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She put on X, the following statement, the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far left pro-Palestine anti-government anti-capitalist group, was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning under your Z. The group also plans to target ICE agents and vehicles. This was an incredible effort by our US attorneys and the FBI to ensure that Americans can live in peace, will continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice. Here is Bill Azalee, who is the first assistant US Attorney breaking down the plot as the FBI explained it to him.
In November 2025, defendant Carol created a detailed bombing plot to use explosive devices to attack five or more locations across Southern California on this upcoming New Year's Eve. Carol and her co-defendants Zachary Page led the effort to obtain and build the bombs and to recruit others to join in their plot. Carol's bomb plot was explicit. It included a step-by-step instructions to build IEDs or improvised explosive devices and listed multiple targets across Orange County and Los Angeles.
Carol also made clear her desires. She said, quote, what we are doing will be considered a terrorist act. Carol and Page also discussed plans for follow-up attacks after their bombings, which included plans to target ICE agents and vehicles with pipe bombs. Carol stated that those plans would, quote, take some of them out and scare the rest.
According to Cassia Keiva reporting for our Daily Wire, all of the defendants have been charged with conspiracy and possession of a destructive device. According to an affidavit obtained by the Daily Wire, the lead person in this gave an eight-page written document titled Operation Midnight Sun, that detailed the bombing plot to a law enforcement source. The plan included planting backpacks with pipe bomb IEDs and simultaneously detonating them to five locations, including two American companies at Midnight Under Year's Eve. The plans included information about how to manufacture the bombs and guidance to avoid leaving behind evidence.
Apparently, they took multiple steps to carry out the plot, including acquiring bomb-making materials and traveling to remote locations in the Mojave Desert to construct and detonate a test explosive device on December 12. While they were there, they began assembling devices using materials such as precursors of PVC pipes and fuses before they were arrested. In Instagram account for you so-called Turtle Island Liberation Front, apparently that is an indigenous term for North America adopted by radical leftists who say that the name North America is colonialist. So, apparently, an Instagram account for the Turtle Island Liberation Front in LA, which authority says operated by the aforementioned Carol, shows a woman in Merit, Mass of the Kefia explaining the ties between Palestine and Turtle Island.
Palestine is the true name of Israel. It's the same with Turtle Island. That was what the original tribes on the Americas before it was called America. It was known as Turtle Island because, believe it or not, if you look at the map, rather from the top down but to bottom up, if you flip that map of the Americas, it looks like a turtle.
Other posts on the account include not only anti-Israel and anti-governance slogans, like resistance is the deepest form of love and capitalism prevents liberation, but also death to ICE and death to America. Apparently, the group was looking for reparations and land-backed indigenous groups. I do find it amusing that they believe that Palestine was the true name of Israel, which is strange, I was a name given by the name of Israel. I was a name given by the Roman Empire to land of Judea, which is what it was called before.
It was called Syria, Palestine. In any case, the reason that this is, of course, disturbing is because this coalition of left-wingers, radical left-wingers, anti-capitalist, anti-Semites, Islamists, this sort of coalition has been building for a very long time. Because in the end, what do they hold in common? A desire to destroy Western civilization, a desire to tear down anything in the civilized West that is, in fact, successful.
And that is why I truly believe that one of the dumbest things that we can do is to flatten out all ideologies and pretend all human beings think the same way. Any time anyone does this, you end up with the worst possible policy. So if you say, for example, all human beings have a yearning in their human heart for freedom in the same exact way, well, that can very easily lead you to these sort of policies pursued by the George W. Bush administration in which the president declared that it was the goal of the United States to enter any unplanned earth.
Of course, that is not a sustainable goal because it assumes that everyone has the same priorities that you have. In the same way, when you suggest that all acts of violence are equivalent, when you abstract, terrible things happening, specific, terrible things happening to the level of the general, when you say, okay, there's a specific terror act directed at say, Jews or against blacks or against whites for that matter. And instead of looking at the specific cause that is being pursued instead of looking at the specific ideological matrix used to justify violence and foam and violence, instead of looking at that, you just say, violence is bad. And all human beings just know that violence is bad.
What you are doing is preventing the actual solutions to these problems because if you refuse to face up to the fact that certain ideas are worse than other ideas, certain cultures are worse than other cultures, certain ideological frameworks are worse than other ideological frameworks. If you refuse to do that, you are missing the motivating factor in human action. And instead what you end up with is blunderbuss foreign policy that differentially strikes groups in an unfair and stupid way. We get to more on this in a moment first.
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She was commenting on the mass shooting in Bondi Beach in Sydney against Jews by two Islamists. And here's what she had to say. I used to think that gun violence was just an American phenomenon. Now we see this sort of anti-Semitic attack in Australia.
On the first day of Hanukkah, which is so disgusting and disturbing, and then kids going to college at Brown in the middle of finals, getting murdered. What are those families going through? I just, why all of this sickness and hatred going around the world, not just in its own veins? Why all this sickness and hatred going around the world?
Okay, on a generic level, the level of a two-year-old, sure. But let's be very clear. Different ideological groups commit different types of crimes. Some commit no crimes.
Some actually promote peace. Some ideologies promote vast terror attacks like radical Islamism. And when you reduce everything to, well, it's just an act of violence or you reduce it to the tool. When you look at the Brown University shooting, where we still don't know the motive, and then you look at what happened in Sydney, Australia, where you absolutely know the motive.
And you just flatten that out and pretend that's all the same. You are preventing the implementation of policies that would actually prevent shootings because there actually is a way to target radical Islam in, for example, Sydney, Australia. Don't import more radical Muslims would be one way. Surveillance of radical mosques might be another way.
Creating better security apparatus. Having a government that does not, in fact, grant credibility to radical Islamists and their arguments. That might be another way to do it. There are lots of things that we can do actually to fight particular ideologies, particular ideas.
And when you flatten that all out to the idea, it's all just gun violence. It's all just gun violence. What you are doing is preventing the solution. And unfortunately, I think that that is kind of the core of the debate sometimes between the right and the left, the traditional right and the left.
Because I always have to clarify this now because there are people who exist on the so called political right, who are not in any real way conservative. They just don't like some of the elements of the left until they found themselves on the right sort of bizarre fellow travelers. But traditional conservative thinking suggests that human beings are motivated by the ideas and ideologies that they carry. And also the human beings are deeply flawed.
They're not inherently good. The human beings have the capacity for greatness and also the capacity for sin. All of this is embedded, for example, in federalist 51, in which James Madison argues that if human beings were angels, you wouldn't need a government in order to govern them because they would be angels. Once you recognize the reality of human flaw and nature, once you recognize that people, in fact, change their behavior based on the ideologies that they hold, then it makes it possible to look at the outgrowth of particular ideologies and fight those ideas, fight those ideologies.
Otherwise, what you end up with is bad and stupid public policy. So Australia is a great example of a place that has brought into the left wing in Ostrom that everybody is equally good, that all human beings are born inherently good and wonderful. And therefore, the only thing we have to do is keep them away from particular tools, like, for example, guns. If you keep them away from the guns, then magically everything will be better, as opposed to, hey, maybe there's a difference between kind of normy Australian-ness and radical Islam.
Maybe we shouldn't import hundreds of thousands of people from Syria. Maybe we should make sure that before we decide to change the culture of our country, we recognize that not everybody thinks the same way, that not everyone behaves the same way. The single dumbest idea in all the politics is that all human beings think the same way and have the same priorities. So, to take Australia as an example, it turns out that one of the shooters in the anti-Jutera attack at Bondi Beach was previously investigated by authorities for his ties to Islamic State terrorist law.
This is a father-son team. The son was investigated by Australia's domestic intelligence agency ASIO, six years ago, according to Australian media. Police say the attack was inspired by the pair's dedication to ISIS, with two ISIS flags reportedly discovered in their vehicle. Apparently, police reportedly first took an interest in the 24-year-old terrorist according to the daily wire after they foiled an ISIS attack that was planned by a man who declared himself the Australian commander of an ISIS cell in Australia.
He was under investigation for six months before being deemed to pose no ongoing threat. ASIO director General, my purchase confirmed on Sunday one of the terrorists was known to law enforcement. The younger shooter is in critical condition. His father was shot dead by officers at the scene.
Now again, why does this matter? Because let's say that you wanted to stop anti-Jutera attacks in Sydney, Australia. One of the things that you might do is you might look at how to shut down, for example, ISIS sympathizers. Maybe you ought to look at how to deport ISIS sympathizers rather than importing ISIS brides in repatriation, which is what the Australian government actually recently did.
But instead, what you get is this attempt to put the focus on the gun. Now again, one of the things that's kind of astonishing about the gun control argument is that the focus, typically, on the weapon obscures the focus on the ideology, which is really stupid because let's be real. I'm a gun owner, virtually all my friends are gun owners, and none of us have committed a gun crime or will be really in danger of committing a gun crime. How do I know?
Well, because I know that people who I am friends with are not the types of people who go around shooting up mass gatherings. And in fact, you can pretty easily tell where the gun crime is going to happen in the United States. And it actually does not have to do with the prevalence of guns in those parts of the United States for months has many, many guns and very, very little gun crime. Chicago has many guns and much, much gun crime.
Why? Well, because gangs are incredibly prevalent in Chicago. Young fatherless males are wandering around at night with guns in Chicago and they aren't in Vermont. You can actually look at the social milieu.
You can look at a particular endemic problem in certain areas and target that. But if you believe that all human beings are again motivated by the same things and act in the same ways, then what you end up with is it must be the guns. And this is exactly what they are doing in Australia. So, well, the benighted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party will admit that this targeted Jews, the focus is in theoretical Islam in Sydney where they had a massive problem again in 2023, right after October 7.
There were Muslims who gathered en masse at the Sydney Opera House to chance gas the Jews. Apparently that was no problem. They're going to anti-Semitic gatherings pretty much every weekend in Australia. That was no problem.
The problem, of course, is the guns. So here's Anthony Albanese saying he stands with the Jewish community. This was an attack deliberately targeted at the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah, which of course should be a joyous celebration. And the Jewish community are hurting today.
Today, all Australians wrap our arms around them and say, we stand with you. We will do whatever is necessary to stamp out anti-Semitism. It is a scourge and we will eradicate it together. Okay, so they're going to eradicate anti-Semitism without actually doing anything about anti-Semitism.
They're going to target the guns. So here's Albanese yesterday talking about the actual solution. Wait for it. Wait for it.
More gun control. So let's just be clear. The only people in the situation of Bhandi Bichu had guns were the shooters. None of the people on the beach had a gun because gun control is extremely strict in Australia.
And the cops cower behind their cars doing nothing while shooting took place. And his solution is, yes, more gun control, not Islamist control, gun control. Americans prepared to take whatever action is necessary. Included in that is the need for tougher gun laws.
And this afternoon at four o'clock I will put on the agenda of the National Cabinet. Toughed gun laws, including limits on the number of guns that can be used or licensed by individuals. A review of licenses over a period of time. People's circumstances change.
People can be radicalized over a period of time. Licenses should not be in perpetuity. And checks, of course, making sure that those checks and balances are in place as well. We will task, I'll take to the National Cabinet this afternoon, who propose all two in power agencies to examine what can be done in this area.
Now, the Premier of New South Wales has said the same thing, that Australia needs more gun laws. If I forget about stopping the importation of radical Muslims into the country or keeping tabs on the radical Muslims who are already there, no, it's the gun laws. They're a really big issue there. They need to change their making and change.
It does require legislation. And it means introducing a bill to parliament to, I mean, to be really blind, making it more difficult to get these horrifying weapons that are no practical use in our community. Do you think they're not a farmer? If you're not involved in agriculture, why do you need these massive weapons of public in danger and make life dangerous and difficult for New South Wales places?
So I understand, of course I understand, the genuine desire to have information about how it will change, where less than 24 hours into this horrifying crime, I want to make sure the legislation of reform that you bring to parliament makes a big difference. But that's exactly my intention and my colleagues feel exactly the same way. Now focusing on the wrong things allows you, as an advocate for things like radical Islam, to simply misdirect. It's pretty amazing.
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Ilhan Omar is out there saying, well, you know, maybe Australia should try more gun control. I can't imagine where the anti-Semitism is coming from. I mean, like it's such a mystery. It's such a mystery.
And you know, what I need is advice on how to prevent anti-Semitic mass terror attacks from Ilhan Omar. Yeah, I mean, we are still recovering from the shooting at the Inansication Church. It is a tragedy that this has become a normal occurrence, not just in the United States, but now seeing it in Australia was really hard to create gun professional laws to prevent the kind of tragedy that took place today. I mean, this is the beauty of your complete flattening of all moral boundaries, is that you can have people who are complicit in the ideology that actually leads to terrorism, instead suggesting that actually they're against that, they're against it.
They're part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Pretty impressive stuff. Meanwhile in the United States, Democrats, the nice thing for Democrats is they don't have to wait in order to jump into the water when it comes to mass shootings. I mean, typically the way that this works is if a mass shooting is carried out by a radical Muslim in the United States, or by, for example, a radical leftist in the United States, Democrats immediately suggest that gun control is the answer.
If it's a right-wing shooter or someone perceived as right-wing, it's a white supremacist, for example, then left will immediately do what actually should be done very often, which is investigate the ideology. And what I'm saying is perfectly consistent. If ideologies tend to breed of terrorism, then we ought to critique the ideologies. We ought to think about what about those ideologies leads to terrorism, and we ought to think about what we can do in order to combat those ideologies, because that's what motivates human beings, not the instrument down the table, not the gun.
But for the left, it allows them the ability to blame everything on the gun when it's convenient, when it's convenient, when it's convenient. So, for example, Democratic Representative Nancy Craig of Minnesota, she immediately calls for her, wait for it, more gun control. Cheryl and I are just devastated. Another act of senseless gun violence in this country, and we're the only nation in the world whose lawmakers don't seem to be willing to step forward, and at least try to address this epidemic we have across our country.
I am so saddened. I am just disgusted with my Republican colleagues and their lack of acknowledgment, that these lives matter, their lack of acknowledgment, that these Annunciation School children matter in our country, and that we can do something about it. It is time to ban assault weapons in high-capacity magazines in our nation. So, here's the problem.
None of this actually solves the underlying issues. None of it. And when we ignore the underlying issues in favor of these ridiculous nostrums about all acts of violence springing from the same place, and all of them presumably being solved by more centralized government control, including the confiscation of guns, you ignore the actual problems simmering under the surface that generate actual violence. Okay, meanwhile, new and horrifying details emerging regarding the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, apparently according to the New York Post.
Rob Reiner's troubled son Nick fatally stabbed at the famed director and his wife, Michelle at their LA home, Authority Set on Monday. Nick Reiner spent years in and out of rehab for drug addiction as in custody of being held, who was detained Sunday night after police discovered that the director of the Princess Bride and his long-times vows had been hacked to death in their mansion, which is just horrifying at every possible level. The couple's daughter, Rob Reiner, found Rob Reiner at 78 and Michelle Reiner with their throats at slash around 3.30pm on Sunday and told cops she believed a family member should be a suspect. Rob Reiner also told the cops she talked about it was dangerous.
Nick Reiner had talked openly about his battles with addiction and bouts of homelessness. He told People Magazine in 2016 that he was homeless in Maine, homeless in New Jersey, homeless in Texas, that he went to rehab at age 15, ended up doing at least 17 stints in treatment. So, again, truly a horrifying situation, really horrifying in every possible way. Apparently he had a reputation for violence and had always been troubled.
That's in the New York Post reported. It's not the first time there's been violence a long-time neighbor that victims had said of Nick Reiner. I know of another incident a few years back when Nick, but I won't say more than that out of the man. I just never thought he would ever get to this point.
Rob was always heartbroken, his son couldn't beat his addiction. I know they wanted him to get help to go to rehab, but he wanted to get help while at home. He didn't want to get treatment at a facility. And I know they've argued about that for years, Nick has had demons before the longest time.
In such a nightmare, the whole thing is a tragedy. A second neighbor said I wasn't surprised to learn that Nick was charged with killing his parents. The resident declined it to elaborate. Again, terrible, terrible story, obviously.
There's a report from the UK Daily Mail that there was a fight that happened at a Christmas party at Conan O'Brien's house shortly before all of this. According to the UK Daily Mail, Reiner had booked a massage on the day he and his wife died, but did not answer the door prompting the couple's daughter to go into their home. And that's when she had discovered that they'd been knifed to death. Apparently the couple's son had an explosive row with his parents at Conan O'Brien's holiday party hours before.
And the 32-year-old has now been arrested in books for felony murder. So, again, truly a horrifying thing. Here's the LAPD's chief, Jim McDonald, announcing the arrest of the Reiner's son. They worked throughout the night on this case, and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner suspect in this case.
He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held on $4 million bail. All of that is, again, the only word for it is horrifying. It is a reminder that sometimes parents and relatives of people who have significant violent mental illness refuse to see the cost of that until it's too late. Whether it's a danger to themselves or danger to others.
And sympathy sometimes wins out over reason when it comes to the love we have for our family members and it's something that we all ought to keep in mind as we navigate the travails of life. The President of the United States put out what was truly, I think, a violent and egregious statement about Rob Reiner. And I don't care what Rob Reiner has said in the past. I mean, I do, but it was in the past, and it was bad.
And also what the President of the United States said about Rob Reiner yesterday was quite terrible. Quote, a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle. Reportedly due to the anger he caused other through his massive unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump's arrangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS, who's known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J.
Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness. And with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before, they rob and Michelle rest in peace. That is a horrifying statement from the President of the United States, truly, truly bad. And again, I have a very high tolerance level after 10 years of the President tweeting random nonsense on the Internet.
And with great appreciation for much of his policy, that's bad. And if bad when people say bad things, sorry, like I don't understand what a son murdering his parents is. A son murdering his parents in cold blood in their home by slashing their throats has to do with Trump's arrangement syndrome and the apparently peculiar desire of the President's refocus. That issue on himself is beyond me.
I don't understand it. Nor do I think that it should receive any sort of justification or what about his own. It's just bad. Just bad things are allowed to be bad.
That is bad. The President should take it down. The President should apologize. It's not good.
Okay. Meanwhile, on the foreign policy front, the United States apparently has been moving toward offering Ukraine a significantly more fulsome security guarantee in trying to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States pledged to protect Ukraine from any future Russian attack offering to support European security guarantees and seek Senate backing for Washington. Which hasn't yet publicly detailed.
The pledge came on the second day of talks in Berlin among the US Ukraine and European leaders and top officials. It remains unclear to what extent Washington militarily intervened. That of course is the sticking point. It's one thing for the United States to say, hey, we'll do something.
Maybe, and then what the thing is, we'll do something if the Russians walk across the border. But remember, even Joe Biden supposedly pro Ukraine, Joe Biden led off the invasion by weeks before the invasion saying that if it was a minor incursion into Ukrainian territory, then maybe the United States wouldn't do anything. Which of course, Vladimir Putin took as a green light to do whatever he wanted. However, if this is a real security security guarantee that is the necessity for any sort of deal to get done, that's just the reality.
Otherwise, why would Ukraine sign on to anything? Why? What interest would they have? According to the Wall Street Journal, the shift could lift one of the biggest obstacles to keep signing up to a peace deal with Russia.
A bigger hurdle still remains over territory. Because apparently the Russians want territory that the key hasn't even lost yet. European officials have for months offered Ukraine security guarantees to deter a future Russian attack, but they've stressed they need to have some form of US help to backstop those plans. European officials have advised Ukraine to tread carefully and agreeing to other major concessions until they had locked in clear US military support.
US officials say they have secured consensus with Ukraine on 90% of the issues being discussed after eight hours of face-to-face talks in Sunday between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Trump's Russia envoy Steve Whitcoff as well as Jared Kushner, Trump's Sun and Wall. US officials say they aren't unduly pressuring Ukraine, but the Trump administration wants to deal done by your end if possible. Now, again, we still have no idea if the Russians would accept any of this. So as I said before, negotiating against yourself is a hell of a strategy.
It seems to me that you at least have to hear what the Russians are willing to give up before you start pressuring the Ukrainians. You know, the ones we're allied with, not the ones who are posing a geopolitical threat to our allies. You know, it seems you might want to get what the Russians are willing to do before you force the people we're allied with to make the concessions. The sort of honest broker nonsense between Ukraine and Russia is ridiculous.
Russia, as a governing philosophy, has an idea of significant geopolitical power that threatens American interests in multiple regions ranging from Eastern Europe to the Middle East to Africa to Asia. The notion that somehow we're supposed to play honest broker between the Ukrainians in invaded country, a country invaded by the Russians. And the Russians seems bizarre, especially given the fact that again, it is American weaponry that has largely been used by the Ukrainians to resist the Russian aggression in the first place. With that said, the United States is signaling optimism.
Moscow has already said, by the way, it would object if proposals developed by key and Brussels like U.S. back security guarantees are included in the peace plan, which of course that's a basis for any possible peace plan. Why are the Ukrainians sign on otherwise? But a U.S.
official said out assess it was a really, really positive interaction. We've got consensus on a number of issues we view as critical to getting a peace deal. We have some things to discuss as well. The security guarantees would include monitoring, verification, and deconfliction.
And would lay out a role the U.S. would play a brush of breach of peace dealing came back to attack Ukraine. They would also include the provision of weapons to deter a Russian force. The U.S.
would not send ground troops, unclear what the United States would in fact said. President Trump said in August that Washington was prepared to use air power to support European troops in Ukraine. Interesting to see what kind of guarantee is allowed. A statement signed Monday by a dozen European leaders welcomed the greater convergence between the United States and Ukraine on ending the war.
And they said security guarantees would include help to regenerate Ukrainian armed forces of up to 800,000 troops, securing of Ukraine's skies, and legally binding commitments to come to Ukraine's aid in the event of a Russian attack. So, we'll have to see exactly what this looks like. Apparently Zelensky told journalists on Monday it's important to U.S. accept an Article 5 like plus the corresponding security guarantees.
So Article 5 basically says, I won't join NATO, but if Ukraine is attacked, then basically it's kind of like Article 5. We say that we've been attacked. And now you have a treaty obligation to intervene. He says we're making progress there.
I see the details the military has been working on. They look quite good, even though it's only the first draft. So we'll have to see how all of this works out for Ukraine. So meanwhile, and this bizarre idea that is spread far and wide in precincts of the right, that the Russians are not a threat to Western interests.
I'm just wondering on what basis that is said. What makes people think that the Russians are aligned with the United, like on what? And really on what thing? The last time the United States tried to align with the Russians, the Russians proceeded to take over effectively air bases in Syria.
And proceeded to foment greater war in the region, while providing the possibility of aid and supply for countries like Iran. So I'm just, every place Russia has been given the ability to spread its tentacles, it has brought terror and violence in its way. So I'm just wondering, where is the commonality of interest? Somebody needs to spell it out.
Well, apparently according to the new spymaster Britain's secret intelligence service, Russia poses an acute threat to the West, plotting arson and sabotage operations assassinations and cyber and drone attacks all across Europe. This blazer, Metro Welly, who is the chief of MI6, the new front line is everywhere. She said, the export of chaos is a feature, not a bug in the Russian approach to international engagement. She described a new age of uncertainty in which Russia, another hostile powers, use a battery of weapons from cyber technology to disinformation to so disquirt and disrupt Western democratic societies that of course is not shocking at all.
Russia does, in fact, utilize algorithmic boosting in order to generate distrust and suspicion. That is nothing new. How much Americans take that in? That's their choice.
But that is the thing that Russia has been doing for a very, very long time. Apparently, she says that the front line is basically everywhere with the Russians. That again, not a shock. Russia has been quite active in the West for years and years and years and years.
The other, of course, major geopolitical threats in the United States, a far greater geopolitical threat is China. And it's worthwhile noting that everywhere China has spread its tentacles. Things have gotten worse for US interests. That, of course, includes in Hong Kong.
According to the Washington Post editorial board, when China peacefully took control of Hong Kong in 1997, Beijing's communist rulers promised to preserve the former British colonies' freedoms and way of life. That promise was eroded a long time ago, and Monday's guilty verdict in the trial of media, mobile, and pro-democracy stalwart Jimmy Lai, extinguished any flicker of hope that still burned in the ones vibrant city again. It was a dumb idea for Britain ever to hand over Hong Kong, total foolishness. Lai has been held for some five years, mostly in solitary confinement.
The three judges who handed down the decision were doing precisely what their hand picked to do, ignore the evidence and use a political show trial to find ligilty of colluding with foreign forces and conspiring to publish the vicious material among other ludicrous offenses. It's worth looking at what the judges wrote in their 855-page ruling to see how far Hong Kong is falling. Lai's intent, they said, was to seek the downfall of the Communist Party. And he uses now Shutter newspaper Apple Daily to write and publish articles and editorials to make the Hong Kong people view the government with hatred and contempt.
They said that he affiliated himself with Western values. And this is what China believes. If you affiliate yourself with Western values, then that means that you are bad. You should remember this when we're talking about facing down the Chinese.
Since they're handing over of Hong Kong to the Chinese, they have grips ever tighter. That, of course, is no surprise. Meanwhile, Chinese billionaires are entering the United States and apparently fathering dozens of children via surrogate. That's according to the Wall Street Journal.
Apparently, over and over and over billionaires are coming to the United States and paying millions in surrogacy fees to hire women in the US to help them build families of jaw-dropping size. Several major billionaires have fathered more than 100 children through surrogacy in the United States. One wealthy Chinese executive, Wang Hu Wu, hired US models and others as egg donors to have 10 girls with the aim of one-aimering them off to powerful men, according to people close to the executive's company education. Other Chinese clients are high-powered executives lacking the time and inclination to bear their own kids, older parents, or same-sex couples, according to people who arrange surrogacy deals and work in surrogacy law.
All have the wealth to go outside China while maintaining the privacy needed to manage potential logistical, publicity, and legal issues back home. Some have the political class to avoid censure. The market, according to the Wall Street Journal, has grown so sophisticated that at times Chinese parents have had US-born children without even stepping flipps. After having many industry of American surrogacy agencies, Wall Fronts, Clinics, delivery agencies, and nanny services, even to pick up the newborns from hospitals has risen to accommodate the man, permitting parents to ship their genetic material abroad and get a baby delivered back at a cost of up to $200,000 per child, which is pretty insane.
Now, all these kids are US citizens by virtue of the 14th Amendment as currently construed by the Supreme Court of the United States. In 2020, under President Trump, the State Department tried to end birth tourism. It's been relatively unsuccessful, however. But yes, manipulation of the systems by Chinese higher-ups is quite real.
Meanwhile, the US Immigration System, again, the Trump Administration is doing a good job overall on immigration. But there is one group of people where we should really think before we deport them. That would include a person apparently named Juan Hang, Greg Lukianoff, links to a piece called Human Rights in China, and it points out that there was a man who filmed the Uyghur concentration camps and then fled to the United States. He went through South America and finally sailed alone in a small boat for 23 hours from the Bahamas to land in Florida and then released the videos.
And this footage became crucial evidence for the international community to confirm what China was doing in Shanghai. Apparently, he was now arrested in upstate New York for illegal entry and he faces the threat of deportation, where he will be sent apparently back to China. Again, not everybody who claims refugee status in the United States should be given it. This seems like, from the fact, a fairly good case.
Meanwhile, in good forenews, Chile has now elected a right-wing leader, which is excellent. Chile has historically been a pretty right-wing country. Really ever since Milton Friedman and the so-called Chicago Boys went down to Chile and helped restructure their economy in capitalist ways. According to the Wall Street Journal, when Jose Antonio Coss ran for president in 2021, he vowed to crack down on migration and restore law and order on Chile's streets.
The conservative admirer of dictator General Augusto Pinochet lost by double digits on Sunday. He won one of the most lopsided presidential victories in Chile's recent history, again focusing on migration and crime. That is because there's a feeling in Chile and throughout much of South America that migration, mostly people fleeing out of Venezuela has spiraled out of control. Casa, we must show great strength against crime, organized crime, impunity and disorder.
Chile can't become used to fear. He'll become the most right-wing leader since 1990. It's the biggest presidential victory by a right-wing candidate in Chile since the 1930s. And so if you were to divide up a map of South America right now, basically, the western half of South America has turned red.
The eastern half of South America remains blue, but the red is spreading. There's a lot of talk about a so-called pink wave that it overtaken. South America over the course of the last decade or so pink wave meaning like close to communism, and that seems to be receding and receding quickly. So, again, this is good news.
It is good to have better allies in South America. Cas pledged to restore order resonated with voters after protesters looted stores and forged buildings in 2019 unrest, causing billions of dollars in damage. His support surged in the 2021 election, amid a backlash against centrist politicians. Cas did make it to the runoff and then lost to the extremely left-wing president Gabriel Boric, who worked at a terrible job in Chile and got more and more worried.
Foreign-born residents now make up 10% of Chile's population. And so immigration, even in South America, remains a major issue, is not just an issue for the United States, an issue for the rest of the world as well. Meanwhile, I have to point out that the Democratic Party continues to be totally wrong-headed on this issue. JB Printer, the governor of Illinois, is out there yesterday complaining about ICE closer to home.
No, the way they're doing it now is just dead wrong. I mean, and I believe unconstitutional. I mean, marching people in uniforms in our automatic weapons through our major cities, where they're mostly just stopping people from being black and brown. Not because they're actually undocumented or committed crimes.
That's clearly something that all of us ought to stand up against. And we live through that. We are living through it now. And again, the idea that ICE is just arresting black and brown people because of their color is insipid, at a very, very high level.
Prince, we're also said, by the way, that as long as you've been here for five or ten years, we should give you a pathway to stay no matter who you are. I'm talking about the people who've been here for five, ten, 20 years, hardworking, raising families, paying taxes, law-abiding. All of those folks, and people who are undocumented. Those are the very people you'd want to have come into the country if you had a proper immigration policy.
And so we ought to fix it so that we actually are doing that. And giving people who are here, who I get, some of them, by the way, have broken the law because they crossed the border without permission, but also some who overstate a visa and are here undocumented. That we ought to have a path for those folks to stay. I can't believe the Democrats are doing this routine.
But again, doubling down on stupid seems to still be in the catalog for Democrats. She has been crockett who wants to run for Senator in Texas. She takes it to a whole new level. So over the weekend, apparently, she suggested that we need many, many immigrants because black people are done picking cotton.
I just, I can't even with this. Like, what are we talking about here? What are we even talking about here? Slavery has not been legal in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
What is she even talking about? So I have to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country or the fact that we are a country of immigrants. The fact is, I ain't going to try to go far right now. Okay, so I'm like, raise your hands.
You're not. You're not. You're not picking cotton. You can't pay us enough to find a plantation.
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. So this is your case for mass immigration. Okay, good luck with that.
Good luck with that. I will say that one person who seems to be getting it, maybe late in life is Nancy Pelosi. So Nancy Pelosi actually yesterday, she suggested that actually maybe we shouldn't be Trump right away. Like if they win Congress in the next election cycle, maybe in the next election cycle, maybe in the Trump would be a dumb idea because they tried it twice and it didn't seem to stop him.
You say, we're going to do that. No, there has to be cause. There has to be reason. We had review.
This was a very serious historic thing. And our founders knew that there could be a rogue president. And that's why they put impeachment in the Constitution. They didn't know there'd be a rogue president at the same time, a rogue Senate that didn't have the courage to do the right thing.
Again, like, okay, maybe she's getting maybe. We'll find out. Democrats, by the way, seem to be shying away from some of their older messaging, T.E.I. and trans.
And instead they're moving again toward bread and butter kitchen table issues. The biggest one that they believe they have is Obamacare and the Obamacare subsidies. And so let it go. Democrats have unified behind a simple message.
Extend the subsidies, keep health and trans premiums from spiking for more than 20 million Americans. Meanwhile, Republicans are struggling to coalesce. That seems about right now. Again, Democrats don't actually have a plan to solve this other than just endless subsidies and in the unnationalized healthcare.
I guess points to RoCon and the Democrat from California who continues to say the quiet part out loud. He says we should just nationalize our healthcare system. What do you want to say to those who are critical of the Democrats who say you're talking about affordability? It was in fact your plan, Obamacare, which bankrupted businesses and continues to be incredibly expensive.
The high cost of the Democrats' healthcare plan did not work. That's just not true. A private health insurance is what bankrupting America was happening before the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act helped slow the growth of private insurance.
But of course it's not the solution. The solution, as everyone knows in my view, is to study this, is Medicare for all. People should have national health insurance, health care is a human right. Well, saying the quiet part out loud.
If Democrats decide to do that, things will not go so well. If they just kind of do the soft version, which is subsidies until the end of time, I suppose that is a stronger political line. Meanwhile, Scott Bessons, the Treasury Secretary, is out there pointing out that the health of the US government's finances are improving. He says the current calendar year to date deficit is $1.52 trillion, which compares to a deficit of $1.93 trillion for the comparable period last year under Joe Biden, a 21% drop.
Not only is the deficit smaller under President Trump, the economy is bigger, the full 2025 calendar year budget deficit to GDP may total only 5% substantially lower than the unsustainable high, 6.8% in calendar year 2024 under Joe Biden. And then he says that we're going to grow our way out of debt and into prosperity. I mean, listen, that's better than Joe Biden, but better than Joe Biden, it's probably not a high enough standard. The reality is that if you go back for 2020, our calendar year budget deficits were lower than $1 trillion with a few sort of exceptions, including in 2009 when you had the Obama bailouts and all the rest of it.
Even then, our calendar year budget deficit was $1.41 trillion, which is lower than it is now, and that was the year of the Great Recession. Basically, this is the problem. Government spending a one-way rate of very difficult to ratchet it back down for all of the predictable reasons. Alrighty folks, coming up, it seems that one Republican might be interested in challenging JD Vance for the presidential nomination in 2028, and not who you're thinking.
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