
Political Pistachio

By Douglas V. Gibbs
It is fascinating that after having control of the Epstein files for so long, suddenly the Democrats are urging that they are released. Why now? Why the sudden urgency? Oh, they claim Trump’s name is in them. Really? If that were true, they would’ve plastered it across every screen in America years ago. They had control of those files all along—until recently. And now, conveniently, they want them out? Please.
Now here’s the kicker: Trump’s not playing their game. He’s playing chess while they’re still fumbling with checkers. I believe the files Pam Bondi has are riddled with falsehoods—fabricated garbage. So what does Trump do? He goes around them. He’s finding the real evidence elsewhere. They tried to get the grand jury transcripts. Didn’t work. And now—get this—Ghislaine Maxwell herself, the convicted Epstein associate, says she never saw Trump do anything inappropriate. Not once.
Nine hours of questioning with the DOJ, and she didn’t plead the Fifth. She said Trump never did anything that raised concern. There’s even an audio recording. And Virginia Giuffre? Same story. No sleaze. No flirting. Nothing. Two key witnesses. Zero dirt on Trump. You can read it all in the Conservative Brief article.
So what’s really going on? The Left is panicking. Their narrative is crumbling. Trump’s not just surviving—he’s exposing them. And they know it.
That’s the truth, folks. Don’t let the media gaslight you. Stay sharp. Stay informed. And never forget—they fear Trump because he’s not one of them.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Friday night on “Gutfeld!” the sharp-tongued libertarian regular on the program, Kat Timpf, was asked to give her opinion about the recent bizarre appearance of dildos thrown on the court at WNBA games. She responded that she considered as a possibility that what was happening was an “inside job” and believes the stunt may be for the purpose of boosting ratings. And you know what? She may be onto something.
Let’s be honest: the WNBA is not some premiere sports league as they may desire. They struggle with ratings, struggle with fans in the stands, and they are struggling with relevance. And, they have been struggling with the reality that entitlement doesn’t equal interest. Remember the whole All-Star Game idiocy with the shirts reading, “Pay Us What You Owe Us”? I argued that you can’t claim more money if you don’t earn more money. The cost for arenas and to run the sport isn’t reduced if you aren’t doing as well. Make the billions, and you may make millions, but until then, you get what you get because of the size of the operation. That’s not sexism. That’s economics. The league has lackluster merchandise, has a barely popular product with a few people on the court and they badly need something that will get them the attention they think they deserve.
Hockey had Gretzky. Golf had Tiger. Now the WNBA has … dildos.
Did someone in the front office of the WNBA say, “hey, I’ve got an idea! It’s weird, but it’s so weird, it might just draw some attention in our direction!”
The whole WNBA thing is what happens when identity politics meets market reality. The WNBA players, like the lady soccer players last year, have been demanding “equal pay, equal attention, and equal respect.” You don’t get NBA money without NBA numbers. You don’t get LeBron-level salaries when your games can’t fill half an arena. And you certainly don’t earn cultural clout by turning your sport into a sideshow.
Is this manufactured outrage meeting a manufactured spectacle? When you can’t win the ratings war with talent or competition, you turn to shock? That’s what the Democrats do. They can’t win in the arena of ideas so they have turned politics into a giant circus. Stunts, props and deceptive screaming about things that actual don’t exist.
The WNBA may have simply taken a page out of the hard-left’s playbook, turning to stunts, and turning to props that belong in the bedroom to shock people into watching the games – not for the games, but to see if any more dildos will be flying onto the basketball court.
Arrests have happened, and the truth is the ratings and ticket sales have risen slightly – ever so slightly. The league, I believe, is trying to provoke a reaction because they can’t provoke genuine interest. This is what leftists do, in sports and politics: if you can’t win hearts and minds, distract them. If you can’t earn respect, demand it. If you can’t sell tickets, sell controversy.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for freedom of expression and I am glad the league exists for those who crave lady basketball. But when a professional sports league becomes a parody of itself, it’s time to ask: What are we really promoting? Athletic excellence? Or cultural absurdity?
The United States Constitution enumerates our God-given rights to speak, protest, and even (sort of) to wave around whatever novelty item you want (though local laws might have an issue). But it doesn’t guarantee you a paycheck, relevance, ratings, or respect. That is on you. Opportunity is nothing if you don’t take advantage of it and figure out a way to make it shine. Respect is earned. Interest is earned. Success is earned. And if the WNBA wants to be taken seriously, maybe it’s time to stop chasing shock and start providing substance.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Electric Vehicles haven’t been selling, California’s dam killing activities left the State without enough water to put out the Palisades Fire, renewable energy is crashing the system and resulting in rolling black-outs, and the Trump Administration is discovering what kind of scam the whole Green Deal truly is. In fact, President Donald J. Trump has put into motion plans that will roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to play the games the radical environmentalists demand according to multiple reports.
Included in the Trump proposals for the EPA are rules that will rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which stipulates that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can be regulated for the sake of human health and the environment. This follows President Trump’s removal of the United States (again) from the Paris Climate Accord during the early days of his second term as President of the United States. By undoing the Endangerment finding, stringent emissions rules on power plants and vehicles may be rolled back, positioning the administration for strengthening the electricity grid, protecting consumer choice, and ultimately removing the federal government from local decisions regarding energy usage and strategies.
As the Trump administration looks further behind the curtain, the term “follow the money” makes a screeching appearance. Solar programs have never truly gotten off the ground like the lefty environmental whackos would have liked, and Trump’s administration is working to cancel solar programs and other Green Deal scams. During the process, it has been discovered that none of the $250 million that California received from the Inflation Reduction Act’s “Solar for All” program ever got to where it was supposed to go. A lot of green energy dollars are either still in the buffer (Star Trek transporter reference) or was sent somewhere else. Who, then, is receiving those monies? According to Daniel Greenfield, those funds are being “used to fund the Democratic political machine rather than spending it for its putative purpose.”
The reality is, the Constitution is not about giving the government the ability to engineer our lives, be it through regulations on energy, mineral rights, allocation of resources, banking, what you can drive or how you might spend your money running your household. Frankly, from a constitutional point of view, it’s none of the federal government’s business, and from the States’ constitutions’ point of view their influence is supposed to be as minimal as possible. Wasn’t one of the problems with Obamacare according to the Supreme Court that the law could not force you to buy insurance? Then how is it remotely reasonable for government to dictate your energy consumption, what you can drive, or if you can buy a small internal combustible engine on a machine that you will use to mow your lawn – much less the kind of engine your car is allowed to have?
“But, Doug,” I can hear my opponents screaming, “we’ve got to save the planet from Climate Change.” The United Nations, after all, has made it legal for countries to sue each other over Climate Change.
You mean that natural phenomenon that has nothing to do with carbon dioxide and everything to do with the sun?
Critical thinking, man. Don’t be so foolish to believe that our influence on a minor gas that is less than 1% of the atmosphere, with a less than 1% impact by human activities, is going to spiral the Earth into some kind of cataclysmic future and that the only way to save us is to pump the political system full of communism.
Don’t be an idiot.

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Elbridge Gerry, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Massachusetts, decided that something had to be done to keep him and his party in office in the Bay State. Massachusetts was deep in Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party territory, and the Jeffersonian Republicans wanted desperately to hold on to the little power they had in New England. So, they redrew the state senate districts in a way that sliced up Essex County, a Federalist stronghold, like a Thanksgiving goose.
One of those districts was so grotesquely shaped that a newspaper editor said it looked like a salamander – ultimately calling it a Gerry-mander (starts with a hard “g”, not the j sound).
Elbridge Gerry didn’t invent the practice of manipulating districts for political gain, but he sure gave it a name. Now, gerrymandering has become a political art form, and while the Democrats seem to usually be the ones who are guilty, both sides are guilty of using the age-old strategy. As a result we’ve seen the emergence of redistricting commissions, court battles, and the latest situation in Texas where the Republicans have called for redrawing the lines to undo the gerrymandering damage by the Democrats, and in response the Party of the Donkey has screamed that the GOP is guilty of gerrymandering, and then fled to make sure a vote regarding gerrymandering in the Lone Star State could not take place – fleeing to blue states extremely guilty of their own gerrymandering schemes.
While the Democrats love to scream about “voter suppression,” they’ve been gerrymandering places like Illinois, California, New York and Massachusetts (to name a few) for decades – and whenever the Republicans try to correct the situation they yell that the GOP is trying to rewrite the rules and that the conservative political folks don’t believe in “equity” and “fairness.” Nevermind rigging the elections with a refusal to allow for voter ID laws, refusal to clean up the voter rolls, and making sure illegal aliens are unconstitutionally counted in the census for the purpose of making sure the Democrats have more seats in blue states (and some red states) through apportionment (and gerrymandering).
So, as the Republicans in Texas try to undo years of Democratic Party engineered gerrymandering madness, with a plan to redraw the congressional map to better reflect reality, not fantasy, the Democrats fled the State of Texas like cowards. They hopped on expensive private jets, holed up in blue-state five-star hotels, and refused to show up for the vote.
Wait. It’s a part-time legislature in Texas. Where did they get the money for their luxurious exit?
The great flee of the Democrat legislators was funded by the George Soros backed Beto O’Rourke PAC, known as Powered by People. That’s right. According to reports, a Soros funded lefty PAC covered travel, lodging, meals and even the fines these Democrats face for skipping out on their constitutional duties.
They claim they’re trying to “save democracy,” but they are accomplices in a Soros-funded insurrection against our Constitutional Republic. And let’s be clear, the Democrats are not defending voting rights as they claim – they’re defending their own power. Their political position of power. And they’re doing it with outside money, media cover, and zero accountability.
So as they falsely accuse the Republicans of gerrymandering, the very party trying to restore balance to a map that’s been rigged for years, they are playing their usual projection game – and Swamp-backed game of deception – the same plays in the Democratic Party playbook that they’ve always used, and once again are willing to throw it out there in full display for all to see because they believe in their arrogance they are untouchable.
I seem to remember the Democrats saying that elections matter. So does constitutional fidelity. The leftist Democrats, socialist, and commies can’t win at the ballot box, so they flee the State, rewrite the rules, and then claim that is justice.
Fortunately, the GOP in Texas is fighting back, and Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating the fact that a private organization is giving gifts to the fleeing Democrats so that they can avoid the vote, abandon their posts, and sabotage the legislative process. The FBI’s Kash Patel has also been contacted with the hope they can use the Federal Government to retrieve the anti-American Democrats since the long arm of the law from Governor Abbot’s gubernatorial office only reaches to the state lines of Texas.
I remember when I was a candidate for office. The record keeping regarding incoming money and donations was strictly enforced. Americans do not tolerate outside influence. In fact, it’s criminal – and for receiving gifts to pay for their traveling antics, the Democrats who fled Texas should all be arrested, charged, convicted and removed from office for their bribery, corruption, and in short a Biden-style influence peddling move. Outside money is being spent to sabotage the legislative process in Texas. It’s illegal under Texas law, and federally.
Arrest the corrupt Democrats, replace them, and let’s get the Democratic Party gerrymandering monstrosity across the country erased as it should be – starting in Texas, and then ultimately across the country. Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice is already looking at tackling voter rolls, and working to enhance election integrity. Even the United States Supreme Court looks like it might get involved. California, Illinois and New York, be warned; the journey for legal constitutional elections is in the crosshairs, and you’re next.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

War Hamster (Brady) and Mr. Constitution (Douglas V. Gibbs) are going through Madison’s Notes taken during the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Here’s the episodes so far:
https://douglasvgibbs.com/madisons-notes-on-the-1787-constitutional-convention/ (Parts 1-4)
https://rumble.com/v6vwb0u-re-federalist-37-madisons-notes-pt.-5.html
https://rumble.com/v6w7s8o-re-federalist-38-madisons-notes-pt.-6.html
https://rumble.com/v6wkzri-re-federalist-39-madisons-notes-pt.-7.html
https://rumble.com/v6wwbai-re-federalist-40-madisons-notes-pt.-8.html
https://rumble.com/v6x6caa-re-federalist-41-madisons-notes-pt.-9.html
For new and upcoming episodes, go to https://rumble.com/WarHamster and search for episodes labeled “Refederalist Madison’s Notes”.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Douglas V. Gibbs will be on the road for more events in 2025.
- September 11: Detroit, Michigan (Venue and details still being determined)
- September 17: San Diego State University (All-Day Constitution Day Event)
- September 20: Lake Havasu (Constitution Week, Venue and details still being determined)
- October 27, 10:30 am: Independence Hall, Knott’s Berry Farm, Buena Park, California
- October 27, 4:30 pm: Yard House, 2525 El Camino Real, San Diego, California
- October 28, 8:00 am: K-Praise & Mr. Constitution presents Pastor’s Appreciation Breakfast featuring Pastor Jack Hibbs, Handlery Hotel, 950 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA 92108
- November 1: Las Vegas, Nevada
- November 4: South Lake Tahoe, Nevada