B-Man

If you haven't been following the El Salvador deportation case, let me bring you up to speed: Judge: Hey Trump, you can't deport that guy to El Salvador. Trump: Yeah. Well. I did. Judge: Well now you have to bring him back. Trump: No can do compadre. He's under El Salvador control. I have no power there. Judge: You at least to have to TRY. Trump: That's fine. The El Salvador President is at my house right now. Judge: And? Trump: I asked him. Judge: AND? Trump: He said no. Judge: Did you really ask him? Trump: Lol no. Judge: Lol.

More winning.

That's what makes them reliable.

Cut something else from your budget ! You know that there is waste.

More for 2025 Good luck Virginia.

LIKE HILLSDALE. FO: Trump Frees Harvard ... From Federal Funding (Plus Irony From Obama) Ed Morrissey Harvard declared that it would not "surrender its independence" after the Trump administration demanded significant changes in policies relating to the anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns on its campus. Hours later, they received good news ... ... the White House thinks Harvard should be independent as well: This is a curious kind of "independence" that Harvard claims to defend. If Harvard had been independent in the first place, the federal government wouldn't have any say over its operations. By receiving federal grant money for research, student loans to subsidize its tuition, and other federal monies, Harvard has essentially accepted federal oversight in how the school operates. This is not a new concept; every administration has used the threat of suspension of federal funding to enforce its interpretation of federal laws and regulations in campus policies, especially Titles Vi, VII, and IX. So it's rather amusing to see Obama attempting to rally support for Harvard's "independence" while slurping at the federal trough {snip} At some point, a federal judge will order Trump to restore funding, and this case will wend its way to the Supreme Court, which will likely quash the order. Harvard is not entitled to federal funding if it refuses to comply with the administration's interpretations of civil-rights laws. However, it would be far cleaner for the administration and the Republicans in Congress to put an end to all federal funding for higher education, as I argued in October 2023 in my essay, "Decolonize Academia Now!" The federal government has no constitutional authority to subsidize colleges and universities, and the 60-year experiment in doing so has transformed Academia into an indoctrination center for the Left, corrupted education to the core, and created disastrous follow-on effects in primary and secondary education. Put all colleges and universities on the Hillsdale plan. Let them survive with true pricing signals, and enforce civil-rights laws through the Department of Justice in a sane and rational manner. That will not just end the problems, but will cleanly eliminate the entitlement mentality currently gripping Academia. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/04/15/fo-trump-frees-harvard-from-federal-funding-n3801803 ,

First thing that I noticed also. I cannot imagine that it is really that high.

Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk Admin responds by pulling $2.2 billion in grants and contracts Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series of demands, several aimed at combating anti-Semitism on campus, according to an email sent Monday to faculty members from university president Alan Garber. The decision puts billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard at risk: The Trump administration announced late last month that it was examining nearly $9 billion in grants and contracts to the school, and it froze $2.2 billion in Harvard grants just hours after Garber's announcement. https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-rejects-deal-with-trump-admin-putting-billions-in-federal-funding-at-risk/

Trump’s Challenge to Xi May be the Entire Story Mark Simon When you spend enough time around experts on China, “China hands”, it starts to become obvious that for the vast majority there is an accepted doctrine, mindset, if you will; of China being superior to the West in just about every way. Whether diplomatic skills, where we were told by Kissinger, “the Chinese play the long game”, or sycophants like Hank Greenberg or Hank Paulson, who just wait for a subject to cross by, and then earnestly explain how China is superior; its hard find a subject from which China hands will not conclude China is just better than us. President Trump never bought into the China myth, even more deliberately he doesn’t buy into the competence or validity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For Trump, China is a business opportunity at best, a destroyer of American jobs and a rival for global leadership at its worst. The US President prefers the latter but is prepared to deal with the former. Trump long ago concluded China was ripping the US off in trade. In 2017 he noted that Xi Jinping wasn’t going to do anything about the trade disparity and so President Trump did what he has always done to a business or political adversary; he punched Xi in the face with unilateral tariffs and a deepening of defense ties with Japan. In 2025 Donald Trump is back in office, and once again he walked across the school yard, picked out the bully, and smack. We have a new tariff battle between he and Xi Jinping. Just like he has done with the Panama Canal and TikTok, Trump makes no bones about targeting Xi. Protocol and respect for Chinese tradition are out the door with Trump. Concerns with the workings of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, are meaningless to President Trump. For the last 50 years the accepted way to deal with the CCP was to make it about policy, make it about the system. Striking out a particular leader was just not in the diplomatic playbook. The logic for non-confrontation with a Chinese leader seemed solid. Face is everything in China, and if you make a leader lose Face, then you talks go nowhere. But Donald Trump doesn’t care about Face. Does anyone think that Trump thinks Xi holds some special status where Trump doesn’t get to have a go at him? Why would we not think Trump doesn’t understand that the more he can put Xi to the test externally, the more Xi will feel the pressure internally. It’s high stakes poker. It’s also typical Trump. {snip} China scholars, diplomatic elites, CCP officials, and even President Xi, follow a plan when it comes to how the world is supposed to deal with the CCP and Chinese leaders. It’s a plan that has worked well for Xi and the CCP. Only one problem. President Trump doesn’t like the plan and has no intention of letting any opponents plan determine his tactics. So, the world needs to get ready, and diplomats might want to consider options as Trump enters the ring with Xi. For there is wisdom in the words of noted diplomat Mike Tyson, “Everyone’s got a plan, until someone punches you in the face”. https://marksimonappledaily.substack.com/p/trumps-challenge-to-xi-may-be-the?

Well, that's just "mean".

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Nancy Pelosi adamantly refusing to step down — embodying the problem with Democratic leadership: sources by Isabel Vincent Nancy Pelosi is adamant she won’t release her grip on the Democratic Party despite their resounding defeat in 2024 and a growing chorus urging her to step down, sources tell The Post. Ex-President Joe Biden named Pelosi one of the chief architects of the move to push him aside for Kamala Harris to run at short notice, and she was instrumental in the disastrous $1 billion campaign which followed – leading the party to lose the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. Younger members of the party and even current House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries believe it’s time for a refresh and new leadership, according to sources, but Pelosi insists on business as usual. https://nypost.com/2025/04/14/us-news/nancy-pelosi-refusing-to-step-down-embodying-problem-with-dem-leadership-sources/ .

President Trump Signs Executive Orders Modernizing Military Defense – Reforming Foreign Defense Sales, and Restoring American Maritime Dominance by James Rose https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/president-trump-signs-executive-orders-modernizing-military-defense/

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Since the usual suspects are fixated on 'nazis' this morning

Sorry, reads like a press release. Let's see when an actual budget is passed. Just because a left-leaning organization, which benefits from Trump critique, claims that they can't get the info that they want 2 1/2 months into the second Trump administration doesn't carry a lot of weight. (other than to the TDS"ers) .

Sorry but I do not believe that it is as cut and dried as the media/left is reporting their decision. (Not really 'reporting' but spinning from the mountaintops) Sadly, I am aware the 99% of the folks here will not to his 3 1/2 minute explanation (but will still respond). .

What the left calls ‘chaos,’ the rest of us call ‘winning:’ One by one, countries line up to make a deal with the world’s largest economy. By Robert Kimball For those scouring the news cycle for the next meme, I offer what seems to me the word of the day: “chaos.” Yes, that’s right, like some character out of the Book of Revelation Donald Trump has unleashed chaos upon the world. He is in the process of gutting, defunding or eliminating all the left’s favorite playpens, from the Department of Education to the National Endowment for Democracy. Thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency, he has revealed the sorry truth that “NGO,” which we were told meant “non-governmental organization,” actually means “nurturing governmental officialdom,” i.e., diverting taxpayer dollars for oneself, one’s relatives and people who can do you some favors. Which is to say that the “non” in “NGO” really means “all” or “limitless.” As one canny commentator on X observed, “Over the last few months, we’ve come to a realization that should have landed much harder: NGOs weren’t just adjacent to government, they were the parallel government.” Indeed. Remember all that talk about “the deep state?” NGOs were a critical enabling yeast. . . . Donald Trump has upset that apple cart. For people who care about things like fiscal sanity, accountability and transparency, it is a welcome restoration. For people who have made their living exploiting the many opportunities for corruption the status quo ante offered, it is chaos, a plunge into outer darkness. Once again, the tergiversations of the punditocracy and the public-teat-sucking political class are amusing to behold. Donald Trump announces a raft of tariffs in an effort to bring critical industries back to the United States and to level the economic playing field. The markets weep for a few days. One by one, countries line up to make a deal with the world’s largest economy. At last count, some 90 countries have signaled their intention to trim the tariffs and other trade barriers they have erected against America. Even China is making some agreeable noises. Trump has responded by delaying the imposition of certain tariffs, a canny bit of flexibility that the anti-Trump chorus has denounced as “panic.” “No One Is Buying the White House Spin,” screams one headline. But in fact, countries are lining up to buy it, and it’s no spin, it’s negotiation. As the investor Bill Ackman put it, “A willingness to adjust a strategy based on new facts and data is a sign of the strength of a leader. It is not an indication of weakness.” https://thespectator.com/topic/left-calls-chaos-winning-donald-trump/ Leftists’ unwillingness — inability? — to live in the real world is one of the right’s hidden strengths. Well, hidden from the left, anyway.

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