Why Trump is going to eventually crack even harder on China and use economic leverage to run the communists out of the America’s.
Keep your enemy in their hemisphere…
Cuba is a strategic battleground for China against the USA
10 minutes to the start of the greatest motorsport event in the world!
This is a new story (to me), and I have heard many stories of Trump’s kindness long before he decided to run for president, and Trump NEVER mentions them.
There are no perfect men, but there are good ones:
Ace has a look into a phenomenon we’ve all been familiar with for a goodish while now.
Educated…? Let’s say “college-attending.”
Better yet, let’s just say “credentialed” and be done with it.
A poll finds that college-educated left-wing women, or AWFLs, are the group most eager to sever connections with friends or families due to their cultic “political” beliefs.
You don’t say.
You. Don’t. Say.
He goes on to cite Jordan Peterson—an exercise in futility if ever there was one, since the type of females under discussion here dismissed Peterson as a misogynistic, homophobic, Reich-wing Nazifascist crank a long time ago anyway. More and more, it begins to look as if the 19th Amendment has been every bit as disastrous for Constitutionally-correct governance in Amerika v2.0 as the 17th was. Not that it’s at all likely that anything will ever be done about correcting either of those monumental errors, natch.
Our old blog-bud Ken Layne has posted the coolest friggin’ GIF you’re ever gonna see; hopefully it’ll work properly over here as well, although if it doesn’t, don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful, y’all. If not, you can always check out the original here, number 5.
Now THAT’s what I call a RODEO, bubba!
Update! Nope, no joy, looks like; just a static image instead of an auto-repeating animation like it’s s’posed to be. Ah well, go check it out at Ken’s joint, you’ll be glad you did.
Finally, someone writes what I have been saying for decades. China is now on the edge of disaster. And Trump has their number, but Trump wants as little pain for the USA as possible in our transition away from China.
Q: What does a billion+ hungry and pissed off people look like?
A: China
All communist countries fail and they fail bigly. Communists murder by the tens of thousands millions to stay in power and still they will fail. They always fail and they always lie, always and right up to the end.
I have also been to China many times and seen the same ghost cities. I have been on four lane concrete super highways where a three hour trip resulted in seeing one car – the one I was in. On the return I did see one other car. Six hours, leaving from Canton (Guangzhou), and two cars total. Second trip on the same highway IIRC we saw two vehicles, a car and a truck.
When I went for the first ride in my friends new Buick out of Shanghai we saw overpasses with no highways on either side. Several. Ten years later there were still no highways. Don’t know what is there now as I have not been since end of 2019 and will never go back.
in Britain perhaps. Might notice some similarities to the USA.
The resolution has three components: term limits for Congress, imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, and limits on the power and reach of the government.
Yes, mostly that’s it. As my few* remaining black friends have also noticed, it’s not racism, it’s the culture. Most people are tired of the culture of crime, the theft in the stores, the drug use, the children born without fathers in the home, the rate of incarceration due to criminal activity, murder, shootings. It’s the welfare city syndrome – every democrat run city has a culture problem and an education problem to go with the destruction of the city in general.
Tune it out. That’s what most of us do. More murder in inner city Baltimore/Detroit/Chicago/New Orleans/DC/etc? No young person in Baltimore city schools can read or do basic math when they “graduate” high school? Local store gets robbed, again?
I don’t care. The democrats that run the city sure don’t give a damn. No one else does either.
Black Leftist Moves to Africa and Discovers That America Isn’t So Bad After All
Real shocker, ain’t it?
What do you think would happen if you eliminated welfare? Short term/long term…
*smaller circle of close friends as you get older, for me at least. Lose touch by time and distance, or they just get old and die…
According to the anti-Trump pro-China “media”, republican rino’s, and everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Fox News.
In spite of the fact that during term one Trump put tariffs in place and the effect was exceptional – American prosperity rose rather than declining as it had been – the China enablers (bought and paid) continue to push the old business school canard that tariffs are bad.
And here we are, April has ended with the market going ballistic and up, not down as predicted. Jobs, real ones not government fakes, continue to defy expectations. Billions of new investment is on the way. Countries are at the table now to work out deals for access to the American market, deals that will save their economy while bolstering ours and ridding us of the China problem. There will be announcements soon.
Between DOGE finding and eliminating the theft of your money, Trump cutting other federal funding, and tariffs replacing other taxation (your income tax) the goal is to eliminate income tax for the vast majority of American citizens.
The border is closed – no more budget dwindling illegals crossing, and the worst are being sent home with the remainder to come. The big drain on the budget will get eliminated.
We are still alive, and the plans are in place to make our lives considerably better and far wealthier, while enhancing freedom and liberty, the true underpinning of prosperity.
They said I would be homeless, begging for soup, and regretting my vote for Donald Trump.
EO ending the commie news public funding
Trump fulfils another promise!
Ukraine has signed a minerals deal with the US. A deal which has three primary components:
1) Secure “rare” earth minerals for the US
2) Pressure Putin to make a deal to end the war
3) Tell the chinese to stuff it with their wish to be the sole provider of certain rare earth minerals
Time will tell, but I expect a peace deal will follow soon enough.
While they deny it, the Chinese have been negotiating for a better tariff position, while backing down on certain tariffs at the same time. They really have no choice, but we do. Our problems from a trade war are short term economic pain, for china they may be regime and life ending.
You just were not aware that to get rich you needed to do nothing more than send a bill to the treasury.
Need a couple million, just send the bill.
Now, if you and I did that we would be in jail faster than the check could clear the bank. So who do you think was getting all this money? Not millions, rather billions, perhaps trillions…
DOGE just keeps finding the crooked methods. Time for Trump DOJ to start charging the criminals.
The reunion vids, of which there many on the Innarnuts (here’s one), are real choke-you-uppers as well as awesome in their own right. But I wanted to post the story in print. So to speak, I mean. Pixels, ones and zeros, whatevs.
After year and a half in Gaza captivity, Billie the dog returns to her Israeli family
Billie is finally home after a year and a half. The dog was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, her owners have been searching for her, posting flyers, with no idea what happened to her.Yesterday, it was reported that a surprising phone call finally came with information about the lost dog.
A Golani military reservist who had been serving in Rafah recently discovered the dog there. He wanted to adopt her and brought her to Israel for vaccinations at a veterinarian in the center of Israel.
There, the vet scanned her microchip and discovered that Billie the dog belongs to Rachel Dancyg from Nir Oz. Rachel’s former husband, Alex Dancyg, and her brother, Itzik Elgart, were both kidnapped and murdered.
This morning, Dancyg said in an interview with Kan Reshet Bet, “I hoped, but I didn’t believe she was alive. She survived because she’s my dog. She ran to the soldier, didn’t let go, didn’t leave him. It’s a huge joy. We haven’t reunited yet – I’m shaking.” She added, “If only Itzik and Alex were coming back too.”
If you watch the above-linked vidya, you’ll already know that the pain has already been reunited, and Billie is back home again with his loving owner. Kinda odd that the murdering Hamas savages didn’t just shoot the critter right offhand, crazy-ass Muzzrats considering dogs to be unclean, or haram. and all that twipe. Maybe Ms Dancyg should change the cute little booger’s name from Billie to Lucky. One thing we know sure about the li’l pupster: he’s smarter’n all Hell, running right up to that IDF soldier and sticking to him like glue the way she did. Good show, cheers, brilliant, and a hearty well done for all involved.
1Ace asks in his headline:
A: Yes. Yes, it most certainly is. Quoting from a Glenn Reynolds piece in the NYP:
We thought of them as do-good organizations set up by people who really care — about the environment, or poor people, or children, or freedom.
We imagined they raise money, help the downtrodden, send out press releases and engage in other private activities to promote the causes they favor.
They’re not government entities, we thought — the very name says that — but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.
Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.
But as we’ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many “non-governmental” entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.
As with just about everything else in or involved with Mordor on the Potomac, as DOGE has so amply demonstrated, it’s all deception, trickery, and deflection, nothing more. NGOs that are in every meaningful sense GOs? The “non” in place strictly to provide a ruse which will hopefully keep the stupes, dupes, and slack-jawed yokels looking in the desired direction? Ho hum, quelle shocked over here.
What needs to happen, but won’t, is an in toto junking of FederalGovCo: dismantle ALL government entities; fire every bureau-rat; dump every existing Department; raze the whole sorry, sordid, edifice right down to bare earth, and start over under Constitutionally-correct guidelines. There is no saving this soppy mess, no “restoring” or “reforming” the US governmental Leviathan. It must be killed, buried, the earth over its grave salted, and replaced entirely—by something a great deal less bloated, self-directing, overbearing, and generally monstrous.
See what I mean when I say “ain’t gonna happen”? I’ll let you calculate the odds for yourself, Dear Reader, but I will certainly not be laying any money down to bet myself. I’ll save it for the one-armed bandits in Vegas, thanks; I’ve seen people actually win on those things. In fact, my late wife covered our trip expenses entire that way—more than just once, in fact.
The formidable Julie Kelly rips the asswart Boasberg a new one, and it’s beautiful, man.
Jeb Boasberg, the chief judge of the D.C. District Court, sure has a knack for timing.
As the national conversation this week revolves around accusations the Trump administration is defying court orders by refusing to return an illegal El Salvadoran, er “Maryland father,” back to the U.S., Boasberg swooped in Wednesday afternoon with a lengthy opinion accusing the administration of “criminal contempt” for ignoring a set of orders he issued on March 15. (I first wrote about Boasberg’s contempt trap on March 19.)
In a series of hasty decisions that day, Boasberg, in another instance of fortuitous timing for foes of the Trump administration as I explained here, halted the deportation of illegal Venezuelans covered by the president’s Alien Enemies Act (AEA) proclamation, which Trump had been signed the night before. Boasberg issued two written temporary restraining orders—one prohibiting the deportation of five unnamed illegal Venezuelans represented in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and another one turning the five plaintiffs into a class action suit protecting anyone in custody subject to the AEA.
Note the operative word in every one of these cases: illegal. As in, illegal aliens who entered this country illegally, remain here illegally except for those in prison as a consequence of their various illegal actions, thus have no right whatsoever to be here at all. “No human being is illegal,” eh shitlibs? Better ask John Wayne Gacy, DB Cooper, or Al Capone about that. Which, given the body counts racked up by a fair few of these immivaders, isn’t a particularly invidious comparison.
And during an emergency hearing held that Saturday evening, Boasberg also issued what he describes as an “oral command” at around 6:45 p.m. to return planes carrying the newly-designated class of illegals. “[Any] plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States,” Boasberg told the Department of Justice attorney present at the hearing. “However that’s accomplished, whether turning around a plane or not embarking anyone on the plane or those people covered by this on the plane, I leave to you. But this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately.”
“Oral command.” Get a load of him.
The problem, as Boasberg appears to have known at that time, is that two planes carrying the AEA subjects had already departed and were out of U.S. territory. His “oral command” was impossible to obey or to enforce. (Complicating matters further is Boasberg did not include the “oral command” in his written order published about 40 minutes later.)
The alleged defiance of the two written orders—which were both vacated on April 7 by the Supreme Court after a majority concluded Boasberg’s courtroom was the wrong jurisdiction and the ACLU sought the wrong type of relief—and his “oral command” represent the basis of Boasberg’s contempt allegations. And Boasberg appears prepared to name a court-appointed attorney if the Trump DOJ refuses to bring charges against the yet-unidentified officials he accuses of contempt.
Trump damned well ought to treat this overreaching, officious prick with contempt; he’s about as contemptible as they come. Which, these days, is saying a helluva lot.
Boasberg’s 46-page opinion reads more like a petulant grudge against people who refused to bow to his sense of superiority rather than a cautious, reasoned judgement during a fraught time of conflict between the judiciary and executive branches of government.
Got that right, Jules. Worst part is, as we have seen again and again by now, there are all too many judges just like him out there. All of whom need to be brought up short, told to know their role and shut their hole. If that must come down to handing down a few long-distance, .308 caliber impeachments—well hey, I’m good with it, whatever it takes.
As I always like to say about power-drunk Progtards of every stripe, judges and non-judges alike: they won’t stop. They will NEVER stop. They will have to BE stopped. Yesterday wouldn’t be too soon to suit me. And one Donald John Trump might be just the guy to do it, I’m thinking.
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