Thursday, December 4, 2025
Video: Watch Melania Light National Christmas Tree!
First Lady Melania Trump lights the National Christmas Tree! 🎄 pic.twitter.com/B3bel1hKYE
— FLOTUS Report (@MELANIAJTRUMP) December 4, 2025
Comedian Shawn Farash Really IS Donald Trump!
TRUMP DECLARES VICTORY OVER HURRICANE SEASON!
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) December 4, 2025
Zero hurricanes in the GULF OF AMERICA! pic.twitter.com/ft1JHHDNNu
Is A Jersey Dem Dirty Trick Underway?
Cross- posted, with permission from Save Jersey:
By Matt Rooney
I obviously hope it doesn’t happen, Save Jerseyans, since I live and spend money here. But Sherrill voters would deserve every bit of it! Unfortunately, we would all suffer right alongside them. That’s how it works. The suck is shared.
Our friend Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia (R-24) dropped a bit of a bombshell on Tuesday on X, announcing that the Democrat Governor-elect is allegedly pushing the Democrat legislative leadership to enact a sales tax increase BEFORE she takes office in January.
Her rationale is obvious. It’s less clear why any Democrat Assembly or Senate member (who will be back on the ballot in 2027) would go along with it? Sherrill waffled on whether she’d raise taxes during the campaign but ultimately said she would NOT raise the sales tax.
“File this under “things everyone already knew”: the current governor’s dream was to return the sales tax to 7%. Gov. Murphy has tried to shove that little gem into his proposed budgets,” opined Fantasia. “When you’re drunk on spending and the federal COVID relief dollars dry up, they always run back to “old reliable.” Now, the same progressive groups that never missed a chance to promote bringing NJ’s sales tax back to 7% (policy outfits on the left that have publicly endorsed this hike for years) are now parked inside Gov-elect Sherrill’s transition.”
“No surprise that the 7% chatter is back during lame duck,” she continued. “This conversation should be had in the open, not behind closed doors.”
If true, Sherrill’s duplicity would truly have reached historic proportions. She won, in part, by faslely accusing GOP opponent Jack Ciattarelli of pushing a massive sales tax increase (to 10% from 6.625%). Jack never pitched a hike; she took him out of context during press conference remarks comparing other states’ approaches to taxation relative to New Jersey. Sherrill supposedly wants the sales tax to return to 7% where it was approximately a decade ago before Governor Christie cut a deal to lower it.
Sales tax collections are already up 5% in 2025 as New Jersey wrestle with stubborn Biden Era inflation.
Lying isn’t out of character for Sherrill, nor is avoiding taking stands on difficult issues (like the ongoing flap over the gutting of a state corruption watchdog). Sadly, even if she ultimately denies Fantasia’s claim, how can we believe her based upon a truly regrettable record of detachment from truth telling?
We’ll keep you in the loop…
This Man Foresaw Exactly What Was/Is Happening!
When the mother of morality remains silent in the face of evil, even the faithful will be attacked by society. May God be with him. pic.twitter.com/EqOnzjuWc4
— Sanoj Thomas (@Sanothomas) December 3, 2025
Christmas At The White House, 2025: Dazzling!
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War Zone Progress On Child/Family Reunification
Seven additional children—six boys and one girl—have been reunited with their families in Ukraine. The following is a statement from the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, regarding the humanitarian efforts of all parties participating in this initiative.
“My dedication to guaranteeing the safe return of children to their families in this region is unwavering.
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“I commend the leadership and persistent diplomacy of Russia and Ukraine in the pursuit of the reunification of children and families. Their bridge-building has created a tangible collaborative environment—an anchor for optimism. This cooperation will continue to drive the process forward through the next phase.
“In close partnership, my representative and I have provided humanitarian support from the United States to enhance the reunification initiative’s outcome. My hope is that, ultimately, our collective efforts will lead to broader regional stability.”
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
New Jersey: An Emptiness Of Its Own Making?
But where does that leave New Jersey? Are we a mere conduit -- a place where people come and go or, worse yet, simply pass through and nothing more?
You have to wonder -- especially now.
Because New Jersey, this densely packed strand of exquisite contradictions that we call home has now elected its third non–native-born governor in just two decades. Jon Corzine came to us from Illinois (via Manhattan) with a Goldman-sized bankroll and a droll demeanor. Phil Murphy, dropped in from Massachusetts with a grin, a résumé, and a villa in Italy. And now Mikie Sherrill boastfully helicoptered in from Virginia with a Valley Girl cadence and absolutely not someone who grew up pumping gas off Route 22.
What’s going on here? What's wrong with New Jersey's voters? Why does one of the most populous, diverse, economically muscular, culturally explosive states in the country seem incapable of electing one of its own?
I’ll tell you why: New Jersey has an inferiority complex the size of the Hindenburg blimp (and we all know how that ended).
For decades, New Jersey has been wedged between New York swagger and Philadelphia melodrama—the middle child forced to sit in the back seat while the two louder siblings argue over cheesesteaks and bagels. And in classic middle-child fashion, Jersey has internalized it. Hard.
It seems New Jersey simply doesn’t know who it is. Is it the gritty, blue-collar cradle of Springsteen, Sinatra, and the Sopranos? Is it the gleaming biotech-and-finance powerhouse that quietly fuels the northeast economy? Or is it, as too many late-night comedians insist, just the place where dreams go to sit in traffic and yell at someone?
The result: a chronic identity crisis. A statewide shrug. A belief that if you really want someone “leader-quality,” you’d better import them—preferably bearing Ivy League degrees and the ability to say “New Jersey” without sounding like they’re apologizing.
So when the time comes to pick a governor, voters suddenly act like they need an outsider to “fix” things—someone untainted by Parkway rage or a childhood spent waiting for that dreamed of escape to somewhere else.
But let’s be real. As recently defeated, homegrown gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli would say: "What other state does this?" Only New Jersey looks at its vast supply of brilliant, diverse, ambitious residents and says, “Hmm. No thanks. Let’s see who’s parachuting in from out of state this season.”
It’s not because the state lacks talent. This is the home of scientists, CEOs, novelists, artists, entrepreneurs, medical researchers, and roughly seven million people who would gladly run the state better than half the legislatures in America—if they weren’t stuck on a Zoom call or caught in traffic near Exit 8A.
No, this is deeper. It’s cultural. And I'm beginning to think it's pathological. Which means it's . . . . JERSEY!
New Jersey voters are so used to outsiders mocking their state—its smells, its highways, its sports teams, its “characters”—that they’ve internalized the belief that only someone from elsewhere can possibly be respectable enough to run the place. How sad. And tragic, really. Because beneath all the self-deprecation, New Jersey is a national powerhouse wearing a “kick me” sign it forgot to take off in 1987.
I want to say to my fellow Jerseyans "Enough! Stop it! Basta! Stop outsourcing your governors and start believing in your own." But I doubt it would do any good. Because too many of us seem to prefer wallowing in our own angst.
Nonetheless, I'll pitch this plea: the next time someone from North Carolina or Oregon decides they’d like to lead the Garden State, maybe try saying what real New Jerseyans have always been good at saying: “No thanks. Go back where you came from.” And then elect someone from Edison, Paterson, Camden, Hoboken, Cherry Hill, Newark, or any of the dozens of places that built America while other states were busy bragging.
Because until New Jersey believes in itself, it’ll keep losing -- importing its leaders, and exporting its confidence.
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