OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.
May 1, 2025
THE TIPPING POINT: Democrat’s ‘grotesque’ blanket statement about Latinos sends internet ablaze.
A Democratic congressman from the South is in hot water after claiming he did not defend migrants getting deported, ‘because I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot.’
‘First, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depots trying to get work so that they could feed their families,’ Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
‘I didn’t say anything about it, because I’m not a Latino at the Home Depot,’ the Democrat continued.
The lawmaker appears to have been making his own version of a poem by a Martin Niemöller.
The work, titled ‘First They Came,’ talks about how officials in Nazi Germany began persecuting communists, socialists and Jews, before the eventually ending with chilling phrase ‘Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.’
Johnson clearly sought to connect President Donald Trump‘s approach to deportation to being akin to Nazi atrocities.
‘Then they came for the Hispanic looking folks wearing hats backwards with tattoos, and they deported them to El Salvador,’ Johnson recited.
‘I didn’t say anything about that because I don’t wear my hair backward, and I don’t have any tattoos, and I don’t look like a Latino,’ he added.
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‘Man…..that’s hard to watch,’ another X user, Brian Hastings, commented.
‘I’m sure he thought it would be dramatic and cool. But he seemed to realize, about halfway through, that he looked like a complete idiot, taking eloquent, historically meaningful words, and making them meaningless.’
Another wrote: ‘They are trying to draw a parallel with the Holocaust. Despicable.’
Flashback: Hank Johnson Worries Guam Could “Capsize” After Marine Buildup.
UPDATE: Tennessee bodycam of ‘Maryland man’ traffic stop shows troopers’ hands tied despite smuggling clues. “The Tennessee Highway Patrol released body camera footage of its 2022 encounter with Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, where state troopers suspected he was involved in human trafficking.”
RADICAL CHIC: THE BOY BAND ERA: Luigi Mangione: The Musical. Seriously. How Far Can the Left in This Country Descend?
LEE SMITH: David Horowitz, 1939-2025.
I asked him about the upcoming election, Trump, and the global paranoia his campaign had given rise to. He asked of his fellow Republicans, “Don’t they understand the seriousness of this election?” He saw the left primarily as a secularized religious movement rather than a political one. “It’s a faith that seeks redemption in this life with itself as the savior,” he said. “It’s such a beautiful dream, what lie would you not tell and what crime would you not commit to realize it?”
Radical Son is a narrative driven by crimes and lies. He’d helped his friend Betty Van Patter get an accounting job with the Panthers, and Newton had her murdered. That kept Horowitz out of politics for a while, as he wondered if the left could “take a really hard look at itself—the consequences of its failures, the credibility of its critiques, the viability of its goals.” He wrote, “I already knew the answers, although I wasn’t ready yet to draw the appropriate conclusions.”
His parents had not wanted to ask those questions, so when it became impossible to ignore or excuse Stalin’s crimes, they were crushed—they’d nurtured lies great and small for decades. In the Tablet article recounting my afternoon with David, I wrote that, with his parents’ failed political commitment in mind, he’d “resolved not to be played for a sucker.” Now I see that was a coarse formulation, and false. There was nothing calculated about his reevaluation of his place in the political realm. He lived by his sense of what was true and what was good, as he records in Radical Son. It’s a work of profound psychological acuity, whether he’s describing Newton, his parents, the character of an ex-wife, or his failure to see his own faults as clearly as he sees others’.
The fact is that throughout his career, first on the left and then on the right, Horowitz’s main theme wasn’t really politics; rather, it was family. Along with fellow former leftist turned conservative Peter Collier, he wrote several histories of great American families, including the Rockefellers and the Kennedys. Many consider A Cracking of the Heart, his memoir of his late daughter Sarah, to be his best book. Conservatives generally argue, with good reason, that leftist policies are designed to break the traditional family structure. But David believed that failures at home generate the psychological chaos at the heart of the leftist project to undo civilization and remake it in the image of barbarism.
“The perennial challenge,” he wrote in Radical Son, is “to teach our young the conditions of being human, of managing life’s tasks in a world that is (and must remain) forever imperfect. The refusal to come to come to terms with this reality is the heart of the radical impulse and accounts for its destructiveness, and thus for much of the bloody history of our age. My own life, which has often been painful and many times off course, is ultimately not discrete—a story to itself—but part of the narrative we all share.”
Read the whole thing.
WE SHOULD GO THERE AND EXPLORE. Dawn’s Second Look Reveals Vesta Could Be Part of a Lost World. “While smaller asteroids in the belt are considered fragments of collisions, scientists think Vesta and the other three large objects in the belt are likely primordial and have survived for billions of years. They believe that Vesta was on its way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System’s rocky planets likely began as protoplanets just like it. But new research is casting doubt on that conclusion.”
One hypothesis: “Vesta is a broken-off chunk of a growing planet in the Solar System. Jacobson suggested this idea at a conference in the past because he wanted other researchers to consider the idea that some meteorites are pieces of debris from collisions during the era of planet formation in the Solar System.”
TRUTH:
There is not. There has, in fact, never, ever been less of a clamoring for anything that is on offer. In the history of clamoring, no people has ever clamored less than the American people are clamoring for Kamala Harris’s voice. She is clamorless. She is a hollow clamoree. pic.twitter.com/dStanHYBm8
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 30, 2025
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
🚨 LMAO! A reporter just EMBARRASSED Chuck Schumer after Chuck claimed Trump’s poll numbers were bad
REPORTER: “There's a poll out today that has your approval rating lower than any other Congressional leader at 17%…”
SCHUMER: “POLLS COME AND GO!”
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 1, 2025
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
QUESTION ASKED: Has Keir Starmer watched Groomed: A National Scandal yet?
I look forward to Keir Starmer hosting a special summit on the Channel 4 documentary, Groomed. And to hearing him gush about it every time a reporter puts a mic anywhere near his mouth. And to seeing his proposals for showing it to teens in schools across the land in order that we might prise open their innocent eyes to the dangers of so-called grooming gangs.
After all, he did all that for Adolescence, a Netflix drama about a made-up crime against a fictional working-class girl. So surely he’ll do it for a documentary that lays out in grim, eye-watering detail the industrial-scale horrors that were inflicted on real working-class girls by gangs of mostly Muslim men in towns across England.
Groomed: A National Scandal aired on Channel 4 last night. It is a searing piece of journalism, a fearless document of the barbarism of the rape gangs and the unforgivable nonchalance of officials who looked the other way. Director Anna Hall deserves every accolade for getting this film out there, in the face of a cultural elite that would rather talk about anything else on earth than the brutalisation of white working-class girls by Muslim men.
Watching Groomed is an enraging experience. I think Hall intends it to be. It focuses on five young women who survived the gangs. We learn they were passed around like pieces of meat. Chantelle, 32, recounts being groomed from the age of 11, when she was in a children’s home. Sometimes she was kept in a hotel room for days on end and ‘passed about’ between Pakistani men in their 20s and 30s. This went on for years.
Another girl, Erin, was groomed from the age of 12. The police were utterly uninterested in her suffering. One time, Erin was covered in signs of extreme abuse — she had ‘bite marks [from] head to toe’. Her underpants were full of semen. Her mother, desperate, took her to the police. They didn’t act. Later, a social services report called Erin a girl ‘who frequently puts herself at risk’. It was victim-making of the most sick-making variety.
Horrendously, many of the girls were essentially blamed for their own abuse, for their own violent debasement. Social services called them ‘promiscuous girls’. They were referred to as ‘child prostitutes’. The moral pygmies and shameless cowards of officialdom were so determined to keep a lid on this scandal that they came to see the girls, rather than the men, as the villains, as the authors of their own terrible fates.
And then there was the racism card, the chief means by which discussion of these horrors was suppressed for so long. Local protest groups said the rape-gang members were victims of racism and were only being investigated because they were Muslims. In much of the liberal media and across the left, the cry went up: it’s ‘Islamophobic’ to say there is a specific problem of Muslim grooming gangs.
Flashback: BBC Breakfast hosts’ brains explode when Kemi Badenoch told them that she hasn’t watched Adolescence.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION:
● Shot: “Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday afternoon called Donald Trump to concede the 2024 presidential race, according to a senior Harris aide. During the call, the Democratic presidential nominee ‘discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans,’ the senior aide said.”
—”VP Harris concedes presidential race in phone call to Donald Trump,” the Missouri Independent, November 6th, 2024.
● Chaser: Tim Walz says Harris picked him for VP to ‘code talk to white guys.’
—The New York Post, yesterday.
Why would a presidential candidate who stressed the importance of “being a president for all Americans” need someone to “could code talk to white guys” and give them a “permission structure” to vote for a Democratic candidate?
Perhaps Walz’s raging Charles Bronson-esque machismo was simply too much for most men to accept:
“It was, frankly, just too much testosterone in one man for many of us to handle,” joked John Ekdahl.
“This was a bit of a category error by Harris. Tim Walz did speak to white guys, but only flamboyant heterosexuals such as myself,” joked anonymous online personality Jarvis Best. “On the one hand, I was flattered — you don’t see too many of us flamboheteros on the national stage. But I understand why he didn’t move the needle.”
—”Tim Walz nailed with brutal mockery after saying he was chosen for VP to ‘code talk’ to white guys,” the Blaze, yesterday.
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BRING A GUN TO A KNIFE FIGHT? In the battle between a firearm and a knife, the gun always wins, right? Right? “The one and only time a gun is superior to a knife is when there is sufficient time and distance between combatants.”
I was always told you can rush a gun, but never rush a knife.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Amber Ruffin’s Trump Derangement Spikes in ‘View’ Tirade.
It must be comforting to get an invitation to “The View.”
The far-Left showcase spews nonsense on a daily basis. Facts are few and far between. Conspiracy theories run wild. And no one in the Legacy Media will hold you accountable.
It’s the fuel that keeps the long-running show afloat in 2025.
From that perspective, comic Amber Ruffin is a perfect “View” guest.
The former late-night host was slated to anchor last Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association gala, but the WHCA pulled her invitation at the last minute.
The official excuse? The evening was meant to be a healing, inclusive affair.
The real answer? The assembled reporters wanted to pretend that missing the story of the decade – President Joe Biden’s dementia-like condition – wasn’t their fault.
It was. Of course.
Having Ruffin torch President Donald Trump while ignoring Democrats would have made the event look even more partisan than it was.
Ruffin complained about the cancellation to “The View’s” hosts, but she placed the blame in the wrong spot. President Trump didn’t cancel her appearance. The WHCA did.
That’s not all she got wrong.
What’s most wrong is that there are enough viewers to justify the impressive salaries of angry, mal-informed “View” hosts and their guests.
THIS IS WHY WASHINGTON KEEPS TRYING TO FORCE HIM OUT: Hegseth Orders ‘Comprehensive Transformation’ of U.S. Army.
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