Forbes cleans up on aisle Soros

Democrats' defense of Nazi tattoo-bearer/U.S. senatorial candidate Graham Platner is reprehensible. That scandal, though, has ugly company.

For the purpose of 10/20/2025 George Soros PR puffery, Forbes writer Ty Roush hefted the Fake News banner. He branded as a "baseless conspiracy theory" the assertion that, when 14 years-old, Soros bore witness (without protest) to Third Reich-era Nazis seizing Jewish property.

Before I tear down Roush's fabulism, consider these verbatim quotes from Soros himself, made during a 1998 interview with CBS 60 Minutes host Steve Kroft:

KROFT: "You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian."

SOROS: "Right."

KROFT: "And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps."

SOROS: "Right. I was 14 years-old. And I would say that's when my character was made."

KROFT: "In what way?"

SOROS: "That one should think ahead. That one should understand and anticipate events. And when one is threatened - it was a tremendous threat of evil, a very personal experience of evil."

KROFT: "My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted [Christian] godson. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews."

SOROS: "That's right."

KROFT: "I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?"

SOROS: "Not at all, not at all. Maybe as a child, you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no problem, at all."

KROFT: "No feeling of guilt?"

SOROS: "No."

KROFT: "For example: 'I'm Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?"

SOROS: "Well, of course I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets. That if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away, anyhow."

In a 2023 Jerusalem Post essay, Larry Pfeffer observed "By his insensitive logic, German, Japanese, and Russian soldiers could also have exclaimed that they don't need to regret raping women, since if they didn't, then someone else would have."

Forbes' Roush noted the Soros 60 Minutes interview. But he did not nmention that the subject had, in that same interview, conceded the allegation's soundness.

In his article, "Trump targets George Soros: Billionaire accused of funding 'No Kings' protests," Roush denied the fact of Soros' complicity.

One passage in Roush's Forbes article was titled "Soros strangely accused of collaborating with Nazis." 

It read: "Another baseless conspiracy theory circulated on social media in 2018 claiming Soros, whose family survived the Nazis' occupation of Hungary and the Holocaust, collaborated with the Nazis. The movement gained steam after actress Roseanne Barr, who spread several conspiracies in a social media frenzy, wrote, 'George Soros is a Nazi who turned in his fellow Jews [to] be murdered in German concentration camps and stole their wealth.' Barr’s message was shared by Donald Trump Jr., who later denied having shared 'anything that was antisemitic.' Alex Jones supported Barr’s claims and alleged Soros admitted to collaborating with Nazis in a 1998 interview—though Soros told 60 Minutes he experienced a 'tremendous evil, a very personal experience of evil.'"

(Interesting is that Roush savaged Roseanne Barr, though the Forbes functionary omitted that Barr, herself, is Jewish. Acknowledging the comedienne's own Jewishness would have rendered Roush's flackery awkward, if not impossible.)

14 year-old Soros settled upon his choice for self-preservation's sake, in a doubtlessly terrifying moment. But he was quite old when 60 Minutes profiled him, and could no longer find refuge behind the excuse of immaturity. He rationalized it.

So, recall Soros's 1998 public admission, and his contemporary lack of moral qualms about his involvement, when next you hear Democrats he supports falsely smear Trump as Hitler, and compare MAGA patriots to Nazis.

Reflect, too, on the verity of President Trump's frequent admonition that the mainstream press is an enemy of the American people. 

Roush's choreographed deceits may keep Forbes wage envelopes streaming his way, but they do dirt to legitimate interests of journalistic accuracy and public knowledge.

(The intended nature of this piece was specified in a 10/24 request for comment that was emailed to Roush. He did not respond.)

Iowa's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

MAGA must assert our noble values                     by DC Larson

Members of the Young Republicans organization posted odious messages they (wrongly) considered funny on that group's internet chat. Contained in posts were racist and antisemitic slurs, as well as - flabbergastingly - praise for megalomaniacal evildoer Adolf Hitler.

Some included in the despicable number, per the New York Post, are Kansas Young Republicans' Chair William Hendrix; Bobby Walker, erstwhile chair of the New York state Young Republicans; former New York Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta; and Joe Maligno, New York Young Republicans' one-time general counsel. 

"Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and Kool-Aid with that?”  asked Hendrix, in a July post. 

Politico cited other comments, allegedly also from the same chat line. These included "I love Hitler," "I'm ready to watch people burn now," "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to see monkeys play ball," more than one positively referencing "gas chambers," another deriding black American citizens as "watermelon people," and insistence that all Jews are dishonest.

Several repugnant perpetrators have already been booted curbward  by employers. Hopefully, more will follow. I love it when justice lands hard on bad people.

Social media platforms teem with righteous castigations. Mine, sent directly to the vermin at issue via Elon Musk's X, declared simply: "Get the hell out of MAGA! We're better than you, and you're not us!" 

Unfortunately, since persons in consequential stations are asked to pose for photos with thousands, annually, shots exist of Trump partisans together with some of these dirt-charactered reprobates. These must not be assumed as establishing philosophical oneness.

The filth spewed by guilty parties is falsely cast by woke Democrat subversives as representative of the MAGA movement as a whole. That is a lie, of course, levelled by scummy contrivers who surely are themselves cognizant of their rhetoric's perfidiousness.

As contemptible as this matter is, it's a minor one. Trump opponents may exploit it, in attempts to smear him and his backers, but it hardly overshadows successes the president has achieved in economic, trade, and national security. 

Trump has slammed tight the border door. And his crackdown on crime has produced a 250% increase in arrests.

(His firm backing of Israel, and his historic bringing peace to the Mideast, probably brought angry tears to the eyes of scattered venomous weasels who'd infiltrated the Republican Party.)

In a recent, disappointing video message, Tucker Carlson (of whom I've long been an admirer) effectively championed amorality, misrepresented the 20-and-30-something offenders as "boys," and ridiculed those who believe goodness merits standing up.

Of course, Carlson did not quote any of the noxious posts. Doing so would render defenses impossible. Instead, he pooh-poohed them in absentia as "naughty" ones, sent by wayward "boys." 

Vice President Vance (for whom I proudly cast a ballot and still vigorously support) also downplayed the messages.

Politico quoted Vance as saying "The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives.”

Again, grown men are not children. If they were, prison yards would have swing sets.

I understand the thinking that giving attention to isolated internet ravings, rancid though they indisputably are, risks supplying ammunition to foes. And there is merit to that position.

But some things are so egregious, they howl for thunderous excoriation. And giving outrageous moral wrongs kid-glove care comes close to making MAGA critics appear to be onto something - when of course, they are not.

Better to bolster MAGA's hygiene by excommunicating scum. You know what they say about cleanliness.

Carlson and Vance's minimization attempts - that a larger cause not suffer - reminds exactly of monomaniacal no-borders zealots who pretend illegals' rapes and murders are not worth consideration, lest their (foolish) crusade be imperiled.

Wrong is wrong, and saying so is a mark of good character. Calling hate by its rightful name, and publicly distancing oneself from it, is legitimate and laudable.

Not to virtue signal for the benefit of onlookers, but to assert our own values.

Waterloo's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers.. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

Democrats offer darkness, but new light shines

Democrats today seem to reason: "If we win the White House, we'll do whatever we please. And if we don't win, we'll still do whatever we please."

Gone is the fair-play custom of accepting loss and working with the winner to advance American interests, while safeguarding basic ideals and pondering future electoral strategies. Sabotage, non-cooperation, and constant disruption are now Democrats' favored methods. 

They are the worst of bad losers. They perpetrate wrongdoings, comforted by the knowledge that a conga line of black-robed quislings will condone any malfeasance, no matter how flagrant.

The public's preferences, shown by Trump's November trouncing of his Democrat opponent, matter not to gilded zealots.

Witness the Schumer Shutdown, in which venomous progressives demand their curious fancies (like taxpayer-funding of health care for illegals and sex-surgeries in Uganda) all be granted - or no American gets anything. 

Lawlessness is rampant in U.S. cities, many of which have traditionally been Democrat run. Rabble surge through streets, chanting imbecilities in disorganization, hurling bricks and explosives at law enforcement officers, setting cars and buildings ablaze, and assaulting innocent passersby. 

Mob criminality is smiled upon by many elected Democrats. They enthusiastically pump oxygen into upheavals, doubtlessly grasping for electoral gain from rabid bombthrowers.

Some Democrat cities' officials declare them "sanctuary" ones, in which duly-enacted immigration laws are ignored. ICE agents who risk great danger by seeking to enforce American laws are villified in Democrat rhetoric, while city-burning thugs' praises are bellowed by unpatriotic schemers.

Small-pond poohbahs bar police from aiding federal law enforcement brothers and sisters. They charge ICE presence causes agitators' violence. That's akin to blaming Officer O'Shaghnessy, whistling "Oh, My Papa" and whirling his billyclub on the corner, for pickpocketing.

"Riot Inc." is the name given to extreme-left bankrollers of violent subversion. It bears remark that mentally-disheveled agitators, who typically rail against billionaires, never complain about their own moneyed patrons. 

Left-wing fat cats include not only Reid Hoffman and George Soros, but also Marc Cuban, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Steyer, and Neville Roy Singham.

During a recent White House roundtable, Seamus Bruner noted "It’s not just Antifa, but there is a whole ecosystem of radical, professional protesting organizations." Seamus, the research director at Government Accountability Institute, described Riot Inc. as a corporate-style operation whose divisions include ones for street agitation and violence, marketing, public relations, and legal guidance.

(As President Trump has observed, the admixture of Osteoarthritic Wavy Gravies and wet-eared, campus-crawling lackwits enamored of Marxist garbage-heartedness typically heft professionally manufactured signage; hardly indicative of grassroots origination.)

Americans saw Democrat skullduggery before these malicious sideshows. Remember choreographed nationwide lawfare? Remember plotted artifices to deprive voters of the Trump option by tearing him from states' ballots?

When those grimy trickeries rightly went down to ignominious defeat, and average citizens' constitutional rights to cast votes for the candidate of their choice was victorious, Democrats turned to knee-jerk contrarianism and uncivilized mayhem. 

But an optimistic light does shine.

An October seven Newsmax poll (in which this writer participated) found 66% of respondents approve of President Trump's performance, and believe Trump will restore America's economy to greatness. 66% also favored Trump over predeccessor Joe Biden, who received a scant 33% support.

A CNN poll, also dated October seven, recorded a 52% majority affirming that President Trump is doing what we elected him for.

The previous day, CNBC's Joe Kemen put Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in his place, citing facts inconvenient to America-haters. Kemen said, "All I can tell you is that the inflation rate itself was 2.7% in the most recent read, year over year, versus, it got to a high of 9% under Biden."

The CNBC host continued. "Stocks are at record highs. Unemployment is 4.2% That's full employment. The GDP was 3%. The border is actually secure. We've got trade deals with EU, Japan, many more in the works, and trillions of dollars of foreign investment coming here."

'Dollar Store Obama' could only regurgitate focus-group tested, bumper-sticker slogans.

All Democrats offer is despair. With Trump, brightness shines.

Waterloo, Iowa's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers.. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

The sacking of Blackface Kimmel           

ABC's firing of slime-hearted personality Jimmy Kimmel, following Charlie Kirk's deplorable murder, was entirely appropriate. Woke sorts heatedly allege free-speech violation, but they couldn't be more wrong. (And at least some probably know it.)

Kimmel worked for ABC. Workers accept some company discretion over their comportment as conditions of employment. For example, certain jobs require uniforms be worn. Employers can tell workers when to show up, and when they can go home. Haircuts and hygiene fall into the same category. 

No employee enjoys legal safeguard to invade their manager's office, storm around the desk, and bellow profanities in the boss's startled face. Repeatedly. Those doing so should expect termination. The wonderful free-speech clause does not lend cover.

Nor is a supermarket clerk at liberty to holler Gilbert and Sullivan operas while a half-dozen shoppers wait, their carts filled nearly to overflow.

Kimmel has as much right as any of us to speak openly on matters that impact him - in private capacity, and at his own expense. But he enjoys no right to employment at this or that company. 

Airwaves are publicly owned. To stream programming on them, broadcasters must agree to serve the public interest. Kimmel forfeited his platform by not only knowingly spewing ugly, objective untruths, but doing so as a calculated partisan political tactic.

That disserves the public. We shouldn't be expected to provide comfort for devious agents of our devastation.

Some Kimmel adherants maintain that FCC Chair Brendan Carr 'pressured' ABC to take action. They decry supposed government censorship.

But considering the network's contractual assent to observe public interests, the FCC advising ABC to properly adhere to accepted responsibilities amounted to enforcing law. 

(Doing so was once uncontroversial. But championing criminality and belching contempt for law officers are now standard for progressives. Witness sanctuary cities, elected Democrats' hailing of the massively destructive, 2020 BLM/Antifa nationwide riots, the deification of Luigi Mangioni, and woke bacchanalia surrounding the brutal assassination of Christian conservative Charlie.)

Not irrelevant were Kimmel's consistently dwindling ratings. Sweating network executives surely factored that dismal truth into considerations. (Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert also recently evidenced anti-Americanism's thankful unprofitability.) 

So, the culmination may have been a dollar-and-cents one, not the 'fascist oppression' of subversives' hyperventilations.

Astoundingly, rumblings now speculate ABC may be reconsidering Kimmel's sacking. Somebody's fucking somebody.

Today, this essay ran in the Marshalltown, Iowa Times-Republican newspaper:

The Woke weep only for the Wicked                                                 

Charlotte, North Carolina Democrat Mayor Vi Lyles' first public comment following the savage murder of Ukraine-born Iryana Zaruta was a call for greater "compassion" for the barbaric nutcase who had repeatedly plunged a razory blade into the 23 year-old innocent's throat.

I'm not making that up.

Lyle's despicableness was reflective of present-day woke Democrats. (They are to be distinguished from old-school liberals, from whom that party wants only ballot endorsements, never ideals: 'Shut up and pull the Democrat lever.')

Scant evenings ago, White House Deputy of Staff and Policy Advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Hannity. Ever the common-sensical straight-talker, he passionately excoriated guileful progressives who cultivate unchecked bloodthirst in American neighborhoods.

The Democrat Party is "terrorizing the American people," Miller declared. "Just think about what is happening in our major cities: The bloodbaths, every single weekend. One victim after another. One shooting after another. One murder after another."

He decried Democrats' philosophical refusal to punish lawbreakers (and Fake News mongers' purposeful covering-up of the widespread brutishness laying waste to American society). The deputy of staff and policy advisor then turned attention to Iryana's murderer, vicious maniac Decarlos Brown, Jr. 

"And then you look at that video that chills our very souls, out of Charlotte. That beautiful young woman stabbed to death. Murdered, savagely, on a subway. Just trying to get home from work. Fleeing war, only to run into a Democrat war zone here in our country. 

"That monster!14 prior arrests! In and out, in and out! The Democrat policy of catch-and-release for barbarians, for savages, is truly an act of terror, Sean, against the American people. It cannot be explained, unless you deeply, fundamentally hate America."

During a September nine press conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt voiced appropriate media criticism: "Perhaps most shamefully of all, the majority of the media, many outlets in this room, decided that her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a preferred narrative...Many of the journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink, trying to smear [Marine veteran] Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a deranged lunatic in New York City, but none of those same reporters lift a finger to write stories about an actual murderer."

If the increasingly communistic party of the antisemitic Squad and New York City subversive Zohran Mamdani didn't relish rampant rapes, murders, child exploitation, and illegal immigration, they'd give the single-digit salute to pro-crime prejudices and instead champion the law-abiding public. 

But Marxists cheer societal collapse. It is easier to promote revolution when order has crumbled.

"Look, this has become their religion," White House patriot Miller spat derisively. "Celebrating criminals. Celebrating predators. Celebrating illegal aliens who prey on our citizens. It is evil. It is deliberate. It is malign. It is malicious."

What happened to poor Iryana is outrageous. And hellish are the politicians and mentally disheveled rabble in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Portland and elsewhere, who urge lawful order be ravaged and who attack law enforcement personnel, including ICE.

"President Trump has said the Republican Party will fight like hell to keep your kids safe," Miller asserted.

But the Woke weep only for the Wicked.

Waterloo's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, and American Thinker. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

Sad jester denies Rock'n'Roll's blended bloods

MSNBC race-hate monger Joy Reid was recently booted from that drain-circling, wacky left outlet.

But even as she writhes hilariously in professional demise, Reid continues to gasp out her wickedness.

"We black folk gave y’all Country music, Hip-Hop, R&B, Jazz, Rock'n'Roll. They couldn’t even invent that, but they have to call a white man ‘The King.’ Because they couldn’t make Rock'n'Roll, so they have to stamp ‘The King’ on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman," Reid recently told podcaster Wajahat Ali, himself a progressive shoveler of race hate.

"Hound Dog," the song to which the rejected black-supremacist blowhard referred, and which the dominative Big Mama Thornton first sang, was written by Mike Lieber and Jerry Stoller, a white, Jewish songwriting team responsible for hits by Elvis, the Coasters, Wilbert Harrison, Ben E. King, and numerous other marquee names.

Of course, select Rock'n'Roll ingredients existed prior to Presley's 1954 recording debut at Sun Records in Memphis. Works embodying them were electrifying and wondrous.

But the national stage appearance of Crown Electric Co. truck driver Elvis marked -- not an example of white culture appropriating something blacks had already developed, but for which they were denied credit -- but the emergence of the hitherto-unrepresented country, white working class into popular culture visibility. And that idiosyncratic influence is essential to the genre. 

The composite creature was unlike any predecessor. Tennessee Rockabilly guitar man Carl Perkins did not sound like venerated shouter Big Joe Turner, nor did the frantic storms of Jerry Lee Lewis recall the risible and urbane stylings of Fats Waller -- though all men helped develop the new music.

In his invaluable volume, "Unsung Heroes of Rock'n'Roll," veteran music writer Nick Tosches noted that the burgeoning sound, which spread across 1950s America and ultimately the entire globe, began in regional pockets and was of mixed parentage.

"Rock'n'Roll was not created solely by blacks or whites," wrote Tosches. Earlier, after dispatching mono-racial Rock'n'Roll creation fancies, the author observed, "One could make just as strong a case for Jews being the central ethnic group in Rock'n'Roll's early history; for it was they who produced many of the best songs, cultivated much of the greatest talent, and operated the majority of the pioneering record companies."

It would be impossible to construct an exhaustive review of early Rock'n'Roll without citing Doc Pomus, Mort Schuman, Les Bihari, or Sid Nathan. It is telling that many of today's race-as-creative-qualification theorists might not even be able to identify those men, significant to the style's germination though they were.

It is flatly anti-creative to argue that an individual or community can "steal" art from another. Universal influencing is not only legitimate,  but how works are birthed. One artist inspires another, an idea is raised up, turned around, and new art is born.

Concepts like ownership, territoriality and separatism are wholly foreign to the phenomenon.

Critics are correct to point out that elements of white-dominated mass popular culture have at times assumed and domesticated black-impacted idioms (think Pat Boone), while paying neither due acknowledgment nor recompense. Deserving artists went unnoticed - and that was criminal.

But Elvis was one of many talented men and women whose music helped American popular culture become representative of all America's people. To ignore that today and instead proffer slanderous myths is an affront not only to their contributions and the prize of racial unity, but to the ideals of honesty and reason.

White House spokesman Harrison Fields was caustic:

"Joyless Reid is an ungrateful hack who fails to acknowledge her privilege. Whatever remains of her success would only be possible in the United States of America, the same country she degrades for sport. She was too unhinged for MSNBC, and was fired. Instead of changing her act, she’s doubled down on stupid."  

Democrats cheer evil                         

The hush that followed President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder was a matter of universally shared basic decency. 

But that was then. Today, if a conservative president fell to a lunatic's bullets, leftists would freestyle on the coffin-lid. Remember, hordes of elected Democrats, liberal activists, and Hollywood leftists sped to microphones to trumpet glee, when President Trump was nearly assassinated.

Obama-appointed Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, James Boasberg, is infamous for repeatedly striving to cripple Trump. He seems to feel doing so is his calling. The judge recently released Nathalie Rose Jones from pre-trial custody. He merely specified she wear an ankle monitor.

Jones had posted death threats against the president online. Here's one:

"I literally told FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this POTUS by disemboweling him and cutting out his trachea with Liz Cheney and all The Affirmation present. Let’s deal with this and restore domestic tranquility.”

The New York Post reported that days prior to Boasberg's outrageous, unjust decision, a U.S. magistrate judge had denied Jones' bond application.

Also now reported are ghoulish remarks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made during a Labor Day weekend celebration. 

Playing off baseless media initimations that Trump may be suffering health problems, Walz giggled: "You get up in the morning and doom scroll through things and — although I will say this — the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying. Just saying. There will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news."

(One social-media commenter was acidic: "Biden got diagnosed with cancer, and I don't remember conservatives wishing him dead...")

Democrats today cheer assassins, corrupt judges, and terminal maladies, exhibiting essential depravity. Clear-visioned critics term the Democrat Party "the party of death." Given their happy jigs at the prospect of partisan opponents' violent deaths, Democrats cannot protest that the sobriquet is inaccurate.

(For further insight into Tampon Tim's ugly conception of morality, type "Tim Walz" and "Jenna Wang" into the nearest search engine.)

Blue saboteurs                          

During Barak Hussein Obama's first term, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell infamously remarked that GOP office-holders should endeavor to ensure Obama would not win a second time.

McConnell was wrong to encourage partisan non-cooperation. Politicians of all descriptions should work together, whenever possible, to advance public interests. (Though maintaining bedrock positions necessarily precludes consistent harmony.)

Since President Trump was first buoyed to the Resolute Desk by tens of millions of average American patriots, Democrat bureaucrats great and small have conspired to foil his every ambition. Nevermind that citizens selected Trump and his policy directions by overwhelming margins, by both popular and electoral measures.

Plainly put: Most people didn't (and don't) want the wares Democrats hawk. Rather than examining their values for appropriate overhaul, Democrats seek to foment chaos. ('If we can't rule, nobody can!')

Democrats' attitude is basically the Marxist one, that revolutionary triumph depends on popular despair and the collapse of existing social, political, and economic constructs. 

One example of purposeful interference in American order: unelected members of the judicial bench striving mightily to block Trump's every effort. Jurists at federal and state levels robotically rule against our president. Their determined malfeasance waves from areas including immigration law, executive branch authority, criminal justice policies, finance, and even national sovereignty enforcement.

Black-robed malefactors likely know their skullduggery may not survive higher courts' review. But even should their gumming-up of Trump's common-sense animations prove fleeting, they'll have done what they could for the larger scheme.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sometimes admonishes President Trump for his reasonable criticisms of small-pond gavel-graspers. Perhaps Roberts reasons that presidential scolding will somehow weaken public regard for the judicial system, and could encourage Democrat efforts to pack the high court, itself. 

But courts' reputations already flail in filth. When minor judges hasten to impair popularly endorsed executive performance, and to defy Constitutional principles, Supreme Court precedents, and just-plain common sense, severe damage has already been wrought.

None of which concerns those whose mission is disruption. Then, power.

Google AI defames Soros critic                                                        

In August, I noticed that Google AI had defamed me in an online note. 

A search of "DC Larson" "George Soros" turned up a Google AI advisory which said, in part: "Soros has been the target of many political attacks and conspiracy theories from the far right for years, often accompanied by antisemitic undertones. These accusations often claim he is secretly funding liberal and anti-police agendas to disrupt American society. Larson's commentary is part of this larger movement of criticism."

Upon noticing the false smear, I responded to Google: "It is both inaccurate and morally despicable to charge that I am part of an 'antisemitic' body of George Soros critics. The one Soros-related writing of mine cited here is a [Marshalltown, Iowa, Times-Republican] newspaper essay that quotes the man verbatim. His comments were made during a 1998 60 Minutes interview, available on Youtube. I ask that the defamatory allegation be removed."

Below is an excerpt from the essay Google AI mischaracterized.

"The amoral left-wing billionaire detailed his abhorrent collaboration during a 1998 interview with CBS reporter Steve Kroft, in a broadcast of that network's 60 Minutes," I wrote.

KROFT: 'You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian.'

SOROS: 'Right.'

KROFT: 'And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.'

SOROS: 'Right. I was 14 years-old. And I would say that's when my character was made.'

KROFT: 'In what way?'

SOROS: 'That one should think ahead. That one should understand and anticipate events. And when one is threatened - it was a tremendous threat of evil, a very personal experience of evil.'

KROFT: 'My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted [Christian] godson. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.'

SOROS: 'That's right.'

KROFT: 'I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?'

SOROS: 'Not at all, not at all. Maybe as a child, you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no problem, at all.'

KROFT: 'No feeling of guilt?'

SOROS: 'No.'

KROFT: 'For example: "I'm Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there." None of that?'

SOROS: 'Well, of course I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets. That if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away, anyhow.'

In a 2023 Jerusalem Post essay, Larry Pfeffer observed "By his insensitive logic, German, Japanese, and Russian soldiers could also have exclaimed that they don't need to regret raping women, since if they didn't, then someone else would have."

(In the piece, I noted that while no one should condemn a teenager for a decision made for self-preservation in terrible circumstances, Soros was elderly at the time of his 60 Minutes interview, yet still felt zero moral compunction. His adherents later insisted business-magnate Soros is typically indifferent to adverse effects his machinations might engender; I believe mental-health professionals have a name for that attitude.)

I've since found Google AI offers varying advisories about me and my Soros criticism. Many imply a connection between myself and despicable antisemites that flatly does not exist, nor ever has.

My deserved criticism of the Democrats' bankroller was of him as an individual. But Google AI, as is common in left precincts, regards him, not properly as an individual, but instead only as a group representative.

Therefore, goes the thinking, all condemnations of a single person's behavior necessarily constitute attack on any larger community of which the subject is a constituent.

Of course, that is a deceitful tactic; its leveragers surely hope it will intimidate objective voices.

I'm certainly no widely regarded commentator, and few might ever read Google AI's vile falsehood about me. But potential dangers that flawed advisories pose to influential figures and events, greatly exceed any harms my own limited personal reputation and professional fortunes might suffer. 

Should Google AI notes not be impeccable, future researchers could be misled, their output misrepresentative, and resultant historical records distorted. Fractured portrayals serve no legitimate interest.

Trump indifference to Epstein possibly tactical

A lifelong Iowan, I've been hardcore MAGA for some 10 years. And I was ecstatic when Trump carried my state in 2024 and returned to the Oval Office. But his apparent indifference to the case of jet-setting child-molester Jeffrey Epstein disappointed many endorsers, myself included.

It was hardly a flattering look. The president appeared weak, as if he were following orders handed down to him by some mystery overlord.

During a recent press conference, President Trump argued other matters should instead be given consideration. "Are people still talking about this creep?," he asked. He garnished his seeming unconcern with mockery of those who demand the lid be ripped off and all those culpable exposed and punished.

His evasiveness recalled Biden's salaried-dissembler Katrina Jean-Pierre. Regularly, binder at hand, she endeavored to deflect critical queries. Such calculated weaselry is one reason citizens hate government.

High-profile Trump supporters, including MAGA champion Tucker Carlson, blasted Trump's demeanor as indicative of a cover-up. During a Newsmax interview, Trump friend Charlie Kirk noted it brought to mind the deep-state's sleazy machinations and frigid nonconcern with the public interest.

But, as our president has to his credit so many significant accomplishments that have bettered citizens' fortunes, for him to do ill would be wholly out of character.

A more positive explanation holds that macro matters may be involved. And perhaps their appropriate dispositions would be jeopardized by spotlighting any Epstein-related actions that may now be underway. Justice must sometimes be pursued covertly - at least, initially.

It's possible that similar organized horrors are ongoing, and that bringing them to deserved ends, rescuing victims, and punishing related maldoers take precedent over open attention to Epstein's foulness.

At least, in the present moment.

This matter, then, might not be a reminder that heroes can falter, but rather that appearances can mislead. Doing the right thing may originate in shadows, its ultimate realization becoming general knowledge only once made material.

The Chief Executive's posturing may actually be contrived to lull excrement-charactered offenders into relaxing their guards, and to enable noble behind-curtain activities. If so, that would be pretty damn smart of President Trump. One hopes it's true.

I don't know the above speculation to be fact. I do not assert that it is. Perhaps I'm being unduly charitable.

But then, the man on the street may one day be happily surprised.

Quisling with a borrowed workshirt

Unlike citizens of foreign lands, Americans enjoy the liberty to criticize government figures without fear of punishment. That's as it should be - on our own soil. 

There was a time when blasting America and its president while on foreign soil simply wasn't done. The Dixie Chicks never recovered, professionally, after their 2003 London scandal. 

But judging by the uncritical (sometimes fawning) reportage of Bruce Springsteen's recent overseas spewing of disloyalty, the seditious trio may simply have been ahead of its time.

Springsteen ranted to a Manchester, England audience that President Trump and his administration were "corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous." And the faded star charged Trump is an "unfit president" and that ours is a "rogue government."

He wasn't hindered by the reality that Trump and his common-sense inclinations were overwhelmingly chosen by American voters. That's called "Democracy."

Springsteen attained major prominence in the 1970s with "Born In the USA." But to whatever extent his blue-collar posture might once have been authentic, it is today as counterfeit as the "Scranton Joe" character Biden once pretended at.

(Remember, the 2024 Trump candidacy attracted a dramatic upswell of working people's ballots. And the UAW has praised Trump's tariffs tactic to bring manufacturing jobs back to America.)

The Gateway Pundit nailed it: "Springsteen had a tantrum overseas because the American people overwhelmingly rejected his politics of open borders, social tyranny, high (ticket) prices and economic stagnation, transgenderism, racially divisive DEI policies, climate cultism, and weak foreign policy that put the globe on the edge of World War III."

His is a repugnant attitude often flaunted by Democrats. Whether lying to the American people about Biden's mental acuity, firebombing Tesla dealerships, numerous vain machinations to impeach President Trump during his first term, or later attempting to have reelection candidate Trump removed from state ballots, Democrats' unambiguous ambition is to sabotage any political effort not their own. 

By any means necessary. That's called "Undemocratic."

Do not be surprised if Springsteen next pens a reverential anthem to Thomas Crooks or Luigi Mangioni.

Now, let's turn our thoughts from Springsteen and others of his unpatriotic ilk. Better to recall instead a time when healthy nationalism was a sturdy bridge that united even Americans of divergent pursuits.

In 1941 film Roar of the Press, reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) and numbers racket boss Sparrow McGraun (Paul Fix) discuss an anti-American network active in their hometown of New York:

Sparrow: "Me, I'm mixed up in a good, clean racket. But there's some people runnin' around loose who ain't. They're out to get this country into trouble. And that's the mob you're runnin' up against. They're tough. Plenty tough. Foreigners, mostly. And they won't stop at nothin'!"

Wally: "How do you know about this?"

Sparrow: "They propositioned me. Wanted to know how much you know about their set-up. They figure you're gettin' too nosy."

Wally: "Wait a minute. Did they send you to scare me off?"

Sparrow: "Certainly not! I don't want any part a them. They're un-American. They're against this country, and they oughtta be exposed. Me, I got me a racket, sure. And the cops don't like it. But that ain't nothin' against this country."

Wally: "Thanks, pal!"

Sparrow: "Ah, it's nothin'. Us Americans gotta stick together."