Headlines repeated all over yesterday that Trump "caved" on tariffs. Really set me off to see how often the liberal media repeated it (I shouldn't have been surprised). He didn't cave on anything, he made 90 scared countries bend the knee and come to the negotiating table and slapped China's peepee.

Remember the Anonymous author from Trumps first term who claimed to hold some high level position in Trumps first administration and claimed he was a resistance fighter? He wrote the book Anonymous making all sorts of claims. Turned out to be a low level soy boy in the DHS named Miles Taylor. Well Miles you better lawyer up on the best attorney you can hire on a low level DHS employee salary and and find a better place to hide than your mama's basement!

https://x.com/theblaze/status/...king-trump-orders%2F

chellim1 posted this quote from General Grant from the Appomattox clip in that thread, “The war is over; the rebels are our countrymen again.”

How grand it would be if during President Trump’s time as President we could have a similar reunification. It would certainly require some changes - absolutely on the other side, and probably on ours as well.

Here’s hoping that President Trump can make enough progress that virtually all American can clearly see that we have taken the right path regardless of Lame Stream Media lies.

Xi Jinping has 'boxed himself in' with this move, China expert says

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Xi Jinping has 'boxed himself in' with this move, China expert says

And I believe it 100%

Gordon Chang knows his stuff when it comes to China, been listening to him for years on economics issues on talk radio.

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Xi Jinping has 'boxed himself in' with this move, China expert says

I’m most of the way through Richard Franks’ Tower of Skulls, about the Chinese-Japanese war from 1932 to 1945.

In it, Franks has extensive discussion of the US reading of the Japanese diplomatic code “Purple.”

Holy shit, the behavior of the Japanese then so mirrors the behavior of China today.

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ail&utm_medium=email

House Passes Budget Resolution Paving the Way for Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

House Republicans on Thursday approved a budget framework allowing lawmakers to start drafting President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The legislation will implement elements of Trump’s domestic policy agenda, which includes tax cuts and increased spending on defense, energy, and border security.

The budget blueprint was approved Thursday by a vote of 216 to 214. Ultimately, two Republicans voted no. The vote is a victory for Trump and other Republican leaders who spent days convincing fiscal hawks within the Republican party to vote for the bill despite their frustration over the level of spending cuts included in the Senate version of the plan that passed on Saturday. The Senate framework outlines only about $4 billion in spending cuts. The House version seeks at least $1.5 trillion.

"Now that Republicans have passed identical versions of the framework in the House and Senate, they are able to unlock a special budget tool known as reconciliation – a complicated process that allows them to avoid a filibuster in Senate and pass a final version of the legislation with a 51-vote simple majority."

President Trump in a post on Truth Social praised the passing of the bill, saying it “sets the stage for one of the Greatest and Most Important Signings in the History of our Country,” and that “it will be the Largest Tax and Regulation Cuts ever even contemplated.”

Only two Republicans voted against the bill, while all Democrats opposed it.

Trump’s bill will include $4 billion in tax cuts and a $5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) fought a hard battle to get to this point. He pulled a Wednesday vote on the Senate budget resolution due to opposition from conservative lawmakers who believed it did not include enough spending cuts.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) in a post on X stated that the bill would “hasten the financial collapse of our country” and would cut taxes “while keeping spending on an increasingly unsustainable trajectory.”


https://www.newsmax.com/us/hou...dkt_nbr=010502u6jk1d

A commentator made this remark about Trump and it really rang true. "Guys like him because he speaks like a Dude"

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Xi Jinping has 'boxed himself in' with this move, China expert says

And I believe it 100%

Gordon Chang knows his stuff when it comes to China, been listening to him for years on economics issues on talk radio.

Me too, what worries me though is when we embargoed the Japanese they decided to go ahead and attack Pearl Harbor. Would not surprise me to see them at least blockade Taiwan. Gordon was talking about there being a power struggle at the upper echelons of the Chinese Govt/Military.

I’m pleased at the direction and previously unimaginable corrections we’ve seen from this administration. I am convinced Trump is an answer to fervent prayer and faith. I think it’s worth noting how often the debt ceiling has been raised in the past 25 years superimposed over the previous 200 years. We should learn what we can from that and project/forecast the consequences of it in the interest of self preservation and preparedness.

Wonder if this gets released before or after the JFK files...


https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1910388911018324127

This will get under the skin of the egomaniacs in Hollywood, and that's good.


https://x.com/RapidResponse47/.../1910388089610207360

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overrules District court in States (and DC) suit against Trump's mass firings of probationary employees, stating that the Government will likely prevail in the suit.

So the injunction demanding the fired be rehired, is stayed until the case proceeds.



And Gwynne Wilcox (National Labor Relations Board) and Cathy Harris (Merit Systems Protection Board) both had their rehiring stayed pending the cases proceeding in the correct venue. This was from SCOTUS.

She wailed about people who died presumably for civil rights in this country. She's allegedly standing up for them (right, it's really all about the grift).

Well, I ask her: what about standing up for the gallant and brave that died defending the country at a global scale? What about protecting what they fought and died for first? Then we can talk about defending other things internally (which are not really isolating any particular demographic as she is suggesting)).

Stand up for the country, the greatest generation, and MAGA first. Then when that's done, we can talk about standing up for sub-demographics.

Until then, stfu.

President Trump And Cabinet Take Multiple Questions About Tariffs, China At Meeting

From a cursory interwebz search, it sounds like a typical factory worker wage in china to make phones is about $3/hour. Min wage when I was in school decades ago was about that. DECADES ago.

While people here get $20/hour tending a register, people there are getting $3/hour doing high tech assembly.

And chicom steals our IP (product, process, all of it).

And chicom requires local investment to sell products there.

And chicom requires high import tariffs.

If this is true, the left is okay w/ all this? Slave labor for the products they buy is okay as long as it's NIMBY?

Tariff's bad? What about slave wages that force our local main street out of business?

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President Trump And Cabinet Take Multiple Questions About Tariffs, China At Meeting

That was good. The cabinet is filled with intelligent people who speak clearly and on point. Unlike the prior admin with babbling idiots, verbal diarrhea, gender confused thieves and other oddities.

The contrast couldn't be more obvious.

The ruling was unanimous. There was no dissent.

Trump admin must ‘facilitate’ return of man erroneously deported to El Salvador, Supreme Court says
The justices denied a request to set aside a judge’s order that U.S. officials seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release and return.

By JOSH GERSTEIN and KYLE CHENEY
04/10/2025 07:00 PM EDT

The Supreme Court is requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador due to what officials described as an “administrative error.”

The justices turned down the administration’s request to set aside a judge’s order that U.S. officials seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release and return to the U.S., after he was flown to El Salvador despite an immigration-court order that he not be sent there due to the threat of persecution by a local gang.

The judge’s order “properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, without any noted dissent.

The ruling is a significant rejection of the Trump administration’s claim that it lacked any power — and therefore could not be compelled — to attempt to remedy its admitted error. It also comes just days after the justices ruled that the administration must provide due process to other foreign nationals that President Donald Trump has sought to quickly deport using rarely invoked war powers.

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President Trump And Cabinet Take Multiple Questions About Tariffs, China At Meeting

That was good. The cabinet is filled with intelligent people who speak clearly and on point. Unlike the prior admin with babbling idiots, verbal diarrhea, gender confused thieves and other oddities.

The contrast couldn't be more obvious.

I agree completely. I didn't think I'd take the time to watch/listen to the entire video, but I did. And I'm glad I did.

Another FJB's DIE hire. Sounds like AMF time.

Space Force Commander in Greenland Sent Out Email Breaking with Vance After His Visit

Military.com | By Thomas Novelly
Published April 10, 2025 at 2:52pm ET

Just days after Vice President JD Vance's March visit to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, the installation commander sent out an email to the base distancing it from Vance’s criticism of Denmark and its oversight of the territory, Military.com has learned.

Col. Susan Meyers, the commander of the 821st Space Base Group who also oversees the Pentagon's northernmost military base, sent a March 31 message to all personnel at Pituffik seemingly aimed at generating unity among the airmen and Guardians, as well as the Canadians, Danes and Greenlanders who work there, following Vance's appearance. She wrote that she "spent the weekend thinking about Friday's visit -- the actions taken, the words spoken, and how it must have affected each of you."

"I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base," Meyers wrote in the email, which was communicated to Military.com.

The emailed remarks, confirmed as accurate to Military.com by the Space Force, mark a rare pushback within the ranks of the Trump administration's repeated criticism and critiques of NATO members and longtime allies. A source familiar with the email said it was sent to all base personnel, including those from Denmark and Greenland on the installation.

Meyers became the commander of Pituffik's 821st Space Base Group in July, according to a Facebook post about the change of command ceremony.

"I commit that, for as long as I am lucky enough to lead this base, all of our flags will fly proudly -- together," Meyers' email message to the base read.

Vance traveled to Greenland and spoke at the space base on March 28.

President Donald Trump and Vance have repeatedly spoken about their desire for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, which is a territory of fellow NATO member Denmark. Both Trump and Vance have also said they support the Greenland people's right to self-determination, though polling has suggested a vast majority of residents there do not want to become part of the U.S.

Trump has said, in reference to U.S. control of the Danish territory, that it is "a good possibility that we could do it without military force" but added "I don't take anything off the table."

Vance, during his visit to Pituffik, criticized Denmark, claiming that incursions by China and Russia had put the territory at risk.

"Our message to Denmark is very simple," Vance said during his visit to the space base. "You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security of this incredible, beautiful landmass."

An opinion poll in January from Verian found that 85% of Greenlanders do not want to leave Denmark to join the U.S. A Yahoo News poll taken last month showed that 49% of Americans opposed the idea of annexing Greenland, with only 19% in favor and the remaining 32% undecided.

Taylor Van Kirk, the press secretary to the vice president, told Military.com that Vance was "grateful to visit Pituffik Space Base and for the opportunity to meet with our brave servicemen and women" and reiterated support for Trump's vision for Greenland.

"President Trump has made his vision for an enhanced security footprint in the Arctic abundantly clear, and the vice president is committed to implementing the president's agenda," Van Kirk said in an emailed statement to Military.com. "This includes strengthening the partnership and cooperation between the United States and Greenland, which is critical for both American national security and the safety of our partners worldwide.”

The U.S. military has long had a presence in Greenland. Back in the mid-1940s, a Danish-American radio station was set up near what is now Pituffick Space Base, according to a fact sheet from the 821st Space Base Group.

By 1951, a defense agreement between Denmark and the U.S. led to the creation of the Thule Defense Area. Thule Air Base was renamed in 2023 to Pituffik Space Base -- to show its new service branch affiliation, as well as reflect the traditional Greenlandic name for the former settlement where the base was built, Military.com previously reported.

That past defense agreement was brought up by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen in a video shared on social media following Vance's appearance at Pituffik. Rasmussen said he respected Vance's call for a greater U.S. military presence in Greenland but did not appreciate the rhetoric.

"Many accusations and many allegations have been made and, of course, we are open to criticism, but let me be completely honest: We do not appreciate the tone in which it is being delivered," he said in the video. "This is not how you speak to your close allies, and I still consider Denmark and the United States to be close allies."

The Space Force did not respond to Military.com questions sent Wednesday morning asking about additional context for Meyers' email. It was not immediately clear whether Meyers was still serving as commander of the 821st Space Base Group following her email.

Department of Defense Chief of Staff Joe Kasper told Military.com in an emailed statement that "civilian control of the military is a bedrock principle of our armed forces. Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump's agenda will not be tolerated at the Defense Department."

The Trump administration has gone on a widespread purge of high-ranking military officers and commanders.

Last week, Trump fired Air Force Gen. Tim Haugh, the director of the National Security Agency who also oversaw Cyber Command.

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, who served with NATO, was fired this week in what appeared to be part of that purge. Officials in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office on Monday did not immediately confirm the move or offer a statement on why Chatfield was relieved or by whom.

Other high-profile military leaders who have been fired since Trump took office -- without any public reason given -- including Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, the Navy's top leader Adm. Lisa Franchetti, and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife.