Jonah Goldberg – a former editor of the increasingly left-wing National Review website – took to CNN this week to explain that only large, billionaire donors have the country’s interests at heart, and that “small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy.”
The full statement from the rabid NeverTrump activist:
“There was a lot of cheering and self congratulation about the rise of small donors a decade ago. And now small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy, for the GOP. Large donors actually have a strategic view about moderation, who can win, and who can’t. Small donors are really just venting their spleen with their credit card.”
Writing for The Dispatch, a liberal publication Goldberg recently founded, he expanded on his defense of the GOP establishment, accusing grassroots supporters of, “…suffer[ing] from the delusion that they are victims of the ruling classes and that the woke left is running everything…”. He concludes: “For those desperate for a Republican nominee other than Trump, hoping voters will change their minds seems scary. But that’s democracy for you.”
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Jonah Goldberg – a former editor of the increasingly left-wing National Review website – took to CNN this week to explain that only large, billionaire donors have the country's interests at heart, and that "small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy."
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In response to Goldberg’s snobbery towards smaller dollar contributions to right-wing things he doesn’t like, we’ve implemented a new “Super Like” or “Boost” function at the bottom of all of our articles
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Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, has boasted that the European Union (EU) has “disciplined” populists like Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ensuring they do not seriously challenge the globalist status quo exemplified by politicians like France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
An old opponent of Brexit champion Nigel Farage, the German socialist has explained in an interview that “European integration is surprisingly democratically stabilizing” – that is, European Union law and the institutions that enforce it are good at stopping democratic elections which return anti-establishment candidates from really changing anything.
“Let’s look at Ms. Meloni since she became Prime Minister,” he said of Italy’s new leader, whose election initially triggered panic among media organizations from NPR to the BBC, who branded her the country’s most “far-right” leader since Benito Mussolini.
The supposed populist, Schulz said, “makes a bit of a racket internally,” but has ultimately fallen in line as “a reliable partner at European level.”
Indeed, though she was elected as a eurosceptic social conservative promising a naval blockade to end an illegal boat migrants crisis, she has governed as a Ukraine war hawk who literally holds hands with Joe Biden at summits and insists that “Europe and Italy need immigration.”
Schulz noted that French populist leader Marine Le Pen and German populist leader Alice Weidel, too, have given up talking about leaving the European Union or even dropping the euro currency, and boasted that the EU “disciplines right-wing populists.”
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Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, has boasted that the European Union (EU) has "disciplined" populists like Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ensuring they do not seriously challenge the globalist status quo exemplified by politicians like France's President Emmanuel Macron.
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Miami Mayor and presidential hopeful Francis Suarez called on candidates who don’t make the August 23rd debate stage to drop out, adding: “I agree that if you can’t meet the minimum thresholds, you shouldn’t be trying to take the time involved away from being productive.” Suarez himself has not yet met all of the qualifications to make the debate stage.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) requires that presidential primary candidates meet a 40,000 donor threshold – a condition that Suarez says he met on August 7th – however, candidates are also required to “[p]oll at least 1% in three national polls OR 1% in two national polls AND 1% in one early state poll from two separate “carve out” states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina) recognized by the RNC.” Candidates must present evidence of having met each requirement to the RNC no later than 48 hours before the debate is set to begin. As of publication, Suarez has not met the polling requirement.
I am extremely pleased to announce that my campaign has today passed the 40,000 unique donor threshold set by the @GOP to make the debate stage.
In less than six weeks my team and I have quite literally gone from zero to a hundred and we are confident that I will be on the… pic.twitter.com/sx6oAwhkmA
Miami Mayor and presidential hopeful Francis Suarez called on candidates who don't make the August 23rd debate stage to drop out, adding: "I agree that if you can’t meet the minimum thresholds, you shouldn’t be trying to take the time involved away from being productive." Suarez himself has not yet met all of the qualifications to make the debate stage.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has accepted an endorsement that most Republican candidates might try to downplay or even outright avoid – Iowa Evangelical talk-radio host Steve Deace, who openly attempted to lose Republicans the 2016 election, paving the way for a Hillary Clinton America.
I’m honored to receive the endorsement from the great @SteveDeaceShow
Like so many Iowans, Steve knows the time for excuses is over. We will get the job done in 2024! pic.twitter.com/RCIURzKbK4
During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Deace began as an early backer of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx). When the Cruz campaign – run by Jeff Roe who is now the top political guru for Team DeSantis – failed to defeat the eventual Republican nominee and 2016 presidential winner Donald Trump, Deace openly opposed Trump’s general election campaign, going so far as to say that between Trump and Hillary Clinton, “I don’t really care who wins.”
Following Trump securing the Republican nomination for President in 2016, Deace declared that he was leaving the Republican Party and joining the NeverTrump movement. In a now deleted Conservative Review column, Deace scolded conservatives for supporting Donald Trump:
And spare me your sanctimonious rambling about, ‘but if he’s the nominee we have to vote for him or Hillary will win. First of all, most of the thumb-suckers saying this have sat on the sidelines during this primary process, refusing to get their hands dirty doing everything they could to stop the GOP from nominating another sure-fire progressive loser/betrayer once more.
Deace’s rant continued with:
Now we’re talking about attaching our brand to an unrepentant serial liar and adulterer that has clearly demonstrated during his 70 years on this planet he stands for nothing but himself.
And as we’ve reached the apex of this primary it’s become abundantly clear that Trump is who his detractors always said he was, and is taking advantage of every negative stereotype the left has of conservatives to excel in this race. Everything he touches becomes corrupted and distorted.
Right before the November 2016 presidential election Deace encouraged Utah voters to support former CIA spook, Deep State defender, and third party candidate Evan McMullin for President.
Republicans voting for third parties over Trump would certainly have handed Hillary Clinton the White House.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has accepted an endorsement that most Republican candidates might try to downplay or even outright avoid – Iowa Evangelical talk-radio host Steve Deace, who openly attempted to lose Republicans the 2016 election, paving the way for a Hillary Clinton America.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed all regional heads of military enlistment amid an ongoing investigation into military recruitment corruption, announcing that army veterans will become responsible for drafting new troops.
The decision comes after accusations of corruption by way of “draft evasion” among military recruiters, who were seen to be enriching themselves at the expense of the Ukrainian armed forces. There are now 112 criminal proceedings and 33 ‘suspicions’ against enlistment office officials as a result.
Zelensky – who leads the most corrupt nation in Europe, also the place the Biden family coincidentally chose to conduct business – announced the move via his official Telegram page, arguing that military enlistment “should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery during war is treason.”
Zelensky’s decision will be implemented by the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, with all appointees subject to inspections and approval by the Ukrainian Security Service.
Allegations of Ukrainian corruption have repeatedly surfaced, including veteran journalist Seymour Hersh’s claim that the Ukrainian President, along with his generals, embezzled “at least” $400 million in U.S. aid in 2022. Ukrainian corruption as well as Zelensky’s growing authoritarianism led POLITICO to report earlier this year that he could become susceptible to “another Maidan” revolution.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed all regional heads of military enlistment amid an ongoing investigation into military recruitment corruption, announcing that army veterans will become responsible for drafting new troops.
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The United States budget deficit has doubled under President Joe Biden; hitting $1.6 trillion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year. The continued deterioration of the fiscal state of the U.S. is another blow to Bidenomics, the set of economic agenda items that the Biden White House has pinned their re-election hopes on.
In a thread on X (formerly Twitter), economist EJ Antoni explained that the U.S. Treasury “…continues hemorrhaging cash as spending balloons, receipts fall; deficit and interest on the debt keep rising.” Antoni noted net interest payments on the U.S. debt exceeded spending on national defense, medicare, veterans benefits and services, and transportation.
Net interest in Jul exceeded these categories: national defense, income security, medicare, veterans benefits and services, transportation, other; net interest equaled health category; only 2 categories above net interest: social security and education: pic.twitter.com/bFEFFHTAEY
Even more concerning is that the Fiscal-Year-To-Date’s deficit is already $238 billion above the last Fiscal Year’s entire deficit. There are still two months remaining in the current Fiscal Year.
The negative news on the U.S. deficit only darkens the storm clouds over the U.S. economy. The July Consumer Price Index numbers signaled a re-acceleration in inflation – despite many in the mainstream media claiming that the inflation crisis was over. In response to the re-acceleration of inflation in July, Antoni stated:
The CPI has risen so much faster than wages under Biden that the average American worker effectively paid a $4.62 an hour inflation tax in July. And yet, many components of the CPI are understating the realities faced by Americans, including housing. The monthly payment on a median price home today is twice what it was in January 2021.
Last wee, Fitch Ratings downgraded U.S. government debt from AAA to AA+ and projected the American economy would enter into a recession in late 2023 or early 2024.
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The United States budget deficit has doubled under President Joe Biden; hitting $1.6 trillion in the first 10 months of the fiscal year. The continued deterioration of the fiscal state of the U.S. is another blow to Bidenomics, the set of economic agenda items that the Biden White House has pinned their re-election hopes on.
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A Christian couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for religious discrimination after they were denied the right to foster a child because they would not respect non-binary pronouns if the child identified as transgender.
Michael and Catherine Burke allege that their application was rejected by the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) after a social worker issued an approval of the application “with conditions, specifically around religion and LGBTQIA++ related issues.”
The social worker asked the couple whether they would have a problem with the foster child being LGBT, whereupon Catherine Burke referred to so-called “gender-affirming care” as chemical castration, suggested taking “the T out of it” and “expressed hesitation” around using they/them pronouns.
However, the couple made it clear that they would respect the child’s wishes, continue to “love [the child] the same,” not subject the child to conversion therapy, and even attend their child’s LGBT wedding.
The couple is suing the DCF on First Amendment grounds, citing five violations. “The Burkes were devastated to learn that they were denied a license to foster or adopt any child in the Massachusetts child welfare system,” stated the couples’ lawyer, Lori Windham.
“They’re asking the court to get rid of that discriminatory denial so that they will not be barred from fostering or adopting children in the future, in Massachusetts or elsewhere,” Windham added.
The U.S. has a “critical shortage” of foster homes, with around 407,000 children in foster care in America.
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A Christian couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for religious discrimination after they were denied the right to foster a child because they would not respect non-binary pronouns if the child identified as transgender.
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Illegal migrants have been removed from the Bibby Stockholm barge after Legionella bacteria was found in the barge’s water supply within days of dozens of people moving in. Those onboard are now likely to be moved to new accommodation, despite the British immigration Minister Robert Jenrick referring to the barge as “perfectly decent.”
None of the illegal migrants on the barge have shown signs of contracting Legionella bacteria so far, which, if untreated, can cause a lung infection known as Legionnaires’ disease. The government is understood to be hosting a number of meetings on Friday in an effort to resolve the problem. There are around 15 people living on the barge, despite the government’s initially expectation of around 50.
The British government has already faced a barrage of criticism from the mainstream media and leftist groups for using the barge as an alternative to housing illegal migrants in hotels across the country, with some going so far as to refer to the accommodation as a “deathtrap.”
Yet, those living on the barge were provided with all the necessary basics by the British taxpayer. This includes beds, food, internet, computers, a free gym, outdoor access, and even the freedom to come and go as often as they pleased.
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Illegal migrants have been removed from the Bibby Stockholm barge after Legionella bacteria was found in the barge's water supply within days of dozens of people moving in. Those onboard are now likely to be moved to new accommodation, despite the British immigration Minister Robert Jenrick referring to the barge as "perfectly decent."
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Suicide rates in the United States reached an all-time high in 2022 and are now more common in America than at any time since the Second World War, according to recently published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Around 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., with older adults between the ages of 45 and 64 seeing the largest increase of 7 percent compared to 2021. Suicides in younger adults between 25 and 44 also grew by 1 percent, representing the second most common cause of death among the age range, up from number four in 2021. White men had especially high rates of suicide in comparison to other demographics, according to the CDC.
The U.S. suicide rate incrementally increased from the early 2000s until 2018, in which levels reached their highest since 1941 – the year of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The rates increased again in 2021 by four percent and then again by 3 percent in 2022.
“I think it’s important to realize we’ve seen these increases for many, many years,” stated Dr. Debra Houry, chief medical officer of the CDC, when announcing the latest statistics, before adding: “There was a slight decline in 2019 and 2020, but really over the past 15 years, we’ve been on this trajectory.”
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Suicide rates in the United States reached an all-time high in 2022 and are now more common in America than at any time since the Second World War, according to recently published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The House Oversight Committee is preparing to subpoena President Joe Biden and his family if they do not willingly testify before Congress over the family’s ‘crooked‘ foreign financial affairs.
Chairman of the Oversight Committee James Comer (R-KY) announced the plan after the GOP-majority committee released bank statements earlier this week showing the Biden’s accepted at least $20 million from countries including Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
“This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee. We are going to subpoena the family,” Comer stated.
“We know that this is going to end up in court when we subpoena the Bidens. So we’re putting together a case, and I think we’ve done that very well. We’ve shown the bank records… We have put together a case that I think would stand up in any court of law in America,” Comer added.
Members of the committee have already been in contact with “three or four” of the family’s associates, such as Hunter Biden’s former best friend, Devon Archer, and will continue to build the case against the family in the near future; meaning, in spite of the overwhelming evidence against the Bidens, it is likely to be some time before any subpoena is issued.
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The House Oversight Committee is preparing to subpoena President Joe Biden and his family if they do not willingly testify before Congress over the family's 'crooked' foreign financial affairs.
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