What profit from poisonous punchlines?

Never having been a celebrity, I'm speculating from a remote location: A major factor in becoming famous -- and remaining in that beribboned bracket -- is probably saying and/or doing outrageous things. 

That'll get you into headlines, which means residence in the Great Conversation. Selling tickets, or recordings, or whatever, then follows.

"Why do you think Frank Sinatra punches some driver in the mouth?," Alice Cooper manager Shep Gordon asked writer Bob Greene, in the seventies. "To get into the straight press - which is hell of a lot harder than getting into the entertainment press."

Despite the objective sorrowfulness of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk's assassination, no small number of Tinselburg fops donned party hats at the direful news. 

Nor has that ugliness subsided. One recent instance is that of comedian Dave Chappelle.

Reports that saw ink after his sold-out Madison Square Garden show recounted these lines: "I feel fucked up saying this. It’s scary being a public speaker. And I mean look, ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered…and I shouldn’t say this publicly but, I feel better."

Righteous ire was widespread, and expressed in aptly acidic terms. Charlie's widow, Erica, said “To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting.

"My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives,” she continued.

"A culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. It threatens the very foundation of our country and the principles that holds our democracy together."

At this writing, no apologies or regrets have been uttered by Chappelle, or event hosts Live Nation and the New York Comedy Festival.

For decades, I've admired controversial comic and social satirist Lenny Bruce. And, in matters of stand-up comics' free speech, I've regarded him as a crucible.

Whatever the remark, and no matter its critics, I ask myself: Would Lenny have said that? Admittedly, I no longer appreciate his every pronouncement as much as I once did.

The late Bruce might have made light of a public figure's assassination -- but he also would have articulated why he's done so. A larger point would have been broached.

Lenny was a thinker. Chappelle came off as a look-at-me clod.

Some of his critics endorse professional penalties, like canceling performances. Doing so would be wrong, regardless of his speech's noxious content. His freedom to court cretins is constitutionally safeguarded -- just as potential purchasers are at liberty to turn away his product.

A dated video now returned to circulation finds a nearly sobbing Chappelle once lamenting the death of George Floyd. Chappelle's grief was not at all detered by Floyd's having been convicted of past crimes nine times, nor by Floyd's having levelled a shotgun at a pregnant woman's swollen belly.

But murder a Christian speaker, and Chappelle contrives a punchline.

Whether he waxed wickedly with the ambition to "get into the straight press" is not known by this writer.

But, to turn a phrase: What does it profit a man to sell tickets if he loses his own soul?

Blame divided by three

In this writer's estimation, three main blocs are responsible for Democrats' midterm blitz:                                

1) Voters who snapped at the affordability lure, a matter of which little more was said following victory speeches. (Instead, talk of impeachments and reopened borders abounded.)

2) Sincere despisers of God and America. The slur "Christian Nationalism" had become ubiquitous in subversive precincts.

Those classes are variously gullible and wicked. The third is flatly pathetic.

3) Voters who for decades have pulled the D lever, and did so again. Today's Democrat Party shares only the name of those ballot-squaderers' gone-and-never returning love. It has transmogrified into a beast hellbent on destroying Christianity, capitalism, human normalcy, and everything sensible, strong, fair, and successful. 

Traditional liberals tend to support the Jewish state of Israel. The reality of current Democrat Party leaders' opinions of those loyal voters was exemplified by the ostracization of candidate Haley Stevens, who'd refused to endorse anti-Semite Abdul El-Sayed.

Oh, how Washington donkeys had unsheathed razory Khanjars.

Democrat Party figures' open cheering for lawbreaking -- including traffic-blocking, arson, property destruction, and physical assaults and assassinations -- does not deter rank-and-file backers' fervent endorsements. Nor do lawfare skullduggery, or boot-stomping of ideological adversaries' free speech. 

And, emboldened by recent years' amping-up of radical kookiness, Democrats care not that the phoniness of their claimed concerns for propriety are visible to every manjack with eyeballs.

MAGA media commenters speak of Trump-supporting voters who don't turn out unless he's on ballots. There may well be such souls, but they're operating illogically. For Trump to realize his America First agenda -- the same they assumedly endorsed -- he must have congressional acquiescence. He cannot succeed alone.

There are two silver linings in the grim, gray cloud: Establishment Democrats like Schumer, Jeffries, Raskin, and Pelosi may soon find the radical monster they helped into authority turn its foul attentions to them. 

Schadenfraude.

Also, two future years of Democrats' failure to address voter concerns about inflation -- and the cold miserableness Islamism and communism have invariably engendered -- may prompt snapback. A 2028 conservative presidential conquest could result. MAGA would again proceed. 

Even in this season of misery, then, hope's candle flickers.

Question for longtime Democrats poised to again pull D lever

What issues and positions did Democrat Party candidates emphasize when you first found that party attractive (in whatever past decade applies in your case)?

Do those conditions still exist?

If the conditions that initially prompted your loyalty no longer exist, why do you feel compelled to persist in support?

Democrats' 1972 New Directions platform, for instance, included among pillars full employment, tax policies, the Equal Rights Amendment, busing, and increased school funding.

Issues today's Democrat Party and its national figures push unlimited immigration; censorship of opposing voices; trans 'rights'; despisal of Israel -- the world's one and only Jewish state -- and of Jews in general;  the mutilation of toddlers' genitalia; racial bigotry against white men; Islamic subjugation of women and girls; particular and general violence as tools for advancement of interests; use of legal, commercial, and economic pressures to cripple political adversaries and force citizen compliance; repression of Christianity; the distorting of objective realities -- both historical and biological ones -- to tailor them to prevailing political and cultural orthodoxies; the destruction of American capitalism; and ensuant adoption of socialist and communist systems.

Again, were any of the above endorsed by the Democrat Party when you originally found it magnetic? If not...

The killing heart                      

The last decade or so has witnessed a heartwarming resurgence of American pride. Tens of millions of common men -- laborers, policemen, honest journalists, and regular Joes from numerous walks of life -- have hefted high the glorious stars and stripes to which generations pledged allegiance.

But recent years also brought into distinct aspect this horrible truth: Millions of our lesser national brethren hunger so mightily for governmental and cultural dominance, they've seized up ugliness with relish.

Their smiley-face, peace sign masks lie on the floor. Visible now are the grotesque visages of those who exalt lawbreaking, treasonous ambitions, and sundry immoralities.

Badness is the ideal. Consider foul phenomena presently poisoning our great nation, at the calculation of Democrat leaders and other sinsister actors:

Openly socialist and communistic notions and candidates populate national conversation. Illegal immigrant crimes -- including murders, rapes, and child predations -- occur alongside celebrations of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk's broad daylight murder, as well as that of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the attempts to assassinate President Trump. 

Furthermore, backroom-plotted, barely legal lawfare machinations to sabotage democracy and foil the people's will have seen animation. Cashless bail allows offenders with numerous criminal convictions to lurk anew in American neighborhoods and perpetrate additional offenses, while state and local officials ensure area police are barred from cooperating with federal law enforcement. 

City streets teem with (possibly bankrolled) protesters, assaulting law enforcement with concrete chunks, explosives, and bricks from pallet-stacks mysteriously situated for comfortable access.

Sadly, that list-- to which other vile efforts could easily be appended -- has been joined by a large-scale and despicable outpouring of sympathy for three-time toddler-strangler Lyndsay Clancy.

A sickening push to allow baby-murdering mothers to dance free -- citing mental dishevelment, resulting from the God-given wonder of childbirth -- has begun. Iowa retired columnist Rekha Basu, of the Gannett Corporation-owned, obdurately liberal Des Moines Register, penned an entire missive endorsing such wicked crackpottery.

New 'progressive' exhortations to grant mothers child-killing rights are a logical, albeit horrendous, extension of the dire philosophy undergirding the abortion of millions of babies each year. (Perhaps garroting disquieting husbands will soon also become a woke cause.)

Do not doubt that the same reprobates who promote the above will continue bannering themselves the 'good guys,' virtuous believers in love, peace, and tolerance. 

Of course, no intelligent observer will be fooled, and honest ones will raise the finger of contempt.

Immoral is not moral, nor wrong right, or unfair fair, any more than down is up. 

November's election results will show whether the America of noble tradition will endure as its founders intended, or if moral rot and ideological pestilence settle behind the wheel.

God help us all.

Americans' patriotic hearts allow hate no space

"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The bible tells us 'How good and pleasant it is, when God's people live together in unity.'" - President Donald Trump

It's impossible to imagine anything more conflictive with the noble American ideal of equality than judging a man by the color of his skin. Opportunities for mobility, entreprenurial activity, and political participation must be open to all.

President Trump, like Jefferson and Reagan before him, knows bigotry is antithetical to our exceptional nation's grand disposition.

"Racism is evil," Trump declared, following 2016's Charlottesville rally tragedy. ""And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups who are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans."

Speaking before the 1981 NAACP convention, then-President Ronald Reagan also stated the matter with bracing solidity: "A few isolated groups in the back order of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about. Recently, in some places in the nation, there's been a disturbing reoccurence of bigotry and violence. To those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior...You are the ones who are out of step with our society. You are the ones who willfully violate the meaning of the dream that is America. And this country, because it does what it stands for, will not stand for your conduct."

Jefferson's immortal words also bear recollection: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

(Jefferson's is a complicated case. Possessed of an intellect of superior quality, he also was a slaveholder. We celebrate him for his immense philosophical contributions, involvement in the authorship of our country's founding documents, and service as vice-president and third president. Honest men acknowledge Jefferson's egregious wrong. But we pay due respect to his far greater salutary attributes and accomplishments. The awful was impermanent, whereas the wonderful has endured.)

By standing in foursquare opposition to hate, and defending America's rightful sovereignty against enemies foreign and domestic, we can make Jefferson's grand values as meaningful as when he took up quill and inscribed them on parchment.

"It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag,"  President Trump once said.

Longtime Democrat voters deserve no pity  

                                          

Among wackdoodlisms promoted by pompous and avowedly socialistic nimrods are Islamic supremacy, government ownership of industries, 'sex-change' mutilizations for toddlers, destruction of the nuclear family unit, contempt for Christianity, and automatic American citizenship for all the world's peoples.

Those howlingly horrible notions are not endorsed by MAGA patriots, it goes without saying. But they are also not personally supported by many aging Democrat voters, who wistfully recall "Together with McGovern" and believe their contemporary partisan resoluteness amounts to carrying forward the torch they took up so very long ago.

Still, veterans of donkey persuasion might as well believe woke imbecilities; by uncritically grasping the D lever, they aid deviants in odious offensives.

For that reason, I feel no sympathy for lifelong Democrat Party supporters. The party to which they pledged allegiance in past decades is gone. And it will never return.

On another hand, career politicians who obediantly cut jigs to whatever tune is played the loudest are whores, and no one respects whores.

Satire turns serious

In a recent public event, 65 year-old Barack Obama stated "80 percent of the world's problems involve [congressional] old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go." 

66 year-old Former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel endorses mandatory retirement age at 75 for members of Congress, presidents, cabinet officials, and federal judges. 

The bigotry articulated by those influential Democrats is harbored by a mestastisizing woke bloc. But it falls to pieces when subjected to evaluation.

Contentions advanced from that quarter are that 'old' men necessarily hold passe ideas, and their intellectual capacities to comprehend, reason, and exercise sound judgement are uniformly of dubious status.

That's obviously a generalization. Elon Musk hardly deserves the same negative ranking with Joe Biden in the smarts department.

Individuals should be graded on their own merits - not uncritically dismissed wholesale as guilty, based on immutable-characteristic group membership. That's a standard no more applicable to age than to sex, skin color, nationality, or (to point up the foolishness of the proposition) height or hair color.

The next logical step would be banning 'old' men from voting - participating in decisions as to who is elected to office. If the aged are ruled universally inadequate to devise laws, it would follow that they are identically unfit to choose lawmakers.

The 1968 satiric movie Wild in the Streets depicted song "Fourteen or Fight" and the callow, revolutionary crusade it inspired. Voters above 30 were derided as "stiffs" ("stiff with age").

Later, the singer whose song had rallied subversive youth campaigned for president. He cited the group most dangerous to America's national interest.

"Who, after all then, has caused all our troubles? Those who are stiff, baby! Not with love, but with age!"

Decades later, the satire has become serious.

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

Rally aboard America's Trump Express - or be ground beneath greatness wheels

President Trump told attendees of August's Garden City, New York police rally: " "The golden age of America is now on us!"

And how.

“Together we’re showing what is possible when you finally have a president in the White House who supports our police, who lets you do your jobs, and who always backs the blue!,” he thundered.

Nationwide, the MAGA upswell has engendered renewed support for law and order. That, as well as popular backing of courageous men and women who uphold laws and mete out deserved punishment to grubby caitiffs, signals a much-needed advancement beyond Biden's one term and Democrats' still-harbored ugly faiths.

A related Catholic Vote article listed specifics: "According to a fact sheet posted by the White House’s Rapid Response X account, violent crime fell 9.3% from 2024, including an 18.1% decline in murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, a 7.6% decline in rape, an 18.5% decline in robbery, and a 7.2% decline in aggravated assault."

That's encouraging news for all good people. But hardly for those who wish America ill.

Catholic Vote continued: "Property crime fell 12.4%, with burglary down 15.8%, larceny-theft down 9.8%, and motor vehicle theft down 22.7%, according to the figures."

Those are heartening statistics. And future days do look bright.

“We will never abolish the police,” Trump pledged to rally-goers. “Instead, we will abolish the sanctuary cities. We will abolish them. We will destroy them. We will take them out.”

He then leveled richly merited criticisms at Democrat "Sanctuary" office-occupants, who allow illegal immigrants' rapes, murders, and other brutal crimes to befoul American neighborhoods.

"We will make America powerful again," the president vowed. "We've already done that! We will make America wealthy again. We've already done that!"

He was on a roll. "We will make America strong again. We've done that! We will make America proud again. We've done that! We will make America safe again -- we've largely done that!

"And above all, we will make America great again!"

"There was happiness. There was love."    

               

Persons seeking wisdom often turn to historical sources like Holy Scripture, Socrates, Plato, and Confucious. American examples include Jefferson and Paine. 

For contemporary ones, many look to Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, and late Christian conservative Charlie Kirk.

An unorthodox source, though, is 1959 drive-in sci-fi attraction Teenagers From Outer Space.

Having landed their silver saucer on Earth's terra firma, youthful explorers from an unnamed planet quickly fall into argument. When the cruel-hearted leader barks concern for "Our people," a compassionate shipmate becomes defiant. 

"'Our people?,' he thunders. "We live as parts of a machine! We don't know our fathers and mothers. We're raised in cubicles. The sick and the old are put to death!"

The stone-visaged commander grimaces. "It is the one and only way to maintain the supreme race! Have you forgotten?"

"Our people have forgotten!," comes the rejoinder. "They have been made to forget for centuries. But I have learned how it once was: Families. Brothers and sisters. There was happiness. There was love."

Later, having fled his cold-blooded fellows, the rebellious junior alien who longed for 'the way things once were' finds refuge with an Earth father and daughter. "You knew your brother?" he asks her, incredulous at the concept of familial familiarity.

Consider current 'woke' speakers' contemptuous dismissal of parental rights, hostility toward the nuclear family, and abortion and euthanasia fervor. Notions touted in left precincts, they are in keeping with Teenagers B-movie depiction of a coldly sterile culture. One in which human emotional bonds are rejected, and where insensate mechanical efficiency is hailed as superior.

Too, the flinty astral leader's reference to "supreme race" was of a piece with the monstrous eugenics theories embraced by Third Reich-era nazis, as well as Planned Parenthood founder (and Democrat Party hero) Margaret Sanger.

Despite its bargain-basement production effects and cardboard cut-out character types, Teenagers from Outer Space underscored human warmth and the importance of prioritizing sensitivities over cold calculations.

Win or lose, Democrats will keep going hard left  

One version of a quote the left loves (and that is frequently misattributed to Ghandi) reads: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

That assurance of ultimate victory explains why, whether November election tallies prompt woke tears or communist handstands, Democrats will forge onward in terrible crusade.

Among issues liberals trumpeted in 2020, and that were later understood to have contributed to Democrats' ruination, were open borders; granting citizenship to millions of foreign invaders already here; transgenderism - even for toddlers; and abundant American tax-money largesse to dubious international interests.

Democrats today continue to champion those. Defeat does nothing to dissuade revolutionaries, whose eyes remain fixed on long-game strategy.

Chinese communists call theirs a "Hundred-Year Plan." Democrats may have their own 'hundred-year' scheme. One already sees rampant subversive infiltration of domestic spheres like the educational, legal, and entertainment ones. Those corruptions are already somewhat aged.

Across America, numerous electoral enemies of all that is moral and common-sensical are buoyed atop Democrat bigwigs' shoulders. They euphemize their ill-natures, values, and intents with fuzzy con-phrase "Democratic Socialist."

Do not misapprehend. They represent the same pernicious, America-hating mindset that brave countrymen have battled abroad. American soldiers who fought -- many making the supreme sacrifice -- to crush megalomaniacal foes surely did not envision future generations at home ceding national power to fresh iterations of that same evilness.

New York City voters installed Zohran Mamdani in Gracie Mansion. Giddy at that awful spectacle, Democrats now push other, equally distasteful candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, Angie Nixon, Christopher Rabb, Cory Bush, and Melot Kiros. 

(This writer could enumerate more, but does not wish to aid publicity interests.)

All of the above, of course, were encouraged by the ballot successes of so-called "Squad" members. Ideologically tilted extremism and hostility toward our nation have assumed apex status among Democrats. 

Even Democrat office-aspirants who may not be of radical persuasions, would surely vote in lockstep with whatever their party's interests dictated. As the leftward surge continues in that party, obedient operatives would hasten to formation.

Radicals may be relatively scant in number, but longtime rank-and-file Democrat voters can be expected to endorse anyone whose name is followed by a D, particularly when that candidate fulminates against the hated President Trump.

We can't ignore them. We understandably laugh at them. We are called by patriotism to fight them. And we must ensure they crumble in eternal ignominy.

Vermin welcome under Democrats' 'big tent' 

For years, left voices great and small proclaimed themselves to be the 'good guys' -- moral, righteous, tolerant. Various phrasings of that message were bandied about in press conferences, and on placards and bumperstickers. 

But since President Trump was first endorsed by American voters in 2016, all the world has learned the falsity of that assertion.

The splenetic hatred of world Jewry intrinsic to Hitler's national socialism rose in Democrat ranks, until it is today openly and unashamedly bannered by headline-lusting firestarters in that party. 

Yet fresh is the Gerald 'nazi tattoo' Platner matter. When that Maine stormtrooper seemed popular, Democrats of high stature leapt to dance with the national socialist devil. 

Even if throwing him under the bus at the 11th hour had always been planned, the ugly truth remains that Schumer, Sanders, Khanna, Pocohantas, Gallego, and a legion of other hooved amoralists -- Washington Democrats' 'Totenkopf caucus' --  endorsed Platner when sun shone. 

That unprincipled exercise will forever damn them in the estimation of honest, good-hearted observers.

(Meanwhile, the machine has yet to be invented that could tabulate the dizzying number of rank-and-file Democrat lever-graspers who hoist wicked propagandists onto their shoulders in the ghastly Parade of Monsters presently befouling American polity.)

Antisemitism, the world's oldest bigotry, is now fancied clever by connivers who once claimed to oppose hate. Embraced today for advantage it might lend toward power acquisition, that vile prejudice is now as likely to turn up in left gatherings as are rainbow insignia.

The hush that followed President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder represented all good Americans regardless of party. It was a matter of basic decency. 

But that was then. Today, if a conservative GOP figure fell to a lunatic's bullets, leftists would freestyle on the coffin lid. 

Cartoonishly radical, unAmerican notions may not held by every grassroots Democrat voter. But (and herein can be located the pivotal peril) so intense is their unreasonable hatred of Americans' chosen president, they'd gladly endorse anything contrary. 

Anything.

In days that immediately followed numerous attempts to assassinate President Trump, many famed Democrat officials and show business flakes either blamed the intended victim, disputed the crime's factualness, or twirled noisemakers.

And an online respondent to a Christian Charlie Kirk meme I once circulated sneered: "That didn't turn out too well for him, did it?"

In that morally despicable rejoinder was encapsulated the garbage-hearted maliciousness that actually thrives in the breasts of Democrats who elsewhere thunder counterfeit virtuosity.

A widow and young orphans grieve for an innocent father assassinated solely for political and cultural opinions he held, and for his belief in God. A loyal Democrat found that cause for guffawing.

Nor did that online foulness stand out from the left crowd. Mocking Charlie's murder is widely popular amongst progressives, whether they clog avenues or strut atop rally stages.

The mask has rotted away, eaten by the acids of Democrat Party loathing for President Trump, for America, and for Christianity.

Wickedness, the world now grasps, was the claimed good guys' driver all along.

Many American families have grandfathers and other antecedents who suffered and even died overseas to crush Hitler's socialism and communism. Today's Democrats surely have quite the leg muscles -- how else could they dance on so many graves?

Vote accordingly.

A ghastly reality    

"Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told attendees to his July 16 conference on 'Far-Left Terrorism.'

"In Germany, far-left violence has jumped by more than 40% in just the last year alone," he continued. "In Greece, more than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors."

A recent YouGov poll revealed 25% of "very liberal" U.S. Democrats believe political violence is justifiable. (Polling also found only a meager percentage of Democrats are even proud to be Americans.)

An online meme presently circulating depicts a grave marker bearing the name Trump. 

Ignoring the accelerated spread of politically inspired brutality -- and that it arrives most frequently from the spectrum's left end -- only emboldens criminals.

A July 16 Gateway Pundit article related that Florida former marine, prosecutor, and write-in congressional candidate William Upham had been arrested for declaring President Trump "must be killed" in an online video.

In the same video, Upham charged "Our country is broken," and encouraged viewers to operate in pairs with AK 15s.

"Our country must overthrow President Trump by the violent use of force and kill him," Upham emailed to a journalist.

Last month, a Rochester, New York man was arrested for making numerous online murderous threats against Donald Trump Jr, and members of his family.

Other fresh illustrations include Democrats and other leftists imitating Charlie Kirk's assassination and threatening to "Kirk" political adversaries; celebrations of the anti-Trump gunman who invaded the White House Correspondents Dinner; and subversive medical personnel posting videos calling for Trump's demise and encouraging witholding care from suspected MAGA patients to speed their deaths.

More: Efforts by politicians and activists to forestall deportations of violently criminal illegals; the torrent of sympathetic messages sent toward Luigi Mangioni, the 'alleged' murderer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; mobs of professional anti-ICE protesters raining bricks and explosives on police phalanxes; and physical assaults and even murders of law enforcement officers and any citizen perceived to support the President of our United States.

Referring to the numbers regarding international left-wing violence he'd cited, Rubio was adamant. "These are not abstract statistics. Americans have seen what those numbers mean: an all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes, a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like ‘Where is your God now?'”

At this writing, there have been three known attempts on President Trump's own life. And as evidenced above, additional plottings are contrived. 

And that's only American leftists; an Iranian scheme was recently revealed. 

In response to malevolence issuing from grotty precincts, Trump wrote on X that smears hurled his way had "taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of the Communist Left rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!"

After years of hearing "Trump is Hitler, MAGA are nazis" slander from numerous media mouthpieces, it's logical that uncritical recipients would think violent actions noble and even of historic import.

Of course, leftists sanctioning morbidness has precedent. For decades, the Democrat Party has championed abortions with absolutely no restrictions on time or reasons. 

Clear-visioned critics term the Democrat Party a "party of death." The ghastly sobriquet is accurate.

America wins bigly               

                                                    

"Two major wins define this week," began a new White House briefing document. "First, jobless levels fell to their lowest level since 1969, a 57-year record that puts the full force of the Trump economic agenda on display."

Further gilding that success is the Trump administration's determination to ensure employment opportunities are exclusively available to American citizens. That's how it should be.

Paychecks legitimately earned by American citizens benefit our economy not only through taxes paid, but by healthy consumer spending. It's what made American businesses thrive, and is a major factor in securing this nation's rank above other world powers. 

The president has steadfastly endorsed e-verify. The practice of verifying job applicants' legal rights to be in this nation -- let alone enjoy employment and profit thereby -- is one Trump supports, as well as levying stiff penalties against unscrupulous employers who would flout American laws and encourage illegality by cultivating lower-paid scofflaw workforces.

(Iowa's elected congressional officials -- all Republicans -- also back e-verify.) 

The White House briefing document also noted: "President Trump secured the Ratepayer Protection Pledge -- a landmark agreement guaranteeing that America's AI dominance is built without sticking consumers with the bill."

By that crucial exercise, our president did away with a major kvetch voiced by AI critics: that related costs would burden tax-payers. Trump now guarantees they won't.

As important as protecting jobs for real Americans and ensuring technological advancement are, the two are hardly lonely on the list of positive moves forward realized by the Trump White House. 

Other wins have been pocketed in police and fire departments' hiring; military recruitment; foreign investments now totaling astronomically; and new factories being built here by formerly internationally located corporations that have returned to these shores.

In concluding his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech, President Trump noted both the progress our country has so far made as a result of America First policies, and world leaders' awestruck recognition: "The King of Saudi Arabia said it. Everyone said almost the same words. 'We thought you were a dead country. We never thought you had a chance. You were never gonna make it back.'

"'And in a period of a year, a period of one year, you made it the hottest country anywhere in the world!'

"We did that together," Trump proclaimed. "It's not just me. We all did it together. We have made America great again, and it's gonna get a lot greater!"