I stopped by the new Reflecting Pool. It is simply glorious. There were a thousand people, everywhere, taking pictures and just enjoying its beauty. Thank you President Trump for restoring our city’s national treasure.
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
Scott Pelley went on a New York Times podcast to complain about getting fired and ended up giving one of the most satisfying self-owns of the year.
He’s out there telling anyone who’ll listen that Bari Weiss ��murdered” 60 Minutes and came in with an agenda to dismantle the place. When the host, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, calmly asked him if he really thought accusing the new boss of wanting to “murder the show” might have consequences, Pelley got defensive and said the old CBS would’ve let him say that without repercussions. The new people, he complained, won’t be questioned.
Then he started crying.
Not quiet, dignified tears either. The full dramatic pause, voice cracking, “I’ve been in combat for this country” routine. Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, foxholes filling with water in the desert. He’s never worn the uniform, but apparently that doesn’t matter when you’re a journalist who loves the First Amendment. There’s no democracy without people like him, you see.
It was glorious.
Garcia-Navarro didn’t even have to argue with him. She just let him keep talking. Same trick she pulled on Tucker. The man who spent decades assuming the room would always treat him like a serious person suddenly had nowhere to hide once the automatic reverence was gone.
This is what the end of legacy media looks like. Not some dramatic takedown. Just an aging prestige anchor given a microphone and a little too much time to explain why losing his job is actually a heroic sacrifice for the republic.
The schadenfreude is so thick you could spread it on toast.
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Democrats in California would like to remind voters that questioning statistically absurd phenomena in elections is now a threat to Democracy, and probably racist. Now sit down and take whatever they give you or they will call you names.
🚨SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."
Jeffries “There is NO election fraud in California. Donald Trump is MAKING IT UP. He can’t point to a shred of evidence. This is all a CONSPIRACY THEORY.”
California is SWIMMING in SNAP fraud, hospice fraud, immigration fraud… but elections? Totally clean, bro. Trump’s just “making it up.”
Meanwhile his party is BLOCKING the DOJ audit like their lives depend on it. How does he say that with a straight face?
@townhallcom Democrats do more than this. They fill out and submit ballots after election day. That’s what generates the late votes.
And in California, election audits and ballot inspection are illegal. Late ballots ARE against the law, but California has outlawed every way to detect them.
Useful Idiot Kristen Welker's PATHETIC defense of California election fraud DEBUNKED
Larry O'Connor takes Welker to task for the rigged system she's dismissing.
"The real scandal coming out of California right now is quite possibly every single thing we are seeing transpire before our very eyes is 100% legal."
O'Connor explains that anyone with a functional brain can see what's happening in California and know that the election is being stolen.
"You can steal something and not break the law. And that's what's happening here. They are stealing it without actually breaking the law."
As a former Californian resident, O'Connor breaks down the entire process.
"This is the election system in California as we speak. Anybody who is a registered voter gets a ballot mailed to them, and you register to vote because you walk into a DMV, and you automatically get registered no matter what. And as you know, California leads the nation in giving driver's licenses and registrations to illegal immigrants, people who are in the country illegally, and they're getting driver's ed. They're getting commercial driver's license in California right now. And when you go through the process, they register you to vote. And there is no check for citizenship. There's no check for ID, there's no check for anything. And they'll register to vote. And you're on the voter rolls."
O'Connor even stated he hasn't lived in Los Angeles County since 2012, and he's STILL being notified by email that his ballot has been mailed to him.
"I don't know who's got it. Whatever address I used to live in has has the Lawrence O'Connor ballot, and I'd love to know if I voted. I probably have without anyone knowing it."
And then comes the issue of ballot harvesting...
"In California, individuals can go and collect ballots from anyone. They can go and knock on the doors and say, 'Hey, give me your ballot. I'll take care of it for you' legally. And those people who knock on your door and collect your ballot, they call it 'ballot harvesting,' they can work for political entities. They can work for political action committees."
"They can go and they can pick and choose what ballots they want to collect. And they bring them in or they don't. And every mail in ballot, there is no ID required for every single mail in or drop box ballot. All you've got to do is sign the ballot. But of course, it would be discriminatory to allow somebody who is illiterate and can't write their name to not vote."
"So when you sign your ballot, you can just make a mark. You can make a smiley face if you want, but it's witnessed. Don't worry. There's a little box for a witness to sign. But of course, there's no name associated with a witness. It's just a signature. And oh, by the way, when those ballots are collected, the witness signature isn't checked."
"They just check that there is a signature for a witness. So, of course, there's nothing keeping people from making a little mark on the signature for the voter. And then that same person squiggling the witness box, putting it in an envelope and then having those votes come in. Oh, what else are they doing in California? Well, they allow ballots that come in as late as a week after Election Day to be counted. That doesn't seem right. Oh. It's okay. The ballot had to be mailed or put into a Dropbox or delivered by Election Day. But of course, if it's not postmarked, they'll overlook that. If there's no postmark at all on the envelope, they'll just look at whatever date you put on it and they'll trust you, and then they'll count the ballots."
"Every single thing I just described for you is accurate and legal. They're not breaking the law. They're following the laws that they have written so that they can get away with this garbage and everyone knows it."
@LarryOConnor
With Pratt's elimination, L.A. voters have again guaranteed the status quo and that city will continue on the same downward trajectory. https://t.co/Bo4x99VDgS It is the ultimate expression of the politics of low expectations. https://t.co/Xzw95HsZxB U-Haul stock must be soaring.