Fire Hydrant of Freedom

Not sure the thread and can't find the video, but Scott Jennings was surrounded by Leftists over this issue.

Trump flew 59 South Africans here on some emergency refugee status.  They are allegedly farmers and threatened with their lives.

They are white.

So it's pointed out that millions or thousands of other Africans are murdered and in bad situations, why are we bringing all of them in?

Rubio had a similar argument put on him by Senator Van Hollun.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/politics/video/rubio-van-hollen-heated-exchange-senate-digvid

[Doug]  The blacks being murdered in South Africa are black on black crime, not racially targeted.  And we don't know in advance, which are the murderers and which will be murdered.

Rubio explained something like this.  There was a chance to help and rescue some people and we did it. The President ordered it.

There isn't an opportunity to fly 1.5 billion people out of Africa.  We can't do it and it wouldn't help them if we could.

But of course we do similar things with plenty of people who are not white.  Exhibit A: Ilhan Omar.  She came her legally recued from a civil war in Somalia, along with a huge population relocated here.

Rubio said, "you're the one who brought up race."

Racism is in the mirror.  It would be racist of course if we were to NOT do this rescue just because the are white.  That's race.

More coverage: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/the_media_pounces_on_a_small_trump_error_to_distract_from_the_bigger_truth_about_south_africa.html
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/president-trump-is-right-about-whats-happening-in-south-africa/
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/22/the-media-dismiss-anti-white-violence-in-south-africa-because-it-undermines-their-agenda/

Matt Margolis, Ed Martin, it's under investigation. They have lawyered up.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/22/ed-martin-names-top-three-suspects-in-biden-autopen-scandal-n4940047

(Doug). It's a fraud and a crime whether they took millions for it or not, my view.

Trump called it treason.

https://babylonbee.com/news/announcement-the-babylon-bee-is-now-a-full-service-restaurant-and-all-our-writers-are-compensated-entirely-with-tips

Looks like I also will be renting and selling my properties entirely on tips as well.

Index of Contrary Indicators

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/05/22/everybody-rejoice-paul-krugman-is-predicting-a-recession/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/trump-tariffs-could-signal-decline-of-american-influence-robert-reich.html

Strange how the names haven't changed in 20 years.

Just no shame in being wrong.

What we really needed to follow Bidenomics was ... more of the same!!

Wish I had their credentials...

Still crazy after all these years.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/politics/house-vote-trump-agenda-bill

The Me Too party of women has another one to answer for:

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/21/buzz-patterson-drops-clinton-air-force-one-bombshell-n4940012

Should have known there would be more

"He didn't care."  - Pathological

"didn't want to be one of the bimbos"

The Carville Stephanopoulos operation just went from enablers to accomplices.

https://alphanews.org/most-voters-see-economy-as-strong-under-trump-new-poll-says/

This in the face of 99% negative press coverage.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/05/20/chip-roy-we-need-more-spending-cuts-a-lot-of-tax-policy-in-bill-not-high-growth/

I don't have time to search now, but I a wondering what "pro growth" policies he would like to add and precisely what spending cuts he would like to add.

I've heard Chip Roy in various FOX interviews and have a positive impression of him as a serious Congressman.

He is exactly right.  It's a balancing act.  They need more 'pro-growth' and they need more spending cuts SOONER.  But they also need to pass the bill one way or another and they need to survive the Dem Media attack of it sure to come.
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I heard Buck Sexton yesterday call it "rocket fuel for the economy".  Yes it will help.  Better than the (Dem) alternatives.  But the analogy lacks quantification.  How much rocket fuel, a drop, a liter, or a boatload?

Some 'tax cuts' are not supply side or so called pro growth.  Child tax credit: nice thing to do but doesn't increase the incentive to invest, build a factory or employ workers.  SALT deduction:  I am horribly conflicted on this one.  It's a fairness issue both ways but doesn't increase the incentive to save, invest, hire and build something.

Those two examples are on the 'demand side'.  They leave you with a little more money mostly as a consumer, but don't affect incentives, don't add to productivity, wage growth or economic growth. Cutting marginal tax rates, especially the top marginal rate but across the board, is the main incentivizer for private sector growth.

Why are we pretending to cut spending in the out years?  He's right.  Those never happen.  Cop out.

You can't cut taxes much when you're in deep deficit.  Must cut spending now and they really aren't.

Back to 'pro growth', every marginal tax rate cut has been followed with increased revenues.  CBO IS STILL SCORING WITH ZERO GROWTH FALSE MATH.  Must reform that before any political economic math makes any sense.

Beating my drum one more time, REPEAL THE TAX ON INFLATION if you want to grow the economy, grow the revenues, balance the budget, get capital to flow to its best use.

All that said, worst possible outcome is no bill passed.  It needs 217 House members, 51 Senators and one President to support it.  We aren't going to all get what we want, not on the first pass.
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Chuck Schumer is calling the ordinary reconciliation process the "nuclear option" and says he will retaliate next time Dems have control.  Not true but if the other party won't respect the 60 vote threshold for most bills in the future, why are we worried about it now?

https://scitechdaily.com/bird-flu-is-now-killing-cats-at-a-90-fatality-rate-experts-warn-it-could-jump-to-humans/

Steve Hayward is right on every point (as usual). And right to still be pissed about about the treatment of Robert Bork, it was a nasty turn for the worse for our nation, led by Joe Biden.

Joe is STILL lying to us. No PSA blood test in 11 years. Sorry I don't believe that.

Why did he blurt out he had cancer 3 years ago?

Other than Bork I thought his worst was, "they're gonna put y'all back in chains"

He was talking about me, us, Republicans treatment of black people. We want to give them freedom, prosperity, equal treatment. They locked them in poverty, broke up the families, turned them to crime . What a dickhead.

I'm sorry he has cancer, if he has cancer.

Third

If Biden's cancer was known in advance of the decision to run again (whomever it was that made that decision) what suggests here is that there was a conspiracy to get Biden's corrupt, senile, and cancer ridden ass across the finish line, then 25th him and put Baraq's puppet (remember she was HIS choice for VP, not Biden's) Kackling Kommie into the Oval Office for Baraq's 4th term.

This is exactly what happened. Even without the cancer, he was going to hand off to her one way or another.

If they admit " unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office"later, they also admit dereliction of their duties now, which is why we have the cherade, 'oh he was fine just a minute ago'...

Enemies foreign and domestic..

We used to listen to the National Lampoon Radio Hour.  It was a half hour show.

Big point made this week. Impossible to prove I suppose. We already know this but it still needs to be spelled out.

When they forced, negotiated Biden off the ticket 3 weeks after the miserable debate, he obviously went kicking and screaming. They of course threatened the 25th amendment, the only lever they had. We will remove you from office now if you don't withdraw from the race.

Nancy P was the messenger but this was (presumably) backed up by everyone in the Cabinet and Politburo.

But if they threatened the 25th, it meant they admittedly believed he was unfit to continue right then, not next term.

So they were in defiance of their own oaths and constitutional responsibilities when they threatened but did not take that constitutionally required course of action.

I don't like to throw the term treason around lightly but this is serious stuff and they face no consequences?

Let's call Trump out on this too.  By refusing to debate his rivals he gave Biden cover to refuse to debate his.

Dean Phillips, bless his small heart, was the only Dem to stand up and say this man isn't fit for a second term.  Even he sugar coated it and tap danced around the issue of not able to serve now.

Further, there likely was an agreement with AG Merrick Garland to not release the tape BEFORE he gave the meandering, empty headed, filibustering evasion of federal document handling prosecution.

Isn't that obstruction of justice??

prostate cancer screening . Different opinions:

The United Preventative Task Force which is ALWAYS extremely conservative with tests advocates stop screening at 69 (which in my view is ridiculous)  ( I thought it was up to 75 which is still up for debate)

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/prostate-cancer-screening

The American Cancer Society recommends 50 and over for those at average risk with no age cap, but risks benefits and related pros cons should be provided to patients and with opinion of their doctor decide to be tested. 

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/acs-recommendations.html

BUT WOULD NOT ONE THINK IN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HE WOULD / SHOULD BE GETTING THE FINGER UP THE TUCHUS AND THE PSA EVERY YR.?

If he came here he would know.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/mayo-clinic-executive-health-program/sections/overview/ovc-20253196

Hard to believe POTUS diagnostics are less rigorous for than what my friends get.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-06-mn-1821-story.html
Paywall blocked. Reagan came to Mayo (MN) in 1987 for prostate.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/joe-biden-was-unfit-in-2020-aging-old-capacity-ability-campaign-presidency-coverup-d0346628

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/biden-gets-annual-physical-with-fitness-for-office-top-election-issue-.html

https://slaynews.com/news/top-experts-respond-cover-up-bidens-aggressive-cancer-inconceivable-presidency/

https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/us-news/biden-aggressive-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-leaves-medical-experts-stunned/

Trump expresses condolences
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5306739-trump-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/

Me too, but too bad to have all the distractions of all the deceit.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/when-final-isnt-final.php

When “final” isn’t final
To belabor the Tim Walz U-M law school graduation speech, the descriptions and headlines of his rant don’t do it justice. Here’s what he said to the graduates,

"Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets, they are in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons, no chance to mount a defense, not even the chance to kiss a loved-one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared. To be clear, there’s no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not, because they refuse to give them a trial. We’re just supposed to take their word for it."

To begin, Walz is unable to pronounce the word “Gestapo,” so he is unlikely to have any idea of what the word means.

What Walz is describing is the process by which U.S. ICE deports illegal aliens subject to a Final Order of Removal. They already had a trial, they lost. By the time the “masked men” in those “unmarked vans” roll around, the alien in question is a fugitive.

We do not give fugitives prior warning. The prior warning was the removal order. And yes, we know they are “criminals” because the Final Removal Order declared them so.

They do not get to start from zero with a release and a new trial. That’s not “due process,” that’s endless process.

To the extent that Walz has an argument (which he doesn’t) it is that there should never be a deportation. Or deportation should be reserved for the worst of the worst of the worst, after a long series of courtroom trials and appeals, ending with a final final deportation ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court that would then be appealed to a world court.

That’s not our system. If Walz wanted that to be our system, he should have passed that law during his decades as a congressman.

Reactions:
Dept. Homeland Security:
"It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults.

Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return."

Alpha News: Gov. Walz tells U of M law grads Trump is a ‘tyrant,’ calls ICE agents ‘modern-day Gestapo’

https://alphanews.org/gov-walz-tells-u-of-m-law-grads-trump-is-a-tyrant-calls-ice-agents-modern-day-gestapo/

AP: Walz calls Trump a “tyrant” who abuses power and violates rule of law
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant/

Times of India: ‘President finds new ways to trample rights’: Tim Walz urges law grads to defend rule of law against ‘tyrant’ Donald Trump
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/president-finds-new-ways-to-trample-rights-tim-walz-urges-law-grads-to-defend-rule-of-law-against-tyrant-donald-trump/articleshow/121243898.cms
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Doug:  Arrest and 'deport' Walz for teaching law without a license.  Isn't there a law against that?
https://www.findlaw.com/legal/careers/legal-career-options/how-do-i-become-a-law-school-professor.html#:~:text=A%3A%20As%20a%20starting%20point,have%20passed%20the%20bar%20examination.
Must have a J.D. degree and pass the bar to teach law. Otherwise STFU.

https://archive.is/2025.05.16-142632/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/16/denmark-nuclear-power-renewables-green-energy/

Will the US be last to wake up?

Turkey: Biden committed same federal crimes that Trump was prosecuted for.  Two tiers, two tracks of justice, all cheered on by the mob that wanted Trump prosecuted and Biden excused.

His memory was fine when he committed these crimes.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-biden-not-only-loser-revealed-shocking-hur-audio

(Doug) We share a nation with some very sinister folks who would rather lock up their opponents, remove them from ballots, "86" them, rather than defeat them honestly in elections. They excuse and pardon their own for the same charges they levy against opponents, and make no apologies for it

"those who don’t “get” Donald Trump need to start seeing the upside"

Quote from behind a paywall:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/quote-of-the-day-36.php

"Americans are not a naturally gloomy people. We don’t necessarily expect things to go our way, but when they don’t, we can laugh it off. In my part of Vermont there’s a place called Hateful Hill, for example, so-named by stagecoach drivers who had a tough time with the steep road. But Hateful Hill is also a beautiful elevation.

Today, even those who don’t “get” Donald Trump need to start seeing the upside. He doesn’t always get his way, which is probably a good thing, but he is leading a long-overdue revival of the American spirit and allowing for the return of optimism and the pursuit of excellence.

Among the 130 executive orders (EOs) Trump has issued so far are eight that pick away at the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) regime that had settled on the American psyche like volcanic ash. One of those EOs, #14151, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government Programs and Preferencing,” directs federal agencies to terminate grants and contracts for programs that advance DEI. That includes universities that have entangled their research with the ideology that science, along with everything else, is riddled with “systemic racism.”

EO #14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” bans DEI efforts in the federal government and among federal contractors, e.g. universities. EO #14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” ends federal funding for schools that teach DEI and calls instead for programs that “instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.”

Executive orders are not magic wands that instantly transform reality. Schools, colleges and associations that are committed to DEI fight back. But the EOs have galvanized a broad swath of Americans who detest the DEI regime but until now have felt helpless to fight against it.

In higher education, my professional area, colleges and universities are in a fit of distemper because President Trump has come down on them hard for their coddling campus Hamas activists and their recently exposed institutional anti-Semitism.

Trump has successfully linked their anti-Semitism to their neo-racist DEI programs, the politicization of their curricula and various forms of duplicity. The volume of wailing that we hear from Harvard and the 200 or so university presidents who have joined in chorus sounds as though all the residents of Brimstone Corners and Misery Lanes have united in anguish.

Don’t be misled by that institutional chorus. Americans are generally smiling at this drama. We know that Trump doesn’t intend to plow Harvard back to the colonial cow pasture it once was. His “war on Harvard” is, in fact, rather a sunny fable about the usurpers facing an overdue reckoning."

'A lot of being “trans” has to do with males wishing they were the objects of sexual desire, and females wishing they weren’t.'

HT Glenn Reynolds

Alina Habba, U.S. attorney for New Jersey, tweeted, “The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon. He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.”

She must have missed that day in law school when students learned Democrats are above the law.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/no-one-is-above-the-law-but?publication_id=1115457&post_id=163581651&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true

https://www.insidehook.com/internet/ai-data-centers-dumbest-way-accelerate-water-crisis

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-trump-calmed-the-india-pakistan-clash-40bdbca7