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Debt Rattle November 8 2026

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Eugene Delacroix Greece expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi 1826


• Trump Removes Susie Wiles, Moves Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff (CTH)
• Your Honeymoon Is Over, Democrats. Look Who’s Here. (A.J. Christopher)
• Why Democrats Are Crashing Out Over Stephen Miller (Matt Margolis)
• Miller and Hegseth Ready to Take on Dems’ Onslaught (Catherine Salgado)
• Trump Wants Dana White As White House Press Secretary (BBC)
• Gas Prices are Dropping Fast. I Have Questions. (Tim O’Brien)
• About Trump’s Big White House Shake-Up (Margolis)
• The MAGA Movement Forgot What Populism Is (Josh Hammer)
• Calley Means Outlines How Susie Wiles Controlled the White House (CTH)
• 2027 Investigative Roadmap Against President Trump Previewed by FOX News (CTH)
• A Requiem for the Midterms (J.B. Shurk)
• ‘Islamophobia’ Is the New ‘Racism.’ Conservatives Won’t Bite. (Tim O’Brien)
• Where The Hammer Sleeps (Lars Møller)

 

 

 

 


“Wartime Consigliere.”

Trump, by appointing Stephen Miller, and asking Dana White to come work at the White House, makes clear his intentions.

As he did before:”Fight Fight Fight.”

PS does Miller being bald, influence his prospects in Washington?

• Trump Removes Susie Wiles, Moves Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff (CTH)

The former Qatar lobbyist for Ballard Partners, former political consultant and former 2024 campaign manager for candidate Donald Trump who became the Chief of Staff and gatekeeper of the White House, has been removed as Chief of Staff following the 2026 midterm election.


President Trump has appointed Stephen Miller, a wartime consigliere as the Chief of Staff effective Monday.


Mrs Wiles famously took the position of Chief of Staff on the condition that she could “keep the crazies” away from President Trump. Wiles became the gatekeeper to the White House controlling every point of access to the president. One of the issues of concern when Wiles initially took office was her career as a lobbyist, consultant, campaign manager and donor organizer, gave her a career perspective predisposed to view finance as a key for influence and access. Those concerns never really diminished. Mrs. Wiles returns to her comfortable place in the political operation. Mrs Wiles relayed her message of departure via X Platform:


Given the specific congressional strategy that will be deployed against the White House in the 2027 legislative and investigative congressional term, it was wise to put Stephen Miller into place as a wartime consigliere. Congress will likely not seek to impeach President Trump directly, but they will investigate every aspect of finance, and every financial relationship, that has surfaced in the past two-years amid President Trump’s family, allies and supporters.

The corruption narrative coming from those J6-style investigations will then be leveraged against Republican politicians in both the House and Senate as legislation is created. The DSA objective will be to isolate then marginalize the office of the presidency. More soon….

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“Enter Stephen Miller. And the Democrats are going to start to regret winning the midterms.”

• Your Honeymoon Is Over, Democrats. Look Who’s Here. (A.J. Christopher)

As you are by now aware, Susie Wiles is out as Trump’s chief of staff. I can’t think of a bad thing to say about her, and I wish her the best. Her hard work and focus largely contributed to Trump’s 2024 victory. The insiders tell us that her campaign skills didn’t translate well into governing skills. If that’s the case, so be it. But we all owe Wiles our gratitude for not having to cringe at the sound of “President Harris” for four years.


His voice to them is like the voice of Sauron to quivering hobbits. And they’re already melting down. “A dangerous xenophobe,” they cry. A “reckless extremist,” they howl. “Lawyer up!” they feebly warn him. Miller is “the architect of the most barbaric, inhumane policies of this administration,” whimpers Chuck Schumer, whose own party gladly welcomes Maoists and Hamas supporters. Sounds to me like Trump chose the right guy.

I’ve always felt Miller to be sort of a weird fusion between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. He takes on the mud fights with the press, utilizing Trump’s no-holds-barred, in-your-face throttle, but adds just enough of Rubio’s rhetorical polish to hold command of the conversation. He makes the press look stupid every time (not that it’s difficult) by turning the tables on them with unapologetic savagery. Miller will be much more visible than Wiles, which is a very bad thing for Democrats.

Oh, and he’s Jewish. Cue Hasan Piker’s head exploding like Rene Belloq’s when he opened the ark in Indiana Jones. But more importantly, in choosing Miller, the president is sending a clear signal to both supporters and enemies. And his message is this: I ain’t going nowhere, and neither is my MAGA agenda. You thought I would just slink away into the darkness? I’m tripling down. And I’m done playing Mr. Nice Guy with you lunatics.

That is exactly what Democrats need to hear. From President Trump, and from all of us. Where Miller stands on the Iran War is not fully known. Reports over the summer described him as supportive of aggressive and hawkish action against Iran. On the other hand, post-midterm “sources” allege he has advised Trump to wind down the war. But Miller is staunchly pro-Israel, and his ancestors fled antisemitic persecution in Russia.

By “winding down” the war, I doubt he means we play make-a-deal footsie with Iranians à la J.D. Vance. He probably has something more effective and permanent in mind. And Miller was largely the face of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and the highly visible ICE raids. Promoting him might also be a signal that the administration intends to swing the focus back to illegal immigration. Please start with Ilhan Omar. And force the Democrats to defend more images of Latin American gangbangers waving flags of the invader.

And Miller has accurately described the Democrat Party as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Does his promotion to chief of staff sound like the actions of a defeated president? My colleague Stephen Kruiser was correct earlier this morning: it’s time to stop moping. Get ready for the counteroffensive, because Trump just sounded the bugle. Dig in your heels and fight. This is our country.

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“..I pledge to you, Mr. President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment, and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country.”

• Why Democrats Are Crashing Out Over Stephen Miller (Matt Margolis)

When President Donald Trump promoted Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, Democrats started fuming almost instantly. That reaction alone tells you it was a good move.

I suspect Democrats thought the fallout from the midterms would scare Trump into submission. They wanted a chastened president who would spend his final two years tiptoeing around them. Instead, Trump handed the most powerful staff job in Washington to a man they deeply despise, and they read the move as defiance. They read it correctly.


“Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat. Stephen Miller is the architect of the most barbaric, inhumane policies of this administration. Trump couldn’t have made a worse choice,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote on X shortly after the announcement. “Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said. “His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor. Fire him today.”

Classy. The Hill had more:
“Stephen Miller is a radical ideologue who proudly bolsters a dangerous administration’s worst impulses,” Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) wrote on X.
“Stephen Miller has masterminded the most hateful moments of this Admin. Elevating someone defined by spite and division is a disaster for this country,” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) wrote on the site.
“Stephen Miller is a white supremacist,” Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) said in a statement.
“Stephen Miller is the chief architect of Trump’s racist, cruel, and un-American campaign of terror across our country. Innocent people have died and families have been torn apart because of the policies he’s eagerly pushed,” Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) wrote on X.
“The American people are begging the White House to focus on lowering costs, but the best Trump can do is ‘more Stephen Miller and the culture of cruelty,’” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) wrote in a post.

Former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews, who quit the Trump White House and now makes the rounds as a critic, joined the chorus too. “The idea that in the last two years of Trump’s administration, when he’s going to be spiraling because he’s a lame-duck president,” Matthews told MeidasTouch. “The idea of someone like a Stephen Miller in charge is a very scary thing.”

On Friday, Trump gave Miller the microphone at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) event at Mar-a-Lago, and Miller used it to rally Republicans behind the president instead of letting them scatter.”Let me tell you, if it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now,” Miller said. “This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation.”

Miller highlighted the assassination attempt on Trump’s life and the prosecutions he endured. “This man took a bullet for us. He faced down life in prison for us. He saved the Republican Party from the ash heap of history and has made it stronger, more popular, and more resilient than ever before,” he said.

Then he made his pledge as chief of staff. “We need to stand with the man who has stood with us and this country with every fiber of his being,” Miller added. “It is the honor of my life to be President Trump’s chief of staff, and I swear to you, and I pledge to you, Mr. President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment, and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country.”



Miller’s speech served as a reminder of what Trump rescued the country from: Joe Biden’s incompetence and the destruction carried out by his autopen-wielding staff, which would have rolled right along under Kamala Harris. After a few difficult days for Republicans, Miller reminded the base what’s at stake.

Democrats already planned to go to war with this White House, no matter who ran the West Wing. Trump simply decided he’d rather fight that war with a general who won’t flinch. A president who caves to his enemies’ outrage invites more of it, and Trump has never been that kind of president.

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“Goodness knows we need some good news and some Republican leaders unafraid of the opposition after the disappointing midterm election results.”

• Miller and Hegseth Ready to Take on Dems’ Onslaught (Catherine Salgado)

One of the smartest and most fearless members of the Trump administration will be the new chief of staff at the White House, and he and our incomparable secretary of war are already defiant and ready to take on the Democrats after the midterm election.


Stephen Miller has served as an advisor to the administration and will be taking over as Chief of Staff as Susie Wiles switches to a different role. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who is perhaps the cabinet member most attuned to ordinary members of the base and the one least likely to cave to woke pressure, is very excited about Miller’s appointment. Goodness knows we need some good news and some Republican leaders unafraid of the opposition after the disappointing midterm election results.


While Miller might have exaggerated his praise of President Donald Trump somewhat, we know that he will never backstab Trump the way that Vice President JD Vance did after the midterm with his remarks about Israel and Iran. And as Miller is Jewish, he also won’t blame every problem on Israel. That obsession is preventing too many people from doing their job well.

“It has been the privilege of my lifetime to have served on [Trump’s] team from Day One, and I am honored beyond words to serve as his White House Chief of Staff,” Miller posted on X on November 6. “I want to thank the incomparable Susie Wiles for her years of devoted service to the President and the Country, and for her friendship. The mission now is more clear than ever: Fight with all of our soul to support our President and defend this magnificent Republic.”

President Trump made the initial announcement in a brief Friday post on TruthSocial, his customary platform for sharing news with Americans. “I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday, November 9, 2026. Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!” Trump wrote.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin had a meme response to Miller’s appointment:


The next two years are going to be a difficult slog against the Democrats in Congress and at the state level. Now more than ever, it is important for Trump to have people surrounding him who are not afraid of the Democrat machine and who are not willing to back down on important issues.


The painful lesson that Republicans learned this year is that voters will not accept halfway measures or unending delays on the agenda points they most want. Republicans need to start being as aggressive in implementing their agenda as Democrats are at ramming through their evil policies.

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“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left..”

I would think Dana White is far too busy with things he can’t just walk out of.

• Trump Wants Dana White As White House Press Secretary (BBC)

US President Donald Trump has asked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boss Dana White to be White House press secretary, in a social media post. “Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Dana, please take the job!” It was unclear whether the president’s public job offer was genuine, although White said later on Saturday: “I’m going to meet with him, we have a meeting on Monday”.


The vacancy for White House press secretary has been open since mid-October, when Katie Zacharia quit less than five days into the job. Trump’s post on Saturday afternoon comes after his fellow Republicans were routed in the US midterm elections, losing their congressional majorities. The president called White “a violent Fighter and Warrior” and asked that he bring a number of high-profile UFC fighters with him on the job “even though some are not from our Country”.

“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,” Trump wrote, alongside photos of the six fighters. Following Trump’s post, White posted an Instagram photo of himself behind the lectern in the White House press briefing room. “On to the next chapter,” White wrote, though it was unclear if the post was tongue-in-cheek.

“Hell yeah! Do it, @DanaWhite!” White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X, as he shared the president’s message. White was ringside for a fight in London on Saturday night between British former world champion Chris Billam-Smith and Jamaican-born Briton Cheavon Clarke at the Copper Box Arena.

Asked about the Trump offer at a news conference afterwards, the UFC chief executive said he was flying to Washington for a meeting with Trump on Monday. “I got a lot of jobs already,” he told reporters. “I’m sure we’ll have something to talk about after that,” he added, without being drawn on whether he was interested in taking on one of the most gruelling jobs in the political arena.

CNN cited a source familiar as saying that White had declined the idea. As he noted in the news conference, he already has a number of time-consuming commitments. As well as leading UFC and Power Slap, a regulated slap-fighting promotion league, he has just launched Zuffa Boxing, a professional promotion company.

And last year he was unveiled as one of three new board members of Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Famously combative, White has at times clashed with journalists covering the sport during news conferences. He released a clip in 2020 lambasting reporters who had questioned the UFC’s decision to hold fights during the pandemic. In 2009, he released an expletive-laden video tirade using an anti-gay slur while rebutting a journalist’s story about changes to credential rules backstage at UFC events.

White is a longtime ally – and friend – of Trump. When White and his business partners bought the then-struggling UFC organisation for $2m in 2001, the sport’s future seemed uncertain. Just five years earlier, Republican Senator John McCain had famously labelled mixed martial arts “human cockfighting”, sparking bans in 36 US states.

“None of the venues wanted [the UFC],” White said in 2025. “They didn’t believe in it. They didn’t like it, and they were worried about the type of crowd that would show up for this type of event.”With mainstream arenas shutting them out, White credits Trump with saving the organisation by hosting two UFC events at the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2001.

White became a speaker for Trump’s White House campaigns at the Republican National Conventions in 2016, 2020 and 2024. He also appeared on stage for Trump’s victory speech in the 2024 presidential election.This summer, the UFC staged a cage match on the White House lawn.

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Tim O’Brien has questions. So do I. That 254 Texas counties, and 1799 counties in total, ALL went from GOP to Dems in 4 years time, with not one exception, is just so improbable. It’s like winning the lottery. Twice.

• Gas Prices are Dropping Fast. I Have Questions. (Tim O’Brien)

Conservatives and leftists alike have quickly embraced the notion that America’s perception of President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, and of its being a never-ending war, would keep the price of gas and diesel high. This, they believed, is the reason for inflation in the full range of goods and services. On its surface, the logic is sound and true.


But were these specific economic pressures enough to cause the level of political devastation to Republicans we just saw?

The experts are telling us that Republicans not named Donald Trump, at the federal, state, and even local levels, lost in the November midterms because voters were mad at Trump. That’s why, we are told, the Senate race in the Republican stronghold of Mississippi is still too close to call. We are told that millions of Republicans, almost all in unison, have opted to vote for Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates over the same Republicans they’ve been voting for several decades.

Now let’s dig below the surface. Are temporarily high energy and consumer prices alone enough to justify the sea change in voter sentiment that happened overnight? More to the point, how was public opinion engineered so effectively to convince so many Americans that a 19-year-old kid should be given the responsibilities of Maricopa County clerk of Superior Court?What has to happen for that to happen?

Here are some of the explanations I’ve heard so far: “Donald Trump”; bad candidates; terrible messaging on the Iran war; “Donald Trump”; terrible messaging in general; lousy campaign strategy; and more.

While all of that may be true, how can that really explain the near uniformity of the results? Are gas prices worse than they have ever been in American history? Don’t get me wrong. I have been muttering to myself the past few months every time I fill up my tank. I didn’t think those prices were sustainable. But as a Republican, that only made me want Trump to finish the war, not surrender to the Iranians, as the Democrats-elect want him to do.

To be clear, my focus here is not to debate the impact of inflation on Americans. It’s real and it’s bad. I know this. I’m living it and not liking it, too. But what I would like to know is how all of this was weaponized and leveraged to get Republican voters to betray their own interests to vote for the people who want to destroy their way of life.

If you’re reading this and yelling at me, “But you don’t understand. These are the highest gas prices and inflationary conditions we’ve ever seen,” I have some comparisons for you. Let’s look at the price of a barrel of oil under the past four presidents.

Under George W. Bush, oil was at or above $100 per barrel for 146 days across his two terms in office. Under Barack Obama, oil was at or above $100 per barrel for 308 days. In Trump’s first term, oil peaked at $77 per barrel and never came close to $100. Under Joe Biden’s one term, oil was at or above $100 per barrel for 83 days. In Trump’s second term, oil reached $100 per barrel for 24-35 days.

The major takeaway from these numbers is pretty obvious. What we’ve experienced so far in 2026 is nothing new. This has happened before, and even worse. Still, in those previous times, socialists and jihadis didn’t become the most popular candidates overnight as a result.

On the issue of candidate quality, we’re told that Republicans were the worst. If we’re being honest, the Democrats far exceeded the Republicans on just how low they could set the bar for their candidates. Senator-elect Troy Jackson (D-Maine) had two children with his second cousin, and he defeated longtime senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), who until five minutes ago was beloved. How’s that “candidate quality” thing taking shape there?

And after all that we’ve documented about these folks, do we really need to talk about candidate quality when looking at Senator-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) or Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan (D-Minn.)? But it gets worse. Police arrested Missouri State Rep. Anthony Ealy (D) on an assault charge within hours of his reelection. North Carolina voters elected Democrat LaKesha Womack to Congress. But before she packs her bags for Washington, D.C., she has to face a felony car theft charge.


Then there is Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman. After all of the time she spent campaigning, you’d think she might have had an answer when a reporter asked her what she plans to do on the first day on the job. She had nothing. Republicans lost on candidate quality? Give me a break.


All of these results would be more credible to me if they were more sporadic and less uniform. They’d be more credible to me if at least more of our good candidates outside of the state of Florida won. The Republicans did run some very good candidates with effective messages, and they effectively contrasted themselves with their bizarro Democrat opponents, and yet their results were similar to other Republican candidates who shot themselves in the foot. I’m looking at you, Vivek Ramaswamy..

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“..only this time he’s going to go into a hyper mode because they’re about to get investigated in every way possible by the Democrats who are going to control the all-powerful House and Senate committees starting in January of 2027..”

• Marjorie Taylor Greene About Trump’s Big White House Shake-Up (Margolis)

Not long ago, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was one of Donald Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers on Capitol Hill. She defended him on every platform that would have her, and she treated her devotion to the MAGA movement as the core of her political brand.


That changed last year. Greene and Trump had a nasty falling out, and she has since become a useful idiot of the left, showing up on left-wing talk shows and spouting conspiracy theories for audiences who love nothing more than a Republican trashing the president. So when Trump announced a major staff shake-up on Friday, you knew she’d have something to say.

President Donald Trump revealed that Susie Wiles is out as White House chief of staff and Stephen Miller will take her place. The move comes after a disastrous midterm election for Republicans, and Miller, who currently serves as deputy chief of staff and has advised Trump since his first campaign, officially steps into the role on Monday.

“I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday, November 9, 2026,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump had kind words for Wiles in the same post. “Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job!” he wrote. Greene had her own theory, which she shared in a video posted to X.

“So, I am very proficient in the dialect of MAGA, and I’m going to explain to you what that really means,” Greene said. “Susie Wiles is going to join Trump’s political team, so she’s going to move back into the same, operation that she was, before he was elected president in 2024, and there’s a very important reason for that, and that is because, she wants to be in charge, and President Trump wants to be in charge, of who the next president of the United States will be. And they want to continue to control the Republican Party.”

She then turned to Miller, claiming he already ran much of the White House. “So you can expect more of the same from the White House that you were probably already p****d off and frustrated about, only this time he’s going to go into a hyper mode because they’re about to get investigated in every way possible by the Democrats who are going to control the all-powerful House and Senate committees starting in January of 2027,” she said.

Greene went on to insist that the coalition that elected Trump in 2024 would reject whoever Trump and Wiles back in 2028. “They’re not conservative, so they don’t represent your conservative values, and they proved it,” she said. “They’re not truly Christian, they don’t represent your Christian values, and they are the ones completely responsible for this massive Democrat.”


Plenty of what Greene said comes wrapped in grievance. She calls the Trump coalition “my coalition,” questions the Christian faith of people she used to praise, and predicts Republicans have “zero chance” in 2028. That’s the sound of someone auditioning for more gigs on left-wing networks, if you ask me.

Greene left the MAGA fold and now tells anyone who will listen that she alone understands what it really wants. Her motives are obvious, and her reading of events bends toward whatever makes Trump look worse.

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I’m not sure I can agree with all of this.

Like this: ” populism means winding the tariffs down. The story on the Iran war is similar.”

That these things were not explained well is something else.

• The MAGA Movement Forgot What Populism Is (Josh Hammer)

Tuesday’s election wasn’t a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as “close to an extinction-level event” for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one party in over a half-century.


Much of the postmortem conversation has focused on why this massacre happened. Was it the Iran war? Was it the tariffs? Was it corruption? Was it the “Epstein files” mess? The answer is both simpler and more sweeping: The MAGA movement, which has defined the GOP during the Trump era, has forgotten what populism means in practice and requires in governance.

When Donald Trump rode down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015, he launched a populist revolution. His message was simple: An elite ruling class has sold out the country, and the MAGA movement is here to finally listen to the people. Trump largely delivered during his first term.

Trump cut taxes, tamed inflation, and oversaw a booming job market and a surging stock market. He became the first president since Richard Nixon to begin to reset our relationship with Communist China. In exile during the Joe Biden interregnum, Trump promised to return and close the border, get inflation under control, and bring back general sanity and stability.

To be sure, Trump’s second term has had its successes. The southern border is airtight. Violent crime has fallen to the lowest rate in 125 years. Prescription drug prices are the lowest since the 1960s. The Justice Department’s fights with the Ivy League yielded real concessions. The raid to extract Nicolas Maduro from Caracas was bold and masterful.

But somewhere along the way, the MAGA movement forgot what it was. Some in and around the administration have engaged in the most brazen corruption – pardons, access, illicit cryptocurrency enrichment, real estate side deals – in a century or more of Washington life. When Americans see “special envoys” Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiate with wealthy Arab states while padding their bank accounts from those same states, they understand what’s going on.

There’s nothing more anti-populist than such elite self-dealing. On economic policy, the administration dramatically expanded its tariffs, including its “universal tariff” policy. Strategic, focused tariffs can work. But this was something else entirely. Fact is, Joe and Jane in flyover country didn’t vote for a trade war with Canada. Even more to the point: Why did Trump’s economists assume tariffing everything that moves is “populist” in the first place?

Reshoring supply chains is important. But the tradeoff between production and lowering prices is real. Higher tariffs and more supply-chain reshoring means higher prices. Maybe that tradeoff is worth it. Maybe it isn’t. But the American people have spoken, and they want lower prices over anything else. So populism means winding the tariffs down. The story on the Iran war is similar.

Many isolationists complain that Trump reneged on his promise not to start any new Middle East wars. That’s not quite fair. Trump already proved himself an Iran hawk when he withdrew from Barack Obama’s calamitous nuclear deal, and the U.S. and Iran have technically been at war since 1979.

But the administration never actually made the case for the war to the American people. At times, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth alluded to war aims. But the people never heard the case from the commander in chief himself. Populism means governing of, by and for the people. How could a purportedly populist president not even bother to try to sell the war to the public? It was astonishing political malpractice.

Finally, a true populist movement needs to focus on real-world concerns, not the conspiratorial rabbit holes of social media. The obsession with the “Epstein files” was always bogus and lame. And when White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles reportedly told the terminally online Vice President JD Vance to take a break from the internet, she was onto something.

Real populism means boosting wages and lowering inflation – not staying up to the wee hours of the night trying to crack the Charlie Kirk murder case (news flash: it was Tyler Robinson) or blaming the Jews for stabbing the GOP in the back. The good news is that most of the necessary changes are easy.

End the corruption. Wind down the global tariffs. Save face in Iran. Stop indulging brain-rotted conspiracists. Stop with the asinine lake name-change gimmicks. And get working quickly to lower gas and food prices. Above all, make life easier, not harder, for ordinary Americans. If this happens, the GOP will have a chance in 2028. The MAGA movement died on Tuesday. But Trump’s final two White House years should still reflect the original MAGA spirit: governance for the people.

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“.. and Dispatched MAGA/MAHA Priorities..”

The qualities that made her good for the job, also pushed her out eventually..

• Calley Means Outlines How Susie Wiles Controlled the White House (CTH)

There is no singular scapegoat here that deserves full blame for the problems within the Trump Administration T2; however, what Calley Means outlines in this segment of an interview with Joe Rogan is factually accurate.


Susie Wiles was the White House gatekeeper and her career as a political lobbyist, political consultant, political manager of campaign etc., gave her a certain skillset -all based around money- that made a problem. Her total domination of everything in/around Trump also made her the epicenter of governance and Wiles made every decision in the administration because she demanded full control.

Several MAGA people ended up in conflict with Susie Wiles and she was ruthlessly controlling. It was Wiles who selected Pam Bondi (both from Ballard Partners). Bongino had a big run-in with Wiles on the Epstein stuff. Gabbard had to tread on eggshells around Wiles while trying to retain critical access. The MAHA agenda was considered frivolous by Wiles and the small crew she used to manage everything. WATCH:


[Susie Wiles loved Pam Bondi and John Solomon, go figure!]

We said from the outset Wiles would likely be a problem because she’s donor-centric, a typical Republican. Democrats chase power, Republicans chase money. Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money.

The Wiles Inc. focus on money, including direct benefits to her family, is now the weapon DSA congressional committees will use to target Trump. Every financial angle used to attack Trump tracks to the poor decision-making of Susie Wiles. However, at the end of the accountability path – the buck stops with President Trump.

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“These targets will get a J6 style corruption investigation, including subpoenas and alternate investigative resources.”

• 2027 Investigative Roadmap Against President Trump Previewed by FOX News (CTH)

A DSA/Leftist think tank led by former Biden, Warren and Sanders congressional aides has assembled a 182-page strategic blueprint mapping out Democratic congressional investigations in the House and Senate targeting President Trump’s family, corporate allies and donors. This is one aspect to a coordinated plan, isolate – ridicule – marginalize.


The document, obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, names Tesla, Apple, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle and others as targets for potential hearings. It also names Palantir’s Alex Karp and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong individually. However, the important point, the blueprint goes beyond corporate targets, urging scrutiny of Trump’s personal finances, his tax arrangements, cryptocurrency businesses and alleged preferential treatment of corporate donors.

The primary targets, not expressly outlined (yet) due to the strategy they are deploying, are Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, the Trump Media organization and Trump Holdings. These targets will get a J6 style corruption investigation, including subpoenas and alternate investigative resources.

A longtime Democratic Senate staffer familiar with the process says Democratic majorities on these committees already plan to exclusively focus on targeting business allies and individual donors to the president, including those who donated to the new White House ballroom.

.…the document also mention plans for restricting corporate ownership and pricing practices”…

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“Defeats often turn into victories.”

• A Requiem for the Midterms (J.B. Shurk)

As an enthusiastic supporter of President Trump, I found the midterms about as enjoyable as listening to the screeching harpies of The View while getting a root canal without any anesthetic. They weren’t pleasant.


I didn’t anticipate the election to be as bad as it turned out. I assumed that lame-duck-Senator John Cornyn, Karl Rove, and the Bush clan would work to elect Democrats in Texas (including the strange, little boi-toy-turned-senator-elect James Talarico), but I still expected my barbecue bros and fellow rednecks to cowboy up and get Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton across the finish line.

I also thought Establishment Washington would make sure that Mike Rogers and Susan Collins won their Senate races in Michigan and Maine, respectively. Rogers is well liked in the national security community, and Collins gave Obama and Biden more support for their administration and judicial nominees than she has given Trump. I figured they’d get a Deep State bounce propelling them to victory. I also didn’t believe Michiganders would vote for the Muslim Brotherhood-supporting Islamist Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

Before the midterm dust had even settled, the anti-Trump Republicans were out in full force. New Jersey whale Chris Christie belched, “The Trump era is over.” Mitt Romney clone, Senator John Curtis of Utah, pontificated that Republicans must “return to the principled conservative values that once defined us — and that we’ve steadily abandoned over the last decade.” I’m sure Bill Kristol and The Bulwark cuckservatives were all smiles as they imagined how pleasurable it will be to have Islamists, communists, and foreign invaders humiliate them into submission.

What all these anti-Trumpers want is a return to Bush-McCain-Romney Republicanism. That’s what they seem to believe will rise again after the Democrats’ dominant performance. Does that seem likely? Outside of the Fox News green room, the country club dining hall, the Chamber of Commerce cocktail party circuit, and the RINO cloakroom in the Senate, is anybody pining for a return of a Democrat-lite Republican Party in which the Bushes and Romneys pursue the same policies as the Clintons and Obamas but do so while pretending to hate us a little less (while actually hating us a little more)?

I don’t think the Republican base wants the party to return to the “good old days” when polite Republican candidates smiled and enjoyed losing for a living.

I also don’t think the Chamber of Commerce will have an easy job convincing blue-collar voters that offshoring their jobs in the name of “free trade” is the “principled conservative value” to which we should all aspire. President Trump has shown Americans another kind of future where manufacturing jobs pay Americans good wages to build useful things. We are only now seeing the return of these jobs to American soil, but the industrial revolution that Trump and his economic team have put into motion is transforming the country into a self-sufficient powerhouse.

Bush said this couldn’t be done. Obama said this couldn’t be done. The NAFTA-elites, central bankers, China-sellouts, and Chamber of Commerce globalists all said that the United States would be a “service-driven” economy and nothing more.

For thirty years, both sides of the Uniparty have constructed an America in which Wall Street firms make fortunes while mom-and-pop businesses on Main Streets across the country go bankrupt. For six years — interrupted by the economically destructive Biden installation and interregnum — Trump has proved that Main Street economic growth is not only possible but also vital to America’s success.

No matter how much they want to do so, the obnoxiously loud contingent of RINOs with all the cushy commentator jobs on TV will not be able to convince the Republican electorate that they should vote for people who want to subsidize multinational firms to build things with Chinese slave labor while killing small businesses in the United States.

President Trump has also proved that America’s borders can be secured. In four years, the unelected managers of fraudulently-installed puppet-President Biden let in twenty million foreigners while Dementia Joe slept and wandered around Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach. Before our senile “president” vacationed through his term, President George W. Bush tried to grant mass amnesty to everyone who crossed the Southern border.

Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer all claimed that there was nothing to do about the border except to write new laws that made illegal immigration legal. Trump has totally obliterated that canard by demonstrating conclusively that the president of the United States has more than enough resources at his disposal to seal the country’s borders.

Suggesting otherwise always seemed absurd. After all, why in the world should Americans fight and die for the borders of foreign nations instead of fighting and dying for the borders of the United States? Establishment Washington never had an answer for that simple question. We were just told that Ukraine’s territory mattered more than our own. Well, those days are over. It will be significantly more difficult for Democrats or RINOs to pretend that Americans must accept open borders after we have seen what is possible when a president upholds his duty to protect American citizens from foreign invaders.

Because of President Trump’s border policies and immigration enforcement, the number of rapes, murders, and other violent crimes has declined steeply across the country. The propaganda press do not report these facts; the fake news corporations intentionally cover up the unprecedented drop in crime by pretending that ICE agents are the bad guys. Nevertheless, ordinary Americans living in big and small towns have felt the very real benefits of secure borders.

Will future Republican candidates be able to run on a platform of mass amnesty for illegal immigrants? I don’t think so.

So where are we today after this incredibly unpleasant midterm beating? Well, thankfully, we don’t have a parliamentary system in which the majority party or successful coalition selects a new prime minister. Our Executive Branch remains the same, and, as much as the Democrats in Congress may pretend otherwise, there is only so much they can do to alter President Trump’s economic and foreign policies. Trump will continue to use tariffs as a tool to bring investment back to the United States; he will continue to enforce the border; and he will continue to reshape the geopolitical balance of power in America’s favor.

Congressional objection will be loud but largely ineffective.Remember, aside from passing the One Big Beautiful Bill, the Republican Congress did next to nothing to help the president accomplish his campaign promises.

It is true that the Democrats will prevent Trump from putting new judges on the bench or replacing anybody from his administration chased into retirement. I hope that his people possess nerves of steel and are prepared to endure the theatrical browbeating and endless investigations that will soon come from Congress.

It is also true that Democrats will force their agenda into every piece of legislation that reaches the president’s desk, and he will almost certainly be forced to compromise more than we would like. Over at The Conservative Treehouse, “Sundance” has put together a pretty unsavory list of legislative outcomes that we should expect.

We must also deal with the loss of important states. Democrats succeeded in Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, and Texas; and now they will use their perch in these states to weaken election integrity and enable future vote fraud. So long as Texas remains in Democrat hands, we have lost significant support in defending the border. Without Texas, Republicans have little hope of retaining the presidency.

The midterm results are bad for us. However, I know this to be true: Victories can quickly become defeats, and defeats can often be turned into unexpected victories. Put your faith in God and have the courage to keep fighting. There is much to do.

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“Every time a leftist alleges Islamophobia when there is none, which is most of the time, he or she devalues the word.”

• ‘Islamophobia’ Is the New ‘Racism.’ Conservatives Won’t Bite. (Tim O’Brien)

The left rarely changes tactics. Instead, they change targets, messaging, and terminology. If you’re a conservative and you ever publicly expressed your political views on just about any topic, even climate change, there’s a good chance someone called you a racist.


There was a time when being called a racist carried with it a certain stigma. That stigma was still in effect when the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, ran for and won the presidency in 2008. His White House, the Democrat Party, the legacy media, and the rest of the left mounted a concerted oppression campaign against anyone who critiqued the president in the slightest.

To “speak truth to power” when the left is in charge is to be dubbed a racist. The most famous example of this was in January 2009, just before Obama was inaugurated, when Rush Limbaugh received a request from the Wall Street Journal asking him to write 400 words about his hopes for the Obama administration.

Rather than comply with the Journal’s request, he gave his response on the air to his millions of loyal listeners. He said he didn’t need 400 words to answer the question, just four: “I hope he fails.” This is a time when Republicans and “conservatives” were falling all over themselves to dialogue with the intellectual new Democrat savior. Limbaugh’s defiant, blunt, but very clear response was the gasoline that set leftist hair ablaze across the country.

There is only one reason Limbaugh would say such a thing. He’s a RACIST. Never mind context. Limbaugh clearly said he hoped the left, led by Obama, failed at instituting its leftist agenda. He was not wishing ill toward America.

Limbaugh had learned a long time before this episode that when the left called him a “racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe,” it was a badge of honor. It meant the left saw you as a threat because you were effective. He had learned to take the attacks as a compliment.

That wasn’t the case for most conservatives at first. Rush had the luxury of owning his own show and creating the “Excellence in Broadcasting” EIB network. When he found himself in the middle of this controversy, it only helped his ratings, and he could not be fired.

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) had a good gig with CNN for a time, but that was until he made the innocent comment that America was built “from nothing.” The fake outrage mob accused him of being a racist for forgetting about the American Indians. CNN wouldn’t stand for that, and so the network cut Santorum loose.

Before she turned into psycho Megyn Kelly, NBC Megyn Kelly lost her lucrative position at the National Broadcast System, not because she said or did something racist – just that she asked an earnest question about the boundaries of racism when it comes to blackface and Halloween. She raised the issue on her talk show in October 2018. Cue the cancel culture mob once again.

Kelly followed a very common pattern for anyone accused of racism. She apologized and groveled, all to keep her job. It didn’t work. It never works. NBC fired her. The only reason these organizations demand the apology is to more clearly justify the destruction they already have on their calendars for you. By you apologizing, you yourself are signaling to the world that you have what’s coming to you.

One of the major turning points where racism allegations lost their currency came in February 2023, when Dilbert creator Scott Adams said on his podcast that if someone hates you, you should avoid that person. But that’s not how he said it.

When talking about a recent study that revealed that more than half of black Americans can be racist toward white people, Adams told his podcast audience, “If nearly half of all blacks are not OK with white people … that’s a hate group. … And I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”

This time, the low-IQ leftist cancel culture mob actually was angry, but the nuance of Adams’ comments was lost on it. His point was that if someone already hates you and you can’t change that, it’s in your own best interest to avoid that person.

The left rewarded Adams’ insights with a massive cancellation campaign that quickly caused Adams’ syndicator and newspapers across the country to literally cancel the publishing of his very popular Dilbert cartoon strip. In the process, Adams lost the largest part of his livelihood almost overnight.

Only, Adams did not do what Kelly did before him. He did not apologize. He did not try to appease the mob. Instead, he clarified what he said, which the left took as Adams doubling down. In the end, it didn’t matter. Adams built a hugely successful podcast in the wake of this. During this time period, the left threw allegations of racism around the way it throws NGO money at ballot harvesters – broadly and indiscriminately.

Chances are, if you say anything in support of MAGA, Charlie Kirk, Christianity, Israel, life, or even the merits of hard work, and you do it on the web, on social media, you will be called a racist. And you’ll blow it off, because the allegation itself has been so overused that it means nothing now. The left can’t make it stick, so long as you don’t cave, grovel, or apologize.

If “racism” was then, “Islamophobia” is now. In the wake of the 2026 midterms, Islam is forming a critical mass in American politics. It’s doing so by embracing socialism, by using the Democrat Party and its infrastructure, and through its own characteristic audacity, brazenness, and coerciveness. There is no charm offensive with Muslim politicians, we’re finding. Their default position is to steamroll you into submission.

At the same time, it’s well-documented that Muslim politicians bring an extensive amount of baggage with them into public life. In the case of Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.), his uncomfortable relationship with the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood follows him, exacerbated by his relationship with anti-American Hasan Piker and his own statements in support of implementing Sharia Law on U.S. soil.


To say he’ll never shake this is to assume he’s trying. He’s not. Instead, if you point out any of this, he and his allies throughout the left will choose to run you over with the Mack truck of Islamophobia allegations.




Those are crocodile tears. It’s Obama 2009 all over again. Only this time it won’t work. We all know the drill.

We do nothing wrong, and then we find ourselves on the receiving end of Islamophobia allegations. So, when we say something that may be true and real, or just our opinion, but it does not put Muslim politicians in the best light, we will be attacked. We’re not criticizing the faith, or even their practice of the faith. We’re attacking their politics, their public policies, and at times their relationships that could pose legitimate national security risks, as appropriate.

You can’t stop us from telling the world what we see and what the people see with their own eyes. It’s not hate. Observation is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

After years of calling us racists for no good reason, calling us Islamophobes for no good reason won’t work, either. We’re conditioned now.

Every time a leftist alleges Islamophobia when there is none, which is most of the time, he or she devalues the word. It means less and less every day, and conservatives are just ignoring it. They aren’t playing that game anymore.

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Saint-Denis, the red-green alliance, and the soft conquest of Christian France.

Your Sunday history lesson.

• Where The Hammer Sleeps (Lars Møller)


The Battle of Tours -Charles de Steuben- 1837
The tombs of Charles Martel stand in the Basilica of Saint-Denis as relics of a civilization that once possessed the will to survive. In 732, the Mayor of the Palace shattered the Umayyad army of Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi at Tours, earning the name Martel—the Hammer. That victory closed the northern road of the caliphate, preserved the Frankish realm as the last coherent Christian power in the West, and secured the conditions for Charlemagne’s empire and the very idea of Christendom.


Martel’s heavy infantry held against the shock of Muslim cavalry; the political consolidation that followed produced the Carolingian order, missionary expansion into Germany, and the historic alliance of throne and altar sealed in 800. Gibbon and generations of European chroniclers treated the battle as a civilizational hinge. Modern academic hedging about the precise scale of the expedition changes nothing about the aftermath: the northern expansion of Islam was stopped, and a distinct European identity solidified around Christian faith and Roman inheritance.

Today, the same basilica rises in a suburb that has already been lost. Seine-Saint-Denis records an immigrant share of 31.2%—the highest in mainland France—drawn principally from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali and other Muslim-majority sources. Official statistics are forbidden to name religion, yet the streetscape requires no census: halal markets, mosques, and the near-vanishing of the older French working-class presence declare the new ownership. Poverty approaches 30%, double the national rate.

The enclave-like department is the youngest in metropolitan France, with more than a fifth of its inhabitants under fifteen. These figures are the measurable residue of a political project sustained for decades by the red-green alliance—an informal but effective coalition of left-wing parties and Islamist networks that treat the historic French nation as an obsolete obstacle rather than a living trust.

The anti-Western alliance works with cold strategic sense. Its secular wing supplies the moral prestige of anti-racism, decolonial grievance, and the residual authority of the postwar left. Its Islamist wing supplies demographic density, communal endogamy, and an alternative civilizational code. Together they hollow out the practical sovereignty of the Fifth Republic. Reflecting a 1905 settlement that confined religion to the private sphere while protecting a common public culture, laïcité is steadily reduced to a rhetorical prop.

Around Martel’s tomb, the symbols of French conviviality—berets, baguettes, the unselfconscious mixture of the old working class—have yielded to niqabs and the predatory packs whose catcalls mark the territory as hostile ground. French citizens of Christian ancestry move through these streets as tolerated outsiders, subject to the ordinary friction of harassment and the quieter pressure of demographic displacement.

The disorder that periodically erupts across the banlieues is the predictable consequence of importing populations whose fertility, identity, and political loyalty remain oriented elsewhere, while simultaneously dismantling the cultural confidence required for any genuine assimilation.

This destructive process is not the accidental by-product of labor migration or classroom overcrowding. It is the deliberate result of elite preference for abstract universalism over the concrete duties of cultural transmission. The governing classes of the Fifth Republic have treated the nation as a hotel rather than a home. Indulging in the moral glow of openness, they have neglected the harder work of demographic and cultural continuity.

The red-green alliance has exploited that complacency with greater ruthlessness than its predecessors. It understands that control of fertility rates, street-level social norms, and the curriculum ultimately outweighs temporary control of the constitution. Formal republican institutions remain so far; the daily experience of ordinary French people of Christian ancestry is that those institutions no longer command the ground.

Civilization is not an empty procedural framework that can be filled by any demographic content whatsoever. It is a lived inheritance of language, memory, sacral architecture, and intergenerational loyalty. When the proportion of those who share that inheritance falls below a critical threshold, the inheritance itself dissolves. Saint-Denis demonstrates the mechanism with pitiless clarity.

The physical structure of the basilica endures, yet the surrounding social order no longer orients itself towards the civilization the basilica originally embodied. The red-green alliance grasps this dynamic more clearly than its opponents. It does not require dramatic seizure of power; it requires only the acceleration of demographic replacement while stigmatizing any frank acknowledgment of the process as bigotry. The historic people are thereby rendered a minority in their own capital region, their public spaces marked by alien norms, their children educated to regard their own past with suspicion or shame.

The prospects for France are correspondingly bleak. Demographic momentum is stubborn. The age structure of Seine-Saint-Denis guarantees that the relative weight of the newer populations will increase even in the absence of further inflows. Parallel societies harden; political majorities shift more slowly than street-level control, yet both move in the same direction.

The French state retains formal authority, yet its capacity to enforce a common culture has been deliberately impaired by decades of elite ideology. Appeals to “republican values” grow ever more hollow as those values are being emptied of the historical substance that once made them compelling. The Hammer of Tours drew a line that held for centuries. However, no comparable line is visible today. The descendants of the people who built the basilica walk its precincts as interlopers while the coalition that displaced them consolidates its hold on the future.

The same pattern is visible, with local variations of tempo and intensity, across Western Europe. In Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, and large parts of Germany, the postwar settlement of high immigration, low cultural confidence, and elite prioritization of abstract rights over concrete peoples produces irreversible transformation. Fertility differentials, chain migration, and the formation of dense Muslim communities generate parallel societies whose political demands expand with their numbers.

Native majorities age and shrink; their elites continue to treat any defense of the historic nation as moral failure. The red-green alliance—or its functional equivalents—advances under the banners of “anti-racism” and “human rights” while the older European character of cities and regions is steadily erased. The process is self-reinforcing: as native populations lose demographic and cultural dominance, their capacity to reverse course diminishes. Political capture follows social capture. What begins as “diversity” ends as displacement—eventually, as replacement.

From a philosophical perspective, the trajectory reveals the terminal weakness of late-liberal assumptions about identity and continuity. A people that loses the will to reproduce itself and to transmit its culture has already accepted its own supersession. Western Europe’s governing classes have spent half a century educating themselves and their successors into precisely that acceptance. They have preferred the moral prestige of openness to the harder virtues of continuity and defense.

What follows from consistent elite betrayal is a soft conquest in which the historic peoples of the continent are gradually reduced to strangers in the places their ancestors built. Martel’s tomb remains in Saint-Denis. The civilization that once understood why the tomb mattered is being unmade, first in France and then across the wider European landscape. The process continues. The will to stop it has not yet appeared.

Hopefully, the French will be spared the sight of the venerable basilica engulfed in flames—much like Notre Dame and the town hall in Limoges. Their moral paralysis is tragic.

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