February 24, 2025, 12:59 PM
Hound DogThe Trump Presidency : Year V
Disband NATO? Can you IMAGINE the billions of $$$ that would save us?
BRING IT.
Let the Euros defend their own continent without us backing them up (while they talk trash about us).
February 24, 2025, 02:15 PM
12131By SCOTT JENNINGS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:18 EST, 24 February 2025 | UPDATED: 14:46 EST, 24 February 2025
The Rajun' Cajun is at it again.
It was only last October when a New York Times column headlined 'Three Reasons I'm Certain Kamala Harris Will Win,' turned James Carville into a laughingstock among the political cognoscenti.
Carville, who has been riding high on his role as a lead strategist in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign for 30 years, cited three reasons for his certainty: Trump had lost before, Harris's fundraising advantage and his own 'emotional' feelings.
In a race with such close polls and a weak Democrat running with the anchor of Joe Biden around her neck, no one in their right mind was predicting a 'certain' victory for the doomed incumbent party.
And yet there Carville was, letting his feelings get the better of him. And on the pages of the Gray Lady no less!
Pro tip, James – the next time you are feeling emotive scream into a pillow, instead of running to the laptop.
Now after earning the epithet Most Wrong Pundit in America during the 2024 election, Jimmy is back with another banger.
'We're in the midst of a collapse,' Carville said last week of the new Trump administration. 'It's over,' he added, advising Democrats to just 'lay back.'
Mind you, Trump has been in office for a little over a month and is trying to clean up a mess four years in the making thanks to a disastrous Biden regime.
'I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days is in the midst of a massive collapse and particularly a collapse in public opinion,' Carville concluded.
Could he be right? Well, let's look at the facts.
Start with job approval. Forty-nine percent of Americans say the president is doing a good job versus 47.8 percent who say he isn't, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. In the November election, Trump won 49.8 percent of the national popular vote, versus 48.3 percent for Harris, his vanquished opponent.
Hardly sounds like a collapse to me. More like steady as she goes.
And his individual policy ideas are proving popular, too.
Nearly six in 10 Americans approve of Trump's plan to deport illegal immigrants, 54 percent support his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict and a majority are on board with Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy and it's out-of-control spending, according to a CBS News poll this month.
Indeed, most Americans want to eliminate waste, such as $20 million for Sesame Street in Iraq, $9 million for violent terrorists instead of civilians in Syria and $69,000 for dance classes in Wuhan, China (yes, that Wuhan). And illegal immigration was one of the top motivations for voters to return Trump to office in the first place.
On top of that, Trump may be in the running for a Nobel Peace Prize if he can negotiate the end of the war between Ukraine and Russia in a way that stops the killing, guarantees a 'sovereign and prosperous Ukraine' (in the words Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth) and brings stability to the European continent.
Leaving aside all the political metrics for a second, what would a 'collapse' for Donald Trump even look like?
He has the most loyal political base in American history and appears to have expanded on that support in the November election by appealing to historic numbers of voters across the demographic and ideological spectrum.
People who rarely if ever voted Republican (or even rarely voted at all!) flocked to Trump to rescue the country from the kind of politicians that Carville was promoting just last fall.
Is it possible that Trump's numbers could fluctuate? Sure. That's true for all political figures. But to use the word 'collapse' suggests naïve wish-casting on the part of a political operative who is certainly old enough to know better.
Outside of the period following January 6, Trump has been impervious to polling spikes one way or the other. And most Republicans are more than happy with Trump so far. They are getting exactly what they asked for – a 'revolution of common sense.'
But for argument's sake, let's say that Carville is right and Trump is about to suffer a massive polling downturn. One of President Trump's saving graces is that he is forever blessed with the dumbest and most off-putting political enemies imaginable.
'The fact that I am rooting for Canada and that I am rooting for Mexico a lot is really wild. But, they are really the ones speaking truth to power right now,' said Democratic US Congresswoman Crockett last week, as she openly cheered for American failure in the face of negotiations with other countries.
Crockett has become the de facto leader of the post-2024 Democratic Party as its most visible spokesperson.
'We are gonna be in your face. We are gonna be on your a**es, and we are gonna make sure you understand what democracy looks like,' Crockett screamed into a microphone at an anti-Trump rally a few weeks ago.
Since Crockett's rapid rise to prominence in her party, polling for Congressional Democrats has collapsed. Just 21% of the American people approve of the job they are doing, an all-time low in the latest Quinnipiac survey. But American leftists just can't help themselves.
Crockett's Democratic Party supports DEI and opposes deporting illegal aliens. As long as Dems stick to that foolishness, a Trump collapse is highly unlikely.
Trump's ultimate report card won't be written by 'emotional' partisans like Carville or from aggressively ignorant progressives like Crockett.
Democrats may as well 'lay back.' At this point, there's not much else they can do – except, perhaps, get on board.
February 24, 2025, 02:17 PM
parabellumquote:
Now after earning the epithet Most Wrong Pundit in America during the 2024 election...
It's well-deserved. Carville is always-
always- making stupid, outlandish predictions which never come to pass. The beauty of this one is that it will be proven completely wrong in a mere month.
February 24, 2025, 02:50 PM
83v45magnaWell, he cusses a lot, so he's got that going for him. I'm sure everyone will take his ravings more seriously as a result.
Sad old man lacks relevancy and gravitas and he knows it's only gonna get worse on that front.
Whoo Hoo! All their talking heads are getting more and more unhinged or just no longer talking at all. What a great time to be alive!
February 24, 2025, 02:50 PM
TigerDorequote:
Originally posted by 12131:
By SCOTT JENNINGS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:18 EST, 24 February 2025 | UPDATED: 14:46 EST, 24 February 2025
The Rajun' Cajun is at it again.
I don't know who is the most overrated, most "right place, right time" lucky campaign "guru", Carville or Karl Rove. Both have lived for decades off the carcass of an election that would have been won wihout either of them.
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February 24, 2025, 04:43 PM
parabellumOopsy!
US judge allows Trump's AP Oval Office ban to stand over Gulf of Mexico nameWASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday denied a request by the Associated Press to restore full access for the news agency's journalists after President Donald Trump's White House barred them for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in coverage.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, declined to immediately grant the AP's request for a temporary injunction restoring its access to the Oval Office, Air Force One and events held at the White House.
McFadden said the restriction on "more private areas" used by the president was different from prior instances in which courts have blocked government officials from revoking access to journalists.
"I can't say the AP has shown a likelihood of success here," McFadden said.
The AP sued three senior Trump aides on Friday, arguing that the decision to block its reporters from certain locations violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech by trying to dictate the language they use in reporting the news.
"The Constitution prevents the president of the United States or any other government official from coercing journalists or anyone else into using official government vocabulary to report the news," Charles Tobin, a lawyer for the AP, said during a court hearing.
Lawyers for the Trump administration argued in a court filing before the hearing that the AP does not have a constitutional right to what they called "special media access to the president."
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung in a earlier statement had called the AP lawsuit a "blatant PR stunt." During an appearance last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also said, "We feel we are in the right in this position."
Leavitt is one of the three White House officials named as defendants in the lawsuit. The other two, Chief of Staff Susan Wiles and Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, have not responded to requests for comment.
Trump signed an executive order last month directing the U.S. Interior Department to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The AP said in January it would continue to use the gulf's long-established name in stories while also acknowledging Trump's efforts to change it.
The White House banned AP reporters in response. The ban prevents the AP's journalists from seeing and hearing Trump and other top White House officials as they take newsworthy actions or respond in real time to news events.
The White House Correspondents' Association said in a legal brief backing the AP in the case that the ban "will chill and distort news coverage of the president to the public's detriment." Reuters released a statement in support of the AP.
February 24, 2025, 06:10 PM
parabellumI really hope for all states to end property tax at age 65 for homeowners, but I realize this is a pipe dream.
Elderly people who have worked all their life and paid off their home sometimes lose their home because they can't afford the property tax, and that is a moral outrage.
February 24, 2025, 06:36 PM
CooksterLooks like U.S. Attorney Ed Martin might be a reader here.
From Para’s post on page 98 -
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Originally posted by parabellum:
These two examples are just from today, and showed up in my Twitter TL one after the other, and you can find lots of examples on Twitter and TikTok.
With Sean Curran now in place as head of the USSS and with Kash Patel just a day or two away from being head Of the FBI, there needs to be a message sent to people who issue such threats, in the strongest possible terms, which means investigation, interview, arrest, conviction and incarceration.
This shit must stop. If these people are going to publicly act like the fucking half-wits they are, they should pay the price, as a warning to all others. Threats against USSS protectees are not protected speech.
We should not have to spend the next four years listening to violent threats from stupid people. These violent imbeciles must pay the price.
From Mr. Martin today -
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1894116187681787926Give-’em hell, Mr. Martin!!
