Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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MAGA preachers are enabling the worst tendencies in Donald Trump by telling him that he was chosen by God, and calling for him to be the American Caesar.

They are constantly feeding that monstrous ego of his, and helping him to fulfill all that he wants. In other words, they are empowering the Antichrist. Read more


If the political parties continue to break down the norms in their quest for power, they will find that they win a lot of battles but lose the war for the American republic. This was exemplified in the wholly pointless Democrat-inspired shutdown for nearly 50 days that created massive doubt in the voters' minds of both parties. While Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party's left flank were clearly the instigators, the reaction of the voters was simple " if these two parties can't even keep the government open, a pox on both of them.


The Senate late Tuesday afternoon agreed to unanimously approve the House bill that calls for the Justice Department to release its Jeffrey Epstein files bill. When the bill arrives from the House, it will be deemed immediately passed by the Senate and sent to President Donald Trump's desk.


The US Department of Education will move multiple parts of the agency to other federal departments, an unprecedented and unilateral effort to dismantle an agency created by Congress in 1979 to ensure all Americans have equal access to educational opportunity and better coordinate federal programs.


An Israeli air attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded several, while the IDF shot a child and an Al Jazeera journalist in the occupied West Bank, wounding both of them.


Tuesday, November 18, 2025

We really are behind on healthcare in America. in El Salvador the government is no longer issuing birth certificates without a dna test proving who the father is.


A Flagler County woman has launched a campaign to carve out barrier islands stretching from St. Augustine to Ponce Inlet and rename the area Trump County. Jen Herold, 40, of The Hammock, has begun a petition campaign, accompanied by a podcast, YouTube videos and a social-media drive, to lay out her argument why Florida should have a 68th county.


In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats. Read more


A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of assaulting a Long Beach police officer died of an overdose weeks later at his parents' Riverside County home, the Long Beach Post reported. According to the newspaper, Isaiah Hodgson's attorney told a Long Beach Superior Court judge that Hodgson died in August. The body of Hodgson, 29, was found around 12:45 p.m. Aug. 22 when deputies responded to a home in the 25000 block of Avocet Circle in an unincorporated area near Hemet, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Hodgson was reportedly one of the agents involved in an immigration raid in June in Pico Rivera in which Adrian Martinez -- a 20-year-old U.S. citizen - was detained, according to Martinez's lawyer. Hodgson was also charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest for a July 7 incident at the Shoreline Village parking lot


So the question is ... are you?


So far, more than 100 federal court judges have ruled against the Trump administration in hundreds of lawsuits filed by states, unions, nonprofit organizations and individuals. While some of these rulings are fairly grounded in the Constitution, federal law, and precedent, many are expressions of primal rage from judges offended by the administration, and moving at breakneck speed to stop it. According to a Politico analysis, 87 of 114 federal judges who ruled against the administration were appointed by Democrat presidents, and 27 by Republicans. Most of the lawsuits were filed in just a few districts, with repeat activist judges leading the opposition.


Dismissing the swashbuckling sci-fi romp as "a total hoax" amid growing scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump made remarks Tuesday denying that he had written a 36-volume comic titled Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles. Obtained last month by the House committee investigating the late financier and child sex trafficker, the Time Pedophiles saga depicts Trump and Epstein journeying through various historical eras aboard Epstein's Chronolita Express time machine, taking on Edo-period samurai, ancient Roman legionaries, and Wild West gunslingers in their never-ending quest for underage sexual partners. Read more


Monday, November 17, 2025

WASHINGTON " The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 31-year-old Akhror Bozorov, a criminal illegal alien from Uzbekistan wanted in his origin country for belonging to a terrorist organization. Uzbekistan authorities issued an arrest warrant for Bozorov in 2022 for being a member of a terrorist organization. He is accused of distributing terrorist propaganda calling for jihad online and recruiting terrorists to join the jihad movement. Read more


As we and others have pointed out multiple times, many of the Black and Latino voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 are starting to regret it big time. The elections earlier this month are showing this clearly, as more data are being analyzed. Here is a comparison of election results in New Jersey showing the shift in 2024 (Biden to Trump voters) and 2025 (Trump to Mikie Sherrill voters).


YouGov runs approval polls of the president weekly. These provide lots of data for comparison purposes. One analysis, by G. Elliott Morris, is of Donald Trump's approval in Trump v.2.0 vs. Trump v1.0 among independents, the only group that could swing substantially in an election. Here are the data:


SB&D is reporting that economic development project activity in the American South, the world's third largest economy, is at the lowest mid-year point of any year since the SB&D 100 ranking was established in 1994. Deal activity in the region so far in 2025 is slower than any period during the COVID years of 2020 and 2021, as well as all years during the Great Recession from 2007-2010. (See data and 30-plus year history of the SB&D 100 below.) These numbers are also worse than any recession I have covered since 1983. So, in short, the worst we have ever seen, even if technically the U.S. is not in recession. And if deals are cratering like this in the South, the most desired economic development region in North America, then they are much worse in the Midwest, West and the Northeast. SB&D does not cover economic development in those U.S. regions.


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