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California Democrat Xavier Becerra May Have Just Nuked His Governor Campaign With This Embarrassing Interview

Xavier Becerra served as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Joe Biden. Prior to that, he was the attorney general for the state of California, where he is now running for the Democrat nomination for governor.

Becerra has been polling well with Democrats, but an interview he just did with KTLA News in California was so bad that it could derail his campaign. It was really that embarrassing and cringeworthy.

This interview was also an excellent reminder that Democrats are not used to dealing with hostile media. They’re accustomed to journalists setting them up with easy questions and teeing up attacks on their opponents, usually Republicans.

FOX News reports:

Democratic candidate for California governor Xavier Becerra is drawing criticism for a sit-down interview with local media in which he voiced expectations for a “profile” and not a “gotcha” interview.

“By the way, this is a profile piece — this is not a gotcha piece, right?” Becerra asked.

When the reporter indicated Becerra would face at least some challenging inquiries, Becerra doubled down.

“The way I describe a profile is: You talk about all the things that I’ve done, things that I want to do, along with some tough questions. But not only tough questions,” Becerra said.

The moment highlights rising tensions amid a crowded field to replace outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom — as well as Becerra’s readiness to defend his image in the final stretches of California’s open primary, where only the top two candidates will advance to the general election.

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Mockery Ensues After Disgraced Virginia Attorney General Makes This EMBARRASSING Mistake While Begging the U.S. Supreme Court to Reinstitute the Democrats’ Rigged Map

The Democrats have not been sending their best people for a long time, but at least they can avoid the errors an elementary school child makes.

Not disgraced Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, however.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the Democrat Party’s rigged gerrymandering referendum last week in a 4-3 decision, ruling the entire sleazy process to sneak it onto the ballot was unconstitutional from the start.

This was the latest devastating blow to radical Democrats’ blatant attempt to rewrite Virginia’s congressional maps mid-decade and hand themselves a super-majority in the U.S. House by turning the state from a competitive 6-5 split into a laughably unfair 10 Democrats to 1 Republican slaughter.

Virginia voters previously approved the state legislature and Governor Abigail Spanberger’s wicked power grab in a narrow vote last month.

On Monday, Jones filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, begging them to restitute the rigged map. But when he filed the appeal, Jones was confused about which court he should send it to.

The appeal shows that he is addressing the Supreme Court of Virginia, not the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justices should throw this out based on the stupid error alone.

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Democrats Seem to Want a New Civil War

Democrats would have you believe that the Republicans started the first Civil War in order to preserve slavery, which is quite on-brand with their fondness for rewriting history. 

Now they are agitating for a new Civil War, again based on a long series of what amount to racial grievances, although this time the target of their hate is white people. Same basic theme, just a new set of enemies to demonize and wage war against. 

The slander that Republicans are racists has been floating around for a very long time, but over the past few months and years, the frequency and loudness have reached a new level, along with talks of “war,” “revolution,” “maximum warfare,” and outright assassination talk and attempts. 

Democrats are screaming bloody murder, in some cases literally, about the recent Supreme Court decision that mandates that the drawing of Congressional maps must be color blind. It doesn’t even matter if the new Congressmen elected might be black; what matters is that they are Democrats. 

The theory is simple: Democrats, as when they owned the slaves, own the black vote. A black Republican Senator is a House Negro in their eyes, and doesn’t count as true black representation. 

A white man in Tennessee who is a Democrat counts as black, and a black woman in Tennessee counts as white. 

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Murphy’s True Allegiance: Illegal Immigrants, Iran, And Ukraine Over American Citizens

From the fabricated Russia collusion narrative to two phony impeachments to his relentless defense of Obama’s catastrophic 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has been a consistent opponent of American interests. He is one of the Senate’s most vocal proponents for counting millions of illegal immigrants in the census. It is a deceitful and unconstitutional scheme that steals congressional seats and electoral votes from real American citizens.

Murphy actively works to grant political power to millions who illegally crossed our southern border by counting them in the census. This scheme effectively hands extra congressional seats and Electoral College votes to blue states like California and New York, bypassing law-abiding citizens in red states. Far from protecting American sovereignty, Murphy celebrates it as a brilliant political power grab.

Senator Chris Murphy proves that feminism is nothing more than a selective political prop. While Iran stones women, hangs girls for improper clothing, and treats them as property, Murphy has refused to get tough on the ayatollahs. Instead, he viciously attacked President Trump’s strikes against the regime, branding them “illegal,” and has pushed war powers resolutions to limit America’s response to Iranian threats.

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Progressives Want Us To Live In An Age Of Pretend

The word “pretend” is defined as speaking or acting so as to make it appear that something is the case when, in fact, it is not. Isn’t that exactly what much of America is being asked to do today by the mainstream media, progressive politicians and woke celebrities?

We are being pressured to pretend to believe things that defy logic and common sense. If we refuse, we risk being labeled racist, bigot, Nazi, homophobic, fascist, climate denier—or worse.

During the Biden Administration, we were told to pretend that inflation was “transitory” and not a serious problem, even as prices soared. We were instructed to ignore “our lying eyes” and accept that everything was under control. For example:

  1. We were expected to pretend that the southern border was secure, despite more than 15 million illegal migrants entering the country and a record amounts of deadly drugs being smuggled in by Mexican cartels.
  2. We were urged to pretend that abandoning reliable fossil fuels in favor of intermittent “green energy” would solve global warming.
  3. And we were told to embrace the notion that biological males could become women, compete in women’s sports, and that sex is a fluid social construct rather than a biological reality.

Common sense had been replaced by partisan politics in service of a progressive agenda — one that asks us to pretend that wrong is right and that reality itself is negotiable.

A striking example occurred at Stanford Law School, where radical students shouted down an invited Federal Appeals Court judge, falsely labeling him anti-LGBTQ and a bigot. Instead of upholding free speech principles, a law school administrator appeared to pretend that the students had done nothing wrong, and even berated the judge. The irony was lost on no one: students claiming to exercise their own free speech rights were actively denying that same right to a invited speaker. These are future lawyers and judges who will one day swear an oath to uphold the Constitution — including the First Amendment. Yet the left asks us to pretend this behavior was legitimate “dissent.”

The word “pretend” has taken on new prominence in recent years. A vocal segment of the political left — particularly in media, academia and the Democrat Party — routinely inverts logic. Consider just a few examples:

  1. A Supreme Court nominee who, when asked to define “woman” during her confirmation hearing, claimed that she could not, because she was not a biologist.
  2. Militant activists insisting that biological males should compete in women’s sports.
  3. Calls to abolish ICE and leave the border wide open.
  4. Denials of massive fraud in government programs, even when the evidence is overwhelming.
  5. And the reflexive, knee-jerk opposition to anything President Trump says or does — a condition often diagnosed as Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). Some observers believe this unhinged hostility has contributed to the three assassination attempts against him in less than two years.

We were also told to pretend that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was a “success,” even though it left American citizens and Afghan allies stranded under Taliban rule and abandoned billions of dollars in military equipment to America’s enemies.

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Pete Hegseth Accuses Democrat Senator Mark Kelly of ‘Blabbing’ About ‘Classified’ Briefing

U.S. Department of War (DOW) Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) may be in deep trouble for comments he made over a classified Pentagon brief.

In a social media post on Sunday, Hegseth shared a post from Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan in which she detailed Kelly’s comments regarding U.S. weapons stockpiles.

“After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on U.S. weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is ‘shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines.’ He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves have been hit hard. He says it’ll take years to replenish those stockpiles, which could affect a hypothetical U.S. conflict with China,” Brennan reported.

In response, Hegseth criticized the senator, who is a retired U.S. Navy captain, and said officials were taking action.

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New Yorkers ‘Stunned’ as Mamdani Admin’s Orders ‘Ruined’ Mothers Day for Countless Families

It’s telling when you finally find a rich person or moneyed entity that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani can get behind.

Sure, he’ll berate Citadel hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin outside Griffin’s home with a video touting new property taxes, even though it wasn’t terribly far from where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated not long ago.

And sure, he’s the kind of guy who talks about the city’s hemorrhaging of wealthy New Yorkers due to his tax policies as an “imagined exodus.”

But at least the infamously leftist mayor knows where to draw the line: He’ll let Hollywood millionaires ruin Mother’s Day for everyone who wanted to go in or around New York City’s Chinatown to let a studio film a movie.

According to the New York Post, Mamdani’s office issued filming permits for “A Quiet Place 3” for Sunday in the historic neighborhood, where residents “were jolted awake with predawn sounds of explosions and had to navigate traffic and parking chaos all day.”

“Residents were left not-so-quietly fuming at the Mamdani administration for issuing permits to Paramount Pictures to film the blockbuster sequel on the special day, gobbling up parking spots on a dozen streets and creating a Mother’s Day madhouse in the neighborhood,” the paper reported.

One woman, who crossed into the movie set with her daughter as a protest, decried the disruption.

“My Mother’s Day is terrible because they’ve blocked the whole f***ing place. It’s already ruined,” she told the newspaper.

A man who spoke to reporters wasn’t much happier.

“This is unexpected and annoying. I just want to get home so I can cook for my wife,” he said.

And this wasn’t an ordinary disruption put upon by billionaire moguls and millionaire actors and directors, either.

At 4 a.m., the whole shindig began with military vehicles and fake weapons lining up around the neighborhood.

By the time Mother’s Day brunches were beginning hours later, the filming had congested traffic around the intersection of Bowery and Canal Street — the heart of the district — making it difficult to reach the not-insignificant number of restaurants there.

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Virginia Democrats Reveal a Radical Design

Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country — by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances.

Democrats violated the state’s constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four congressional seats away from Republicans.

But when Virginia’s supreme court threw out the illegal map, Democrats didn’t back down:

They started thinking of ways to get rid of every justice on the court, so they could pack it with new ones expressly picked to return a verdict more favorable to the party. 

If the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature could impose a mandatory retirement age of 54 on the justices — who are all older than that — they could be removed and replaced by compliant partisans.

This wasn’t just a harebrained scheme by state Democrats; this was discussed on a call with the highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

As breathtaking as this power grab might be, it’s consistent with the thrust of the national party’s thinking about doing away with troublesome constitutional checks.

Democrats have been arguing for decades to weaken or eliminate protections built into the Constitution to prevent a self-interested faction or party — even one with a short-term electoral majority behind it — from seizing total power.

Virginia today is exactly what James Madison and other framers of the Constitution were afraid of:

A faction — the Democrats — is using its success in the most recent election to try to rewrite the rules for future elections and is prepared to intimidate or destroy any institution that stands in its way, including the state’s supreme court. 

Virginia is not a solid-blue state — just a year ago, it had a full slate of Republican statewide elected officers.

Its congressional delegation is split, six Democrats to five Republicans. 

It may presently be out of reach for Republicans in presidential elections, but its legislative races and contests for statewide offices are competitive — Republicans had a majority in the House of Delegates as recently as three years ago.

Indeed, Virginia is so politically balanced that Democrats try to put a moderate face on their party by picking the likes of Abigail Spanberger, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine for governor or U.S. senator, candidates who present themselves as centrists.

Yet once Spanberger was sworn in as governor this year, with Democratic majorities in the general assembly, the push was on to throw the state constitution aside and redraw the congressional map to give Democrats 10 seats to one for the GOP, and now the justices who stopped that gerrymander face the party’s wrath.

Virginia’s constitution doesn’t seem to allow removal of sitting justices by imposing a mandatory retirement age.

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The Self-Indulgent, Dead-End Politics of AOC’s Partisan Liberalism

One of the year’s best feel-good news stories materialized late last month when Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin was forced to release more than 1,500 beagles who had been bred by the corporation to be sold into gruesome, sadistic government-funded experiments, only to be unceremoniously killed thereafter. I first reported on these industrialized dog abuses at Ridglan and by other corporations like it back in 2018. The horrific conditions into which the dogs are bred, and the monstrosity of the government-funded experiments to which they were subjected, remain vivid to this day.

That 2018 article was enabled by activists long opposed to the industrialized abuses of dogs and other animals. They worked against Ridglan Farms for over eight years to make last week’s inspiring victories possible, often risking their liberty to do so. And one major factor in their success — arguably the most indispensable one — was that they took an issue long associated with left-wing activism (animal rights) and found a way to form coalitions and partnerships with all sorts of politicians and media figures who reside far from left-wing politics, including many in the conservative movement and on the broader American right.

Much of this transformative progress was due to the deliberate portrayal of this cause as appealing to values found both on the right and the left. The campaign from White Coat Waste Project, for instance, emphasized not only the horrors of industrialized dog abuse and experimentation but also the wasteful government funds that sustain it, including horrifying dog experiments funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Activists with the animal rescue group DxE deliberately courted right-wing dog lovers and, in doing so, catapulted their cause from a once-perceived ideological or partisan fringe issue into one that commands mainstream support from a remarkably wide range of individuals.

All of this devotion to assembling a trans-ideological, nonpartisan coalition against hideous dog experimentation paid off. In the weeks leading up to the liberation of those 1,500 Ridglan Farms beagles, the cause had been taken up and promoted by not only numerous left-wing animal rights activists and local liberal politicians, but also prominent MAGA influencers and institutions, such as Lara Trump, Tomi Lahren, Laura Loomer, Megyn Kelly, Fox News, and by all sorts of right-wing members of Congress, including Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY).

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Mayor Overruled After He Dissolved Entire Police Force Following Dispute with His Wife

Municipal government is usually defined by procedure, paperwork, and painfully slow decision-making.

Not in the small town of Cohutta, Georgia.

In the span of a little over a week, the town went from a workplace mediation involving the mayor’s wife, to the firing of the entire police department, to an emergency public meeting that reinstated every officer almost as quickly as they had been dismissed.

According to WRCB-TV, the issue originally began between local officers and Cohutta Mayor Ron Shinnick’s wife.

Several officers had filed complaints about Shinnick’s wife, Pam, who had previously been relieved from her duties as town clerk for creating a hostile work environment.

The officers alleged that Pam still had access to private town information and other sensitive data.

This would eventually lead to formal mediation resolving the matter, and the town attorney assuring the local police officers that their jobs were not in any sort of danger.

About a week later, by Wednesday morning, Shinnick had dissolved the entire department.

When asked by WDEF-TV about the abrupt nature of the dissolution — and whether he was concerned about the livelihoods of these officers — Shinnick largely waved both concerns off.

“Well, I don’t think it’s that dire at all,” he said. “They’ll get a paycheck. We’re not that way, and I appreciate their service, okay? It is time for a change.”

Shinnick further compared the chaotic ordeal to sports: “It’s a guy thing. You know, occasionally, college football programs, you have to change the coach, and some people like it, some don’t. And that’s just kind of the way it happens sometimes, you know?”

That mayor’s words didn’t land with many of the officers.

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