark triad” traits.

The term “dark triad” refers to “a trio of negative personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—which share some common malevolent features.”

In her diary, Hale said that she hated her father’s “old cranky-man existence,” and wished death upon all men like him.

“All cranky, good-for-nothing, mentally ill men SHOULD DIE,” she wrote. The’re [sic] all useless pieces of sh-t

Waste of life, waste of time

Waste of human population.

Dad just takes up space for all I know

dried out + hollow

says negative shit all the time, like

“one. He’s a loser”

“I hate movies like this”

“I don’t care”

Well guess what?

YOUR [SIC] A LOSER

I HATE YOU (LIFE, YOU)

I DON’T CARE IF YOU DIE

I WANT TO KILL YOU

Dad is not real.

Everything hurts.

She had severe “daddy” issues. I would never rush to blame her father, since there are two sides to every story and we’re only hers. But it’s clear that she was deeply angry with her dad.

I won’t reproduce the entire article here, but there’s plenty of more disturbing expressions of self-hatred and hatred of those around her.

Other sexually-confused shooters like Hale share similarly sad pasts.

Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five patrons at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub in November 2022. Reports in part said, Aldrich is “nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.” Further,

The suspect’s father is a mixed martial arts fighter and pornography performer with an extensive criminal history, including convictions for battery against the alleged shooter’s mother, Laura Voepel, both before and after the suspect was born, state and federal court records show.

[…]

Aldrich’s request for a name change came months after Aldrich was apparently targeted by online bullying. A website posting from June 2015 that attacked a teen named Nick Brink suggests they may have been bullied in high school. The post included photos similar to ones of the shooting suspect and ridiculed Brink over their weight, lack of money and what it said was an interest in Chinese cartoons.

Alec McKinney and Devon Erickson both tried to commit mass murder at STEM School Highlands Ranch south of Denver in May 2019. Devon killed one student, but McKinney was thought to be the ringleader. Reports said,

Lawyers for the second suspect in the Colorado school shooting, Maya McKinney, who is listed in court records as a female, asked the court to use the pronoun “he.”

The 16-year-old McKinney is transgender and was transitioning from female to male at the time of Tuesday’s shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Highlands Ranch, Colo., that left one student dead and eight others wounded. McKinney reportedly identifies as a male and goes by the name Alec.

Also:

Almost a dozen witnesses have testified the past three days — all called by defense attorneys. Psychologists, counselors, family members, family friends all say McKinney showed signs of trouble early — though no one specifically say he exhibited signs of homicidal behavior. 

They paint a picture of a child who was sexually abused and neglected. McKinney began cutting himself when he was 13 year-old and snuck booze. He asked for help several times and was hospitalized more than once.

McKinney’s father, Jose Quintana, was a coyote, leading undocumented immigrants from Mexico, and a drug mule. He also beat McKinney’s mother regularly, often in front of their children, according to testimony. 

Then there’s Snochia Moseley, a black transgender who shot and killed four people outside a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland on September 20, 2018. Again,

Police said the shooter was Snochia Moseley, a 26 year old who they identified as female. A friend told the Washington Post that Moseley had suffered from bipolar disorder and depression, which they linked to feelings of rejection when Moseley had first come out as gay and later transgender.

The friend said Moseley had begun receiving hormone therapy a year prior to the incident, and planned to undergo gender-reassignment surgery, but had been struggling with the transition.

And more:

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told news reporters Friday that the suspect, 26-year-old Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County, had been diagnosed with a mental illness in 2016. “That’s as far as I’ll go with it,” he said, declining to give any more details on her mental state.

He said Moseley had become increasingly agitated in recent weeks, and relatives had been concerned for her well-being.

I can’t find anything about Moseley’s home life, but the profile of these shooters tends to show that they have a mental illness and/or come from a violent home.

I’m not sure that Johnson’s take is everywhere and always true, but it is clear that these people are mentally unstable.

It’s also true that the FBI, the media and other official entities will hide the true identity of the killers until forced to admit them or until the killings have faded from the newscycle because it doesn’t fit their narrative that it’s white supremacists who are the domestic terrorists and we should all be a-skeered of them!

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Daily Broadside | European Elections May Be Leading Indicator for US Elections in November

I’m not an expert on international developments, nor particularly on the political developments of specific nations. But having read and watched the reports of elections across Europe this weekend, it’s clear that there are some seismic shifts happening that perhaps portend something similar here in the U.S. come November.

Far-right parties made big gains in the European Parliament in election results that rattled the traditional powers and made French President Emmanuel Macron call snap legislative elections.

By “far-right” they mean those who are “sick and tired of the unrestricted invasion of foreigners into their countries.”

You know, normal people.

Macron’s party suffered a heavy defeat from the far-right National Rally party, while in Germany support for Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats sank to a projected 14%, behind the extreme-right Alternative for Germany, which surged into second place.

Millions of Europeans voted for candidates to serve five-year terms in a new European Parliament, the legislative branch of the 27-member trade bloc. Provisional results from the voting that ended Sunday showed the Christian Democrats would have 189 seats, up 13, the Social Democrats 135, down 4 and the pro-business Renew group 83, down 19. The Greens slumped to 53, down 18.

Other countries in the EU also experienced a surge of “far-right” extremism.

Germany: “Germany’s unpopular governing parties sank to feeble results and the far-right Alternative for Germany made gains in Sunday’s vote for the European Parliament, while the mainstream conservative opposition was the country’s strongest political force by a distance, projections showed.”

Italy: “Meloni’s German and French counterparts were shaken by European parliamentary elections that fortified Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy as the strongest in Italy, setting her up as a possible bridge maker, if not kingmaker, in Europe.

“Meloni’s solid results create a rare stability in Italian politics, as far-right parties rattled both French President Emmanuel Macron, who called snap elections after his party was eclipsed by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose authority suffered a jolt after the far-right Alternative for German finished second, beating his Social Democrats.”

Poland: “Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist party clinched its first electoral victory over a right-wing populist party in a decade by taking the most votes in the European Parliament election, official results released Monday showed.

“Many viewed Tusk’s return to power last year as a rare case of a democratic party prevailing over populist and authoritarian forces. However, while Sunday’s win solidified his position, the results also showed that his lead is small, and that support for the far right is rising.“

Belgium: “Flemish nationalist parties dominated general elections in Belgium on Sunday as Prime minister Alexander De Croo’s liberal party took a hit, with difficult coalition talks to form a new government now looming.

“Despite polls predicting that the far-right, anti-immigration Vlaams Belang party would become the main political force in the country with 11.5 million inhabitants, the right-wing nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) retained its first spot, with an expected 22% of the votes, according to provisional results provided by the Interior ministry.

“The Vlaams Belang came in second position, with a share of 17.5%, ahead of the Socialist Voruit party, which garnered about 10.5% of the votes.”

There’s more you can read in the first link above. The results show that Western countries are angry about the ruling class’s importation of third world foreigners who don’t assimilate into western society or culture. The same thing is happening here in the U.S. and Donald J. Trump is playing to that disaffection by promising to undertake “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”

The Left, of course, doesn’t get it.

CBS News host Margaret Brennan on Sunday appeared perplexed by the results of a recent poll that showed majority support for deporting all illegal immigrants.

“Homeland Security says that President Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the past year than any year since 2010. And then, depending on the details of what’s talked about on the campaign trail, some of what Mr. Trump talks about could be illegal,” Brennan said. 

She  continued, “It doesn’t seem practical, in some sense, to round up children. And then we know that the courts have questioned whether local authorities would have the ability to do it, and federal authorities don’t have the resources. So what exactly do people think they’re supporting?”

A CBS News/YouGov poll found that 62% of registered voters said they would support a government program that would deport all migrants living in the U.S. illegally. The poll, conducted between June 5-7, also found that a majority of registered voters supported Biden’s latest executive action at the southern border.

I know you know this, but these Democrat stenographers don’t have to “get it.” They’re detached from us Normals. Ignore them, be inspired by our European brethren, and vote for common sense in November.

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Daily Broadside | Today Is the 80th Anniversary of Operation Overlord

On June 6, 1944, 160,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers stormed the beaches at Normandy, setting in motion the defeat of Germany and the freedom of Europe.

By May 1944, over 2,876,000 Allied troops were amassed in southern England. While awaiting deployment orders, they prepared for the assault by practicing with live ammunition. The largest armada in history, made up of more than 4,000 American, British, and Canadian ships, lay in wait. More that 1,200 planes stood ready to deliver seasoned airborne troops behind enemy lines, to silence German ground resistance as best they could, and to dominate the skies of the impending battle theater.

Against a tense backdrop of uncertain weather forecasts, disagreements in strategy, and related timing dilemmas predicated on the need for optimal tidal conditions, Eisenhower decided before dawn on June 5 to proceed with Overlord. Later that same afternoon, he scribbled a note intended for release, accepting responsibility for the decision to launch the invasion and full blame should the effort to create a beachhead on the Normandy coast fail.

Much more polished is his printed Order of the Day for June 6, 1944, which Eisenhower began drafting in February. The order was distributed to the 175,000-member expeditionary force on the eve of the invasion.

D-day statement to soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6/44, Collection DDE-EPRE: Eisenhower, Dwight D: Papers, Pre-Presidential, 1916-1952; Dwight D. Eisenhower Library; National Archives and Records Administration.

Below, the message is read over images of Eisenhower.

Having just observed Memorial Day, this would be a good time to remember and to breathe a prayer of thanks for those who fought for not just our freedom here in the U.S., but around the world. Remember, Japan was also our foe, who would not be defeated until August of 1945, about 3 months after Germany surrendered.

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Daily Broadside | Don’t Tell Me The 2020 Election Was As Pure As The Driven Snow

Just going to leave this right here.

BREAKING: Arizona GOP Files BOMBSHELL Lawsuit Against Corrupt Secretary of State After Discovering from 500,000 to 1.3 Million ILLEGAL Voters on State’s Voter Rolls

The Arizona Republican Party filed a lawsuit against the corrupt Secretary of State Adrian Fontes after discovering from 500,000 to 1.3 million ILLEGAL VOTERS on the state’s voter rolls.

George Behizy reported:

BREAKING: The Arizona Republican party has filed a BOMBSHELL lawsuit against the Secretary of State for violations of the National Voter Registration Act after discovering between 500,000 to 1.3 Million ILLEGAL voters on the voter rolls, including dead people & nonresidents

“The lawsuit highlights outrageous voter registration rates, with some counties exceeding 100% of eligible voters. The lawsuit uncovered that Arizona has between 500,000 to 1,270,000 unaccounted-for voters on the rolls, including deceased individuals and those who have moved away.”

“Our findings reveal a staggering number of counties with more registered voters than eligible citizens, this is a clear indication of a system in disarray. We are holding Adrian Fontes accountable to ensure fair and credible elections in Arizona.”

This exactly how Democrats cheat, bloated voter rolls combined with universal mail in ballots. Republicans have to get ahead of this before November 5th.

It wuz the MosT FAiR eLeCTshun iN HiSTOrY!

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Daily Broadside | It’s Not Just Me; Smarter Writers Are Now Declaring the Democrat Party Illegitimate

The Democrat Party is a radicalized, anti-American, Marxist organization that should be abolished, just like the Nazi Party after 1945. I’m not kidding and I’ve said so recently here and in some of my ramblings on X.

But now I’m pleased to hear political commentators who are much smarter than I am saying the same thing. John Hinderaker over at PowerLine blog wrote a short post the day after Trump’s trumped up kangaroo court convictions.

For the second time in their ignoble history, the Democrats have fired on Fort Sumter. Now the question is, what are we going to do about it?

I wrote my initial thoughts on the Trump verdict yesterday afternoon. I want to add to them here.

If Joe Biden is re-elected following this outrage, he will be an illegitimate president. What does that mean? It means, I think, that no one should be obliged to follow his executive orders. All such orders will be illegitimate and should be disregarded, as appropriate. Likewise, residents of the sane states, and their public officials, should be free to disregard rules and orders that come out of the Biden administration’s agencies–the Biden EPA, and so on. And rulings of Biden-appointed judges, or of panels on which one or more Biden judges were part of the majority, should not be given any precedential effect.

We have no duty to conform. In fact, it is our duty to not just resist, but to actively reject any cooperation with Democrats.

More fundamentally, the Democratic Party is now illegitimate. We should stop treating it as a normal political organization. We conservatives have played by the rules, trying to hold our country together in the face of increasingly radical and irrational conduct from our political foes. Those days should be gone. The Democratic Party is now exposed as the enemy of freedom, democracy and the rule of law, and should be treated accordingly.

Correct. And to “treat it accordingly” is to abolish it, make it illegal to reconstitute, and to politically exile its members.

I’m done with trying to reason with Democrats. I’ll talk all day about their need for Jesus, but when it comes to politics, I have no choice but to treat them like the political enemies they are. Anyone who calls themselves a Democrat, is registered as a Democrat, and votes for Democrats, is a threat to you, your family, your freedoms and your conscience.

Conservatives have been patient, have endured much abuse from those in roles of political power, and have hoped against hope that the lawfare and general acts of anarchy would be a short spasm that we could all get through. But like our international enemies, the Left sees negotiation, reasonable dialogue, and a lack of hitting back as weakness, which further encourages them to take more ground and become more inflexible.

It’s time to sever any political relationships with the Left. They don’t want it. They want to destroy the Right, no matter how close to the center you are. Conservatives, traditional Americans, Christians and like-minded allies must fully oppose Democrats at every turn. We need to make them pay for their intransigence by voting them out of office, refusing to cooperate with their laws, and actively make them feel the pain of separation.

Via Buck Throckmorton at Ace of Spades comes this helpful piece by Jeffrey Carter:

Trump should retreat to Florida.

Every single Republican should say that if NY wants to extradite Trump from their state to NY to serve jail time, they will fight the extradition. Trump can freely roam and campaign in their states. If there are fair-minded Democratic governors they could join. But, if they don’t, we know where they stand.

They are on the side of fascism because that is exactly what this is.

You might not like Trump. You might not agree with Trump. For you, this is a John Adams moment. The second president of the United States was no pal of Britain. He abhorred the idea of British troops in Boston, MA. Yet, when push came to shove he defended British troops who were accused by a mob of committing crimes they didn’t commit.

Resist and refuse to cooperate.

  • Let Trump roam free as a bird in Republican governed state. Fight any and all extradition including the use of the police force and any military that the governor controls.
  • Republican Attorney Generals need to engage in lawfare against any and all Democrat officials, including officials in their states. If you are a Republican Attorney General, and you have a Democratic Secretary of State, find something, anything to charge them with. I hate tit for tat, but tit for tat in this case is a lot better than shots being fired.
  • In heavily Republican-dominated states, make life very difficult for Democrats. Do everything you can within the rules of your state to hinder every single idea, statement, or initiative Democrats have. If you can do things without committee hearings, go for it. Shut them out. Democrats actively do it to Republicans. Hence, in Ohio, defy Governor Mike DeWine’s move to put Biden on the ballot. Leave him off the ballot in Ohio. Before this ruling, I was in favor of DeWine’s move.
  • Donate some extra dollars if you can after Joe Biden’s inflation to Trump and any national legislative race. Flip your legislature to Republicans if you can. Democrats are now the party of Fascism. They make no bones about it.
  • It is time for civil, and I stress the word civil, disobedience. That can be painful. But, it’s time to flout politically motivated Democratic rules. March peacefully in the streets. Ignore rules. Don’t pay fees if you can. We know now that Covid was an engineered crisis that was designed to get rid of Trump, not for public health. It’s time to fight all that stuff.
  • When they march in the streets, meet them. March against them.
  • If you are a contractor, maybe pick and choose who you work for. If you show up to a house and a Hamas flag is in front or a BLM sign is in the yard, maybe go to the next job and have them go down the list. Work on out-of-the-closet Republican homes or non-outwardly political homes first. Make them suffer.
  • At your establishment, put up a bumper sticker or flag. It doesn’t have to say “Trump” but it might say “Don’t Tread on Me” or something like that. Let people know. The Silent Majority cannot stay in the closet anymore. It’s hilarious that when I walk down my street, I know if an American flag flies out in front of the house I know they are conservative.

As I’ve written before (here, here, here, and here) it’s often difficult to give advice on what to do about the state of affairs we find ourselves in. Above is a list of simple things most of us can do to register our anger at those who are destroying our country.

It’s now or never.

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Daily Broadside | Tony “The Science” Fauci Makes A Killing Killing Millions And Doesn’t Want You To Know About It

This compromised murderer needs to spend the rest of his life in prison for his crimes.

New data from the National Institutes of Health reveals the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists.

Almost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.

Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes. Just trust the ScIEnCe embodied in the highest-paid, now retired, government bureaucrat, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Information about this vast private royalty complex is tightly held by NIH. My organization, OpenTheBooks.com, was forced to sue to uncover the royalties paid from September 2009 to October 2021, which amounted to $325 million over 56,000 transactions.

We had to sue a second time, with Judicial Watch as our counsel, to pry open this new release.

Payments skyrocketed during the pandemic era: those years saw more than double the amount of cash flow to NIH from the private sector, compared to the prior twelve combined. All told, it’s $1.036 billion.

It’s unclear if any of the Covid vaccine royalties from Pfizer and Moderna, the latter of which settled with NIH by agreeing to pay $400 million, is even included in these new numbers. NIH isn’t saying.

There’s no grift here! I refuse to believe it!

The American people have one last crack at getting some candor from Fauci, the face of our COVID response, when he testifies Monday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Our feckless GOP will get to the bottom of it all, no doubt.

Now he’ll also need to account for bombshell emails sent by one of his deputies, which described in-house strategies to circumvent the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Fauci won’t be able to misspell words to evade scrutiny or have folks physically courier messages — just two of the FOIA-avoiding actions described by Dr. David Morens, a key Fauci deputy.

You know what they did? They used personal email accounts, replaced letters in the text of subject lines so it wouldn’t appear in FOIA searches, and deleted emails they didn’t want found.

From another NY Post editorial:

A 35-page memo by a House subcommittee majority staff directly accuses Fauci himself of taking part in “in a conspiracy amongst the highest levels” of the agency to “hide” and potentially “destroy official records regarding the origins of COVID-19.”

What were Fauci & Co. trying to hide?

Obviously, that NIH had provided grant money used for highly dangerous lab work, which involves making viruses more contagious to humans to help develop vaccines in advance.

Meaning US taxpayers unwittingly helped pay for the kind of research believed to have led to the germ that killed more than 7 million people across the globe.

It also shut down economies, costing the world trillions; led to school closures that set back educational progress; and took a toll on mental and physical health in fundamental ways not yet fully understood or recognized.

Fauci, his NIH boss Francis Collins and their pals at EcoHealth, which was behind the research, were desperate to keep that secret.

Fauci, Collins and the rest of them have forgotten that they work for us. They are insulated from “We the People” and think they’re above the law. Fauci helped fund the Covid virus research illegally, tried to hide it, benefitted from it financially and killed millions of people around the world while he did so.

He needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.

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Daily Broadside | Democrats Have Gone Full Communist with Trump Verdict

They finally “got” Trump.

The Democrats and their enablers in the White House and the media crossed a rubicon yesterday and it can’t be undone. If you were looking for proof that we’re a broken republic, you needn’t look any further.

I’m not a lawyer and I don’t play one on TV, so I’ve been hesitant to comment on the Trump trials. But you don’t have to be a legal eagle to see that the guilty verdict handed down yesterday is the stuff of third-world banana republics.

I am angry.

The Democrats have ruined this country and seized on lawfare as their weapon of choice and executed it against Trump with bogus charges, a corrupt Soros DA, a corrupt judge, and a jury that came from a pool in a district that is 90 percent Democrat.

This cannot stand.

None of us are safe now. I don’t care if you’re Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian or Green. If they can prosecute a former president of the United States on such thin, non-existant gruel, they can certainly do it to you.

And they will.

We need to pray for God’s mercy and intervention. Conservatives and other like-minded Americans have patiently watched and waited as the Left unleashed their lawfare against Trump, their lawfare against normal Americans through the Summer of Love riots, the Covid lockdowns, and the stolen election.

That patience is wearing thin. We still have the ballot come November, but no one believes that the election will be untainted by fraud. In fact, we expect that the Democrats will use every means possible, including illegal ballots, to overturn the will of the people.

My vote for Trump is a foregone conclusion. It’s locked in and I will crawl over broken glass on hot pavement to vote for him. It’s no longer about the man himself, whether I like his personality or his policies.

It’s now about the evil of the State and my vote for Trump is a protest against it.

We are in deep weeds, my friends.

If you can, have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Robert DeNiro Barely More Cogent Than Biden During NYC Rant

For most of my life I never paid much attention to actor Robert De Niro. As an actor, he belongs in the ranks of top-tier performers like Al Paccino, Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman.

But Robert De Niro lost his mind when Trump was elected and still hasn’t recovered. It’s always puzzled me. If one wanted a case study of TDS, rage junkie De Niro is it.

Following Biden’s embrace of one-hit wonder Mark Hamill four weeks ago, his campaign arranges a “press conference” featuring De Niro outside the court where Trump’s trial is taking place.

And he shows up with a mask. A mask!

That’s so 2020.

So what drives De Niro’s contempt for Trump? He’s short on specifics but long on speculation.

De Niro, 80, has already narrated ads for the Biden campaign, and told reporters Tuesday that Trump “wants to sow total chaos” and “destroy not only the city” before expanding his argument to say “eventually he could destroy the whole world.”

“I don’t mean to scare you. No, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you,” he said at one point. “If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted.

“And elections. Forget about it. That’s over. That’s done. If he gets in. I can tell you right now. He will never leave. He will never leave. You know that. He will never leave.”

Trump will sow total chaos, destroy the city, destroy the country, destroy the whole world, take away our freedoms, and will never leave.

Sowing total chaos? Like admitting tens of millions of foreigners into the country illegally? Like confusing children about their “gender”? Like letting thieves and homicidal maniacs back on the streets with no cash bail after they commit crime?

Destroy the city? Like Democrat governors did in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago? Or like in East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment resulted in a toxic chemical spill that Biden could care less about?

Destroy the country? Like destroying businesses during Covid? Like shutting down coal? Shutting down the Keystone pipeline?

Destroy the world? Like in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Israel?

Take away our freedoms? Like censoring topics on Twitter/X? Like putting hundreds of patriots in jail indefinitely without due process over nothing more than walking through the Capitol when invited in by the Capitol police? Like mandating masks and like Biden telling us he’s losing patience with those of us who refused the “vaccines”?

Never leave? Like when Biden and his gang steal the election later this year?

There’s only two options here: he either believes his hype or he doesn’t, and I’m inclined to think he believes it.

It’s fascinating and infuriating, but not impossible to believe that he’s serious.

It’s delusional. It’s exactly the kind of things that conservatives would say about Biden, but we’ve got evidence to back up our assertions that De Niro and his constituency have to ignore.

When Trump goes after the Deep State and the grifting rulers, that’s “sowing total chaos.” That’s upsetting the elites like De Niro, who like their place above the “clowns” that he makes room for. Yes, he actually said that.

It’s so weird.

If you have the stomach for it, you can watch the whole thing here:

De Niro’s fragile ego takes a hit when counter-protestors call him “washed up” and a “mook.” I had to look up what a mook was: a foolish, insignificant, or contemptible person. You know, the very thing that De Niro accuses Trump of being.

But he couldn’t take it when it was dished out.

Reality bites when you’re not acting.

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Daily Broadside | Memorial Day 2024

Several times each year I intentionally remind myself of my freedoms and that those freedoms have come at a cost. One of those occasions is Memorial Day.

I found the following poem, written by Wallace Stevens, an American modernist poet who published his first book of poetry (Harmonium) in 1923, just over 100 years ago. In it was a poem called “The Death of a Soldier.”

‘The Death of a Soldier’

Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.

He does not become a three-days’ personage,
Imposing his separation,
Calling for pomp.

Death is absolute and without memorial,
As in a season of autumn,
When the wind stops.

When the wind stops and, over the heavens,
The clouds go, nevertheless,
In their direction.

The line that caught me is, “Death is absolute and without memorial.”

Is it true that death is “without memorial”? Perhaps as an event death does its work and offers nothing more. Death itself only takes and provides no memorial.

But as a matter of shared inevitability among us, we recognize that, by nature, there is nothing more here for a person after death, and we make an effort to keep a memory of the deceased alive through our mourning, our cemetaries, and our memorial days.

It is more poignant still when death is voluntarily embraced for a noble cause. Death comes for us all eventually, but some are willing to embrace it unnaturally early for the sake of protecting others they both know and would never know for generations to come.

That’s what this Memorial Day is for. You may not personally know any of the thousands of men and women who have given “the last full measure of devotion.” The many thousands of them probably never knew you. But you can breathe a prayer of thanks for them and their willingness to confront whatever threatened their contemporaries and the lives yet to come, including yours.

Be grateful today for those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to you and to me.