Kash Patel is incompetent and he needs to go, too

 

WH Corrects FBI: Law-Abiding 'Have Right To Bear Arms'

Philip Wegmann, RCP

 

The Supremes long ago ruled against the totalitarian state that Trump keeps demanding

Local authorities don't have to cooperate on immigration, or on anything else.

Based on Supreme Court precedents like Printz v. United States (1997), courts have held that the federal government cannot command state or local officials to administer or enforce federal regulatory programs, including immigration enforcement.

Real Clear Politics should know better than to repost this bullshit. 

Dems Must Cooperate With ICE, End Sanctuary Policies

President Trump, Truth Social

Nashville's Tomi Lahren is a bigger box of rocks than Sarah Palin

Here: 

... What if we just decided, you know what, we don't want to pay taxes anymore. And you know, just to make sure we don't pay taxes anymore, we're going to send all our foot soldiers out on the street and we're going to burn things and we're going to throw things and we're going to riot and we're going to assault officers. ...

Yeah, we already decided that once, but obviously that didn't stick.

... what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? ...

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1787

 

 

Take Vance at his word: First they murdered civilians in the Caribbean, then Renee Good, next it could be you

Why shouldn't they "show no quarter" to anyone else after all that, since no one is doing anything about it?

 

VP Vance: Protesters Assaulting Law Enforcement Will Be Shown No Quarter, "It's Cowardly Bullsh*t"

 

Trump job approval in Real Clear Politics average falls to new second term low 42.1%

 If Trump wants to lose the US House even bigger than he's going to, he should by all means double down, add fuel to the flames, and invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis.

 

Yeah right, the devil made him do it, poor fella

 

Left's Demonization of ICE Agents Led To This Tragedy

Douglas MacKinnon, The Hill

 

... Can these months-long and years-long barrages of dehumanizing attacks on any one individual or organization trigger an already disturbed mind to cross an uncrossable line and attempt the worst? Sadly, a very strong case can be made for that eventuality. ...

 

Click through and observe that Real Clear Politics gave it the title which The Hill, and presumably the author, would not.

 

You people who aren't welcoming ICE as liberators are the real problem. :-(

 

And then you look at the html and realize they aren't very confident in their messaging in the first place:

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5681602-ice-shooting-minneapolis-tragedy/ .

 

And my bookmark software comes up with something even more different:

 

 

 

 

 

David Brooks: When it comes to fueling rage, it's all on ICE because they are incendiary, unrestrained, acting like thugs

... As to the events of what actually happened, I'm not going to render a judgment on what happened, because we're going to have an investigation. I will leave it to them. And I hope Minnesota has full information to do the investigation.

But what Jonathan said is absolutely correct, that the atmosphere that ICE has created is incendiary, that people who have power and have guns are supposed to exercise restraint, and they are doing the opposite. And the crust of civilization is thin. And once people with guns and with power begin acting like thugs, well, then things are going to spiral. And that's what we have seen. ...

More.

 

 

 

Rush Limbaugh: Politics is Hollywood for ugly people

 

 I'm sure Stephen Miller would agree.

Trump: Pro-Maduro Protesters In NYC "Worst-Looking People I've Ever Seen"

 

Donald J. Trump, dictator of Venezuela

 

Trump on Venezuela: "We Are Going To Run The Country"

Venezuela's new dictator

Hegseth: When Trump Says U.S. Will "Run" Venezuela, He Means "He Will Be Able To Dictate"

Georgia pollster Matt Towery is in complete denial about how bad 2026 is looking for Republicans because of Trump

 

  ... I mean, I had President Trump in my Inside Advantage poll at 50% approval. I think others have him at 50%, but a lot of these other pollsters have him at 36, 38, which is just ridiculous. ... That needs to be the number one motivating message from the Republicans, their hatred for Trump ...

More. 

Trump Strongly Disapprove, currently 44%, hasn't dipped below 40% at Trump-friendly Rasmussen Reports since mid-September. 

Trump Total Approve, at 44%, has been south of 50% since mid-October.

Trump Strongly Approve, at 29%, hasn't been north of 35% since mid-October. 

Trump Approval Index, at -15, has been double digit negative since early November.

Republicans need to run in 2026 AWAY from Trump, but unfortunately for them, they spent all of 2025 worshipping Trump, and when not worshipping Trump, keeping quiet about Trump.

Chickens. Comin' home. To roost.

Pirates doing piratety things shouldn't be surprised when others do unto us as we have done unto them, and they will

 

Trump: "We're Keeping" Oil Seized From Venezuelan Tankers, "We're Keeping The Ships Also"

Even Larry Kudlow recognizes that GDP hasn't been good since 1984

... The last time real GDP hit 5 percent for the entire year was Ronald Reagan’s 1984, where the number was 5.6 percent for that whole year. ...

Here.

If Larry were completely honest he'd recognize that real GDP growth has been in steady decline in the entire post-war.

The percent change peaks are plain as day, unless you're an ideologue.

We've gone from 8.69% in 1950, to 7.23% in 1984, to 6.15 in 2021 (COVID panic spending), and the dozen or so routine percent change years above 5% between 1950 and 1984 when the economy was still holding its own have disappeared.

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The Reagan Revolution didn't do one thing to stem the decline, the Trump Gimmickry even less. In fact, the Reagan Revolution made it worse.

The answer why is paradoxical.

The debt-based economy of the United States ran out of gas under Reagan because he cut the taxes which paid for that debt, too much and on the wrong people. It's still a debt-based economy, but we don't want to pay for it anymore.

This is the infantile cry of libertarianism. 

We all think the growth of debt has been the problem when paying for that growth has been the problem. We threw a tantrum and decided to stop paying for it, and its growth naturally contracted, and along with it GDP, in self-defense so to speak.  

Growth of TCMDO, the total universe of debt, which steadily climbed the ladder in the post-war, plunged after 1985, from percent change 15.36% to 11.11% in 2004 to 9.51% in 2020 (COVID panic spending).

 

Debt draws future prosperity into the present, but what you get if you don't pay for it sufficiently is less prosperity when you reach the future from which you borrowed.

And as you pay less, you then borrow even more less so to speak, and get even more less. Rinse and repeat. 

Welcome to the future. 

It's really that simple.

Taxes have been much too low on the rich, and for a long time, and reversing that is the sober reflection of an age which realizes it made a mistake, starting long before Reagan with JFK, the libertarian cad who bedded more women in the White House than the rest of them combined. His Revenue Act of 1964 passed under LBJ cut the top income tax bracket from 91% to 70%.

The question we have to ask ourselves now is, are we ready to give our system another try and tax everyone, but progressively, and practice fiscal and moral restraint for a change . . .

or are we going to say yes to the billionaires who were made by all this obscene excess and who want to impose an un-American system of feudalism with themselves at the top and the rest of us their humble serfs?

George Washington wouldn't kneel even in church.

I'm with that guy. 

Palmer Luckey and all his fellow billionaires have to be taxed punitively on their foreign investments and their ordinary income in order to reindustrialize America

Make sure you tell him when he complains that he has to stop measuring such things in dollars.

 

Palmer Luckey: Reindustrializing The U.S. Is About Realizing Your Destiny Can't Be Measured In Dollars

Stroke victim John Fetterman continues to be the clearest thinker about a two-state solution for Israel

 

Fetterman: Calling For Palestinian State, Two-State Solution "An Absolute Betrayal" Of Israel And Jews Worldwide

Current taxpayer-funded liar calls previous taxpayer-funded liar a liar

 

Leavitt vs. CNN's Collins: Psaki Used This Podium To Lie, And You Just Believed Her

 

Oh what heroes these warriors imagine themselves to be, killing noncombatants in the Caribbean Sea, like shooting ducks in a barrel

 

Hegseth to Reporters: "This Is Called The Fog Of War," "That's What You in The Press Don't Understand"

Real Clear Politics is part of the problem, not the solution

 

Tom Bevan: Anonymous Sources, Convenient Timing, and Past Drone Strikes Undercut Caribbean Boat-Strike Outrage

 

Past drone strikes by Obama were also murder, making us the terrorists.

 

We don't have the guts to declare an actual war, so we pretend this is OK instead. That's the problem. 

No you don't

 

White House: "If Narco-Terrorists Are Trafficking Illegal Drugs To the U.S., We Have The Authority To Kill Them"

 

If you let these people get away with this, anything they call terrorism can be murdered.

 

It's not terrorism, and it is murder. 

Victor Davis Hanson is as blind to reality as Trump

 

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Is Stronger Than He Ever Was, The Left Is Desperate

 

 

Trump II started his term with a 5-seat advantage in the U.S. House. 

 

Trump I started his term with a 47-seat advantage.

 

Nothing lasting was achieved the first time with a huge majority, and sure as hell won't be this time because he's incompetent and the Congress hates his guts.

 

The resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene may be just the tip of the iceberg about to sink Trump II forever. But even if it's not, a 5-seat advantage screams gridlock if Republicans will not compromise on anything.

 

Trump can issue all the Executive Orders he wants. They will be undone. He can declare all the emergencies he wants. They will be ended. 

 

There is no substitute for legislation, and he's not going to get any.

 

Meanwhile the Department of Defense is still the Department of Defense, my shrimp still come from the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great White North is still Canada, eh?