Author name: Josh Slocum

Big Government, Immigration

CNN Anchor Gobsmacked at Notion of Enforcing Law Against Illegal Aliens

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The mainstream media has so thoroughly reversed the truth for so many years that even the skeptical among us don’t really react anymore when the most ludicrous statements are made by people who are allegedly trustworthy and serious. Since at least 2016, the left—and the mainstream media is 100 percent left-aligned with the partial exception of Fox News—has successfully unmoored the very idea of truth from anything observable or sensible in the real world. 

Look at how many Americans accept the idea that there are “transgender children.” That is to say, grown adults in huge numbers profess to believe that it is natural and normal for a percentage of children to be “born in the wrong body.” If that doesn’t shock you reading it, that’s because you, like all the rest of us, have been living in a deliberately created dystopian fiction that’s worn you down. You may expect  to hear straight lunacy on the news, but you should not. Big, society-level lies such as the existence of “transgender children” (or really, “transgender” anyone) do enough damage on their own, but there’s a secondary damage: We get used to it enough that we don’t fight back much anymore. 

It’s how cults work. It’s how cult societies such as North Korea grind down adults of ordinary intelligence until they actually believe that it’s Americans, not North Koreans, who are suffering under political abuse. 

So it isn’t a surprise when an allegedly respectable, grown-up news anchor like CNN’s Dana Bash cannot seem to comprehend that it’s normal and morally acceptable to enforce the law against lawbreakers. She can’t accept that simple premise. Listen to Bash characterize the completely normal activity of apprehending criminals, then transporting criminals to where they need to go, as if it were some wicked and nefarious Nazi-inspired activity. 

We’re talking about illegal aliens who broke U.S. law and entered the country without permission. Bash seems, on some (emotional?) level, not to be able to accept that this is actually a crime. She seems unable to accept that, well, yes, physically rounding them up and getting them out of the country is the normal thing countries do with illegal border jumpers. You can imagine her saying to a cop, “Are you really saying that you’re going to HANDCUFF men who break into people’s living rooms?”

Border Czar Tom Homan is having none of it. He reminds Bash that this is a law enforcement action, and that, yes, “sanctuary cities” who try to obstruct the carrying out of the law are not going get away with it. 

Let’s see what X/Twitter users had to say:

This guy’s bafflement speaks for lots of people:

Big Government, National Affairs

Woke Harridan Preacher Tries to Humiliate Trump in National Cathedral

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The election of Donald Trump was only the beginning of a chance that the U.S. now has to tack back toward a normal and sane kind of politics. The country lurched so hard to the left over the past 15 years–and beyond into actual clinical insanity–that one election is not going to reset the board overnight. It will be years, perhaps a generation or longer, before “woke” is really rooted out of nearly every business, civic, and cultural institution. 

The hardest left voters and agitators truly believe they are “on the right side of history.” They truly believe that only they are moral, and that everyone to the right of them is fully and incurably immoral. Their minds work in black and white, all-good and all-bad. In psychiatric literature, this kind of thinking is called “splitting.” One “splits” another person into an all-wonderful or all-evil caricature of a whole human person. Splitting is a prominent feature of conditions like borderline personality disorder, a character disorder that includes emotional instability, histrionic emotions and accusations, and the false idea that one is a perpetual victim of others. 

To a close approximation, we can diagnose the U.S. as having a longstanding case of borderline personality disorder, at least the left half of the country. 

So it should be no surprise that on his second day in office, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania were the subject of an attempted humiliation from the pulpit. Preacher Mariann Budde stood at the lectern of the National Cathedral and excoriated Trump as he sat there, accusing him of frightening “trans kids” and illegal aliens. Naturally, Budde features what you might call the “modern mental illness presentation” affected by leftist women. Short, angry gray hair, deliberately awkward glasses, and the put-on “gentle mouse” voice used to cover over a vicious and hysterical rhetorical attack. 

Check it out: 

Budde claims there are “gay lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families. . .some who fear for their lives.”

“And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” she added.

This type of rhetoric is just insane. It’s not a difference of opinion. It’s insanity, if we define insanity as a complete disconnection from the objective real world. The hack even even went on CNN after to defend her comments.

Frankly, it is impossible to believe that Mariann Budde genuinely believes that Donald Trump is a threat to the lives and continued state of being alive to “LGBTQ” people. But she is willing to claim that she believes this, which is at least as disturbing as the possibility that she takes her own hysteria seriously. 

One thing’s certain; Twitter/X users don’t: 

Buckle up, friends. There’s going to be more of this before there’s less.

Democrats

Lib Dem Fundraiser Says She was “Fully Indoctrinated” in Leftist Cult

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If you haven’t already, you’re going to hear from many more former leftists who have gone to the right. Since Donald Trump first took office in the White House in 2016, the Democrat party has gone insane. The constant drumbeat of “Russia-gate” and the “very fine people” lie were bad enough during Trump’s first term. 

But the Biden presidency, and its signature issue, the “pandemic,” showed a party completely unmoored from all reality. Not partial; complete. Not only did the federal government shut down the economy over an illness that didn’t do more than a bad flu usually does, but it forced thousands of small businesses to close forever. The government interfered with the rental housing market and forced landlords to give apartments to people for free. 

Meanwhile, the Democrats and the left have tried to compel Americans to believe there’s no such thing as biological sex, all while cheering for gruesome chemical and surgical child abuse that it calls “gender-affirming care.”

And now, after Los Angeles is burning in the worst wildfire in the nation’s history, even more Democrats have said “enough.”

It’s happening in the upper echelons of politics, too. Lindy Li is a former fundraiser for the Democrat party. Until very recently, she was drumming up support for Joe Biden, then for Kamala Harris. Now, she tells the Daily Mail that she was “fully indoctrinated in the Democratic cult.”

In what Li calls the most “painful but rewarding” periods of her life, Li has jumped ship as is looking forward to attending the inauguration of Donald Trump on Jan. 20. Originally born in China but living in the U.S. since she was four years old, Li said she woke up when she saw the gulf between the party’s claims and reality. Harris, she was told, was a shoo-in for the presidency, but in fact, the public hated her. Not only that, but the party wasted billions of dollars, some that Li raised, on a worthless campaign full of lies and empty promises. 

She tells her story in an exclusive interview with the Mail.  In recent media appearances, Li puts her finger on how the Democrat party does it: “They pretend to be so loving and caring.”

Here’s a sampling of what X/Twitter users had to say in response. 

Poor Anne doesn’t seem to understand what she’s seeing. 

Naturally, not everyone is willing to trust a defector right away. 

Some are unsurprised and pleased to see a leftist party operative see the light. 

Democrats

John Fetterman Stuns Democrats by Speaking and Acting Like an Adult

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Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman has surprised people on both sides of the aisle for the past few years. The former mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, took up public office in the rust belt town on a mission to revitalize the failing rural economy. He didn’t come from a small town, or from a poor family. Instead, he grew up in York County in a comfortable middle class home. Not only that, he earned a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. 

In other words, Fetterman had cemented his progressive bona fides. Then in 2022, he suffered a severe stroke that left him with obvious difficulty reading and speaking. Not without cause, Republican critics questioned whether he was fit for office as it was often impossible to understand his speech or to have confidence that he was able to understand information he was taking in. But Fetterman steadily improved, though his progress was slowed by a severe bout of depression that had him hospitalized in 2023. 

By the end of 2023, he drew a line in the sand with his party, which had tilted so far to the extreme left that even lifelong Democrats were getting alarmed at what the party was doing. Fetterman declared “I’m not a progressive” as he took the Democrats to task for their anti-Israel lurch and their unwillingness to admit that unchecked immigration was out of control. 

Now he’s shocking the establishment again. They’re easy to shock, of course. Just try saying something like, “Men cannot change sex and become women” and the cackling hens on cable news will start squawk-screeching about a holocaust-against-trans-people. On January 7 Fetterman sat down with Fox News’ (bad! bad!) Brett Baier and told him he would be voting in for many of incoming President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees, including Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, Sean Duffy, and more. He also confirmed he was open to considering a yes vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. 

During his Fox appearance, Fetterman said out loud something that adult politicians would have been able to say without provoking consternation until the past several years of teenage-girl-hysteria that overtook the Democratic Party. The blue team acts–quite literally–as if agreeing with any conservative on any issue is religious heresy. 

“I’m open to hear from everyone, and I don’t know why that’s controversial,” Fetterman said.  “And I also would like to remind everyone on the Democratic side—that’s the way democracy works. Trump won, and now they’re going to run the table. You don’t have to agree with all of it, but I want to find a way to work together on a bunch of them.”

Let’s see what the reaction on X/Twitter looked like. 

Media

Trump Says Her Name: Ashli Babbitt Was the One Who Died on Jan. 6

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The disconnect between real world events and the beliefs and statements of “respectable” mainstream media is wider than at any time in living memory. Our grandparents who grew up on the “big three” channels-ABC, CBS, NBC-would not recognize what passes for news reporting today. There was never a golden era when everything the newspapers and TV anchors said was the whole truth, but there was a stronger anchor to reality reflected in the news coverage that began in the mid-20th century and continued through at least the year 2000. 

Not anymore. All the broadcast stations (with the partial exception of Fox News), and all the cable news networks appear to have no actual understanding of the real world. It’s impossible to say whether the beat reporters, correspondents, and anchors actually believe what they say, or whether they are consciously lying. But what they appear to believe, and what they’re trying to get you to believe, bears no relationship to observable events in the real world. 

This is most apparent in coverage of the so-called riots that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. What nearly every news source has called a “violent insurrection” for years was not an insurrection at all. It’s certainly not the case that a total of 1,538 people committed acts of violence or threatened police – yet that is how many protestors have been put through the court system or sent to jail. 

All along, the media, the White House, and Democratic politicians have lied to make the event seem darker and more sinister than it really was. They lied and said Donald Trump encouraged a “violent insurrection,” when in fact he addressed the public and told them to protest “peacefully and patriotically.” Even the compromised Associated Press had to admit it. 

Politicians and the media accused rioters of killing police officers, yet no police officers were killed. They claimed that rioters had bashed capitol police officer Brian Sicknick over the head with a fire extinguisher, killing him. That never happened. Sicknick died of a stroke the day after the non-riot.  

It’s been four years, and the media is still either lying, or is somehow so disconnected from the real world that an impartial observer would legitimately question if there’s a form of mental illness at play among the media elite. While it does appear that some rioters did physically assault Capitol officers, none of them were killed. The media does not seem to care at all about the person who was killed: veteran Ashli Babbitt. She doesn’t rate, you see, because she was MAGA, which for leftists is code for “disposable subhuman scum.” 

Ashli Babbitt’s death didn’t even rate a mention from this pool of reporters asking questions of incoming President Donald Trump when he was asked about Jan 6 pardons Watch this exchange below – the reporter asked Donald Trump if he planned to pardon any of the rioters who attacked police officers. Trump turned it around and replied, “The only one that  was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashli Babbitt.” He went on to remind the press pool that there were never any charges of “insurrection” against anyone, because no insurrection occurred. 

Response from X/Twitter users was mixed, but most appeared to side with Trump’s approach: 

Race Baiting

Far-Left Race Baiting Publication Thinks Trump Is Bringing Slavery Back

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You knew it was coming. 

“The Root” is a radical leftist magazine by and for blacks. But it’s not like black magazines from the mainstream, like Jet or Ebony. It’s as woke as woke can get. For the staff of The Root, there is no such thing as a morally honorable white person, and there is no such thing as a white person who is not racist. 

You are already picture the exact kind of ideological drivel they peddle.

Though they would never say it candidly and would scream and protest if someone pushed them on it, the magazine thinks white people are born devils. Call it WDS-”White Derangement Syndrome.” They especially hate competent conservative white women such as former Fox News journalist-turned-podcaster Megyn Kelly: 

“Karen,” when used by radical black activists, means “white woman we don’t like.” Why don’t they like Megyn Kelly? Because Kelly recognizes that nightly MSNBC ranter in chief Joy Reid is a narcissistic, dishonest blowhard who can’t seem to figure out who she is judging by the parade of wigs featured weekly on her show. Just take a look at one of them….

That’s enough. 

So, what’s The Root on about today? The return of slavery under Donald Trump!

Yes. Really.

They write:

“It’s a question Black Americans have been asking for a while, and now that former President Donald Trump has won back the Oval Office, it’s on everyone’s mind: Can slavery make an official comeback?”

Notice carefully: official comeback. This is an actual “dog whistle,” a coded bit of language that signals to radical black readers, “Slavery is still happening in America, we just don’t call it slavery for some reason.”

Here’s more:

“Reflexively, the answer to this seemingly crazy question should be “hell no,” but if you take just five minutes to Google it, you’d be surprised to know we’re not too far from that reality. In 2022, slavery was on the ballot in five states, according to AP News. Talk show host and author Tavis Smiley expressed growing fears of slavery right before the 2016 election. Going back to the 13th Amendment, legal loopholes still allow for slavery today.”

Wow. The Associated Press? It must be true. But is it? When you click on the link, you find out otherwise (emphasis added):

“More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of slavery — forced labor by people convicted of certain crimes.”

That’s right. The practice of forcing convicted criminals to do hard labor is now “slavery.” And what’s more, Donald Trump is gonna bring it back. Therefore, Trump is bringing back slavery in the minds of The Root.

I’d say this kind of reasoning is “unbelievable,” but really, is anything unbelievable from the radical identity politics left? 

Let’s see what X/Twitter users had to say on The Root’s thread about the article. 

LGBTQ+, Trans

Former Bachelorette Contestant Josh Seiter Gives Gender Reveal!

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Remember that old commercial for cassette tapes? “Is it real, or is it Memorex?” The ad played on the idea that Memorex cassette tapes recorded sound with such high fidelity that you couldn’t tell if you were hearing a live performance or listening to a recording. As anyone from the days of the Sony WalkMan knows, no matter how good the cassette, there was always a tell-tale hiss that gave it away.

Similarly, there was just something about this lovely lady that seemed a bit off. 

It’s hard to say just what it is. She’s poised, confident and sitting pretty, no? Maybe it’s the way she applies her lipstick? Is it the shade of nail polish? It’s hard to put your finger on the problem, but maybe it’s the fact that she’s a he. 

If this guy looks familiar to you, you may know him as Josh Seiter, a former contestant on the reality show The Bachelorette. The show’s conceit is that a single woman chooses from a variety of male suitors to find her one true love. 

In recent months, the hunky Seiter traded in his button-downs and blue jeans for a more feminine look. 

All this time, Josh Seiter has been taking social media users on a gender journey. Slapping on some hasty makeup and a sundress, Seiter strolled along the streets talking into his camera in a ridiculous falsetto. Here he is talking about the gender price gap, which is the phenomenon of groceries costing double if you’re “a woman” like Josh compared to being a man. 

Social media has been asking: Is he for real? Is he really claiming to be a transgender woman? Is this all a joke? Even though you’re reading this and looking at the pictures and saying to yourself, “this is obviously a joke,” I’m afraid it’s not obvious. There is, literally, no way to separate satire from reality in a world where men like mediocre swimmer Will Thomas can transform himself into “Lia” and compete (and win) against actual female swimmers. The entire world took this seriously, and the mainstream press still refer to this dude as “she” when reporting on his legal loss that prevents him from competing in the Olympics as a woman. 

After keeping everyone on tenterhooks for months, Josh Seiter went on Alex Stein’s podcast to reveal that it’s all been a big hoax. But according to Seiter, it’s a hoax with a point. He says, correctly, that it’s ridiculous and insulting for society to treat these men-any of them-as if they were actual women. 

Let’s see how X/Twitter reacted!

Wait, what is a “trans verification service?” How can you verify that a man is a woman? 

Josh has at least one fan in the UK. 

Big Government, Democrats

Politico Very Concerned JD Vance Expected to Get Paid for Book Tour

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Uh-oh! That greedy fat cat rich boy JD Vance, Republican Senator from Ohio, is asking for speaker’s fees. Speakers’ fees. Can you imagine? What in tarnation does that boy think he’s doing? More on the speaker’s fees below. 

Vance is not, of course, a fat cat, although he’s certainly wealthier today than he was growing up. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy, published in 2016, tells Vance’s story of growing up in dirt-poor Appalachia among a family of drug addicts and abusers. It’s a story of one form of the American dream: small-town hick boy goes to university and makes good. After serving in the Marines, Vance went to college and finished with a law degree from Yale. 

Of course, the Democrats don’t like to see people pull themselves up by their bootstraps because their narrative depends on their constituents believing that it’s not possible. Numerous lefties bashed Vance in recent months, laughably, calling him an elitist because he managed to go to Yale. 

To the extent that the party even nods to working class people any longer, it concentrates on positioning itself as the big government savior for black people. The Dems encourage blacks and other minorities to see themselves as victims who can’t get ahead and must rely on the government to give them special (and sometimes illegal) handouts. The press goes right along with, as seen in this Associated Press headline about a wacky unconstitutional Harris proposal: “Harris announces a new plan to empower Black men.”

Back to those speaker’s fees. Politico believes it has uncovered a major scandal after it “discovered” that Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy publisher drove a hard bargain when negotiating author fees for an in-person program. They wanted $40,000 for Vance, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison backed out, saying the price tag was too high for them. 

Politico seems to think this is out of the ordinary in business negotiations. Without coming right out and saying it, the publication wants the reader to think “that rich snooty JD Vance is just takin’ advantage!” How else do you explain sentences like this?

“Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Vance defended Vance’s speaking fees.”

“Defended?” What law or rule was broken by insisting on a fee commensurate with a best-selling author’s drawing power? 

X/Twitter user John Hasson also found Politico’s concern amusing, which means other people online did too. After all, take a look at what Politico’s “Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist” is charging.

Isn’t that interesting? One of Politico’s own charges up to $35,000 to speak himself.

Bizarrely, this didn’t manage to cause an internal scandal.

Social media users are not sympathetic to Politico’s view. 

So does Barack Obama. Guess how much? 

And then there are the Clintons, but that’s somehow different. 

User “some infidel” brings us all back to reality. 

Celebrities

Hoaxer Jussie Smollett Wastes $3 Million Defending Good Name He Doesn’t Have

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Poor Jussie Smollett. The b-list actor (I’m being generous) who had a few minutes of fame playing a musician on the Fox network’s drama “Empire,” seems as determined to lose his fortune as he was to lose the public’s respect. 

To recap: In 2019, Smollett made up a hoax for attention. He claimed to be walking at about 2 am in Chicago in the dead of winter to a Subway fast food outlet for a sandwich. Along the way, he claimed, two men approached him and asked if he was that gay guy (using a slur) from the show Empire. Then, Smollett claims, they informed him that Chicago was “MAGA country,” put a noose around his neck, and poured bleach on him. 

A tearful Smollett appeared before cameras soaking up the attention from having been apparently “gay-bashed,” and all the media and most black people and leftists immediately believed him. 

How believable is it that two “homophobes” in Chicago would walk up to a guy at 2 am and proclaim that one of the blackest and most Democrat-ridden cities in America is “MAGA country?” It’s not believable at all, but leftists uncritically accept obvious nonsense if it props up a victimhood narrative they need to sell their politics. 

Smollett was arrested, then the charges were dropped, then they were refiled in 2021. He was convicted of five felony counts in relation to the hoax, though leftist media continues to insist on calling it an “alleged” hoax. It is not alleged; the courts convicted him. In every other situation, media drops the “alleged” when the court has ruled. This is a special carve-out because Smollett is black, gay, and leftist. 

Now, he’s moaning that he’s spent $3 million trying to clear his name, and he regrets sitting for a 2019 interview about his fake gay-bashing. “I don’t want to have a felony on my record for something I didn’t do,” he told Entertainment Tonight. He then goes on about how he’s doing this “as a gay man” and as a (capital B) black man. Well, you can’t say he’s not persistent. As per The Hollywood Reporter:

Smollett: “I want to have all of these things in my life, and I don’t want to have a felony on my record for something that I didn’t do,” Smollett said in part. “That’s what we’re fighting for. I know that on the surface it probably seems like why doesn’t he just serve the time, why doesn’t he just let this go. It would be easier if I had in fact done this to say that I did it. I wouldn’t have spent almost $3 million of my own money. I wouldn’t have had a trial.”

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Smollett: “But as a human being and as a man, as a Black man and as an openly gay Black man, I have a problem with letting them win on something they shouldn’t be able to,” Smollett said. “I’m a grown man and something happened. I can’t tell exactly what did happen, but I can tell you what did not happen. That’s what I have to sit on. No matter how much people are yelling in my face, saying ‘You’re a liar, you’re a liar.’ No, I’m not. No, I’m not. I don’t want them to believe that, but if that is what they believe, that’s on you.”

He admitted that his greatest mistake was his infamous interview on Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, where even her softball questions and framing couldn’t sanitize his obvious lies.

But what does the public on social media think of the fact that Smollett is still claiming this thing that never happened totally did happen? 

Gives a little hope for the American people being on the ball, eh?

DEI Pushback

Trump Ad Features Scene from Full Metal Jacket: Libs on Fainting Couch

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It’s hard to know just what to laugh at when it comes to the U.S. military–there are too many choices. What’s funnier, the woke ads featuring fat angry gender-confused non-binaries, or the reaction from the left when people notice the ads? Because boy, is the left very, very angry that not everyone believes that overweight women in their 20s who have a “gender” and a mental diagnosis are going to be able to keep the United States secure. 

Did you see this one? Just look at it. 

This is from a news show on CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network. They’ve rounded up some of the “best” recruitment ads from recent years. Click here to jump to the one featuring a woman using little-baby-girl voice to tell everyone how special and important her “journey” is. See, she has two lesbian moms, and she’s been a “freedom fighter” for LGBT equality since she was a little girl. Bonus points if you make it all the way through before her affected cutesy voice causes you to launch a brick through the screen. 

Or how about this one? This Army recruitment ad is obviously aimed at Gen Z because it talks to them in the developmentally disabled tone they respond to. As the camera focuses on the close-up faces of young people (gotta appeal to that personal narcissism; esprit de corps is so out of fashion), they transform into bland computer-generated cartoon characters. 

Today’s U.S. Military cannot do its job. It can’t focus on protecting the nation because President Joe Biden is more concerned with forcing the service branches to pay for the sex-change surgeries that mentally ill “trans” service members call “lifesaving.” How the removal of genitals or the bolting-on of plastic breasts saves lives is not made clear. 

The Trump campaign knows this, and it’s banking on this ad to appeal to traditional, masculine (and necessary) notions of military bravery and hard-assery. He showed it at an October 9 rally – and has been showing it at all subsequent rallies since. It uses footage from Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Full Metal Jacket to contrast a traditional drill sergeant with the prancing drag queens who put up videos of them dancing lasciviously while making reference to their status as service members. 

Give it a watch yourself – the audiences have been loving it:

Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian Kubrick, loves it. She said that even though her father’s movie had an anti-war message, it’s the perfect film to use because Trump himself is anti-war. But he knows the necessity of having a tough and manly military to keep the peace, Vivian Kubrick said, and her father would have voted for Trump. “Because I’m sure the irony of using FMJ footage is not lost on Trump or his team – Trump is always seeking to end wars and use peaceful methods. However, that’s primarily what FMJ is about, the shocking and complicated paradoxes of human nature,” she wrote in a lengthy post defending the video.

Let’s see what X (Twitter) users had to say. 

There’s always one pantywaist, though. 

Actually, there was more than one. Some sissy liberals are extremely unhappy and would like to complain to the manager. 

Lovely people, too. 


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