✪ THE BIG FRIDAY SOOPER THREAD

SETTLER IMMIGRATION IS THE REAL PROBLEM

here’s a good chance that this November, New York City will elect an openly declared socialist, Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani isn’t American in any meaningful sense; he’s from Uganda and preaches ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with our republican form of government. Still, he has a good shot at winning, partly because his ideology taps into the same grievance that animates leftists everywhere: the myth of settler colonialism.

To these young, naive ideologues, America is an evil place because it was founded by colonizers, and this is “stolen land.” We’ve all heard the claims before. It’s the same reason leftists use to justify their hatred for Israel. To them, Israel (like America) is an example of settler colonialism, rotted to the core. But the real threat isn’t settler colonialism; it’s settler immigration.

If Americans are taught by foreigners (and their children) to hate the men and ideals that birthed liberty, they will never fight to protect it when the next settler immigrant tries to take it away.

Self-described political anthropologist Arsalan Khan posted on X:

“Mandani argues that the difference between a settler and an immigrant is that the settler aims to create an entirely different society that fundamentally subordinates and excludes the native.”

Unironically, Khan was not trying to describe Mamdani himself, but that’s exactly what his post did.

Mamdani, like so many other foreign-born politicians in America, aims to create “an entirely different society that fundamentally subordinates and excludes the native.” Our reckless immigration policies — legal and illegal — have invited in not just people but entire ideological movements that want to dismantle America and remake her into something unrecognizable.

One way this is done is through the endless repetition of the lie that Americans live on “stolen land” and therefore are oppressors by birthright. Mamdani demanded that a statue of Christopher Columbus be taken down. Mamdani’s own father, Mahmood, said in 2022 that America is the “genesis of what we call settler-colonialism” across the globe, as reported by Fox News.

These comments are the embodiment of a dangerous trend where foreign-born radicals are using our open door to undermine our very foundations.

Somali-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said in a 2018 post on X that “we’re a country built on stolen land and the backs of slaves.”

Then there’s Rashida Tlaib, born to Palestinian immigrants, who said in a 2024 Thanksgiving message that “this Thanksgiving, we mourn the Indigenous people killed by European settlers and the United States in order to steal their land. From here to Palestine, we stand in solidarity with all Indigenous people as they fight for freedom on their own land.”

It’s a message meant to demoralize Americans, to strip them of patriotism and guilt them out of loving their country, history, and heritage. After all, who could possibly love a nation so irredeemably wicked? Sadly, the message is working.

Just five years ago, Americans watched in disbelief as statues of our greatest men — Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and countless others — were torn down, defaced, or smeared in the name of justice.

“There is no point in having these statues. All they do is remind everybody of the history of the United States and its role in perpetuating white supremacy and the institutionalization of anti-blackness,” 21-year-old Rosario Navalta, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, told The Washington Post.

“Jefferson is not ‘the’ father of this nation,” she said. “We cannot sit there pandering to the past.”

But what does the daughter of immigrants from a third-world country know about this nation? Clearly nothing if she believes Jefferson’s legacy begins and ends with the fact that he — like so many others worldwide at the time — enslaved people.

But never mind the facts. The truth is that our open-door immigration policies have flooded this country with either newcomers themselves or newcomers who raise children who despise what makes America, America. From Mamdani and Omar to Tlaib and Navalta, the result is the same: These are settler immigrants who want to do exactly what Khan described — create an entirely different society that fundamentally excludes the native people and ideas.

And once you delegitimize the founders, you delegitimize the country itself, paving the way for a new type of America — you know, the kind Mamdani promises. An America not steeped in natural rights, but an America in which there are no natural rights and therefore no system of government to protect those natural rights.

If Americans are taught by foreigners (and their children) to hate the men and ideals that birthed liberty, they will never fight to protect it when the next settler immigrant tries to take it away. That’s the real threat, not some invented myth of “settler colonialism” but settler immigration — foreign-born radicals who come to America not to embrace and protect her, but to erase her. ✪

MARCO RUBIO DROPS THE HAMMER

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n a long-overdue repudiation of international lawfare cloaked as human rights work, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has slammed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’s so-called “special rapporteur” for Palestinian territories, whose tenure has been the epitome of anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Israeli provocation theatre.

Albanese, an Italian academic turned ideological inquisitor, was appointed in 2022 by the United Nations Human Rights Council; a body whose moral compass spins like it was borrowed from James Comey, Crossfire Hurricane edition.

Among its current members: China, Cuba, Sudan, and South Africa—a rogue’s gallery of surveillance states, strongmen, and serial rights abusers, nations that take a brief respite from oppressing their own citizens to lecture the West on justice.

From this perch, Albanese hasn’t monitored human rights so much as targeted them, channeling her mandate into a scorched-earth crusade against America, Israel, and the corporations that dare do business with either.

Her latest gambit? A 2025 report accusing Israel of “genocide,” targeting U.S. and European firms as complicit, and demanding the criminal prosecution of Western citizens and corporations.

The timing was grotesque: the report dropped amid the 2025 Israel-Iran war, as Hamas rockets flew, Israeli jets responded, U.S. forces struck Iranian nuclear sites, and President Donald Trump was brokering a ceasefire to bring lasting peace to the region.

Undaunted by reality, Albanese wrote as if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were a humanitarian NGO and Lockheed Martin the real aggressor. Secretary Rubio had seen enough.

On Wednesday, invoking Executive Order 14203, the U.S. Government:

• Froze Albanese’s assets under U.S. jurisdiction,
• Prohibited all U.S. individuals and companies from engaging with her,
• Barred her from setting foot on American soil, including the UN.

It marks the first time a sitting UN rapporteur has been added to the U.S. sanctions list. The provocation, however, has been years in the making.

Her now-notorious report—From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide—is a brazen broadside against nearly every entity aligned with Israeli defense and American foreign policy.

The report calls for corporate executives at Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir, and others to face criminal prosecution under international law, urges countries to sever economic ties, impose embargoes, and take punitive measures against those supporting Israel.

But Albanese’s ambitions extend beyond corporate targets. Her report implicitly endorses ICC arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

She further escalated her campaign in a public social media post by calling on Italy, France, and Greece to “explain why they provided airspace and safe passage to ICC-wanted Benjamin Netanyahu, whom they are obligated to arrest.”

U.S. Secretary of State Rubio denounced Albanese for her “illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt ICC action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.”

He added that she “has directly engaged with the ICC in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of those two countries.”

And, in a searing indictment of her ideology, Rubio declared: “Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West.”

The United States has never ratified the Rome Statute. Under longstanding bipartisan policy, the ICC holds no lawful jurisdiction over American citizens. But Albanese presses forward anyway—untethered to law, consent, or reality.

She leverages her UN title to launder Hamas propaganda far and wide. She is a blistering advocate for using the International Criminal Court as a star chamber—a tool of political vengeance masquerading as justice.

Enough was enough. These sanctions are not a silencing tactic—though the usual suspects will shriek regardless. They are a sovereign act of self-defense—a foreign policy firewall against the weaponization of international law by unaccountable global clerics aligned with those who wish us harm.

Simply put, Francesca Albanese is an anti-American agent provocateur who has built a career on agitprop against Israel and the United States. Being held accountable is long overdue.

One added benefit of these sanctions? She’ll now face considerable difficulty peddling her venom at U.S. universities—the very institutions that once rolled out the red carpet for her brand of ideological warfare.

Stay tuned. ✪

STOP PRETENDING THE DEMOCRATS ARE IMPLODING

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iots, mutilations and ICE ambushes haven’t slowed the party’s renewed momentum. That should terrify anyone who thinks the tide has turned. Democrat leaders aren’t inciting attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of pure hatred for Donald Trump and his administration.

Their motives are strategic. Practical. By undermining immigration enforcement, they protect a pipeline of future Democrat voters; including violent criminals like the “family man from Maryland.” Once these illegal aliens receive driver’s licenses, they’ll land on voter rolls. They already count in the census, inflating congressional representation in blue states teeming with illegal immigrants. Democrats didn’t bring these “newcomers” here just to deport them.

If activists now ambush and shoot ICE agents, Democrat leaders seem to treat that as a price worth paying to preserve their long-term electoral advantage. And they can count on the corporate left-wing media to help them.

The press operates as an extension of the Democrat Party, not just in the United States but across the Western world. CNN, NBC, and MSNBC broadcast the same spin you’ll hear on CBC, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and France 4. With this media backing, Democrats face little scrutiny; even when they tacitly abet violence against federal agents.

Right now, public support for deportations hovers around 50%, and it might be higher if the media didn’t stage-manage the narrative. Watch a few minutes of network television or skim the New York Times, and you’ll come away thinking border czar Tom Homan’s raids target preschoolers and migrant field hands.

Fox News insists the anti-Trump mobs are just fringe radicals. They’re not. A massive leftist electorate just nominated Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor of New York City, and if the polls mean anything, he just might win in the fall. Other major cities are led by mayors only slightly less radical — Karen Bass in Los Angeles, Brandon Johnson in Chicago, Michelle Wu in Boston. When it comes to immigration, they’re just as hostile to ICE and just as gushingly sympathetic to illegal aliens as Mamdani.

The “people” voted for these multicultural, America-be-damned leftists. The fantasy that Democrat voters are victims of a hijacked party is infantile nonsense. A growing share of the American electorate has radicalized; including black voters, government employees, and especially college-educated white women, who dominate the culturally leftist bloc in my own Pennsylvania borough.

Despite years of street violence, riots, and inflammatory rhetoric, the Democrats haven’t collapsed. They still hold a slight edge in the generic congressional ballot. Polling shows the GOP ahead by only seven points. The Democrats may have lost ground, but they’re far from finished.

Let’s not forget: In the last presidential election, Democrats lost the popular vote by just two million votes, running a hapless candidate against an incumbent with enormous political energy. That’s how effective the Democrat machine remains; even in a lopsided matchup.

No one should mistake this for incompetence or insanity. Yes, the party boasts plenty of scatterbrained motor mouths such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). But don’t confuse theatrics with disarray. Democrat leaders push grotesque policies — mutilating children with “gender-affirming” surgeries, putting men in women’s sports, promoting race-based discrimination — but voters haven’t punished them for it.

Republican observers tend to judge the other side by their own standards. They also imagine that all or at least most Americans are on the same wavelength with them. But that may not be the case. Democrats don’t even pretend to feel regret when ICE officers take a bullet or when anarchists torch city blocks. They know their base relishes in the havoc.

This is calculated politics. Democrats want to expand their base through mass migration and lawfare, not persuasion. That’s cold strategy, not insanity. If Republicans want to win, they need to stop imagining their opponents are self-destructing lunatics. They aren’t. Democrats play to win. The GOP must prepare for a real fight, not fantasyland.✪

THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN CASE IS BIGGER THAN JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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On Tuesday, President Trump took umbrage at a question about the Justice Department’s assertion that there are no Epstein tapes, there is no client list, and there is nothing more to be released. The Twitterverse has been brutal towards AG Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and his #2, Dan Bongino. Many people were saying they felt betrayed, given the fact that, before the election, we were told that the files would be released and the criminals held to account.

The president has a point. There is a lot going on in Washington. There are natural disasters with dozens dead across Texas. There are continuing ICE protests across the country. There are budgets that need to be attended to, as well as rogue judges who need to be corralled, and numerous conflicts outside our borders that need to be midwifed. And all of that besides the basic blocking and tackling of running the government and trying to advance the administration’s rather ambitious agenda. And taking the time to talk about some files from a guy who’s been dead for six years seems like it might distract from all of that.

However, here’s the thing: People want answers that seem logical, that provide rational explanations to obvious questions, that provide proof that the speculation is wrong. This is particularly true when the people now saying there’s nothing there were the very people who promised that answers, transparency, and accountability would be coming when they won. Well, they won, and we’re getting the same obfuscation.

The truth is, if this were just a matter of a senator cheating on his wife with a lobbyist for some industry he regulates, it wouldn’t really matter in the big picture. If this were some bureaucrat taking bribes to sign a service contract for some shipping company, nobody would really care. Sure, the first is an ethics question, and the second is illegal, but beyond the participants themselves, they aren’t very important in the grand scheme of things.

The problem here is that this is all happening in an environment where Americans are coming to believe that no one is ever accountable for their actions. We see city centers across the country imploding as stores, shops, and hotels close because of the crime that sees hoodlums, thugs, and drug addicts in urban centers basically take or destroy with impunity whatever they want. We see judges issue injunctions against the administration despite SCOTUS specifically ruling they can’t. At the same time, we have politicians, Antifa, and activists undermining, hindering, and assaulting ICE agents who are trying to deport criminals, and the chances of them being held accountable for these crimes are almost nonexistent.

Nobody seems accountable for anything. It seems that, in 2025 in America, it’s only fools who actually obey the rules because everyone else seems to do whatever the hell they want.

It gets worse when you add to all that the fact that we’ve just spent much of the last 15 years watching politicians and the politically connected do whatever the hell they wanted and never face a reckoning. Remember Lois Lerner targeting Tea Party groups? Prosecution? Of course not.

How about Eric Holder being in Contempt of Congress? Jail time? Nope. Compare that to Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.

How about Hillary wiping her computer or Hunter Biden breaking basically every law in the book and getting a pardon from his daddy? Or Lisa Page and Peter Strzok not only not getting charged, but getting millions of dollars from the Justice Department after conspiring to keep Donald Trump out of the White House?

And the list goes on. In modern America, it seems as if no one is ever held accountable for their actions.

And so it is onto this backdrop that the Trump Administration tells us that 1) Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, and 2) there was no client list and there are no videos. And when reporters ask about it, the President gets indignant.

The problem with that is the Epstein case no longer has much of anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, per se. The guy’s dead and he’s not coming back. None of the crimes for which he was responsible can be undone.

But Americans have heard rumors that rich and powerful men, from politicians to tech billionaires to justices to high-priced lawyers and Hollywood stars, were all clients of Epstein in his sex trade with minors, yet they remain free as birds. The one person who was clearly demonstrated to have a connection reportedly settled with his accuser for millions of dollars.

We were told Epstein had logs and tapes that chronicled all of it and used them to blackmail his powerful clients. Indeed, in February, AG Pam Bondi said she hoped to release a “lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information” on Epstein and said of the material, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.”

Then, of course, there’s the fact that Epstein’s “assistant” Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor as well as transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. He himself was convicted of procuring underage prostitutes in 2008. Then the guy conveniently “committed suicide” in 2019 after being arrested on child trafficking charges, and the video of his cell was “accidentally” erased, or the cameras “malfunctioned,” or the video was inconclusive. His lawyers claimed that the particulars of his death were far more consistent with murder than suicide, and many Americans agreed.

And if all of that were not enough, Jeffrey Epstein was once a money man for the CIA, and Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was reputedly an MI6, KGB, and Mossad agent before, according to one theory, the Mossad allegedly killed him.

So here is where we are. A high flying millionaire with connections to the CIA and possibly the Mossad and MI6, who owned an island in the Atlantic and who is reported to have used it as a honey trap for the rich and powerful ends up dead and suddenly the people who were telling us they were going to expose the entire thing when they were on the outside are now telling us that there’s nothing to tell now that they’re on the inside.

The reality is that the Jeffrey Epstein case is far more important than Jeffrey Epstein ever was. There is evidence that Epstein was an asset for one or more intelligence agencies that were very possibly blackmailing powerful men in government, finance, and elsewhere. Against this backdrop, Americans feel like they have a right to know. There is a great deal of smoke around the Epstein case, and Occam’s razor suggests that it is likely to be exactly what it looks like: A honeypot operation set up by the CIA / Mossad / MI6 as a blackmail vehicle.

This case may not be as important as others on the President’s desk, but it’s a far bigger deal than I think he understands. He promised transparency and accountability. We are getting neither, and the more his administration obfuscates, the less people are going to trust him on those bigger issues. Americans want to know we’re moving back towards no one being above the law. This case exemplifies exactly that. How the President chooses to handle it will tell us a lot. ✪

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