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[Josef Bosch @realjosefbosch]

It’s so anachronistic to hear a random woman—let alone a French one—speak like this.

I can’t remember the last time I heard a white woman of any national origin speak this defiantly and bravely.

Major blancpill.

[Shiloh Marx @Shilohmarx]

It’s happening, California. Stay tuned.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

The peak of globalism was Obama and Macron.

Two men, two continents, the same casting.

Young, polished, brilliant speakers. Perfect résumés. Total ease in front of a camera. Able to electrify a rally in Ohio and charm a room full of CEOs in Davos in the same week.

They are excellent actors. I mean that without irony. Public charisma is a real talent, and they have it at a rare level.

But look at what they actually embodied.

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize nine months into his presidency. Before he had done anything. They weren't rewarding a record, they were rewarding an image: a post-national world run by institutions and experts.

Macron is the European version of the same product. A movement founded one year before the election, no historic grassroots base, carried by the economic, media and administrative elites. "Neither left nor right." Translation: attached to no people and no history. Just the efficient management of globalization.

Their whole software fit in one sentence: the global market, supranational institutions and experts know better than nations what is good for them.

Unlimited free trade. Deindustrialization sold as modernization. Borders treated as an archaism. Sovereignty treated as populism.

They weren't the architects of this project. They were its faces. The best salesmen it ever had. When you need millions of people to accept that their factory is moving to the other side of the world and that it's for their own good, you don't send a gray technocrat. You send someone who knows how to talk.

That's why footage of Obama at a rally rings so hollow today. Same tone, same inflections, same staging. But the audience has changed. They've seen the movie. They know how it ends.

And the project they carried is dying everywhere.

The US is back to tariffs and reindustrialization. Europe is finally talking about energy, military and tech sovereignty. Borders are a legitimate topic again. Supply chains are coming home. Covid proved that a country that can't produce its own masks isn't modern. It's vulnerable.

Macron is at 15% approval, his lowest since 2017. Obama is back on the rally circuit, and the magic is gone.

But the most revealing part is what came after them.

The system can no longer produce an Obama or a Macron. Nobody that charismatic, that polished, that smooth.

There are two reasons for that.

The first is arrogance. For fifteen years they won without really fighting. The media was on their side, the elites aligned, the opponent demonized in advance. When you win too easily, you get lazy. You stop caring about the casting. You stop working on the script. And it shows: less polished, less prepared, less credible.

The second runs deeper. Truly brilliant people no longer want to enter this system. They know it has no future. Fifteen years ago, an ambitious young prodigy aimed for the elite schools, Harvard, high civil service, the big international institutions. Today they start a company, they build, they go where things are moving. Nobody signs up for a sinking ship.

So look at the bench.

In the US, they ran Biden. A president whose cognitive decline was obvious to everyone except his inner circle, who spent months hiding it. Then they swapped him out in a panic for Kamala Harris, who couldn't answer a simple question without drifting into word salad. After Obama, that's a staggering fall.

In France, same movie. Attal is Macron on a photocopier. Same codes, same lines, none of the depth. He announced his presidential run from a village square in rural France to make people forget he's a pure product of Paris's wealthiest neighborhoods. Everyone sees the set. Nobody buys it.

And on the left, the new great hope is Glucksmann. Son of a famous philosopher, Brussels MEP, darling of the Parisian salons. He talks about the nation and the working class with the polish of a dinner party in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The words are right. The voice isn't.

They all sound off. Like instruments out of tune. You still recognize the score, but nobody wants to listen to the concert anymore.

That's the first sign of a dying system: it no longer attracts the best. All it has left are heirs and imitators.

Charisma isn't enough when reality contradicts the story.

What comes next won't necessarily be better. But it will be different: leaders judged by what they build, not by how well they tell it.

The age of actors is over. Make way for the builders.

[Shai Goldman @shaig]

Israel has their election on Tuesday, a comparison of the the three leading candidates

[Did I Piss You Off? @DIPYOMUCH]

CNN's race obsession didn't emerge organically—it was manufactured by major media outlets through deliberate editorial choices. Media critic Batya Ungar-Sargon presented data during a live panel that left host Abby Phillip without answers.
The numbers are striking. The Washington Post and New York Times combined published "white supremacy" 75 times in 2010, then jumped to 700 times in 2020. NPR ran 2,400 mentions of related race-focused language that year alone. References to racial and white privilege surged 1,500 percent between 2013 and 2019. Sociologists have labeled this shift the "Great Awokening"—and it correlates directly with media editorial decisions, not actual worsening conditions in America.
This wasn't grassroots concern rising from communities. This was institutional media choosing to flood coverage with racial narratives, fundamentally reshaping national discourse. The data proves the media built the obsession.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Capitalism has a win condition. Socialism does not.

Here's why, explained so simply a 10-year-old could get it.

It starts with a book written in 1944 by an Austrian economist named Friedrich Hayek: The Road to Serfdom.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

According to the PAC supporting Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate, the reason Americans can’t afford groceries is because the U.S. is paying for “Israel to kill Palestinians.”

Blaming America’s problems on Israel isn’t simply criticism of foreign aid.

That’s why they don’t care about the billions of aid going to Egypt, Jordan and Ukraine. Or about US military forces defending Europe, South Korea and Japan.

Israel is central to the identity of most American Jews.

Singling out Israel as the cause of American suffering is a thinly veiled attempt to turn Americans against their Jewish compatriots, portraying their support for Israel as evidence of divided loyalties and their political influence as a threat to the interests of their fellow Americans.

It is an old antisemitic tool dressed up as a foreign-policy argument.

@PatinkinMandy

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Treason at the Pump: Democrats Cash In on Tehran's Oil Sabotage

The Left Cheers For Iran's Regime...

Observe the sheer moral rot of the modern American left. A hostile foreign theocracy is openly attempting to rig the November 3 U.S. midterms by artificially inflating oil and gas prices, and Democratic operatives are gleefully treating this national security threat as a partisan windfall.

Even Reuters and The Washington Post confirm the scheme: Iranian officials have deliberately prolonged the current stalemate in negotiations and sustained military pressure around the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran views the next two weeks as a prime window to leverage higher energy prices and inflict maximum economic pain on American voters before November 3, explicitly aiming to weaken President Trump and Republican candidates who demand that Iran never obtain a nuclear weapon. Feeding this parasitic synergy, Democratic candidates and allied commentators obsess over the immediate cost at the pump and the political damage to Republicans, weaponizing price spikes as their central line of attack against the administration. The very press outlets that spent years declaring Trump politically finished now dutifully amplify Tehran's price narrative. Meanwhile, they shamelessly downplay the strategic stakes, ignoring Iran's nuclear ambitions, its bloody crackdown on domestic protesters, and the existential nightmare a nuclear-armed Iran poses to the region and U.S. interests.

President Trump has met this extortion with clarity. He recognizes that elevated oil prices are a small price to pay to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, stating that prices will drop once the conflict ends. He has also exposed Iran for fabricating claims of attacks and naval mines solely to drive energy costs higher in the run-up to the election, firmly rejecting a weaker negotiating posture that leaves the nuclear path open years from now.

Rising energy prices undeniably burden families, truckers, and the broader cost of living. Republicans consistently offer the only sovereign remedy: expand domestic energy production, reduce reliance on adversarial suppliers, and refuse to let foreign regimes dictate U.S. security or elections. Democrats in power always choose the opposite direction, combining restrictions on domestic production with a groveling, accommodating posture toward Iran in previous negotiations.

The midterms are the immediate test. A Republican House and Senate give the administration the power to maintain pressure, expand U.S. energy output, and block a cowardly deal that trades short-term price relief for a nuclear breakout later. Democratic control would reverse course on both the energy agenda and the posture toward Tehran. Iran's leadership and the American left are placing the exact same repulsive bet: they wager that enough voters will punish Republicans for the cost of standing firm.

Voters on November 3 must answer one straightforward question: is preventing a nuclear Iran worth temporary energy price pain, or should the United States fold under pressure from an adversary that is explicitly trying to shape the midterm results?

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🚨 BREAKING: FEDS UNCOVER A MASSIVE FRAUD SCANDAL IN CALIFORNIA 🚨

Homeless Charity Ring BUSTED—$23M VANISHED INTO THIN AIR! 🤑

$100M to “HELP” the HOMELESS was TURNED INTO a HIGH-END NIGHTCLUB 🤯

And GAVIN’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL PROJECT? BILLIONS spent, NOT A SINGLE TRACK laid 🚂💸

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

🚨🚨🚨 A warning to Americans, from a Frenchman. 🚨🚨🚨

You are starting to elect people who promise you more state, more redistribution, more "free" things. New York already has a democratic socialist mayor, perhaps the furthest-left since Fiorello La Guardia. I'm not here to tell you how to vote. I'm here to tell you how this story ends, because we lived it. France ran this experiment for 40 years, and we are now living its final chapter.

It starts in May 1981. François Mitterrand wins the presidency with the Communists in government. The program is pure romance. They nationalize the big banks and industrial groups. They lower the retirement age to 60, cut the work week, add a fifth week of paid vacation, create a wealth tax, and hire massively in the public sector. "Changer la vie", change life itself. That was the slogan.

Reality took less than two years to answer. Capital fled. The franc was devalued three times. Inflation stayed in double digits while our neighbors were bringing theirs down. In March 1983, Mitterrand made a U-turn and imposed austerity, "le tournant de la rigueur".

Remember this, because it is the pattern. Socialism doesn't fail once and disappear. It fails, reinvents itself, and changes its electorate.

After 1983 the Socialists had a problem. They had abandoned the economic revolution, so what was left to sell? The answer was identity politics before the term existed. In 1984 SOS Racisme was born, closely tied to the Socialist Party. The moral battle replaced the economic one. Anyone who raised the question of immigration or integration was no longer an opponent. He was a racist.

Then came the first real test. In 1989, three girls showed up to a public school in Creil wearing the Islamic veil. The Socialist government refused to decide, sent the question to the courts, and let it rot for fifteen years. The ban only came in 2004. That was the moment the Republic blinked. The message received was simple: if you push, the state will back down.

Over the following decades, the left slowly replaced the working class it had lost with a new coalition. In 2011 the Socialist think tank Terra Nova wrote it down in black and white, saying they should stop chasing blue-collar workers and build a coalition of graduates, youth, and minorities. Electoral clientelism became strategy. In certain cities, local politicians traded subsidies, jobs, and silence for votes delivered by community networks, including Islamist ones.

The result today is that in the 2022 presidential election, Muslim voters gave 69% of their first-round votes to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the hard-left candidate. A party that once claimed to be secular is now courting religious identity. Let's be precise: this is not about our Muslim fellow citizens, millions of whom are fully French. It is about a political machine that decided a community vote was worth more than the principles of the Republic.

Now the economy, because the two collapses are the same collapse.

In 2000, the Socialist government of Lionel Jospin, with Martine Aubry as labor minister, imposed the 35-hour work week. The theory was that sharing work creates jobs. What it actually did was make French labor more expensive, destroy the culture of effort, disorganize hospitals that still haven't recovered, and teach an entire generation that work is a burden the state should shrink for you.

That is the deep logic of socialism. It doesn't make people richer. It makes them dependent. Every new subsidy creates a voter who fears losing it. Every new public job creates a voter who defends the system. After a while, you no longer have citizens. You have clients.

Look where it ends. France hasn't voted a balanced budget since 1974. Public debt was around 20% of GDP when Mitterrand arrived. It is now around 3,550 billion euros, about 118% of GDP. France is once again Europe's biggest spender, with public spending at 57.3% of GDP. And a report commissioned by the government in July 2026 projects that without budget efforts, debt would reach 130% of GDP by 2030.

And to be completely honest, the right didn't fix any of this. Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron: they all managed the decline instead of reversing it. The left set the direction, and the right lacked the courage to change it. That's how you get 40 years of slow rot, economic and social at the same time. A country that works less, pays more, gets less security, and no longer dares to say what it is.

So today France has two choices, and so will you if you go down this road.

The first choice is to stop lying to ourselves. Multiculturalism, meaning many cultures living side by side with no common rules, does not work. It never has, anywhere. When there is no shared culture on top, one culture eventually takes over the others. That's not hate, it's sociology. What worked in France for 150 years was assimilation. You come, you become French, you take on the language, the laws, the history, the way of life. In exchange, the nation takes you in fully, with no asterisk. Assimilation plus controlled immigration. And the deal is already signed with millions of people. Children of Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Algerian, Moroccan, and Vietnamese immigrants who are as French as I am. They are not the problem. They are the proof that the model works when we have the courage to apply it.

The second choice is to keep pretending. Let the state get bigger, let debt explode, keep buying social peace with money we don't have, and keep handing territory to those who reject the West. In that scenario, it is not impossible that France first elects a hard-left government, a Mélenchon government. Then, when the system can't pay its promises anymore, something else fills the vacuum. Michel Houellebecq wrote that story as fiction in 2015, in a novel called Submission. A lot of French people stopped laughing at it a long time ago.

France is a Western country with Western values. Equality between men and women. Freedom of expression, including the freedom to criticize religion. The law above faith. Work as dignity, not punishment. Some things are simply not acceptable here, and we need to have the courage to say it again.

America, you still have what we're losing: a culture of work, a culture of assimilation, the idea that the state is your servant and not your parent. The people selling you "more state" are making the same promise Mitterrand made in 1981. It sounds generous. It ends in debt, dependence, and fragmentation.

Don't trade the American Dream for the French Disease. We already paid the price. Learn from it for free.

[IBSI @IbsiNow]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu: “If you think we’ll continue receiving…tens of billions of dollars in U.S. aid for the defense budget, get organized and get used to it. It won't happen. Because America has (been) taken over. It's over, and it will be over. It's just a matter of time. You need to understand that there could be sanctions (by companies) and banking sanctions. You need to organize an alternative economy…and I’m working on that too.”

What the Israeli Prime Minister says is true. Regardless of the midterm elections, and regardless of the 2028 general elections, the US government is headed toward an aggressive anti-Israel, pro-BDS policy fueled by (among other things) foreign actors who have flooded our political system with billions of dollars. Those who deny this reality are not only wrong; their flawed analysis will prove detrimental in a myriad of ways.

[Moshe @IsraelIDFend]

If you support Palestine and keep screaming “genocide” after watching this video, there’s no fixing your level of hate and idiocy.

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

Best election image I’ve ever seen!

If you’re in CA & you don’t vote for @SteveHiltonx because of his British accent, you just voted to drive off the cliff

If you’re in NY & you don’t vote for @sarithaforny because she doesn’t have a “D”, you just voted to drive off the cliff

If you’re in MI & don’t vote for @MikeRogersForMI because you only vote D but you hate @AbdulElSayed, you just voted to drive off the cliff

Wake up. NOT voting because of blind faith to one party whose candidate happens to SUCK in this election cycle is voting for your own doom.

You can remain a Democrat. You can tell everyone you’re a Democrat. No one has to know who you voted for.

So when it’s time to vote, DO vote, and vote for the obviously better candidate. Don’t even tell your spouse.

Otherwise, you’re driving yourself and the rest of us off a very steep cliff.

[DemoCast @DemoCast]

Is #MuslimImmigration Reshaping America's Laws, Culture and Politics? - @MarkSKrikorian @AFAlliance’s WWIII Update Confab
https://t.co/4bdwM1NTwg @MikeRogersForMI

[IDI @idicenter]

“Moderate” Islam is simply Islamism restrained by authoritarian rulers. “Radical” Islam is what happens when mainstream Islam encounters the freedoms of a liberal democracy.

Read Why Is Islam More “Radical” in the West? by @DanBurmawy

https://t.co/YtfjHCQysa

[The White Rabbit @HQWhiteRabbit]

🚨 CRIME OF THE CENTURY UNCOVERED 🚨
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just dropped a BOMBSHELL that should shake America to its core.
When he walked into HHS, he found the ultimate betrayal:
Xavier Becerra and the Biden administration gutted the anti-fraud team that was supposed to protect $2.2 TRILLION in taxpayer money every single year.
There were only 80 people watching over 50 states and 5 territories.
Becerra transferred 76 of them out.
Only 6 people left.
Six.
For 4 MILLION transactions a day.
It was an open invitation for the thieves.
And they came running.
Phony hospices in Los Angeles billing $6,000 a month for patients who didn’t even exist.
Durable medical equipment fraud — tens of billions stolen.
Autism services — tens of billions more looted.
The store was left wide open… and they cleaned it out.
RFK Jr. is calling it exactly what it is: a deliberate dismantling of the last line of defense against the greatest government fraud in modern American history.
This wasn’t incompetence.
This was the crime of the century.
And the American people just found out who left the vault door unlocked.

[Ayn Reagan @AynReagan]

It happens with frightening speed. And it is happening here. Ending Muslim immigration will be the winning issue in the 2028 GOP presidential campaign if anyone prominent has the guts to make it the issue. If not then America will burn.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

When soldiers overseas told me as a reporter for CBS News that they were fighting over in Afghanistan & Iraq, so that they did not have to fight this at home & so their children did not have to fight this threat at home, neither of us knew the jihadi threat was already being exported with haste & brought into the United States under political cover from the left. America’s domestic enemies were already working with foreign enemies, to bring the Islamic terror threat right to your door. Now it is in your communities, in your cities & rural areas, across college campuses & your children are being seduced & indoctrinated by people with nothing but hatred in their hearts. Most importantly, it does not end here. Not even close. These people are working with purpose & design. So those who think they just have to come to terms with where we are now & there’s nothing that can be done? You people are surrendering & all the “good options” are disappearing. By the time you realize where we are, it may very well be too late. So know this, when you make a deal with the devil it never ends the way you think & it never ends well.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

The DSA Plans To Incite Nationwide Violence Ahead Of 2028 Election https://t.co/WY0Px6ia0z

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

The War Department has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to our national security.