Debi Calvet

A word of advice to @GovRonDeSantis . I voted for you in the primary. I wrote you in on election day because there's no way I could vote for Trump. I have been #DeSantis2028 since then./1

Peggy Noonan: "It wasn’t the war alone. It was the prices. The tariffs. Above all, the corruption, showy and shameless: crypto, pardons, federal contracts for his sons’ companies. Then came the decadence."

Typically two things don't happen. You don't have a leader who is this retarded on this many things without that movement and party forcing a course correction nor do you have that entire party mimicking the retardation rather than trying to get away from it. The code of silence comes home to roost. Looks like they will try to keep it going. Well, good luck.

Jack Posobiec is expected to be removed from Turning Point USA following reports that he may be lobbying for Qatar, who financially supports the Muslim Brotherhood. Team Trump unfollowed Posobiec on social media yesterday. The disgraced former Navy officer previously had his security clearance revoked for allegedly sharing classified information on Twitter before his separation from the Navy Reserve.

New reporting from the New York Times today should alarm anyone concerned about America's technological and strategic advantage over China. Or American national security more broadly. You can roll your eyes at the NYT, but this story is already being picked up by National Review, Fox, Breitbart, the Washington Examiner, the New York Post. To name a few. According to the Times, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Alice Huang (Huang Le), an executive associated with Singapore-based Megaspeed, was a Chinese intelligence asset providing information to Beijing. Megaspeed was already under investigation for potentially helping China circumvent American restrictions on advanced AI chips. Surveillance reportedly revealed that Alice Huang had developed a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Trump was briefed on the intelligence roughly a year ago but reportedly chose not to act on the information. Jensen Huang was never given a defensive briefing, and while officials initially believed he was unaware of any intelligence activity, some have since questioned that assessment. I strongly encourage everyone to read the NYT investigation in full. Nvidia denies wrongdoing, and there is no established evidence that Jensen Huang knowingly assisted Chinese intelligence. But this is where it gets a tad more troubling: Jensen Huang has developed extraordinary influence within the Trump administration. Prior to 2025, he was rarely involved in Washington politics. But he has quickly become one of the most influential voices arguing against tougher export controls. He personally lobbied Trump & has traveled to Mar-a-Lago to do so. Nvidia later donated at least $20 million to Trump's White House ballroom project. And last month, Huang was seated at the head table during the White House state dinner for Xi Jinping. The administration subsequently: - Permitted sales of certain previously restricted Nvidia AI chips to China. - Approved sales of Nvidia's 2nd-most powerful H200 chips to China, with the U.S. government taking 25% of the proceeds. (why????) - Rolled back Biden-era export restrictions designed, in part, to limit China's access to advanced American computing technology through third countries. Perhaps most concerning, current & former U.S. officials told the NYT that Trump's close relationship with Huang impeded enforcement efforts, with some investigations & proposed sanctions involving China or Nvidia apparently stalling inside the Commerce Department. These decisions drew criticism from prominent Republicans (John Moolenaar, Josh Hawley, Dave McCormick, Lindsey Graham, and former Trump national security adviser Matt Pottinger) who warned about strengthening China's military & technological capabilities. So... The NYT investigation alone raises serious questions. But I encourage everyone to revisit the Wall Street Journal investigation from January 2026. The WSJ reported that just FOUR DAYS before Trump's inauguration, an investment vehicle backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's national security adviser, secretly agreed to purchase a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial, the Trump/Witkoff family cryptocurrency venture, for $500 MILLION. Of the initial $250 million payment, $187 million was directed to Trump family-controlled entities and another $31 million to Witkoff family-affiliated entities. Why does this matter? Well, Tahnoon also oversees G42, the UAE AI company that had previously drawn national security scrutiny over its relationships with Chinese firms. The UAE had been seeking access to advanced American AI chips that the Biden administration had restricted because of concerns they could ultimately benefit China. Months after the investment, the Trump administration dismantled the previous administration's AI chip-export framework and announced an agreement contemplating UAE access to approximately 500,000 advanced American AI chips ANNUALLY, including roughly 100,000 proposed for G42. (Those figures represent the announced framework, not confirmed deliveries. But the scale of the proposed policy change was enormous.) Now put these investigations together. In one, U.S. intelligence reportedly identified a Chinese intelligence asset with access to Nvidia's CEO. Trump was briefed, Nvidia's CEO continued lobbying for fewer restrictions, and officials say some enforcement efforts stalled. In the other, a foreign national security official seeking advanced American technology backed a $500 million investment in a Trump-family business. Months later, his country secured an agreement contemplating dramatically expanded access to that technology. Neither investigation proves a conspiracy or quid pro quo. The parties involved deny wrongdoing. But the documented financial relationships, intelligence warnings, and reported enforcement delays raise serious questions about whether private interests are influencing American national security policy. AI chips are not ordinary commercial products. They are critical to our military capabilities, intelligence operations, and strategic advantage over China. There are legitimate debates about export controls, but those debates cannot excuse a lack of transparency or accountability. The question I keep coming back to whenever reporting like this emerges: Are decisions about America's most strategically important technologies being driven by national security? Or by corporate lobbying, personal relationships, and foreign financial interests connected to the president's family? This is not a question I have ever had to ask in my lifetime, of any President we've ever had. Congress needs to investigate, thoroughly and publicly. We cannot afford to gamble away America's technological advantage over China. And we cannot allow private financial interests to dictate American national security policy.

President Trump on the idea of running for a third term: "I think I have the right to run again, because they cheated."

If we continue to permit this behavior the behavior will continue. That's why I haven't been on as much. I'm exhausted. Nothing ever changes - This buffoon is ENCOURAGING an ad against a documented sexual assault victim who was a CHILD. In fact ENDORSING it. You support this you have zero, and I mean zero, moral character

Even though I am an evangelical Christian, I have always defended the Catholic and Maronite statues in Lebanon and opposed evangelicals who wanted them removed. My reason was not theological. It was civilizational. In Lebanon, when you entered a town or village and saw a statue of Jesus, Mary, or a saint standing publicly, it meant that this place had not yet been Islamized. It meant Christians still possessed enough freedom and confidence to display their faith publicly. The statue was therefore more than a statue. It was a civilizational marker. It announced that Islam was not sovereign over that space. When evangelicals attacked those statues purely on theological grounds, they failed to understand what they were helping to dismantle. In their zeal to remove what they considered an unbiblical symbol, they were also weakening a visible symbol of the very freedom that allowed evangelicals themselves to exist, preach, convert, and criticize. I see Christians in the West making a similar mistake today with the Jews. They attack Jews or Israel for theological reasons while failing to understand the civilizational struggle taking place around them. Israel is under attack by forces that do not merely see it as another country. They see Israel as an outpost and symbol of the Western order they despise. When Christians turn against Jews simply because Judaism rejects Christ, they may believe they are defending theological truth while, in reality, helping the forces that are hostile to Christianity as well. Lebanese Christians needed those Catholic statues even when evangelicals believed the statues were unbiblical. And the West needs the unbelieving Jew for the same civilizational reason. You do not have to agree with someone theologically to understand that his freedom, his survival, and his continued presence is bound up with your own.

Orange Bernie has thoughts...

The Right’s lack of support for Ukraine is utterly disgraceful, from Trump all the way down. And it’s not just lack of sufficient support, it’s the ongoing poisonous narrative that Ukraine is the aggressor, Zelensky is a dictator, Russia is misunderstood, and Putin is an ally.

What this subhuman traitor means is that he wanted Zelensky to surrender his people to an invading dictator. Let's just be clear about that. Anyone who likes this man is fundamentally not deserving of respect.

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham. While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day. Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine. As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia. America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration. Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him. America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

Trump’s own DOJ says a Russian intelligence network plotted murders on American soil. And Trump’s answer is a diesel deal for Putin and demands for Zelensky’s replacement. Trump’s a danger to our national security. Impeach him. Members of Russian Intelligence Services Network Charged with Conspiring to Finance Terrorism and Commit Murder for Hire in the United States The DOJ announced the unsealing of charges against five individuals working for the intelligence services of the Russian Federation to conduct attacks and murders around the world, including in the United States.  As detailed in the unsealed indictment, the network is alleged to have, among other things, paid and attempted to pay individuals within the United States and elsewhere to conduct pre-operational surveillance and carry out targeted killings and commissioned associates to commit and attempt to commit acts of terrorism against civilian and military infrastructure in European countries that are aligned, or perceived to be aligned, with Ukraine. The defendants remain at large. Press Release: justice.gov/opa/pr/members-r…

America would be a much better place if pastors and priests used their sermons and homilies to tell their members which candidates they should vote for as faithful Christians.

I’ve been lectured a lot about political reality today. Allow me to sling a little reality in the other direction. If Donalds wins this election, he will give zero shits about what Ron DeSantis thinks he is doing. He will, however, care about what Trump says, and Trump could not care less about any of the ‘promises’ Byron made for conservatives on that stage. Here’s the trade-off: Donalds gets the endorsement of the greatest conservative governor in a generation, while said governor is now forever tied to a Trump-beholden populist who is every bit as ‘transactional’ as his master. If it were only DeSantis getting the short end of this stick, that would be one thing. Unfortunately, conservatives have ceded its biggest stronghold to grifter populism. We can tell ourselves that it doesn’t matter, but truthfully, it’s everything—-certainly bigger than any one politician.