September 20, 2026
Xi has Fallen?
This from John F. DeLeo
There is an apparent media blackout - or near blackout - on one of the
biggest news stories of the decade.
Who are the most important people on earth, for good or ill, right now?
President Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping…
There are 200 countries on earth, but those are the three world leaders who are most consequential at the moment.
One of them allegedly had a stroke in India last week, at the BRICS conference.
if this is true… And I should mention that both India and China news sources have denied the reports… Then the world should be watching to see if he survives, or if he gets replaced… And if so, could anyone be worse, or could someone perhaps be better?
It’s mentioned in blurbs, little more.
But chairman Xi has done incredible damage to the world during his tenure. Many people throughout history have dreamed of world conquest, but none have come as close as he has.
President Trump appears to be the only person on earth tough enough to take him on.
Leadership changes in communist countries are always extremely dangerous times.
Keep your powder dry, and pray.
And then pray some more.
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Big Fish and Climate Change
Timothy Birdnow
I guess it's Global Warming causing this!
This is terrible; we can't have big fish just swimming around in the ocean this way! It shows the biosphere is dying from the heat!
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Newsom's Ft. Sumter Moment
Timothy Birdnow
Cal-il-fornia governor Gavin Newsom is
nearing a Fort Supter moment as he bans any cooperation with Federal authorities in looking into vote theft in the state.
He has made it a felony to hand over any voter information to the Feds, who are tasked with examining any charges of fraud based on Civil Rights legislation the Democrats themselves supported in the South.
He's also trying to ban any federal troops from the Yellow State.
When the state of South Carolina nullified the tariff during the administration of Andrew Jackson Congress passed the Force Act, which allowed Jackson to send the military there to enforce the law. South Carolina quickly passed a law authorizing the tariff, but they also passed a law nullifying the Force Act in the state. Jackson took the easier course and simply ignored it - he won. But it was that ignoring that led ultimately to the firing on Fort Sumter decades later. The precedent had been set.
Trump could just ignore this but he shouldn't. There have to be consequences. These lawless acts by Newsom require pressure to force him to recant. Let this go and you open the door to much worse down the road.
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Monster's Ball
Timothy Birdnow
A Democrat candidate actually took a photo of herself at Dachau, smiling ear to ear, saying:
, "Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”
North Carolina candidate for the state legislature Shelly Headen actually posted that.
The Democrats have become monsters.
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Savages
Timothy Birdnow
I'm not much into doing true crime stories. There is enough in this world to be depressed about as it is. But this one caught my eye.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/20/us-news/arizona-goon-talyn-vigil-arrested-for-3rd-time-while-awaiting-trial-for-allegedly-killing-teen-in-mob-attack/
What caught my attention was not that this group of young punks murdered a teenager who was trying to LEAVE a party to avoid trouble, attacked him like a pack of wild dogs, but their appearance.
The article makes no mention of sexual identity or whatnot but they have photos of all the punks involved Take a good look.
Looks to me like most of them are trans, or near enough. Most of them are sporting hair styles more suited to girls than boys.
The article says nothing, as I said, but a picture is worth a thousand words.
We have a deadly serious problem with trans teens and violence. And it won't get any better as long as we keep pretending this is just a normal thing, like a person preferring beef to chicken.
While we will probably put these punks away (and they may not be away for long if they are minors) it won't do any good; they'll get out and probably angrier and more capable of doing bad things than when they went in, and if they DO learn their lesson some other punk will do the same thing. We need to restore taboos, making certain actions unthinkable. We picked the lock on civilization and now are surprised when all the ills of the world come flying out. This is what the liberal notion of freedom produces. Freedom to the Left is doing whatever comes to mind. It's savagery, not freedom.
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They Lied, People Died (Millions of 'em)
Timothy BIrdnow
How dirty was the Covid business? Why did they hide the effectiveness of Invermectin and hydroxychloroquine?
It was going to cost the drug companies money, for one.
From the article:
As Secretary Kennedy explained, the "problem lied with a little-known federal law that bars the FDA from issuing an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for vaccines if there is evidence that any existing, approved medication is effective against the target disease."
As you may recall, the vax manufacturers went totally out of their way, stumbling over themselves, to get that EUA for their vaccines to be approved and administered that were strangely developed in a remarkably short time.
If hydroxy and/or ivermectin were found to be effective against COVID-19, no FDA EUA approval would have been granted. A $200 billion dollar enterprise would have been lost overnight.
What we got instead was... COVID deaths, vaccine deaths, hospitalization, remdesivir, oxygen treatment, masks, closed schools, churches, and businesses, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), pericarditis (inflammation of the heart sack) and blood clots. In spite of the millions of Remdesivir doses administered these last years, CNBC reported as early as October, 2020, that the World Health Organization says that Remdesivir has "little or no effect" in reducing coronavirus deaths.
But good news: Walmart and the liquor stores were open.
So Fauci lied and people died. So did a lot of Democrat governors and politicians.
Lots of people should be going to prison for a long time for this. It was essentially a worldwide fraud and swindle and it murdered millions of people. Justice demands an accounting.
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McConnell's Fang Fang
Timothy Birdnow
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's wife and former Cabinet Member Elaine Chou had [linjk=https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2026/09/13/dylan-kresak-tom-basile-newsmax-america-right-now-elaine-chao-unreported-ties-china-communist-party/]much deeper ties to Communist China than anyone knew.
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Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Dylan Kresak, during a Saturday appearance on "America Right Now,” detailed a former cabinet secretary’s previously unreported ties to the Chinese government.
Kresak spoke with Newsmax host Tom Basile about an investigative report the DCNF broke Tuesday which found that Elaine Chao, a two-time White House cabinet secretary and the spouse of Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, held roles within organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Consider Chao, and Fang Fang and a host of other Chinese who have had deep ties to the highest levels of our government and one wonders who in Washington is NOT sleeping with a Chicom operative.
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Little Willie, Willie Won't, Go Home!
Timothy Birdnow
A British judge dismissed charges of indecent exposure for a trans "woman" because he was too fat for his penis to be visible, the judge alleged!
Bitain has gone completely nuts. Wonder if you could see THOSE from under the he/she's curtain of flab?
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Zelensky and the Spirit of Antichrist
Timothy Birdnow
This after Congress just gave Ukraine a bunch more of our taxpayer dollars!
This after Tsar Zelensky had promised not to hit any more diesel refineries.
FTA:
On Sunday morning Ukraine bombed the the Kapotnya Oil Refinery in Moscow.
The refinery is in Moscow’s southeastern Kapotnya district, about 12–15 km from the Kremlin. It is one of Russia’s 10 largest refineries and the primary fuel source for the capital region.
Of course, not only did they lie but the Ukrainians ordered this strike just weeks before the midterm election.
What great friends!
Zelensky and the Ukrainian government supported Hillary in 2016, Biden in 2020, and Harris in '24. They did this undoubtedly to get the Democrats to retake Congress and thus paralyze President Trump.
There will never be any peace as long as Zelensky is in power in the Ukraine. He will never agree to any peace settlement. The CIA took out Viktor Yushchenko, the po-Russian Ukrainian President, by fomenting the Orange Revolution. Maybe it's time for a coup against Zelensky.
President Trump needs to punish him, no question.
One final thought; is Zelensky the long-awaited Antichrist? Some think so. Read
this for a list of things done by Zelensky and his associates. No smoking gun proof, certainly, but it's possible. Zelensky (whose name is Volodomor which is Ukrainian for Prince) is Jewish and it has long been thought the Antichrist would be Jewish. But he's also secular, and supports neo-Nazis, and is a bestie with Klaus Schwab and George Soros and wants Anschluss with the European Union.
I don't know, but he's certainly AN antichrist. He's banned the Orthodox Church, or instance. (Of course Putin is also,)
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Shocking Study Proves Boys and Girls are Different
Timothy Birdnow
Well duh!
The article makes the case that men do better in engineering and math than do women, and that women had higher grades in high school then the men who go into such fields.
Teenage girls care more about grades than do teenage boys because they want to please their teachers and parents. Boys just want to party and have fun. But boys have naturally mechanical, logical minds and girls have naturally intuitive and communicative minds, which is why they go in for English or teaching or other things that do not require hard and fast rules.
This twists and squirms to avoid actually saying boys and girls, men and women, are different. But that is the inescapable conclusion (which we already knew).
Only liberals would do a major study to learn what everyone already knew.
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Lunatic Fringe
Timothy Birdnow
When even a Democratic Socialist think they've gone too far...
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September 19, 2026
Iran Losing China
Timothy Birdnow
If China is demanding Iran reopen the two oil straits then you know we are nearing the end.
China hasn't been able to afford this long an interruption of oil. And without Chinese support the Iranians are going to be strangled. They desperately need to cut a deal.
Of course Trump is equally desperate to do so before the election and the Iranians know that. It's a game of chicken with a country that has a death wish.
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I find it hard to trust or believe anything China says. I finally do agree with Irans President when his reply to this was everything China has sent them is junk. China is a master at stealing technology and making knockoffs but they lack the skill to make their knockoffs dependable and consistent. Take their high speed rail a perfect copy of European and Japanese design except China cannot produce the high quality steel needed to make the bearings so the trains can run at top speed. The best they can do is half speed and the vibrations from the ride is known to cause numbness is the riders legs. The Saudis launched a Chinese Missile at the Houthis and it fell apart before it got to the target.This is why I believe they wont attack Taiwan because they know themselves their stuff is junk .
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Interesting analysis, Mike. It's well for us to keep these things in mind; not all technology is equal in quality. Thanks for pointing these things out!
Tim, I'm not so sure Trump is desperate about the midterms. There's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, and we shouldn't believe 80% of what we read from the MSM.
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Interesting analysis indeed Mike. Yeah; the Chicoms are full of beans, no doubt. And they don't make good stuff. But if their economy gets bad enough I think they will not have a lot of choice about Taiwan. They will reach the point of needing a win too badly.
BTW there is a rumor floating around that Xi is room temperature.
Dana, I don't know if Trump is desperate or not but he probably should be if he isn't. This situation isn't looking good. We've got to get oil prices down this upcoming week.
I don't believe the polls but what do the GOP have to run on other than their not being the Crazycrats? They haven't done anything. The public noticed.
And for the love of all things holy the GOP needs to quit being distracted by talk about AI and other red herrings. I was going to watch Fox News Sunday and they were planning the whole show to be about AI. Obama wants to talk about AI to distract voters fromm how crazy his Party's candidates are. And the GOP is falling right into that trap.
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Piker's Peak
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Hasan bin Sober is dragging the Democrats down, all the way.
When a guy is too crazy for this current Democratic Party you know he's got to be bad.
Hasan Bin Sober you aren't great
even the Democrats
will give you the gate!
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Illinois Lets Crime Go, Plots to Penalize Gunmakers
Timothy Birdnow
How very liberal of them! Fail to enforce the law then try to use the law to squeeze money out of gunmakers.
The major gun manufacturers should agree to stop all sales to Illinois, to law enforcement, to government security, everybody. They want to virtue signal their disdain for firearms so let them face the gangbangers with illicit firearms sans weapons. See how well their social workers do against thugs with high powered weaponry.
This is like making car manufacturers pay the costs for drunk drivers or making stove makers pay the cost for home fires.
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Cruz-in for a Bruisin; Ted Tosses Media a Lifeline
Timothy Birdnow
Having just wasted the Senate's time pushing a college sports bill (when he should have been pushing the SAVE America Act) Mr. Cruz now wants to make it the law of the land to protect hate speech by the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, and to make it possible for any broadcast journalist, even if just a comedian, to sue President Trump for tweeting about things they say.
If anyone should understand the importance of a fair media it should be Cruz, but apparently he's positioning himself for a Presidential run as the anti-Trump.
I've always loved Cruz but this is inexcusable. He has to know this is just a tool to cement eternal power for the media, which means the Democrats as the two are the same thing. The media is just the Joseph Goebbles of the Democratic Party.
This will also probably kill off a lot of independent conservative media in the process.
From the Breitbart article:
But if the bill were to become law, overzealous Democrat state attorneys general, or even private citizens, could bring suits against Trump for remarking or posting about content decisions of broadcasters — which he has done many times previously, including in response to heinous personal attacks made on government-owned airwaves.
For example, after Kimmel, host of ABC’s the Jimmy Kimmel Show, described Second Lady Melania Trump as an expecting widow and Trump posted on TRUTH, "Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.” Trump would have been in legal jeopardy if JAWBONE was law.
Additionally, Trump’s calls for broadcasters’ licenses to be revoked due to their refusal to air presidential addresses — newsworthy events in the public interest to broadcast — or show skewed or inaccurate news could have him in hot water.
Right now, Trump fighting back against hostile public figures is constitutionally protected speech. If JAWBONE passed, lawfare operatives like New York Attorney General Letitia James, or Jimmy Kimmel himself, could bring a civil suit and seek monetary penalties against the President for incentivizing the broadcaster to take a content action.
So what does that mean? The Aviary could well wind up being sued for comments I make about these people. And by The Aviary I mean me.
Ted Cruz just lost my vote. If he can't see this is a dreadful idea he has no business running the country.
The political class always disappoints, does it not?
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Rep. Salazar Thinks Hispanics are Stupid
Timothy Birdnow
Does Rep. Salazar really believe Hispanics are this stupid?
According to the article:
"Salazar released a campaign advertisement Thursday warning Trump that some of his immigration enforcement efforts ''have gone too far'' and arguing that Hispanic voters who helped him win the 2024 election ''feel betrayed.''
Now Mr. Trump promised to deport all the illegal aliens who invaded the country under Biden, and in fact the pace of repatriation has been entirely too slow for many Americans. These Hispanics knew full well what it means to deport somebody. It means, uh, arresting them and kicking them out of the country. What part of that was unclear?
And in fact there is an overwhelming consensus on this issue with eight percent of Americans wanting these lawbreakers kicked out.
What Salazar is doing is trying to triangulate. She doesn't want to be a yes-woman to Trump but she also doesn't want to lose the support of Trump, so she's trashing him by saying his policies are alienating Hispanics, not her. It's the mark of a true coward.
And if they are her constituents, maybe she doesn't belong in Congress? Sounds to me like a lot of them are illegal aliens themselves.
Oh, and in Texas support for mass deportation
has grown considerably. And in 2024 - during the election - 53% of Hispanics across America wanted mass deportations. So they knew exactly what they would be getting.
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Blaming the Victim
Timothy Birdnow
Agreed.
There is no limitation put forward in the language of the Second Amendment.
You know, given how many times these 18 to 20 year olds have used firearms against US the Democrats can hardly stand on principle here; we are the victims, not them. But this is about getting guns away from US and not their own private Brownshirts.
I rather doubt they are concerned about Trump almost getting his head blown off by a young leftist, nor much about Charlie Kirk GETTING his head blown off by a young leftist. That was for the great good in their minds. What they don't want is for Joe Sixpack to have a firearm when they come for him.
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Ingraham Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Timothy Birdnow
You listen to the little lady!
They do. They care less about immediate power but rather about their long-term power in the GOP and will gladly surrender power now if it means getting rid of the MAGA wing of the party. If we lose the midterms they will say "SEE!" and tell us we lost because we ran to the right and should shut up and listen to our betters.
The inside-the-beltway crowd does not see a crisis in America, but rather sees a crisis in Trump and in those in Middle America holding power. WE are the existential threat, not the ever-leftward drift of this country. They built an empire for themselves and do not intend to be stripped of it.
Trump's re-election was like a horrible nightmare returning for a second night and they just want to ride it out. Make Trump impotent and then return to business as usual once the American "temper tantrum" is over.
They don't understand that the American People are seeing the Republic slip away and we aren't going back. They may act as spoilers but the public will only grow angrier. The djihn is out of the bottle.
I loathe every filthy one of the RINO Republicans; they are traitors to kin and country. They know better too but they like their power and money and privilege and will fight to keep it at the expense of America. Democrats I get; they are scumbags from the get go. But the RINO wing is beyond a disgrace.
Laura is right in that the GOP still thinks like the minority party and has since the time of FDR. But I don't think it is just fear of having to make hard choices and do real work; it's ideological and personal. They went to Washington to be lauded and feted and wined and dined, and to make money for themselves. They sold out to the internationalists a long time ago. It's not just fear of doing what America wants, it's a disagreement with what America wants and a desire to circumvent the will of the People.
As Alfredo Arias-King, former aid to former Mexican President Vicente' Fox explained, the GOP wants open borders and lots of illegal aliens because they don't want to be answerable to the American People - they want instead to replace the American People with a more compliant people who will let them run things as long as they hand over the social welfare money. Arias-King had no reason one way or another to point this out. It was just what he was seeing when meeting with RINO Republicans.
Pretty much everything else they want is equally evil and self-serving. They want socialism as much as the Democrats, just want it to come more slowly. But their ships are sailing leftward on the map as surely as the Democrats, only they are sailing ships rather than nuclear vessels.
The sad thing about this is that this election was entirely winnable had the GOP just tried to enact the MAGA agenda, which polls extremely high. But they don't want to give Trump the win and so have foot dragged, especially where conservative candidates beat out the old carpetbaggers and shysters (like John Cornyn - the GOP has given Ken Paxton nothing).
There is only one reason to not pursue the MAGA vote, to get the base to turn out; it's that you don't WANT them to do so.
Quislings. The GOP deserves to die as much as does the Democratic Party. In some ways maybe more. The Democrats are just scorpions, the Republicans are hypocritical vipers.
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Trump Puts Warning Label on Woke Government Institutes
Timothy Birdnow
That's the way you do it!
He's also going to slap a warning sticker on the History Museum.
Considering how the Biden Administration made social media slap warnings on posts they didn't like, or just had them banned in the first place, I don't think these taxpayer-funded institutions have any grounds for complaint. It was THEIR woke abuses that caused the problem in the first place. If they got back to just teaching and not preaching then maybe this wouldn't happen.
From Just the News:
In a letter dated Sept. 3, to U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Merkley — who are top members of the Senate Appropriations Committee — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote that the administration is requiring a "commitment to transparency" and "academic honesty."
In line with that requirement, the administration will advise visitors that "the leadership of the Smithsonian and NMAH have altered the museum's role from accurately and coherently telling America's story to using the museum as a tool to advance personal, radical ideologies," NPR reported.
Burgum said the signs are temporary and will be placed on National Park Service land. The requirements were laid out in President Donald Trump's July executive order "Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution."
As the saying goes, don't start nothin' and there won't be nothin'. These institutions (mental institutions, it seems) are the ones picked the fight.
The public should be made aware of the dangers. We require warning labels on cigarettes or alcohol after all. This is worse - pure mindrot.
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Dem's Drink to Their Health!
Timothy Birdnow
Don't tell me the Democrats don't own Washington and the bureaucracy!
Fauci was a big wheel at NIH. Coincidence?
This is how the Democrats legally launder taxpayer money to fund their criminal enterprise.
I favor a law banning any Federal employee from making a political donation. Judges aren't allowed to do that - why should the bureaucracy be exempt?
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Good idea -- no, make that GREAT idea, except that as soon as you do it, some bozo(berg) judge will strike it down. I think we need another law that severely curtails the power of the judiciary and that the judiciary can't protect themselves from. How you're gonna do that, I have no idea, of course.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 19, 2026 10:28 PM (HWHp2)
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Yeah; SOMETHING needs to be done about this out-of-control judiciary. SCOTUS can't even enforce it's own rulings on lower courts. Congress could dissolve the lower courts and start new ones if they chose but the Democrats won't do it. So we have an imperial judiciary who twist and distort America because they can. Just what the Anti-Federalists warned about.
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