Flotsam and Jetsam - That Was the Week that Was

Quite a week! The market reacted well to the weekend arriving, the DOW rose 619 pts on Friday, ending higher than it started for the week. NYT promptly whined Stop Fetishizing the Stock Market. Chris Datoc at WaEx reports White House clarifies new China tariff rate of 145%, not 125%. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair sees China Retaliates By Punishing ... Hollywood? Um, OK. Leah Barkoukis at TownHall hears O'Leary Schools MSNBC Host on Why the Pressure Campaign Against China Must Continue. Because China is asshole. Townhall.com @townhallcom, "WOW: Kevin O'Leary ERUPTS at MSNBC host who tries (and FAILS) to PIN HIM for applauding President Trump's pressure campaign against China! "They cheat, they steal. They don't play by the rules. And I've had enough!" "I don't care about the volatility. I don't care if Trump ratchets it up 25% a day!" MSNBC: "What do you mean you don't care about volatility? If volatility has a direct impact on us as consumers?!" "Because we have to fix this problem once and for all. It's killing us! It's killing small business in America. It's killing large businesses!" "If we have to squeeze Chinese heads to the wall...So be it!" "When you shut down a factory, you put thousands, if not tens of thousands of people unemployed in China! They take burning torches just like the Frankenstein movie up to the castle. And that's a bad outcome for the Supreme Leader!" "Let's squeeze them, squeeze them, squeeze them. Just keep going and going and going until they start complying. That's what I want!" Reuters claims Apple airlifts 600 tons of iPhones from India 'to beat' Trump tariffs. Don Surber has Winning, winning, winning, "As Hillary said, "I don't feel no ways tard"" and TDS is so tedious, "Their objections prove Trump tariffs will work." Stephen Kruiser at PJM, It's Hard to Believe, but People Still Underestimate Trump

At TownHall Tom Knighton worries about When the Military Goes Rogue. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair sees There's a AWFL Purge Ongoing in the US Military and That's Alright. Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew "She should now be court-martialed for conduct unbecoming, busted down a rank, and administratively separated with a reduction in retirement." Quote, Sean Parnell @SeanParnellATSD, "Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump's agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense." CDR Salamander is happy to Hail the First of Hopefully Many Maritime Focused Executive Orders, "Restoring American’s Maritime Dominance."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.11.25, Louder With Crowder: Valor-stealing Democrat declares Trump guilty of insider trading, but then he’s asked to present proof, Millionaire celebrity Whoopi Goldberg tells YOU to “suck it up” and pay MORE in taxes, Jasmine Crockett rants that if you can’t afford your home, it’s totally because Trump is deporting illegal aliens, and Three Trump wins this week the media doesn’t want you to know about, American Conservative: Congress Hates Trade Wars—but Doesn’t Mind Real Wars, Matt Taibbi, We Did Get Fooled Again", The Federalist: Corporate Media Take Screw America Approach To Trump Tariffs, Trump Restored Showerhead Freedom, Now Let’s Fix The Sneaky Regulation Process, Democrat Union Boss Reportedly Uses Member Dues As A Personal Slush Fund, After 4 Years Of Claiming US Elections Are ‘Most Secure Ever,’ Leftists Again Accuse Trump Of Stealing Them, and Meet The Leftist Power Brokers Engineering Anti-Trump Protests Nationwide and Mark Steyn: Tariffs, China and Passover.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, This Is Insane. The Telegraph @Telegraph "Three in four countries suffering ‘severe disruption’ to health after aid cuts, WHO warns." So, we're supposed to be responsible for the world's health care?

At Reason, SCOTUS Rules on Deportation Case, "could you at least try to bring back that MS13 dude?" and Damon Root notes Supreme Court Unanimously Orders Trump To 'Facilitate' the Return of Wrongly Deported Man and claims "Trump lost on his most aggressive claims of executive power for the second time in a week." John Sexton at Hat Hair, Supreme Court: Government Must 'Facilitate' Return of Deported Migrant...Eventually. Capt. Ed reads Turley: What in the World Is a 'Writ of Facilitation'? Jonathan Turley, A Writ of “Facilitation”? Court Issues Curious Order in the Garcia Case. The Balmer Sun, Judge orders daily updates on status of Maryland man mistakenly deported. Matt Margolis at PJM, Democrats Cheering MS-13 Gang Member's Return Missed a Key Detail in SCOTUS Ruling. Stephen Miller @StephenM, "False. SCOTUS rejected the lower court and made clear that a district court judge cannot exercise Article II foreign affairs powers. The illegal alien terrorist is in the custody and control of a sovereign foreign nation." Quote "Jon Favreau @jonfavs, "Supreme Court in a unanimous decision: He has a legal right to be here, and you have to bring him back x.com /jdvance/status…" Mary Chastain at LI, reports Judge Says Trump Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil, "The judge gave Khalil’s attorneys “until April 23 to file relief applications.” Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal, Trump Order Would Force the ACLU to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Lawfare "It’s called the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c). Here’s what it says: "The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant [that is, petitioner] gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained. The United States, its officers, and its agencies are not required to give security." The ACLU has to put down a “security” payment when asking for the court order, just in case a later judge strikes down the order after it already cost the government money to follow it. This commonsense requirement isn’t a Trump wish list item. It’s a rule with the force of law. If the administration were to demand that judges follow this rule, it could stop the judicial insurrection in its tracks—or, at the very least, make the activists think twice before assuming they can dictate federal policy." New York Post @nypost, "Pennsylvania judge Sonya McKnight convicted of shooting sleeping boyfriend in the head https://trib.al/jleSzvJ." But she can set foreign policy.

Sean Davis@seanmdav, "BREAKING: @FDRLST has obtained the Russiagate binder, which consist of seven separate files totaling hundreds of pages. In the interest of full transparency and disclosure, we are making the documents available to everyone for review on our Scribd page. Links to follow...(1/2)." Jerry Dunleavy at John Solomon at JTN report Newly declassified FBI memos detail concerns, payments to Russia collusion informant. "Newly declassified documents show informant Stefan Halper was motivated in part by "monetary compensation" and was paid nearly $1.2 million from FBI over three decade." Sundance at CTH looks at the revelations with a gimlet eye The Process Matters When Confronting the Deep State. 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.11.25,  American Greatness: DNI Chief Tulsi Gabbard Confirms Electronic Voting Systems Are Vulnerable to Hackers; Calls For Shift to Paper Ballots, also, Paying a Heavy Cost for Going After a Tax Cheat Named Hunter Biden

Mary Chastain reads a Book: Stephanopoulos Described Biden as ‘Heartbreaking’ After Interview, "“The anchor appeared to respond, ‘I don’t think he can serve four more years,'” when asked about Biden from a passerby on the street a few days after the interview." At Atlanta First News, How Kamala Harris’ ‘dark arts’ team ‘stabbed’ Stacey Abrams in 2020. Matt Vespa at TownHall reports an Ex-MSNBC Analyst Read the Book About the 2024 Election. His Takeaway About Kamala Is Devestating. "On 2Way, the Morning Meeting show hosted by ex-MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer said his takeaway was that Kamala was such an atrocious candidate that she wouldn’t win an election for dogcatcher. She was terrible, her staff was bad, and her strategy was bad—everything about the Harris operation reeked of incompetence, much like the Biden White House." Sister Toldja at RedState likes how a GOP Congressman Shuts Down Democrat Colleague in Tense Exchange on Laken Riley Act During CNN Town Hall. Jeff Charles at TownHall wonders Did Jasmine Crockett Commit Campaign Finance Violations? The FEC Is Going to Find Out. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.11.25, Twitchy: Victor Davis Hanson – If One Wanted To Destroy The U.S., The Last Four Years Would Have Been The Blueprint.

Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby "BREAKING: The Council on American Islamic Relations is seeking to block Columbia from turning over records to Congress about the pro-Hamas group Students for Justice in Palestine. CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and was labeled a terrorist group by the UAE in 2014."

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