34 thoughts on “News/Politics 4-8-25

  1. “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interview with Tucker Carlson just went viral.

    And he’s NOT just talking about Trump’s tariffs.Instead, he exposed the truth about what happened to America’s working class.

    Here is what you missed on Trump’s $600B tariff plan: 🧵”

    https://x.com/constantine_rm/status/1909252347991412829?t=kjy1N-mixYk_pfw2etYBPw&s=19

    “It started with a bombshell:

    “For years, the American middle class has been eviscerated.”

    Bessent says this isn’t politics — it’s backed by hard data.

    The 2004 “China shock” wrecked U.S. manufacturing, and workers never recovered…”

    —-‘

    “Now the data confirms what many felt for years.While elites thrived, middle America saw:

    • Declining life expectancy

    • Collapsing local economies

    • Parents losing faith in their kids’ futures

    The Treasury’s answer? A $600B rethink…”

    —-

    “Trump’s tariff plan could generate $300–600B/year — mostly from foreign producers.

    MIT data backs it up: his earlier 20% China tariffs raised prices just 0.7%.”

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  2. “Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.

    In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione.

    The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.

    This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.”

    https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899?t=shUSsE7i0R9A5r7Z356b3Q&s=19

    So spare me the “both sides” BS.

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  3. Of course.

    https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1909609141615599786?t=n3UsNOnb-N6_c7Xi5rBxxQ&s=19

    “I was told this was a conspiracy theory

    Biden Admin Hid Report that Military Members Contracted COVID-19 at Wuhan World Military Games in October 2019″

    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-administration-concealed-congressionally-mandated-report-on-earliest-suspected-american-covid-cases/

    “Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.

    The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.”

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  4. Further proof Jan 6th. was a fed op. But the sheep still buy the official lies.

    https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1909599551679328534?t=FamBGZt9PSZMzmmliOHQwQ&s=19

    “And here is,

    Seven minutes and 27 seconds of conspiracy, treason and sedition captured on video tape, “Metro police and Capitol police entering rooms in uniform and coming out as Trump supporters.

    ”Undercover metro Police and Capital police officers dressed as Trump supporters chanting ‘U.S.A.’ and ‘Our House’ while encouraging protesters to climb scaffolding and walls screaming ‘Help em up!, Help em up!’, ‘Push em up!, Push em up!”

    Now, release the rest of the @#$%$#@ tapes.”

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  5. They seek power for themselves, and only them Janice.

    Trump and Vance are simply a boogeyman to vent their impotence at.

    But what many Rs miss is this. It’s not Trump only. Any and all R candidates are treated this way at the local, state, and fed level. Who the candidate is is irrelevant. The hate is obvious, at all levels, and it nearly always comes from the left. These are inconvenient facts for some, but enlightening as to what we’re dealing with nowadays.

    If the wrong people draw their ire, they’ll pay thousands of protesters with your tax money to shut down your city, burn your business to the ground and vandalize your products and terrorize the people who bought them years ago.

    After what I see happening in NYC today, some headcrackung is gonna be necessary to root out these violent types. This is where we are.

    Inconvenient? Sure. But a fact nonetheless.

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  6. Janice, in my opinion, the average citizen Democrat wants life to be fair, everybody has equal opportunity around the globe. Though that may require taking a bit from those who have more to level it out.

    The average citizen Republican also wants life to be fair but not at the expense of taking from others. Make the rules and reps such that the average eighteen year old can have worked and saved his money to the point where he can move anywhere in the country to pursue work and education and reach whatever level of affluence he cares to work for. People in other countries need to be active in their country to see their children get the same opportunity, or legally emigrate to another country where they can reach for that dream.

    The average Dem politician seems to want money and power and control, but I do not know for what purpose.

    The average Rep pol seems to want either money and power or to release the people to achieve their dreams.

    mumsee

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  7. This is a joke.

    Say it with me now…..

    “He was on our radar….”

    Once again our FBI hides the facts. Thankfully we now have a DoJ that’s on it.

    https://x.com/ElectionWiz/status/1909575492396626176?t=99vQeX1fnDZIvHvvzaotqg&s=19

    “BREAKING—In court documents, the DOJ revealed that Trump assassin Ryan Routh tried to buy military weapons from Ukraine to kill Trump, including a rocket launcher”

    ——

    Zelensky knew this too.

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  8. Janice, I think it’s possible they want the country to fall as a group, but more likely they’re just individually using the mass hysteria they’re creating to look after their own little fiefdoms. Much like establishment Republicans used evangelicals’ anti-abortion fervor for their own ends for so many decades. It is hard to see any resemblance of the old Democrat party in the current collection of sad, angry, perversion-ridden souls which is today’s Democrat. Or maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places…but I was looking at the last administration.

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  9. “DOJ filings reveal second suspected Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh sought to buy an RPG from who he believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons.

    “Send me an rpg [rocket propelled grenade] or stinger and I will see what we can do…[Trump] is not good for Ukraine,” Routh allegedly said in an encrypted message.

    “I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected.””

    https://x.com/Katelyn_Caralle/status/1909625056881156559?t=ct3Lx1utpgAEQlpgd6Bvsg&s=19

    This just shows the epic disaster that was the Biden FBI and SS.

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  10. “#BREAKING: Stephen Miller announces Trump has been granted “MAXIMUM AUTHORITY to find and remove violent Venezuelan gang members” by the Supreme Court

    “This is a MONUMENTAL victory… a total embarrassment for crazy Judge Boasberg, who’s been trying to force this president to bring foreign alien terrorists back onto American soil.”

    “Tren de Aragua can now be hunted down and expelled from this country with speed and efficiency””

    https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1909420301919678890?t=3AKTdTaBPxtOGuguSP-atw&s=19

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  11. ~ A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’s full access to President Trump, finding that the effort to ban the outlet over objections to its coverage violated the First Amendment.

    The order dealt a blow to Mr. Trump, who, in a departure from decades of tradition, has moved to leverage access to presidential events as a way of asserting more direct control over how news organizations cover his administration. Trump officials began barring the outlet from physically covering events with the president in February, citing the wire services’ refusal to adopt the administration’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

    The outlet sued, with the dispute raising profound questions about the independent news media’s role in covering presidential administrations and the lasting implications of Mr. Trump’s efforts to refigure the White House press corps.

    In a sharply-worded opinion, Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that the Trump administration must “immediately rescind their viewpoint-based denial” of The Associated Press from presidential events. ~

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  12. Folks here aren’t doxing the SCOTUS judges. Nor are they protesting outside of their homes. Nor are they attempting to end their lives. That would be the “other” side of the aisle.

    While disappointed with how some judges are behaving, the Lord God is still in control and in Him we trust.
    nj

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  13. Our country ideally should not be dominated by one side of the aisle only. It actually doesn’t work very well without some give and take.

    (Not the new earth)… not yet …

    • dj

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  14. And judges are not in a “political” role, they are in a judicial role — their understanding of the law may differ from other judges (they may otherwise agree with on other matters) and that is their calling. We want them to be true to their conscience and their commitment to legal standards.

    To hold them to what is more of a “political” or partisan standard is a mistake and misreads how our government is meant to function. It’s also a dangerous mixing of the branches of our government.

    I find it curious that judges who do have a more conservative/originalist view of the law are chastised (by political conservatives, at least those who like to weigh in more politically on social media sites and are perhaps more to the right that other conservatives) as if they are “supposed” to hold to a particular political position and are being unfaithful if they don’t do that.

    That’s all 🙂

    • dj

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  15. Sadly there are sides of the aisle… there is no denying that fact. Leftist Judges do follow biases of their preferred political party. It has never been more evident than now.

    As I see it the more conservative judges are following the laws within our constitution which agitates the liberal judges wanting to make up their own laws. It is rather clear what is happening.

    The 29 year old who had a plan to murder one of our judges admitted it was for political reasons. We are not seeing this murderous behavior from conservatives… it is the radical left and in that case was incited by words spoken by Schumer. Nj

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