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Five Quick Things: Traitors, Traitors Everywhere
I hate to end the week on such a dour note. It is the holidays, after all, and it’s the time of year to pull in the horns, gather around the national fireplace, and watch the various iterations of the Hallmark Channel’s single plotline on the boob tube.
Instead, I’m casting aspersions.
I would rather not do that, you know. I’d rather be cheerful.
But it’s hard to do that when things are so clearly askew.
What am I talking about? Well…
1. “Shipwrecked Survivors”
This is one of the more bizarre controversies imaginable. Our government has designated Cartel de los Soles, which is a drug cartel operated by the Venezuelan military serving as a logistics hub for the international cocaine trade, as a foreign terrorist organization, and it’s pretty well established that gives the president the power to execute military operations against that cartel’s operatives. (RELATED: We Should Declare War on the Cancerous Cartel in Caracas)
Which, they’re doing, by blowing drug boats out of the water as they ferry shipments of cocaine from ports in Venezuela and Colombia to larger vessels for transport to our shores. (RELATED: Battleship Was Always a Lot of Fun)
Since 1990, more than 600,000 Americans have been killed in this Opium War being prosecuted against us by the communist regime in Venezuela and its allies throughout Latin America and in China, which seems to be intensifying if anything.
Sure, last week I wrote that we shouldn’t have any more legal ambiguity about whether the Navy can blow those drug boats out of the water. I think we should declare war on the Maduro regime in Venezuela and take it out as a counteroffensive in this Opium War. But you wouldn’t think that the plight of cartel drug-runners laboring for a hostile and illegitimate foreign regime is an item even rising to that level of necessity.
And you’d be wrong. This week, the Left, and some of the more irritating born losers on the Right, have gone off the deep end in expressing outrage over the misfortune of the cartel thugs-turned-shark food in the Caribbean. (RELATED: ‘Don’t Give Up The Ship’? Seriously?)
NEW: Congressman @jahimes (D-CT), Ranking Member of House Intel Committee, emerges from SCIF briefing w/ Admiral Bradley, says he was shown unedited video of the second strike on a narco boat in September that killed two survivors, adding:
“What I saw in that room is one of the…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 4, 2025
That’s a different reaction than others had to the briefing…
I want to thank Admiral Bradley and General Caine for briefing Congress on the righteous strikes against narco-terrorists.
These drug cartels have been waging war against the American people for decades, and I am glad that President Trump is fighting back.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) December 4, 2025
If you think footage of drug trafficking boats getting blown out of the water is shocking, I encourage you to visit the inner city of Chicago, or Skid Row in Los Angeles and see what happens when more than 100k Americans are dying from OD every year. It’s mass murder.
So no, I… pic.twitter.com/viMkAOSJ8w
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) December 4, 2025
It isn’t like we’ve got some sort of debate about what the threat here is. The propaganda press might not have been interested enough to pass it along, but there’s a smoking gun out there…
Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal Barrios is an ex-military intelligence officer for the Venezuelan government and was a powerful official within Maduro’s Cartel de los Soles. Today, he’s in U.S. custody, charged with narco-terrorism, among other things. As part of a plea deal for a lighter sentence, he’s agreed to help the U.S. government by telling it everything he knows about Maduro and the cartel.
I’ve written a little about this in the past. He’s “provided information on how he collaborated with Colombian guerrillas and supervised the shipment of tons of cocaine to North America,” and in October, “during his pre-sentence hearing, his legal team admitted that Hugo Chávez and Maduro illegally used funds from PDVSA — Venezuela’s state-run oil and natural gas company — to finance other left-wing political movements in the world for at least 15 years.”
But on Wednesday, the Dallas Express exclusively obtained and published a letter that El Pollo wrote to Donald Trump, and boy, is it a doozy. To sum it up, he confirms something a lot of us already knew: Venezuela’s “government” purposely and consistently targets the United States.
In the letter, he explains that he fled Venezuela in 2017, knowing that he was wanted in the United States and would face charges, but he wanted to “dismantle Maduro’s criminal regime and bring freedom to my country.”
“Today, I see the need to address the American people about the reality of what the Venezuelan regime truly is — and why President Trump’s policies are not only correct, but absolutely necessary to the United States’ national security,” he wrote.
You should absolutely hit that PJ Media link just above the excerpt. Barrios’s letter is an atom bomb providing a casus belli for unrestricted warfare against the Maduro regime and anybody remotely connected to it.
Again, I’m 1o0 percent behind the idea of taking this to Congress and getting a declaration of war. But the drug boats are no different from pirates on the high seas, and there has never been a requirement of quarter for them. And these “shipwrecked survivors” of a missile strike on that one boat were apparently caught calling in help to salvage the cocaine the strike didn’t sink.
And yet you have this stupid uproar. Which is about taking out Pete Hegseth and disrupting the Department of War in the advent of kinetic operations to clean out Maduro and his thugs.
It’s pretty clear at this point that this is a lot bigger than the legalese arguments over drug boats getting shot up. This is about the Democrat Party attempting to save the Maduro regime (and its Cuban, Russian, and Chinese backers), which has been in a clandestine Opium War against the United States for years. (RELATED: Putin’s Caribbean Gambit)
You don’t like treason as a word to describe that? Fine. Give me another one. I’ll listen. But you’d better be convincing. And until you are, I’m calling these people traitors, bought and paid for by our enemies.
2. “Racism” and Somali Crooks
Perhaps I’m remiss for not writing a full column on this massive scandal involving what looks like the bulk of the Somalis in Minneapolis claiming their kids are autistic so they can draw a “crazy check” from the federal government and then pass a chunk of the proceeds to the Al-Shabaab terror group. (RELATED: Yes, the New York Times Really Ran a Story About Social Services Fraud by Immigrants)
I can explain myself. And it’s not that I’m afraid I’ll be called a racist, which is apparently why law enforcement in Minnesota was afraid to pursue these people. To the contrary, I can’t fill a whole column with my reaction to it.
A sentence will do: it was a massive, stupid mistake to ever take in tens of thousands of Somalis, whose society is arguably the most backward, dysfunctional and flat-out evil of any on earth, and this scam makes that clear, and the best thing we could do about it is to start denaturalizing and deporting as many of these people as we possibly can.
Why shouldn’t we be able to object to this? Why are we forced to tolerate it?
WOAH ? @JamesOKeefeIII undercover footage of Former Rep Ilhan Omar coworker saying Ilhan Omar came up with paying people for votes
“She’s (Ilhan Omar) the one who came up with all this (pay to vote)”
Ilhan Omar campaign staffers become precinct managers AND COUNT THE VOTES… pic.twitter.com/brBOzCku6m
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 4, 2025
Why do we have to tolerate this?
Here’s Ilhan Omar promoting the Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis for feeding kids.
The owner, who donated to her campaign, was convicted in the feeding our future $250 million fraud scheme
They stole hundreds of millions of dollars from hungry children. pic.twitter.com/9vWHyP2GBA
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2025
And why do we have to tolerate this?
A group of 18 Republican lawmakers have signed a letter blasting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for allowing foreigners to illegally obtain commercial driver licenses (CDLs) under his watch and demanding the revocation of such unlawfully issued CDLs.
The letter, led by Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN), began by telling Walz that his state “has the entire nation in shock and disbelief over the record level of fraud and mismanagement of taxpayer money that has occurred under your leadership.”
A recent audit by the Department of Transportation (DOT) found that a third of Minnesota’s non-domiciled CDLs — a license that non-citizens can obtain if they are authorized to work in the U.S. — were issued illegally.
The state was given 30 days to come into compliance and revoke the licenses, or risk losing up to $30.4 million in federal highway funding, a Wednesday department press release stated.
The letter went on to highlight Walz’s other scandals that came out before the latest CDL revelations, including a U.S. Treasury Department investigation into whether Walz and the Biden administration oversaw tax dollars being “diverted” to the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab due to “feckless mismanagement.”
Walz is undoubtedly a cretin of the first order, and he’s done everything he could to accelerate the damage to ordinary Minnesotans’ quality of life, not to mention the interests of American taxpayers, at the hands of the Somalis.
But it’s the Somalis doing the heavy lifting here, not Walz. Walz doesn’t do much heavy lifting, despite the ridiculous tough-guy image he tries to present.
Well, maybe not that tough…
Tim Walz says people are driving by his house calling him ‘retarded.’ ?
pic.twitter.com/tZ7VcBjDVR
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 4, 2025
Somehow you’re supposed to modulate your reaction to an entire community which openly endorses tribal criminality and generates results like these…
Minnesota Somali population:
Poverty: 58%
Food Stamps: 42%
Unemployed: 40%
No High School Education: 41%
Billions in fraud waste and abuse… pic.twitter.com/78m0FUJpTb
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 4, 2025
Kudos to Matt Walsh for taking a flamethrower to the propaganda press’s attempts to rehabilitate the Somalis…
There are around 80 thousand Somalians in Minnesota. If they contribute 67 million dollars in state and local taxes, that means they each pay on average about 800 bucks or so. To put that in perspective, the average Minnesotan pays anywhere from 8 to 10 THOUSAND in state and… https://t.co/kpDwlXcbEJ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 4, 2025
3. “Racism” and Afghan Terrorists
You know all about the Afghan who attacked two members of the West Virginia National Guard who were stationed in Washington, D.C. That was enough of an outrage to spark President Trump into putting a stop to importing any more Afghans. (RELATED: Trump’s Third-World Ban Misses the One Thing That Actually Matters)
And of course, that’s led to a loud chorus of screaming about how unjust it is for our government to “abandon” those Afghans who “helped” us while we spent 20 years trying to turn their country into a Western democracy (a fool’s errand, to be sure).
When the Corporate Joe Biden decided to pull out of Afghanistan willy-nilly, his administration flew almost 200,000 of these people with virtually no vetting into the United States, and we’re getting to pay the price for that. Did you hear about this?
AFGHAN TERRORIST ARRESTED TODAY JUST MILES FROM D.C. CAME IN UNDER BIDEN.
Today the heroes of @ICEgov arrested Jaan Shah Safi, an unvetted Afghan national who provided support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K). He also provided weapons to his father who is… pic.twitter.com/NFwiTSqVfb
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 3, 2025
Are you comfortable with this?
?Texas CDL Instructor Exposes Afghan Infiltration in Trucking Schools (**CORRECTED AUDIO**)
This is one of the most serious issues affecting national security I’ve ever seen.
Ellie, a senior CDL instructor who quit her job in 2021 in fear for her safety, exposes how… https://t.co/2PcURbfEF8 pic.twitter.com/WEVeeS4LjJ
— Shoe (@samosaur) December 4, 2025
It probably would have been a good idea to find a nice third country to resettle these folks in — as in, one with a solid membership in Dar al-Islam — rather than to import a whole community which would bring its values and pathologies to our shores.
Oh, but no. That wasn’t good enough for Corporate Joe Biden. So now you get a national security threat you can’t actually deal with, or else it’s evidence of “racism.”
And do the Democrats care about Afghans and others who come from hostile cultures taking pot shots at National Guardsmen, or running mass scams on the taxpayer, or poisoning Americans by the hundred thousand with foreign drugs?
Hell, no.
BREAKING: Pramila Jayapal just announced a new bill to completely eliminate the ability of DHS to detain illegal aliens and require that illegals be given taxpayer funded lawyers:
It has over 123 Democrat co-sponsors in the House. pic.twitter.com/j3oR2o5mWE
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 3, 2025
I said on X that I’d call Pramila Jayapal a traitor, except that to be a traitor, you have to owe allegiance to the country you’re committing treason against, and I’m not sure she ever accepted that duty. She’s just more of a domestic enemy than a traitor.
The fact we’re in a position to have to make these distinctions is, in itself… problematic.
And why? Well…
JOHN SOLOMON: 26 states are about to be forced to clean up their voter rolls, taking off non-citizens, dead people, the triple registrars, all of it.
The ’26 election could be fundamentally different for the Democrats, because they won’t have their dirty voter rolls!… pic.twitter.com/oEJUqgdeE3
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) December 4, 2025
4. The FBI Needs a Mascot. How About a Sloth?
His name is Brian Cole, and he allegedly was the miscreant who planted pipe bombs at the front entrances of both the RNC and DNC in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
And he got away with it for five years before the FBI finally found him in Woodbridge, Virginia.
MORE details on this news we broke this am — @FBI arrested suspect 5-year-long pipe bomb case.
Problem: suspect was identified in a fresh review of old evidence and could have possibly been arrested years ago, sources tell @KDilanianMSNOW and me. https://t.co/iuo3Tp6Uml
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) December 4, 2025
Boy, you talk about an aggressive investigation. How about these guys?
From the Pipe Bomber FBI Affidavit:
The FBI tracked Brian Cole’s bomb making equipment purchases to Home Depot and WalMart.
His cell phone pinged the area of the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021.
His car was placed a half mile from the bombs on January 5. pic.twitter.com/go7mKyqZme
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) December 4, 2025
So what do we know about Brian Cole?
Well, would it surprise you to find out that he’s an Antifa lunatic?
BREAKING: Pipe Bomber suspect ID’d as Brian Cole from Virginia, per NBC.
At least one outlet describes him as having ties to Antifa. @julie_kelly2 working to confirm the reporting.
This is a major development if proven accurate.
We were told Antifa wasn’t involved in J6… https://t.co/82y2RPjiM1
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) December 4, 2025
Nobody in the Ku Klux Klan has had a bowel movement in 40 years without the FBI having documented it in triplicate. Which isn’t a complaint, by the way. But you’d think Antifa would warrant similar treatment. And yet this Antifan commits one of the most high-profile “unsolved” crimes of domestic terrorism over the past decade, and Patel says the FBI finally solved it using…
…no new evidence.
I’m not going to trash Kash Patel and Dan Bongino as lots of others are doing. I don’t think Patel and Bongino have much to work with. I think the FBI is unsalvageable, and Patel’s role needs to be transformed into something similar to that of Linda McMahon’s at Education — which is to supervise your own obsolescence. (RELATED: DOJ Files Charges Against Antifa)
There needs to be a legitimate counterintelligence agency in this country, and it needs to be run by people who aren’t corrupted by foreign intelligence agencies, as the FBI’s current counterintelligence operations are. And there is a federal role in law enforcement to be had, though the current model is fairly suspect, and perhaps the feds should operate as a support staff, clearinghouse, and facilitator for local and state law enforcement agencies to work together.
But if it takes five years to find a pipe bomber just down the road in Virginia with all the resources the FBI has, you aren’t trying. And you aren’t fooling anybody.
And the only rational response is to say this agency has run its course and needs to be atomized, if perhaps to be rebuilt along different lines.
5. God Does
I could go on with the expositions and suggestions of treachery, but I just can’t. And I suspect you need a break as well.
So instead, I’ll introduce you to my favorite band, the CMA Award-winning Red Clay Strays out of Mobile, Alabama.
Lead singer Brandon Coleman expressed a bit of confusion about winning a country music award when his band doesn’t really identify as a country band. But there isn’t a current category to fit the Strays into; they’re more of a blues-y Southern rock band, but that isn’t a category of its own. Or perhaps more to the point, we put folks like that into the country category.
They used to call it Country & Western. Maybe it ought to be Country & Southern now.
Anyway, I could show you a whole bunch of different videos to expose you to the Red Clay Strays. But this is the one.
Enjoy. And have yourself a merry little weekend!
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