Talks & Strikes

Talks to end the war with Iran are continuing in spite of “defensive strikes” launched by the United States. U.S. forces took out Iranian boats that were laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz and destroyed missile sites in southern Iran that threatened U.S. ships and planes. 

I have total confidence that President Trump will accomplish the most that can possibly be accomplished without engaging in a much larger conflict, the ramifications of which can’t be predicted. The president told his negotiators not to “rush into a deal,” adding that it will be “a great deal or no deal at all.” 

President Trump is also taking the opportunity to further isolate the radical Iranian regime by encouraging Arab nations to make peace with Israel and join the Abraham Accords. 

The Democrats are performing their usual role, which is to attack anything that could benefit the conservative populist movement. First, they attacked President Trump for destroying Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Then they attacked him for giving away too much in the negotiations. 

Most disgusting, however, is a certain group of Republicans, including some admirable people like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Over the weekend, he and others blasted President Trump over claims in the media about where the deal is supposedly headed. Pompeo should know better than to trust the “fake news” media. 

Then, there is former Ambassador John Bolton, who literally said, “I hope the negotiations break down.” There is never enough war for Bolton. He thrives off of it from the safety of his cushy office in Washington, D.C. 

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal joined the Democrats in piling on Trump. Meanwhile, the news pages of that same paper continue to attack Trump for having the courage to take on Iran’s radical regime. That’s a good deal the Murdochs have there—no matter how it turns out, they win either way.

Service & Sacrifice

It was a great Memorial Day weekend! It felt more poignant this year as it took place during the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. A bipartisan group of lawmakers did once again what they have privately done for years. They went down to the Vietnam Memorial and cleaned it. 

The speeches delivered at Arlington National Cemetery by President Trump, Vice President Vance and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth were powerful and moving. Under this administration, if you’re a veteran in America or a family member of someone who gave their life for our country, you had to feel appreciated over the weekend.

Of course, there were discordant voices. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey remembered George Floyd on Memorial Day. I’m sorry, but dying while fighting with the police does not put you into the pantheon of heroes whose courage and sacrifice we honored yesterday. Frey had to be pressed by the media before he put up a social media post recognizing Memorial Day.

Graham Platner, the Democrat Senate candidate in Maine who is leading Republican incumbent Susan Collins by seven points, refused to apologize for mocking a soldier who was wounded while risking his life to save others. Has someone put something in the water in Maine to cause statewide insanity?

Out on the Left Coast, the Ingrate of the Year Award goes to Sacramento City Councilwoman Mai Vang. She is the child of Hmong refugees who fled to the United States as communism swept Southeast Asia. She is currently running for Congress, challenging incumbent Democrat Doris Matsui. 

Vang’s claim to fame is that when the Pledge of Allegiance is recited by the city council, she turns her back on the flag and refuses to say the pledge. 

Immigrants escaping communism and their children are usually very patriotic. But that seems to be breaking down now. Why? Is it the school system, the popular culture or the Democrat Party?

A Disturbing Pattern

I was just doing a quick review of some key races and noticed a disturbing pattern. 

• Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner had a Nazi tattoo for years.
• Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Israel is just as “evil” as Hamas.
• Democrat House candidate Charles Rabb shared a social media post that claimed the massacre of Jews on Australia’s Bondi Beach was a “false flag operation.”
• Democrat House candidate Maureen Galindo wants to put American Zionists in jail. That sounds an awful lot like concentration camps for pro-Israel Jews and Christians.
• Democrat House candidate Adam Hamawy is an apologist for Hamas terrorists.
• A top aide to Democrat candidate Janeese Lewis George, who is running to be mayor of Washington, D.C., has called Israel “evil” and “an imaginary state.”

Do you see the pattern here?

Large swaths of the Democrat Party have abandoned Israel because they are banking on the growing Muslim population in America to make up any lost votes. But they are also embracing antisemites. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have no problem with their Senate candidate in Maine sporting a Nazi tattoo. 

This anti-Israel shift in the Democrat Party is an earth-shattering development in American political history. 

The Intimidation Campaign

The Congressional Black Caucus is moving on from trying to convince young Black athletes to spurn offers from Southeastern Conference schools. Now, they’re trying to intimidate corporate America. 

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are demanding that the CEOs of 250 major companies pressure Republican-led states to stop any redistricting efforts. That’s not the action of a movement that is confident of victory in November. It reeks of desperation, and the last time Democrats did something like this, it blew up in their faces.

When Georgia legislators passed an election integrity law in 2021, Joe Biden blasted the law as “an atrocity” and “Jim Crow in the 21st century.” Corporate America panicked. Delta, Coca-Cola, Home Depot and other companies condemned the law. Major League Baseball punished the state by moving the All-Star Game to Colorado.

But a funny thing happened in the 2022 elections in Georgia. Black voter participation went up, not down. In extensive post-election polling, not one Black Georgian said they had trouble voting.

Hopefully, corporate America learned its lesson and won’t pick sides in this political fight.

Duckworth Denounces DNC 

The Democrat National Committee (DNC) put up a disgusting social media post yesterday that attempted to turn Memorial Day into a political attack ad against President Trump. The post read, “Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran.” The post featured the pictures of the 13 military personnel who died in Operation Epic Fury. 

Maybe it was just part of the DNC’s strategy to get people to stop talking about the 2024 autopsy. Not surprisingly, the DNC post was immediately reposted by America’s enemies, including sites allied with Iran. 

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a former Army helicopter pilot who lost both legs in combat in Iraq, was not happy. She denounced the DNC post, writing, “It is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead for a political attack on Memorial Day. I’m a Democrat and I condemn this post by the DNC.”

I agree with Duckworth on almost nothing. But I agree with her wholeheartedly on this. Maybe it’s a slender bit of evidence that some Democrats are tired of being in a party that so often sounds like it is rooting for America’s enemies.