Right up front, let’s use a little logic.
The Atlantic’s Goldberg is somebody who’s been writing anti-Trump hit pieces for quite some time, now. His political leanings are well known. His reaction to being fed the contents of that conversation, therefore, was completely predicable.
But, now, think…. why on Earth would anybody in this administration even have his contact information in their comms?
Consider; The Atlantic has been trying to discredit this administration in general and Trump in particular, for years. Does anybody suppose that Trump administration officials are keeping Goldberg in their contact list in the hope that someday they’ll be able to get him to print a positive story about this administration? Dream on.
Sorry, no. There is absolutely no reason for Goldberg to be in their contact list, which is precisely why I suggest that leak was in fact intentional…. And most likely to discredit the Atlantic. There’s no way that this was an accident.
I came to that conclusion almost immediately, and as Information continues to pour out about all this, I’ve yet to see anything to convince me that my initial assessment was incorrect.
Look, Trump has been making a lot of noise for some time now, about not starting a war, and in the case of Russia versus Ukraine, ending a war. Does it make sense that he would be trying to start a war with the Houthis?
We’re probably not going to be hearing anything more from the Houthis for a while because the idea of the administration doing precisely what they said they were going to do in that leaked conversation will be foremost in their minds.
(Yes I know that seems contradictory to the last paragraph, but mostly because of their primitive understanding of this president, they are going to see this plan as a definite threat. More on that in a moment.)
Then we come to the Atlantic itself… This story is bringing their credibility into serious question, a well deserved position for them to be in. One can easily understand why they would want Goldberg and the Atlantic to be discredited.
So, the content of that conversation gets called into serious question on the face of it, and any of it being sent to the Atlantic, even by mistake, brings it into question even further.
It makes no sense at all, any of it, until you consider the possibility that Goldberg was fed that information knowing that he was going to leak it, and knowing how the Houthis and their Iranian overlords were going to react to it.
And just why would that leak be useful? Why would the Houthis consider this conversation to be indicative of a threat?
Let me give you a historical reference. Does anyone remember this little gem? Watch:
The Russians understanding of Ronald Reagan was lacking in much the same way The Houthis’ understanding of Donald Trump is today…. And the Russians, if you’ll recall went to Red alert as a result of this. I’d say the strategist that came up with this one was counting on that scenario.
As I say, advantage Trump. I doubt we’re going to be seeing the Iran backed Houthis attacking anyone for a while.
A more peaceful Middle East and the Atlantic gets discredited. I call that a win-win situation.
Addendum: Edited for formatting issues with a new editor I was trying.
Wondering what would possess a federal judge to order planes in the air filled with illegals who are gang criminals to turn around?
How about his daughter, Katherine, whose employer is Partners for Justice, an organization that provides legal support to criminal illegal aliens and gang members. PFJ receives 76% of its funding from government grants.
The organization actively opposes deportations, mass incarceration and laws targeting violent gangs like Tren de Aragua. PFJ takes credit for eliminating 5,000 years of prison time for illegals since 2018.
Shortly after Laura Loomer connected these dots, Katherine Boasberg deleted her Linkedin and Instagram accounts in an attempt to scrub her connections from public view.
This connection raises a major ethical red flag. The Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges states that judges must disqualify themselves from cases where their impartiality could be questioned. Specifically, it states that a judge should step aside when a close family member has an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.
Loomer’s reporting makes it clear that this is not just a minor ethical issue—it’s a serious conflict that could impact national security. The judge overseeing these deportation cases should not have any personal connections to groups that stand to gain from his rulings. And yet, here we are, with a sitting U.S. judge making decisions that align perfectly with his daughter’s professional interests. -Marjie Lewis
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?
Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was sentenced?
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Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.
Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his ‘allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,’ defiantly
stating, ‘I think I will not apologize for my actions,’ and told the court ‘I am at war with your country.’
Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:
Judge Young: “Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you.
On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That’s 80 years.)
On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years, again to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000, that’s an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government’s recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines.
The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you, five years supervised release simply because the law requires it. But the life sentences are real life sentences so I need go no further.
This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.
Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.
You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it, or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not—–, you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.
So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You’re no warrior. I’ve known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were, and he said:
‘You’re no big deal. ‘
You are no big deal.
What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have, as honestly as I know how, tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?
I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty, and admit you are guilty, of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me, you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom’s sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their representation of you before other judges.
We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.
Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America , the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice, is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers, will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mold and shape and refine our sense of justice.
See that flag, Mr. Reid? That’s the flag of the United States of America . That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will.
Mr. Custody Officer. Stand him down.”
So, how much of this Judge’s comments did we hear on our TV sets? We need more judges like Judge Young. Pass this around. Everyone should, and needs to, hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home. Powerful words that every American should heed.
Now, all that said, ask yourself: Why in the world did this judges remarks never see the light of day in the mainstream media?
You know why.
Forwarded to me by a reader:
A lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump’s DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn’t create anything. Obama did.
Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.
Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts
Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities. DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, HR rep, a zoomer nerd, and an investigator. They report to DOGE, not the agency they’re embedded in.
But wait, there’s more! Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cybersecurity oversight. Since USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, that’s right. All of them.
His executive order is written to block legal challenges. Includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders. Orders every agency to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority.
Congress can’t defund it because it’s not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can’t sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks.
Obama literally built the perfect Administrative (read: Deep State) IT backdoor.
Trump and Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls. Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency’s internal systems. The Administrative State can’t stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws.
They legally outplayed the system and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Obama created DOGE.
A couple of days ago I made a comment about Chuckles Schumer. It is with immense satisfaction and vindication, that I watch him get canceled by his own people.
There are certainly many examples, both historical and fairly recent, of the left eating its own… But frankly I can’t think of a more potent teaching moment than this.
We know by way of long experimentation that rats, when cut off from food sources, will begin consuming their fellow rats. So it is here. The Democrats have been cut off from power, from the funding sources, and so turn on each other.
Chuckles, until now has exhibited a rather cockroach like ability to survive political disasters. Thing is, with the intensity of the feeding frenzy going on amongst the Democrats right now, his future survivability has become an open question.
How bad is that feeding frenzy? Ponder the idea that 5 years ago Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure, even amongst the left. But now, they’re busy canceling him, removing his name from schools, post offices, and of course tearing down statues of him. Such is the state of self- defeating frenzy amongst Democrats, which is why whether or not Schumer survives this latest round of cannibalism, is an open question.
How bad is it when Charles Schumer appears to be the lone thread between the Democrat party, and sanity?
First, I’d like you to see this clip from Bill Buckley’s Firing Line from before Ronald Reagan took the oath of office for his first term.
And so what Donald Trump is doing is so radical?
I have said it often enough here, to the point where it’s axiomatic to long time readers, that the worst thing you can do to a big government Republican or a big government Democrat is to actually solve a problem because once you do that you eliminate the possibility of them demagogging the situation.
I submit to you that the difference and why the left is going absolutely ape over all of this, is because Donald Trump is actually doing these things not just talking about them.
Reagan was a great president, and unarguably so. Like it or not, establishment critters, what Donald Trump is doing is the embodiment of Reagan’s vision.
This parallel also explains very nicely why Donald Trump remains as popular as he is despite the worst efforts of the left and the never -Trumper GOP establishment, who by the way didn’t like Reagan either.
* We figured something was wrong when Biden’s pardons were signed with black ink, instead of the usual red crayon.
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*If Elon Musk bought Planned Parenthood, would leftists start burning abortion clinics?
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* This creature is named Adam Lansky. He’s facing 20 years in prison for fire bombing and shooting up a Tesla dealership, in Or
egon.
I’m sure he’s going to be very popular in prison. I’d like to think that the dosage of reality that he’s about to receive will change things around for him. But I tend to doubt it. And you know, the concern now is that without a department of education at the federal level who’s going to teach you that that’s a woman?
This is Judge Boasberg, who Blocked the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members.
He never disclosed the fact that his daughter works for a 501c3 called “Partners For Justice” that gives criminal illegal aliens and gang members legal advice!
Thats right . The judges daughter gets paid, with your tax dollars, to protect foreign murderers, rapists and gang members from being deported !!!!
This goes far beyond conflict of interest.
# Rachel Maddow is Geraldo Rivera with a better mustache.
# Consider the idea that the truth is always controversial.
# Have you ever noticed that the countries that have billionaires, tend not to have starving people?
# Isn’t it interesting how quickly the left moved from idolizing and indeed mandating electric cars to setting them on fire? Maybe it wasn’t about saving the planet?
# So, Joe Biden flying plane loads of illegals into the United States is legal, but Donald Trump flying them back out again is illegal?
# China is building more coal fired power plants than we’re taking offline here in the ‘States. Appearances suggest that they’re not too tremendously concerned about man-made climate change then on the other hand, they already have a communist government.
# The same people who are calling for the genocide of the Jews, and insist that constitutes free speech, are the same ones who want you arrested for not using their chosen pronouns.
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# it turns out that Joe Biden pardoned his auto-pen.
#AOC being a complete whack doodle make sure a perfect candidate for a leadership role in the Democrat party.
And One in the chamber:
Chicago’s City council passed a resolution saying that there should be a ceasefire in the middle east. It’s nice of them to be concerned, but perhaps it would be a good idea for them to have a ceasefire in Chicago, first?
It’s interesting how Chuckles Schumer doesn’t seem to be defending himself against the spate of what I will call “liberal cannibalism”, following his vote for the continuing resolution the other day.Here’s a guy who’s watched his party ripping up their own over the slightest divergence from the far left mantra for years, and has occasionally even joined in. You’ve got to wonder what’s going through his mind the last few days, since he is now the target.
I consider it to be a measure of how detached from reality the Democrat party is these days, that Chuckles the Clown Schumer comes off comparatively as the sane one.Maybe this has something to do with the way Schumer voted?
Three months into his second term, President Trump hit the highest approval rating he’s ever had as commander-in-chief — while more Americans say the country is on the right track than at any point since 2004, a new poll found.
Let’s remember that there was an adjustment period after Reagan went into office, as well. The same pattern is developing here, and therefore confidence is going to be growing, and these numbers are going to be getting even better.Meanwhile it turns out the Democrats aren’t faring quite so well.
On the 5th anniversary of “just 15 days to slow the spread”, it’s past time, and well worth looking at what’s been happening since.
There’s a lot of people tossing the word Nazi around without really understanding it. I’ve written here in the past about how everything the left doesn’t like is Hitler.
But consider that the people that are tossing that epiphate around, were not so long ago, advocating forced medical procedures, mass censorship, discrimination, segregation, job termination, healthcare denial, making people show their papers everywhere, and even putting them in camps.
And now they are burning down businesses of their political opponents just like in 1930s Germany and posting obvious propaganda everywhere depicting them as vile creatures or caricatures, which was done against the Jews. Interestingly, often is not the same people are protesting against jews. Look closely at Columbia University as a prime example.
Every socialist in history from Marx, to Saul Alinsky to Joe Gobles to Joseph Stalin, to Fidel Castro, to Mao, to Hitler… Right down the line has been using the same tactics for time immemorium that the left is using today; Accuse your opposition of what you’re doing.
Thing is, based on the most recent election it would appear that the American people are seeing through this ruse… And to them it looks something like the graphic below:
With that all boils down to is this. The worst thing you can possibly do to a socialist is to actually solve the problem. Because once you actually solve a problem they lose their ability to demagogue it.
Does the Democrat party have a future? The party does seem bent on self-destructing.
Let’s bring Victor Davis Hansen in, to start this discussion.
Certainly, they have been having their problems. Last I was looking at the polls.. which was probably a week ago …approval rating of the Democratic party Nationwide is a little over 31%. The way things have been going lately, it’s actually probably lower than that now. Every time I think they can’t go any lower in approval, they apparently take it as a challenge.
Meanwhile of course, Trump’s approval ratings are in the middle of ’70s, in particular when you break it down issue by issue.
When you consider that Giggles McKneepads only got 45% of the popular vote last November (always assuming no vote for of course) it becomes clearer that large swaths of Democrats who voted for Harris are beginning to realize that Trump at the helm wasn’t such a bad idea, after all.
That 31%? They are manifestly experiencing a great deal of butthurt. The American people when given the choice, chose the guy that the left have been spending the last 8 years labeling as Hitler, deciding that he was the better deal than the hastily installed Harris and the Democrats. That’s got to hurt.
From the look of the Democrats in Congress at the State of the Union the other night, and the usual leftist outlets, they’re still trying to figure out if the reason they lost was because they weren’t screaming “sig heil”loud enough.
Keep in mind also that they lost despite the Harris campaign spending pretty much double what Donald Trump’s campaigns spent, leading me to observe immediately following the election last November that the era of big money influencing elections was pretty much over. In any event, with the department of government efficiency on the case, their money laundering has come to an end, anyway.
Let’s face it, the Democrats have two major problems right now.
They first are not dealing in issues that the American voter actually cares about. These issues do not include DEI, sending billions of tax dollars to people that hate us, allowing an unmitigated invasion, and allowing women’s sports to become a fallback for subpar male athletes, to name but a few bits of done since they’ve been trying to push down our throats.
Trump is doing as well as he is because he is actually responding to the will of the people. You know, the voters. Citizens.
People, watch on your gasoline stations and you’ll notice that the prices for fuel are already dropping. I can tell you personal experience that diesel prices are also dropping …which means prices for everything else like food and clothing etc is also going to come down. Remember, kids…diesel moves everything you have.
The other problem that the Democrats have is one that’s been building for a couple of decades now. It is an issue of credibility. If it’s possible for a credibility rating to be Sub-Zero, the Democrats have managed it.
Consider the number of things that they have lied openly about. The entire January 6th scenario. Russia, russia, Russia. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. Bill Clinton reneging on his promise to cut taxes before the echo from his taking the oath of office died.
Add to that the thinly veiled support of the Democrat party for scams like BLM, man-made climate change, the electric vehicle mandate,
To those, Let’s add the criminal misappropriation of funds from the tax coffers, the scope of which we’re just starting to scratch the surface on, while they scream bloody murder over it.
Even if, by some miracle, the Democrats start talking about issues but the American people are actually concerned with, with the credibility they have for at least the immediate future and probably longer, nobody’s going to believe them.
Rather they will take the recent history of the Democrat party into account and assume, probably correctly, that they are simply mouthing what the public wants to hear so they can get their power back.
And finally, we have the woke ultra left which has been driving the party off the cliff for the last several years. It’s not a good look for a party desperately trying to regain the attention and respect of the American people.
Think about it, now…If the Democratic party as a whole goes to the center as pulling data suggests so many rank and file Democrats would like to see, we’re going to see the party splintering at the very least, and a number of the party simply giving up on it all together and becoming Trumpist Republicans. And as I’ve already pointed out that’s already happening.
I noticed Bill Maher the other night, wondering openly if we will ever see another Democrat president. He seems to doubt it. I consider it to be an open question, but suggest that the two issues I’ve mentioned here are prohibitive.
Resolving a problem requires proper problem identification. The word on the wire being that the Democrats are considering running Rahm Emmanuel in four years tells me that they still haven’t gotten the handle on what their actual problems are. Trust me.. a fourth term for Barack Hussain Obama none of us need…. And the voters definitely understand that. Who are the other frontrunners? Steve Smith? Harris version 2.0? Bernie Sanders? Tampon Tim?
The problems that beset the Democrat party right now self-inflicted as they are, have been a long time building.
My read is that in the short term they’re not going to find any significant voter traction …being essentially leaderless and unwilling to address their problems properly leaves the question of any long term future in serious doubt.
# I gather that Ireland as placed a 125% tariff all US goods until we agree to take Rosie O’Donnell back.
# Did you know that during the Biden administration there were more restrictions on oil production which applied to Alaska than there were that applied to Iran?
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# In round numbers, Kamala Harris got 45% of the vote. And yet the approval numbers that Donald Trump is getting currently end up being around 70 to 75% depending on the specific issue. Which means that a goodly amount of those approval numbers are coming from people who voted for Harris…. And the Democrats and particularly establishment Republicans, still aren’t getting the message.
# You doubtless will remember Joe Biden firing all those oil pipeline workers on his day one. I’m pretty sure you’ll also remember the large number of people that got fired by Joe Biden for not taking the experimental “vaccine”. Even on the basis of those two memories alone, there isn’t a person in the country who should be upset about federal employees getting canned for not doing their jobs.
