Not What You Have Been Told‼️
Last night’s election told us a lot — just not all the promises
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Reckoning‼️: The Henry Nowak case we told you about last night exploded with a Wall Street Journal article and The New York Times predictably blaming those angry that an 18-year-old kid bled to death in handcuffs.
📰The Wall Street Journal headlined, “Student Murder Sparks Accusations U.K. Police Are Biased Against White Victims”
📰Then, The New York Times published, “U.K. Protests Over Murder Case Turn Violent as Leaders Urge Calm,” writing:
“After footage was released on Monday evening of officers handcuffing a stabbing victim, Henry Nowak, while his attacker looked on last December, right-wing commentators and politicians claimed that the British police were biased against white people.”
“Racist police off our streets”🗣️: The chants on England’s streets show a population furious with a police and political class beholden to neo-Marxist views of class and race.
Not the first time👀: Read The Free Press’ deep reporting about U.K. police ignoring and covering up massive rape and grooming gangs because it reflected poorly on the Pakistani immigrant community
📰The Free Press headlined: “The Biggest Peacetime Crime — and Cover-up — in British History”
How California Blew Up for Democrats
***Warning: All California results are subject to change — it takes them a week-plus to count ballots there ***
‼️We’ve been told Republicans are in trouble for the midterms — and that may be true — but the biggest message from last night is a complete repudiation of Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass’ liberalism.
👀Democrats have enjoyed one-party rule for almost two decades — by any fair measure, they own California.
‼️Yet, reality TV star Spencer Pratt came from nowhere to second in the Los Angeles mayor’s race by making it a referendum on the results of Karen Bass’ failed leadership
👀Get ready for a wild political summer — the anger of establishment Democrats at anyone who supports Pratt is funny to watch
Good read📰: The Washington Post headlines, “Voters are sending a message to L.A.’s Democratic mayor”
1️⃣The No. 1 vote-getter in last night’s jungle primary for governor is a Republican — yes, he will have a hard time in the runoff, but he has a chance
👀In one of Newsom’s new gerrymandered blue districts, an independent (Rep. Kevin Kiley) and a Republican are likely to advance.
CNN: “California’s 6th Congressional district right now, this is one of the districts that was redrawn because Democrats thought it would be a good pickup opportunity. Kevin Kiley is the incumbent. He’s an independent now, but he was a Republican, and he’s definitely not a Democrat. And the first two people in this race right now, and the top two advance, are the independent and the Republicans, NOT the Democrat.”
What I am thinking💭: The people who revolted the hardest against Democratic orthodoxy are the people who have been living under it for the past 16 years because they are angry at what it got them.
Response🗣️: Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wants to make America Venezuela
Sanders: “I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.”
Watch tonight📺: Jasmine Wright and Evan Barker on whether Democrats’ dream for a blue wave just ended in California
MAGA OWNS GOP‼️
🔥The hot new story in Washington is that Republicans are abandoning Trump
Last night◀️: A Trump-endorsed candidate for Iowa governor lost.
Hair on fire🔥: The Washington Post headlines, “Trump is liberating his Republican critics in Congress,” writing:
“President Donald Trump, by endorsing challengers of GOP incumbents, is creating lame-duck senators who owe him nothing.”
😬Senate Majority Leader John Thune poured cold water on Trump’s pick for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte
Thune: “We don’t need a weaponized DNI, we need professionals there”
Note✏️: Pulte is acting because Trump didn’t have enough Senate votes to get him through
Good read📰: Axios headlines “Thune hits breaking point with Trump”
👀Former Vice President Mike Pence is out with a new book, “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” talking about now is the time for Republicans to return to traditional conservative values
Read📖: The Wall Street Journal headline,s “‘What Conservatives Believe’ Review: Mike Pence’s Way” writing:
“The former vice president sees little conversation in President Trump’s second term, and is determined to bring it back”
What I’m thinking💭: What gives traditional conservatives a thought they have a chance of beating a MAGA Republican?
Reality🤷: It hasn’t happened — why do they think they are going to win this war?
❌Senate Republicans removed funding for the ballroom from the immigration bill
❌The pushback from Republicans on Trump’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund”
🤷 There are all these Republicans standing up to Trump — which is fine, you’re supposed to stand on principle — but what’s the end goal?
🤦Election after election has proven a Republican “standing up” to Trump does not win
👀Republicans standing up to Trump are not going to change his behavior — clearly.
Watch tonight📺: Marc Short joins tonight with the danger of non-MAGA Republicans becoming irrelevant to anybody but CNN.
Can Trump Wait Iran Out?👀
‼️The war in Iran has turned into a low-intensity war — both the U.S. and Iranians don’t want to return to a full war, and neither is willing to make peace.
💣Iran attacked Kuwait’s airport last night — killing one person and injuring dozens
🤦Somehow, I missed the outrage from BBC and The New York Times that a Middle East military attacked “civilian” targets
Zoom out🌍: Both sides are deciding if they can wait the other side out.
Be fair⚖️: Trump is enduring enormous pain to avoid making a bad deal.
Flip side 🔄: Most Iran war coverage centers around high gas prices in America — in Iran, high gas prices are just the start — they are running out of water.
Watch tonight📺: Liz Wheeler and Rear. Adm. Andy “Bucket” Loiselle on whether Iran made a bad bet thinking they could play Trump against the midterms.
Plus➕: NewsNation’s Libbey Dean from the White House
Blowing Up💥
🤦Two jihadis and a Nazi walk into a bar —the joke is on us – the bar is actually the United States Congress.
📱Nazi tattoo enthusiast Graham Platner in Maine — shockingly, he allegedly sexted with women while married
😬Platner may now lose a winnable race for Democrats — new internal polling shows him only leading by four
Platner: 49%
Collins: 45%
📰Democratic senators are not happy — The Wall Street Journal headlines, “Senators Privately Ask Platner Whether New Allegations Will Emerge”
📈A Michigan doctor who never practiced medicine and repeats Hezbollah and Hamas talking points is leading in the Democratic primary for Senate.
🚨And Dr. Adam Hamawy — a New Jersey plastic surgeon who just won the primary in that state’s 12th Congressional District.
‼️He was the Blind Sheikh’s translator and testified as a defense witness at this trial.
The Blind Sheikh masterminded the first World Trade Center attacks
📰But wait, there’s more — from the Jewish Insider: “Leading N.J. Dem congressional candidate Adam Hamawy volunteered with Al-Qaida-tied group in Bosnia”
“But just one year before Hamawy took the witness stand to describe his travels with Abdel-Rahman, the now-Congressional candidate made a different journey with another party entangled in terrorist conspiracies: to Bosnia, with a group subsequently shut down for providing ‘logistical support’ to Al-Qaida.”
Watch tonight📺: Reporter for the Washington Free Beacon Jon Levine on Democrats’ shocking willingness to elect objectively horrible people and enemies of America.
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