There is no shortage of generals in our military:

There are about 800 general officers in the military, but only 44 of those are four-star general or flag officers. Hegseth has already directed the firings of more than a half-dozen three- and four-star generals since taking office, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown Jr., saying those eliminations were “a reflection of the president wanting the right people around him to execute the national security approach we want to take.” //

SLOTown Hoosier
17 minutes ago
We have more 4-Stars today in the Army than the Army and Air Force combined in WW II.

China's economy has been a house of cards for some time now, but President Trump's tariffs may be knocking that house of cards down. Case in point: Chinese factories are closing down, and Chinese workers are furious. Laid-off Chinese workers are taking to the streets to demand re-employment and back pay. //

BHedrick
27 minutes ago
Hmmm. The capitalist nation takes care of its workers better than the socialist utopia. Whodathunkit? //

sukietawdry wildmlm
11 minutes ago
When I was in China, our tour guide told us that the people hate the government and don't trust (corrupt) law enforcement but revere their military. In Beijing, small groups of soldiers out and about on the streets attracted groups of boys and young men who would fall in lockstep behind them. If Xi loses the military, he's cooked. Tiananmen Square has always been guarded by soldiers, but following the uprising security became very tight and you have to pass through checkpoints and metal detectors to get on the premises. There won't be another "Tiananmen Square" unless the army wants one. //

KJSpeed
36 minutes ago
Confucius say; House of Cards no match for Strong Wind from West!

Hold the line America! This may accomplish far more than equal trade. The cracks are showing in China's top-down politburo. //

NavyVet
43 minutes ago
Why is the dollar so weak right now?
Because China is dumping all its treasuries, to the tune of $1 trillion, in an attempt to undercut Trump.
Of course, it's not working: it just makes American exports cheaper, more attractive.

But the real question is, what is Xi doing with all that money? Spending it on his military?

"construction workers threatened to throw themselves off the buildings"
If they are willing to die, maybe they should consider doing it in an effort to throw off the bonds of communism.
You know, the totalitarianism the democrats want to impose on us, but can't because we're still armed.

This is Why The Democrats/Left/Swamp Hates Trump!

Former mob boss tried to corrupt Trump, couldn't get him to bite

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov
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If you’re in the United States illegally, self-deport now so you can:
• Leave on your own terms.
• Choose your destination.
• Say goodbye to your friends and family.
• Possibly return later — legally, as an immigrant or visitor.
💻Learn more: http://ICE.gov/self-deportation
10:10 AM · May 5, 2025. //

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_
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FOX EXCLUSIVE: DHS will announce today that they will begin paying for the commercial flights of illegal aliens who self-deport from the U.S., & they will pay these aliens an additional $1,000 once they are confirmed to have left the country. DHS tells @FoxNews this will save American taxpayers 70%, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone from the U.S., while paying for self-removal flights & the stipend is projected to cost just $4,500, and will be safer for ICE and preserve their resources. Illegal aliens must register on the CBP Home app and file their notice to leave the US in order to receive the financial assistance, and the stipend will only be paid once the alien is confirmed to have left the United States. DHS tells us any aliens who register to self deport will be immediately de-prioritized for ICE arrest and will maintain the ability to return to the U.S. legally in the future. DHS says they have already successfully tested out the financial assistance, recently paying for an illegal alien to fly back to Honduras from Chicago, with more tickets booked this week.
10:00 AM · May 5, 2025

This ruling effectively reins in district courts that have been sidestepping proper jurisdictional channels in cases challenging Trump administration actions. The decision serves as a clear reminder that courts themselves must operate within their prescribed legal boundaries. //

According to Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, the D.C. Circuit’s ruling hinges on a critical point: jurisdiction, which has sweeping implications. As Cleveland explains, many of the legal challenges being hurled at the Trump administration involve employment decisions—precisely the kind of disputes Congress has explicitly said federal district courts have no authority to adjudicate.

The court’s decision also strikes at the heart of a broader legal strategy being used by leftist groups to stymie Trump’s reforms—namely, the claim that the administration is engaging in “wholesale dismantling” of agencies. But as the ruling makes clear, the Administrative Procedure Act was never designed to handle such broad-based political grievances, and Congress never waived sovereign immunity to allow them.

In another key point, the court found that the lower court also overstepped its bounds by trying to restore federal grants—something Congress assigned to the Court of Federal Claims, not the district courts. All told, the decision is a sharp rebuke to the legal overreach being used to obstruct the Trump administration’s agenda. //

The Dark Lord LBPA
20 hours ago
Even worse. This is such a powerful decision it will be appealed to the full DC Circuit for an “en banc” hearing.

Radical Leftists hold a 7 - 4 majority among active judges on the DC Circuit. So, we will lose decisively on appeal.

However, this was such a good opinion it could provide the framework for a sweeping successful decision from SCOTUS. If, …

If Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh decide not to support the judicial coup attempt. //

Hominem Humilem Sum The Dark Lord
18 hours ago
Alas, diminishing the power of the judiciary may not be something Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh are inclined to do: they may prefer to leave the power in the hands of the judiciary and claim the ultimate authority for themselves. Admittedly, that would be a dangerous game to play, since the Article III crew have no indigenous enforcement capability (and would have to rely on the Executive and Legislative Branches to "take their word for it"). //

Mrminwnc Hominem Humilem Sum
18 hours ago
This sounds glib, but respect for the judiciary branch is essentially a courtesy extended by the other two, in particular the executive branch. If the others simply get tired of judges overreaching they can just ignore them.

A turbulent period for stocks around new tariff policies from the White House has remarkably given way to Wall Street’s longest winning streak in 20 years.

The S&P 500 rose again on Friday, notching a ninth straight positive session for the first time Nov. 5, 2004.

The index also traded above its April 2 close for the first time since the major tariff announcement a month ago.

[…]

Not to be outdone, the Dow Jones Industrial Average also cashed a ninth straight winning day, its longest streak in more than a year. In London, the winning streak for the FTSE 100 index hit a record of 15 consecutive days. //

As we’ve noted, Trump plays these games with the media, Democrats, and his political enemies like it’s a best-of-seven series. It’s not over after one game, whereas his detractors act like the clowns who think winning the season's first game means they’re championship-bound. Trump’s enemies have had their best-laid plans at every turn, and narratives get burned to ash.

Welker: In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court directed your administration to facilitate the return, you've talked about this in the past, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, from a prison in El Salvador, whose deportation your administration called an "administrative error." You said in a recent interview you could bring him back but you won't. Are you defying the Supreme Court, sir?

...

I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.

What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation. //

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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.@POTUS: "It helps when you know that borders are not racist, speech is not violence, America is good, terrorists are bad, men can never become women, police are not criminals, and criminals are not victims." 🔥

1:07 PM · May 2, 2025. //

Certainly, it’s fair game to disagree with Trump and his policies, but their constant effort to misrepresent his statements highlights what is so very wrong with corporate media.

That sums it up well. While Mills and her state attorney are taking a victory lap, and legacy media is painting an inaccurate narrative, Maine girls continue to be erased, and Maine still has a target on its back. Federal funds from other agencies could be pulled at any time, so if it is a "victory," it's a pyrrhic one.

The world’s richest man stayed mostly on the sidelines of the political battles in the country for much of his career, but then he bought Twitter when he saw that it was an anti-free speech, censorious platform, and following that, he put his weight firmly behind Donald Trump's presidential bid and campaigned for him relentlessly.

He of course went on to become the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has been leading his team in finding billions upon billions of government waste, fraud, and abuse. For this, he has been vilified and threatened by the corrupt media and the progressive zealots, because how dare you attempt to trim the fat off the federal bureaucracy?

As he prepares to step aside and head back to his duties as CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX (as was always planned), the tech mogul was asked if he regrets his role in making America great again. “No,” was his answer: //

RedWave Press @RedWave_Press
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Lara Trump: “Do you regret coming out and supporting President Trump?”

Elon Musk: “Yes joking No! I think it was essential for President Trump to win to ensure that America remained great and that we reached greater heights.”

“I think if President Trump had not won, I think the Democrat campaign to import vast numbers of illegal voters would have succeeded," adding that America would have risked becoming a "one-party state from which we could never escape."

"Some people out there may be somewhat skeptical. They may think, 'Well, there isn't some Democrat plan to subvert democracy and achieve a permanent one-party, deep blue socialist state.' I assure you, the more you research it, the more that you will see it is true."

9:27 PM · May 3, 2025 //

America @america
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Elon Musk: “The Left is kind to the criminals and cruel to the victims… If you’re a high trust society and you bring in low trust or untrustworthy individuals, you you got a fundamental breakdown in the system.”

9:45 PM · May 3, 2025 //

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV
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Elon Musk
"It's not been a boring year: At least, I didn't get shot. That's what happens when you go after fraud. The people doing the bad things want to keep getting the money”

12:23 AM · May 4, 2025

Which is more plausible: the lying media has suddenly discovered accurate polling data? Or Trump supporters are not being polled?

President Trump: "For America to be a great nation, we must always be One Nation Under God, a phrase that they would like to get rid of—the radical left, but I don't think we're going to let them get rid of that."

Let me tell you something you already know.

The MSM/Democrats are trying to BS you at the 100-day mark of President Trump’s second term. They are desperate to show that the new Trump administration is sinking fast in the polls, and that the American people are waking up to his (supposed) authoritarianism and overreach.

Here is how they are doing it. //

The polls are inevitably from ABC News, or NBC News, or CBS News, or CNN, or NPR, or the NYTs, or even FOX. What all these sources have in common is that these polling organizations largely did not get the 2024 election correct. Many underestimated the Trump vote, sometimes substantially, and many produced Harris leads that, in the words of her political advisor, “showed us with leads we never saw" in Harris internal polls. //

These websites almost never have a news article detailing the new polls from the polling firms that got the 2024 presidential election mostly right, such as Atlas, Rasmussen, Quantus, RMG, etc.

Some people on the right are getting very angry about this. Others are getting distraught or dispirited. Some are demanding that the MSM curb their bias.

But the MSM are Democrats, and they won’t change their spots. They have a vested interest in doing what they are doing. They want to undermine the Trump administration and cause Republicans to lose hope and cave in substantial ways to the Democrats. //

America finds itself in the unfortunate position of being the country that keeps the world in balance. When we slip, or show weakness, the world begins to fall apart. Wars spring up, financial instability rises, poverty and disease crop up, and oligarchs tighten their grip to the detriment of people around the globe. Entropy creeps in when America isn't maintaining its strength and making it clear that countries need to be on their best behavior.

A strong American leader brings peace, justice, and prosperity. A weak one invites collapse.

Children in the home may like the fact that they can run roughshod over their mother because it's easier to get what they want. They may "want mommy" all the time because they know that they can get away with a lot more under her.

It's when daddy gets home that the kids shape up and start acting right. They mind their p's and q's, and do as they're told, because facing daddy's wrath is a terrifying prospect. They may not like daddy as much as they do mommy, but they respect him, and it's that respect that keeps the house from falling into chaos.

When Moran used the term "reputation," Trump returned with the word "respect," and I think that's the reputation we should aim for. Not being liked, or feeling like a part of the "global community." We aren't a part of a global community. We are the United States, and without us, the world descends into chaos. Respect for us keeps things in order, and in order to maintain that respect, we have to flex our muscles and, from time to time, throw a punch.

Our enemies, and sometimes even our allies, may not like it, but what they like or dislike doesn't matter. What matters is that they maintain a healthy respect for us, our economy, our military, and our leadership.

Our reputation among other nations should boil down to, "We don't cross daddy."

The Justice Department has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants who breach a newly expanded military zone at the southern border that is patrolled by U.S. troops, threatening people with additional penalties for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

At least 28 migrants were charged Monday with crossing into the 170-mile long “National Defense Area,” a 60-foot strip of land that stretches across the bottom of New Mexico and has effectively been turned into part of a U.S. military installation. Prosecutors added the new charge of violating security regulations in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces to the more common misdemeanor of entering the United States illegally. //

That's a brilliant use of government land. Because the U.S. government owns some of the border areas in New Mexico, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was able to declare it a "National Defense Area" and turn it into a restricted military installation, complete with patrols conducted by American troops. That immediately upped the ante, making it criminal to cross into the area, allowing federal authorities to skip a variety of legal hoops and head straight to criminal prosecutions that should be open-and-shut cases.

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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.@RealTomHoman: "People always want to say why are you so emotional?... I've talked to little girls as young as nine years old who are raped multiple times by the cartel members, and when you get to your knees and you talk to that little girl and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her?

When you listen to Laken Riley… 17 minutes, that young lady fighting for her life?

Don't just think, okay, a young woman died, think of how she died—the terror that she went through—and these children are sexually assaulted. I stood in back of a tractor trailer and 19 dead people at my feet that baked to death.

Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime, and so every sick person we take off the streets—especially child rapists—it makes this country much safer.

9:26 AM · Apr 28, 2025. //

Media Research Center @theMRC
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Tom Homan schools a reporter asking about illegal alien mothers being deported with their children:

"I don't hear any questions about Laken Riley's mother, she's never going to see her child again."

9:38 AM · Apr 28, 2025. //

anon-ev27
an hour ago
It is impossible for our corrupt media to see the victims of illegal immigration crimes. They believe all illegal immigrants are asylum candidates and have been through far worse. "So what are you Americans complaining about. The few who suffer are a small price to pay for the greater good of a magnanimous USA that welcomes all people from around the world with open arms. This is what my college professors taught me to believe".

anon-exgv
3 hours ago
Well, did they by any chance plaster the mugshot of DJT all over their network? Why yes, yes they did. //

cupera1 anon-exgv
2 hours ago
So the same MSNBC was behind all of these….
• Russia Collusion Hoax
• Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
• Jussie Smollett Hoax
• Covington KKKids Hoax
• Very Fine People Hoax
• Seven-Hour Gap Hoax
• Russian Bounties Hoax
• Trump Trashes Troops Hoax
• Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax
• Rittenhouse Hoax
• Trump removed the MLK bust from the oval office hoax
• Eating While Black Hoax
• Russians are behind the DNC leaked emails hoax
• Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax
• NASCAR Noose Hoax
• The Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax
• Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax
• MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax
• COVID Lab Leak Theory Is Racist Hoax
• Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Russian Disinformation Hoax
• Joe Biden Will Never Ban Gas Stoves Hoax
• COVID Deaths are Over-Counted Is a Conspiracy Theory Hoax
• Mass Graves of Native Children in Canada Hoax
• The Trump Killed All the Fish Hoax
• Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax
• Hamas Hospital Hoax
• Trumps Mar-A-Lago home is only worth 18 million hoax.
• If Reelected, Trump Will Execute People Hoax
• The 900,000 Kids Hospitalized with Coronavirus Hoax
• Dozens of Environmental Hoaxes
• The Alfa Bank Hoax
• Libs of TikTok Murdered Non-Binary Teen Hoax
• The Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax
• The ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax
• Politico did not get one dime of government money Hoax
• Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax
• The All-White Trump Party Hoax
• Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax
• Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax
• Violent Crime Down Under Biden/Harris Hoax
• Arlington Cemetery Hoax
• Kamala Was Never America’s Border Czar Hoax
• Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax
• Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax
• Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax
• ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax
• Biden ‘Sharp-as-a-Tack’ Hoax
• Iowa Poll Hoax
• Signal chat had classified information Hoax
• US astronauts were not abandoned Hoax
• Trump insider trading hoax
• Innocent Maryland man deported hoax.
• Trump is deporting US citizens Hoax.
• Trump is deporting little kids that are US citizens hoax

They now what to be takes as a serious news organization???

On Monday, a reporter at the White House tried to nail Homeland Security advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller on the question of the deportations of the mothers. It did not go well for the reporter. The reporter asked if it was the "best use of the administration's resources" to go after "moms of young kids." Miller then completely turned it around on the guy. He asked him if he had an opinion on "what percentage" of the illegal aliens of the estimated 10 million illegal aliens that Joe Biden let into the country should get to stay.

"Is it your view that if a Democrat president releases 10, 15, 20 million illegal into the country — they all then should get to stay forever and for all of their life?" Miller inquired of the reporter.

When the reporter wouldn't answer, Millet just wrecked him, "You don't want to answer the question, because you know the answer. It's obvious — everyone that Biden let in has to go home. Of course. It's a crazy thing to even ask."

"The thing [Trump] was determined to do was to talk to Zelensky face to face, and talk about how we're going to get the largest land war in Europe to an end. Both sides have to want that," Waltz said. //

Waltz also elaborated on one of the administration's biggest frustrations while untangling the Russia-Ukraine mess--the truly disastrous and inept way the Biden national security team went about it:

If you go back--we're 100 days in...just 100 days ago, Biden and his team had no end in sight. This was an endless war. This was a meat-grinder of men and material and national treasure...He had never defined victory.

Regarding the possibilities and problems with defense advisory committees, I'd recommend these posts (here | here). Here's how I'd summarize them: For these boards to be useful, they need outside-the-box thinkers seeking high-impact solutions to critical problems. It needs Billy Mitchells and John Boyds. The problem is that no one in DOD wants to deal with controversial ox-goring solutions; they want more of the same, only a little better than before. By salting the committees with political adversaries of the party in power, you ensure nothing gets done.

These committees also serve as a source of leaks that damage the current administration and sabotage potential changes. Democrat members of the Defense Policy Board may have been active in trying to sandbag Hegseth.

The exception to that is the Defense Advisory Committee on Women In The Service (DACOWITS), which has single-handedly done more to destroy the US military than anything the USSR accomplished. This is a politically charged committee filled with feminist activists and deep links to powerful members of Congress. No matter how harebrained, its recommendations frequently become DOD policy because the SecDef usually finds it less painful to go along. To his credit, George W. Bush disbanded this committee only to relent and reestablish it toward the end of his presidency. //

Buddy
an hour ago
Why would you have a committee on women, when the Dems/leftist don't even know what a woman is? //

Captain Sweatpants
2 hours ago
“Well, if you’re a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as secretary of Defense. That’s apparently what we’ve learned from this episode,” Rice said

Susan Rice is a little bitter.

What Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor, is doing is essentially conceding the facts of the case (that Dugan did what she's alleged to have done) while trying to argue that it was improper for the Trump administration to arrest her because of the "spectacle."

Did Rossi ever make that case about any of the people around President Donald Trump who were frogmarched out of their homes by the Biden administration? Or what about Trump himself? If you're going to argue that judges deserve deference, didn't a then-former president deserve deference? Only now are these CNN flacks acting as if using measure exists, and that's a patently political complaint. //

JENNINGS: Let me tell you my view. The spectacle is important because the message has to be sent to everybody else, "We are not going to put up...you have been elected by people to uphold the law, and some of the laws that have been most flagrantly violated in his country are immigraiton laws. You've got to get on board with upholding all the laws. //

Yes, if the facts of this case are proven true, this judge committed a crime, but sending her to jail is only part of the equation. The other part is using her as an example and showing other judges and officials around the country that they will be treated just like every other alleged criminal if they break the law. There will be no special treatment. There will be no summons orders to avoid the cameras. //

Fishin'withFredo
2 hours ago
"Spectacle"? Let's not forget that this same network was CALLED and positioned by the feds to broadcast Roger Stone and his wife marched out of their home in cuffs at 0400.