Flotsam and Jetsam - So Looking Forward to the Next 100 Days

The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Am Great discourses on The Trump Counterrevolution and the Moral Ledger. "Trump’s counterrevolution presses on—quietly, methodically, and morally—while a flailing opposition offers only chaos, debt, and deflection in response." From Da Wire, Here’s What Trump’s Team Wants To Accomplish In the Next 100 Days, "trade deals, peace deals, and tax cuts." Da Signal points to The Most Unsung Victory of Trump’s Administration, toppling the tyrannical bureaucracy. But they aren't done yet. At Insty, DEMOCRATS SEE “HISPANICS” AS A UNIFORM WHOLE MOTIVATED ENTIRELY BY RACIAL GRIEVANCE: Catturd ™ @catturd2, "Trump has a 62% approval with Hispanics. Democrat gaslighting over deportations is not only not working, it's backfiring." Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll "Trump Daily Job Approval - Full Week, Likely Voters All: 50% Men: 55% Women: 45% 18-39: 50% 40-64: 52% 65+: 46% White: 49% Black: 39% Hispanic: 62% Other: 51% DEM: 24% IND: 46% GOP: 79%" PJM's Matt Margolis asks if you Want To Know The Truth Behind Those Anti-Trump Polls? “The fact is, and I talked to John McLaughlin and I talked to Matt Towery about this, they have some polls there that are like 27% Republican when Trump got 50% of the vote. So if you add the 23 points they didn’t test, suddenly he’s in great shape. This is deliberate. It is willful.”

Da Caller reports China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot As Factories Collapse Under Trump’s Tariffs. They need to sell to use worse than we need to buy from them. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Wow - Who Knew Hitler Had Tariffs, Too?, a grab bag of good economic news you won't find at the WaPoo or NYT. TNP, Trump Poised to Strike Another Minerals Deal Amid African Peace Push. "The U.S. is encouraging Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace agreement at the White House within roughly two months, which will include bilateral mineral deals attracting Western investment." NYT proud that their boy in Ukraine Rejects Russian Call for a Three-Day Cease-Fire, "President Volodymyr Zelensky called the proposal a “theatrical show” and said that such a short truce would not bolster negotiations for a lasting peace."

Anxious anxiously goes Behind the scenes: How Waltz got the boot. Cockburn at Spec World, How do you get fired from the Trump administration? Maybe you shouldn't have Jeffrey Goldberg in your contact list. AMAC says The Military’s Back, Baby: Why America’s Youth Are Signing Up Again. "What liberals fail to understand is that young people don’t join the military for endless diversity seminars or to learn how to use “preferred pronouns.” They’re signing up to fight for the United States of America and test their mettle alongside the toughest men and women in the country. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gets it." WJ reports Army Confirms Massive DC Military Parade to Be Held on President Trump's Birthday. "Plans for the parade, as first detailed by The Associated Press on Thursday, call for about 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters to follow a route from Arlington, Virginia, to the National Mall. Until recently, the Army’s birthday festival plans did not include a massive parade, which officials say will cost tens of millions of dollars . . . In comments to Fox News Digital, White House officials confirmed a commemorative parade would take place and said it would be one of the first events to kick off a yearlong celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary." I can envision the fainting spells already.

Althouse is amused by Trump as Pope — posted by Trump himself and by The White House. "Well, it seems pretty simple. Someone asked him who should be the next Pope. He made an offhand comment, which makes some sense, in that he feels capable of running things and he knows himself and doesn't know much about the various cardinals. Then someone made the AI image, and he passed it on because it was funny and provocative. It's something to think about and to distract us from other things. Look, here I am posting it first thing this morning instead of something else. It will get his haters running down a blind alley. An insult to the just-deceased pontiff? How is it an insult? The President of the United States is essentially saying there is one job in the world that's a step up from mine." JD Vance @JDVance, "As a general rule, I'm fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen." Quote "Bill Kristol @BillKristol, "Hey, @JDVance, you fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father? x.com/whitehouse/sta…" From Twitchy, Amy McGrath Asks If Catholics Are Cool With What Trump Posted (and Won't Like the Replies). The Gormogons @Gormogons "RX Catholic here. This is just funny stuff that everyone is laughing at, @AmyMcGrathKY. Live, laugh, love. It might just help your next campaign." Quote Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY "To all my fellow American raised and practicing Catholics, are you cool with this? Is this just funny stuff that everyone is laughing at? I follow a lot of Catholic priests in this platform. I wonder if there will be any response at all to this. x.com/whitehouse/sta…"

Also at Twitchy, Sour Psaki: Former Biden PressSec Takes Aim at Karoline Leavitt but Misses Due to Her Own History of Lies. Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman "@jrpsaki calling @PressSec a "propaganda projector" is rich, especially considering Psaki actively covered up the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the mental decline of Biden, and every other scandal up until 2022. These people act like we didn't have eyes or ears." TownHall's Matt Vespa has several recent cases where Trump's Top Hatchet Man Once Again Obliterated the Liberal Media.

Susie Moore at RedState says Wow: D.C. Circuit Hands Trump Administration a Huge Win That Will Have Far-Reaching Implications. Circuit court told the District court to butt out. The Impressive Margot Cleveland has a huge thread explaining, Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland "BREAKING: HUGE win from Trump Administration and D.C. Circuit enters stay of lower court injunction. Lower court barred Trump Administration from managing Voice of America. D.C. Circuit stayed decision allowing Trump to move forward w/ firings/grant terminations. 1/" " "12/ In sum, this opinion is a HUGE win for Trump because it establishes 3 key principles that apply to many of the other cases being brought against Trump Administration: a) no jurisdiction over firings; b) no jurisdiction over grant terminations;" 13/ c) you can't get around Congress limiting district court jurisdiction by creative pleading of claims under other theories;  d) with no bond harm to government will outweigh other harm; e) public has interest in Article III obey Article I." From Breitbart, Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS to End Amnesty for over 300K Venezuelans. Hat Hair's John Sexton say The Case Against Judge Dugan is Strong But Wonders Will a Jury Care About the Facts? So we have a judge praying for jury nullification? How ironic. From ET, Supreme Court Justice Jackson Says Criticisms of Judges Are ‘Attacks on Our Democracy’ "The justice directed her comments at ’the elephant in the room.’" Also,   Trump Announces 1st Judicial Nomination Since Returning to White House. "Trump said he’s nominating Whitney Hermandorfer to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit." 

Jeff Charles at TownHall sees a Fired DOJ Attorney Throws $1 Billion Tantrum Because of Trump's Pardons "In a recent video, she claimed Trump “has granted pardons that have wiped out over $1 billion in debts owed by wealthy Americans.”" From WaEx, CIA fired its top doctor after she appeared on ‘Deep State Target List’: Lawsuit. "Adirim’s firing was reported first by Breitbart News in April, noting that she was one of the top officials behind the controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate for military service members when she worked at the Department of Defense. The report said her firing was due to her role in the vaccine mandate, which saw many service members booted for not complying." @amuse @amuse "DOGE: How do you get half of the woke lawyers in the DOJ to quit? Tell them they're going to have to combat antisemitism and keep men out of women's bathrooms. Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon managed to get 50% of the woke lawyers in the Civil Rights Division to voluntarily resign." At Am Think, Andrea Widburg thinks A NeverTrumper’s disingenuous attack on Bondi’s fentanyl testimony demands attention. Nope, still not tired of that joke. From RCP, If Trump Wants To Back Blue, Start With These Unjust Prosecutions. At Da Caller, Hunter Biden’s Former Attorney Creates Law Firm To Oppose Trump Administration.

MSN, The Next 100 Days: Democrats Have a Problem. “I think Democrats have to do a better job of focusing on our basic message,” Sell the same old shit better? Better lipstick on the pig? That's it? Mitch Berg at Hat Hair hears Tim Walz sell America short, Tim Walz Stock Tip: Sell Short. All of a sudden Democrat's seem concerned with John Fetterman's mental acuity. Nick Pope at Da Caller, Fetterman Reportedly Walked Into Traffic, Was ‘Manic’ And ‘Unhinged’ During Mental Health Crisis, but they needed the Senate seat so they ignored it at the time. Driscoll at Insty, ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The New Democratic Purity Test: Anti-Israel Or Else. "Let’s be honest here: the timing of these “concerns” and the article’s publication is suspicious. The same media figures who vigorously defended Fetterman’s fitness for office during his campaign are now wringing their hands over his mental state. What changed? Obviously, his positions on key issues like Israel and border security didn’t align with the radical left’s agenda." . . . As Jim Geraghty wrote yesterday: "Let me get this straight: Back when Fetterman could barely speak during the debate, his medical condition was no big deal, and certainly not a reason to keep him out of elected office. But now that he’s speaking more clearly, but taking positions that irritate progressives, now his staffers think something’s not right with his brain? From what everyone else can see, Fetterman’s in significantly better shape than he was in 2022 and early 2023. (Last year I interacted with him briefly in the Fox News green room.)" Bob Hoge at RedState, Reaping What You Sow: AOC Town Hall Descends Into Chaos As Protester Shrieks, 'You're a Liar!' "The Democrats love chaos and unhinged protests—except when it’s directed against them. But sometimes, the chickens come home to roost, and NY Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez found that out the hard way as she was heckled and shouted down at her town hall Friday night." From WokeSpy, Ilhan Omar Confronted by Journalist – Gets Vulgar FAST. "“Do you think more of your Democratic colleagues should be traveling to El Salvador to advocate on behalf of Abrego Garcia?” She was asked. “I think you should fuck off,” Omar said." Her command of English is pretty good. 

From the Free Bacon, HHS To Reevaluate $89 Billion Contract Awarded to Shadowy University of California Nonprofit "The National Cancer Institute, a subsidiary of the NIH, awarded a 25-year, $89 billion contract to the Alliance for Advancing Biomedical Research to operate a cancer research lab at Maryland’s Fort Detrick on January 17, just three days before Biden left office. The reward marked a remarkable turn of fortune for the nascent nonprofit organization, which shares close ties to the University of California’s National Laboratories but hadn’t raised or spent a penny since its founding in 2022, according to its available Form 990 tax filings." From the College Fix, NIH investigates Biden last-minute $89 billion grant to ‘seemingly dormant’ University of California nonprofit. Last minute grift.

At the Center Square a Report that DOGE cuts are behind nearly half of all layoffs this year. Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell "Government spending drops 5.1% in first quarter. Amazing. Every American should celebrate the shrinking of Washington, DC spending." From Da Caller, Trump Admin Wants To Abolish National Endowment For The Arts. I'm OK with that. NewsBusters reports Trump Signs Executive Order to End Tax Money for 'Radical, Woke' PBS and NPR. NYPo, Trump administration to shrink workforce at CIA, other spy agencies. That too. Ars Technica sees the White House budget seeks to end SLS, Orion, and Lunar Gateway programs. ""SLS alone costs $4 billion per launch and is 140 percent over budget."" Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal, ‘We Will Not Be Bullied’: EPA Head Lee Zeldin Calls Out Media Bias Denying Biden Waste. It wasn't really waste. It was handing money to political allies. OK, maybe some was waste.

NewsMax has a Report: Trump Officials Explore Challenging Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofits. Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando, "You can get your student loans forgiven by working for NGOs because it’s considered “public service” by the PSLF program. Trump should end that immediately."

At Da Fed John Davidson says Mass Immigration Without Assimilation Is A Recipe For National Suicide and Eddie Scarry says Upset About Trump’s Aggressive Deportations? Thank A Democrat. From Da Signal, Illegal Immigrants Are My Constituents, California Democrat Says. "Torres, D-Calif., held the event to promote her Fairness to Freedom Act, which would require the government to pay for the legal defense of any immigrant facing deportation who cannot afford counsel." Eddie Scarry at Da Fed NewsMax sees Trump Proves Biden Blew It on Border. It didn't take a new law, it took a new President. NYPo, AOC taunts Tom Homan after DOJ referral threat over deportations: ‘Come for me, do I look like I care?’ "“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dared border czar Tom Homan to haul her to court on Friday, months after he threatened her with prosecution for trying to impede President Trump’s mass deportations." From Am Mil News, Dozens of gang members arrested at US-Canada border under Trump admin. Those Canuck gangs are the worst! Roger Kimball at Da Spec, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no martyr, "The Dems have seized upon Garcia as a moral life jacket whose buoyancy they are counting on to save them." 

At Insty Charles Glasser explains WHY NEW MEDIA IS WINNING: "JustTheNews is a straightforward news site, and not surprisingly, the basement-dwellers at Wikipedia (often the go-to grazing spot for legacy media and their scripted narratives) smear them as “right-wing.” The fact is that many New Media outlets (like The Daily Caller and The Daily Signal) don’t slant the news: They report on facts and issues of interest to center-right readers traditionally and intentionally ignored and insulted by the Dinosaur Media. That cadre has left a legacy of genuine propaganda and genuine disinformation: Laptop? What laptop? 51 “experts” say it’s Russian disinfo. Biden was “sharp as a tack” until he wasn’t, and then, “we were badly misled.” Trump and Musk often give crowds a Nazi salute. Biden never got involved in Hunter’s crooked business dealings. “Very fine people.” Putin has embarrasing info which he uses to extort Trump. Kamala Harris’ loss was a result of racism and misogyny. That’s just the tip of the iceberg that sank the Titanic of legacy media." I wouldn't say they're exactly winning, but at least they're making a good account of themselves.

From ET, Judge Skeptical of Meta’s Claims It Did Not Violate Copyright Law in AI Lawsuit. "The lawsuit was filed by authors who claim Meta used their work to train its large language model without informing them."

The Free Bacon reports Harvard Law Review Asked Prospective Editors To Disclose Their Race Days After It Was Hit With Civil Rights Probes. "Experts say the journal’s personal statement appears to violate federal law." Kansas City Star opines Trump might have a strong case in his attack on Harvard’s nonprofit status. Campus Reform claims Kentucky universities cancel LGBTQ, black grad ceremonies to comply with anti-DEI law. 

Glenn Stanton at Da Fed hears ‘Tolerant’ Leftists Shout Down Gen Z Lawmaker For Saying Boys And Girls Are Different. From RVM, Cheers Erupt as Donald Trump Vows to Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports at Alabama Commencement. From Fox, Maine drops lawsuit vs. Trump admin amid trans athlete feud after federal funding is unfrozen, "The state is still facing other legal battles related to the issue." 

Stacy McCain is onto the case of The $500,000 N-Word: Shiloh Hendrix Becomes a 21st-Century Legend "Shiloh Hendrix was at a park in Rochester, Minnesota, when she says a child stole something from her infant son’s diaper bag. In response, she called the child the n-word, and was then confronted by a man who recorded her on video. That video went viral, as a result of which Hendrix was doxxed and threatened. So she put up a fundraiser with a goal of $1,000 to enable her to relocate for her family’s safety. As of 9 a.m. ET this morning, she’d raised more than $500,000. Man, if saying the n-word is worth $500,000, I know some people who would be richer than Bill Gates. But beyond the cheap laughs, what exactly is going on here? In part, I think it’s a reaction to the absurdity of a Kamelo Anthony fundraiser that collected more than $500,000. Some people are just fed up — they are sick and tired of being sick and tired."

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