Gut check📰: Every day after our editorial calls, I read Erick Erickson’s “Four Things”
Today, he headlined with mortgage rates
PS‼️: We told you last week to watch the bond market because it will dictate our financial future — sadly, we are being proven right
Yikes 😬: The 10-year treasury yield hit its highest level today since 2002.
It’s one of the many great parts of his Show Notes substack!
One of our highest rating guests, Eric Erickson, and I are teaming up on Substack.
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📰You can read Erickson’s morning piece for free today — “Credit Where It Is Due in The Middle East”
We are featuring a similar segment below.
The turning point🔄: The embargo against Iran is working — and President Trump has effectively flipped the leverage points.
🛢️JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs say the amount of oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz today is the same as before war
Will oil prices come down tomorrow? No
But time is now on America’s side
President Trump today said Iran has to “sign a very fair deal, or they won’t exist any longer”
This comes as the Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East
Tonight📺: Rep Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Michael O’Hanlon on whether things can change before the midterms.
The REAL victims‼️: We will wait for an investigation into the Cornell “gang rape” case to pass judgment — but dear god, the rush to judgment shows a media far too willing to run with a narrative that they WANT to believe.
Apparently, the alleged victim’s lawyer even served their lawsuit on the wrong person — it has since ruined his life
Haven’t we learned🤦: Just like the Duke lacrosse case, Brett Kavanaugh and Jussie Smollett, the media has convicted seven Cornell frat boys long before we knew any of the evidence.
Evidence☑️: The New York Times and ABC News have reports that paint a devastating picture for those demanding the boys serve long prison sentences
Watch tonight📺: Gloria Allred on why the rush to judgment (and exculpatory evidence) makes it all the harder for real victims.
Be fair⚖️: What consenting adults do may not be criminal but the disgusting and deviant behavior by the young men shows something far worse about our society .
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Watch What They Do👀
📺Much will be made by the media about where Trump goes over the next four weeks — and it should. But they will get it wrong.
First — where he DOESN’T go tells you much more.
Second — they will ignore where Kamala Harris DOESN’T go.
For both — it is an anti-establishment story rather than a “Trump sucks” story.
And speaking of Democrats — the presidential hopefuls appear unwelcomed for the swing state phenoms.
Nobody is coming to help Rob Sand in Iowa or James Talarico in Texas
‼️Where are Alexandaria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders — not in Michigan or Iowa or South Carolina!!
👀The man to watch — Pete!
Tonight📺: Madeline Summerville, Mark McKinnon and Evan Barker join.
The Alarm Bells Are Ringing!!🚨
‼️Yesterday, I told you the attempted FlyDubai hijacking SHOULD be another wake-up call about the real threat of Islamist terrorist — but we are going to continue to turn a blind eye to it.
🤦Sadly, we were right — because pointing this out is “islamophobic” to legacy media.
⚠️It’s coming clear that Iran is unleashing some of its proxies — a threat they’ve been promising since the start of the war.
Benjamin Netanyahu says the pilot was radicalized
Netanyahu: “The attacker, the co-pilot who attacked the captain, is now being interrogated. But here’s what we do know. First, we do know he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination.”
Also, no shocker the man plotting to blow up a U.S. military base in the U.K. was a dual citizen of Iran and the U.K.
‼️This should make all of us take Islamic militancy more seriously, but we aren’t.
Americans are about to elect Abdul El-Sayed, who dare I say is adjacent to Islamic militancy, into the U.S. Senate.
His supporters represent a large part of the left that is OK with expansionist Islam if they SAY the right things — aka Medicare for all.
Confused🤔: Islam and Islamic countries treat women as property (no really, they do) yet progressive women now fall all over themselves for Islamists politicians.
Go ask the Iranian women in Iran how that ended up for them.
Watch tonight📺: Lifelong Democrat Jamie Metzel who continues (at his own risk) to ring the alarm bells about his own party’s one way trip to Tehran.
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I agree with you, Leland. You’re right. Dawn
The current actions by Trump appear to be working and hopefully have a good resolution for the US. My question is: why did he not do this 7 months ago?