Erick Erickson

It’s border patrol and not ICE. ICE leadership objects to these stunts, which is why Kristi Noem has Greg Bovino of the border patrol in charge. Ironically, Bovino’s boss also objects, so he has been sidelined by Noem.

Hi everyone, just want you to know there are 1,096 days left for the Trump Administration. Have fun.

If it were Netanyahu, progressives would be dancing in the streets. But instead of a democratically elected leader, it’s a communist dictator, so they’re upset.

More Pinochets and less Maduros would be a sound policy.

Being angry on the internet on Christmas Day is a choice. Christ is born. Rejoice and go enjoy your family, or go outside and enjoy nature. All of nature longs for His return.

O holy night! the stars are brightly shining;
It is the night of the dear Savior's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

It has been obvious Charlie Kirk’s assassin is steeped in progressive ideology. The WSJ confirms it today from investigators’ interviews with Robinson’s family. Now this. But the left must deny it because their narrative of virtue is more important than the truth.

These are all the murders in Washington, D.C. in 2024. I've drawn red lines to show the four quadrants of the city. The reporters and pundits on TV who tell you there's not a crime problem live in the Northwest Quadrant, mostly in Ward 3, well away from the crime, or they live in VA or MD.

And both sides should forcefully self-police against those who would do so without adding “yes, but” or “what about” to the matter.

It is compounded and magnified by the left’s own aggressive antisemitism and hatred of Israel.

It should be a de facto rule of civil society that neither side tolerates those who defend, excuse, or otherwise support the actual Third Reich.

One of the side effects of the left doing this is that it has opened to door for others to resurrect sympathies for the actual Nazis, not just those the left now labels as Nazis. They take advantage of the fact that the left has, in its bubble, lost the ability to nuance and distinguish.

One of the great problems I have with the left is that they want to exclude from society a lot of people with views and ideas the left finds terrible without the recognition that a lot of people disagree with them for reasonable reasons.

Some people maybe need to unplug from the internet and politics. They've turned unhealthy in their thinking. Without controlling the ring of power, they cannot handle life.

When politics replaces religion, its worshippers look to explain disasters through politics. It becomes ghoulish casting blame on politicians you don’t like because of rain and flooding. But they can’t and don’t see it. It is idol worship.

A must read from The Atlantic on how the left has gotten itself into a bubble on gender research and the left believes many things that are simply not true. web.archive.org/web/20250701...

A convincing twelve days url:https://wng.org/opinions/a-convincing-twelve-days-1750908846

We bombed Iran.

I’ve used ChatGPT and Perplexity to summarize news articles every afternoon to help me do a short podcast of major news developments. I had to go back to doing it myself because they started making up stories that simply didn’t exist even though I’d given them the links to summarize.

I see the tolerant people of BlueSky were very welcoming of the Vice President of the United States.

Weirdly, @kenwhite.bsky.social thinks a US Senator is my pocket. LOLOLOL.

Democrats, consider this: your party leaders and the American press corps collaborated to get Donald Trump re-elected by gaslighting the public about Joe Biden until the CNN debate.

The one involved a very public event the media insists we all continue to stare at. The other involved a massive amount of public events about which the media told us not to believe our lying eyes.

The collusion of the press and Democrats over 5 years to gaslight the American public over Joe Biden’s mental decline is worse than January 6th.

I’m glad Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson have exposed the Democrats’ coverup of Biden. But the American press corps also needs to account for its role. Just answer the basic question: how did the press miss what 70% of Americans were concerned about in 2021?

To his credit, Joe Scarborough has been very open about getting this so wrong. It came months after the Hur report. But it is just more to show the press participated with the Democrats in protecting Biden.

The American press corp, including CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. all conspired with the Democrats to cover up Joe Biden’s mental decline.

Exclusive: Biden-Hur special counsel audio exposes memory lapses Axios obtained audio of Biden's October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur.

Here is then CNN reporter Oliver Darcy amplifying media doubts about Robert Hur’s characterization of Joe Biden. www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/m.... It was across networks that reporters cast doubts. Today, we have the audio and can see Hur accurately described Biden. www.axios.com/2025/05/16/b...

Here is CNN’s Oliver Darcy attacking the credibility of the Wall Street Journal and its reporters for casting doubts on Biden. www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/m... and now CNN’s Jake Tapper calls the same reporters “heroic” for their coverage in that report.

It was not just Democrats who engaged in the coverup of Joe Biden’s decline, but the press corps. Until the press holds itself accountable for the collaboration, trust cannot be restored.