We are not a nation of laws, and we never have been. We are a nation of political will, and we always will be. Take Florida for example.
What is happening in the Sunshine State is a reminder that the Bible is always correct. The dog returns to its own vomit. Which is another way of saying no one rises above his own worldview. No one. If you’re a junkie, you’ll continue to be one until your worldview has changed. If you’re an abuser, you’ll continue to be one until your worldview has changed. If you’re a simp, you’ll continue to be one until your worldview has changed. If you’re a resident of Covidstan, you will continue to hate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. until your worldview has changed.
The opposition to RFK Jr., Trump, or DeSantis isn’t really about principles — it’s about the fragile male egos of the 'nicer than God' Christian-GOP establishment.
If there were ever a place where people instinctively did the right thing because it benefited them — without necessarily believing in the underlying principles — it would be Ron DeSantis’ Florida.
He rejected every GOP consultant’s playbook to transform Florida from a place that narrowly gave him a victory over a guy who once snorted cocaine off a gay hooker’s behind to a place that awarded him a decisive 20-point landslide four years later. And incidentally, his victory contributed to the near-total collapse of the Florida Democratic Party. So obviously, a lot of GOP consultants should never work again, right?
Nope! Oh, look! Vomit!
The Florida Republican legislature is eating it up in the name of protecting illegal immigration in Florida by trying to give the state agriculture commissioner more power to police the matter than the governor possesses, thus trying to turn DeSantis into a lame duck as we speak.
Take notes, my friends, because I promise you this: If the GOP loses the 2026 midterms by pulling its punches and channeling the spirit of Mitt Romney, the same type of Republicans in Washington will try to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency. They resent that both Trump and DeSantis forced them to take actions they had long avoided.
If they can’t accept victory in Florida, seize the momentum, and ride the wave to success elsewhere, they won’t do it anywhere. There is no real conservative movement — only men wielding power.
Which brings us back to RFK Jr. and the opposition to his nomination as secretary of health and human services, led by evangelical figures like Mike Pence.
The GOP’s problems stem largely from the same issues that plague the church. In this case, Republicans with weak pro-life records use RFK Jr.’s stance on baby-killing as a smokescreen to excuse their broader failures. Take Francis Collins, for example — a so-called pious Christian who rubber-stamped Anthony Fauci’s disastrous policies that upended American life and pushed the poisonous jab. Collins has never expressed a shred of remorse.
Meanwhile, within two weeks of retaking office, Trump reinstated 8,000 service members to full rank and back pay after they were purged from the military, cracked down on transgender ideology in hospitals and women’s sports, and ramped up deportations of rapists and drug traffickers who prey on children.
That looks pretty pro-life to me, far more pro-life than anything Mike Pence has done. The opposition to RFK Jr., Trump, or DeSantis isn’t really about principles — it’s about the fragile male egos of the “nicer than God” Christian-GOP establishment, whose only true conviction is maintaining a grifty hold on power.
I’m absolutely done with that vomit. And you should be, too. Be honest with yourself and realize that there is more pro-life action being taken by the Trump administration than in all other GOP administrations combined. Take “yes” for an answer and let RFK Jr. go to work in the battle of wills before us.
It gives me zero pleasure to call out professing Christians, but prominent figures who use the name of Christ to advance morally dubious political agendas should be held accountable.
This week it's former Vice President Mike Pence.
So let's do the math here. Pence takes money from Big Pharma and formulates a nonsensical argument that pro-lifers need to fight RFK's nomination.
Pence appears to have joined the club of those who consort with Big Pharma to the detriment of all the rest of us. Dr. Francis Collins was a charter member of that club, as I detailed in "A Sunday kind of faith," but now Pence appears to be following suit.
As Rav Arora reports in detail here, a Pence-founded advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom, announced this past week a six-figure ad campaign to fight RFK's confirmation as secretary of health and human services.
First, let's talk about those six figures. Who, exactly, is donating to keep RFK out of Trump's Cabinet?
Well, at least $100K came from G.D. Searle, now affiliated with ... any guesses? If you guessed Pfizer, ding ding ding! You're a winner!
But as Arora further reports, it gets muckier. Pence's former chief of staff, one Marc Short, has been linked to ethical questions due to his ownership of Big Pharma stock while he was in a position, during COVID, to influence federal response.
And now, as chairman of the board of Pence's advocacy group, Short is raising "ethical" questions about RFK, as well as repeating easily rebutted lies about RFK's involvement in certain vaccine controversies — again as Arora details.
Speaking of easily rebutted lies about RFK, another story the mainstream media is pushing hard right now is that 17,000 doctors have signed a letter demanding that RFK not be confirmed. But the media hasn’t reported the fact that anyone could — and did — sign that letter, as Jenna McCarthy hilariously reports here. Spoiler: It appears Bill Gates is behind the doctor letter effort. Color us all shocked.
But I digress.
What is most bothersome to me in all this is the approach Pence is taking to this effort, as he seeks to influence Christian conservatives in regard to this nomination.
Last week he published an op-ed in the Washington Times entitled, "There's work left to do in the pro-life movement" — and yes, there probably is. But what was the action step he wants us to take, exactly? What was the punch line of his article?
"We urge others in the pro-life community to join us in calling on members of the Senate to reject RFK Jr. and give President Trump a second chance to appoint a pro-life secretary who will defend the cause of life and ensure that HHS continually makes choices that guide our country towards life."
Wait — what?
How exactly would a pro-life HHS secretary help the pro-life movement? Since the abortion issue is currently being worked out primarily at the state level, HHS doesn't have too much to do with it.
But you know what the HHS secretary can address? What he can actually help make right? You know the answer already.
We need an HHS secretary who is pro-all-of-our-lives. Pro-health-for-everyone. Someone who will stand against the death merchants of Big Pharma.
We all need to work together to undo the medical malpractice pushed on all of us — malpractice that has been especially damaging to the young people who took the vax, like the countless young men now suffering heart problems. Or consider the huge upsurge in young people diagnosed with turbo cancers. How many of us know a younger person who's been struck by something like this? Are any of these victims not vaccinated? Well, none that I've encountered.
And just this month, a researcher found evidence of the vaccine in cancer tumors, which is ominous news indeed. Big Pharma rushed to cash in on COVID, and the companies don't want anyone stopping them from future profits. RFK is potentially in their way.
So let's do the math here. Pence takes money from Big Pharma and formulates a nonsensical argument that pro-lifers need to fight RFK's nomination. That sleight of hand is not a good look for a professing believer.
Because stopping RFK has nothing to do with stopping abortion. It won't save one unborn baby. But his confirmation could well save many born babies — from vaccines that will kill them. Because make no mistake, even as you read this, there are parents in this country mourning the loss of a young child to the COVID (or other) vaccines.
Side note: I challenge you to read this and not come away supportive of RFK's stated desire to clean up the vaccine mess, requiring proper safety evaluations before they are used on our children.
So. Pretending that pro-lifers have a duty to work against RFK on this is misleading at best. I call it willfully uninformed, for someone of Pence's stature, as well as unethical and unbecoming of a Christian. His disingenuous attempt to co-opt pro-lifers to fight for something that is anti-life can certainly be considered a black eye to the cause of Christ.
Interestingly, his op-ed ends with this: Mike Pence is a husband, father, grandfather, Christian, conservative and Republican — in that order.
You should rethink that order, Mr. Pence, as you should rethink your partnership with a corrupt industry responsible for much human suffering.
And if you agree, please take a few moments to let your senators know that we voted for Trump and RFK as a package deal and we expect him to be confirmed, or they can expect to be primaried. This is especially important for all Republican senators, many of whom have taken far too much money from Pharma.
We must stop this now. And here’s an easy way to do it that will take less than a minute. Click here and help end this madness.
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as health and human services secretary and tasked him with making America healthy again.
"For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health," Trump wrote in his November announcement, adding that under Kennedy, HHS "will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country."
Former Vice President Mike Pence, whose failed 2024 presidential campaign drew plenty of sizeable donations from industries potentially affected by such a health campaign, highlighted on Wednesday that his organization, Advancing American Freedom, is still leaning on U.S. senators to undermine Kennedy's confirmation.
Advancing American Freedom, which seeks in part to roll back corporate regulations, suggested in a Jan. 14 letter to Republican senators that its opposition was informed by Kennedy's past support for abortion, which has fluctuated over the years.
The New York Times noted that Kennedy initially endorsed federal restrictions on abortion last year but then said elsewhere that women should be able to have their unborn children killed without any government-imposed limits.
'He told me he believes there are far too many abortions in the US.'
Following significant backlash, Kennedy stated, "Abortion should be legal up until a certain number of weeks, and restricted thereafter," adding that a child's viability outside the womb was the point at which abortion should be illegal.
While Kennedy's position on abortion is likely unsettling for many pro-lifers, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R) revealed last month that Kennedy has "committed to me to reinstate President Trump's prolife policies at HHS. That includes reinstating the Mexico City policy & ending taxpayer funding for abortions domestically."
"He supports reinstating the bar on Title X funds going to organizations that promote abortion," continued Hawley. "He pledged to reverse the Biden Admin's Section 1557 rule and also said all of his deputies at HHS would be prolife. He told me he believes there are far too many abortions in the US and that we cannot be the moral leader of the free world with abortion rates so high."
Nevertheless, Pence's group said in a letter this week, "While RFK Jr. has made certain overtures to pro-life leaders that he would be mindful of their concerns at HHS, there is little reason for confidence at this time."
"Whatever the merits of RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again initiative — indeed, whatever other qualities a nominee might possess — an HHS Secretary must have a firm commitment to protect unborn children, or else bend under the pressure and pushback surrounding these daily, critical decisions," added AAF.
Like his group, Pence has similarly attacked Kennedy's candidacy, urging Senate Republicans to "reject this nomination and give the American people a leader who will respect the sanctity of life as secretary of Health and Human Services."
In addition to vowing to protect American youth from the sex-change regime, Kennedy indicated that as HHS secretary, he would work to eliminate retarding levels of fluoride from drinking water; clean house at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; ban widely used chemicals in order to "stop the mass poisoning of American children"; and ensure that Americans have "good information" about vaccines.
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Former President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100, shortly after his family claimed that “he stayed with us at the ripe old age of 100 so he could make sure to vote for Kamala Harris.”
While Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” finds his family’s commentary that politicized his death amusing, what she found interesting was what happened at his funeral service.
“It was actually really fascinating to watch, because you had Donald Trump, you had Obama,” Gonzales begins, “you had Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, you had George W. Bush, you had Mike Pence, you had all of these different people.”
When Trump walked into the funeral service, Al Gore and Mike Pence immediately stood up to shake the president-elect’s hand. When Obama then walked in, he shook hands with Pence and Gore as well and seemed to be ignoring Trump.
“I would speculate that they were already, like, back somewhere in the same room, so probably already greeted each other, but they know this is a moment of formality right? So he goes and sits next to Donald Trump without shaking his hand, Donald Trump goes and talks to him, and so they kind of have this moment. Looks friendly to me,” Gonazles explains.
George W. Bush then walked in with his wife and passed Trump and Melania without acknowledging them, before playfully smacking Obama in the stomach.
“It’s so crazy to me to watch the dynamic between all of these people,” Gonzales says.
A forensic lip-reader then claimed in a Daily Mail report that he believes when Trump leaned in toward Obama, he said, “I can’t talk; we have to find a quiet place. This is a matter of importance, and we need to do this outside so that we can deal with it, certainly today.”
Obama then nodded, and according to the lip-reader, both men said “right” and “okay.”
“Clearly, Trump was trying to engage in a friendly-type relationship or at least conversation with this guy, which says a lot, because remember, Obama spied on Donald Trump’s campaign illegally,” Gonzales says, adding, “Like, you have every reason to hate this guy, and instead he’s leaning over and trying to talk to him.”
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Establishmentarians struggling with the likelihood of having little to no representation in the incoming administration have spent weeks attacking several of President-elect Donald Trump's picks to helm federal agencies of consequence.
Although Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, has taken an inordinate amount of abuse, former National Security Council official Kash Patel has similarly become a top target for champions of the status quo, including Olivia Troye, a middling intelligence official in the George W. Bush administration who later served as an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.
In conversation with identitarian MSNBC host Joy Reid this week, Troye viciously attacked Patel. Although accustomed — like most in the liberal media — to hurling verbal bombs without fear of personal consequence, the former Pence adviser was promptly met with a legal notice. Troye responded by playing the victim and bemoaning a potential state of things where talking heads might be answerable for their accusations.
Troye, an ardent critic of Trump who defended censorship before Congress and endorsed Kamala Harris, told Reid Monday that nameless unelected officials in Washington, D.C., believe Patel is dangerous.
"I worked with Kash Patel in the White House. I was Vice President Mike Pence's counterterrorism adviser so I had to coordinate with Kash a lot. Kash Patel is a delusional liar. Let me just be very clear about that," said Troye. "And he would lie about intelligence. He would lie about making things up on operations. I think Mark Esper has talked about that as well, where he put the lives of Navy Seals at risk in an operation when it came to Nigeria."
'This is a complete fabrication.'
"At some point, I realized I need to check Kash's work to make sure that I wasn't misinforming Mike Pence by relying on his word. So I had to go around him. And this is a guy who openly has contempt for people in national security, for people especially at DOJ and the FBI."
Troye noted further that "there is a little bit of fear here from people where they know that someone like Kash Patel is fully capable of just doing partisan investigations, whatever it takes. It will be insane if he becomes the director of the FBI."
Jesse Binnall of the Binnall Law Group, which represents Patel, sent a letter to Troye's counsel Wednesday threatening to take legal action against the MSNBC guest unless she publicly retracts her "defamatory statements."
The legal notice further advised Troye to "identify and preserve all hard copy and electronically stored documents, information, and data that relate, in any way, to Mr. Patel and to [her] statements about him on MSNBC."
Binnall focused on Troye's allegations that Patel would "lie about intelligence"; that he would "lie about making things up on operations"; that he was misinforming Pence; and that he "put the lives of Navy Seals at risk."
"This is a complete fabrication," wrote Binnall. "And you know it is false by virtue of your former position in the White House. At no point did Mr. Patel ever lie about national intelligence, place Navy Seals at risk, or misinform the Vice President. Not only did you have actual knowledge of the falsity of this smear, but you also did so with the malicious intent of degrading his character and of cynical self-promotion."
'You're insufferable and so is your lawyer.'
"This is, of course, not the first time you have milked your former title as a means of spreading lies about associates of President Donald J. Trump," added Binnall, referencing Troye's 2022 smear of former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, which resulted in a defamation lawsuit.
Grenell's complaint indicated that Troye, who alleged Grenell tried to get Pence to attend a white supremacist event while overseas, "is a disgruntled former government employee who is on a malicious smear campaign against her political rivals."
Unless Troye retracts her comments in a public statement on X by next week, Patel will apparently take legal action.
Troye cried foul upon receipt of the legal notice, stating on X, "This aligns with [Patel's] threats against the media & political opponents, revealing how he might conduct himself if confirmed in the role."
"I stand by my statements — my priority remains the safety & security of the American people," continued Troye. "I am not the only one who has expressed concerns about him. So why me? And so it begins."
The account for the Georgia GOP offered a possible answer to Troye's "Why me?": "Because you defamed him on national television, perhaps."
Jeff Clark, a former assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice's environment and natural resources division, responded to Troye, "You're insufferable and so is your lawyer. The good news is that your MSNBC platform is an oasis pod that is rapidly dehydrating before our eyes. Ratings circling the drain. We won't miss you when channel surfing and over time seeing you less and less."
Troye is not the only former federal operative concern-mongering about Patel at MSNBC and at similar liberal media outfits.
Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who now writes for MSNBC, noted Tuesday that Patel sounds like a "wannabe cop planning on false arrests and fabricated evidence" and insinuated that the FBI might resume its practice of illegal wiretaps, blackmail, and suggesting civil rights leaders kill themselves were Patel to take over.
Former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner told CNN last month that "putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous."
Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director who undermined the Trump presidency with Crossfire Hurricane, told CNN on Sunday, "The installation or the nomination, I guess we should say at this point, of Kash Patel's FBI director can only possibly be a plan to disrupt, to dismantle, to distract the FBI, and to possibly use it as a tool for the president's political agenda."
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