Saturday, June 06, 2026

The Democrats' long plod to November features a new wave of unimaginably detestable idiot candidates mixed with some old-guard cameos

Over at Instapundit, Stephen Green asks What in the Actual Hell Is a Democrat These Days? 

Allow Damian Bennett to provide an answer:

With must-win competitive campaigns to control at least one chamber of Congress to thwart Mean Mr. Mustard, the Ds have raided central casting for unelectable crazies and Schweinehunde.

If any evidence is needed, t'is provided by our old pal from Virginny (thanks for the Instalink, Sarah). After reviewing Damian's four exhibits, be sure to read his Coda in the final couple of paragraphs…

NOVEMBER! Democrats be like...

Big Fatties Enter DNC 2026 Thunderdome
Democrat Party: 
"Pay Attention. THIS is who we are."

The Democrats' long plod to November features a new wave of unimaginably detestable idiot candidates mixed with some old-guard cameos. With must-win competitive campaigns to control at least one chamber of Congress to thwart Mean Mr. Mustard, the Ds have raided central casting for unelectable crazies and Schweinehunde.* Let's take a look at some of the headliners.
* This makes the mid-terms the Republicans' to lose. [Hard sigh.] Hold your bets.

Exhibit A: Eric Swalwell (xCA-D)
Given enough rope, a Democrat hangs him/herself. Swalwell, a go-to media cudgel for beating on the Trump WH, had been fed so much rope he hung himself from the high gallows of frontpage headlines, page six tattle, and 'breaking' chiron crawls. When the trap opened, it was his mentor groomer, Nancy Pelosi, pulled the lever and left him to twist in the wind. Where he dangles to this very day.
Exhibit B: The Clingy Bidens
Will the nation never be free of the Bidens? The Bidens aspire to American royalty of sorts, part Borgia Court, part Lady MacBeth, part Ubu Roi.
You know, ON SECOND THOUGHT...
On to the next grift.
Democrat Jew-hate is now out in the open -- and what a relief! No more pretending it's a beef with Israel. No more threatening just Zionists. Nope, it's back to basics with straight up Nat-ZEE guy.   
Exhibit D: James Talarico
James Talarico is the DNC's idea of a Christian Democrat, that is to say a full-bore Democrat with a Sunday side hustle -- who is not an Episcopalian (he's Presbyterian). They are running him in TX as Beto lifted from the grave.
Talarico is a 'Christian' much the same as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are 'Catholic', which is to say they are neither Christian nor Catholic. What they are are hardcore cutthroat Democrats. It is NOT Christianity that informs Talarico policy, it's the DNC. 
It's endless crazy. [Thoughtful pause.] Talarico does know he's running for statewide office in TX, yes? 
CODA
Here's a Q, how does a national party on the 20% side of every 20/80 issue manage competitive near parity with an opposition on the 80% side? One would think the 20 percenters would poll closer to their standing on the issues. [A terrible obvious insight occurs!] Could gerrymandering and ballot fuckery be the political 'miracle' that keeps the 20 percenters competitive? Or is it the dark powers and deep state hiding behind an illusionary democracy?

Be sure to register. Be sure to vote.

 

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What are we gonna make of this British insanity? Asks VDH; Once a person is identified as a victim or the oppressed, that serves as a get out of jail card

 
Over at the Daily Signal, Victor Davis Hanson explains Britain’s ‘Sickly Reversed’ George Floyd Moment. 

 … when police arrived, [Henry Nowak] was on the ground bleeding out, clearly bleeding out and muttering, “I’m dying.”

What was the reaction of the police? Did they render immediate first aid and restrain [Vickrum Digwa]? No. No. What they did was they—Mr. Digwa then made up a lie, … that he had been a victim of racism, that Mr. Nowak had exchanged words that were racial in nature to him that prompted the stabbing.

So, what did the police do? They put handcuffs on the dying young Mr. Nowak. And of course, he died with the handcuffs without any medical attention at all.

 … at some point, the police finally caught on after Mr. Nowak died, or they had surveillance, or they had witnesses, that there had been no racial taunts, that that was a complete lie.

And they had watched and, in some ways, abetted the death of Mr. Nowak, who was a white male and was on the wrong side of the oppressor-oppressed binary, apparently.

What are we gonna make of this British insanity?

 … What can we learn from all this? We’ve talked about the problems with DEI. DEI not only destroys meritocracy and promotes people who did not earn that admission or that hiring based on widely accepted criteria that everybody accepts.

We’re an equal opportunity Western civilization. We are not a mandated equality of result, at least we weren’t until recently.

But there’s another wrinkle to DEI. Once a person is informally or formally, identified as a victim or the oppressed, that serves as a get out of jail card. That is the end of deterrence.

 … It’s also kind of tragic that the Sikh community has been one of the most hardworking, law-abiding communities of immigrants in America and in Europe.

And they’ve had a tendency to look at themselves as individuals, not as collectives. But it would be a shame if the Sikh community did not condemn members of their own community if they’re going to talk in collective terms.

They’re under no obligation to single out Mr. Digwa in Britain. But if they talk about the Sikh community, then they are, and they had.

One of the Sikh leaders in Great Britain said that now the Sikhs were subject to hate crimes. And so, he was trying to take the onus away from the murderer to now his community is victimized.

Wouldn’t it have been better for the Sikh leader to come out and say, “Mr. Digwa is not representative of our community.["?]

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RARE COLOR FILM OF D-DAY JUNE 1944 AND THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY

 
Update: Rebecca Mansour brings Breitbart's readers D-Day in Photos: ‘The Free Men of the World Are Marching Together to Victory’.

Over at the All That's Interesting website, the site's crew proposes an archival newsreel from the summer of 1944 (bottom), along with a color film of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy until the liberation of Paris (above). It is part of an article focusing on the easternmost point of the five attacks, Sword Beach.  

(Samuel Warde's article seems a bit hastily-written, without clear-cut editing, as he twice mentions "the city of Caen/ The city of Caen" while he shows a photo of British paratroopers with a Pegasus mascot but fails to point out that Lord Lovat's men who "were given the task of moving swiftly off the beach and joining up with the paratroopers … inland" did so at the captured crossing point code-named… Pegasus Bridge, one of the most eventful events during D-Day.)

Units of the British 2nd Army along with French commandos first landed on Sword Beach at 7:25 a.m. led by Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey. Additionally, they were supported by paratroopers who landed in zones located a short distance inland from the beach.

German defenses were much lighter at Sword Beach than at other landing sectors such as Omaha Beach and by 8:00 a.m., most of the fighting on the beach was concluded. At about 9:30 a.m., two squadrons of Royal Engineers had cleared seven of the eight intended exit lanes from Sword Beach.


A more disheartening story is something that remained hidden for three decades, as in Top Secret, a dress rehearsal for D-Day six weeks prior, which turned out to be disastrous, Exercise Tiger.  Marco Margaritoff has the whole story and all the details over at the All That's Interesting website.

The Battle of Normandy during World War II remains one of the most hallowed military efforts of the 20th century. Tens of thousands of Allied troops valiantly stormed five beaches in France as part of the effort to liberate western Europe from the Nazis and create a second front to defeat the Axis Powers. But D-Day was almost canceled after a training operation known as Exercise Tiger went awry. 

Six weeks before the invasion of Normandy, American troops gathered at Slapton Sands in Devon, England, to rehearse for the upcoming battle. From the beginning of the exercise, things went terribly wrong. First, communication issues led to casualties when thousands of men were dropped into a practice bombardment. Then, the Germans attacked.

Patrol ships were meant to be guarding the bay from enemy vessels, but several German E-boats managed to slip by. In the early morning hours of April 28, 1944, they fired torpedoes at the tank landing ships that were part of the operation, sinking two of them and killing hundreds of men.

By the time Exercise Tiger was over, an estimated 749 American troops had perished. 

Click this link for a full account of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944…

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Friday, June 05, 2026

“Liberalize, debureaucratize, de-administer”: Without Freedom, There Is No Salvation for Europe


Without liberalism (in the original sense of the word), writes Sébastien Laye in his prognosis for France's next presidential election, there is no salvation.

What is necessary is for the next (or, true to tell, for the current!) administration in Paris to “Liberalize, debureaucratize, de-administer”, according to Sébastien Laye in Valeurs Actuelles: indeed, the 2027 presidential election will hinge on the economy (merci à Sarah pour l'Instalien).

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Monday, June 01, 2026

Doxxing & Double Standards: In Case You Are Wondering, Here Is the Real Reason Why ICE Officers Are Masked


So you don't understand why federal agents are masked as they carry out their duties and you even think it is indicative of the Trump administration's alleged authoritarianism or even fascism?

Allow Brie Stimson to provide the explanation on Fox News: 

On Thursday evening outside of Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center, protesters were accused of biting, kicking and punching agents. 

Protesters? Or hysterical members of a mob? One of the drama queens can be heard bellowing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer: 

"I will kill your whole f-cking family. Your whole f-cking family is dead. Your children and wife — all dead. I have your face motherf-cker! You're dead! Dead!" 

"That’s a federal crime," Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on "The Will Cain Show". "Not only threatening the ICE officer — but think about how disgusting this individual is by threatening his wife and his children with death." 

The extremist who was eventually arrested turns out to be one Nicolas Scelfo, a brave and fearless revolutionary who was "previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to the dissemination and possession of child pornography."

This is not an outlier — far from it. Back in December 2025, reported Charles Creitz,

Two New Jersey brothers were arrested … on charges tied to terroristic threats against DHS chief Kristi Noem’s top public-facing deputy, including alleged vows to "shoot ICE agents on sight." 

Besides posting medieval torture threats, the twins Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores added that

"We Americans should find you, tar you, feather you, and hang you as we did to anyone serving tyrants before the Revolutionary War." 

(Historically, FYI, either you tar and feather someone, or you hang them. Rarely — if ever — do you do both. I.e., either the alleged offense warrants tarring and feathering as a punishment or it is so egregious that it warrants nothing less than execution.)  

Useful Reminder: From child pornographers to women killers via reckless drivers, here are a handful of examples of the type of illegal alien who has been targeted by ICE.


No wonder there is so much hostility towards ICE agents (and their families) when they are constantly being described as fascists and Nazis. And it's not just random thugs in the street, either. From town halls (Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu) to the hallowed halls of Congress (New York Representative Jerry Nadler) comes a steady stream of hysterical invective against Donald Trump and the people serving in his government.

• Related: No Wonder There Is So Much Hostility to Trump and the Republicans When They Are Constantly Being Called Racists, Nazis, and a Threat to Democracy

As Stephen Green writes, it is correct that ideally,

Federal agents shouldn’t be masked — but there’s really no alternative when the Left has turned to doxxing and violence.  

With Mike LaChance adding a point or two about the Left's double standards: 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other Democratic figures are calling for the exposure of ICE agents, demanding that their masks be removed so they can be identified. Members of ICE wear masks because they are facing death threats against them and their families. Democrats are putting their lives at risk over this.

Of course, Democrats have never called for members of Antifa or the anti-Israel campus radicals to be unmasked. Curious, isn’t it?

 … Go back and look at [Legal Insurrection's] extensive coverage of anti-Israel protesters on college campuses over the last two years. You know what you’ll find they all have in common? All of the protesters are wearing masks.

Democrats have never called for them to be unmasked. That tells you everything you need to know.

They want and need anarchy, adds JEFFREY CARTER: 

My old liberal acquaintances are very upset with Trump. They are posting all over LinkedIn about the “rule of law”. Pretty clear they have no understanding of the law. They wonder why ICE agents are wearing masks. Maybe it’s a fear of Covid, but I’m joking. Masks never worked for Covid. They are wearing masks because terrorist organizations like ANTIFA are threatening them and their families with violence.

It’s pretty clear the Democrats have chosen violence as the next level of escalation. Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood. A Virginia Attorney General candidate threatens to put bullets in the heads of the Virginia Speaker of the House and his children. There are no calls from any Virginia Democrat for him to step down, let alone any Democrat.

As it happens, it turns out that the Antifa Thugs in Portland and Newark Laying Siege to ICE detention facilities are PAID. Could the same be said of, say (oh, I dunno), the January 6 protesters?

Incidentally (not): ever wonder why most congress policemen were not wearing masks on January 6? Could it be they knew that they, not to mention their families, had nothing to fear from the J6 protesters (real protesters, not mob agitators)? Glenn Reynolds lays it out bare: 

This is much more violent than January 6. January 6 was American citizens acting like Americans. This is enemies of America acting like enemies.

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