Rick Brainard

@USATRUMPMAN1 Typical thinking of the Left. Find a problem that doesn't exist and claim that it's whatever the woke term of the day it is. Then try to resolve the problem, make a rule that solves the problem when in reality creates the perceived problem in the 1st place.

261 years ago today, a 29 year old country lawyer with nine days of legislative experience stood up in the Virginia House of Burgesses and basically threatened the King of England with assassination. His name was Patrick Henry. He had been a burgess for nine days. He was wearing a borrowed wig. The Stamp Act had just arrived in the colonies and the senior members of the House, men like Peyton Randolph and Richard Henry Lee, were quietly trying to figure out how to politely object. Henry did not politely object. He stood up and introduced seven resolutions. The first four were respectful. The fifth said Virginians could only be taxed by Virginians. The sixth said any other tax was illegal. The seventh said anyone who claimed otherwise was an enemy of the colony. Then he gave the speech. "Caesar had his Brutus. Charles the First his Cromwell. And George the Third..." The Speaker of the House jumped up and shouted "Treason! Treason!" Henry paused. Looked around the chamber. Looked at the Speaker. Finished his sentence. "...may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it." The fifth resolution passed by one vote. The Speaker had it stricken from the record the next morning. It did not matter. Henry's friends had already leaked all seven resolutions to printers up and down the seaboard, presented as if all of them had passed. By August every colonial paper had printed them. The Stamp Act riots started six weeks later. Stamp distributors were tarred and feathered from Boston to Charleston. The Sons of Liberty formed in the wake of the resolves. Thomas Jefferson, then a 22 year old law student, was standing in the doorway of the House that day. He said decades later he had never heard anything like it. John Adams called Patrick Henry the man who "gave the first impulse to the ball of revolution." Lexington was ten years and 11 months away. The fuse was lit on May 29, 1765.

A former mayor pleaded guilty Friday to acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government. Eileen Li Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, allegedly acted "at the direction and control" of Chinese government officials between 2020 and 2022, without notifying U.S. authorities, prior to taking office. According to court documents, Wang worked alongside a convicted Chinese agent, who is already serving a four-year federal prison sentence, to operate a website posing as a local Chinese-American news outlet. Prosecutors described the website as a propaganda arm for the Chinese Communist Party that published content supplied directly by Chinese government officials. She faces up to 10 years in prison. The judge has scheduled sentencing for October 6, 2026.

🚨 BREAKING: FBI has just RAIDED and ARRESTED the man who I caught on video threatening the lives of an ICE agent and his family outside ICE Newark Nicholas Scelfo is facing FEDERAL FELONIES THIS IS HOW IT’S DONE! 🔥 THANK YOU to @FBIDirectorKash and @DAGToddBlanche for PERSONALLY working with me on this. You PROMISED you’d find him, and you delivered. WELL DONE! 👏 ACTING AG BLANCHE: “FAFO.”

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump EXPOSES that a HUSSEIN Judge has unilaterally blocked the Trump-Kennedy Center and all improvements, meaning 47 will now transfer it to Congress UNBELIEVABLE! Why are Democrats suing to stop saving dilapidated buildings!? “Shockingly, a Judge appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, Christopher Cooper, ruled that The Kennedy Center…is not allowed to close for these renovations, which would not be possible to properly do without such a closure.” “Additionally, Judge Cooper ruled that the 36 Member Board of Trustees, which unanimously voted to add the name “TRUMP” onto the former Kennedy Center, making it The Trump Kennedy Center, did not have the right to do such an addition, and the name, “TRUMP,” must be removed.” “Therefore… we are going to be working with Congress to transfer this failing Institution back to them so they can make a determination as to what to do with it.” “Judge Cooper should be ashamed of himself! I cannot be involved with a situation where danger to the Public is allowed to flourish in plain and open sight.” “Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into “NEVER NEVER LAND.” There has never been a President of the United States who has been treated so unfairly by the Courts as I but, that’s OK, I will continue to do, what is considered to be, a great job for the wonderful people of our Country.” “I have instructed the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this Institution, giving them the responsibility for its Operation, Maintenance, and Management. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

“The Democrat Party is like an alien entity within our politics.” Mark Levin on the history of the Democrat Party in America. Full episode out now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

On this day in 1777, George Washington broke camp at Morristown after secretly winning a battle the British never knew he fought. He had arrived in January with the wreckage of an army. 3,000 men. No shoes. No blankets. Pay months in arrears. The Continental Army was, in his own words, "reduced to a handful." Then smallpox arrived. 90 percent of deaths in the Continental Army during the Revolution came from disease, and smallpox was the worst of them. It killed roughly 1 in 3 it infected. Soldiers who survived were often blind or disfigured. An outbreak in camp could end the war in a week. Washington made one of the most radical decisions any commander has ever made. He ordered the mass inoculation of the entire army. Inoculation in 1777 meant deliberately infecting healthy men with live smallpox by cutting their arm and rubbing pus from a sick patient into the wound. It worked. About 1 in 50 died instead of 1 in 3. But the recovering soldiers were bedridden, contagious, and useless for a month. If the British found out the Continental Army was half delirious with fever in tents around Morristown, the war was over. So Washington did it in total secrecy. He wrote to the Surgeon General: "I need not mention the necessity of as much secrecy as the nature of the Subject will admit." He staggered the inoculations. He intercepted mail. He had recovered men drill in public so spies would see a healthy army. It worked. By the time he marched out of Morristown 249 years ago today, he had nearly 9,000 men, virtually all immune to the disease that had been killing more soldiers than the Redcoats. It was the first mass military inoculation campaign in recorded history. It happened 18 years before Jenner published on vaccination. And it almost certainly saved the Revolution. They never teach this part.

THIS deserves a ton more attention.  Biden regime used tax dollars to fund radical anti-Israel protests and terrorist-linked NGOs. judiciary.house.gov/media/press-re…

@GavinNewsom Breaking: Gavin Newsom created his own currency and will be requiring all Californians to use it. All on orders from his employer, China.

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@_Zaraquin You obviously failed history.

Stealing land since 1948 and crying victim. Fuck Israel.

@BernieSanders Then you should resign, you old bolshevik fool. You literally have made millions off of the taxpayers dime.

A federal judge just ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center because it honors JFK, not Donald Trump. America deserves a president, not a narcissist-in-chief who treats public office as a vehicle for self-promotion and personal enrichment.

Hamas terrorists are firing mortars from tents in civilian clothing. When Israel kills them, Hamas claims they were just innocent civilians. It was all propaganda from the beginning.

On this day in 1787: James Madison & Edmund Randolph presented the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention. They proposed a powerful national government with three branches legislative, executive & judicial laying the essential blueprint for the U.S. Constitution. The foundation of American governance was born.

Mosques are popping up like a fungus in every city in the U.S. Yet so many Americans are asking why are they stopping traffic to “pray” in the streets. It’s not about prayer, folks. It’s a declaration of war. The invaders are declaring their ownership.

Fun fact: In 1917, the Balfour Declaration was written. The Arabs rejected it because they wanted all the land. They refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty on the land. In 1920, the League of Nations gave Britain the official Mandate for the land that had belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The entire area was set aside as the Jewish homeland. This included what is today Israel (with Gaza, Samaria and Judea) and the whole of Jordan. The Arabs rejected this too. They wanted all the land and refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty. In 1922, the Saudi Hashemite royals and other Arabs made a secret deal with Britain behind the Jews’ backs, and without the approval of the League of Nations. Britain then carved out Transjordan and gave the entire area to the Arabs. This was 77% of the total land that had been promised as the Jewish homeland. The Arabs happily accepted and took Transjordan, but they still rejected the remaining 23% for the Jews. They refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty on the land. Now ask yourself this question: If the Arabs were already given 77% of the land that was meant for the Jewish state, why are we still talking about carving up the last 23% and giving them even more? When you see the truth, you understand who the real problem is, and why we will fight to keep the little land we have left.

Hezbollah hit a church.  Not a word from the usual online Islamists, neo-fascist isolationists, and assorted perverts.

@mark_slapinski @DDSBFlood

This is better.

@NYCMayor Then demand that your Nazi Islamic brothers in Iran to capitulate. Islam is the original Nazi movement in history.

Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families. Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.

1/8 Jewish Soldiers of the American Revolution Once again, the info that isn’t in most history books for Jewish American Heritage Month and #America250 We’ve covered the Jewish financiers who kept the Continental Army supplied. Now meet the Jewish soldiers who actually fought on the front lines. Out of only ~2,500 Jews in the colonies, roughly 100–200 served — a huge percentage for the time. They fought in every major battle. #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth #America250

Long before becoming the Father of Our Country, a young 22-year-old George Washington fired the opening shots of the French and Indian War on 28 May 1754. Sent by Virginia’s Governor Dinwiddie, Washington led the militia to the Ohio Valley. After learning of a French reconnaissance party camped in a hidden glen, he and his men, supported by Mingo allies under Tanacharison, launched a dawn ambush at Jumonville Glen. The short, sharp fight ended with the death of French commander Jumonville, and most of his party were killed or captured. This first clash set Washington on his legendary path, immediately promoting him to Lieutenant Colonel, and helped spark a worldwide conflict.

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Republicans were ROBBED of 18 House seats — and electoral votes — because ILLEGALS are counted in the Census, and red states got undercounted Democrats unfairly have a +18 seats We must BAN illegals from the Census and re-do it!