Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Dumps Fed Reserve Gov, Bans Flag Burning

After evidence emerged that she had committed mortgage fraud by simultaneously holding two mortgages, labelling both her primary residence (ala Adam Schiff and Letitia James), Trump announced he was firing Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve board Governor. John Sexton at Hat Hair, President Trump Fires Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Pursuant to my authority under Article II of the Constitution of the United States and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, as amended, you are hereby removed from your position on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, effective immediately,” Trump wrote... Congress curbed the president’s authority to unilaterally fire a Fed governor in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which states that president can only do so “for cause.” While the law does not elaborate on what constitutes “cause,” it has historically been understood to mean serious concerns about an official’s ability to continue serving." The evidence seems pretty open and shut, and given the mortgages temporal proximity, seem deliberate NewsWax, Trump Moves to Remove Cook From Federal Reserve Board. She will, of course, appeal, and likely find a 'Hawaiian judge' to go along until further appeal.

From NYPo, Trump signs executive order banning flag burning —warns those who desecrate flag will get a year in jail, Driscoll at Insty, I TRIED TO BURN AN AMERICAN FLAG ONCE. I DIDN’T LIKE IT. IT GAVE OFF TOXIC FUMES, SO I DIDN’T INHALE: Trump Executive Order: Burn the American Flag, Go to Jail. "As “Cynical Publius” tweets, “if you want to go burn your own flag in your own backyard, have at it. But if you want to burn that flag amidst a violent “Death to America” rally paid for by George Soros, that’s something altogether different.” Erick Erickson adds that the EO “isn’t legal, but it will get the Democrats to all go out and burn American flags, yet again putting them on the 20% side of an 80-20 issue.”" alexandriabrown @alexthechick, "I do not support the EO. I do support the utter hilarity I will have in watching people fall into the trap that has multiple giant billboards around it with giant flashing neon signs that say TRAP with massive red arrows pointing at the trap." Quote James Klüg @realJamesKlug, "I haven't seen a single Trump supporter supporting this EO x.com/realDailyWire/…" Insty says If you actually read the Executive Order, it doesn’t do nearly as much as critics seem to think. Here it is, and here is the key bit: "Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s rulings on First Amendment protections, the Court has never held that American Flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action or that is an action amounting to “fighting words” is constitutionally protected. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 408-10 (1989). He’s not trying to override the First Amendment caselaw, and he’s not making new law here. He is suckering Democrats into burning a lot of flags, and endorsing flag-burning, in order to “stick it to Trump.”" Is Apple pie up next? The Great Victor Davis Hanson at NYPo, Why the left opposes everything Trump backs — even when they know he’s right. John Kass is In Therapy With Tony Rezko’s Groundskeeper: Orange Man Broke Me

Dave Strom wonders Do Democrats Love Crime, or Just Hate Trump? From Fox, DC arrests surpass 1,000 as Trump-backed crackdown enters 12th homicide-free day.  Breitbart cites Pam Bondi: Over 1,000 Arrested as President Trump Makes D.C. Safe Again. NewsWax highlights a Harvard Poll: 54% Say Trump's D.C. Moves 'Justified' At TownHall Sarah Anderson sees Trump Takes Yet Another Step Toward Restoring Law & Order in D.C. and Nationwide by "banning" cashless bail. "For the nation, Bondi must "submit a list of States and local jurisdictions with cashless bail policies," and then the Trump administration will "identify Federal funds currently provided to cashless bail jurisdictions that may be suspended or terminated."" Ace, Trump Will End Cashless Bail by Executive Order "Well, that is his hope. "I expect leftwing know-nothing DEI Biden judges will block him."  Cutie Pavlich, also at TownHall hears 'It Will Stun You': Miller Warns D.C. Crime Manipulation Is Worse Than Previously Known. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn reports The Bear of Little Brains Is Going to Lead the Uprising If the Tyrant Comes Calling, "Or...wait a minute. Is that what he said? Or did Chicago Mayor Brandon 'Bear of Little Brains' Johnson just say he was expecting Chicago folks to do the uprising and he'd be around if they needed him?" Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl, "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson disgracefully calls for his constituents to “rise up” against National Guard being sent there to help end crime like they did in DC. Johnson falsely says Chicagoans support him. He has the worst mayoral approval in US history." Greg Price @greg_price11, "During a presentation on crime at the DNC's summer meeting, a lady from left-wing think tank the Vera Institute tells them that "migrant crime and carjackings are things that don't matter to many Americans.""

From Texas Policy Res, Abbott Expands Second Special Session Agenda After House Passes GOP Redistricting Map. Guy Benson at TownHall asks Are Democrats Really Sure They Want to Escalate the Redistricting Wars? From the Springfield News-Leader, Missouri GOP leader says redistricting effort starts with congressional map drawn in D.C. Ace hears the New York Times Cry: Population Shifts Mean That the GOP Will Have a Near-Lock on the Electoral College in 2032 "Based on current population trends, they scream that if Democrats win the "Blue Wall" states of MI, WI, and PA in 2032, and win Nevada too, they... still lose. The base red states will have enough electoral votes to put Vance (or whoever) over the 271 electoral votes needed to win."

Stephen Kruiser at PJM sees Trump Is on a Roll, and Dems Are Morons for Not Enjoying It. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Bill Maher Nails Why Trump Connects With Voters...and Dems Won't Like It "Because napalm in the morning smells like victory. He did it with the tips, he got the TikTok vote, he got the people for whom toilets are very important vote, he got the enough of taking our shoes off at the airport vote, the crypto bro vote, the tech bro vote, the bro bro vote. He got rappers and kale eaters." At Da Caller, Bill Maher Blasts Dems For Letting Trump Pick Off Voter Coalitions From All Walks Of Life. Teri Christoph at RedState, Ouch: Ric Grenell Drops Massive Truth Bomb on Katie Couric When She Tries to Troll the Kennedy Center, "[W]e didn’t cancel a single show. Your team couldn’t perform for Republicans. They cancelled. It is this exact intolerance that we fight against. Everyone is welcome to the Kennedy Center….even you!" At Althouse, The current state of taunting on X. 

Brian Jung at PJM, Hegseth Sacks General for Leaking Controversial Intel Report on Iran Strikes. From NewsWax, Ruddy: Trump's 'Talk Therapy' Works for Peace.

At NewsWeek, DNC Chair Ken Martin Reveals Why He's 'Sick' of Democrats' Tactics. They're not being mean enough to Trump? Althouse finds "A lot of people have asked me what the exact moment was at the DNC that made me realize I wasn’t on board with the party I’d worked for nearly half of my life." "The truth is, it was everything. The crowd that mindlessly chanted 'joy,' the vasectomy van offering free tacos, the coronation of a candidate with zero policies or platform available, and the final straw: Oprah Winfrey. Her tone deaf lecturing turned me off so much, I left the building, getting an uber straight to my hotel, where I booked a flight home a day early, not even staying for Kamala’s acceptance speech...." Writes Evan Barker, in "One Year Ago Today I Ruined My Life"" At the Blade of Perseus the Great Victor Davis Hanson explores What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?.  Duane Patterson at Hat Hair thinks Gavin Newsom Is the Master at Kicking His Own Butt. He is an exceptionally limber politician. At the Decision Desk HQ, Can anything stop Zohran Mamdani? "An unpopular mayor, a disliked former governor, and a Republican are poor alternatives for anti-Mamdani forces to rally around." From Ace, Claiming That the Vote Was Rigged, the Minnesota Democrat Party Voids the Party's Endorsement of Somali Socialist Omar Fateh "Wait but I thought Democrat election wins were all legitimate and beyond questioning."

From OTP, Lutnick Cancels ‘Illegal’ $7.4B Grant To Biden-Linked Nonprofit For Chip Research. At Da Wire, California ‘Anti-Poverty Activist’ And Dem Mega-Donor Pleads Guilty To Massive Carbon-Credit Scam. "Top Dem donor and Gavin Newsom backer raised $300 million by touting "Corporate ESG Business" based on fake revenue." Kevin Dalton@TheKevinDalton, "Gavin Newsom March 2023: We are deploying 1200 tiny homes by Fall at a cost of 750 million taxpayer dollars. Reality: It’s nearly Fall of 2025 and neither the 1200 tiny homes or 750 million taxpayer dollars can be found But I’m sure this time will be different…" Have you looked in the pockets of friends and supporters? Stacy McCain notes The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality "Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prejudice, and no facts will persuade them: "School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired. The return to diesel school buses comes as Quebec-based Lion Electric, which the Biden administration awarded $159 million “to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024,” has fallen into bankruptcy, according to the Washington Free Beacon. As a result, the company has “warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing” the electric school buses."

At Da Fetched, John Bolton Indictment Looming? Michael Cohen Warns Former Trump Adviser to “Lawyer Up”. I'm quite sure he has. From LifeZette, Adam Schiff Cries ‘Retribution’ After FBI Raid On John Bolton’s Home. Dave Strom laughs at Chuck Todd: Sure, Democrat Lawfare Was Wrong, So Republicans Shouldn't Do It. No, that's why they should. Tit-for-tat is a valid strategy. Rob Schmitt @SchmittNYC "Chuck Todd - who endlessly told us the prosecutions of Trump weren’t political - casually admitting.. ya they were." Quote Chuck Todd @chucktodd, "The virus killing democracy right now is this “two wrongs make a right” mindset. Revenge over principles." Jerry Dunleavy at JTN reports DOJ during Trump's first term stymied, squashed probes on Comey, Clinton, Schiff and Hunter Biden "The DOJ, FBI, and IRS in Trump's first term seemed to let a large number of Trump antagonists off the hook for their potential criminality. It remains to be seen how the second Trump DOJ will handle possible high-profile prosecutions." Doug Ross has The Illustrated Spygate Scandal. "The first political coup in American history: Part I A dramatization of real events. This is Part I." Jaff Davidson at TownHall, As DoJ Will Reveal, America Endured an Insurrection, Undertaken by Democrats. Rusty Weiss at RedState, Schiff’s Mortgage Fraud Denial Backfires As He’s Slapped Down by Documentation Showing Otherwise. It seems like it ought to be worth a few hundred million in fines.

Fox, Trump tells Grassley to tell Democrats 'go to HELL' over blocked judicial nominees in Senate
President calls Senate blue slip tradition unconstitutional block on his appointment power. Misty Severi at JTN, Trump to sue over Senate's blue slip tradition that blocks judicial nominees. "We're also going to be filing a lawsuit on blue slipping," Trump said. "You know, blue slips make it impossible for me as president to appoint a judge or a U.S. attorney because they have a gentlemen's agreement that's about 100 years old." At the Chronic The Right Wing’s Institutional Problem "If you go through the landmark political triumphs of the liberal left, it quickly becomes apparent that very few of them were accomplished through electoral victories or the ordinary operations of the legislative process. Instead, the left moved the goal posts through judicial fiat and by legislating from the bench, as far back as the Warren Court."

From NYPo, Ghislaine Maxwell was celebrated at posh Clinton event years after sex crimes accusations emerged, bombshell report reveals. Fox, Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ she was ‘very central’ to ‘startup’ of Clinton Global Initiative.

Chris Queen at PJM, ICE Arrests Kilmar Abrego Garcia Again, Judge Blocks Deportation. At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed, Noted Maryland Man/Alleged Human Trafficker Surrenders ... Again and a Larry video, MSNBC Stunned: Trump's Not Messing Around! Maryland Man Booted? Ace, Famed "Maryland Dad" Kilmar Albrego-Garcia Arrested; Will be Deported to Uganda, "His lawyer is crying "but he doesn't even speak the language!" The most-spoken language in Uganda is... English. I imagine they're right: The "Maryland Man" probably barely speaks English. But that didn't stop him from running a profitable human-trafficking business in America." Althouse finds "The fact that they're holding Costa Rica as a carrot and using Uganda as a stick to try to coerce him to plead guilty to a crime..." ""... is such clear evidence that they're weaponizing the immigration system in a matter that is completely unconstitutional, and specifically weaponizing the decision of which country they send him to." Said Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of the lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, quoted in "Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody at immigration appointment/Abrego, who was just released from federal custody on Friday, now faces deportation to Uganda" (NBC News)." The US Just Us system never bargains . . . At OTP, Kilmar Abrego Garcia Sues Trump Admin To Stop Deportation To Uganda and Judge Halts Abrego Garcia Deportation, Citing Concerns Over Legal Process. Dave Strom says What In the World? 2.7 Million Signatures Asking for Leniency for Florida Truck Killer.

Michael Walsh at Da Pipeline, says it's Time to Dump 'Journalism' "When did reporters become "journalists"? When I started out at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in 1972, nobody called himself a "journalist." We were reporters, and proud of it. "Journalist" had a snooty air to it and seemed to be reserved for the newspaper trade's bigdomes who wrote editorials. The rest of us wrote news stories." Joy Pullman at Da Fed has A Pile Of Evidence Lockdowns Would Never Have Happened Without Corporate Media.

Campus Reform shares a report UC Berkeley ends waiver program that was used as a pipeline to tenure for activists. Dave Strom, Did a Florida School Really Ban the Diary of Anne Frank? Matt Whitlock @mattdizwhitlock "A perfect representation of this dishonest “book banning” conversation. Florida didn’t ban the diary of Anne Frank. One Florida school removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank that focused heavily on her being a lesbian and lusting after statues of naked women." Quote Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener "Florida banning the Diary of Anne Frank tells you everything you need to know about the MAGA movement." Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke, "A wrecking ball to the academics who, by cowardice and complicity, destroyed universities all on their own. “Unless and until academics identify a specific, realistic mechanism for their own regulation, any complaints about externally imposed reforms have little credibility.” DC_Draino@DC_Draino, "New DEI definitions: Didn’t Earn It Definitely Expecting Incompetence Definitely Expecting Indictments Don’t Expect Intelligence Democrat Employment Insurance Destroying Every Institution Destroying Excelence Instantly Delivering Empty Idiocy Delegating Employment Illogically Dumb Entitled Incompetent Any others?"

Buck Throckmorton at Ace's It’s Not Just the Logo - Cracker Barrel Has Been Chosen as the Latest Boycott Target to Send a Message to Woke Corporations.

At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.25.25 Twitchy: “Who Is The Secretary of Agriculture?”, CNN’s Condescending Tiffany Cross Calls Stephen Miller White Supremacist, and Mark Cuban Blames Consultants Fro Not Letting Kamala “Sell Herself” To Voters, Louder With Crowder: Zohran Mamdani embarrasses himself trying to lift weights at “men’s day,” gets obliterated with nickname that’s gonna stick, American Conservative: Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism, BattleSwarm: “Do You Know Who I Am?” 2025 Edition, Texas Redistricting Passes Senate, Headed To Abbott’s Desk, and Democrat Forbidden Words For 2025 (Plus Additions), Cafe Hayek, Trump’s Trade Policy Puts Americans Last, A Note on Tariffs and Inflation, and Further Reflections on Protectionism and (Measured Inflation), Chicago Boyz: Back to the Future, also, Democratic Governors Hate Democracy, Dana Loesch: We’re Arguing About Flag Burning Again, Don Surber: DEI harms black women, Elizabeth Nickson, Barring The Anomaly Of Trump, All Elections Are Stolen, The Geller Report: ‘Sending People to Other Parts of the World and Ruling the World Was All Part of the Plan’, Texas Democrats Slink Back -Time to Lock Them Up and Throw Away the Key, and UK Has Fallen – The Flag of England is Now Considered Hate Speech. Just to highlight a few.

The Wombat has Rule Five Sunday: Laundry Day and FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal up and at 'm at The Other McCain.