Saturday, August 30, 2025

Flotsam and Jetsam - Appeal Court Turns Thumbs Down on Trump Tariffs

Apparently, the constitution allows other Presidents to impose tariffs, just not Donald Trump. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Appeals Court Rules Trump's Tariffs Are Illegal (Trump Responds) "The tariffs in questions are those put forth under the the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. . . . This decision does not take immediate effect. The tariffs will remain in place while the case continues. However, the Trump administration is likely to appeal this to the Supreme Court. He obviously had an advantage there because of the court's 6-3 makeup, but even if he loses at SCOTUS he still has other options." Ace, Federal Court Rules That Most of Trump's Tariffs Are Illegal, "F*** judges." At ET, US Tariff Exemption for Low-Cost Imports Has Ended. "The transition constitutes a drastic change for international shippers, online retailers, and consumers." Ace, Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Rebuke Lowly District Court Judges for Defying Their Superiors, "CNN whines:"

At TownHall, Guy Benson has Three Quick Questions About Some Alleged Trump 'Abuses of Power' "(1) What reason remains not to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia? . . . (2) Did Lisa Cook commit mortgage fraud, or not? . . . (3) Was the investigation into John Bolton, resulting in an FBI raid of his home, initiated before Trump's term?" Drew Berquist, want you to watch Jennings Fact-Checks Democrat Live on Air and He Can’t Answer the Question. From Twitchy, Once, Twice, Three Times a FRAUD: Lisa Cook Has Officially Reached the FIND OUT Part of FAFO and HOOBOY. Ace, It Was the F***ing Aroundest of Times, It Was the Finding Outtest of Times "Mortgage Fraudster and Apparently Unfirable Proud Black Woman Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit against Trump, asking a federal judge to, get this, issue an injunction forbidding him from firing her." 

LifeZette, Trump’s DC Crime Crackdown Gets a Surprise Endorsement from Unlikely PoliticianCaleb Howe @CalebHowe "D.C. Mayor Bowser: We "greatly appreciate" the surge. "The difference between this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents a 87% reduction in carjackings" in the city, she says, adding that "neighborhoods feel safer and are safer" because of it." Also, JD Vance: Trump Doesn’t Know How He Did It, But He Got Democrats to Defend Crime. Ace finds Politico says Trump's Enforcement of the Law to Save Human Lives and Reduce Human Suffering Is a "Ploy". "Oh, a ploy, huh? Are the 3.3% growth rate and 2% inflation rate also ploys? Or just good policies that increase the sum of human weal and prosperity? It's definitely a "ploy," Politico's Senior AWFL Rachel Bade says." Pop Times, Restaurant Owner: Chicago No Longer Safe, Democrats Failed the City–”We Want Law and Order”.

ET reports Trump Signs Executive Order ‘Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’ "‘Federal public buildings should uplift and beautify public spaces,’ the president wrote, calling for a focus on classical and traditional architecture." Althouse, "Trump’s team again defined classical broadly as all premodernist architectural styles, with roots in Greco-Roman antiquity..." ""... though art deco, which is on the list, is not typically considered traditional. The order defines 'traditional architecture' as Gothic, Pueblo Revival, Spanish Colonial, and Mediterranean styles historically rooted in parts of the United States. . . From "Trump orders classical and traditional architecture for federal buildings" (Yahoo, passing along something from WaPo)." 

At Ace's THE MORNING RANT: This Land is Whose Land - Should the U.S. Government Offload Some of its Vast Undeveloped Land Holdings? Yes, it should. At Com Def, Defense Department vs Department of War: Why a Bold Name Change Could Signal a New Era of American Strength "Secretary Hegseth confirmed that plans to rename his agency are “coming soon,” though the exact process is still under review. The President immediately followed with a candid reflection on the current name, saying, “Department of Defense, I don’t want to be defense only. We want defense, but we want offense, too.”"

Matt Vespa at TownHall, As Minneapolis Shooter's Mother Refuses to Cooperate With Police, We've Learned This New Detail "He provided no further details on the communications, but revealed police executed four search warrants on Wednesday and retrieved hundreds of pieces of evidence, including electronic devices." At Shooting News Week, Like Parkland, Police Had Been Called to Minnesota Killer’s Home Twice Prior to Shooting. "The heavily redacted police report NBC News obtained from the police department in Eagan, Minnesota, is dated Jan. 26, 2018, and it includes a two-word description explaining why an officer was dispatched to that address: mental health. It also includes a brief synopsis that reads “assisted Mendota Heights with a check welfare of a juvenile.” Mendota Heights is another Twin Cities suburb. The name of that juvenile and what exactly prompted police to be summoned to the three-bedroom home on Crane Creek Lane were blacked out in the report. Two years before the mental health call, police responded to a report of a “criminal offense” at the residence, according to a police report. But beyond noting that the case was closed, the report blacks out all the details describing the event." Matt Margolis thinks This May Be the Worst Media Gaslighting About the Minneapolis Shooting Yet. "But USA Today’s coverage truly takes the cake for its shameless gaslighting. Not only did the paper not mention the attacker’s identity or his transgender status — a detail central to understanding the complexity of this case — it pivoted hard to link the shooting to motives that better fit the preferred left-wing narrative: "A Voice of America report found that mass shootings at places of worship have grown in frequency since the mid-2000s – committed, it said, “by perpetrators with a history of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity and Islamophobia, with ties to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.”"" Pirate Wires, Wikipedia Editors Can't Decide If the Minneapolis Shooter Was a Man or a Woman "after wednesday's mass shooting, editors on wikipedia descend into absurd woke debates about what they're allowed or forbidden to say about the shooter's identity." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal explores the question What Drives the Transgender Violence Against Christians? Fandom Pulse, Stephen King Admits Transgender Catholic School Shooter Is A Man, Calling Him "He" On X. Also at Shooting News Week, Yesterday’s Shooting Comes Amidst a Wave of Hoax Shooting Reports at Schools Nationwide. At Twitchy, Jessica Tarlov Shows What an UGLY, Sore Loser She Is After Joey Jones DESTROYS Her In Gun Control Debate. Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq, "Joey Jones destroyed the left’s gun grabbing narrative with the most epic 4 minutes of TV But the last few seconds is why I share this Jessica Tarlov takes the cheapest of shots at Joey, says he “played the leg card” He lost both legs in Afghanistan." I saw that. To be fair, he does play that card often, mostly in jest. Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate "This is the Jon-Stewart-style ultra smugness where libs think they’re being clever and knowing and are implicitly flattering themselves, ‘Lol you’re praying? They were being shot at WHILE they were praying!’ But it’s actually revealing because libs have no theory of mind for the religiously observant. Libs’ referent is their dad, who’s a jerk. And so they reflexively frame god as the Great Dad in the Sky who is also a jerk and won’t give you the stuff you want or ask for. It’s very funny and revealing. So much lib rhetoric has this barely concealed psychological truth to it." Cathy Salgado at PJM notices Tim Walz Mocked Trump’s Crime Crackdown Before Mass Shootings.

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Afternoon Edition) Twitchy, Redditors Call For MORE Violence Against Christians To Achieve Gun Control Agenda, Dana Loesch: Transtifa Strikes Again, Don Surber, Try empathy, Democrats and Matt Taibbi, Note on the Minnesota Shooting. And at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Evening Edition), American Greatness: Leaked Emails Show EPA Sought to Discredit Scientist After Ohio Train Derailment Disaster, Dems Double Down On Anti-Prayer Rants Following Minnesota Church Shooting, Minnesota Bishop Robert?Barron Calls Democrats’ Mockery of Prayer After Catholic Church Shooting ‘Completely Asinine’, American Thinker, Lessons in a Minneapolis Church, The Geller Report, FBI Director Kash Patel Speaks Out on “Hate-Filled Ideology” of Minneapolis School Shooter, Democrat Minneapolis Police Chief Repeats Lie That They Have “No Motive”, Power Line: Don’t say trans, Transterrestrial Musings, The Man Who Shot Up That Church Full Of Kids, and The Federalist, Violence Is The Logical And Desired Outcome Of Leftists’ Trans Victim Narrative and Minneapolis Shooting Reveals Democrat Party’s Comfort With Satanic Talking Points.

Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "Democrats pulled security from several Trump 1.0 officials who the Iranians threatened to murder. There’s only going to be one set of rules, and this is why you should think carefully about which ones you select." Quote, Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump, "JUST IN: Donald Trump revoked former VP Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection-CNN A petty, vindictive move from a small man." At Althouse, "President Donald Trump has revoked the Secret Service detail for former vice president Kamala Harris.... The decision comes about a month before Harris... is scheduled to embark on a national book tour..." ""... her first extended public exposure since leaving office. Federal law gives vice presidents six months of Secret Service protection after they leave office, though Biden, before his presidency ended, had extended her detail for another year, according to a person familiar with the decision.... With the termination of the Harris detail, Trump has canceled security for every protected holdover from the Biden administration except Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, who by law are guaranteed lifetime Secret Service protection." Commenter Robert Marshall said... "Her advance on the book she "wrote" was $20 million. She can pay for her own protection."


MD Kittle at Da Fed explains ‘Undercover’ Spy At Center Of WSJ Sob Story Is Actually A Public CIA Russia Hoaxer. "The hit piece blasting Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard for outing omnipresent CIA agent Julia Gurganus is filled with falsities." From WokeSpy, Ten FBI Whistleblowers Reach Settlements After Retaliation Under Biden Administration.

VodkaPundit at PJM says GOOD LORD: A general and an admiral turned down last-minute chances to keep Taliban out of Kabul. "A top U.S. general and a key U.S. rear admiral both turned down last-minute chances which potentially could have kept the Taliban out of Kabul during the August 2021 fiasco of evacuation from Afghanistan. General Frank McKenzie rejected a proposal from the Taliban to keep the enemy forces out of Kabul, while Rear Admiral Peter Vasely shot down an overture from allied Afghan commanders that may have saved the nation’s capital from the utter chaos that ensued."


At Declassified with Julie Kelly The George Floyd-ing of Kilmar Garcia, "The illegal human trafficking gang banger continues to get the George Floyd treatment by the media, Democratic politicians, and even federal judges." At TNP, Trump Directs ICE to Intensify Operations in These Five Sanctuary Cities: "Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle," and Trump Has Started Deporting Illegal Aliens to Rwanda. Bryan Jung at PJM notes First Deported Illegal Migrants Arrive in Rwanda From the U.S. Pop Times, Illegal Alien Drunk Driver Kills Tennessee Woman, Critically Injures Husband.

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Charlotte Hazard at JTN, Former CDC official used term 'pregnant people' in resignation letter. "During his long social media post, he accused President Donald Trump of trying to erase the transgender community." NewsBusters, THUNDERDOME: Scott Jennings Triggers CNN Panel Libs over ‘Pregnant People’. Twitchy, CDC Leader Who Wrote Dramatic Anti-Trump Letter PROBABLY Seems Familiar ... Here's the SICK Reason WHY. Bonchie @bonchieredstate "If that CDC leader who just resigned seemed familiar, it's because he was Joe Biden's "Monkeypox Czar" and spent his time telling gay people to continue to have wild sex orgies instead of trying to prevent the spread of Monkeypox. Quote RNC Research @RNCResearch. "Biden monkeypox advisor Demetre Daskalakis says the Biden administration aims to "support peoples' joy as opposed to calling them 'risky'": "One person's idea of risk is another person's idea of a great festival or Friday night."" Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck "Want to make America healthy again? Here’s a great opportunity for @RobertKennedyJr. Run a facial analysis on this group and fire every single person who attended the walkout. That gets us closer to making America healthy again." Quote HustleBitch @HustleBitch_ "BREAKING: THE CDC IS REVOLTING AGAINST RFK JR CDC staff just staged a walkout at headquarters in Atlanta, cheered on by supporters." At Althouse, WaPo moderates anti-Trump hysteria with the headline "New FDA coronavirus vaccine rules bring U.S. closer to other countries." "Subheadline: "But confusion over who can get shots and resignations by officials who say the Trump administration is undermining vaccine science have few parallels elsewhere." Who is sowing this confusion? If the Trump administration is aligned with what other countries are doing, why are "officials" resigning and performing outrage?"

Elon Musk @elonmusk "In order to survive, an ideology that fails to reproduce itself must necessarily infect the minds of the children of those who do reproduce. That’s why they push so hard to control education. It is a vampire cult." Quote vittorio @IterIntellectus "Progressivism/wokism is an evolutionarily maladaptive ideology and will naturally go extinct since most of the ideas it champions select against humanity, family, fertility, and continuity That’s why they are so obsessed with taking control of media, schools and kids, the only way for their ideas to reproduce is indoctrination."

More links at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.29.25 (Evening Edition). Linked at The Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Morning Glory Milking Farm up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

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