Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Devil always appears as an angel of light.
On the steps of New York City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered an inauguration speech wrapped in soft velvet of idealism, but the ideological steel beneath it was unmistakable. His words were polished, poetic, and perfectly engineered to sound compassionate; the same way every collectivist movement in history has introduced itself.
Mamdani declared, “We will build a city where prosperity is shared, not hoarded.”
To the untrained ear, it sounds noble. But anyone who has studied the rhetoric of Marx, Lenin, Castro, or Chávez recognizes the formula:
- Redefine prosperity as a collective asset.
- Redefine individual success as theft.
- Redefine government power as moral necessity.
This is the linguistic sleight‑of‑hand that has always preceded the erosion of liberty.
He continued, “Housing is a human right, and we will democratize it.”
“Democratize” is a word that sounds empowering but from the mouths of socialists historically means centralization, regulation, and the slow suffocation of private property. It’s the same vocabulary that turned once‑vibrant cities and countries in history into bureaucratic wastelands.
Then came the crescendo: “We will build a city where dignity is guaranteed.”
Guaranteed? By whom? Government bureaucracy?
Guaranteed at what cost? Taxing the rich? As the song, “I’d Love to Change the World” by Ten Years After (1971) goes, “Tax the rich, feed the poor, Till there are no rich no more.” Then, the inevitable question becomes, “Then what?”
Guaranteed through what mechanism? In the end it always becomes through government force.
This is the classic utopian promise: a world where government becomes the arbiter of dignity, fairness, and morality. And once government claims the power to guarantee dignity, it inevitably claims the power to define it, apply it, and enforce it. What follows is mismanagement, corruption, a loss of innovation and industry, shortages and rationing, violence, poverty, and ultimately death.
New York may be the stage, but the script is nothing new. We’ve seen this ideological drift metastasize in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco on a smaller scale, and lead to the deaths of hundreds of millions on a global scale when countries adopt the same path. Understand, this is not just leftism. This is not just the rantings of a Democratic Socialist with the best of intentions. Zohran Mamdani is proclaiming that communism will rule New York City. He will make it happen despite any obstacles from outside the city. And he is willing to follow the same hellish path every other historical leader who used the language of “equity” have gone down. The policies that Mamdani is proclaiming as a new and bold path for New York City are tried and failed policies that opened up cities and countries throughout history to catastrophic consequences that punished productivity, rewarded dependency, hollowed out the middle class and led those societies to unparalleled poverty and ultimately massive death.
Despite calls that this is only New York City’s problem, understand that when a cancer forms, it threatens the entire body. Mamdani’s inauguration was not just a local ceremony. It was a national signal. Mamdani’s speech was a declaration that the same collectivist ideas that have failed everywhere around the world throughout history once they’ve been tried are once again being marketed as moral imperatives – but this time, right here in America in a major American city.
And like any cancer, if ignored, it can spread.
The reality is as clear as the horrific images we have seen from history: Communism never arrives wearing a hammer and sickle. It arrives wearing compassion. It arrives promising fairness. It arrives insisting that government-guided socialism can fix what capitalism supposedly broke. The rhetoric is always beautiful. The results are always catastrophic.
From a constitutional perspective, Mamdani’s speech was a direct challenge to the principles that built this country:
- Individual liberty
- Individual God-Given Natural Rights
- Private property
- Limited government
- Free Market
- Personal responsibility
When a mayor speaks as if government is the source of dignity, prosperity, and fairness, he is not merely offering policy; he is redefining the relationship between the citizen and the state. That is the ideological pivot point where republics falter, and democracy becomes socialist collectivism.
Bad ideas do not remain contained if a virtuous informed people do nothing to stop them. Cancer spreads, and as Americans we must pay attention to where these tumors begin to grow, and then take action to surgically remove them. If left unchecked, especially when it comes to us who understand the Constitution, history, and the cost of freedom, we know that the ideology being spewed by Mamdani takes down civilizations, and destroys liberty. Therefore, we must:
- Speak boldly
- Get involved in the public square
- Write clearly
- Challenge false narratives
- Defend the principles that made this nation exceptional
- And do so by the means God has given us, be it written, verbal, by our actions, or even pursuing public office.
We must be fully aware that the battle is not in New York City alone.
The battle is a part of a much larger war where the language of collectivism is being repackaged as compassion.
And if we do not confront it now, we will confront its consequences later.
If we don’t cut out the cancer early, here’s what will happen:
- Private Enterprise in New York will be strangled, and a mass exodus of corporate money will follow.
- As the local markets begin to fail, bureaucratic control will increase.
- As bureaucratic control increases, more businesses, and wealthy individuals will flee New York City.
- As the money begins to dry up, the free bus rides will be reduced, the government grocery stores (if not already haunted by empty shelves) will fail and face closures, hospital services will begin to collapse, shortages will become chronic, basic care or services will become inaccessible, and a reduction in competence will ensue as the most skilled residents depart from the region for better opportunities.
- Centers of production or services will close their doors as they become regulated into oblivion. If not for outside sources contributing, the rationing and hunger within the city would begin killing people.
- Prices in New York City will elevate to levels that residents cannot afford.
- Rent control will result in owners of properties losing their properties or abandoning them. The advent of empty structures will begin to increase. Many of those buildings will become swarmed by homeless, drug-users, and the criminal element. Violence and crime will increase and become a dominant characteristic of the city. With prices exceeding salaries, residents will begin to barter or use black market channels to receive what little is left for them to procure in the markets.
- Due to mismanagement, city services will be crippled, and crime will increase due to a shortage in police, or the refusal of police services to be anything other than social services officers. Frustrated, city personnel in vital services will quit and leave the area, leaving New York City without significant police, fire or other emergency services.
- The remaining professionals and those who can afford to leave will flee as those who remain become further pushed into poverty. Equity will be achieved in the sense of equal misery, with Mamdani and his cronies living in an elite status and blaming their collapse on conservatives, large corporations, and the failure of the rest of the country to follow their example. When corruption and mismanagement begins to be revealed as we are seeing in Minnesota, they will point fingers, deny responsibility, and launch lawsuits against those who accuse them of impropriety. The media will blame Corporate America, Trump, or his successors in the Republican Party.
I am not a prognosticator. I simply have seen this play out over and over and over in cities and countries in history many times. Socialism always fails, no matter the scale. The only reason New York City won’t collapse into complete despair like the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Venezuela is because it is a city in the United States, and the rest of the country is not following it into its death spiral. But, like California, New York’s collapse will not be resolved until it all hits rock bottom, and even then I am not so sure a light will be at the end of the tunnel within our lifetimes. While politicians will seek to bail out the city with federal money, the situation won’t turn around until the city is pulled from its own rubble by a return to free market principles, a reduction in the centralization of power, and a return to law and order.
Hopefully, the collapse of New York City will serve as a lesson to the rest of America who have the fantastical belief that socialism is somehow a path to utopia.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” – C.S. Lewis
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Tonight I am spending New Years’ Eve with my lovely wife of over four decades. Our journey has been an interesting one, to say the least. We began unevenly yoked, spent 21 years battling like children, spent the next 17 sort of battling but trying to figure it out, and then the last trio of years living the marriage The Lord intended for us. I am not sure if it is a lesson of how hard of heads we had, or the importance of patience. My wife says, “God’s Timing.”
God sees what we don’t. Sometimes the path we wind up with isn’t what we planned, but by God’s Grace it turns out better. I have always believed God has a Hand in things, though I’ve never been so sure He necessarily controls things, either. I believe in Free Will, but I also believe that God nudges things sometimes to keep them going in a manner He intends. I remember in 2020 how upset we were that President Trump didn’t win, and that the whole thing about Biden’s victory seemed spurious at best. Then, the January 6 production of deception by the Democrats made it worse. The agitators and plants created exactly what they hoped for, and despite the fact that we knew that MAGA is not violent, and that what happened at The Capitol was a staged false flag, it seemed there was nothing we could do about it. I had many friends who don’t have a violent bone in their bodies behind bars over it, charged with ridiculous crimes, simply because they were on the grounds in Washington D.C. on January 6. Then, with the success of the 2020 cheat, the deception that shrouded the whole thing, and the lies that continued to fester during Biden’s presidency, it seemed like the Democrats had figured out a way to win even when they lose. It was very discouraging, to say the least.
Which brings us back to, God’s Timing.
God had other plans. Looking back, it was a good thing Donald Trump skipped four years between presidencies. The best laid plans blew up in the faces of the Democrats as their policies ruined an economy that was raging in the right direction before their COVID scamdemic and false Biden presidency ruined it. But, during that four years of darkness the enemies of America exposed themselves, Donald Trump discovered who his friends were and who his enemies truly were, and in their arrogance the Democrats laid out a perfect path for Donald Trump to win the presidency back in November of 2024. And, since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, we’ve been as a country on a trajectory many thought was impossible. I am not saying that President Trump is some kind of savior, but he’s definitely the better choice; and in the last year he’s done more as President than any other President in history.
As a Christian, I support his policies. As a constitutionalist I have found his policies to be, for the most part, within the parameters of constitutional authority. His job as President is to execute the laws of the Union, according to Article II of the Constitution, and that’s what he’s been doing. Some of his ideas push the boundaries (not so sure about that Sovereign Wealth Fund idea, for example), but it’s nothing like the unconstitutional madness we saw with Obama and Biden – or would have seen with a President Hillary Clinton.
Time will tell, I suppose, if Americans will recognize the progress we’ve been experiencing under Trump’s leadership. Americans tend to vote with their wallets, so if the economic improvements continue, and become more visible during 2026, then the midterm elections should swing in the favor of the Republican Party, with a hint of MAGA seasoning.
And that is the key. Time will tell. God’s timing, as my wife says. In the end, that is usually the best answer. I am not a prognosticator. People who claim to be prophets don’t do well when they are wrong. So, I am not going to claim a Red Wave is coming, though we are long overdue for one. But, since we have a President that operates with America’s best interests at heart, you would think that voters would see enough to rid ourselves of the destructive Democrats who stand in his way. If election integrity was fully in place, I believe the Democratic Party would go the way of the Whigs and the Federalists. But, at the same time, I am careful not to underestimate the enemies of American Liberty.
Time will tell…
“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
― Arnold Bennett
“Rather than turning the page, it’s much easier to just throw the book away.”
― Anthony Liccione
“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
― Marty Rubin
“New Year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
Conventional wisdom says the Trump agenda will not be fading away. He’s the man who the Tea Party emerged for. He’s the kind of President who defeats the enemies of America while tying the loose ends in such a way that America comes out ahead. But understand, like the current under a boat in a raging river, the left doesn’t give up. We fight a never-ending battle, a war that requires eternal vigilance on our part.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Spuriously attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
God’s Timing.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Venezuela was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world on a per-capita basis, powered by enormous oil reserves and a relatively stable western democratic free-market system. Then, as their prosperity peaked and oil exports increased its influence on their economy, they moved away from domestic manufacturing and domestic agriculture, becoming more dependent upon imports for things they once produced. Then, in 1999, the voters fell for the trappings of socialist promises, and elected Hugo Chavez as their president. Chavez then launched the Bolivarian Revolution, transforming the economy into a state-controlled socialist model. The government nationalized oil, agriculture, telecommunications, steel, electricity and more. Then, price controls were placed on food, fuel, and consumer goods. Currency controls distorted the markets and encouraged corruption. Then, pushed by Cultural Marxism’s call for social justice, massive social spending ensued, funded almost entirely by high oil prices. While in the beginning the policies were viewed as fair, and a way to create better equity in society, they hollowed out private industry and placed the country’s economy solely on government decisions and a lack of any private innovation or domestic production.
Oil production ultimately declined, largely due to mismanagement, and the domestic economy collapsed. Once Chavez was gone, the deterioration of the economy increased, with living standards dropping by 74% between 2013 and 2023 under Nicolas Maduro who replaced Chavez when the communist leader died on March 5, 2013. Maduro doubled down on Chavez’s policies of central planning and repression, leading to hyperinflation and a contraction of GDP by more than 75%. Seven million Venezuelans fled by 2022, creating one of the world’s largest refugee crises.
As nationalization destroyed the private-sector and any industrial efficiency, price controls made production unprofitable, expropriations scared off investment, and state-run enterprises became politically staffed and mismanaged, black markets and corruption gained footing and began to bleed throughout the system. Lack of accountability fed the corruption, and the concentration of power increased to protect the corruption. Incentive was eliminated, productivity was destroyed, and the market system collapsed thanks to the socialist policies of Chavez and Maduro.
As with any collapsed state and runaway widespread corruption, organized crime found a footing. With the breakdown of institutions, and the weakening of government, criminal networks filled the vacuum. Security forces went unpaid, borders became porous, oversight and accountability evaporated, and as a result criminal groups became the de facto authority. The rise of criminal organizations was accepted by the Maduro regime, and government officials became enablers of the criminal organizations. Maduro allowed, provided little resistance to, and profited from drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking, and human trafficking. Venezuela became a key corridor for cocaine moving from Colombia to global markets. Why? Weak border patrol, corrupt military and policing units, strategic Caribbean access and corrupt communist government made Venezuela a perfect tool for criminal organizations. The government, after all, could no longer stop them, much less cared to stop them.
As time passed, the rise of megabandas emerged. Megabandas are criminal groups with more than two-hundred members, have access to military-grade weapons, and who have achieved territorial control over neighborhoods or regions in Venezuela. For example, El Koki, a gang leader who controlled a population of 700,000 in Caracas operated with tacit approval from the Maduro government.
These gangs run extortion rackets, control drug distribution and operate with political protection. Sometimes, they even act as paramilitary forces for the Maduro regime. Venezuela’s citizens, as a result of trading a western-style free market for socialism, are now experiencing mass unemployment, food scarcity, and hyperinflation. For a lot of people, drug trafficking and other criminal activities become their main viable options for survival. When the legitimate economy dies, a black market inevitably becomes the primary economy.
Here in America, the Democrats, while in power, turned a blind eye to what was going on, and the hardcore socialists I’ve talked to even went so far as to blame Venezuela’s fall on American multi-national corporations, rather than the political socialist policies of Venezuela’s government leaders. President Trump, however, views what is going on as a national security issue, and he has made it one of the priorities of his administration to take action regarding the threat.
According to the Trump administration, Venezuela’s collapse created criminal and trafficking networks involved in drug trafficking, illicit finance, and organized crime. These criminal networks are directly tied to drug flows, which harm Americans. President Trump has made it a mission to protect the U.S. homeland from narcotics and criminal organizations operating from Venezuela.
So, President Trump has taken action as Commander in Chief to launch strikes on drug-smuggling boats, to seize sanctioned tankers in international waters, and now to hit a “big facility” where drug-running boats were loaded.
President Trump acknowledged Monday, December 19, 2025 that U.S. forces struck a facility in Venezuela, describing a “major explosion” at a dock area used to load boats with drugs. While President Trump has described his actions against Venezuela as moves designed to “squeeze” Maduro’s government, this is the first land-based strike in Venezuela under Donald Trump’s presidency.
“We hit all the boats, and now we hit the area, it’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement. And that is no longer around,” said President Trump regarding the strike while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. While the President has denied that he plans to start a land war in Venezuela, or that he seeks “regime-change,” he has also signaled that he is willing to expand military actions from maritime strikes to land-based targets if that is what is necessary to disrupt narcotics trafficking and diminish the Maduro regime’s influence.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Department of Justice’s ongoing clash with left‑leaning federal judges, more often than not (it seems) with judges like Judge James Boasberg, highlights a growing constitutional crisis: inferior courts increasingly act as if they possess supervisory authority over the executive branch. The latest flashpoint came when an appeals court suspended Boasberg’s contempt order against the Trump administration for its March deportation of Venezuelan criminal aliens to El Salvador. The DOJ went further, requesting Boasberg’s removal on the grounds that he has launched a politically motivated campaign against the administration.
Boasberg accused the administration of “willful disobedience” for failing to comply with his earlier directive to return the deportation planes, declaring, “The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders, especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it.” He further claimed that the deportees were “spirited out of this country without a hearing,” asserting that senior officials knowingly violated judicial commands.
Democratic politicians seized on the dispute, arguing that the administration’s resistance to lower‑court orders proves that President Trump is a would‑be dictator ignoring the Constitution. But this raises a fundamental constitutional question: Where in the Constitution is the executive branch required to obey the orders of inferior federal courts?
Article II of the Constitution vests the executive power in the President, whose duty is to execute the laws of the United States. Immigration law is being executed. Nothing in the Constitution grants the judiciary authority to micromanage executive enforcement decisions, nor does it empower district judges to supervise or override presidential discretion in matters of foreign policy, deportation, or national security.
The Founders established that the judiciary may issue opinions, but not commands. This is among the reasons why the judiciary was never originally given an enforcement arm. Alexander Hamilton described the judiciary as the “least dangerous branch.”
History provides clear examples of presidents rejecting judicial overreach:
• Thomas Jefferson refused Chief Justice John Marshall’s order to deliver William Marbury’s commission. Marshall himself acknowledged that the Court lacked the power to enforce its own directives.
• Andrew Jackson, confronted with a Supreme Court ruling he believed unconstitutional, famously responded, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
These episodes underscore a constitutional reality: the judiciary may apply the law to the cases they hear, but they may not compel the executive to act against its own constitutional duties.
The Constitution’s first three articles each begin with the word “vested” included in the opening salvo. The presence of the word “vested” was a deliberate structural choice establishing three separate branches. Each branch possesses powers that are exclusive and nontransferable. When a federal judge attempts to dictate how the President must execute immigration law, the judiciary crosses into executive territory, precisely what the Framers sought to prevent.
Boasberg’s order, therefore, raises a deeper issue: Is the judiciary attempting to exercise powers not vested in it by the Constitution?
The orders aren’t even based on constitutional grounds, anyway. Critics argue that deported criminal aliens were denied due process. But Article IV, Section 2 makes clear that the privileges and immunities associated with citizenship apply to citizens, not to individuals who have entered the country illegally. While Congress or the executive may choose to extend procedural protections to non‑citizens, the Constitution does not require it.
To claim otherwise is to rewrite the constitutional text.
If a federal judge repeatedly issues orders that exceed constitutional authority, interfere with the executive’s vested powers, or appear politically motivated, impeachment becomes not only permissible but necessary. The Constitution provides impeachment as the remedy for “bad behavior” by federal judges; behavior that includes issuing unconstitutional directives or attempting to usurp powers belonging to another branch.
Judge Boasberg’s actions, viewed through this constitutional lens, raise serious concerns about judicial overreach and the erosion of separation of powers. If inferior courts can dictate executive action in defiance of constitutional boundaries, then the balance of power collapses, and with it, the structure the Framers designed to preserve liberty.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Self‑examination is a deeply Christian discipline. It requires humility, honesty, and the willingness to confront one’s own failures; traits that historically lead to repentance and course correction. But the modern hard‑left, and the Democratic Party increasingly shaped by it, appears fundamentally incapable of such introspection. To look inward would be to unravel the very foundations of what they have built.
The Democratic Party has become so entangled in layers of deception, radical ideology, and moral inversion that a genuine look in the mirror would expose far more than they can afford to admit. Their political survival depends on avoiding that mirror at all costs.
Every election cycle ultimately returns to the economy – After all, “it’s the economy, stupid,” right? And time after time, the Democrats’ Keynesian prescriptions fail to deliver prosperity.
Yet the pattern repeats:
• pump more fiat money into the system,
• impose heavier regulations and fees,
• raise the cost of doing business,
• obstruct producers and job creators,
• and then blame their opponents when the inevitable failing consequences arrive.
Rather than self‑correct, they double down. Admitting error would require acknowledging the flaws in their worldview, and that is something the party’s current ideological trajectory simply cannot allow.
For years, Democrats have shouted that they are “saving democracy” from their GOP opponents. But their own actions tell a different story.
• In 2016, party leadership sidelined the grassroots to ensure Hillary Clinton’s nomination.
• In 2020, they cleared the field for Joe Biden with ruthless efficiency.
• In 2024, they bypassed the primary process entirely to install Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket.
So much for the defenders of democracy, much less keeping the republic…
Some observers have even raised concerns about election integrity during these cycles, 2020 being the most glaring example. Electoral monkey-business seems to have become the norm anymore for them… but if you question it you are a conspiracy theorist or insurrectionist. And, when evidence pops up supporting such claims, the absent concerns by the Democrats become dismissals rather than any consideration to address such claims.
A movement that claims to champion democracy while manipulating its own internal processes cannot afford to self‑examine. Any movement that claims to champion democracy but plays games with the electoral process also cannot afford to self-examine. Doing so would expose the contradictions.
The Democrats also insist they are the party of inclusion, yet their policies increasingly alienate the very groups they once relied upon.
• Men are turning away in large numbers, frustrated by ideological wokeness.
• Minority voters, long considered a reliable bloc, are drifting as cultural radicalism and economic stagnation take their toll.
The only group not bleeding numbers away from the Democratic Party are the progressive, hard-left, feminist women.
The party’s response is not reflection but accusation. Rather than ask why voters are leaving, they label dissenters as misled, manipulated, or morally suspect.
The lies and deception have become such a norm for them that they couldn’t even admit to anything that everyone saw with their own two eyes when Biden’s mental acuity was falling up the stairs. The truth about Joe Biden’s mental decline became hidden by them in a manner that reminded me of a child hiding behind a mailbox during a game of hide and seek. They were hiding nothing from the public for years, yet still claim there was no problem with Biden’s mental health. The subsequent revelations point to a level of systemic corruption that may require a political cleansing far deeper than the party is prepared to undertake.
Meanwhile, the relentless attacks on Donald Trump, be it lawfare, legislative maneuvers, and prosecutorial crusades, have exposed a network of partisan actors whose conduct raises serious questions. Names like Letitia James, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, James Comey, John Brennan, and others have become symbols of a broader institutional decay and corruption. Add to that the scandals involving figures like Tim Walz in Minnesota or the political machinations of Gavin Newsom, and the pattern becomes impossible to ignore.
The deeper the corruption is exposed, the louder the denials become.
And all of that noise is rising up and it is becoming much louder than their claims that Donald Trump is some kind of fascist. As a result, the Democratic Party now finds itself locked in an internal struggle between its traditional base and its increasingly radicalized left flank as the country watches the fireworks and recognizes that the Democratic Party’s self-inflicted wounds are now becoming a fatal infection. The louder the internal conflict grows, the more the party projects its own failings onto Trump and the GOP, and reveals its own weaknesses and deceptions.
The cries of victimhood, the frantic accusations, and the desperate attempts to hide connections and bury scandals… none of it serves as signs of confidence. They are all spasms of a movement losing control because of its flawed narrative.
History offers a warning. The Federalist Party and the Whig Party both collapsed under the weight of internal contradictions and ideological exhaustion. Their final years were marked by denial, infighting, and frantic attempts to maintain relevance.
The parallels are hard to ignore.
One wonders if we are witnessing the last gasps of a fading party.
As the Democratic Party continues its march toward ideological extremism, its ability to self‑examine diminishes. And without self‑examination, there can be no repentance, no correction, and no return to sanity.
Instead, we see projection, secrecy, and a desperate clinging to power.
The question now is not whether the party will change course. It is whether it still possesses the capacity to do so. And if not, we may indeed be witnessing the final convulsions of a once‑dominant political force that has forgotten how to look in the mirror.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Long History of Democratic Party Rot
By Douglas V. Gibbs
How many people have believed that the deep dark establishment of the political left is evil, corrupt, and even murderous? Ever since the nineties we’ve heard about the Clinton Kill List. Nobody has ever been able to prove it, but deep down we know it exists. It worked its way into mainstream conversation with the deaths of Seth Rich, and notorious sex-island pedo Jeffery Epstein. Then, the investigations about secret email servers and dark schemes to go after Donald Trump emerged. Again, we were not surprised, but until lately the truth of the whole thing never really made it to mainstream discussions. Typically, it was only talked about during conservative gatherings with hushed jokes and careful whispers.
Recently, news of a trail that leads back to Hillary Clinton in 2016 has surfaced regarding foreign donations flowing to the Clinton Foundation while she steered American foreign policy as Secretary of State. Of course, the FBI machine back then was more than happy to let the trail go cold. Documents published a couple weeks ago revealed the existence of reports about concerns of foreign bribery back then. A 2016 book by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer called “Clinton Cash” helped kick off the 2016 Cracked Foundation investigation.
The Clintons aren’t the only ones capable of behind-the-scenes antics. Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, and Ilhan Omar experienced questionable financial gains once in office, as has their significant others in the cases of Pelosi and Omar.
Then, of course, there is the myriad of Hollywood Productions on the political stage designed to create the political drama the Democrats believe serves their political interests, from the Russia-Russia-Russia Hoax regarding Donald Trump to the agitation/FBI-plant/staging of the alleged insurrection of January 6 to the lawfare antics that conveniently uses leftist federal judges on the public stage for all to see.
In other words, the Progressive Democrats and their Deep State allies are willing to go to just about any length to gain and maintain their power and wealth. From agitations to assassinations, nothing seems to be too far to go to secure their power and wealth. And since President Donald Trump took office nearly a year ago, a nice long list of exposed dark schemes are now bubbling to the surface.
After ruining the lives and careers of anyone who dared claim that the 2020 Election was stolen, and in particular when it came to the State of Georgia where Fani Willis staged a vicious lawfare campaign regarding those claims, recent news has come out that Fulton County now admits to illegally counting 315,000 ballots. That means that if those illegal votes had not been counted, Trump would have won Georgia by somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 votes. Now, a new investigation has been opened, and I have a feeling the recent revelation of 315,000 votes is only the tip of the iceberg. Other revelations of election fraud have been springing up around the country, with a case in southern Texas likely changing a district from blue to red.
In Los Angeles a cover-up has been exposed regarding the Palisades firestorm on January 7, 2025. According to PJ Media, Mayor “Bass’s office and the leadership at the LAFD removed, erased, and excised information that implicated the state’s role and the city’s botched preparation and response to the Lachman Fire and the state’s standing orders to allow those fires to burn themselves out.” In short, L.A. Fire and city brass chose not to pre-deploy and fully staff-up for the fire – a decision that did not align with the department’s policy and procedures during red flag days. What else are they hiding?
The fraud and corruption and willingness to do things that may even incite the assassination of a candidate for President of the United States is not beyond these people. Their power, their wealth, and their arrogance have led them to a position where it seems nothing is off the table.
Which brings us to Minnesota, and the Somali Fraud.
The fraud in Minnesota is not an isolated incident, and we are finding out that it is tied to much deeper dark engines inside the Democratic Party than what we see on the surface. It all came to light with the Feeding Our Future fraud where the Feeding Our Future non-profit fraudulently siphoned roughly $250-300 million in federal funds, making it the largest pandemic-relief fraud scheme ever brought to light. More than 90 people have been charged, with at least 60 convicted so far. Defendants enrolled restaurants, storefronts, or community centers as “meal distribution sites” under Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship. The meal counts were falsified with fake invoices and meal count sheets, and then the money was laundered through various false companies, fake food vendors, real estate purchases and luxury goods. One defendant used a property company to launder nearly $1 million, buying homes that also operated as taxpayer-funded group homes. While the whole thing exposed the vulnerabilities in federal pandemic-era oversight, it triggered investigations that have exposed a long list of fraud cases, with the FBI calling it “the tip of a very large iceberg” as they investigate related schemes.
The Minnesota fraud also includes up to $18 billion in Medicaid-related spending since 2018 that may have been misused, and other related fraud schemes costing the American taxpayers billions more with a large number of the defendants being Somali. The scandal is partially the result of failure of oversight by Governor Tim Walz who failed to act despite years of warnings. For the Democrats in Minnesota, the “walls are caving in” on Walz as whistleblowers and mayors come forward with claims of a long train of systemic fraud tied to Somali-run programs. The claims are that Walz either ignored the warnings, lacked the competence to prevent the fraud, failed to take action for fear of being accused of being racist, or had his hands in it himself – the latter being a possibility that seems to be bubbling to the surface as we begin to see how many hands were in the scheme through FBI investigations and other revealing reports.
A viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley showed visits to several Somali-run daycare centers that appeared to be inactive despite allegedly receiving millions in government funding. Federal authorities, including Homeland Security Investigations, launched a new massive investigation following the video’s release.
Representative Kevin Kiley, R-CA, recently unveiled similar mismanagement of taxpayer funds in California, calling it worse than anything going on in Minnesota. According to an audit, the number of high-risk agencies in California that may be vulnerable to fraud, abuse, and mismanagement has doubled while Governor Gavin Newsom has been in office. According to Kiley, “They failed to take corrective steps, costing taxpayers billions and billions of dollars…$24 billion that was spent on homelessness in the state audit also found that the state just lost track of that money as homelessness soared…$32 billion lost to unemployment fraud…a third of our community college applications are fraudulent…The list goes on and on and on.”
Carl DeMaio, California State Assemblyman representing District 75, claims Newsom is overseeing a widespread and costly welfare fraud, arguing that the scale of the alleged misconduct far exceeds similar issues raised in other states and that national media outlets have largely failed to scrutinize the situation.
In Minnesota, protecting the schemes may have even led to the assassination of a member of the state legislature. According to the Libs of TikTok, Melissa Hortman was the only Democrat to vote against healthcare for illegals in the state legislature, and then was found assassinated a few days later. The Democratic representative had held an office in the Minnesota State House of Representatives since 2023, and was murdered by Vance Boelter who was indicted on July 15, 2025 on six federal charges in connection to her death, that of her husband Mark Hortman, the shootings of Senator John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman, and the attempted shooting of Hope Hoffman. Vance Boelter was re-appointed to a Minnesota state advisory board by Governor Tim Walz six years ago, though it was a minor, unpaid position and no personal relationship or ideological alignment between Walz and Boelter has been established.
Could her vote have angered individuals connected to Minnesota’s large welfare-fraud networks to the point that they would put a hit out on her? While there is no hard evidence that fraud networks targeted Hortman, and statements put out by those involved in the investigations state that the shooter acted alone and that such theories are unfounded, the circumstances and timing definitely can be considered compelling enough to make such an assertion.
Considering the long history of leftist deception, lies, and illegal moves by the Democratic Party’s elite, it’s no surprise that under the Trump presidency a number of progressive games of deception and fraud are being rooted out. So much so that the rats are beginning to abandon ship, and in many cases out themselves. According to The Daily Signal, “More than 200 former staff at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division signed a letter condemning Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and in doing so, they outed themselves as deep state actors and demonstrated Dhillon’s effectiveness in restoring the division to its true mission.”
“There absolutely is a deep state,” John Daukas, former acting assistant attorney general in the division in Trump’s first term told The Daily Signal. An April RMG Research poll found that 75% of the federal employees who voted for Kamala Harris last year, work in the District of Columbia, and make more than $150,000 annually said they would refuse to follow a lawful order from President Donald Trump, if they considered it bad policy. Daukas said many Civil Rights Division career staff he worked with acted on a similar mentality. “They acted like they were the policymakers, like they had been elected, as opposed to the president,” he recalled. I can name a long list of federal judges that seem to think the same way.
How long has the shenanigans been going on when it comes to the Democrats, and their quest to build and maintain their power and wealth? At least a hundred years, or more? Then again, these kinds of things go all the way back to the founding. President Thomas Jefferson was attacked by the courts for his actions, and found himself firing half of the bureaucracy when he entered office – the big government, Federalist Party half. Incidentally, reversing the bad policies, ending bad government spending, and clearing out the deep state actors in the bureaucracy led to an interesting result; the inability of the Federalist Party to win anymore major elections, which, within a couple decades, led to the end of that political party.
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