The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The Big Yellow Button Is Back Again!

Posted on | April 12, 2026 | No Comments

We are now less than three months away from the 250th anniversary of American independence, which means that the “Early Bird Special” at my favorite fireworks wholesaler will soon be ending. That’s the shortest explanation for why I’ve once again super-sized the PayPal “donate” button for the benefit of near-sighted readers who otherwise may have overlooked the PayPal button. The first time I did this, seven years ago, the financial situation was so dire that I posted a picture of Mrs. Other McCain in a bikini. Fortunately, the household budget has improved since then, so I’m not fretting over the electric bill now. However my favorite wholesale fireworks outlet has a $750 minimum purchase to qualify for their 25% Early Bird discount, and so why not the bikini?

Nineteen ninety was a very good year, my friends. Perhaps you can see why keeping my wife happy is Job Number One, and despite the improvement in our household finances, we’re not so affluent that taking out $750 for a wholesale fireworks purchase would make my wife happy. She tolerates my annual pyrotechnical extravaganzas, which is not to say she approves of the expense. From her point of view, it’s terribly wasteful, whereas from my point of view, it’s therapeutic. Maintaining sanity in this crazy world is difficult, especially when your day job requires you to pay attention to politics. The business of assembling a fireworks show — timing all those fuses in search of the perfect finale, etc. — gives me a distraction from the howling madness, and a constructive outlet for my mental and emotional energies.

 

That’s the finale of our 2020 show, and we hope to make it extra special for this year’s 250th celebration of July 4th. So whatever you could contribute — $5, $10, $25 — would be greatly appreciated because the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are still:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Fireworks

In The Mailbox: 04.13.26

Posted on | April 14, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Two days left until the tax deadline. Get ‘er done, people. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Looks like the Democrats actually decided to do so. For their own advantage, of course.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Swalwell Scandals, also, Anatomy of a Manufactured Scandal
357 Magnum: MB&F – Insane High End Watches and More, also Is The Buffalo City School System Obstructing an Investigation?
EBL: HOA Karen gets arrested, Baked Red Snapper, “The First Gun is Fired; May God Protect the Right”, Orbán Out in Hungarian Elections, and Baked Fish
Twitchy: Bad Orange Woman Shares Wisdom Of Minnesotan Who Assaulted TPUSA Reporter, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) “Shocked” To Find Bestie Swalwell Lived Double Life, and Does Anybody Believe Pelosi’s Answer To This Question About Swalwell’s Resignation?
Louder With Crowder: California attempting to pass new “Stop Nick Shirley Act” to make investigating illegal immigrants a crime, Investigative Footage Shows Taxpayer Funded USAID Food Donations Being Sold In Haitian Street Market, Mamdani celebrates his first 100 days of socialism by mocking iconic Margaret Thatcher quote, Reporter excitedly interviews the new first-place winner of a girls’ high school track meet, and There’s been a lot of Good Trump vs. Bad Trump lately
Vox Popoli: AIPAC Rejects Peace, Saving the Strait, and Mailvox: TFG in Print
Cedar Sanderson: Cleaning Up Infodumps, also, Oatmeal Cookies
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Women’s Self Defense, also, Lessons Should Be Learned
The Abbey of Misrule: The Easter Rising 
Upstream Reviews: Engines of Liberty
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: A Weekend In Geopolitics Is A Long Time
Draw & Talk Comics: I Had It Right The First Time
JIm McCoy: Zombie Deserter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign, Resigns From Office, DOJ Opens Investigation Into Mob Attack on Conservative Journalist in Minneapolis, Los Angeles Teachers Unions Force Major Raise to Avoid Strike, Congress to Tackle DHS Shutdown, Govt. Funding, Voter ID Bill on Return, and Democrat Perfidy Knows No Bounds
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 83 – Gun Leather
BattleSwarm: “Enhance. Enhance. Enhance.”, Swalwell’s Crime: Rape, Or Opposing The Party? and Followup – Farewell To Swalwell
Behind The Black: A pause in posting, also, Three launches, two by SpaceX and one by China 
Cafe Hayek: On Trump’s Latest Boast About His Tariffs, also, More on Job Growth On Trump’s Watch
CDR Salamander: European Navies’ Lessons, 34 Ships & $65.8 Billion Is Nothing To Sneeze At
Chicago Boyz: A Day At Folkfest, also, The Chavezing of Eric Swalwell
Da Tech Guy: My Pintastic NE 2026 Gallery
Dana L:oesch: Swalwell Quits CA Governor Race, Tucker Carlson Presents Russell Brand As New “Christian” Influencer, Breaking – Swalwell Resigns From Congress, 
Don Surber: Gay propaganda
Elizabeth Nickson: Globalism Is A Crime Scene – Iran Is The Master-Level Reset, There’s A Lot Of Ruin In A Nation, 
Gates Of Vienna: Brescia Imam Likes ’Em Young, I’m Polishing My Hubcaps, and Baa-a-a-a!
The Geller Report: Illegals Killed 13,000 Americans, That’s 64% of All Murder Cases , Israel Takes Out Chemical Weapon Factory Making Fentanyl Bombs in Iran, Oil Surge – Tankers Flock to Gulf of America as Hormuz Blockade Reroutes Global Supply, Muslims Slaughter An Entire Christian Family in Nigeria, and Victor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Hungary Election
Hollywood In Toto: Why Adam McKay’s Thrash Drowns in Climate Fearmongering, Will Prada 2 Be More ‘Maverick’ than Malcolm?, Here’s Only Excuse for Tim Dillon’s Insane Anti-Trump Rant, Mark Normand Asks Gen Z the Ultimate Culture War Question, and Will Public Accept Sanitized Michael Biopic?
Legal Insurrection: Several States Considering New Campus Carry Laws, Newly Released 2019 Impeachment Files Point to Previously Undisclosed Exculpatory Evidence, Blue States Bleed Families While Red States Gain Ground, Trump Says We May Stop by Cuba After We’re Finished With Iran, and Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Without Prejudice
Nebraska Energy Observer: REAX, Iran, and Is NATO Finished?
Outkick: USA Today’s Billy Napier Fluff Piece Is The Worst Thing You’ll Read All Week, When Asked A Simple Question, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert Raises Question Of Gender, Overnight Masters Sensation Costs Himself Disgusting Amount Of Money During Sunday Disaster, Rangers And Athletics Pitchers Searching For Footing, and Sophie Cunningham Keeps Ripping Off Her Clothes For SI, Amanda Balionis Had A Big Masters & A Dumb Rory Debate
Power Line: The harder they fall, S&P is UP for 2026, Viktor Orban Departs the Scene, Canada, Circling the Drain, and California to Tax Billionaires? Hold Our Beer!
Racket News: We Are Doomed & Our Leaders Are Insane
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Dismisses Edited Immigration Video, Says Both His Opponents Are “Losing Big”
The Political Hat: Normies Don’t Like Political Histrionics
This Ain’t Hell: Never-ending repairs…ended, US-Iran Talks Fail, Straits, Monster, and ammo, and Trumped!
Transterrestrial Musings: Swalwell, New-Car “Features”, and The “Ceasefire”
Victory Girls: Artemis II Mission Complete, Space Dreams Are Alive, Terrorist State Iran Chooses Unwisely — Trump Closes Strait of Hormuz, and Newsom Tax Virtue Signaling Comes Back To Bite Him
Watts Up With That: Cave Discovery Reveals Today’s Desert Climates Were Recently Far Warmer, Wetter, Teeming With Life, Wrong Again, Associated Press, New England electricity prices among the highest nationwide, Fossil Fuels Shine Light of Hope in Africa, and When is a “Drought” NOT a Drought?
The Federalist: America’s 250th Anniversary Is The Perfect Time To Resurrect Our Slain Statues, 6 Things To Know About 2019 Impeachment Coup Against Trump, As New Docs Confirm Federalist Reporting, Democrats Aren’t Far Behind Canada In Efforts To Ban Christian Speech, The Other Villain In The Swalwell Allegations Is The Complicit Corporate Press, and Fixing The Fertility Rate Starts With Getting Boys And Girls To Talk To Each Other
Mark Steyn: You Don’t Have to Be Bananas to Work Here, Defiant Spirit – Whisky Galore! tells a Scottish Joke, “Taxman”, Plus ça régime-change, plus c’est la même chose, and Only Connect

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Rule Five Monday: Blue Monday

Posted on | April 13, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today’a appetizer is a last minute grab from @rulefivetweets on X.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

EBL: Masters Weekend, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Rock & Roll, Rovers on the Moon, “I’m A Believer”, Make American Immigration Great Again, MAGA Airman Rescue & Iran Deadline, The Predator That Almost Wiped Out Mankind, “Waterloo”, and Nuremburg

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Suvi Laiho, Fish Pic Friday – Allie Butler, Mercy, And I Bet She Was a Good Dog Too, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Maryland Has Crabs, Trump Sets Sights on Iran’s Power, Bridges and Oil, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Good News, F15 WSO Rescued in Iran Firefight and Happy Easter! 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Natives vs. Newcomers in Virginia: What ‘Spanberger’s Lobster’ Is Really About

Posted on | April 13, 2026 | No Comments

Current Virginia congressional districts (click image to enlarge)

When I was a young newspaper staffer in Rome, Georgia, my boss was Pierre-Rene Noth. He was half-Jewish and half-Catholic. His father had been a left-wing journalist in France before the family fled the Nazis. Pierre was very liberal, but when it came to journalism, his motto was “local, local, local.” Realizing that news consumers turned to TV and other media for national news, his obsession was about focusing on local issues, and one of Pierre’s pet peeves was how the congressional map in Georgia at the time had Rome being represented in Congress by a guy from the Atlanta suburbs in Cobb County. Pierre believed that, if the map were properly drawn, the northwest corner of the state would be its own congressional district, with Rome in the middle of it. Pierre died a few years ago and did not live to see the fruition of his vision, although I can’t imagine he would have been pleased when the Rome-based 14th District elected Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress. Anyway . . .

Pierre’s idea about properly drawn congressional maps was on my mind Sunday as I drove — via Winchester, Warrenton and Culpeper — to Louisa, Virginia, to cover the “Vote No” rally. That route took me through some of the most scenic country I’d ever laid eyes on, and the beauty of the place just made me more angry that Abigail Spanberger wants to deprive the people who live there of their rightful representation.

As you can see from the map above, the current district map of Virginia is a masterpiece of simplicity. The two basic principles of a good map are that districts should be (a) coherent and (b) compact. By “coherent,” I mean that the geography of a district ought to make some kind of sense; counties shouldn’t be split up unnecessarily and districts ought not to cross mountain ranges or major rivers if such distortions can be avoided. By “compact,” I mean that a district ought not to go sprawling over the countryside for no reason. The shape of the district should not resemble a lizard or a crustacean. In both of these regards, it’s hard to find any fault with the current Virginia congressional maps. You’ll notice that two small districts — the 8th and the 11th — are crammed up next to the Potomac River across from D.C., representing the urbanized precincts of Alexandria, Arlington and Fairfax. The 10th District encompasses the rapidly growing area around Dulles International Airport, as well as Fauquier, Prince William and Rappahanock counties. Most admirable is how the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, stretching from Roanoake up toward the West Virginia panhandle, is all encompassed in the Sixth District, while the southwest corner of the state — coal country down there — is represented as District 9. This is a near-perfect map, and you see that District 5 is both coherent and compact, covering central Virginia down to the North Carolina border. Now look at this:

That monstrosity is what the 5th District of Virginia would look like if this redistricting referendum passes next Tuesday. You could consult a thesaurus for the right words to describe it — abomination, etc. — but you certainly can’t call it compact or coherent. If you’re a Republican voter, it’s the Creature That Ate Your Representation.

Did I mention that Spanberger is from New Jersey? Her family moved to Virginia when she was 13, and she has hated it ever since. Being in Congress — she won her seat by a slender margin in 2018, a high-tide year for Democrats — was a way for Spanberger to inflict revenge on the Virginia natives she has always despised. And this is the factor you have to realize about Virginia politics: In the D.C. suburbs, almost none of the residents are actually from Virginia. They’re all from somewhere else originally, and often quite recent transplants. They are ambition-fueled careerists with no real roots in the community. Virginia has been positively overrun by these newcomers in recent decades. The population of the Commonwealth has increased by almost 2.5 million since 1990, and the bulk of those are crammed into Northern Virginia, living in townhouses, condominiums, apartments and cookie-cutter subdivisions of “McMansions” built on quarter-acre lots.

Get out into the countryside, however, and you meet the real Virginians. That’s who turned out at the Louisa County Courthouse on Sunday. Folks in that part of Virginia can not only tell you what regiment their Confederate great-grandfather fought with, they can tell you which regiment his great-grandfather served in under General Washington. These people have actual roots, some of them all the way back to Jamestown, and the Democrats absolutely hate these real Virginians.

Well, that’s why I drove all the way to Louisa:

Roadsides in this part of the Old Dominion are festooned with signs: “VOTE NO APRIL 21.” From here to Winchester, a distance of more than 100 miles, scarcely any signs could be seen expressing support for the Democrat-backed referendum that would redistrict Virginia’s congressional delegation and effectively silence the voices of those who dwell in the rural parts of the Commonwealth. But those voices were heard loudly Sunday afternoon on the lawn of the county courthouse here.
“What are you going to do?” Republican Rep. John McGuire asked the crowd.
“Vote no!” the hundred or so attendees shouted.
“I think you can do better than that,” the fifth district’s congressman said. “What are you going to do?”
“Vote no!” they yelled in reply.
Early voting has been going on for weeks, and when those at the courthouse rally were asked for a show of hands of who had already voted, nearly every hand was raised. With barely more than a week to go before April 21, however, the question is whether their votes — and those of Republican voters elsewhere in Virginia — will be enough to prevent passage of the partisan gerrymander that newly-installed Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the Democrat-controlled legislature would impose. . . .

You can read the rest of my latest American Spectator column.



 

Category: American Spectator, Congress, Virginia

FMJRA 2.0: Grinding Forward

Posted on | April 13, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another good week to be a Senators fan! The week began badly as we lost two out of three at Cleveland, but tonight we swept Pete’s Brewers to finish the week 73-74, still in second place behind the Twins but now 15.5 games ahead of the Brewers – and more importantly, just a bit ahead of the 71-73 Royals, who are coming off a four-game losing streak and facing the Tribe, against whom they are 3-6. So I have a good chance to expand my hair-thin lead in the race for the last AL wildcard spot. Go Tribe!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

4-2 is very good indeed.

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless: The Family Had ‘Great Satan’ Green Cards
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FMJRA 2.0: O’s, Yeah!
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Rule 5 Sunday: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
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In The Mailbox: 04.06.26
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It Would Be Wrong to Say Democrats Are Going Completely Crazy Today…
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In the Mailbox: 04.07.2026
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Trump Declares Ceasefire in Iran
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In The Mailbox: 04.08.26
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In The Mailbox: 04.09.26
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‘Independent Journalist,’ My Ass!
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In The Mailbox: 04.10.26
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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

 

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Memo From the National Desk: Tales of Fear and Loathing in the Commonwealth

Posted on | April 12, 2026 | No Comments

Filet-O-Fish combo and a deadline

LOUISA, Virginia — It was a lovely 150-mile drive to get here for today’s “VOTE NO” rally at the Louisa County Courthouse. A sunny spring day, with the trees turning green, and the picturesque scenery of central Virginia, adorned with signs that the Old Dominion ain’t dead yet.

The courthouse crowd was friendly, and my biggest problem today was that my deadline for the American Spectator was 6 p.m., which meant that when the rally ended at 4, I had to race over here to the McDonald’s, set up the National Desk in the corner booth and get to work. Cranking out 1,000 words in two hours? Yeah, I used to do that routinely during the years when I was a roving campaign correspondent, but I was younger then, and the deadline rush is more challenging now that I’m a gray-bearded senior citizen. That Filet-O-Fish combo cost $10.34, if any of y’all are thinking of hitting the tip jar, as I certainly hope you do.

Some of y’all remember how wild it was back in the days of the Tea Party, when I raced all over upstate New York in a rented Nissan covering the special election campaign that ended the political career of Dede Scozzafava, then turned right around to cover Scott Brown’s campaign to win Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts. For the final week of the 2010 midterm campaign, I drove all the way to Boca Raton, Florida, where I spent election night at Allen West’s victory party. There were a lot of victory parties that night — “The Republican Mandate,” I called it, after Ann Marie Buerkle was finally declared the winner in a New York district where she was outspent 5-to-1 by the Democrat incumbent she beat.

There’s a reason I don’t believe in quitting, because I have seen miracles with my own eyes. If you believe you can win, confidence is contagious, and a real grassroots effort can overcome even the most formidable odds. Such are the odds facing Republicans in this Virginia referendum battle, where the GOP has been outspent at least 3-to-1 by the big-money Democrats (including, of course, George Soros). The key point is that this is a special election with nothing else on the ballot except this godawful gerrymander, and polls indicate that at least 25% of Democrats don’t want to vote for Spanberger’s Monster, as we might call it. If Republicans can get any kind of grassroots energy going, they can deliver a punch in the nose that will make Democrats regret they ever tried to inflict this scheme on the Commonwealth. There are some hopeful signs.

People here are offended by what Spanberger and the Democrats are trying to do to them. This county would be shoved into a district that looks like a bad sketch of a lobster, the tail reaching all the way up to the Potomac River more than 100 miles away. All we can do is hope that their indignation is sufficient to inspire an overwhelming turnout that overwhelms the foreign scum currently occupying Northern Virginia.

Anyway, that’s getting ahead of the game. My column in the American Spectator should be online around midnight, and I’ve still got a two-and-half hour drive to get back home. Maybe you could cover that $10.34 Filet-O-Fish combo, or $4 for a gallon of gas, but as always I remind you that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are still:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

Category: Economics, Fear. Loathing., Shoe Leather Fund, Virginia

Stop the Gerrymander, Virginia!

Posted on | April 12, 2026 | No Comments

If the election of Abigail Spanberger as governor of Virginia has proven anything, it’s that there are no more “moderate” Democrats. Since taking office in January, Spanberger has been ramming through a left-wing agenda that might be more suitable to Berkeley, California, than to the Old Dominion, and the very worst of it is the proposal to redistrict Virginia’s congressional map by an outrageous partisan gerrymander. Among the many atrocities of this is the proposed 7th District, which would stretch all the way from the Potomac River in Arlington County to Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah Valley and down to Powhatan County, below the James River 30 miles west of Richmond.

The irony is that this is being done in direct contradiction to the desires of Virginia voters, 66% of whom approved a 2020 referendum that established a non-partisan commission to handle the state’s redistricting. Despite this 2-to-1 majority for the non-partisan approach, Spanberger and the Democratic majority in the Virginia legislature rammed through a measure for a new referendum to implement one of the most egregious gerrymanders in American history. Republican Rep. Ben Cline, whose 6th District would be wiped out by the gerrymander, explains the stakes:

As it stands today, Virginia has one of the most balanced congressional delegations in the country. In the 2024 elections, Democrats received 51.4 percent of the statewide congressional vote while Republicans received about 47.6 percent. The current delegation reflects that closely, with a 6-to-5 Democratic majority.
But Richmond politicians decided to try to ram through a new map that benefits one party over the other so badly that it’s widely considered the most extreme attempt at gerrymandering anywhere in the country. If approved, the new map takes Virginia from a 6-to-5 party split to a delegation that’s 10-to-1 in favor of Democrats.

Early voting is already under way, with Election Day on April 21, which is a week from Tuesday. Democrats pushing the “yes” vote have vastly outspent Republicans — the RNC has been MIA on this — but the backlash against Spanberger’s radical agenda is strong enough that there is a very real chance the “no” vote can win in a low-turnout election.

The referendum has deceptive and confusing language about “restoring fairness,” and opponents of the gerrymander have worked to make it clear that a “no” vote is what fairness really requires.

This afternoon at 2 p.m., there will be a rally at the courthouse in Louisa County, with featured speakers including 5th District Rep. John McGuire. Louisa County is about 150 miles south of here, and it will take about two-and-a-half hours for me to drive there and cover the rally. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these shoe-leather reporting road trips, but since I’m already raising funds for other patriotic duties, maybe it’s time to earn my keep. Feel free to hit the tip jar, and if you’re in the vicinity of Louisa Courthouse today, look for the old man in the fedora.



 

Category: Democrats, Virginia

The Christine Blasey Ford Standard and the Sudden Destruction of Eric Swalwell

Posted on | April 11, 2026 | No Comments

Far be it from me to defend Eric Swalwell, now accused of rape and other “inappropriate” behavior by at least four women. If CNN is willing to vouch for the credibility of Swalwell’s accusers, then certainly I will not cast doubt on their veracity. However, I have never supported Swalwell, and have not voted for any Democrat for more than three decades, so my hands are clean — I bear no responsibility for Swalwell’s wrongdoing, and can applaud his destruction with a clear conscience. The same cannot be said, however, by CNN and other Democrat-friendly media venues which have spent years giving Eric Swalwell a platform without ever even hinting about his lecherous habits, which were apparently an open secret among Democratic Party operatives on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.

Has everyone forgotten Christine Blasey Ford? Her name came up in my column last month about the Duke lacrosse rape hoax:

The institutions of media and academia that had disgraced themselves in the Duke lacrosse rape hoax did not even seem to learn a lesson from their blunders. In 2014, another rape hoax was perpetrated at the University of Virginia, with an emotionally unbalanced young woman claiming that she had been brutally attacked at a fraternity house, a crime she blamed on an imaginary frat member she called “Haven Monahan.” The university immediately suspended fraternity activities on campus, as feminists proclaimed that the story in Rolling Stone magazine proved the existence of a rape epidemic among college students nationwide. Rolling Stone was found guilty of defamation, and the mysterious “Haven Monahan” was never found.
How many hoaxes has the news media helped promote since then? Somewhere there may be a full list, but certainly the “Russian collusion” hoax during Trump’s first term stands out in memory, and then there was the Christine Blasey Ford claim of a long-ago gang rape during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The lack of accountability — nobody yet has gone to prison for their role in the “Russian collusion” hoax, and most in the media won’t even admit that Kavanaugh was the victim of an outrageous lie — is what frustrates so many people who’ve grown tired of such shenanigans, which have an obvious political agenda.

Someone needs to speak to Mark Judge, who was collateral damage in the Kavanaugh affair, about this lack of media accountability. For myself, I consider Christine Blasey Ford to be a heinous liar, and have the same opinion of E. Jean Carroll. When all else fails, it seems, Democrats are always able to find some woman willing to make accusations of sexual wrongdoing by Republicans, and I’m sure Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will testify that this is a long-established pattern.

Never forget what they did to Clarence Thomas

It is the political double standard in such matters that is objectionable, particularly in regard to the allegedly “objective” news media. Now that it is permissible to speak the truth about Eric Swalwell, the question everyone should be asking is, “Why now?” The accusations against Swalwell involve events that are not entirely recent:

On April 10, 2026, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story where a former Swalwell staffer claimed that Swalwell, 17 years her senior, had sexually assaulted her on more than one occasion, including when she was too intoxicated to give consent. A few hours later, CNN published a story in which four women alleged sexual misconduct by Swalwell, including a former staffer who said he raped her. Politico also reported that a former Swalwell employee signed a non-disclosure agreement pertaining to employment discrimination when they left his office. Although the agreement was not related to sexual harassment, it directly contradicted Swalwell’s previous claims that no one on his staff signed an NDA.
Swalwell described the allegations as “lies” and claimed that they were intended to damage his campaign for governor. The Los Angeles Times reported that Swalwell’s attorney had sent a cease and desist letter to the staffer and threatened to sue for defamation.
Multiple high-level staffers resigned from Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign in advance of the report, including U.S. Representative and campaign chair Jimmy Gomez. Others, including the California Teachers Association, former state assemblymember Ian Calderon, and U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego rescinded their endorsements of Swalwell.

This happened very suddenly on a Friday, you see, even though the allegations involve incidents that happened as far back as 2019:

A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left her bruised and bleeding, an allegation Swalwell strongly denies.
“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened in 2024 after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.”
She said it was the second time Swalwell had nonconsensual sexual contact with her while she was drunk. In 2019, when she was still working for him, she said she woke up naked with him in a hotel room after a night of heavy drinking. She said she had no memory of what happened but could feel physically that they’d had sexual contact.

Keep in mind that Swalwell literally ran for president, campaigning for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination for several months in 2019 before dropping out, and yet this staffer didn’t speak out against him at the time. Allegedly, they continued to socialize for years after the 2019 rape, so that he could rape her again in 2024, but still she did not denounce him, until two months ahead of the California primary in which Swalwell was the leading Democratic candidate. The timing is rather curious.

You can see from the Real Clear Politics poll average that, in California’s open “jungle primary,” Swalwell was positioned to be the only Democrat to qualify for the general election, ahead of billionaire Tom Steyer and Rep. Katie Porter. These three Democrats were splitting the Democratic vote in such a way that, not only was Republican Steve Hilton the leading candidate in the race, but there was a serious chance that Republican Chad Bianco might finish second in the primary, meaning that there would be zero Democrats on the ballot come November.

Yet it seems Swalwell’s habits were an “open secret” in D.C.:

Swalwell was crowned the “Snapchat king of Congress” in 2016 over his enthusiasm for the app, which was then popular among teens and young millennials.
Social media creator [Ally] Sammarco claimed she messaged Swalwell on Twitter in 2021 asking about his history growing up in a Republican family.
She claimed he began sending her provocative late-night messages, referring to her as a “bad angel,” and eventually switched their communications to Snapchat where he allegedly shared photos of his penis.
He allegedly “ran by her apartment building several times,” giving her hugs but not coming inside.

That was five years ago, and Swalwell has twice been reelected to Congress since then, but for some reason Ms. Sammarco decided to say nothing about a congressman sending her obscene images until now?

“Oh, it’s nothing — a congressman who is on TV multiple times every week sent me a dick pic but I won’t say anything about it.”

As I say, however, it is not my intent to defend Swalwell, nor to cast aspersions on the numerous victims of his egregious actions. It’s just that there seems to have been a cover-up, an agreement among everyone who was aware of Swalwell’s pattern of predatory behavior, that nothing would be said publicly about it, until this week. Are we supposed to believe that, among the cable news anchors who interviewed Swalwell over the past several years, none of them ever heard any rumors about his sexual misconduct? Excuse me for being suspicious about this.

The Christine Blasey Ford Standard, as I’ll call it, is that whenever a woman accuses a man of sexual wrongdoing, his guilt is certain, because no woman would ever lie about such things. Her accusation is the only evidence necessary to convict him in the court of public opinion. Thus let it be with Eric Swalwell — “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!” — but I’m still curious about why the media kept silent for so long, until this week.

 



 

Category: California, Democrats, Media Bias, Scandal, Sex, Violence Against Women
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