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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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President Trump, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller and other members of this administration have spent a good portion of the day dunking on an activist media that's been pushing the Democrats' preferred narrative about the illegal alien who was deported to El Salvador. The media can't grasp it because they don't want to. Another example of that came courtesy of Politico: Actually, Politico, he's an "El Salvador man" but don't stop trying to push that narrative! .https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/04/14/politicos-getting-ratioed-over-spin-on-wrongly-deported-maryland-man-n2411380

Good Work, Media! Possible 'Intruder' Arrested Outside UnitedHealthcare Headquarters This is a direct result of the Left's continued incitement of violence towards corporate CEOs and other people who they just don't like. Yesterday, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan had a good chuckle with Taylor Lorenz about Luigi Mangione killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The Left doesn't see this as violence, they see it as a justified protest against perceived wrongs. Now a person was arrested near UnitedHealthcare's headquarters. https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/04/14/person-arrested-outside-unitedhealthcare-headquarters-n2411378

Oh the irony. . . . . . . . Say "gulag" a few more times Roundabout, maybe you will convince some one. LOL. Meanwhile: The Democrat and media narrative surrounding an illegal alien that's been deported to El Salvador is basically "the Trump administration made a mistake and removed somebody who isn't a gang member," all while the Left has been demanding his return to the U.S. Today Trump adviser Stephen Miller took on some reporters outside the White House and the Dem narrative pushers in the press lost in a fast TKO. This is a master class on how to handle an activist media The lib media continues to peddle Dem talking points such as "he was in the country illegally but hadn't committed any crimes" which is as self-refuting as it gets. https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/04/14/stephen-miller-shreds-demmedia-narrative-surrounding-deported-ms-13-gang-member-n2411368

What do they know.

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It is over. "The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States." "I mean, we’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere and you want us to go back into releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world? That’s not going to happen." "El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return Abrego Garcia to U.S." (CNBC). https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-nayib-bukele.html

"The question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States." "I mean, we’re not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere and you want us to go back into releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world? That’s not going to happen." "El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return Abrego Garcia to U.S." (CNBC). https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/14/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-nayib-bukele.html

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That is President Trump tweaking his detractors like Roundy He loves to do that, you must see that by now. .

Penguins arrive in DC to discuss retaliatory tariffs .