April 15, 2026

THE SINGLE SWALWELL THEORY: The Mystery Sweeping D.C.: Who Executed the Political Hitjob That Destroyed Eric Swalwell?

For all [Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries] know, Swalwell will be replaced with an AOC/Mamdani-styled “Democrat Socialist” that’ll cause them headaches. Keeping a reliable, dependable, known quantity like Swalwell under lock-and-key would’ve made their jobs a helluva lot easier.

Yes, the Democratic Machine had a vested interest in pushing Swalwell out of the governor’s race — but it wasn’t in their interest to push him out of Congress completely!

Second, the catalyst for the hit job doesn’t appear to be Swalwell’s career in D.C. Instead, it’s all seemingly connected to his Sacramento aspirations. That would point to a California-based culprit.

Which is why I think it’s more likely Pelosi and Jeffries covered up Swalwell’s crimes than outed them.

And third, if Swalwell’s skirt-chasing, philandering, and/or sexual deviancies were an open secret among Democrats, media, and staffers, then anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of PR could’ve executed the hit. This wasn’t the kind of high-level sandbagging that could’ve only come from a powerful political machine.

Honestly? Hits like this aren’t rocket science. Any Dem candidate could’ve done it.

Including billionaire Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer, who’s spent $120 million of his own money on his primary campaign. Steyer was already one of the top two or three polling Democrats; eliminating Swalwell was exactly what he needed to claim the big prize.

With a $50K private investigator and a semi-decent PR professional on staff, Steyer could’ve executed the hit himself.

Same goes for candidates Katie Porter, Matt Mahan, Antonio Villaraigosa, Xavier Becerra, Betty Yee, and Tony Thurmond. Mahan’s raised over $11 million; Porter nearly $6 million; Becerra and Villaraigosa, over $3 million (each).

PIs and PR are cheap. Emailing/texting a reporter is free. It’s well within the budget of all the aforementioned candidates.

Furthermore, if Swalwell’s libido was as manic as we’re (now) hearing, it’s not like the PIs would’ve had to dig too hard. Discovering that Swalwell was a loathsome, disgusting pig was low-hanging fruit.

But with a reliable, dependable California Democrat in an ultra-safe congressional district, no one in his party — and thus, none of the DNC’s coconspirators in the mainstream media — had a motive to assassinate Swalwell’s character. Killing his career didn’t benefit any of the kingmakers on the radical left.

Until he ran for governor.

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Posted at 6:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

Posted at 6:25 pm by Stephen Green

I TOO ENDORSE REGIME CHANGE IN BRUSSELS:

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT:

Posted at 5:54 pm by Stephen Green

THE WALT DISNEY CO. BEGINS LAYING OFF 1,000 EMPLOYEES:

The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday began layoffs expected to lead to 1,000 job cuts across the company.

Josh D’Amaro, who in February succeeded Bob Iger as chief executive, announced broader layoffs following a move in January to consolidate Disney’s marketing division. The cuts are expected to fall across the Burbank, California-based company’s traditional television businesses, including ESPN, as well as its movie studio. Employees in product and technology, and in certain corporate functions will also be affected.

Let’s check in with the news and opinion division of Disney:

 

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

HE’D BE A FOOL TO GO ALONG AT THIS LATE DATE:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Glenn Reynolds

REQUIRED READING:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

GEORGE WILL: Seattle has a severe case of the Ayatollah Itch.

In 2004, Seattle’s government, as woke as a rooster at dawn, adopted the Race and Social Justice Initiative, which was more than a program to promote workforce diversity. Rather, it was a program of compelled racial identity.

Its explicit purpose was to change “the fundamental nature of local government” by embedding “racial equity and social justice principles” throughout city “programs, budgets, and culture.” This involved evaluating city employees through a “racial equity lens.” Facially illegal and presumptively unconstitutional, this monomania featured the full spectrum of now-familiar nostrums and policies. They are divisive, bullying and, by now, boring.

Favoring a colorblind society is stigmatized as “racial evasion.” What normal people consider elementary adult virtues — e.g., punctuality, individualism, perfectionism — are residues of “white supremacy culture.” Diversity, equity and inclusion trainers told trainees that racism is “in white people’s DNA.” Although it is against the law to “limit, segregate, or classify” employees by race “in any program, established to provide … training,” Seattle inflicted mandatory, race-segregated sessions. The preferred euphemism for such evasions of the law is “affinity groups.”

They separate White people and BIPOCs (Black, indigenous and people of color). Seattle seems unaware of how close it has come to formulating a 21st-century version of the Jim Crow “separate but equal” doctrine.

The city’s first manager of the Race and Social Justice Initiative was almost endearingly candid: “We asked all the white people to go in one room and all the people of color [to] go in another room. … Well, the White people got in the room and just talked about their fear, and the Black people got in the room and talked about how glad they weren’t the White people.“ Living, no doubt, in a bubble of the like-minded, this person probably had no clue how repulsive he sounded to normal Americans.

Exit quote: “The Ayatollah Itch is a communicable disease spread by aspiring thought police. The vaccine against it is the visceral American recoil against government establishment of religion. Including ersatz religions concocted from evanescent political fads.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

TYPICAL:

Posted at 4:05 pm by Stephen Green

NIFTY… I ASSUME: U.S. Navy Destroyer Equipped With New Launcher For Unknown Weapons.

A new and not immediately recognizable launcher has emerged on the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carl M. Levin. Last year, launchers for Coyote counter-drone interceptors appeared in the same general location on two other Burkes, the USS Bainbridge and the USS Winston S. Churchill. The Navy is currently known to be exploring several other options for integrating lower-cost anti-drone interceptors on various warships to bolster their defenses against this ever-growing threat. The new launcher could also be for deploying other kinds of munitions, drones, and/or decoys.

The Carl M. Levin and its new launcher can be seen in the background of a picture that the U.S. Marine Corps released on April 8, which is seen in parts throughout this story. The image was taken on March 29 at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Levin, also known by the hull number DDG-120, is homeported there. A Japanese-language blog called OSINFO was the first to notice the launcher in the image and posted it to social media.

“What the launcher fires and what purpose it serves are unknown,” and the Navy remains tight-lipped.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

CALIFORNIA DEMS LOVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: And just days after indy Internet journo David Delaiden won his 11-year battle against multiple spurious charges filed by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, Democrats in the California Assembly filed legislation that is clearly aimed at giving state officials media censorship tools. But Democrats using government to censor pro-life/Conservative/Evangelical media and researchers is nothing new. Check out my report today for The Washington Stand.

Posted at 3:41 pm by Mark Tapscott

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Now Comes the Gun-Grab: Rhode Island Dems Go for Full-On Confiscation. “At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, lawmakers pushed 18 gun control bills in a single slate. The package goes well beyond sales restrictions. It includes legislation aimed at unconstitutionally dismantling the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act through so-called ‘public nuisance’ liability schemes, along with gun rationing, ammunition background checks, mandatory training requirements and liability insurance mandates.”

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green