Roxanne Beckford Hoge
29 minutes ago
"Nixon’s legacy was tarnished by Watergate. Biden’s legacy was tarnished by… Biden."
Spot on.
Salieri Roxanne Beckford Hoge
20 minutes ago edited
I will never forget the apoplexy from the media when Nixon died as the outpouring of love and admiration for the man was nationwide. Despite their best efforts to denigrate him over the years. People lined up everywhere along roads to say goodbye as the hearse drove by.
The Crooked Cadaver can forget ANY of that. //
anon-x8p1
20 minutes ago
LBJ was one of the worst; Nixon over all was probably up there with the best. The media jackets have skewed this reality for far less valid criteria.
Of course, this is all talk. Canada isn't going to join the United States, and we can hardly just go up there and take it; for one thing, Canada is still part of the British Commonwealth, and the King may have something to say about it.
Which brings us back to the "Art of the Deal" idea. Donald Trump is mercurial; he likes throwing out proposals like confetti to see if any of them land anywhere interesting. By summer, he may well be talking up some other Canadian policy completely, especially if he's dealing with Pierre Poilievre, who will be a great improvement over the unlamented Justin Trudeau. And, no matter what happens, Canada and the United States will remain joined at the hip. We are each other's primary trade partners, we share a lot culturally, and nowhere else in the history of mankind have two nations shared a 5,525-mile land border, the longest international border in the world today, for over 200 years without so much as a squabble along that line.
Nauta and De Oliveira claim that Smith, whose appointment as Special Counsel was ruled unconstitutional by the court, lacks the authority to issue a report under federal regulations. The motion also emphasizes that the report would unfairly influence public opinion and taint any potential jury pool while legal appeals are still pending. Defense attorneys describe the report as a "one-sided narrative" that improperly uses grand jury materials and privileged information. //
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
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Could Merrick Garland and his staff, plus other DOJ Officials TBD potentially face criminal investigation for improper access/disclosure of Rule 6(e) materials to Jack Smith after he was DQ'd from the Florida case, and the D.C. case was dismissed?
Violations of Rule 6(e) are subject to a criminal penalty.
If Jack Smith still has access to those materials for purposes of writing his "Report" to the AG, has he been provided unauthorized access in violation of the Rule????
10:00 PM · Jan 6, 2025. //
The defendants argue that the report would serve as an impermissible "public verdict," undermining their right to a fair trial. They further claim that releasing the report would disregard federal grand jury secrecy rules and the court’s previous rulings that disqualified Smith from the case.
In 2019, during Trump's first term, a federal judge ruled that OCSLA does not permit presidents to overturn bans established by previous administrations. This means Trump would need congressional approval to reverse Biden's decision. //
Here's the part that really makes Joe Biden look petty and vindictive, not that he didn't look that way already. The outgoing president cited concerns about climate change as a reason for signing the order. If that really was his concern — if he really wanted to shut down energy production on essentially the entire United States continental shelf because of climate change — why did he wait until two weeks before leaving office?
The answer is obvious: This order has nothing to do with the climate. It's all political backbiting and attempted sabotage, pure and simple.
As provided by law, without objection, the 119th Congress formally counted the votes of the Electoral College, and, at 1:35 p.m. Eastern, having received 312 electoral votes, Donald Trump was certified as the 47th President of the United States (and JD Vance was certified as vice president). Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the session — something that places her in a somewhat exclusive (albeit not enviable) club.
Somehow, we're all supposed to be concerned about the mass exodus of "seasoned government lawyers and FBI agents" who engaged in lawfare against President Trump and members of his 2017-2021 team. They could have learned a valuable life lesson by watching the HBO series "The Wire" before engaging in political warfare against the once and future president.
[You come at the king, you best not miss]
The more people who resign, the less drama will take place, and more slots can be filled with people who just want to do their jobs and have no interest in eliminating political figures or engaging in a soft coup against the White House.
Prime Minister Mute Egede has said a development is “imminent”. //
President/President-elect Donald Trump’s tasked his pick for Ambassador to Denmark with persuading the Danes to sell us the resource-rich Arctic land.
Shortly afterward, a major power outage struck Greenland due to a downed transmission line.
The outage left the region dark during a period of with temperatures dropping below -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-33°C).
Now, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for independence from Denmark in his New Year’s speech, marking a significant shift in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future.
Egede, a member of the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party, emphasized that it is time for Greenland to take the next step and shape its own future.
If the election didn’t make this clear, I’ll state it as plainly as possible: We want less immigration. That includes H-1B workers.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox
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NEW: Stephen A. Smith praises MAGA for allowing an open debate about H-1B visas.
His comments serve as a stern rebuke to Dems for making you “obey the party line, or you’re out on your ass.”
“There was no debate [among Dems]. That’s why they’re home. And Donald Trump is on his… Show more
5:25 PM · Dec 31, 2024
"What has ailed the democrats?" he asked. "It's not an ideology alone," he explained, indicating the problem isn't just their political positions. It's that if you go against that narrative, "cancel culture kicked in." "There was no room for debate."
Smith's take on this was brilliant where he talks about the Democrats' "diversity" --- in identity politics -- but NOT in diversity of thought. You must get on board with what the party wants, or all that diversity doesn't matter, "you were pushed out...you must obey the party line or you're out on your ass."
But that's why the Democrats "are home. And Donald Trump is on his way back to the White House."
Boom.
In the unlikely persona of Donald Trump, the American ‘rabble’ have found an unlikely hero who stands up on their behalf to remind the ‘warped, frustrated’ old men inside the Beltway who it is that does most of the living and dying in this country.
Analyst Chuck DeVore, chief national initiatives officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, penned an essay for The Federalist Friday and also appeared on "Fox & Friends Weekend" to warn that China is conducting a massive military buildup the likes of which we haven’t seen since the days of the Third Reich.
His conclusions are concerning:
"Now the big difference there, is that he really focused on land power, which frankly is pretty easy to build up pretty quickly," he added. "Navies are much more difficult to build up. And we are way behind. And not only do we need to catch up, but we also need to modernize our nuclear weapons, and we need to put a lot of effort into missile defense." //
DeVore also argues that Donald Trump is right to be concerned about the Panama Canal because while we’re busy woke-ifying our military, China is staying occupied with different concerns: //
DeVore continues, arguing that we need budget reform and we need to wake up to the fact that “China’s military buildup and cognitive warfare strategy are clear indications of its intent to defeat the U.S. and its allies by any means necessary.” //
Dr. Dealgood
2 minutes ago
tinfoil hat time: China bought Biden, who then weakened us monetarily and militarily thru useless sh*t like Ukraine.
This strategy also depleted and exposed Russia's weakness.
Two enemies, one big bribe. China gains Russian oil and possibly Siberia. The US gains squat from Ukraine, except hacking and making its corrupt gov't wealthy. //
Over the past few days, X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has been the scene of a fairly intense discussion between guys like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and others who are in favor of "high skill" immigration in the form of a massive increase in H1B visas that allow the hiring of foreign workers and a large number of devoted Trump fans who see H1B visas as a way corporate America has of replacing American workers with what amounts to chattel labor. //
Regardless of my view on the subject (and I do see H1B visas as a way for businesses to depress wages and create a captive and compliant workforce), I admire Musk's willingness to duke it out with all comers. That is something that would have been impossible with Jack Dorsey's Twitter.
Vivek Ramaswamy, though, [hit] a nerve. He believes that Americans are not culturally adapted to working in the tech field.
Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy
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The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
...
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it.
11:02 AM · Dec 26, 2024 //
Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard
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According to Census Bureau data, the US has more than 2x as many American workers with STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs. And many of the STEM jobs that do exist go to foreigners, because our immigration system allows them to legally be paid less.
But sure, it’s the tv shows.
Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…
1:40 PM · Dec 26, 2024
Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins
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The United States graduates over half a million STEM students per year. If there is an issue in the tech workforce, then we need to address it at the educational level, not import a problem away.
4:04 PM · Dec 26, 2024. //
On the one hand, Musk and Ramaswamy are right. The US must make it easier for top-shelf talent to come to America. That isn't a problem for major tech players like Google, Meta, etc., because their brand draws the best, and the work environment doesn't tolerate mediocrity. On the other hand, there is no doubt that run-of-the-mill H1Bs are not superior to American workers. Their competitive advantage is that they are cheap and don't cause labor problems.
As much as we don't like to hear it, Ramaswamy has a point about the culture we're developing. One of the responses to his critique was this. //
TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2
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Dear, @VivekGRamaswamy, my counter take..... 😇
Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.
You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.
We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.
A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.
Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom. //
The problem is we are no longer the America that produced the guys who put out the Kuwaiti oil field fires and rescued Chilean miners. We are a nation that has permitted its primary and secondary education system to be dumbed down to the lowest conceivable denominator and made a high school diploma a participation trophy...and we're trying to do that to our university systems. We don't care about performance or standards, and our traditional work ethic is probably an artifact of white supremacy. //
NightTwister
14 hours ago
What a huge pile of crap. They want to import "engineers" from other countries because they can pay them half the going wage. They're mostly entry-level capable, and companies no longer care if they can actually do the work. For the most part they can't innovate, so they're used for repeatable work. They live 4-5 to a home, and send most of their money back home. This is not an "America First" strategy.
When Trump was in last time he increased the minimum H1B visa salary to $120K. When Biden changed it to $60K which it was before, they flooded in again. Raise the minimum to $150K and you'll suddenly see there are plenty of Americans available for these jobs.
As Congress prepares to do its duty, validate the Electoral College vote, and declare Donald Trump the 47th President of the United States, the bitter-clingers pushing the discredited "Trump is an insurrectionist" trope are making a final push to have their peculiar theory taken seriously. The latest iteration of this nonsensical twaddle was posted in The Hill in "Congress does not have to accept Trump's electoral votes."
The theory goes like this: Trump is an insurrectionist. The Constitution disqualifies insurrectionists from holding office, so Trump cannot be president. Given the right light and the correct amount of psilocybin, it makes perfect sense.
To the extent that sane people think there is one, the controversy starts with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. //
Instead of a fraudulent vote count, they want to use a fraudulent accusation of insurrection. As damaging to the nation as this move might be, this strategy is open. All it takes is 20 percent of the House and Senate members to sign a petition to trigger a vote. If a majority of both houses vote to exclude votes, they can, and the Supreme Court has no role in the process. Their conceit is thinking that once their side does this, everyone will forget about an indisputable electoral victory being set aside by way of backroom dealing. That is the quickest way for armed men to take control of the process and turn us into Pakistan. But that seems to be what the authors want.
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24
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Donald Trump looking at a meme on his phone of the U.S. buying Canada, Greenland and Panama on Amazon
4:06 PM · Dec 24, 2024.
Like so much else Trump says, this comes with more than a grain of truth. //
OrneryCoot
12 hours ago
At the heart of this is Trump trying to alarm Chinese officials to no end. The original Monroe Doctrine posited that there would be no influence by Europe any more in the Americas. China has apparently thought that since they are Asian, it doesn't apply to them. Trump, I believe, through his trolling, is sending a message to the Chinese that they should focus on their own durn backyard and get out of ours. It's trolling on the surface, but it is serious in undertone, and I think the message is being received by the Chinese quite clearly. Whether they take more persuasion is anyone's guess, but I think that they will probably have to be bonked on the nose a few times before they quit sniffing around. China is our main adversary now. All of the others are secondary. That doesn't mean that Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other bad actors don't deserve our attention, but the main focus HAS to be on China. That's why Rubio, Mike Waltz, and other China hawks are being chosen for Trump's second administration. He's got it together. He knows his priorities. That he uses unconventional tactics like these are good...it will keep the Chinese flustered and unbalanced. January needs to come quickly. //
1776-2023RIP
12 hours ago
Trump is always eventually proven right. In essence, if not in rhetoric. Trump sees the macro while the left focuses on the micro. The Right takes him seriously but not literally. The Left takes him literally but not seriously. I could list all the examples but they are well known and become more apparent by the day.
Obviously the Panama Canal and Greenland are of vital strategic and economic importance to the U S.
Our relationship with Canada is as well.
While purchasing Greenland or “taking back” the Canal, may not, or even should not happen, it is obvious that corrective measures to keep them in our sphere of influence, is imperative. Trump knows this.
And he says as much, in his own unmistakable way.
The same thing with Canada. Since he is always right, let’s take him seriously . But not necessarily literally.
T'was was the night before Christmas and all through the nation, everybody was excited about mass deportations, and the illegal bad hombres who shouldn't be here are all dreading the day that Tom Homan appears.
Soon I'll be your next president... Kamala will not.
We were sent with a mandate. We won by a lot.
On day one, we'll get work done to boost our morale, we'll annex Canada and Greenland and the Panama Canal. Everybody's excited to be finally done with Joe, including our 51st governor -- I call him Queen Justine Trudeau.
Probable Cause
18 hours ago
There's a fourth factor. When President Trump attempts to motivate the sea of government workers, he can say:
"Do you want me to send you back to where you were?"
"Unemployed?"
"In Greenland?!"
wvcitizen
3 days ago
A Secret Service agent fired multiple shots at this guy at close range and missed him clean. Seem he was supposed to get away. But a person took a pic of his license plates and called 911. Local law enforcement picked him up. Don’t think that was supposed to happen. Now there is a mess that has to be cleaned up before he sings. Let’s see how this works out. //
TheAmericanExperiment
3 days ago
The Feds were behind both assassination attempts.
Crooks was supposed to get off kill shot before being taken out by the counter snipers who were there for that express purpose.
Routh was supposed to get away but ran afoul of an alert citizen with a camera.
The Feds need to maintain total control over Routh and that means maintain physical possession of him. As long as they maintain physical possession of him he knows that one false move will get him Epsteined. If Florida is able to proceed with their case they get the chance to speak with him privately. I'd love to be a fly on that wall.
Can't get Kash into the bureau soon enough.
Sheinbaum Pardo called Mexican migrants in America “heroes” in part because they sent $63 billion back home to relatives in 2023. //
Remittances now surpass almost all other sources of the country’s foreign income, including tourism, oil exports and most manufacturing exports.
While the report doesn't differentiate between illegal aliens and legal migrants, it doesn't take a proverbial rocket scientist to figure out that given the more than 10 million illegals who have crossed the southern border during four years of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis™, the amount of cash continuing to leave America for Mexico has continued to increase. //
Lourde Mike
5 hours ago
So the solution here is to tax wire transfers to Mexico at 100% if sent by a non-us citizen. //
Bearsblow
4 hours ago
She laid out the best argument in the world for mass deportations.
They won't change their loyalty and they send their money back to their home country.
That's a 1-2 ticket punch back to that country, imo. //
anon-stbc Grogger
2 hours ago
Absolutely.
If they are taking money out of our economy, then tax it.
There are a bunch of "studies" that talk about how much money the illegals pump back into our economy. Hmmm...none of those studies mention that $50 Billion is getting drained out of our economy.
A lot of that money isn't getting taxed because it is being paid under the table...then they send it right over the border to help Mexico's economy.
Shut down the transfers, or tax it to the max, and see how quickly those folks go back home.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Only the AfD can save Germany
Naomi Seibt @SeibtNaomi
🚨🇩🇪CHANCELLOR FRONTRUNNER SLAMS MUSK & MILEI❗️
The presumptive next chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) is horrified by the idea that Germany should follow Elon Musk’s and Javier Milei’s example.
He staunchly rejects a pro-freedom approach and refuses any discussion with the AfD.
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12:03 AM · Dec 20, 2024. //
TGDavis
40 minutes ago
Being for a secure border, sound money, and the preservation of Western civilization, does not make you a right winger, it makes you normal.
Nancy Mace
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This CR had the same level of spending today as it did yesterday, but the debt ceiling was suspended, meaning there was no limit on the debt. I don’t trust Congress or the government to spend responsibly… Show more
6:50 PM · Dec 19, 2024