REVERSIONS: Two nutcases spotted three godless Communists!

TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2026

No ridiculous claim left behind: The sitting president was deeply concerned about the return of the Communists.   

Plainly, his fear was well founded. Two members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) had won the Democratic Party's nomination for seats in the United States House of Representatives. 

A third candidate—the comptroller of the city of New York from 2021 through 2025—had also won the Democratic Party's nomination for a seat in the House!  

If the two DSA members win their elections this fall, they will become members of the House. They will be two members, out of a total of 435! 

As we noted yesterday, this led the president to say the following in a public address last Friday. He was speaking about the two nominees who belong to the DSA, along with the one who doesn't:

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/26/26): These are not Social Democrats. These are hardcore godless Communists. They’re godless Communists. 

All Communists are godless. They don’t believe in God. This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence, in my opinion, 250 years ago. This is a major threat to our country.  

It was the most serious threat in the nation's history, the president thoughtfully said. On Thursday evening, he had already offered this reassuring Truth Social post:   

Truth Details  

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump  

The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist—All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP   

He's been preparing for a long time—preparing himself for the day when Assemblywoman Claire Valdez (D-NY) might show up in the House of Representatives, scarily saying—among other things—that she supports Medicare for All.  

Who the Joe Hill is Claire Valdez? The leading authority on that subject offers this overview:  

Claire Valdez  

Claire Valdez (born October 12, 1989) is an American politician and union organizer who has served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 37th District since 2025, representing part of the Borough of Queens. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, she is the Democratic nominee for New York's 7th congressional district in the 2026 election. 

Originally from Lubbock, Texas, Valdez moved to New York City in 2015 and lives in Ridgewood, Queens...

Valdez received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studying painting and art history. She worked a series of service jobs...before moving to New York City to pursue a career in art.

[...] 

After graduating from college, Valdez worked as a program assistant in the visual arts department at Columbia University before beginning her term as an assembly member. While working at Columbia, she became an active member of United Auto Workers Local 2110 and was elected unit chair in the local.

Such information as that. Meanwhile, whether wisely or not, something in the range of 55-65% of Americans join Valdez in supporting Medicare for All. Polling results seem to turn on the way the survey question is asked.

As to what else Valdez might think, believe or support, we haven't seen anyone make a major attempt to ask. Despite that fact, and as we noted yesterday, her nomination triggered this reaction from the most watched individual in all of "cable news:"  

WATTERS (6/24/26): This is a Third World takeover. This is what happens when you import the Third World. 

Did you know that New York City is 70% nonwhite? 40% foreign-born? 50% of the apartments, they don't even speak English! Not even their first language! 

These three women [sic] who Mamdani endorsed, weren't even born in New York City, weren't even raised in New York City. They're carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers, Jessica! 

...Communism is going to take over the Democratic Party, and then we're going to have to beat it, because you can't—

You can't do anything else besides beat it to a pulp.   

In a series of agitprop manifestos last week, this corporate messenger boy almost seemed to be getting his brownshirt out. 

"These people want to hurt us," the unusual fellow also said, speaking of Valdez and the two others. "The way we're going to react is going to make Trump look like a kitten."  

(For the record, Watters said these things to Red America only. If you read the New York Times—if you subscribe to The Atlantic; if you watch MS NOW—you will not be told that this remarkable reversion is currently taking place.) 

It may be time to name the (two or) three "godless Communists" who have been cast as such in this marketing play.

Two of the three nominees are members of DSA; the third nominee is not.. Only two of the three are women, though Watters, as you can see in the text above, seemed to think something different.

The three nominees are these: 

Brad Lander. Member, New York City Council, 2010-2022. New York City Comptroller, 2022-2026. 

As noted by the leading authority, "On June 12, 2025, The New York Times Opinion panel chose Lander as its top choice for the Democratic primary for mayor." 

This is one of three godless Communists the president has been warning the nation about.  

Claire Valdez: Member, New York State Assembly, 2025 to present. For more information, see above.

Darializa Avila Chevalier: According to the New York Times, "she is a Ph.D. student and an investigator in a public defender office." 

According to that same profile, Avila Chevalier is "a relative political newcomer who emerged from the world of far-left activism...Some of Ms. Avila Chevalier’s views may be considered too extreme for mainstream politics, and should she be chosen to represent Upper Manhattan in Congress, her views could pose a challenge for the greater Democratic Party." 

Those are the three nominees who have triggered the increasingly fevered remarks by performers on the Fox News Channel and by the sitting president. Ever vigilant, the sitting president has bizarrely said that the nomination of these three candidates constitutes "the most serious threat to our country" in the full sweep of its existence.  

(As best we can tell, you don't know that the president has made that extremely strange claim if you read the New York Times. For whatever reason, the Times is strongly inclined to disappear the president's strangest remarks and posts.)   

Of the three nominees, Lander was the Times editorial board's top choice for mayor! At this time, little is known about Valdez. 

Meanwhile, everyone agrees that there are very few unusual statements which Avila Chevalier hasn't made, at some point, in the past several years. 

We tend to agree with what Jessica Tarlov said about Avila Chevalier last Tuesday, on The Five. As for Assemblywoman Valdez, we saw her interviewed last Wednesday night by CNN's Erin Burnett.

Tomorrow, we'll show you what Tarlov said about Avila Chevalier, and we'll show you what was said when Valdez visited CNN. Also, we'll continue to show you what Watters is saying as he lays his brown shirts out for his mommy to iron.

A major reversion is underway as troupers like Watters keep making their claims. He's been beaming his scripts to Red America. 

Over here, in Blue America, we simply don't get told.   

Tomorrow: No Ridiculous Claim Left Behind

MONDAY: We return to results on last year's Naep!

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2026

On the Long-Term Trend version, that is: Friend, did you know there are two different versions of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (the NAEP)?  

The Naep is a widely praised federal testing program in such subjects as reading and math. But did you know that the venerable program comes in two different flavors?

The so-called "Main Naep" is administered to students in Grades 4, 8 and 12, without respect to the age of the various students. This version of the Naep has been given more frequently in recent decades. Results from this version have routinely been reported in the mainstream press over that stretch of time.

That said, please hold on:

There's another version of the Naep called The Long-Term Trend Naep. That version of the Naep is administered to students who are 9, 13 and 17 years old, no matter what grade the students may be in. 

That version of the Naep was administered just last year. It was that version of the Naep to which the New York Times referred in the news report which started this way, headline included:

Younger Students’ Test Scores Bounce Back After the Pandemic   

After years of dire test scores coming out of the pandemic, new national test results released on Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope—at least for younger students.

The nation’s 9-year-olds, who were in preschool when the pandemic hit, have made a significant recovery in reading since 2022, and are now caught up to where 9-year-olds were immediately before the pandemic, according to a key federal exam. They are getting closer to being caught up in math.  

But for American 13-year-olds, whose elementary school years were disrupted by the pandemic, there has been no recovery.

 And so on from there. 

That report appeared on June 10. We told you it would generate zero discussion. If you took that prediction to the betting markets, you're a wealthy person today. 

Attention to such topics has been surrendered to the tsunami of distractions which has constituted the second-term Trump years. But kids continue to go to school, and national samples of such kids continue to participate in this federal testing program.

No, the test items aren't the same on these different versions of the Naep. In effect, the Main Naep and the Long-Term Trend Naep  serve as rough estimates of overall accuracy, the one version paired off against the other.   

There's more to know about the two Naeps. The leading authority on the widely praised program goes on at some length right here.

That said:

How well did 9- and 13-year-old students perform in reading and math last year? Along the way in the next few weeks, we'll provide the basic results the best way we can, thereby filling a void in this Era of Cosmic Distraction.

Having said that, we leave you today with a key observation:   

Assessments of how well the students performed may turn on a basic point. It all depends on how far back you choose to go in making your year-to-year comparisons.   

We'll return to this topic before too long. We'll start our comparisons all the way back around 1980. With that as our starting point, you may be quite impressed with the amount of progress you see...

REVERSIONS: In this dumbest of all possible worlds...

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2026

...an old war cry was employed: On balance, we're inclined to agree with what Jessica Tarlov said last Tuesday, on the day when the city and the state of New York conducted primary elections.

Mayor Mamdani had endorsed congressional candidates from three different congressional districts. Two were members of the DSA—the Democratic Socialists of America. The third was a former member of that organization.

That very day, each candidate won the Democratic Party's nomination to serve in the House. As a general matter, we're inclined to agree with what Tarlov said that day.

We now jump ahead to Wednesday—to the day after The Mamdani 3 won those nominations:

On Wednesday's episode of The Five, a segment began with videotape of the sitting president calling these candidates Communists. A full reversion was underway within the American discourse. 

The three nominees were Communists, the exercised president said. As the segment began on The Five, the chyron at the bottom of the screen said this:

COMMIE CRUSADERS
MAMDANI ENDORSES SOCIALIST CANDIDATES IN NYC PRIMARIES

Sad! According to producers of The Five, Mayor Mamdani had endorsed a trio of "Commie Crusaders." 

On balance, we agree with what Tarlov had said, the previous day, about the trio of Commies. First, though, you ought to see what Jesse Watters now said.  

On Wednesday's edition of The Five, Watters was plainly upset. Occasionally turning to address Tarlov, he started by saying this:  

WATTERS (6/24/26): This is dangerous. You don't think these people can springboard to become governor, senator, AG? This is how it happens. You guys run your little power centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York. All of a sudden, you guys just populated all the higher offices in those states. And you guys are just going to sit back and do nothing with that power? 

You're coming for us. You're coming for our money, you're coming for our people. You're coming for our way of life. 

It's not socialism, guys. This is Communism.

You can't reason with these guys. You have to crush them. And we will, because we're not going to let our greatest city get destroyed. We're not going to let our civilization get destroyed. These people are going to steal from us. These people want to hurt us. 

This isn't like your regular Democrat...One of the ladies said she wants to destroy western civilization. I don't know about you, I take that as a threat. Another woman says she wants to empty prisons. That sounds like a violent threat. 

Abolish ICE. That means you can break into the country, rape, and stay. 

I don't like that. I'm not going to go for it. And no one's going to go for it. And the way we're going to react is going to be a lot tougher than the way Trump is reacting. The way we're going to react is going to make Trump look like a kitten.   

To our ear, it was Watters' assessment—and his pledge—which sounded a bit like a threat! That said, the gentleman wasn't finished. He continued along, eventually saying this:  

WATTERS: These people don't believe in borders, capitalism, our founding fathers. They're here to steal, punish us, and then throw around welfare. This is a Third World takeover. This is what happens when you import the Third World. 

Did you know that New York City is 70% nonwhite? 40% foreign-born? 50% of the apartments, they don't even speak English! Not even their first language! 

These three women [sic] who Mamdani endorsed, weren't even born in New York City, weren't even raised in New York City. They're carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers, Jessica! 

...Communism is going to take over the Democratic Party, and then we're going to have to beat it, because you can't—

 You can't do anything else besides beat it to a pulp.   

Watters was ready for a fight—for what sounded almost like a street fight. He said his cadre was going to make President Trump look like a kitten. 

He said his cadre was going to beat the Democratic Party to a pulp.

Meanwhile, Watters was, as usual, utterly clueless. He was so clueless that he seemed to think that Mamdani had endorsed three women for the House—and yes, that's what this cable star said. 

For the record, Watters is the most-watched person in American "cable news," thanks to his dual role as co-host of The Five and host of Jesse Watters Primetime. 

They're the two most watched shows in the entire realm of American "cable news." Watters is the driving force on each of these ludicrous programs.

Just to establish the record, we'll cite a few basic facts:  

One of the three nominees, Brad Lander, is, in fact, a man. As is perfectly typical, Watters didn't seem to be aware of this remarkably well-known fact.

Lander was elected to citywide office in New York—to the office of New York City Comptroller—back in 2021, long before Mamdani was part of the story.  Lander was raised in St. Louis. Of the two women Mamdani did endorse, one was raised in Lubbock, Texas. The other was raised in Florida.

We now move on to this:

As of last week, Watters seemed to be shocked to have recently learned that New York City isn't majority white.  For the record, these were the basic numbers in 2024, according to Census Reporter (Census QuickFacts is down):   

New York City race / ethnicity:   
White:  31%
Hispanic: 29%  
Black: 20% 
Asian: 15%

There's nothing especially new about that. Watters recited his disturbing data on several occasions last week.  

Meanwhile, Communist Communist Communist Communist Communist Communist Commies:

A familiar cry was bruited last week as the reversion was on. 

On Friday, President Trump droned about the problem at a Faith and Freedom Coalition event. For Mediaite's report, just click here. But here's part of what the president said about the godless trio in question:  

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/26/26): As you saw with the Communists elected in New York City recently—they're Communists, they're not Social Democrats—they want to completely destroy the traditional American way of life...

It’s happening right now in New York and California. But you’ll start living in squalor. You’ll live in squalor. There will be no food. There will be no housing. There will be no military. There will be no law and order. There will be no nothing. There will be no nothing. You will be a third-world inhabitant in every way, and everyone will suffer or die. 

You’ll suffer or die. That’s what happens.

[...]

These are not Social Democrats. These are hardcore godless Communists. They’re godless Communists. 

All Communists are godless. They don’t believe in God. This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence, in my opinion, 250 years ago. This is a major threat to our country.  

People don’t look at that— "Three people were elected!" No, no. It's many more than three people. And the other people are being swayed because they don’t have the sense to see what’s happening.   

The nomination of the three candidates in New York City? It constitutes "the most serious threat" in this country's existence, the sitting president actually said.   

For the record, are these three nominees actually Communists? We'll discuss that matter as the week proceeds. For now, we'll offer an obvious no.   

That said, the old battle cry was widely bruited last week. For example, it was bruited by the most-watched person in "cable news" on Friday evening's edition of Jesse Watters Primetime. 

The most-watched person played tape of the president's dire warning at the Faith and Family event. He then launched a lengthy jihad of his own about the greatest threat in history, the threat posed by the three "godless Communists."   

We won't quote the various things our most-watched cable newsperson said. As a substitute, we'll start by offering a word count from that evening's opening segment:

Word count: Jesse Watters Primetime, 6/26/26
"Communist:" 24
"Communism:" 7
"Commie:" 5 

Sad! To borrow from Joyce, the C-words were general over the pseudo-discussion. 

And not only that! As this very strange fellow proceeded, some of the chyrons blared thusly:

Chyrons: Jesse Watters Primetime, 6/26/26
TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON COMMUNISM
COMMUNISTS INFILTRATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
COMMIE PIRATE: HAKEEM IS WEAK
"HARDCORE, GODLESS COMMUNISTS"
DEM: "WE AGREE WITH COMMUNISTS"
COMMIE WAVE CRASHES INTO AMERICA   

You can add those six additional usages onto the prior word count! But a "Commie wave" had crashed into America! Sadly, that's what the chyrons said. 

Now for the rest of the story:   

Fellow citizens, is it true? Godless or otherwise, had Mamdani endorsed three "Communists" to serve in the House of Representatives?   

We'll examine that question as the week proceeds. Be prepared to encounter a "no."

Finally, what did Jessica Tarlov say, on Tuesday's edition of The Five, about the three "monsters" in question? (We're quoting Emily Compagno's choice of words on that same day's program. Inevitably, this star of stage and cable news scream also went with "psychopaths.")

What did Tarlov say about the three "psychopaths" in question? We'll show you that first thing tomorrow--but as a general matter, we'd be inclined to agree with what she said, especially about Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of the three nominees.

Communism Communists but also Commie Crusaders! In this, the dumbest of all possible worlds, an old battle cry was out.

That said, who was actually worse last week as the reversion began? The stars who clowned for Red America, or the stars over here in Blue America who averted their gaze once again?

Tomorrow: We wouldn't have chosen that word

SATURDAY: Trump never fails to say "Hussein!"

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2026

A tool pretends to explain: The meltdown came from various directions in the course of this past week. 

In one venue, the meltdown started with a set of video clips. The clips were aired at the start of a segment on Thursday's edition of The Five.  

As you know, The Five is the most-watched program in American "cable news." As you can see by clicking this link, the segment to which we refer started with these video clips:  

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/22/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him?   

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/4/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?

PRESIDENT TRUMP (7/22/25): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?

PRESIDENT TRUMP (1/27/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you—have you heard of him?   

The dates were included as the four clips played. The point of this otherwise pointless presentation was obvious.  

President Trump can't seem to stop talking about Barack Obama. During the segment in question, Jesse Watters was the first messaging agent to state his view about this situation. 

He quickly offered an explanation for President Trump's behavior:

WATTERS (6/25/26): Trump talks a lot. He says a lot of things. So yeah, he’s gonna mention Barack Hussein Obama. 

Part of that is just, he likes to say "Hussein."  

President Trump just likes to say "Hussein," this simpering man boy said!

Let's state what's blindingly obvious. There's a reason why the sitting president always includes the former president's middle name.  Also, everyone knows what that reason is. 

In reality, everyone knows why Trump always says "Hussein."  As Watters tried to move to his next point, Jessica Tarlov interrupted and asked an obvious question:

WATTERS (continuing directly): But the other part of it—

TARLOV:  Why does he like to say "Hussein?"

Why does he like to say "Hussein?" With that, the die had been cast.  

In the past, we've described the programming of the Fox News Channel as an assault on the very possibility of continuing the American project, such as that project has been.  The idiocy of Watters and his towel-snapping partner, Greg Gutfeld, is a major part of the frontal assault waged by this corporate entity.

What shape will that practiced idiocy take at a moment like this? Below, you see the way Watters responded to Tarlov's question:

WATTERS (continuing directly): Cause it’s funny that the president’s middle name was Hussein. You don’t think that’s hysterical?

TARLOV: No, I don’t. 

WATTERS: OK, OK! It was the name of the dictator—

TARLOV: I think it’s interesting in the context of saying that he’s a Muslim. Which is why he says it, so that people still think that he’s a Muslim.  

GUTFELD: It's so problematic.   

Stating the obvious, everyone knows that's why Trump keeps saying Obama's middle name. Everyone except the corporate tool Watters, who's paid fantastic sums, by the Murdoch empire, to recite the corporation's agitprop and to play the fool in this way.   

Jesse Watters stepped forward this day to play the fool again! In his view, why does President Trump keep saying "Hussein" whenever he mentions President Obama?   

According to the corporate messaging agent, President Trump likes to say "Hussein" just because it's funny! It's just funny that President Obama shares a name with Saddam Hussein, this simpering idiot said. 

Needless to say, that isn't what Watters actually thinks. Surprised by the rare interruption from Tarlov, he struggled to keep his practiced idiocy on the winning side of the street.   

We're sorry, but Barack Obama isn't a Muslim! (As everyone knows, millions of good, decent American citizens actually are.)  

Still, the sitting president wants to float that possibly scary suggestion. Everyone, including Watters, knows that's why the sitting president does what he constantly does.

Stating the obvious, Watters knows why President Trump does what he constantly does. He also knows that that is why the "news channel" which employs and scripts him opened that grisly segment with four ululations of "Hussein" by the sitting president.   

As Thursday's segment proceeded, Watters attempted to recover, in a way we won't describe. It ended with the little mutt Gutfeld extending his twice-daily practice of undermining the possibility of the American project, such as it has been:   

WATTERS: I don’t know what he is. I don’t care what he is. He’s probably an atheist.

TARLOV: You know what he is!

WATTERS: He is, I know. He’s retired.  

GUTFELD: No god-fearing person would eat a dog.  

That's what the second mutt said!   

Watters and Gutfeld are the two leading players at today's Fox News Channel. They co-host (and dominate) The Five, the nation's most-watched cable news program.  

Jesse Watters Primetime (8 p.m.) is the nation's second most-watched "cable news" show. Gutfeld!, which airs at 10 p.m. (that's 7 p.m. out on the coast), is #4 on the national list.  

Regarding Watters himself, let us briefly say this. It's amazing to see how far the clown-adjacent propagandist has fallen, distinguished ancestry-wise:

Jesse Watters   

Jesse Bailey Watters (born July 9, 1978) is an American conservative political commentator and television program host on the Fox News cable television network. He frequently appeared earlier in his media career on The O'Reilly Factor, the political talk show hosted by commentator/moderator Bill O'Reilly... 

[...] 

Watters was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Stephen Hapgood Watters, a teacher, and child psychologist Anne Purvis, daughter of Morton Bailey Jr., publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. His maternal great-grandfather was another Morton Bailey, publisher of the prominent longtime magazine The Saturday Evening Post; his maternal great-great-grandfather was Morton Shelley Bailey (1855–1922), a lawyer, politician, state senator, and district judge in Colorado, later serving as an Associate Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court.

Watters' paternal grandfather, Franklin Benjamin Watters, was a cardiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Newington, Connecticut, and a professor at the University of Connecticut Medical Dental School...

Watters has Irish ancestry on his father's side. Watters is named after his mother's great-grandfather, Jesse Andrew Burnett, an associate chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in their state capital of Topeka, Kansas. 

Reversion to (well below) the mean has taken place with remarkable speed within this particular family. The leading authority also includes a lengthy section concerning this peculiar fellow's peculiar views regarding the various ways boys and girls should correctly behave:   

Comments on masculinity

Watters criticized former President Joe Biden for licking ice cream in public as "a grown man." He has instructed men on how they should wave and belittled those who grocery shop with their wives. In September 2024, Jesse Watters was criticized for comments he made on The Five regarding Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and a running mate of the US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who had shared a photo of himself drinking a milkshake with a paper straw. Watters mocked the image as an example of Walz's lack of masculinity because he used a straw, which he claimed made women not like Walz, because women like masculinity. He said that asking for a "vanilla shake" instead of a "vanilla ice cream shake" also makes men look weak...

In March 2025, Watters listed his "five rules for men" on The Five – don't be that serious, just be funny; don't eat soup in public; don't cross your legs; don't drink from a straw, and don't wave simultaneously with two hands because men wave with one hand, not both hands at the same time. He added that one of the reasons you don't drink from a straw is the way your lips purse, which is very effeminate... 

And on and on from there. Gender rules without end, amen. This idiocy never stops.

In fairness, full disclosure:

Sometimes, Watters seems to be lapsing into his "I'm just a silly dimwit" comedic persona when he makes these inane observations. On balance, though, we get the impression that he really believes this idiocy, which he routinely traffics.   

Returning to Thursday's segment:   

Everyone knows why President Trump never fails to say "Hussein." Also, everyone knows why the Fox News Channel opened Thursday's segment with those video clips.   

Like President Trump, the bosses believe their audience is dumb enough to be swayed by such messaging. We know of no sign that this belief is wrong. 

A downfall started in earnest this week. Starting on Monday, we'll be discussing that latest menacing assault on the American project.  

For today, one final point:   

Who is most at fault as this latest assault takes shape? Their names are legion, and their names are Blue. 

They're the overpaid stars who work for the New York Times, for MS NOW, and also for the Atlantic. They refuse to report or discuss the potent behavior which occurs on the Fox News Channel. 

Their own corporate checks are spending real good. To a man, to a woman, they have agreed to avert their gaze. They have agreed not to speak.

Also this: For a report on that segment by Mediaite, you can just click here.