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No Fear. No Political Correctness. No Wokeism. An irreverent fact-based podcast heard and read across 49 US states and 41 countries.

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  • How The Congressional GOP Is Letting Activist Judges Torpedo Trump's America First Agenda

    How The Congressional GOP Is Letting Activist Judges Torpedo Trump's America First Agenda
    Oct 17 2025
    For the love of God, can someone in the Republican Party grow a set of balls? It’s October, Trump 2.0 is in the White House fighting tooth and nail to secure our borders, slash the bloated federal bureaucracy, and rein in the runaway spending that’s bankrupting our grandkids—and what do we get from Republicans on Capitol Hill? Recess and congratulatory backslapping over the passage of one meaningful bill. A collective shrug from the so-called conservative majority that’s supposed to have our backs.Instead of reining in the rogue federal judiciary that’s turned into a one-way ratchet for Leftist obstructionism, these GOP enablers sit on their hands, pretending judicial reform—which is absolutely in their purview—is some forbidden fruit. The federal judiciary is out of control, and Republicans are complicit in the chaos by their inaction—while Democrats obstruct every step of the way, from shutdown standoffs to sanctuary strongholds.Let’s start with immigration, because nothing screams “America First” like sealing the border against the invasion that’s overwhelmed our cities.Trump hits the ground running in January, vowing mass deportations to restore order. By August, he’s rolling out a fast-track deportation policy to expedite removals of criminal illegal aliens without the endless due-process charade the Left has constructed that lets them game the system.Boom—federal court says no. A judge slaps down the entire effort as “extremist and unjust,” tying the administration’s hands just as ICE gears up for sweeps in sanctuary strongholds like Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago. The ACLU crows about rejecting the “unjust policy of fast-tracking mass deportations without due process,” but this isn’t justice under the law —it’s lawfare sabotage. And it gets worse on the local front, where Democrat city and state leaders have ordered cops to stand down, refusing to help ICE apprehend illegal immigrants flooding their streets.In Chicago, for instance, under explicit directives from Blue-state bosses (hello JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson), local law enforcement is forced to sit idle, watching criminals roam free while federal agents twist in the wind. Now, the federal bench is piling on, with the Seventh Circuit upholding a halt on Trump’s National Guard deployment to the Windy City, blocking troops from aiding in roundups amid the migrant mayhem, even as federal law enforcement agents are under assault and calling for back-up.These aren’t close calls; they’re blatant power grabs by judges who’ve forgotten Article III doesn’t make them kings.Emboldened by this federal bench cover fire, a Cook County judge—nowhere near his judicial purview—just issued an order barring ICE agents from making arrests on county court property—including parking lots—turning courthouses into safe havens for illegals and no-go zones for federal law enforcement.Chief Judge Timothy Evans’s decree explicitly prohibits civil arrests, as if immigration enforcement is a suggestion in sanctuary swamps like Chicago. Meanwhile, anti-ICE actions are rampant: from local ordinances shielding deportable thugs to judicial edicts that handcuff federal operations, all while Democrat overlords pat their minions on the back for their unconstitutional sanctuary policies.Where are the Republicans in Congress? Yawning over their morning coffee while the streets are awash in blood. They’ve got the votes—House, Senate, the works—to launch impeachment proceedings against these judicial tyrants, or at least pass legislation redefining the purview of federal courts to curb their overreach on nationwide injunctions, which they issue like candy on Halloween.Remember the Supreme Court’s June warning about “universal injunctions” improperly meddling in Executive Branch turf? That was a golden opportunity to codify limits on these abuses by narrowing judicial scope to its proper lanes. Instead? Nothing. Today’s GOP leaders stare into the cameras when asked about this like retarded deer in oncoming headlights. They’re too busy fundraising off “drain the swamp” bumper stickers to actually touch the faucet, even as Democrats filibuster every reform attempt.Fed up? You should be. Every blocked deportation means more fentanyl in our streets, more strain on schools and hospitals—on taxpayers, all because congressional cowards won’t fight the bench, letting anti-ICE zealots from city halls to courtrooms run roughshod over the law, with Democrats cheering from the sidelines.But hey, maybe they’re saving their energy for downsizing the government, right? Wrong.Trump’s team announces plans to cull the federal herd—layoffs targeting redundant and wholly unnecessarily employed bureaucrats who’ve turned DC into a jobs program for Ivy League paper-pushers. Enter the shutdown drama: with Congress deadlocked on funding as Democrats dig in their heels, the administration seizes the ...
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    44 m
  • How Democrats & The Toxic-Left's Chaos Is Pushing For Civil War 2.0

    How Democrats & The Toxic-Left's Chaos Is Pushing For Civil War 2.0
    Oct 13 2025
    In the chaotic hangover from Joe Biden’s treasonous term, the Democrat Party has morphed into a massive, self-serving bureaucratic monster, barreling headfirst toward what appears to be a bid for Civil War 2.0. In a recent article in his substack, Clusterfuck Nation, James Howard Kunstler rips the Left’s scam to pieces: Democrats have built a huge racket, a tangled web of cash schemes propping up their whole operation—from fake-woke charities to attack-dog lawyers. They’ve ditched any real policies or values, surviving on stolen taxpayer cash, shady donor slush funds, and protesters paid to gum up ICE operations.With Donald Trump in the White House, this Democrat machine has gone completely off the rails, purposely whipping up mayhem to trick the Right into an over-the-top tough response they can slap the “fascist” and “totalitarian” labels on. It’s beyond embarrassing for them, really; it’s outright seditious, all schemed-up by the radical Left and enabled by spineless Democrats who’d sell out their own mothers for a donation bump.At the epicenter of this provocation is the Marxist wing of the American Left, that slimy outfit slinking through universities, pseudo-do-gooder groups, and compensated protest flash mobs. They’re done with just talk—they’re flat-out trying to goad the Trump administration and everyday conservatives into violent street brawls.Picture it: herds of face-pierced activists, herded like low-rent doomsday cultists, throwing down with federal agents at immigration sites, plastering the whole thing on social media to crank up the hate. What’s their endgame? Snap photos of Trump looking like a power-mad bully itching for war, while they shove their own bully-boy—or bully girl, or bully whatever-it’s-supposed-to-be—moves onto him and his supporters. It’s the classic Leftist flip: rile up a fight, then play the wounded party, directing their blind followers to “protect democracy” from the one guy actually following the rules.Look at Illinois’ buffoonish governor, JB Pritzker, that oversized, elitist fraud of a Democrat blowhard channeling some second-rate wannabe Civil War general, ranting on about galloping into federal troops on a lathered-up horse in Chicago’s Millennium Park. What a pathetic excuse for a governor, let alone a politician. His so-called sanctuary policies? Forget the compassionate spin—they’re a blatant middle finger to America’s borders, greenlighting the violent chaos that jammed illegal voters onto rolls during Biden’s open-door fiasco.None of this came about suddenly; Democrats and the radical, neo-Marxist Left have been grinding toward this showdown for decades, step by devious step, like turning up the heat on the proverbial clueless frog.It all started in the ‘60s, when campus schemers and hotheads—pseudo-revolutionaries, one and all; the kind who glorify the genocidal maniac Ché Guevara—these “activists” grew up to be professors who shoved divisive identity games down everyone’s throat as the cool-kid gospel. Come the ‘80s, they wormed into unions and local governments, flipping public service into a progressive Democrat insider club. Barack Obama’s 2008 grab-bag victory dragged back the rotten old patronage game on overdrive, cramming the feds full of bitter Marxists who see the Constitution as optional reading. Biden’s crew turned it into a straight-up crime syndicate, siphoning billions to bloated teachers’ unions, echo-chamber think tanks, and AOC’s pie-in-the-sky Green New Deal schemes.Every Democrat-backed move—from silencing dissent on college campuses to waving off BLM riots as “mostly peaceful”—has gnawed away at our constitutional Republic, repackaging thuggery as noble “uprising.” The 2020 election mess poured gas on it, with big-city Democrat bosses like Chicago’s “Embarrassmet No. 1,” Lori Lightfoot, ordering cops to twiddle thumbs while Antifa lit up neighborhoods, even as Comrade Pelosi and her insider-trading buddies feigned horror from their DC perches. It’s the Democrats’ lifelong hustle: “forward” really means goading us into grudge-fueled tribes, and their “equity” push is just code for punishing anyone who disagrees with them.To nail down what’s rotting the core, the toxic-Left—Democrats’ radical underbelly—boils down to anarchists fused with democratic socialists, two flavors of the same poisonous brew.Anarchists are the masked street warriors the Left loves to glorify in their bi-coastal magazines and forum rants—they despise any whiff of order, from cops to private property, branding it all as soul-crushing slave chains. Pulling from dusty icons like Alinsky and Gramsci, but mangled through today’s fringe outfits like Crowds on Demand and Antifa, they chase a no-government fantasy by smashing first: storefronts, personal info, whatever, all hyped as sweet freedom. It’s not a smart strategy; it’s the Left’s ...
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    40 m
  • Sorry, Brandon, The Supremacy Clause Gives President Trump Purview To Crush Chaos in All Blue Cities

    Sorry, Brandon, The Supremacy Clause Gives President Trump Purview To Crush Chaos in All Blue Cities
    Oct 10 2025
    As a preface to this monologue, I want to address the recent ruling by a judge—a Biden-appointed District Judge, April Perry—that places a temporary hold on the President’s deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago. In her ruling, which will not hold up on appeal, she said she has seen “no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois.” Her ruling is a willful suspension of reality, as evidenced by the videos coming out of Chicago showing mobs attacking law enforcement in their discharge of codified immigration law. Perry is an embarrassment to the judiciary and should be removed by Congress.That said, Congressional Republicans are grossly negligent in reigning in; in narrowing the scope of purview—as is their authority under the US Constitution—of activist judges whose rulings have resulted in facilitating insurrection and death in our city streets. God knows what the hell they are waiting for.In the grand architecture of the US Constitution, the Supremacy Clause stands as an unyielding pillar, declaring in Article VI that the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties “shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” This isn’t hyperbole; it’s the law. When state and local wanna-be potentates prioritize ideological posturing over public safety, the federal government holds the high ground to intervene. Paired with the Insurrection Act of 1807, which empowers the President to deploy federal forces to suppress domestic violence or rebellion when states abdicate their duties, it paints a clear picture: Washington doesn’t just oversee the nation—it owns the authority to restore order when governors and mayors play footsie with anarchy for votes and virtue signals.Consider the festering sores in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, where self-righteous buffoonish officials like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson; opportunistic charlatans like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass; and intellectually stunted virtue-signalers like Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson have turned urban cores into ideological playgrounds. Their grandstanding—sanctuary edicts, police defunding echoes, and open defiance of federal immigration enforcement—hasn’t quelled uprisings; it’s enabled them. From anti-ICE riots to gang-fueled terror, these leaders’ failures scream for federal override. The Supremacy Clause doesn’t tolerate such ideological sabotage; it demands restoration of order, lest the Republic fracture into fiefdoms ruled by performative artist progressive politicians and activists.Take Chicago, where Pritzker and Johnson embody the nadir of elected irresponsibility. Johnson’s fresh executive order, inked just days ago, brazenly carves out “ICE-free zones” across city properties like schools and parks, barring federal agents from civil immigration enforcement without warrants. It’s a red-carpet invitation for chaos, shielding undocumented felons while law-abiding citizens dodge bullets and used needles. Pritzker, ever the enabler, has thumbed his nose at President Trump’s National Guard deployments, vowing “resistance” that borders on sedition. Their defiant idiocy peaked amid reports of Latin Kings gang members slapping a $10,000 bounty on US Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, part of a 1,000% surge in assaults on ICE officers. To that end, federal prosecutors nabbed alleged Latin Kings kingpin Juan Espinoza Martinez for the murder-for-hire plot, a direct fallout from sanctuary coddling that lets gangs operate with impunity.And the “rampant crime” they downplay? It’s a slaughterhouse reality that no spin can mask. With 356 innocents gunned down year-to-date as of October 6, Chicago’s streets pulse with the blood of the forsaken—the US murder capital for the 13th straight year, a toll that shames any notion of a civilized city. Shootings? A relentless barrage claiming 1,589 victims through the same date, turning playgrounds into kill zones and ambulances into grim shuttles for the maimed— an epidemic of lead that demands reckoning. Fueling this nightmare? An estimated 150,000 gang members—more than in any other American city—locked in perpetual vendettas, their arsenals unchecked by Johnson’s pathetic virtue-signaling zones and Pritzker’s limp-wristed oversight. Summer murders tallied 123 in June through August, a quarterly body count that would make any drug cartel take notice. These ideologues grandstand for applause from open-borders crowds, safe in their northshore gated communities, but their policies scream neglect—prioritizing migrant optics over Midwestern lives, while 150,000 gangbangers carve up the city like a birthday cake.Shift west to California, where Newsom and Bass helm a state of shattered illusions. Newsom’s sanctuary empire, cemented since 2017, has ballooned fentanyl deaths from 200 annually to thousands, as border chaos spills ...
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