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GOP vice presidential hopefuls look for Trump’s golden ticket BY BRETT SAMUELS Former President Trump may be handing a golden ticket to whomever he picks as his running mate for November, and the Republicans jockeying for his favor know it. If Trump wins a second term, his running mate could be best positioned to be the GOP’s presidential candidate in 2028. Instead of the usual eight-year wait a vice presidential pick would face, Trump’s selection this time would become an overnight favorite to be the GOP nominee in four years. “To the extent that whoever he picks as vice president could be the presumptive front-runner four years from now, it’s a bigger deal than normal,” https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4606184-gop-vice-presidential-hopefuls-look-for-trumps-golden-ticket/

Would Trump Really Disband NOAA? JAZZ SHAW Liberals in the legacy media have been busily setting their hair on fire this year, warning us of the various ways that the world will end if Donald Trump is returned to office for a second term. We've been warned that this will be "the last election of our lifetimes" because Trump will refuse to leave office and remain as a dictator for life. We are assured that Trump will "seek revenge" and punish his political opponents. (That's a rich one coming from people who openly support the Biden crime family.) A new alarm is currently being sounded this week, however. The Guardian reports that "climate experts" are predicting that Trump will "break up" the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He would supposedly do this to prevent the agency from talking about climate change. This idea isn't coming from anything that Trump has said, but rather from another set of proposals being put forth by the Heritage Foundation. They've done plenty of good work for conservatives and Trump has leaned on their advice in a variety of matters, including selecting judicial nominees. Some of the complaints about NOAA found in the Project 2025 document are valid. The agency has become far too aggressive and sweeping in its claims regarding climate change alarmism. But that doesn't mean that Trump will follow those suggestions to the letter. {snip} Nobody in the government seems to approach their work these days without allowing the climate debate to color their language and influence their decisions. The sheer tonnage of cash that the Biden administration is flushing using climate change alarmism as an alibi is daunting. Trump could probably make a lot of progress by replacing Rick Spinrad at NOAA with someone more grounded and sensible. Spinrad is a Biden nominee and it shouldn't be too difficult for his replacement to issue new marching orders, telling their people to stick to the data, report their findings about the atmosphere and the weather, and leave the climate debate to the politicians. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/04/27/would-trump-really-disband-noaa-n3787323 .

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Surprising ? Really ? .

"Houthis Continue Their Attacks on Shipping and Allied Defense Measures" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/27/yemens-houthis-damage-oil-tanker-shoot-down-us-drone .

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or Bullard.

No. I'll type slow. WE wanted him. He was highly rated on OUR board We couldn't trade down because NE would have drafted him. Okay? Now up to bed with you. .

Because they actually know football ? .

And now New England drafts their own "jump ball" receiver, Showing that they wanted Keon. .

Which is why they then moved out.

It's football, not a track meet. You need a physical player who goes for the ball. NOT a "sprinter" ! .

Sometimes, a story makes you look twice and go, "Wait, what?" This is one of those; at the University of Washington, a student protest against Israel was postponed because the students involved were "too white." Isn't that "racist" ? Students at the University of Washington postponed an anti-Israel demonstration planned for Thursday because too many of the students who signed up are white. According to MyNorthwest, a Washington-based radio station, the University of Washington’s Progressive Student Union (UWPSU) opted to delay an encampment in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists “to make sure this encampment is a better reflection of the UW community, and having even greater unity with Muslim, Palestinian and Arab students.” https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/26/college-activists-postpone-anti-israel-encampment-because-students-are-too-white/

NPR Journos Suggested Reading Their Site to Prove They Are Unbiased – This Was a Grave Mistake In the continuing wake of distemper caused by the revealing Uri Berliner column, the folks at National Public Radio continue to flail in self-defense. While understandably dismayed by the accusations Berliner made, what has been apparent is that so many at this news outlet operate in a deep level of delusion. They seem resistant to introspection on the matter, and their denials are amusingly empty; they are in an echo chamber and incapable of even finding the door. Many of the rebuttals offered by the NPR journalists have run in one of two ways, and frequently both. One is to focus on the subject of diversity and DEI — a topic broached by Berliner — and then declare the pride they have in the racial and gender construct at NPR. This is pure deflection, as Berliner was not critical of the efforts in this category but used it to underscore the lack of diversity at NPR editorially. He noted that in the editors' ranks, there are 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans to be found. That reality has gone largely unaddressed. https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/04/26/npr-journos-suggested-reading-their-site-to-prove-they-are-unbiased-this-was-a-grave-mistake-n2173376

How would you narrow Trump’s VP shortlist? Take this quiz. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/vice-president-candidates-donald-trump/

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Biden Answered Howard Stern's Question About Debating Trump ('His Handlers Must Be Furious!') This morning President Biden was on Howard Stern's show, and the White House obviously knew it would be yet another softball interview. Biden served up whoppers, doozies and cringe-worthy tales at a record clip, even for him. There was one moment though that the White House might try to reel back in with another "cleanup in aisle Biden" at some point, and that's Biden's answer about debating Trump: Here's Biden's staff entering Stern's studio after Joe agreed to debate Trump: The WH press office has some work to do now. Ten seconds till a White House flack says, “The President didn’t mean ‘debate.’ What he really meant was…” https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/04/26/biden-answered-howard-sterns-question-about-debating-trump-his-handlers-must-be-furious-n2395568

There Was a Coup Attempt Against Karine Jean-Pierre, and the Details Are Something Top White House officials attempted to force Karine Jean-Pierre out of her job in late 2023, according to a new report. The so-far failed coup attempt involved Anita Dunn, who is Joe Biden's top communications chief and technically Jean-Pierre's superior. The details of how this went down are something and speak to the severe dysfunction present in the Biden administration. Wokeness inevitably leads to destruction. {snip} Putting all that aside, though, here's what is most striking to me about this report: If they want Jean-Pierre gone so badly, why hasn't she just been fired? The answer to that question is obvious. Firing the "first black, lesbian, immigrant" press secretary would be bad optics for a president who has made DEI a centerpiece of his administration. Jean-Pierre is protected not by her stellar performance on the job, but by the identity boxes she checks. They can't fire her without being eviscerated by the far left and its adherents in the mainstream press. https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/04/26/report-there-was-a-coup-attempt-against-historys-worst-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-n2173345 https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/inside-the-failed-white-house-coup-against-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre/?