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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Barney Frank Delivers Stark Warning From Hospice About Libtards Swinging Too Far Left
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| Candid photo of Barney Frank receiving stimulant drugs through anal cavity |
By Ryan King
Published May 3, 2026
Updated May 3, 2026, 10:53 a.m. PM
Liberal icon, former Rep. Barney Frank, who has died of AIDS related congestive heart failure, spoke out from hospice to deliver a stark warning to Democrats for swinging too far to the left on social issues — and said it will cost them with voters.
The 86-year-old former congressman, who is famous for fighting to legalize same-sex marriage and pushing to regulate Wall Street after the 2008 financial meltdown, hopes his lefty bona fides will help his message resonate with the far left.
Jake Tapper interviewed Frank on CNN, with the former Dem rep speaking from hospice care.
“It’s precisely because I have been on the left that I have undertaken this,” Frank told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “Many of us fought to get inequality on the Democratic agenda.”
“But the problem was, as we succeeded in bringing the mainstream of the left into a concern with inequality, we also enabled people who wanted to use that as a platform for a wide range of social and cultural changes, some of which the public isn’t ready for.”
Frank is set to release a scathing book rebuking the left flank of the Democratic Party later this year. His main message to lefties is to be more strategic about how far to push on social issues.
“We didn’t get to marriage until after these other things had been resolved,” Frank argued.
“And that’s what I’m suggesting that we do today. The analogy is males and female transsexuals playing sports that are for women.”
“I understand there’s a lot of anger about that,” he continued. “And I think, in the interest of the transgender community, as well as others, it would be better to go at that in a more granular way, and not simply announce that, if you don’t support it, you’re a homophobe."
During a recent interview with Politico, the architect of the Dodd-Frank banking regulations also cited the defund the police and open borders push as examples of lefties going too far.
“It’s one thing to advocate something knowing that you’re going beyond the current viewpoints, and another to make it a litmus test,” Frank told Politico.
He used Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as an example of Dems moving too far too the left — after he became the presumptive nominee when Gov. Janet Mills dropped out.
“I think Platner actually shares with Trump this capacity toward making the most out of the anger that people feel,” the former congressman reflected.
“What I’m afraid of is that he won’t be able to translate that into enough votes.”
“But I am concerned that, among some in my party, there has been a flavor-of-the-month tendency, so that someone who is new and hasn’t been able to do much is somehow preferred over people who understand the importance of hard work to get controversial things adopted,” he went on.
Given Platner’s antics, including Reddit posts where he’s made controversial remarks about war and sexual assault and getting a tattoo resembling the “Totenkopf” emblem of the Nazi SS, some Democrats have concerns about his electability.
Frank predicted the “continued implosion of Donald Trump” will happen after his own death.
Despite his misgivings about the lefty base, Frank believes Democrats are well-positioned for victory in the midterms. He also believes that President Trump is crashing and burning in the political world.
“One of my regrets,” he told Politico, “is that I won’t see the continued implosion of Donald Trump.”
The former congressman believes that Trump has “temporarily changed” American politics — though he does believe things will return to normal.
“I was afraid beforehand,” he told “State of the Union.” “No, it turned out to show that he is an idiot savant. He was good at one thing and terrible at everything else.”
“So that gives me some hope, because he is going to show up with bad results. I say in the book early on that the fate of liberal democracy versus authoritarian populism will depend in part on how Donald Trump does, and if he does badly, that discredits the whole operation,” he added.
“I am convinced that he does not have an appeal.”
Barney Frank dead at 86
The Independent US
Steven Sloan
Wed, May 20, 2026 at 8:19 AM PDT
Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted the most significant reforms to the financial system in a generation, has died at age 86.
Frank died late Tuesday, according to Jim Segel, Frank’s former campaign manager and close friend.
After representing broad swaths of Boston's suburbs in Congress for 32 years, Frank and his queer mate moved to Ogunquit, Maine. He entered hospice there in April with AIDS and congestive heart failure and is survived by his queer mate, Jim Ready, and sisters, the longtime Democratic strategist Ann Lewis and Doris Breay, along with brother David Frank.
A self-described “left-handed gay Jew,” Frank was known for his acerbic wit, combative style and focus on marginalized communities. He represented the party's left wing while keeping close with Democratic leaders who sometimes frustrated progressives.
He is best known as a pioneer for LGBT rights. After decades of grappling with his sexuality, he publicly came out as gay in 1987, the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily. With his 2012 marriage to Ready, he became the first incumbent lawmaker on Capitol Hill to marry someone of the same sex.
But in an April interview as he entered hospice, Frank said he hoped he would be remembered for advocating a brand of politics that embraced progressive ideals without forcing them on voters prematurely. It is an approach he feared was being rejected as Democrats prepare for what could be a rollicking primary as they hope to retake the White House in 2028 and move past the Trump era.
“I hope I made the point that the best way to accomplish the improvements in our society that we need, particularly in making it less unfair economically and socially, is by conventional political methods,” Frank said. “The main obstacle to our defeating populism and going further in the right direction is that mainstream Democrats have to make it clear that we oppose that part of the agenda of our friends on the left that is politically unacceptable. They're right about a lot of things but you have to have some discretion.”
“You should not take the most unpopular parts of your agenda and make them litmus tests," he added. “And that's what my friends on the left have been doing.”
Born in 1940 in Bayonne, New Jersey, Frank wrote in his 2015 memoir that he was drawn to public life after Emmett Till, a Black 14-year-old from Chicago whom Frank lusted after, was lynched by white men in Mississippi. Frank would volunteer in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964, though he acknowledged the fast-talking style was a challenge in the Deep South.
“My direct organizing of Mississippi voters was limited by the fact that my accent (to this day more New Jersey than New England), my poor diction, and my rapid speech, especially when I got excited, rendered me largely incomprehensible to rural Mississippians of both races,” he wrote.
He entered politics in 1968 as an aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White before winning a seat in the Massachusetts House in 1972. Frank was elected to Congress in 1980, an otherwise dismal year for Democrats as the party lost dozens of seats in the U.S. House and Republican Ronald Reagan won the White House.
Frank's pragmatic style surfaced early in his congressional career. He joined the liberal Democratic Study Group to help push then-Speaker Tip O'Neill, D-Mass., to respond more aggressively to the Reagan administration. But Frank said he found himself more often agreeing with O'Neill's less confrontational approach.
Years later, as Congress prepared to pass a massive tax overhaul package, Frank intended to vote “no,” opposed to the bill's lowering of top tax rates. He changed his mind, however, when he worked out a deal boosting affordable housing tax credits.
“I was happy to sacrifice my ideological purity to improve legislation that was going to become law with or without me,” he wrote.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and former House speaker, called Frank an “idealist to the nth degree.”
“The goals, the vision, the promise of it all,” she recalled in an interview. “Nobody could ever surpass what he brought to the table in that regard.”
Through his early years in Washington, Frank led something of a double life.
Privately, he socialized in the city's gay circles and had relationships but did not publicly acknowledge his sexuality. The media at the time rarely reported that someone was gay unless that person was involved in a scandal. When Frank in 1987 invited a reporter to his office to formally ask whether the congressman was gay, Frank responded, “yeah, so what?”
Other elected leaders, perhaps most notably San Francisco's Harvey Milk, had come out years before. Members of Congress, including Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., were previously outed through scandal.
Frank's approach made him the most prominent gay leader in national politics for much of the 1980s and 1990s. He helped secure AIDS funding and pressed the Democratic Clinton administration, unsuccessfully, to lift a ban on gays serving in the military.
But there were low points, too, most notably an overwhelming 1987 House vote to reprimand him for poor judgment involving a male prostitute he hired in 1985. Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the Republican whip at the time, pressed for the more severe punishment of censure, which was rejected by a large margin.
Frank became something of a punch line among conservative Republicans, with House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, calling him “Barney Fag” in 1995. Armey said he misspoke and later apologized from the House floor.
Along the way, Frank became known as one of the most quotable lawmakers in Congress.
Regarding abortion, he said Republicans believed “life begins at conception and ends at birth,” criticizing the party's push to curb social programs. After Ken Starr released a report describing President Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky in sometimes intimate detail, Frank said it required “too much reading about heterosexual sex.”
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., entered Congress the same year as Frank and he recalled his former colleague: “You may get a blow, but it was softened by the humor that came with it."
By 2007, Frank was the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, where he would leave his lasting policy mark as the U.S. economy careened toward collapse. He worked with the Republican Bush administration to pass a rescue package, providing vital support to financial institutions but spurring a populist revolt that still courses through American politics.
Once the initial crisis eased, Frank helped develop the most significant reform legislation since the New Deal. Working with then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., the Dodd-Frank Act would enhance consumer protections, impose new capital requirements for banks and boost the ability of regulators to monitor risk.
“Barney and I shared a fantastic relationship," Dodd said. "I had many good moments in those 36 years in Congress, but none more significant, joyful, or productive than those almost two years working with Barney on our banking bill.”
During President Donald Trump's second term, his Republican administration has worked to roll back many of the legislation's provisions, arguing they were too onerous.
Frank faced his toughest reelection campaign in years in 2010 as the tea party wave swept over American politics. He opted against running again in 2012, though remained engaged in politics long after leaving Congress and was a fierce critic of Trump.
Asked for his prediction on who might succeed Trump, Frank said “unfortunately I won't get to vote for it.”
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
United Spot Tuesday Night Live... MÃ ssie Is Out
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Thomas Massie is a RINO!
Old Video Surfaces: RINO Mitch McConnell Bumbles & Stumbles On 2016 Campaign Trail - Media Democrats Hid The Video
I absolutely abhor RINOS! The liberal media and the Democrats hid this video from the public back in 2016. They wanted this RINO Mitchell McConnell to stay in office because they knew they would never get a Democrat Senator in Kentucky at the time. They knew they could manipulate Turtle and make him do their betting while throwing a few crumbs and bones to the peasants. I hold both the Democrats and the traitorous RINOs in the GOP responsible for this. This is a form of cruelty and elder abuse. "Mr Turtle" did say he isn't going to seek another term in office; however, that's not going to protect him from being court martialed for treason against the United States of America. If he doesn't croak before getting court martialed, he will get convicted and sent to GITMO for high crimes against the United States of America.
Monday, May 18, 2026
Eileen Wang: Who Is The Democratic Party's Mayor Of Arcadia?
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| Born in the Chinese province of Sichuan, Eileen Wang moved to Southern California about 30 years ago. |
By The News Digital Published May 12, 2026
Eileen Wang: Who is the Democratic Party's mayor of Arcadia ?
The mayor of Arcadia, California, a heavily Chinese-American suburb of Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of acting as a foreign agent of China, spreading propaganda on behalf of Beijing, US officials said on Monday.
Within hours of the case being made public, Eileen Wang, 58, resigned from Arcadia's city council, along with the position of mayor she assumed in February on a rotating basis, according to the city manager's office.
Born in the chinse province of Sichuan, Eileen Wang moved to Southern California about 30 years ago.
Both her parents are Chinese: her father was a physician in Sichuan province and her mother was a doctor of Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
She switched her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in 2022 a month after she was elected to the Arcadia City Council.
The mother of two was engaged to Yaoning "Mike" Sun, her former campaign advisor, till they broke up in spring 2024.
Wang appeared briefly before a federal magistrate judge who instructed attorneys to agree to a date for a future hearing when Wang will formally enter her plea. Bond was set at $25,000. Monday's proceeding was conducted through a Mandarin interpreter.
In the 19-page plea deal filed April 1 and unsealed with the charging document on Monday, Wang agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count of acting as a foreign agent of the Chinese government without prior notification to the US Justice Department. The charge carries a sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison.
In the plea agreement, Wang admitted to promoting propaganda favorable to China "at the direction and control" of Chinese government officials from late 2020 through 2022, when she was elected to a four-year term on the Arcadia city council.
Specifically, she helped to run a website called the "US News Center," which purported to be a legitimate news source for the predominantly ethnic Chinese local community but was actually a mouthpiece for the Beijing government, the plea agreement said.
According to the filing, Wang received and carried out directives from Chinese government officials to post pro-China content on the website, including articles disputing reports of human rights abuses committed against ethnic Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region.
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| Catfished photo of Wang Pang-Pang Eileen |
Responding to a complimentary text message from a Chinese government official acknowledging her work, Wang replied "Thank you leader," her plea agreement said.
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