Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
I’ve long believed there are always three sides to every story: what he said, what she said, and what really happened. That belief keeps me from reacting based solely on what I see on the surface. I try—though not always perfectly—not to take things personally. More often than not, the person giving you grief isn’t reacting to you specifically. You may not factor into the whole equation unseen things that influence their behavior. There’s almost always more to the story.
Recently, I was talking with a friend about the QAnon phenomenon. He told me he believes Q was legitimate at first—someone on the inside leaking information through the Q Drops. But eventually, it got hijacked. Self-appointed interpreters began claiming there were predictions embedded in the messages. Those predictions didn’t come true, and the whole thing unraveled. From there, the vultures moved in. The movement became an easy target, something the Left could point to and say, “See? These people are unhinged.” I can see how that might be close to what really happened.
Our Founding Fathers understood this kind of dynamic. They sought the happy medium—a balance. They recognized the dangers in the extremes of democracy, aristocracy, and theocratic influences as seen in Europe’s past. But, as the saying goes, you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Even in those flawed systems, there were elements worth preserving.
So the Founders did something extraordinary. They blended the best of what they knew into a new system—a government never tried before. The House of Representatives gave the people a direct voice through democratic elections. The Senate, originally appointed by State legislatures, represented a pseudo-aristocracy—seasoned statesmen who understood the science of politics chosen by their States to guard against federal overreach, give the States a kind of oversight over the government they had created with the Constitution, and bring experience and the advantage of cooler heads to the table.
The presidency was created to execute the laws written by Congress and represent the United States abroad. While the President was given considerable power in foreign affairs and matters essential to preserving the Union, his domestic powers were deliberately limited. This was a safeguard: to harness the benefits of a strong executive while avoiding the dangers of centralized rule.
The judiciary, too, was carefully designed. Judges were empowered to apply the law and deliver justice, but they had no enforcement arm and were not originally meant to interpret or review laws as they do today. This structure was meant to ensure the courts could function effectively without threatening the balance of power.
It was all about a proper distribution of power—about ensuring no single branch could dominate the others. Tyranny was prevented through structural checks and balances. Each branch was kept in line by the others, by the States, by the voice of the people, and particular mechanisms embedded in the system. In that balance—the happy medium—liberty found its protection.
And for a time, it worked. That carefully constructed system brought the United States to the forefront of global liberty, influence, and prosperity.
But the system has been under attack since day one. Flaws have been introduced. Extremes—ideological, political, and institutional—have crept in. What we now have is a distorted hybrid. It doesn’t function as originally intended, yet the genius of the original design still lingers—just enough to keep full-blown tyranny at bay.
So the question before us is this:
Do we restore the happy medium the Founders created to preserve liberty, or do we continue down a path that allows the extremes to take root and eventually turn this republic into a tyranny against the people and a threat to liberty around the world?
Whichever choice we make, we must be tirelessly involved to make sure it is carried out. Without our guidance and informed participation, tyranny may find a way to continue to erode our Constitution, imprison our liberty, and dismantle the balanced system that began our story two-hundred and fifty years ago.
— Political Pistachio Constitutional News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Lying to Congress is considered to be a major offense. Both John Brennan (former CIA Chief) and James Comey (former FBI Chief) lied to Congress regarding the Russia Collusion Hoax that claimed Donald Trump’s presidential victory in 2016 was due to collusion with Russia and that Trump was some kind of Russian asset. CIA Director John Ratcliffe has spearheaded a definitive report, put it out there and the Department of Justice is now taking a look at the criminal actions of the leftist swamp creatures that focuses on Brennan and Comey’s deceptive tenures during the tail-end of Barack Obama’s presidency, and during the first term of Donald J. Trump’s pair of presidencies. This seems to be marking the beginning of transparency of the intelligence community that frankly has never existed since the beginning of the rise of the alphabet agencies in America.
The new report reveals that there was a CIA memo that reveals John Brennan believed that the Steele Dossier, a false report funded by the Hillary Clinton faction, must be included in the Trump Russia-Russia-Russia Report that falsely alleged Trump’s connections to Russia. Brennan and Comey perjured themselves when asked about such before Congress. Should they not be held accountable for perjury before Congress? The committees to whom they testified and lied, which is a felony offense, need to put out criminal referrals to Pam Bondi at the current Department of Justice.
When will people be held accountable? We’ve been seeing criminal behavior by the Democrats and their Deep State allies, and now it is being unmasked, so now we have to be asking when are the orange jumpsuits and handcuffs being handed out? Brennan and Comey are the first two people we are seeing even being seriously investigated. If Trump desires to restore trust and confidence in our intelligence community, much less the United States Government, this Brennan/Comey investigation needs to be a priority for the administration, and prosecution for criminal activities needs to hit the courts as soon as possible. People who blatantly lie to Congress, seek to twist our elections with false ideological manipulation, and operate in a manner that is contrary to America’s principles and move back towards our Constitution must be investigated, found guilty in a court of law, and brought to justice.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The best way to recognize lies is to simply gauge consistency. Truth supports truth, but lies are inherently plagued by inconsistency and hypocrisy — especially the one about distancing the Democratic Party from Marxism.
The Democrats say they’re defenders of democracy. They say they’re champions of the Constitution. They say they’re not Marxists. But what they say and what they do are two entirely different things. And America is waking up.
Let’s start with the Marxist masquerade. The Democratic Party has spent years denying any connection to Marxist ideology, yet their policies scream collectivism. From Zohran Mamdani’s radical proposal to seize citizens’ property to house the homeless, to Michelle Wu’s cozy ties with CCP-linked organizations in Boston; the evidence is overwhelming. These aren’t isolated incidents — they’re symptoms of a party infected with revolutionary fervor.
And when the facts get inconvenient? They suppress them. Just look at the news about the ICE raids in July, alone. Leftists didn’t just ignore the facts — they actively distorted them to push a narrative of oppression and incite unrest. They don’t want justice. They want revolution.
Then there’s the judicial hypocrisy. A federal judge blocked Trump’s order on birthright citizenship — a move that flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s rejection of universal injunctions. The left doesn’t care about legal precedent. They care about power. And they’ll twist the Constitution into a pretzel to get it.
The very fact that they scream the word “democracy” over and over and over shows us that they don’t understand the Constitution, that the system was designed to be a republic rather than a democracy, and why the Founding Fathers viewed pure democracy as being such a dangerous style of governance.
The economic contradictions, and failure to understand basic free market economics, are also piling up. Democrats rail against capitalism while raking in jaw-dropping stock gains. They claim to fight for the working class, yet under their watch, jobs for immigrants rose while jobs for Americans fell. Their policies punish productivity and reward dependency.
And let’s not forget the cultural rot. Less than 40% of Democrats say they’re proud to be American. They’ve embraced the absurd hysteria of cultural appropriation, weaponized identity politics, and turned victimhood into currency. Mamdani, hailed by a large swath of the left, pretends to be oppressed in order to oppress — a tactic straight out of the revolutionary communist playbook, and the hopes and desires of the Democrats who hide behind claims that they are nothing like him.
This isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s a coordinated collapse. From Planned Parenthood funding blocks to USAID corruption scandals, the institutions they once used to prop up their narrative are crumbling. Even their own experts have burned the last shreds of credibility.
So what now?
We are at a crossroads. The lies are unraveling. The soft socialism is hardening into tyranny. And the Constitution — the very foundation of our liberty — is under siege.
It’s time for Americans to fight back. Not with violence, but with truth, principle, and constitutional resolve. The Founding Fathers didn’t build this country on Marxist theory (which they called communitarianism and utopianism). They built it on individual liberty, limited government, and moral responsibility – a godly foundation based on biblical truths and time-tested republicanism political principles.
The Democratic Party may think they’re true. But truth doesn’t need to be shouted — it stands on its own. And it’s time we stand with it. The Democrats, after all, are out of touch, woke, and weak. Truth is simply something they don’t understand.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
When Ronald Reagan was President of the United States he sought to secure the border, but the Democrats stated they would not help secure the border unless those who were already in the country and playing by the rules could be given amnesty. President Reagan reluctantly agreed, and approximately 2.7 million illegal aliens were granted amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. It was a compromise to fix what was seen as a broken system, but the Democrats failed to support Reagan’s enforcement mechanisms once amnesty was granted, which in the long run encouraged more illegal immigration. President Reagan developed a practice of “trust but verify” after being lied to by the Democrats, but the damage had been done. Nearly three million people had been rewarded for breaking the law and hiding in the shadows until the Democrats could work a deal that would legalize the undocumented Democratic Party voters.
The Democrats took a blood-bath for their border policy, or should I say their failure to have a border policy other than to keep it weak and open for illegal aliens to cross. So, the next Democratic President adjusted.
In his 1995 State of the Union Address President Bill Clinton explained, “…rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country; the jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring…we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes to better identify illegal aliens in the work force…we are a nation of immigrants but we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must do more to stop.”
Since then, the Democrats have realized that they don’t have enough votes to win elections in perpetuity, so they changed back to being for an open border. As time has passed, their opinion on the issue has become more radical. While in the past they disagreed with Republicans on the details of immigration policy, both sides of the aisle recognized that they needed to stand united in supporting the law enforcement officers carrying out immigration law, and other federal officers upholding federal law.
Not anymore.
In recent months, ICE and Border Patrol agents – men and women who put their lives on the line daily – have found themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous new movement. What began as fiery rhetoric has escalated into real-world violence.
According to The Daily Wire, a shocking plot involving at least seven suspects aimed to ambush and kill ICE officers – an attack thwarted before it could unfold. In San Antonio, a city council candidate openly called for violence against immigration agents, as reported by Breitbart. And tragically, a gunman in tactical gear was killed after opening fire on Border Patrol officers, in a story that even made mainstream headlines.
Let’s not pretend that these incidents exist in a vacuum.
For years now, certain political voices have drawn comparisons between Donald J. Trump and Adolf Hitler. They have called MAGA supporters “NAZIs.” And, especially of late, these same voices have drawn comparisons between immigration enforcement and Nazi Germany. Labels like “Gestapo” and “concentration camps” weren’t just careless metaphors – they were ideological Molotov cocktails. Did they really believe that there would be no fallout?
When elected officials and cable news pundits demonize federal officers as monsters, it dehumanizes them in the public eye. And when people are dehumanized, some will justify attacking their opponents violently.
What’s telling is that while the mainstream media expressed shock over the violence, they failed to connect the dots. A vast majority of Americans support tough immigration policies like mass deportation. The public hasn’t moved to the fringes – the conversation around them has. The loudest voice, the squeaky wheel one might say, is on the Left. Rather than engage with policy substance, they have opted for moral outrage and incendiary language.
Let’s be clear: political disagreement is healthy. But when disagreement crosses the line into vilification, when public figures shrug off threats against law enforcement as “understandable,” when office holders try to bum-rush the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security or try to break into ICE facilities, and when political figures call for violence against federal officers or any law enforcement officials it poisons the well of civil discourse and endangers lives.
This isn’t about stifling speech – I’m all about freedom of speech and having a healthy political debate. It’s about recognizing that words have power – and some have used that power irresponsibly. The brave men and women of ICE and the Border Patrol deserve our gratitude, not our scorn. They are on the front lines protecting our country and executing the laws of the United States. If we fail to protect them, and if government officials continue to incite and encourage violence against federal officers, it not only creates an environment of disrespect for the rule of law, but it ultimately leads to the kind of violence that destroys civilizations.
— Political Pistachio Constitutional News and Commentary
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