Fire Hydrant of Freedom

I grew up in Elizabeth which is next to Newark.

Over decades other then going to Newark Airport which is on the outskirts I would guess I have been to Newark less than 12 times including when I was born there.   There was never a reason to go there.
Newark had riots in the 60s and my father was afraid they would spread to our city though that never happened.

The population is less now then in 1930  .  It is even where it is today due to illegal immigration .  Same goes for Elizabeth which in my high school I would estimate ~ 1/3 white , 1/3 black , and 1/3 hispanic in the early 70s.  Now the city is 2/3 hispanic and certainly they are not all legal.

It has a beautiful performing arts center in the downtown section sits like an nice quiet island set in the  turbulent seas of Antarctica. 

They have some very well known Portuguese restaraunts in the Ironbound district.

If one goes down the list of notable people from Newark it is quits long and many are well known.

It had at least for a while been along with Camden one of the auto theft capitals of the US

Camden has gone down even more. 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gavin-newsom-democratic-party-bill-maher/2025/03/29/id/1204867/

pssst. hey a hole YOU ARE THE BRAND!

in large part it is YOUR FAULT

no , he just can't go away and leave us the heck alone . 

really good synopsis
thanks Doug.

seems like the tariffs are very risky at least when applied to non combatant nations unlike as you pointed out China, [and Russia], and Mexico a special case.

perhaps a few others like Venezuela Iran etc.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/jeffrey-goldberg-gives-cryptic-response-when-asked-about/

hmmm?

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/arthur-laffer-trump-economy/2025/03/28/id/1204700/

that were reported though not on front page news everyday



https://defensescoop.com/2024/02/13/dod-notifying-people-year-old-data-breach/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/pentagon-cyber-command-private-companies-00115206

https://www.defenseforces.com/2021/11/09/us-department-of-defense-hacked/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/27/donald-trump-pulls-elise-stefaniks-nomination-u-n-ambassador-to-protect-house-majority/

Thank God!

How foolish was this to start with .  Who the heck cares about UN ambassador compared to this?

"   it's a good point but through my biased lens I'm seeing the hypocrisy vice versa. "

A response, "well they do it too and worse" is a valid point to make but I still want OUR side to fess up for an error and not sound like they are BS ing us.

The "they do it too" is not going to impress indepedents and even for me not being an indepedent annoys me.

Can't we get some real honesty from out politicians?   Both sides have dumbed down integrity demeanor and language .  I like Trump's policies but I never approved of his style .   We can fight fire with fire but admitting a mistake is not backing down - it is smart and honest in MO . 

That said this will never change.    So I am simply lamenting the inevitable with TRump and the crats.

He probably did box himself in by literally campaigning on "I will end the Russian - Ukraine war in a day "

Sounds absurd. 
Well not if you plan to give the Ruskies everything they want and instead extract concessions by Ukraine.

 

I was glad to hear Trump admin. would be most transparent in history

But I did not expect that to include announcements in advance of military strikes.

Hegseth, for me does not come off as looking good and it is only weeks in.  I was not thrilled with him as choice from the get go.

They sounded like winners in a basketball game giving each other high fives over a win
rather then serious military leaders engaged in conflict.

But what do I know?

Oh, and yes we look hyporcritical having justly criticized  Hillary getting off free when lower governmental officials would have faced jail time.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/an-m-i-a-congress-exacerbates-the-clash-between-trump-and-the-courts/

How do we respond to the never ending Dem party play on this?:

tax cuts for the "RICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"   they yell bemoan and play to the free stuff crowd and the rest of their motley crue of unions, socialists, communists, and outcasts and hypocrite virtue signaling elites and others who make a fortune off of big government spending.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/23/video-rosie-odonnell-goes-full-election-denier-claims-musk-stole-2024-for-trump/

When I first saw this image I thought this hair style reminded me of someone

Joe Scarborough     https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=joescarborough+image&fr=yhs-imageadvan-imageadvan_switch&type=251_pc.typedin.smse_smse&hspart=imageadvan&hsimp=yhs-imageadvan_switch&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.marketrealist.com%2Fbrand-img%2FGRlrQj7J9%2F0x0%2Fscarborough-1-1658330765028.jpg#id=27&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F181125223638-scarborough-brezinski-super-tease.jpg&action=click

or maybe gumby

and correct later if needed:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/03/24/bessent-pinpoints-why-doges-pace-must-be-so-fast-n2654347

Unfortunately the Dem L[w]arriors* are slowing things down to get around this.

Plus we cannot risk this dragging on near '26 and maybe lose the Houses.

* you see it here first!   can I Copyright this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-the-jfk-assassination-files-have-revealed-so-far-including-apparent-kgb-probe-into-lee-harvey-oswald/ar-AA1BeFGm


Gerald Posner author of ' Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1993)'

was on Greg Kelly a day or two ago and reiterated he was part of the way into reading the files and has not found anything to disway the conculsion Oswald acted alone.
Yet he was still open to new revelations if found.  He thought it "preposterous" the files not released much sooner and could only figure it was due to the CIA covering up some screw ups, incompetence and maybe corruption.

Darn, as I was going to be there since Philly is only ~ 1 hr away.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/03/22/trump-receives-thunderous-applause-as-he-arrives-at-ncaa-wrestling-championship/

And at the end

when Oklamhom State's Wyatt Hendrickson )formerly Air Force Acadamy grad) beat the greatest heavyweight in history Gable Stevson 5 to 4 in the last 30 seconds, and then points and salutes Donald J Trump and goes over to shake his hand etc 

See both the first and second video:

https://sports.yahoo.com/wrestling/article/oklahoma-states-wyatt-hendrickson-stuns-wrestling-world-with-upset-of-gable-steveson-salutes-president-trump-after-victory-031153518.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

BTW we will not see this on MSM. 

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/bernie-sanders-rally-tour-republican-opposition-571cd417

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-bernie-rally-arizona-town-hall-billionaire


let me guess the topics and the usual schpiel:
DEI, the rich should pay "their fair share", "free" health care, free abortion at any time ("women rights")
raise minimum wages ,  stop corporate greed,  the alphabet soup "rights"
protect SS and Medicare by spending even more

and then, LOL - protect the "Constitution and democracy"

and I almost forgot  : "free college"

what else can we think of to give away for free?

"FWIW, Jackie had to have known about her husband's serial infidelities , , ,"

yes and interestingly enough LBJ was also a serial philanderer and would wave his genital around to people so I read.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1999/08/08/lady-bird-details-lyndon-johnsons-dark-side/62233019007/

So Jackie who was marries to a sexual predator and today would clearly have been called out for workplace sexual behavior was speaking to the successor President who did the same thing.

But the media in those days apparently did not care.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/middleeast/netanyahu-trump-golden-pager-intl/index.html

Can I get a bronze one?

Sure

And of course he would suggest we go right to the people who benefit the most from massive overspending and government largesse and ask them to please cut their power by a third.

That will work 

Wasn't he trial ballooning he would run for President if he thought he could help the country.   Was he ever a real supporter of Trump except when he wanted in Trump's administration?

 

"Mark Penn:  "a Democratic Party in ruins which will have to wait for the next Bill Clinton to come along and reset it again and return it to its common sense, middle-class roots."

Rahm Emanuel and Josh the Shapiro are already sounding like they are middle (though we know they are both hard core crats - as was Clinton)

"If history is the guide, they must suffer through the rest of Trump's second term and lose 3 more Presidential races before they will be sick of losing, silence their AOCs and agree to moderate."

Right.  And instead their biggest mouths are way to the LEFT.  Instead of throwing out the commies , the scream louder and louder.  Instead of coming with real rational policies that will truly fix our giant problems they scream fascist, nazi, dictator, authoritarian, constitutional crises, threat to democracy, tax cuts for the rich, persecution of gays and blacks, and of course hitler.

just weeks after telling us it was decades away:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-ionq-stock-got-thrashed-215900363.html

It might well be decades but.... just in case

 

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/19/watch-police-respond-after-anti-israel-and-pro-israel-protesters-clash-at-gal-gadot-hollywood-walk-of-fame-ceremony/

CDs pick for the next James Bond  VD &

Gal could be his fellow agent.

They could be fighting Hamashole terrorsits and break up Cair and Soros funding.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/biden-presidential-pardons-clemency-record
most of Trumps was Jan 6 people
I don't agree with pardons for all of them though perhaps clemency

Look at Obamas.

and look at Bidens

I doubt presidents knew the details of most of these.

But we know Biden didn't know probably even a tiny fraction except for his son, and whose birthdate he cannot remember, and the rest of his "on the take" family members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_homosexuality