A View from the Beach: Flotsam and Jetsam

Ace gets turned on by Trump Taking the Presidential Limo Out for a Lap Around the Daytona Race Track, "Victory lap." At Da Wire, Presidents’ Day Scorecard: How’s Trump Stacking Up To His Predecessors? "He's leading the pack on executive orders, cabinet members, and outperforming his past approval ratings." At Hat Hair Dave Strom hears America Trusts Trump on Almost Every Issue and Beege Welborn sees More CNN #Sadz: Frank Luntz Says Clinton Voters Who Flipped to Trump 'Lovin' It'. Drew Berquist wants you to WATCH Hakeem Jeffries Flounders When Asked About Overwhelming Support for Trump’s Policies. Breitbart, Hakeem Jeffries: GOP Budget a ‘Non-Starter,’ Every Single Democrat Will Oppose It. At NYPo, This President’s Day, remember what George Washington can teach us — and Trump. Rachel Bovard @rachelbovard, "What’s happening in DC right now is what an actual transfer of power looks like. The political right hasn’t engaged in exercising real authority over the exec branch in so long (eg: we elect GOP presidents who sit atop a thoroughly Democratic infrastructure that undermines them at every turn) that everyone has forgotten what’s involved." Quote expatanon @expatanon "My friends in DC are catatonic. They can't believe what is happening to them. This is nothing like 2017, they are acting like this is the apocalypse, because for them, it is." Mike Lee @Base dMikeLee "The idea of a transfer of power—especially one resulting from (gasp) an election—is terrifying to The Deep State" and to The Uniparty. Unrivaled, unreviewable, unchecked power is their whole game And they’re about to lose". From Da Caller, JOSH HAMMER: Trump’s Judicial Foes Set Themselves Up For Utter Humiliation. Althouse finds "In our constitutional system, the executive power belongs to the president, and that power generally includes the ability to supervise and remove the agents who wield executive power in his stead." ""While we have previously upheld limits on the president's removal authority in certain contexts, we decline to do so when it comes to principal officers who, acting alone, wield significant executive power." Wrote Chief Justice John Roberts, 5 years ago, quoted in "Trump's firings of independent agency heads put 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent in crosshairs" (CBS News)." Paul Mirengoff at the Ringside is relishing Sean Spicer's revenge. NewsMax opines Congress Must Make Executive Orders Permane nt. John Ringo SF Author @Jringo1508, "From a reply to 'if it sounds too good to be true...' Reply: You know, I'd normally agree... But Politico didn't send out payments this week to their staff. About the time USAID funding was cut off completely. Bill Kristol was DIRECTLY tied to USAID... Bondi is now AG. Hegseth is at the border and being escorted by Tier Ones, every one of which is a Sicario fan. You know they are salivating. Chuck Schumer is still stuck somewhere between Treasury and USAID and hasn't even gotten to 'We're turning Gaza into a Trump waterfront resort.' 'There'll be so much winning you'll get tired of winning!' I'm... I'm... Not tired of winning. I mean, this is Jesus Jones 'Right Here, Right Now.' 'I've waited my whole life for this.'. . ."

Beege Welborn says Dear Germany: Using a Limp, Rag Doll, Please Point to Where the Mean Vance Man Hurt You. The Brussel's Signal opines the ‘Rules based international order’ is dead, 20th century never coming back. Laughing Wolf thinks he sees The Suicide Of NATO. At Breitbart, Put Up or Shut Up: Trump Admin Reportedly Calls on Europeans to List Troops and Weapons Available for Ukraine Peacekeeping Force and Heavy Bombs Withheld by Biden Arrive in Israel, Thanks to Trump. NewsMax thinks Trump Breaks Protocols for Peace. A very ambiguous title. At the College Fix, ‘Manifest Destiny’ on Mars: Trump’s remark stirs up disagreements in astronomy community. From Gail Heriot at Insty,

ANOTHER PIG WAR IN THE MAKING?: Beginning in 1859, the United States and Great Britain fought a war (of sorts) over the boundary between Canada and the United States. At issue was which country owns the San Juan Islands situated between Vancouver Island (Canada) and the Washington State mainland.

In one of the more comical episodes in military history, “the Pig War” (as it was called) was triggered by an actual pig who was trespassing onto a farm and helping himself to the tasty tubers he had found there. The farmer, American Lyman Cutlar, shot and killed the wayward pig, which turned out to be owned by Charles Griffin, a Brit, who worked for the Hudson Bay Company. “It was eating my potatoes,” Cutlar is rumored to have said. “It was up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig,” was Griffin’s (supposed) reply.
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Why am I bringing this up now? History repeats itself. According to CBS News, marauding Canadian “super pigs” are viewed as a threat to American ranchers today. These very large and not very well-behaved wild hogs are evidently a cross between domestic hogs and wild ones, and they have become quite numerous. The oinkers are already wreaking havoc on Canadian farms and ranches and will do so here as soon as they hit upon the border. Another Pig War in the making …

Bottom line? If President Trump is looking for an excuse to … uh … invade Canada, I think we’ve found it for him ….

At Da Caller, Kash Patel Is Already Making Beltway Bandits Sweat. Sundance at CTH is pretty happy with Lawfare Pushback: President Trump is Nominating Ed Martin as U.S. District Attorney in Washington DC. As is Ben Bartee at PJM as Trump Executive Order Nukes University COVID-19 Vax Mandates. The Orange County (CA) Register whines What would dismantling the Department of Education mean for Southern California schools? Beege Welborn adds I'll bet a lot of school systems are nervously looking at dollars they've never paid attention to where they came from before. From WUWT, Trump Officially Ends Biden-Era War On American Appliances.