Category Archives: GOP

Trump To Decide On Whether To Dispatch National Guard In D.C.

The Washington Post seems a bit upset that Trump wants to *checks notes* reduce crime in the nation’s capitol (using the MSN copy, since you can read the whole thing. WP article here.) FBI dispatching agents to D.C. streets as Trump weighs calling National Guard The FBI has begun dispatching agents in overnight shifts to […]

Bummer: Tenacious Swiss Finance Minister Tried To Stand Up To Trump

See, here’s the problem And Tenacious Swiss Leader Stood Up to Trump — It Backfired on Her Karin Keller-Sutter admires the grit of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and as Swiss president is known as technocratic and tenacious. Those traits look to have backfired when she faced off with Donald Trump and led her […]

Trump Warns DC Over Violent Youth Gangs, May Federalize D.C.

Here’s a good question: has Congress delegated any power to the Executive Branch to do this? Because Congress has delegated authority for some of the day to day work to local government, but, ultimately, Congress has with plenary legislative authority over the federal district Trump threatens to federalize DC after ex-DOGE employee ‘Big Balls’ violently […]

Surprise: 2nd Quarter GPD Grew 3%

Let’s start with the NY Times U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter, in Reading Clouded by Messy Trade Data Underlying economic growth remained solid in early 2025, but tariffs and uncertainty are expected to cause a further slowdown. The chaotic start to President Trump’s second term roiled the economy at the beginning of the year, […]

NY Times Seems Upset That Trump Made A Big Deal With The EU

One would think that Democrats and the NY Times would be happy for America to get a great trade deal. Nope Europe Cuts a Trade Deal With Trump, Worried About Other Global Issues Survive and advance. That phrase, favored by sports teams in big tournaments, sums up Europe’s approach to the trade negotiations it just […]

$9 Billion Rescission Bill Heads To Trump’s Desk

It’s amazing how much caterwauling this minor cut, at least in terms of the federal budget, is causing among Democrats and a few squishy Republicans Congress sends bill clawing back $9B in foreign aid, public media funds to Trump’s desk House Republicans late Thursday night approved the first batch of cuts made by the Department […]

Trump Threatens Serious Penalties On Russia And Those Who Deal With Them

The Credentialed Media doesn’t know what to think of this. When Trump goes in on sanctions he goes all in, but, they hate Trump, so, they want to figure a way to portray this as not good Trump threatens ‘very significant’ Russia sanctions, bashes ‘all talk’ Putin President Donald Trump upped pressure on Russia to […]

Supreme Court Rules Trump Admin Can, In Fact, Fire Education Department Employees

Vox thinks this is the most important decision from the Court so far. They must be upset that the government won’t be funding so many Democrat party supporters. And how so much money won’t be flowing between elected Dems and Dem supporters The Supreme Court just handed Trump his biggest victory of his second term […]

Dems Join With GOP To Block Dems Idiotic Impeachment For Iran Bombing

Look, we can, as a coworker says, debate whether bombing Iran was the right or wrong thing to do, whether the consequences were worth it. What we can’t debate is that it was 100% legal, per the War Powers Resolution of 1973 128 Democrats join House GOP to block progressive’s bid to impeach Trump The […]

Heartache: SCOTUS Rules Trump Admin Can Send Illegals To 3rd Party Countries

And, without “due process”. This is going to cause some baying from the moonbats. Also, I love that ABC News, and many others, portray this as Trump personally picking and choosing SCOTUS allows Trump to resume 3rd-country removals without due process requirements The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday delivered a significant win for the […]

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