Cross-Examination

• Italy elects a new right-leaning prime minister: The globalist Left is having a conniption fit over the Italian people electing for their new prime minister the right-leaning nationalist Giorgia Meloni. Meloni’s party, the Brothers of Italy, won the day with 26% of the vote, which, combined with the other conservative parties, secured a coalition totaling 44% in Italy’s parliamentary system, easily making the 45-year-old mother the nation’s first female prime minister. Rather than celebrate this, the Leftmedia is falsely portraying her as the second coming of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Meloni said of herself: “I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian. No one will take that away from me.” Labeling Meloni as “far right” and “fascist” (a left-wing ideology) is ironic given the fact that one of the primary reason’s Italians voted for Meloni is due to the previous government’s draconian and authoritarian response to the COVID pandemic. Furthermore, thanks to Europe’s green energy pipe dream, Italians are suffering under the spiking costs for both electricity and fuel. Under Italy’s left-leaning government over the last several decades, the economy has failed to significantly develop the export industry, which provides the only positive GDP contribution to the country’s shrinking economy. Meloni aims to reverse this trend and tackle the nation’s ballooning public debt that currently stands at nearly 150% of GDP, the second largest in the eurozone. In her campaign, Meloni blasted the European Union’s “woke ideologies” and its bowing to “LGBT lobbies.” Regarding the “fascist” smear, Meloni stated, “The Italian right has handed fascism over to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the ignominious anti-Jewish laws.” Meloni is just the latest European country to elect a right-leaning politician, as Europeans are declaring their opposition to the Left’s vision for a globalist future, which goes a long way toward explaining why the Leftmedia has smeared Meloni.

• Seventy-six dead as anti-government protests spread in Iran: A little over a week ago, Iranians took to the streets protesting the government following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. She had been arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s strict hijab law, which requires women to wear headscarves. The police claimed that the young woman’s death was due to heart failure, but her family claimed it was due to a severe beating. The protests against Iran’s morality police that originated in the northwestern city of Saqez following the woman’s funeral have now spread to more than 80 towns and cities across Iran. These anti-government protests are reminiscent of those in Iran in the summer of 2009, when millions took to the streets and the government engaged in a massive and brutal crackdown that resulted in the deaths of at least 1,200 protesters. At the time, Barack Obama hardly made a comment, offering no public support for Iranians protesting for freedom. Years later, he would effectively send the brutal Iranian government a lifeline with his terrible nuclear deal, a deal that Joe Biden is now seeking to resurrect. As the protests grow, the Iranian government is again cracking down, with at least 76 protesters killed. Will Biden follow Obama in failing to offer public support to those Iranians protesting against the Iranian regime that has been the leading sponsor of terrorism in the world since taking over in the 1970s?

• Dahmer: No, not that kind of LGBTQ content: Netflix recently released a true crime show drama based on the infamous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer. In the 1990s, Dahmer, a gay man, preyed on men and boys, murdering them and then eating parts of his victims. His crimes were discovered after he was arrested in 1991 after one of his victims fled Dahmer’s apartment as he was attempting to kill him. Police responding to the scene then discovered Dahmer’s grisly behavior. Controversy has erupted surrounding the series due to Netflix listing it under its LGBTQ+ tag. The show seems to go out of its way to spin the blame for Dahmer’s crime spree onto the police for their repeated failure to apprehend Dahmer due to their “systemic” bias against homosexuals. Meanwhile, the Rainbow Mafia is promoting drag queen shows for young kids as if this clearly debased sexual behavior was not an effort to groom children into accepting it as normal and good.

Headlines

• Ian a major hurricane threat to Florida, including Tampa and Fort Myers areas (TWC)

• Pro-life activist arrested after SWAT team raids home with guns drawn in front of screaming children (NR) | New information raises questions about FBI raid on Catholic father of 7 (CNA) | ‘You must testify, under oath’: Josh Hawley demands answers, rips Merrick Garland (Daily Wire)

• Stopgap government funding measure reportedly includes around $12 billion related to Ukraine (Blaze Media)

• Biden hosts Atlanta Braves at White House after pushing MLB to boycott their city for All-Star Game (The Federalist)

• CDC walks back COVID guidance again, finds lasting post-vaccine heart problems in young adults (Just the News)

• Kamala Harris to visit Korean DMZ as Kim regime ups threats (Washington Examiner)

• New study: SSRI antidepressants are only more effective than sugar pills 15% of the time (Not the Bee)

• Biden student debt cancellation will cost $400 billion (Free Beacon)

• Dow enters first bear market since March 2020 as rate, currency and economic worries reverberate (MarketWatch)

• In shift away from China, Apple to manufacture iPhone 14 in India (Free Beacon)

• Gavin Newsom travels to Texas even though it’s one of California’s banned travel states (Daily Wire)

• Facing officer shortage after the “defund police” movement, New Orleans to dispatch civilians to crime scenes (Blaze Media)

• Court rules “trans” prison guard can’t strip-search Muslim inmate (PJ Media)

• Alec Baldwin could soon face charges for role in fatal “Rust” shooting (NY Post)

• Vladimir Putin grants full Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden (Fox News)

• Russian military-recruitment centers attacked amid mobilization pushback (WSJ)

• Policy: Republicans must fight continuing resolution funding for third year of Biden-Pelosi priorities (Daily Signal)

• Humor: Clown emoji distances self from Democrats (Babylon Bee)

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