DeSantis Warns of a Republican ‘Culture of Losing’

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DeSantis Warns of a Republican ‘Culture of Losing’

(Headline USA) Ron DeSantis, Florida’s conservative governor, warned of a Republican “culture of losing,” on Saturday at an event in Iowa.

DeSantis, gave a formal speech promoting his willingness to embrace conservative cultural fights and sprinkled his remarks with indirect jabs at Trump.

“Governing is not about entertaining,” he said. “Governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtue signaling.” DeSantis continued. “It’s ultimately about winning and producing results.”

DeSantis has burnished his reputation as a conservative governor willing to push hard for conservative policies and even take on a political fight with Disney, which he highlighted in Sioux Center.

DeSantis devoted much of his remarks to his embrace of conservative cultural priorities, including his opposition to diversity and equity programs in public schools and laws aimed at curtailing transgender rights.

But, in an indirect jab at Trump, he highlighted the GOP’s recent string of electoral losses.

“We must reject the culture of losing that has impact[ed] our party in recent years. The time for excuses is over,” DeSantis said. “If we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or on other side issues, then I think the Democrats are going to beat us again.”

The pro-DeSantis super PAC, Never Back Down, has hired Iowa staff and begun trying to organize support for the governor before a 2024 announcement. The group announced Thursday that state Senate President Amy Sinclair and state House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl would endorse DeSantis’ candidacy. On Friday, it rolled out roughly three dozen more state lawmakers who would endorse him.

During DeSantis’ appearance in Sioux Center, Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst were in attendance.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Native American Tribes Seek to Reduce Border Security

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(Headline USA) Tribal officials have drafted regulations to make the border-crossing process easier, working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, comprised of 15 Native officials across the U.S. to reduce border security.

If approved, the rules would become the first clearly established U.S. border crossing procedures specific to a Native American tribe that could then be used by others, according to Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology at Colorado College.

The regulations would last five years, to be renewed and amended as needed, and require training local U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and consular personnel on the tribe’s cultural heritage, language and traditions. It would require a Yaqui interpreter to be available when needed. It also would require close coordination with the tribe so border crossings are prompt.

“It will make things more efficient,” said Fred Urbina, attorney general for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.

Urbina said the tribe has met with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the proposal.

DHS did not immediately respond to repeated requests for comment by phone and email on the status of the regulations.

When family members, deer dancers or musicians living in Sonora, Mexico, make the trip into the U.S. for ceremonies, tribal recognition celebrations or family events, they are typically issued an ID card from the tribe and a visitor visa or parole permit from the U.S. government.

Still, like all others crossing the border, they face border officials.

Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, reported making the roundtrip about 18 times in the last two years, but he complained that he was detained on four of them.

He whined that border officials question the people he’s escorting, whose first language is Yaqui, without an interpreter.

He also complained that agricultural objects, such as deer and pig hooves, have been confiscated.

Buelna further disliked the fact that officials, who are charged with ensuring that no illegal goods are smuggled into America, have touched ceremonial objects while inspecting them.

Urbina explained that the tribe, like all other border crossers, encountered new challenges when border security was heightened.

Neither Urbina, the tribe, nor the tribe’s attorney commented on America’s need to protect her citizens from the dangers accompanying lax immigration regulations.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

The Daily Wire Launches New ‘Micro-Aggression Size’ of Anti-Woke Chocolate

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The Daily Wire Launches New ‘Micro-Aggression Size’ of Anti-Woke Chocolate

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Daily Wire decided to release its HeHim and SheHer chocolate bars in a new “micro-aggression” size after the company found out that a professor at one of the Marxist colleges was fired for sharing the regular-size chocolate bars with his students.

“A college professor got suspended for handing out my delicious chocolate, so I’m making sure everyone can hand it out!” Jeremy Boreing wrote on Twitter.

“Pre-order your Jeremy’s Chocolate in our new micro-aggression size, and give it to every kid you know this Halloween.”

According to the company itself, the new size of the chocolate bars will be available to purchase on their website.

“We’ve always known that HeHim Jeremy’s Chocolate comes with nuts, and SheHer Jeremy’s Chocolate comes nutless, but did you also know that a chocolate bar is a chocolate bar no matter how small?” the Daily Wire wrote.

“You probably did, but we’re not so sure the Left sees it that way.”

The news about the new version of the anti-woke chocolate bar came after a community college professor was fired from his position because he brought the regular-size chocolate bars to his classroom so that students would be able to enjoy the chocolate from the company that doesn’t push leftist politics on its customers, like Hershey’s.

According to the Daily Wire, David Richardson, a tenured history professor at Madera Community College near Fresno, Calif., who’s been teaching there for 33 years, was reportedly handing out the chocolate bars at an event last month. However, the university said that Richardson wasn’t supposed to do that because reinforcing the fact that there are only men and women is a form of “micro-aggression.”

The company stated that the chocolate is available now for pre-order.

“[During Halloween] it will be the scariest thing the libs in your neighborhood see all year.”

French President Macron Defends Painting that Shows Child Rape

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French President Macron Defends Painting that Shows Child Rape

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) French President Emmanuel Macron defended a painting that depicts child rape.

“Targeting a work of art is an attack on our values,” Macron said on Monday. “In France, art is always free and respect for artistic creation is guaranteed.”

The painting by Swiss so-called “agitpropist” Miriam Cahn entitled, “F*** abstraction,” was displayed in the Paris Museum Palais de Tokyo. The pornographic painting depicts a faceless adult orally raping a childlike figure.

Cahn defended her painting by saying that it is a condemnation of rape as a weapon of war.

Children’s rights groups didn’t buy it and regarded the work as child pornography. People repeatedly tried to take it down, citing French law that forbids public displays of “pedo-pornographic” material that “incites” predators and “puts minors in danger.”

“We don’t care that Miriam Cahn claims she’s denouncing war crimes. It doesn’t matter,” Homayra Sellier, founder of the children’s defense group Innocence in Danger, stated.

“The first impression given by this painting… is that they are children.”

A petition against the painting received roughly 14,000 signatures and several children’s rights groups, led by Lawyers for Childhood, took the matter to court in March. However, in the end, the French politicians and judges defended pedophilic painting.

“It’s very important the judge has put a clear stop to attempts at circumventing the right to freedom of expression, by way of so-called child protection,” a lawyer for the museum said of the judgment. “It shows one cannot remove an artwork from its context.”

When petitions and complaints didn’t work, Pierre Chassin, a former elected official from the rightist party Front National, bypassed the three guards protecting the painting and destroyed it with purple spray paint he had hidden in a medicine bottle on May 7.

Chassin wasn’t affiliated with an activist group.

United Airlines Pilots Picket for Higher Wages

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(Headline USA) Just ahead of what could be a record-breaking summer travel season, pilots from one of the nation’s biggest airlines marched in picket lines at major airports on Friday as they push for higher pay.

The United Airlines pilots have been working without a raise for more than four years while negotiating with airline management over a new contract.

The coast-to-coast protests by United pilots come on the heels of overwhelming strike-authorization votes by pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines. United pilots could be the next to vote, according to union officials.

Pilots at all three carriers are looking to match or beat the deal that Delta Air Lines reached with its pilots earlier this year, which raised pay rates by 34% over four years.

United has proposed to match the Delta increase, but that might not be enough for a deal.

“We still have a long ways to go to resolve some of the issues at the table,” said Garth Thompson, chair of the United wing of the Air Line Pilots Association.

Thompson said discussion about wages has been held up while the two sides negotiate over scheduling, including the union’s wish to limit United’s ability to make pilots work on their days off.

United spokesman Joshua Freed said, “We’re continuing to work with the Air Line Pilots Association on the industry-leading deal we have put on the table for our world-class pilots.”

Pilots argue that United should reward them for helping the airline survive the coronavirus pandemic.

“We made quite a few sacrifices during the pandemic, and we feel it is now time for the company to step up to the plate and to give us a contract, acknowledging the sacrifices and the contributions that we have made,” said pilot Arzu Delp, as he picketed at San Francisco International Airport.

The Delta contract that United pilots are using as their starting point will cost Delta $7.2 billion over four years. All airlines are dealing with rising labor costs, which could show up in the price of a ticket.

Chicago-based United has roughly 14,000 pilots, and the union expects at least 2,000 will picket Friday at 10 airports from Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles. The union is also distributing leaflets.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

CNN Trump Town Hall ‘Moderator’ Used to Be Anti-Soros

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CNN Trump Town Hall ‘Moderator’ Used to Be Anti-Soros

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Video footage from 2015 resurfaced and showed that a “moderator” on the recent CNN town hall with Donald Trump and a now-CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins was opposed to George Soros and his desire to fill the United States with illegal immigrants.

According to National File, Collins, who at that time, worked for the Daily Caller, appeared on Fox News as a guest to talk about how Soros, a leftist anti-American billionaire, causes the illegal immigration crisis that has seen the demographic make-ups and cultures of Western nations, including the United States.

At the time of the talk, the United States was experiencing a lot of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Europe was also struggling, with millions of third-world “refugees” pouring into the European countries. Both cases were just the beginning of the multi-prolonged illegal immigration crisis that continues to this day.

Collins stated that she received a “data dump” that indicated that Soros was the cause of the problem.

“Ok so, George Soros is this foreign-born left-wing guy who essentially wants to change the nature of our country,” she said.

“And, in this data dump, one of the memos was about the refugee crisis and it made three points.”

“They think that they’ve been successful in influencing immigration police across the world. They think that the refugee crisis is an opportunity to continue doing so, and they think the refugee crisis is the new normal,” she added.

Collins also described Soros as a “staunch” “open borders” advocate and stated that the anti-Western immigration crisis is part of Soros’ “immigration agenda.”

“George Soros is this guy who is a staunch advocate for open borders. He wants people to be able to go wherever they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason,” she said.

“And for him, he sees this immigration policy, this crisis, as a vehicle to further his immigration agenda.”

Over 60 Families of Illegals Found Living in a Greenhouse

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(Headline USA) A dilapidated greenhouse at a Northern California nursery was home to dozens of illegal immigrant farm workers and their families who were living in tiny and unsafe dwellings without ventilation, authorities said Friday.

Officials found 62 makeshift dwellings inside the greenhouse on a property in rural Monterey County.

The shelters were put together with plywood, sheetrock and other materials, said Nick Pasculli, a county spokesperson.

“There are exposed gas lines and wiring, no proper sewer. The conditions are very rough,” Pasculli said.

It was not yet clear if the farm workers were employed at the nursery in the community of Royal Oaks or just lived there, Pasculli said. He added that some residents were paying up to $2,000 per month in rent and one told investigators he had lived there for more than eight months.

Nor have investigators determined yet where the illegal families are from, according to Pasculli, though some of them speak indigenous languages native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Authorities started investigating the property this week after receiving an anonymous complaint.

The nursery owner will be fined nearly $60,000 each day his property is in violation of structural, health and environmental codes, Pasculli said.

The landlord’s name is not being released due to an ongoing investigation, he said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

MURDOCK: Biden Blunders from A to Z

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MURDOCK: Biden Blunders from A to Z

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s epic fails fill the entire alphabet:

Afghanistan’s humiliating abandonment to the Taliban, amid America’s chaotic and deadly military withdrawal, may be Biden’s biggest disaster.

Border security has collapsed. Some 6.3 million illegal aliens from at least 172 nations have invaded America under Biden.

Crime is plaguing America’s cities, chiefly those run by thug-hugging Democrat mayors and left-wing, take-a-hoodlum-to-lunch “prosecutors.” Democrat-in-Chief Biden seems to approve.

Documents marked classified surfaced in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware mansion (beside his 1967 Corvette) and Washington, D.C.’s Penn Biden Center. As senator and veep, Biden lacked presidential declassification authority. Thus, Biden illegally possessed some 20 classified papers.

Energy dominance under President Trump has vanished thanks to Biden’s War on U.S. Oil.

Fentanyl cascades across the U.S.–Mexico “border.” The No. 1 cause of death among Americans between 18 and 45 kills some 70,000 annually.

Gas stoves are in Biden’s crosshairs. Neo-totalitarian federal scolds scheme to deprive Americans of the performance, comfort, and life-saving benefits of natural-gas appliances, which function during blackouts.

Hunter Biden is sinking into an ever-deepening quicksand of misdeeds, influence peddling, and dodgy foreign deals.

Inflation was 1.4% annually when Biden took office and triggered a tsunami of federal spending. The resulting consumer-price spike hit 9.1% before falling back to 4.9% today, still more than double the Federal Reserve’s 2% target.

Justice follows two tracks: Violent Leftists (ANTIFA, BLM) skate, while Rightists (Jan. 6, Proud Boys) receive prison sentences or, even worse, rot in D.C.’s jail without charges.

Keystone XL Pipeline: Killed, along with 11,000 jobs.

Lynching is something “some people still want to do,” Biden declared on Feb. 17. Really? Where exactly are these white nationalists itching to hang blacks from trees?

Mandated COVID-19 vaccines forced 8,339 young, healthy GIs from the armed forces for refusing this experimental inoculation, Military Times reports.

News conferences are rare for Biden. Nov. 11 saw his last solo presser, 180 days ago this Saturday.

One-on-one interviews also are seldom seen under Biden. He granted 58 in his first two years, compared to Trump’s 205, Obama’s 275, and G.W. Bush’s 89, per the New York Post.

Pentagon priorities include pronouns, a frantic search for “white nationalists,” and the Green New Deal in uniform.

Quotas are key to Biden’s “equity” agenda, including a $3.8 billion debt-relief program, exclusively for non-white farmers.

Russian cyberattackers seemingly sabotaged America’s Colonial Oil Pipeline. Biden swiftly exonerated the Kremlin. He then greenlighted completion of the since-detonated Nord Stream II pipeline. This transmitted weakness and likely encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia and Iran now share a Beijing-brokered alliance. Trump’s strategy—isolate the ayatollahs—ist kaput.

Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten colluded with Biden’s Centers for Disease Control to lock down schools and trap kids in Zoom classes. Test scores tumbled.

Ukraine has received $76.8 billion in aid from Biden, with no timetable for victory or armistice.

Vice President Kamala Harris epitomizes overpromise and underdelivery.

White House “lids” have been called as early as 9 a.m. on April 17. When Biden plans no further public appearances, journalists go home without fear of missing out.

Xi Jinping has yet to hear Biden even ask about COVID-19’s origins. Such weakness surely fueled the Chinese communist dictator’s efforts to torpedo America as Earth’s leading superpower.

Young Americans with college loans need not repay them, thanks to Biden’s student-debt bailout. Biden wants to squander $400 billion to nationalize up to $20,000 in obligations per borrower earning as much as $125,000 annually. Personal responsibility? Keeping promises? How quaint.

Zinc contributes to electric vehicles, although graphite and lithium are more common components. Even as Biden mandates that 67% of new cars be electric by 2032, he padlocks mines whose copper and nickel are essential EV ingredients. Biden’s EV policy is brain dead.

Biden’s botches defy tabulation (e.g., abortionitis, race-obsession, transgendermania, soaring federal spending, swelling national debt, sagging mental acuity, etc.)

Too bad English has only 26 letters.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. Michael Malarkey and Aaron Cichon contributed research to this opinion piece.

DeSantis Draws Praise for Promoting Fundraiser to Benefit ‘Hero’ Marine, Defeat ‘Soros-Funded DAs’

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DeSantis Draws Praise for Promoting Fundraiser to Benefit ‘Hero’ Marine, Defeat ‘Soros-Funded DAs’

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Heading into a high-stakes duel with former President Donald Trump in Iowa on Saturday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drew high praise and support for sharing on Twitter a fundraiser for Marine veteran Daniel Penny.

Soros-funded, Trump witch-hunting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg on Friday filed a second-degree manslaughter charge against the 24-year-old Penny over the death of Jordan Neely.

Penny allegedly used what authorities called a fatal chokehold to neutralize the violent and mentally deranged homeless Neely on the New York City subway.

Despite a rap sheet that covered 42 arrests involving assault, fraud and criminal trespass, leftist mobs inflamed by radical, activist Democrats pounced in protests trying to portray Neely as a harmless, homeless street performer who could give them another George Floyd moment.

In promoting the fundraiser for Penny, a GiveSendGo account for legal fees, DeSantis also took aim at Bragg and a broken leftist legal system that subverts justice.

“We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens,” DeSantis tweeted along with a link to the fundraiser. “We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine… America’s got his back.”

DeSantis received an overwhelmingly positive response to his tweet, as he heads into a major fundraiser on Saturday in Iowa, where Trump is slated to hold one of his signature rallies. The goodwill DeSantis banked from deposits of praise for his support of Penny could hand him a boost, as the dueling events take center stage.

Powerhouse defense attorney and conservative columnist Marina Medvin offered an enthusiastic, “Wow,” while noting that “team Trump retweeted the link to Penny’s legal fund.”

“This is an alpha move,” tweeted Jake Bequette. “I will continue to push for a red state governor to offer legal sanctuary to Penny, but DeSantis is once again leading the way.”

Gaetz Grills Bragg Prosecutor over Alleged Violations of Trump’s Rights

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Gaetz Grills Bragg Prosecutor over Alleged Violations of Trump’s Rights

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, known for his involvement in the Manhattan prosecution of Trump, invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a hearing held by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee.

The committee is investigating Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and Pomerantz’s testimony was a focal point of the probe Friday.

Rep. Matt Getz, R-Fla., a vocal supporter of Trump, questioned Pomerantz about potential violations of the former president’s constitutional rights. Pomerantz’s decision to plead the fifth drew criticism from Getz, who accused him of being biased against Trump and possibly violating legal ethics.

“Former Trump prosecutor Mark Pomerantz testified before the House Judiciary Committee today. I asked if he violated President Trump’s constitutional rights – he pled the fifth,” Gaetz said via Twitter, also highlighting a video from his Rumble podcast Firebrand. “I asked if he violated standards of legal ethics – he pled the fifth.”

In defiance of the committee’s investigation, Pomerantz dismissed the deposition as political theater to obstruct justice. 

“This deposition is for show,” Pomerantz said, noted NBC News. “We are gathered here because Donald Trump’s supporters would like to use these proceedings to attempt to obstruct and undermine the criminal case pending against him, and to harass, intimidate and discredit anyone who investigates or charges him.”

Gaetz, in his podcast, torched the “Trump hater” former prosecutor’s refusal to answer questions about his involvement in preparing the case against Trump. 

“Now, because Mark Pomerantz had written a book on the subject of his time at the Manhattan DA’s office; because he was a Trump hater working to build this case; because he may have broken laws on rules of legal ethics, statutes, we wanted to interview him in the House Judiciary Committee,” a fired-up Gaetz said in the podcast, later torching him for refusing to answer questions. 

“Mark Pomerantz, the prosecutor who was literally in charge of building the case against Trump, pleaded the Fifth to almost every question we asked him today,” Gaetz continued. 

The House Judiciary Committee accuse Pomerantz of shaming Bragg into filing criminal charges against Trump. 

“Last year, you resigned from the office over Bragg’s initial reluctance to move forward with charges, shaming Bragg in your resignation letter—which was subsequently leaked—into bringing charges,” Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a subpoena letter to Pomerantz. 

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