Gavin Newsome is quickly jockeying for the title of fakest politician in the country.
No one loves him nearly as much as he loves himself, and apparently his own book. He has been busted using his own PAC to buy $1.5 million worth of his own book, around 2/3rds of the total sales.
Everything about California Governor Gavin Newsom is fake. Even the numbers on his book sales.
His new book is being touted by his allies as a best seller, but the main reason it’s selling so well is because his own political action committee has spent upwards of $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of it.
That’s one way to get on the New York Times best seller list. It’s not honest, but it’ll probably work.
Newsom PAC bought thousands of memoir copies about his hardships, juicing sales
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political action committee spent more than $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of his new memoir — accounting for about two-thirds of all copies sold nationwide — according to campaign finance filings.
The PAC spending helped propel Newsom’s memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” onto the New York Times bestseller list and is raising new scrutiny as his national profile builds ahead of a possible 2028 presidential run.
Everything about Gavin Newsome is fake, except for the love he has for himself.
If this goofball astroturf artificial bandwagon strategy is the best that Democrats have for 2028, they might want to rethink some things.
“This project will move gas underwater from Pennsylvania to New York to help meet the high energy demands in the area. One of the many initiatives from the Trump EPA to help bring down the cost of energy,” Newsmax host said.
“So, tell us about this project, and why projects like this are so important?” Newsmax host asked.
“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership after he declared a national energy emergency and formed the National Energy Dominance Counsel right after he was sworn back in for this term. He was strongly advocating for this NESE pipeline to get built to deliver natural gas to millions of families,” Zeldin said.
“This project now had a groundbreaking this past week and it’s expected to be done by the end of 2027 and this is something that’s been an urgent need,” Zeldin said.
“I’m a New Yorker. I was an elected official on Long Island for a very long time. There has been a desperate push for more natural gas supply, but it didn’t get done until President Trump pushed for it,” Zeldin continued.
“Last week, you gave the keynote speech at the Heartland Institute Conference on climate change in Washington DC,” Newsmax said.
Zeldin explained that when a person disagrees with the climate alarmists, they are usually attacked and labeled. One of the main reasons is because these climate extremists want to hold on to power.
“What you have had over the course of many, many years is that you have people in this country who see predictions made from an Al Gore or John Kerry or an AOC. AOC saying the world is about to end,” Zeldin said.
“There are people like well, maybe the world isn’t about to actually end,” Zeldin continued.
“What happened in 2009 was that the Obama administration created this endangerment finding to give themselves power to put forth trillions of dollars of regulation,” Zeldin explained.
“It all started with them giving themselves this power with a very creative interpretation of section 202 of the Clean Air Act,” Zeldin continued.
“Any American who has an issue with anything that I just stated here in the last minute will get attacked and labeled and vilified from those who want to be able to hoard more power. They want to impose that control over the economy and have trillions of dollars of regulation even though Congress didn’t pass any type of bill signing off on it,” Zeldin explained.
Mahdism: The Religious Cult of Iran’s Rulers
April 18, 2026
Iran’s ruling clerics believe the ayatollah serves as the earthly deputy of the Hidden Imam, tasked with preparing the world for the return of the messianic figure of prophecy, Muhammad al-Mahdi, through the expansion of an Islamic state. In this framework, political power and conflict are religious obligations tied to triggering an apocalyptic end-times event.
Western policymakers and political pundits mistakenly interpret Iran’s relationships with the rest of the globe, particularly the United States and Israel, as well as with the broader Islamic world, through the lens of the Shia–Sunni divide. However, the reality of Iran’s theocracy is far more complex and far more sinister than that.
The Islamic Republic’s ruling theology is not mainstream Twelver Shia Islam. Twelver Shia Islam, followed by roughly 85 percent of Shia Muslims worldwide and recognized as Iran’s official state religion, has been transformed into a controversial fusion of apocalypticism, political mysticism, and quasi-divine claims of authority that orthodox Shia scholars have explicitly rejected.
The centerpiece of that transformation is the regime’s radicalized interpretation of Mahdism, a concept that exists within mainstream Twelver Shia theology but has been radicalized and repurposed by Iran’s ruling clerics into something the traditional Shia scholarly world does not recognize.
Mahdism holds that the Twelfth Divinely ordained Shia Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, was withdrawn into a miraculous state of concealment by God in 874 CE to protect him from the Sunni Abbasid Caliphate, which had killed his father. Shia Muslims believe he will one day return to defeat evil in a final apocalyptic battle.
For centuries, mainstream Shia clerical doctrine held that any government during this period of occultation was illegitimate, that clergy should confine themselves to spiritual matters, and that believers should wait passively for the Mahdi’s return.
In 1979, Ruhollah Khomeini led the revolution that overthrew Iran’s U.S.-backed Shah, took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, and established the Islamic Republic, which has remained in direct confrontation with the United States ever since.
Khomeini also broke sharply with traditional Shia doctrine. During his years in exile, he developed the theory of velayat-e faqih, arguing that rather than waiting passively for the return of the Imam, Shia Muslims were obligated to prepare the conditions for his arrival. This required political action, the creation of an Islamic state, and the elevation of a supreme clerical authority to act as the Imam’s deputy on earth. Iran’s 1979 constitution codified this framework, presenting the revolution as the first stage in a process leading to the Mahdi’s return.
This doctrine was widely opposed by the Shia establishment, particularly Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, who viewed it as unjust and tyrannical.
The unorthodoxy ran deeper than politics. Scholar Vali Nasr concluded that Khomeini’s authority rested not on Shia history or theology but on mystical doctrines, that “his was a new Shiism.” Khomeini incorporated Neo-Platonist Greek thought into his governance theory, envisioning the ideal leader as a “perfect man” possessing the divine essence, stating: “Anyone who has the quality of a perfect man, that is the quality of the divine essence, is a caliph in this world.”
It has been claimed that Khomeini believed he himself had achieved mystical union with God, a position with no basis in orthodox Islamic theology of any school. Prominent Shia cleric Sadiq Shirazi accused Khomeini of elevating himself to divinity, asking publicly: “Did he not say that the powers of the guardian jurist are the same as those of God?” Shirazi was subsequently arrested.
One of velayat-e faqih’s most radical extensions was Khomeini’s 1988 assertion that the Islamic state holds the religious mandate to suspend, or revoke, divine ordinances including hajj and fasting if it deems necessary, placing state authority above Quranic commandments with no precedent in Islamic jurisprudence.
The unorthodoxy extended to the credentials of the most recent Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed by a joint U.S.-Israeli bombing on February 28, 2026. He was a middle-ranking cleric at his ascension, not yet called an ayatollah, let alone a grand ayatollah. He subsequently used state media, patronage networks, and the security apparatus to install himself as a grand ayatollah and pressured senior clerics to recognize his rank. His religious authority was coerced, not earned.
Khamenei nonetheless developed the Mahdist doctrine further after assuming leadership in 1989, outlining five revolutionary stages required before the Mahdi’s return: an Islamic Revolution, an Islamic regime, an Islamic government, an Islamic society, and an Islamic civilization. By his own assessment, Iran had completed only the first two. This means the regime believes it is executing a divinely mandated sequence of steps whose endpoint is a cosmic event, the return of the Hidden Imam and the apocalyptic defeat of evil.
The United States and Israel are not merely political adversaries in this framework. They are obstacles on that checklist, whose removal is a religious requirement for completing the sequence. It is essentially a self-assigned prophecy fulfillment program, with Khamenei casting himself and the Islamic Republic as the agents responsible for bringing about the end times on God’s behalf.
The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005 accelerated the radicalization. Ahmadinejad declared that Iran’s mission was “to turn Iran into the country of the Hidden Imam” and directed $17 million in state funds to the Jamkaran Mosque, where some Shia have long believed the Mahdi will reappear. That belief is now a central feature of the regime’s theocracy.
Ahmadinejad also spent an additional $8 million on pilgrim hospitality for the Mahdi’s birthday. He constructed a highway linking the mosque directly to Tehran’s international airport so the Imam, upon his return, would not be delayed by traffic. His administration also empowered maddahs, non-clerical ideological preachers with no formal religious training who are fixated on Mahdism, who had already been used during the Iran-Iraq War to incite human-wave martyrdom attacks.
After the 2009 protests, the IRGC institutionalized this network through the Basij Maddahs Organization to monopolize Mahdist religious culture across Iran. The radicalization reached the point where followers openly proclaimed that Ahmadinejad and Khamenei were the prophesied forerunners named in Shia narrations as figures appearing immediately before the Mahdi’s return.
Iran’s 1979 constitution establishes the IRGC explicitly as an “ideological army” mandated with “extending sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world.” Unlike the regular Iranian army, whose mission is border defense, the IRGC exists to protect the Shia clergy and export the Islamic Revolution.
Ideological indoctrination has been central since the IRGC’s founding, but escalated sharply after reports that 73 percent of IRGC members had voted for reformist Khatami in 1997. Khamenei responded by expanding indoctrination from 20 percent of overall training in 2002, to 30 percent by 2007, to roughly 50 percent after the 2009 protests. Promotion within the IRGC rewards ideological commitment over technical expertise.
The result is that the IRGC’s third and fourth generations are the most radical in its history, demonstrated by the surge of volunteers for Shia jihadist operations in Syria, and by the November 2019 killing of an estimated 1,500 civilian protesters in a matter of days, compared to roughly 100 killed over an entire month during the 2009 Green Movement protests.
The IRGC rejects the nation-state as a Western construct, dividing the world into the dar al-Islam and the dar al-Kufr. Antisemitism pervades every dimension of its doctrine, and the destruction of Israel is a core ideological pillar. That goal is now framed in explicitly Mahdist terms: the Middle East Forum reports that the IRGC views Israel’s existence as the “greatest barrier” to the Imam’s reappearance, making its eradication a religious prerequisite rather than a strategic objective.
The Middle East Institute documents that the Masaf Institute, whose full name translates as “The Struggle Against Zionism, Humanism and the Freemasons,” promotes Mahdism as preparation for the End of Days and receives direct IRGC financial support.
The IRGC’s hostility toward the United States and its drive to destroy Israel are understood internally as religious obligations, prerequisites for triggering the Mahdi’s return.
Taken together, this quasi-religious political belief system suggests the IRGC would not easily stand down or surrender, regardless of how much damage is inflicted or how many lives are lost in pursuit of triggering the Mahdi’s return.
At the same time, the man now nominally leading that mission lacks the legitimacy of his predecessor. MEMRI reports that the nation’s new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the late Ayatollah, is an apocalyptic ideologue closely affiliated with IRGC intelligence and is positioning the regime as the “beating heart” of a religious empire aimed at making Shia Islam the sole prevailing political and religious current in the Muslim world.
His ascension, however, was engineered rather than earned. The IRGC forced through his selection, overcoming opposition from pragmatists and senior clerical figures, whose objections delayed the announcement by hours.
The Middle East Institute’s Alex Vatanka concluded that Mojtaba “owes his position to the Revolutionary Guards and as such he is not going to be as supreme as his father was.” Ali Khamenei’s own written will, presented during the selection process, stated that he did not wish his son or any family member to succeed him. Some analysts have described the appointment as Iran reverting to hereditary rule after abandoning it in 1979.
Within the IRGC, Mojtaba is described by former associates as “apocalypse-obsessed,” with some of his supporters believing he is the prophesied Khorasani, a messianic figure from Shia eschatology destined to pave the way for the Mahdi’s return.
Whether he is in any condition to fulfill that role remains an open question. Wounded in the same strike that killed his father, Mojtaba has not appeared on camera, in a photograph, or in person at any public event since his appointment on March 8, including his own father’s memorial.
His statements have been read aloud by television anchors, not delivered by the man himself. State media have insisted he survived the strike, but conflicting reports about his condition have not been resolved.
Stolen Valor? Far-left Propagandist Christiane Amanpour Attempts to Insult Secretary Hegseth with Absurd Assertion
April 18, 2026
Christiane Amanpour /Image: Video screenshot
Far-left propagandist Christiane Amanpour, who cosplays as a journalist, is now apparently attempting to cosplay as a member of the military. And not just any member, but a Major.
In an effort to insult Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (a former Army major), Amanpour wrote on X, “Using the Pentagon podium to lash out at journalists in extreme biblical terms is unprecedented, misguided, and frankly wrong on the substance. Ever since Sunday School Catholic classes, I have been well aware of the Scribes and the Pharisees. They were the bad guys against Jesus, the good guy… in current U.S. good v evil war parlance. Bearing witness to the truth is what we journalists are commanded to do, without fear nor favor.”
“I am also well aware of the Ten Commandments, and therefore urge any government radical anywhere, to follow the 9th… against bearing false witness.”
“And finally an observation: the current Secretary of War, f/k/a Defence, left the military with the rank of Major.”
“I recall my dogtag in the first Gulf war had the rank of major… the very same rank. Just sayin’!”
Using the Pentagon podium to lash out at journalists in extreme biblical terms is unprecedented, misguided, and frankly wrong on the substance. Ever since Sunday School Catholic classes, I have been well aware of the Scribes and the Pharisees. They were the bad guys against…
Stating the obvious, Amanpour never served in the U.S. military, or any military, in any capacity. She is a “journalist” who covered the 1991 Gulf War as a CNN correspondent.
During the Gulf War, journalists embedded with or reporting alongside U.S. forces were sometimes issued press credentials or identification tags (sometimes called “dog tags” informally) that listed an administrative or honorary rank like “major.”
This was for logistical purposes—such as access, billeting, or movement in a war zone—not an actual military commission or rank, although she insultingly attempts to equate a press credential with real military service and rank achieved by someone like Secretary Hegseth, who served in combat deployments.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert “Buzz” Patterson, USAF (Retired), a retired U.S. Air Force pilot and New York Times bestselling author, slammed Amanpour for “stolen valor.”
Patterson wrote on X, “This is a textbook example of the Left’s thorough ignorance of anything military. And it’s what vets, like me, refer to as #StolenValor. Amanpour, noted progressive and CNN useful idiot, attacked @PeteHegseth’s rank during his service in the Army.”
“Pete was promoted to the rank of Major and served in combat as a SOLDIER.”
“Amanpour embedded as a correspondent during the Gulf War. To accommodate the press, the Pentagon assigned journalists the ADMINISTRATIVE rank of major for access and billeting arrangements. Nothing more.”
“In her attack on Pete, she equates his rank to hers. From a vet’s perspective, that’s revolting and untrue.”
“@amanpourcouldn’t carry Pete’s sweat-stained boot socks much less the responsibility of leading men in combat.”
“To portend to do so is both insulting and illustrative.”
“To Democrats and anti-American media, you don’t get it and you never will.”
This is a textbook example of the Left’s thorough ignorance of anything military. And it’s what vets, like me, refer to as #StolenValor.
Amanpour, noted progressive and CNN useful idiot, attacked @PeteHegseth’s rank during his service in the Army. Pete was promoted to the rank… pic.twitter.com/tgz2N1B2bO
CULTURE OF DEATH: Canadian Man Who Mailed Poison to People and Helped Them Kill Themselves Will Plead Guilty to Minor Charges To Avoid 14 Murder Counts
April 18, 2026
Kenneth Law cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid 14 murder charges
Law’s crimes are another nightmarish story in the sinking of Canada into the culture of death.
“’The plea will be to the charges of aiding suicide’, [lawyer Matthew Gourlay] said in an email. […] Law’s case is scheduled to return to a Newmarket, Ontario, court on Monday afternoon. Calls to Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General weren’t immediately answered.
‘Monday’s appearance will simply be for the purpose of scheduling’, Gourlay said. ‘Neither the plea nor the sentencing will take place until a later date. It is a virtual appearance via Zoom’.”
Kenneth Law is alleged to have assisted suicides by selling toxic substances to buyers at risk
“Kenneth Law’s lawyer has told CBC News that Crown prosecutors are withdrawing all 14 murder charges in this case.”
“Canadian police say Law, from the Toronto area, used a series of websites to market and sell sodium nitrite, a substance commonly used to cure meats that can be deadly if ingested.
Canadian police say that Law is suspected of sending at least 1,200 packages to more than 40 countries. Authorities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia and New Zealand also have launched investigations.”
Kenneth Law to plead guilty to 14 counts of assisting suicide, Crown tells alleged victim’s family https://t.co/CXVng3pZZ5
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