Hoi Polloi Boy
6 hours ago
Lib: It's been called the Gulf of Mexico for centuries!!
Dude: Cool bro! Now do genders.
EDMUND
6 hours ago
They really wanna die on this hill?
GeoMcGeo
5 hours ago
Democrats have used the hammer of controlling local schools through access to federal funding for decades.
frylock234
6 hours ago
No, I believe the Feds can withhold funding over refusal to follow Federal policy. They've done it before to enforce speed limits I think it was? Nice highway funding ... too bad you don't want to conform to our thoughts on proper speed (or maybe it was blood alcohol limits). The state could do as they wished, just without those federal highway dollars.
Stoutcat
7 hours ago
”…the irony of it all is that Donald Trump never served a day the freaking coward…”
Did Biden? Did Obama? Did Clinton?
NavyVet Stoutcat
6 hours ago
President Trump was shot by a democrat, in the democrat war on America.
That makes President Trump a combat veteran in my book.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TexasVeteran Stoutcat
7 hours ago
At least he attended a the New York Military Academy and learned to salute properly! That puts him well ahead of the three presidents mentioned above!😁
Nick Sortor @nicksortor
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🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump is expected to appoint Kash Patel to Acting Director of the ATF in addition to his role as FBI Director, per ABC
The ATF’s days are NUMBERED 🔥
11:46 PM · Feb 22, 2025. //
Gun Owners of America @GunOwners
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🚨BREAKING🚨
President Trump has asked Kash Patel to be acting director of the ATF. Kash is a true constitutionalist and is fiercely pro-gun. 🇺🇸 🔫
2:24 AM · Feb 23, 2025. //
anon-8ry7
6 hours ago
Maybe Kash won't be as busy as we thought because maybe he was told to shut the ATF monstrosity down.
The speed and efficiency with which the new POTUS and his team are setting fire to The Swamp has even the most seasoned Washington D.C. veterans looking around in a daze. I know that the majority of those who have watched and written about politics are also stunned, including those of us here at RedState. //
I can't recall at any time over the past 30 years anyone talking about cutting and restructuring the FBI or the CIA, even as campaign rhetoric. That Trump and his team are actually moving forward with this is an absolute first in the history of how the federal government is used and how it interacts with the citizens that they serve. //
Some of the pie-in-the-sky predictions of cutting the overall deficit within a year to a year and a half could become reality. Trying to tackle long-term entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare could start to be moved upon and not with fantasy 10-year projections.
He has never served on the Air Staff in the Pentagon. He has never served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has never worked in the procurement community or for a Defense contractor. In short, there is nothing about him that would make him stand out as a choice other than he is untainted by the uncontrolled coercive medical experimentation that masqueraded as the COVID-19 vaccination program and also by any contact with the Air Force's DEI program. You can read his full bio at JOHN D. CAINE > Air Force > Biography Display.
Another plus for him is that retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander "Krispy Kreme" Vindman disapproves.
There is a lot in Caine's selection that recalls General George C. Marshall's decimation of pre-World War Il Army leadership and dipping deep to find lieutenant colonels, like George S. Patton, Jr., to catapult into the general officer corps. It is hard to believe he will not be the only top military leader with a non-traditional background.
Trump maintains an informal relationship with many journalists, calling them spontaneously or sending them articles ripped out of newspapers with his handwritten thoughts out of the blue. But I guess you could say I know him better than most. I was the only journalist to predict he would win in 2016. My former editor at the New York Post used to call me the “Trump Whisperer.” I am also the reporter who popularized the phrase coined by Republican strategist Brad Todd: “the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” And I was four feet away when a bullet hit Trump in 2024.
Plenty of journalists have disparaged me for being too sympathetic to Trump. They’ve blasted me for not being critical enough of his crimes, his coarseness, his history with women. But all I’ve ever done is report on what I see. I grew up among his base, and I know why they love him.
The Republican candidate took his case to a shale-industry gathering, and found a welcoming crowd. //
The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
Of course, Trump presenting himself as a king got the knickers of many folks in a twist—including some Republicans who weren’t amused. Hochul, meanwhile, said in a snitty retort, “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king.”
My take on these sorts of provocative posts by the president is that they are done on purpose with the full knowledge of the outrage they will fire up in some quarters. There are several reasons for this: 1) He’s very possibly the funniest president we’ve ever had, with the exception perhaps of Ronald Reagan, and 2) he enjoys watching the meltdown because it causes leftists to go into hysterics and make utter fools out of themselves.
Some have argued that, seeing as the NYC skyline is in the back of the meme, he means he's the King of New York, which is both the title of a movie and a phrase. It could be construed as a clapback at the city and state that he feels has treated him so poorly over the last decade.
But does anyone truly believe his goal is to bring back monarchy to the United States? //
Tech in RL
2 days ago
This is Trump’s version of, “Look, squirrel!” While leftists go into conniption fits about declaring himself King of New York and start shouting at the sky, Trump slips out the back and implements another part of his agenda. //
anon-jzji
2 days ago
Dems pick the worst side of every issue and then double down on it. Definitely, fight to keep an irksome toll in place- a toll people hate! Yeah, that'll work. She has a lot of gall to write that we're a nation of laws, considering she is daily defying the nationals' "laws" by protecting illegals. //
anon-ymous99
2 days ago
Democrats take Trump literally but not seriously.
Supporters take Trump seriously but not literally.
Don’t know who said it originally (Bari Weiss?), but the statement is spot on. Dems as a group are utterly humorless, lecturing scolds, who paradoxically play on emotion and outrage to control and distract their portion of the electorate. Hochul exemplifies them.
FreeNation anon-ymous99
2 days ago
It was Salena Zito, a journalist from Pennsylvania. Part of the appeal of Trump (and the horror for many) is that he doesn't speak diplomatically. Obama would speak for an hour and nobody would even know what he said because diplomatic jargon. Then the journalists would come on TV and tell us the meaning of all that jibberish. All part of the elite's control of the uneducated people.
Mopani FreeNation
2 ago
Interestingly, I first heard it from my wife, who never reads or listens to the news unless I tell her stuff (she just can't stand all the garbage and asks me to filter it for her). I commented on it here a month or two ago, and now I hear it frequently! 😂
January 18, 2017 at 07:43 AM
Trump's New York years deserve a better look to discern the eventual President-in-the-making. //
One of the innumerable ironies about Trump is that the candidate embraced by "Middle America'' was long regarded as the quintessential New Yorker – loud, brash, a lover of the good life and seeker of the limelight. The idea he would emerge years later as the 45th president of the United States, would have seemed as unlikely as the star of "Bedtime for Bonzo'' ending up as 40th Chief Executive. Yet just as historians have since scoured Reagan's Hollywood years for clues to his metamorphosis as a successful politician and statesman – including his stints as president of the Screen Actors Guild – so also do Trump's New York years deserve a better look to discern the eventual President-in-the-making.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is focused on keep his promises which includes cutting costs for the American people. One of the things he promised was to stop the congestion pricing in New York. New York had imposed a $9 fee on everyone entering NYC below 60th Street. That would include a lot of the people who go to work in NYC. They were able to do this because they got approval under a Federal Highway Administration pilot program.
Trump revoked the approval this week, and celebrated freeing the people from the oppressive nature of the fee, "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" He may have been trolling. He also may have been making reference to the movie "King of New York," or how some referred to him as "King of New York," given his prominence there in the past. But you're not acting like a king when you're trying to give money back to the people.
If a New York Times report is to be believed, Donald Trump doesn’t want to do the hard work of actually being president. //
While the idea of a president with no power sounds crazy to American ears, it’s actually how a lot of advanced democracies work around the world. Many countries have a ceremonial figurehead — either an elected president or a hereditary monarch — who represents the nation at state dinners and ribbon-cutting ceremonies. And they also have a head of government, usually the prime minister, who makes all the important policy decisions.
In the United States, we’ve combined these roles into a single person, and it hasn’t been working very well. It’s made the presidency an impossibly demanding job, while giving our head of government a degree of prestige that makes it harder to hold him accountable for his policy mistakes.
So here’s a modest proposal: Let’s make Donald Trump king of the United States. This seems to be the job he actually wants. And replacing America’s powerful elected president with a powerless hereditary monarchy would improve the American political system. //
Should America have a weak president like Italy or a constitutional monarch like Great Britain? As Vox’s Dylan Matthews has argued, the key advantage of a constitutional monarch is that he or she has absolutely no democratic legitimacy. An elected president is always going to be tempted to meddle in politics, no matter how much the Constitution formally limits his role.
But there’s zero danger of a hereditary monarch like Queen Elizabeth doing this. She knows that the public is only going to support her continued reign if she remains strictly neutral in political fights. In short, it’s precisely a monarch’s lack of democratic legitimacy that makes monarchy a better model than a weak presidency.
If Trump merely became a figurehead president for four or eight years, there’s a danger that his successor would try to once again exercise real authority. Which is why the smarter play would be to make Trump’s vision of a powerless presidency permanent: Abolish the presidency and turn President Trump into King Donald.
King Donald would rule for life, but he’d have few of the powers of the current presidency. He wouldn’t have the power to veto legislation or appoint judges, ambassadors, or members of the Cabinet. He wouldn’t command the military or negotiate treaties. Congress might retain the power to impeach him, but with the king having a largely symbolic role there’d be no reason to use it.
In a lot of ways, Trump has been preparing to be America’s monarch all his life. His gold-encrusted Manhattan penthouse seems tacky now. But it — as well as with his winter palace in Palm Beach, Florida — are appropriate residences for America’s reigning monarch.
The role of a monarch is to preside over important occasions and accept the adoration of the public without doing any real work. No one’s personality is better suited to this role than Donald Trump’s.
eburke
3 hours ago edited
Trump 2.0 has a whole different persona than Trump 1.0. No bombast...no histrionics...no exaggerating... just calm, measured, steely resolve.
When I was in business, those who ranted and raved never bothered me because, as they say in Texas, I knew they were all hat and no cattle. The ones that I took dead serious were the ones who calmly, and in measured terms, communicated to me their intentions and expectations.
As Harry S. Truman said, "I never gave them hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell." Well, Hell is coming for dinner, and the Left hasn't figured out that they're on the menu.
anon-xyfl eburke
2 hours ago edited
"You tell them I'm coming... and Hell is coming with me!"
-- Wyatt Earp, Tombstone
-- Donald Trump, 2025
eburke anon-xyfl
2 hours ago
"Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming for breakfast."
-- Chief Lone Wattie, The Outlaw Josie Wales
--Donald "Josie" Trump, 2025
I don't think talking means that you're weak. I think talking is a tactic in order to get to a goal [...] We need to be able to have these conversations with the Russians.
[...]
Again, I go back to the fact that we had it perfect in terms of peace. We were handed a war, and now we're being criticized of, "well how do you dig us out of a war, and you're not doing it fast enough and you're not doing it fair enough." So we're a little frustrated. //
We articulate very clearly under Donald Trump: We don't do regime change. We are going to deal with the countries that are in front of us. And our criteria is, not how do we make that country better, how do we make America better, stronger, more prosperous for the people here. //
Burns' final question was whether Grenell had plans to run for California Governor in 2026. The audience cheered in approval.
Honestly, it's not in my plans unless Kamala Harris runs for governor. If Kamala runs... If Kamala runs...
You're jumping in? Burns interjected.
I mean, here's the thing: we already know who she is. We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to define who Kamala Harris is. If she's going to run, a Republican is going to win and I may not be able to resist trying to run against her.
I promise you the following, there will be accountability within the FBI and outside of the FBI, and we will do it through rigorous constitutional oversight—starting this weekend. //
I am living the American dream, and anyone that thinks the American dream is dead, just look right here. You're talking to her first-generation Indian kid who's about to lead the law enforcement community, the greatest nation on God's green earth. [Applause.]
That can't happen anywhere else. To the senators and the men and women of the United States House of Representatives, you placed an enormous trust in me, an enormous leap of faith—one that I didn't know that I could possibly earn back, but I'm gonna spend every single day on this job doing so. The fact that you placed the confidence you did in me has inspired me to reach new heights at this job.
With the reelection of Donald Trump in November 2024, it was clear that the failing message of "toxic masculinity" was soundly rejected once and for all by voters who were fed up with having their intelligence insulted on issues like "transgender rights," along with a subset of disaffected male voters who felt abused, abandoned and betrayed by the Democrat Party.
Vice President JD Vance in particular has not been shy about promoting the benefits of unapologetic masculinity (and at times being an example of it), and during his Thursday speech at CPAC 2025, he knocked it out of the park in remarks he made on making masculinity - and femininity - great again:
My message to young men is I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge, you should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive.
[...]
The cultural message is I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we are going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that."
Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital
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🚨NEW: Elon Musk comes out on stage at CPAC 2025 and is presented a golden chainsaw by Argentinian President, Javier Milei, and yells, “THIS IS THE CHAINSAW FOR BUREAUCRACY!” 🔥
10:48 PM · Feb 20, 2025. //
If he hadn't done enough already by reviewing finances with his team, now Trump has also tasked them with reviewing regulations in accordance with a new executive order. //
review regulations, with emphasis on those that are cost heavy.
Any regulations that aren’t in line with the Trump administration policy will be rescinded or modified, including those determined to be based on “unlawful delegations of legislative power,” that inflict costs on private parties that don’t also benefit the public, that harm national security interests, and other criteria.
Trump signed two Executive Orders Thursday that focus on rolling back the role of the federal government beyond its statutory functions and ensuring that those efforts are emphasized across all departments and agencies. The orders are titled "Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy" and "Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Regulatory Initiative."
Let's take a look at them one at a time, beginning with the easiest. //
When combined with the Trump Executive Order requiring the repeal of ten regulations for each new one published in the Federal Register (see Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation), we can see the groundwork being laid to eliminate the superfluous government agencies and regulations that have no greater purpose than to aggrandize power to the bureaucracy. Add that to the concerted legal attack on the Administrative State (Trump Declares War on the Administrative State), and Trump could very well end up having rolled back a century of our descent from a constitutional republic into a being held in serfdom by an unelected, responsive, and uncaring bureaucracy. //
Popdaddy
6 hours ago
Months of pre-election planning went into this. There are other plans and so much more can be accomplished. //
Dieter Schultz
5 hours ago
When combined with the Trump Executive Order requiring the repeal of ten regulations for each new one published in the Federal Register (see Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation), we can see the groundwork being laid to eliminate the superfluous government agencies and regulations that have no greater purpose than to aggrandize power to the bureaucracy.
I think soon... maybe before the 6 month mark but, sooner rather than later... we'll need another attack vector on the bureaucratic state and that would be for enough states to get together and challenge the regulations and federal laws as being unconstitutional in that they encroach on the states' duties and responsibilities under the Constitution.
Trump can apply tremendous pressure from the inside and deflate the bureaucratic bubble but, I suspect, it'll require the states... well, anyway, a core of the red states... to make it impossible for the federal government's overreach to ever be resurrected by the elites when Trump and his heirs leave the world's stage.
Chauncey Gardner
5 hours ago
Ward, they didn't just ignore the law. Remember that all employers in the US are required to fill out an I-9 for every employee. Both the employer and employee are required to attest (under penalty of perjury) that the employee is in the country legally. That is an additional overt, illegal act. If you don't like the law, get it changed but you can be assured that if the media found out Trump was hiring illegals and lying about it on the I-9, they would be screaming for him to be charged. //
PubliusCryptus
4 hours ago edited
HSI says the owners, who are both lawful permanent residents in the US,
So they weren't Americans? If so, let's make that clear; These were foreigners hiding foreign invaders. It appears that these somebodies were lawful, but not law abiding, residents; they should no longer be "lawful residents". All their property should be seized and they should be deported immediately after they serve their jail sentences. That's called deterrence.
Niall Ferguson @nfergus
Replying to @JDVance
Well, thank God also for free and open debate.
Having visited Ukraine every year but one since 2011, I think I have an informed and realistic view.
I repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for its failure to deter Putin in 2021 and failure to end the war while Ukraine…
3:20 PM · Feb 21, 2025
JD Vance @JDVance
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In this thread I'll respond to some of what I've seen out there. Let's start with Niall:
1) On the general background, yes, you have been more right than wrong on a lot of the details of the conflict. Which is why I'm surprised to hear you call the administration's posture "appeasement." We are negotiating to end the conflict. It is "appeasement" only if you think the Ukrainians have a credible pathway to victory. They don't, so it's not.
2) As far as I can tell, accusations of "appeasement" hinge on a few arguments (not all of them from Niall, to be clear). The first is a criticism that we're even talking to the Russians. Well, the President believes to conduct diplomacy, you actually have to speak to people. This used to be called statesmanship. Second, the idea--based often on fake media reports--that we've "given the Russians everything they want." Third, that if we just passed another aid package, Ukraine would roll all the way to Moscow, raise Navalny from the dead, and install a democratic and free leader to Russia (I exaggerate, but only a little). All of these arguments are provably, demonstrably false.
Many people who have gotten everything wrong about Russia say they know what Russia wants. Many people who know the media reports fake garbage take anonymously sourced reports on a complex negotiation as gospel truth.
3) On the specifics of the negotiation, I"m not confirming details publicly for obvious reasons, but much of what I've seen leaked ranges from entirely bogus to missing critical info. The president has set goals for the negotiation, and I am biased, but I think he's awfully good at this. But we're not going to telegraph our negotiating posture to make people feel better. The president is trying to achieve a lasting piece, not massage the egos or anxieties of people waving Ukraine flags.
The idea that the President of the United States has to start the negotiation by saying "maybe we'll let Ukraine into NATO" defies all common sense. Again, it's not appeasement to acknowledge the realities on the ground--realities President Trump has pointed to for years in some cases.
4) Many of the subjective criticisms amount to pearl clutching that don't ultimately matter. I'm happy to defend POTUS's criticisms of the Ukrainian leadership (not that it matters, because he's the president, but I agree with him). You're welcome to disagree. But these critiques of POTUS don't bear on the war or on his negotiation to end it. //
OrneryCoot
3 hours ago
The fact that the VP of the United States is willing (and extremely capable) of having detailed policy discussions with a British historian concerning an extremely volatile, sensitive, and relevant situation on X/Twitter is absolutely fantastic. They are bypassing entirely the legacy media and putting it all out there for everyone to see. We see everything unvarnished and without the filter and bias of the legacy media "journalists", and can comment on it in real time. THIS is what healthy, productive, free societies have yearned for since probably Athenian democratic debates over 2,000 years ago. Regardless of what side you are on, we should be in the balconies or right at the front of the stage cheering this on for all we're worth. The only losers here are those who want to restrict or alter the flow of information for their own selfish ends, like corrupt bureaucrats, politicians, freaking coup leaders, and the legacy media. It is a great time to be alive! //
Fight On
2 hours ago edited
To all the GOP neocons:
1) define “victory”
2) describe the path to “victory”
3) what’s your plan? be specific, accountable, realistic. time bound
4) math. Math wins in a war of attrition: Ukraine troops < Russian troops. It’s a numbers game, reality.
5) the GDP of Europe is huge compared to Russia. Europe can afford to fund and defend Europe, Ukraine from Russia. Without US.
6) Russia’s military has proven to be third rate -.not the threat you make it out to be
7) Europe is mooching off the American taxpayer for their defense. THIS MUST STOP!
8) NATO has consistently broken their promises to limit the advance of NATO eastward.
9) Biden/Harris regime threatened to add Ukraine to NATO - Russia’s red line
10) Neocon rhetoric constantly provokes Russia with regime change.
11) USA IS BROKE! EVERY DOLLAR SPENT ON UKRAINE IS BORROWED ON A CREDIT CARD!! AMERICA FIRST!!!!!
Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger
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The New York Times says “Musk Asserts Without Proof That Bureaucracy Is Rife With Fraud.” Seriously? The GAO — under Biden — estimated last year that we are losing $233-$521 billion per year to fraud. Guys, it’s right there. Why do you continue with this… fraud? SMH
4:47 AM · Feb 12, 2025. //
After just over a month, Musk has found billions of dollars in waste and fraud, including a $2 billion kiss for Georgia's favorite salad-dodging election loser, Stacey Abrams.
So Trump is dismantling the false god of transgenderism, and Musk is rooting out fraud like a truffle pig on Red Bull. Here comes JD Vance.
Vance said what no evil straight, white man could say a mere 365 days ago; he told Europe that mass migration is killing their nations and the U.S. as well. //
Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29
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BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett says he thinks there’s a “paper trail” of money that was sent overseas that ended up back in the pockets of lawmakers in Washington D.C.
He said there will soon be a lot of retirements.
4:18 PM · Feb 17, 2025