75 million people receive Social Security benefits, 69 million Medicare, Trump brags about removing 0.4% and 0.14%

 Trump: 300k Illegals Kicked Off Social Security, 100k Off Medicare

GOP Police State Culture Wrecking America, Actually Killing People

 

Dems' Riot Culture Destroying Politics, Endangering Lives

Zachary Faria, DCExaminer

Gee, I thought the GOP controlled all three branches of the federal government, how could this be happening?

 

Left Making Huge Progress Toward Letting Illegals Stay

Byron York, DC Examiner

 

Byron York presents a fair statement of the current immigration situation, but never questions the wisdom of the current policy.

 

Yes indeed, Americans want illegals deported, and Trump is spending billions upon billions trying to do just that, but even apart from the resistance being encountered in Democrat-controlled cities, the numbers just don't add up in all the places York says Trump is succeeding.

 

Byron says there are nine million new illegals because of Joe Biden. Trump has deported 600,000 so far, and is likely to be lucky to wind up deporting just 2.4 million. The vast majority of them will still be here when Trump is long gone.

 

Clearly the policy is ineffective, on top of being brutal, unjust, murderous, and a huge waste of money.

 

Trump is ominously expanding the federal infrastructure of a tyrannical police state which a future president might find all too tempting to use to impose gun confiscation, for example. He keeps demanding local cooperation with federal enforcement, which the courts have said violates the Bill of Rights. This impulse is authoritarian, not American. 

 

Trump should have spent what little political capital he won in 2024 by pushing a legislative solution to immigration which placed severe penalties and jail time on persons and companies who hire illegal aliens, and by imposing strict federal regulation against social spending on, and social privileges like drivers licenses for, illegal aliens.

 

Mitt Romney was right that we have to turn off the magnets which attract illegal immigration. Rounding them up one by one is a fool's errand.

 

Give a man a fish and he'll be back tomorrow with his family for five. 

Why do we celebrate so many Presbyterians actually committing it during the American Revolution?

Why do we celebrate Good Friday? 

Why Do So Many K-12 Educators Celebrate Violence?

Salena Zito, DC Examiner

 

 

Guess which of these two headlines is up at Real Clear Politics this morning

 Trump Is Weaponizing the Government Against His Enemies. It Doesn’t Mean He’ll Succeed.

Biden's Disturbing Weaponization of DOJ

 

 

 

 

J. D. Vance has had to cast six tiebreaker votes so far in the Republican-controlled U. S. Senate, this time to advance legislation cutting a measly $9 billion in spending

 Vance casts Senate tiebreaker to advance Trump’s DOGE-inspired cuts

... This was Vance’s sixth tiebreaker in the Senate, following his deciding vote on July 1 to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. ...

Ah, so Republican pinhead Joe Concha thinks a Democrat win in 2026 would be a loss lol

Joe Concha never really does get to his point in this column, but he does spread a lot of nincompoopery about like so much manure on a field.

This is the guy who masked himself and his kids while outdoors during COVID-19 because his wife is a doctor and told him he had to, which is very amusing given Joe's interest in Democrats' inability to "connect" with young men.

Joe Concha lives in an imaginary world of fanciful creation and takes his marching orders, repeating stupid.

Trump's mandate, for example, "the greatest verdict in history" he says, in 2024 was actually smaller than W's in 2004.

Even Jimmy Carter's was bigger in 1976 than Trump's was in 2024.

Core pce inflation released this past week came in at 2.52%, not 2.1% as Joe says. Joe wouldn't know core if he ate an apple.

Just 49.6% had full time jobs in April 2025 vs. 50.4% in April 2023, 0.8 points lower than two years ago.

Also two years ago, unemployment was 0.8 points lower at 3.4% than Joe Concha's current "historically low" level, again having touched a level under Joe Biden not seen since May 1969.

Joe stealing glory from Joe. Tut-tut.

Democrats may have had trouble connecting with young men in 2024, but the Biden administration really did drop the bigger ball of communicating its record of historically low unemployment. The Wall Street Journal trumpeted it for them in 2023, but you'd hardly remember the fact.

Meanwhile Joe Concha's "respected" GDPNow model got 1Q2025 GDP wrong by 2.4 points lol.

With an actual negative print now at -0.2% for the first quarter, the set-up for a dead cat bounce in 2Q would seem obvious.

But you never know with Trump in charge, and for my money you have to bet against Mr. Unpredictable. 

If Jonathan Swift were here, he might say that it is the Republicans who are led by a changeable female mind, not the Democrats, which may be why Joe Concha likes him so:

The current of a female mind stops thus,

and turns with ev'ry wind;

Thus whirling round, together draws

Fools, fops, and rakes, for chaff and straws.

 

 

Dems Winning 2026 Midterm May Be Kiss of Death

Joe Concha, Washington Examiner

 

... after the votes were counted on Nov. 5, Trump won the greatest verdict in history by capturing the popular vote over former Vice President Kamala Harris while winning every swing state. ...

 

The core inflation numbers released this week show it at just 2.1%. . ..

 

Unemployment is historically low at 4.2%, with private sector jobs soaring. ... 

GDP is expected to grow at 3.8% in the second quarter, according to the respected Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. ...

 

 

 

 

Pyrex glass plant in Charleroi PA closes after 132 years because of Chinese imports, Trump powerless to stop it

The casualties of America’s loss of glassware manufacturing to China

... Anchor Hocking took over the Charleroi plant in March of 2024 and announced they would close it and move operations to their plant in Lancaster, Ohio — it too was a company founded at the turn of the century by Isaac Jacob in Lancaster, Ohio. ...

 ... the U.S. glass industry lost almost 40,000 manufacturing jobs between 2000 to 2008. At the same time, China’s share of the U.S. market rose from 3% to 31%.

As U.S. glass and glassware plants closed, Chinese manufacturers expanded. China now leads glass production globally, exporting 28.7% of the world’s glass and glassware compared to the United States’ 6.6%.

That is a hard pill to swallow if you are from Charleroi, once known as the “Glass City” where PPG once had one of its major glass factories. ...

More.

Meanwhile Salena Zito tells us how it's going, and Zack Beauchamp is probably going to have himself committed

 

Pennsylvania Democrat Casey Embraces...Trump

 

Salena Zito, Washington Examiner

The fact that [18-year incumbent Democrat Senator Bob] Casey is running an ad highlighting how much he agrees with former President Donald Trump tells you everything you need to know about how Pennsylvania is going. ...

The latest Real Clear Politics averages have Trump with a slim lead over Harris, which is likely dicey not just for Harris but also for Casey.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are a threat to the First Amendment

 

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) may have been a social studies teacher, but he would have failed Constitutional Law 101, especially the part about the First Amendment.

“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy,” Walz said on MSNBC in December 2022, which would be news to the Supreme Court, which unanimously held as recently as 2017 that “speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground” is still protected by the First Amendment.

Walz’s impulse to censor speech he does not like is most definitely shared by his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, who pushed for Twitter and Facebook to censor then-President Donald Trump even before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In Iowa, on Oct. 19, 2019, Harris told Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, “This is not a matter of free speech. … This is a matter of holding corporate America and these Big Tech companies responsible and accountable for what they are facilitating.”

Harris’s anti-free speech position was so extreme that even Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pushed back, saying she wanted to kick Trump only out of the White House, not off social media. But politburo secretariat officer Kamala did not back down. “I’m calling on everyone to join me,” she said.

By 2019, Harris already had a well-established history of using government power to silence voices she does not like.

Read how she, oopsie, published the private data she collected as Attorney General of California online here.

She's a doxxer.

The chaos and division Joe's bad debate spawned is the real force driving Democrats' headlong rush to settle for Harris and end the bad publicity of the drama

 

 

Democrats seem more intent now to cut out the drama before the convention and settle on Biden’s chosen successor, Harris. ... The DNC is still pursuing a virtual nomination of their presidential ticket ahead of the convention that begins in nearly a month, with a presidential candidate to be decided by Aug. 7.

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Trump falsified records in 2017 to get elected in 2016 lol

 

The border crisis has become one of the biggest threats to Biden’s reelection: Millions of illegal aliens will gut the future for already struggling low-wage workers

 We forecast that undocumented entry will exceed U.S. job growth in 2024.

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RFK Jr. is on the ballot in AZ, GA, UT, NH, and HI so far

 The states Kennedy remains focused on are Michigan, another key battleground state, Maryland, South Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, Texas, Illinois, New York, California, and Massachusetts . . ..

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Another town dies hard and no one gives a shit, right Joe Manchin?

 Cleveland-Cliffs Steel announced it was idling its tinplate production plant, a move that directly cost 900 people their jobs.

Salena Zito, here.

Good gridlock politics: Impeach 'em all

 

The House Should Impeach the Entire Biden Admin

Jeremiah Poff, DC Examiner

 

Direct link here:

 

It is an administration replete with lawless officials who have abused their authority to the detriment of the people of the United States. President Joe Biden should be at the very top of the list for impeachment ... 

 

Attorney General Merrick Garland has overseen the systemic persecution of the Biden administration’s political opponents ... 

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s impeachment case begins with his dereliction of duty when he failed to inform the White House when he was incapacitated by a medical procedure. Under Austin’s watch, the Pentagon has also blatantly disregarded the Hyde Amendment and is facilitating the procurement of abortions for servicewomen using taxpayer funds. ...

With a Democratic-controlled Senate, these impeachments will not be successful in removing these officials from power, but that is not the point. As Democrats set the standard in 2019, impeachment is now an exercise of partisan political power, and it should be treated as such. ...

Furthermore, it would also have the strategic effect of jamming the schedule of the Democratic-controlled Senate. If the upper chamber were forced to contend with numerous impeachment trials, it would have less time to vote on judicial nominations and billions of dollars in foreign aid.

Alejandro Mayorkas finally impeached 214-213 for failing to keep out 6 million illegal aliens since 2020

 House Republicans have impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a contentious vote Tuesday evening, making the Biden administration official the first Cabinet member to be removed in nearly 150 years. ...

Three Republicans joined all Democrats in rejecting the articles of impeachment: Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), and Tom McClintock (R-CA). They were the same three as last week’s failed vote, but the return of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) from cancer treatment tipped the math against Mayorkas on Tuesday. ...

Since Biden took office, more than 7.5 million illegal immigrants have been encountered attempting to enter the United States, and 6 million of that figure entered illegally between ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. The Biden figure far exceeds the number of illegal immigrants encountered during the Trump administration’s four years and the Obama administration’s eight years combined.

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Sanctuary in Name Only: Illegal aliens are damned inconvenient when plopped down in the backyards of liberal land

 

Eric Adams Late to Party With Warning on Migrant Crisis

Michael Goodwin, NY Post

 

GOP Talking Points Are Winning in New York's Migrant Crisis

Hayes Brown, MSNBC

 

Democrats Buckle Under Biden Border Chaos

Washington Examiner

 

 

Ramaswamy's endless flip-flops

 Lose yourself: Vivek Ramaswamy's 2024 presidential campaign haunted by endless flip-flops:

on: his voting history

pardons for the Biden family

drug decriminalization

foreign aid to Israel

support for Taiwan

masking

Juneteenth

 

America's teachers unions spent another summer scheming to radicalize children for social transformation

As student scores plummet, teachers unions play politics and make them worse

Teachers unions spent summer scheming how to bring liberal ideas into classrooms: Report