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MSNBC network contributor Charlie Sykes said Friday on “Deadline” that the Republican Party was being taken over by “deplorables” while discussing Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot, announcing he will not run for re-election in 2022. Sykes said, “It feels like a familiar story this ongoing purge of the decent, the principled, the honorable members and their replacement by the deplorable and the hack-ish. In Max Miller’s case, think of Max Miller as the biff character from ‘Back to the Future.’ You’re finding the most obnoxious...

That tall, amiable sheriff and his little boy, Opie, heading to a fishing hole on the outskirts of Mayberry, North Carolina, at the start of "The Andy Griffith Show," were actually strolling along a backlot in Culver City, California. Ron Howard, the actor who played Opie, is now one of Hollywood's top directors. Most of the other stars – Andy Griffith; Don Knotts, who played his deputy, Barney Fife; and the actors who played Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber – they've all passed on. After all, it's been 53 years since the show was cancelled. snip ... Koppel asked...

Let's start with the obvious: "Basket of deplorables" is a weird turn of phrase. There are baskets and there are deplorable people, but pairing the two is the oddest of linguistic odd couples. Hillary Clinton said those three words in the final months of her 2016 presidential campaign, making rhetorical and political history. There were two kinds of Donald Trump supporters, she explained: Voters who feel abandoned and desperate, who she placed in one metaphorical basket, and those she called "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic" - her "basket of deplorables." Trump - the same man who announced his candidacy...

Former President Obama's 60th birthday party was declared not to be a super spreader event by the media, even though hundreds of unmasked guests cavorted at his palatial estate on Martha's Vineyard over a three day period. New York Times reporter Annie Karni declared the affair "was low risk because the guests were drawn from a better class of people than the deplorables attending Trump rallies." This totally safe and healthy gathering was contrasted with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally taking place in South Dakota the same weekend. As Dr. Anthony Fauci explained to NBC's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press,...

Despite a competitive (if not contentious) 2016 GOP primary battle against former President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has Trump's endorsement in his bid for reelection next year. In fact, the onetime rivals now share a mutual respect. Indeed, Rubio says, he won't even challenge Trump, whom he called "the most popular and most influential Republican in America," should the former president make another run for the White House in 2024. "If he decides to run for the president and the nomination, he's going to be the party's nominee," Rubio told Newsmax TV's "Greg Kelly Reports" on Wednesday. "That's...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will not pursue charges against the U.S. Capitol Police officer who allegedly shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., officials announced Wednesday. An investigation conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia determined "that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution," the department said in a statement. .....

On the day when former President Donald Trump’s most delusional supporters swore he would return to power — and the House suspended its business because of supposed threats to the U.S. Capitol — Washington looked on Thursday morning much the way it has for the past two months. National Guard members armed with M4 rifles braced for rebellion that never came. Razor wire lined miles of steel fencing that went unbreached. Trump remained in Florida, where it was 70 degrees and sunny. Capitol Police say intelligence shows militia group may be plotting to breach the Capitol.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz delivered an explosive speech at CPAC Friday morning before a packed crowd in Orlando; telling conservative voters that Donald Trump “ain’t going anywhere!” “They look at Donald Trump and the millions of people who went to battle fighting alongside him and they’re terrified. They want him to go away. Let me tell you this right now: Donald J. Trump ain’t going anywhere,” said Cruz. “The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it’s the party of steel workers and construction workers and taxi drivers and cops and firefighters and waitresses,” he added. “That...

For over four years, the left has fueled its media headlines and party donations on hatred for President Trump, but now Trump is gone. Who is the enemy who can take his place and keep Americans from asking uncomfortable questions about Biden’s race to socialism? The answer is unsettling—the enemy is YOU, the 74 million dangerous “extremists” who voted for the “evil” Donald Trump. To ensure media cover from close scrutiny during the first one-hundred days of the Biden administration, they’ve embraced a second impeachment attempt after President Trump has already left office. They don’t care that it will go...

Last week, we covered the challenge President Joe Biden faces in his supposed quest to return to an era of "civility." Democrats never practiced civility. We listed only some of the race- and Nazi-based insults used for decades by Democrats against the very Republicans with whom they now seek "healing." Here are just a few more examples: Left-wing actor/singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who marched with close friend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called President George W. Bush a racist. When asked whether the number and prominence of Blacks in the Bush administration perhaps suggested a lack of racism, Belafonte...

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On the Right there’s a heck of a lot of shunning being experienced. The tech titans throwing us off their media; the US Chamber of Commerce members frantically virtue signaling their desire to fund only congressional opinions they subscribe to; the daily hit list of small businesses harassed by the “virtuous” in their communities. But, there’s something at odds with logic in most of these relationships. When the Fortune 500 tell us we’re deplorable, when twitter or facebook shut us out, those are cases where the providers of goods and services are giving an extended middle finger to a big...

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 1 Samuel 17:42 You can tell who fascists fear the most by who they are the most desperate to silence. The Communist Party is terrified of Trump’s army since they know without stealing the election, they are on the trash heap of histoir. What we are witnessing is the wholesale trashing of our laws and institutions as they weaponized every part of DC to eliminate dissent. When they are criminalizing the chanting USA and singing...

A perverse form of blowback is already in effect as informed global citizens may now see, crystal clear, the astonishing depth and reach of Deep State power – the ultimate decider of what happens next in Dystopia Central. Both options are dire. The election stands, even if considered fraudulent by nearly half of U.S. public opinion. To quote that peerless existentialist, The Dude, there’s no rug tying the room together anymore. Was the election to be somehow overturned before January 20, the Deep State would go Shock and Awe to finish the job. In either case, The Deplorables will become...

His assertion that “right-wing” terrorists pose the greatest terrorist threat to our country is a sop to his new paymasters and a selling out of the people who made his career. General David Petraeus, for many years (decades?) lauded as the greatest and most successful soldier of his generation, just insulted, in terms paradoxically both implicit and vicious, the men who made both his military renown and his post-military success and wealth possible. “The most significant terrorist threat in the United States is not actually from Islamist extremists, it’s from right-wing terrorists in our own country,” he recently said to...

What will be the final word on the election? That remains to be seen. But one thing’s for sure: Anticipating a revolution, the media was far, far wrong. And Thursday, Adam Carolla pointed it out. Adam occupies an interesting place in the entertainment ether: He’s a comedian who apparently found out late he’s actually somewhat of a conservative. To him, his views aren’t excessively political; they’re merely common sense. And that sense is widespread — he’s a great friend to both conservative Dennis Prager and outspoken left-winger Jimmy Kimmel. Speaking to Fox and Friends on the 5th, the man who...

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BOSTON — Authorities are searching for the person, or people, responsible for spray-painting "Trump 2020" on the street at three different locations in Boston. The Massachusetts State Police said it was contacted by the Department of Conservation and Recreation Saturday morning with a request to block traffic while DCR crews painted over the graffiti.

During a virtual town hall meeting emceed by comedian Don Cheadle, former Vice-President Joe Biden predicted he would “beat Trump by the largest margin in American history.” He says he reached this conclusion “via an analysis of trends. Back in 2016 Secretary Clinton pointed out that half of Trump’s supporters are deplorables. My current estimate is that 10% to 15% of Americans are just not very good people. To my mind, this shows that, at best, Trump might get 20% to 30% of the vote. That would make him the biggest loser in our presidential election history.” Signs that Biden...