Ouch!

Cannot wait to have the beautiful and elegant First Lady Melania back in the WH after 4 years of this frumpy old bag with zero fashion or decorating sense

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1863720124970062236

[QUOTE]Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, my

That would be wicked awesome, eh?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, my

I read that Trudeau "nervously laughed", but Trump really wasn't laughing. He even mentioned to Trudeau that Canada could be divided into two states- one conservative, one leftist. Trump has decades of masterclass experience in this type of Art of the Deal dinner discussions and Trudeau is a greenhorn rookie at this.

I’m not sure I’d call Trudeau a greenhorn. More like a pinkhorn.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I’m not sure I’d call Trudeau a greenhorn. More like a pinkhorn.

Well, you could say Dictatorial Communism is in his DNA.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I’m not sure I’d call Trudeau a greenhorn. More like a pinkhorn.

Well, you could say Dictatorial Communism is in his DNA.

Speaking of which, I wonder if we could purchase Cuba from Raul Castro or from whomever owns it now.

Perhaps neither, both are communist/socialist countries, the current Canada would flip the US Blue forever since the majority of voters are blue city type population wise.

Cubans do tend to be a lot more conservative, at least the ones in the USA are, and the coffee and cigars are Fantastico! if the population would be inclined to vote Red then Cuba would be a nice addition to the tourist market.

Would like to see the USA buy the land between AK and WA so we could transport goods without going into Canada, which means you can take your firearms with you...

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal Hands Trump Some Good News

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...eportations-n2648568

In a move that's sure to be good news for the incoming Trump administration, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government does in fact have the authority to carry out deportations, even if local officials object. The case actually comes from the first Trump administration, as The Center Square reported on Monday.

https://www.thecentersquare.co...28-3f9a1e87c49b.html

As the report explained:

At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals.

Constantine’s order prohibited King County International Airport from supporting “the transportation and deportation of immigration detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, either traveling within or arriving or departing the United States or its territories.”

The airport is located next to a major ICE-Seattle base of operations.

The Trump administration at the time sued, arguing Constantine’s order violated the Supremacy Clause’s intergovernmental immunity doctrine and a World War II-era Instrument of Transfer agreement allowing the federal government to use the airport in King County.

A district court agreed, ruling in favor of the federal government. King County next appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

The Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district court’s summary judgment that the order violated the Supremacy Clause and the Instrument of Transfer agreement.

The panel also held that the federal government had Article III standing to sue and “had two related concrete and individualized injuries.” The first is “the inability to conduct the charter flights – which has increased ICE’s operational costs – constituted a de facto injury that affected the United States in a particularized, individual way” and “an imminent risk of future injury from the Executive Order.”

The second is the federal government’s injuries “were fairly traceable” and “are likely, as opposed to merely speculative,” as a result of the order. Were there no order, “an FBO would resume servicing ICE charter flights,” the court notes.

Constantine’s order violated the intergovernmental immunity doctrine because it “improperly regulated the way in which the federal government transported noncitizen detainees by preventing ICE from using private FBO contractors at Boeing Field, and on its face discriminated against the United States by singling out the federal government and its contractors for unfavorable treatment,” the court held.

Reporting from The Seattle Times also noted that Kings County will not further appeal the decision, with a spokesperson mentioning in part that the county "will of course follow the court’s dictates."

King County is one of those described as a "sanctuary city," but the days of sanctuary cities being able to get away with covering for illegal immigrants are likely coming to an end. Even better news for the incoming Trump administration is that, as The Seattle Times also mentioned, a district-level federal court issued a similar ruling last year.

The Ninth Circuit covers the more western states in the country, which are also among some of the most liberal and include many sanctuary cities when it comes to immigration.

Not only will King County be "follow[ing] the court's dictates," but it looks like they'll be eating plenty of crow as well, given that they hoped to be "leading the way," as The Seattle Times noted:

In 2019, under the first Trump administration, Constantine issued an executive order seeking to block the federal government from using King County International Airport (the formal name for Boeing Field) for flights deporting immigrants.

The order targeted private companies that fuel and maintain planes at the airport, ordering that future leases between the county and the companies would prohibit deportation flights.

At the time, county officials said it was likely the first attempt anywhere in the country by local officials to block ICE deportation flights, and they hoped to be “leading the way.”

“Deportations raise deeply troubling human rights concerns which are inconsistent with the values of King County, including separations of families, increases of racial disproportionality in policing, deportations of people into unsafe situations in other countries, and constitutional concerns of due process,” Constantine’s 2019 executive order said.

Tom Homan, named last month to be President-elect Donald Trump's border czar, has made clear that there will be mass deportations of illegal immigrants. He has also repeatedly made clear that local officials are not to stand in his way, as was recently the case with Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D), who threatened to stop deportations.

"He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail," Homan said, which led Johnston to soon after admit that he regretted his remarks.

Polling from CBS News, including before and after the November election, shows that a majority of Americans favor plans for mass deportations. Last week's poll from The Economist/YouGov also showed that a majority or plurality of Americans across several demographics approve of Trump's plan to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and that they believe he'll actually carry through with such plans.

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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D), who threatened to stop deportations.

"He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail," Homan said, which led Johnston to soon after admit that he regretted his remarks.

Denver mayor Mike Johnston (D) apparently has a big mouth but doesn't have the balls to back it up. I don't think the same is true of Tom Homan .

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a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government does in fact have the authority to carry out deportations, even if local officials object.

Wow. Surprising.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:

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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D), who threatened to stop deportations.

"He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail," Homan said, which led Johnston to soon after admit that he regretted his remarks.

Denver mayor Mike Johnston (D) apparently has a big mouth but doesn't have the balls to back it up. I don't think the same is true of Tom Homan .

Tiananmen Timmy Walz has been promising to protect the illegals as well. He will scurry behind his wife's skirt faster than George Floyd can say I can't breathe at the first sign of Holman and company coming to clean up Minnesota.

Fani Full Release Ordered After Fulton DA Sat On RICO Records

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...-da-sat-rico-records

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered by a local judge to release all communications between her office, Special Counsel Jack Smith's office, and the January 6th Committee regarding her RICO case against President Donald Trump and his allies, after she was found to have violated federal law by withholding them.

"The Court also hereby ORDERS Defendant to conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of the entry of this Order. Within that same five day period, Defendant is ORDERED to provide Plaintiff with copies of all responsive records that are not legally exempted or excepted from disclosure," reads a Tuesday order.

If Willis can't find them, she is mandated to follow court-ordered procedures to "provide an explanation why such correspondence does not exist."



Willis, who had been served on March 11, 2024 in the suite involving conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, failed to respond by an April 10 deadline. After later claiming she 'misunderstood' the court's directive, she then said that the document release would jeopardize her RICO case.

Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton responds:



As the Epoch Times notes further...

In mid-2023, Willis told a local radio station that she was not coordinating in any way with Smith’s office in investigations and cases brought against former President Donald Trump. Smith had charged Trump, now the president-elect, with both classified documents-related and 2020 election-related charges in two different jurisdictions, while Willis brought charges against him and more than a dozen others for alleged election-related crimes in Fulton County.
“I don’t know what Jack Smith is doing and Jack Smith doesn’t know what I’m doing,” Willis said in July of that year. “In all honesty, if Jack Smith was standing next to me, I’m not sure I would know who he was. My guess is he probably can’t pronounce my name correctly.”

Since then, however, she has made no comments about Smith’s investigation. Smith, meanwhile, has never commented on Willis’s case against Trump.

Smith in November filed court papers confirming he would be dropping his election case against Trump and would stop the appeals process in his classified documents case. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said he would terminate Smith as special counsel upon taking office.

A letter sent by Willis’s office on Dec. 17, 2021, to the House Jan. 6 committee had “requested access to any Select Committee records relevant to her investigation into President Trump’s actions to challenge the 2020 presidential election, including ‘recordings and transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, electronic and print records of communications, and records of travel,'” House Judiciary Republicans said in a report released last year relating to an investigation they launched into Willis.

Willis has been critical of House Republicans’ investigation into her office and the Trump case, accusing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) of trying to interfere in the case at one point.

“Jim Jordan has, time after time after time, attacked my office with no legitimate purpose,” she told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in May. “Anyone who knows Jim Jordan’s history knows that he only has the purpose of trying to interfere in a criminal investigation.”
In a letter issued to Republicans in 2023, Willis said Republicans are trying to “obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous partisan misrepresentations.”

Her case against Trump has stalled in recent months after one of the president-elect’s co-defendants submitted a court filing earlier this year claiming Willis and then-special prosecutor Nathan Wade were engaged in a romantic relationship. The pair confirmed they were in a relationship but denied any wrongdoing.

A judge overseeing the case issued an order in March allowing Willis to remain on the case if Wade resigned, which he did hours later. Trump and several of his co-defendants appealed the decision to the Georgia Court of Appeals earlier this year, where the case is still pending.

I am truly lovin' all of this winning!!!

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Willis, who had been served on March 11, 2024 in the suite involving conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, failed to respond by an April 10 deadline.

I make annual contributions to Judicial Watch. A good organization. Wish I didn’t get quite so much mail from them though.

Trump’s DEA nominee withdraws from consideration

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister has withdrawn from consideration to head President-elect Donald Trump‘s Drug Enforcement Administration.

In a statement, Chronister said Tuesday being nominated “the honor of a lifetime” but was stepping down after the “gravity of this very important responsibility set in.”

“Over the past several days, as the gravity of this very important responsibility set in, I’ve concluded that I must respectfully withdraw from consideration. There is more work to be done for the citizens of Hillsborough County and a lot of initiatives I am committed to fulfilling,” he wrote in a statement. “I sincerely appreciate the nomination, outpouring of support by the American people, and look forward to continuing my service as Sheriff of Hillsborough County.”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who had previously voiced concerns over Chronister’s nomination over his arrest of a pastor for defying COVID-19 lockdown orders, celebrated his withdrawal shortly after it was announced.

“This sheriff ordered the arrest of a pastor for holding services during the COVID panic. He was tapped by Trump to head the DEA. Glad to see him withdraw from consideration,” Massie said in a statement on X. “Next time politicians lose their ever-lovin minds, he can redeem himself by following the Constitution.”

Massie had previously voiced concerns over Chronister’s nomination, announced by Trump on Saturday, over the arrest, saying it should have “disqualified” him.

Momentum against the Florida sheriff gradually built in the days after Trump tapped Chronister despite strong showings of support from Florida Republicans, including Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

Link-> https://www.washingtonexaminer...-from-consideration/

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Trump’s DEA nominee withdraws from consideration

Thank God!

^^^ Good!