“We are seeing record youth support for President Trump and unusually lower senior citizen support for a Republican president
It’s a very simple explanation
Older people watch cable news where the TDS spin and 95% negative coverage is omnipresentYounger people get their news from social media where independent voices have free speech
Bad news for Democrats is that internet news is exploding in growth while legacy media is imploding
This is why they’re starting to push for street violence, which is not a sign of strength”
“The data backs it up. A Harvard Youth Poll shows young voters now favor the GOP over Democrats by 6 points—a seismic shift from Biden’s 24-point lead in 2020.
Why? Gen Z sees through the legacy media’s fearmongering. They’re drowning in student debt, priced out of homes, and watching D.C. burn cash on foreign wars while infrastructure crumbles.
Social media bypasses the gatekeepers, letting them witness the Bidenflation disaster firsthand. Meanwhile, seniors glued to cable news get a curated narrative that ignores $1.2 trillion in reckless omnibus spending and failed green energy boondoggles.
The left’s desperation isn’t surprising—their policies can’t survive scrutiny, so they’re left with chaos.”
“Congress doesn’t stop it because Congress is deeply complicit. Senators and Representatives allocate taxpayer dollars to USAID, but that’s only the start. The International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), both recipients of USAID funding, include actively serving members of Congress on their boards. These same organizations also serve on ACVFA, the advisory body that workshops where USAID money flows. The Presidents of IRI, NDI, and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) all hold seats on ACVFA. Gates Foundation and other members of USGLC also sit on ACVFA. USGLC, meanwhile, operates as a revolving door. Former Senators and Representatives from both parties serve in its leadership, and internal emails show the group actively pursuing newly elected members of Congress to bring them into its fold. This recruitment involves regular dinners, direct outreach, and strategic lobbying.That’s why I coined it the Ouroboros of Interest. It’s the infinite money hack, it’s the reason why our deficit spending is out of control, and it’s also the reason why Congress refuses to stop any of this spending.”
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Walmart and Target said to agree to absorb tariffs, ask Chinese suppliers to resume shipments
Chinese state media reported Wednesday that some Chinese toy exporters have been notified by Walmart and Target to resume partial shipments and that the U.S. businesses have agreed to shoulder the extra tariff costs.
The report came after Beijing in March summoned Walmart executives for allegedly pressuring Chinese suppliers to absorb tariff costs. One Chinese exporter named Cheng Zhengren told Beijing News he expects to make a shipment in a week or so.
“Without us, what do they have to sell?” the Chinese exporter told the newspaper. “Their shelves would be empty.”
“US inflation cools, consumer step up spending, as Americans brace for tariff impact
The closely watched inflation gauge cooled last month in a sign that prices were steadily easing before most of Trump’s tariffs were implemented.
At the same time, consumers accelerated their spending, potentially in an effort to get ahead of the duties.
Wednesday’s report from the Commerce Department showed consumer prices rose just 2.3% in March from a year earlier, down from 2.5% in February. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.6% compared with a year ago, below February’s 2.8%. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.
The slowdown in inflation could be a temporary respite until the widespread duties imposed by Trump begin to push up prices in many categories. Economists forecast that inflation could reverse its recent decline and reach 3% or higher by the end of this year.
I suspect someone has lost their marbles: us or him. You decide.
“Trump blames his predecessor, Joe Biden, for sharp stock market selloff Wednesday morning
The news behind the drop was a government report showing the U.S. economy shrank during the first three months of this year, as imports increased because businesses are attempting to frontrun the high import taxes being imposed by Trump.
Trump refused in a social media post to accept any responsibility for the economy’s direction.
“This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS.”
Hold the presses! From AP: “JUST IN: Ukrainian officials say Kyiv is ready to sign a much anticipated mineral resources deal with the US on Wednesday ”
Public schools don’t indoctrinate you say? Sure thing.
A public school in Maryland is denying graduation to a high school senior due to her refusal to take a LGBTQ course that conflicts with her family’s Christian faith. Her parents have filed a petition to the Maryland Supreme Court to review their case, which is pending before Maryland’s Appellate Court.
The work that could be done with executive orders has been done by the President. Now comes the really tough part: Congress.
“WARREN, Mich. — President Donald Trump spent the first 100 days of his second term doing just about everything he could unilaterally. He’ll spend the next 100 applying the same brute force to the narrowly controlled Republican Congress….
Trump and congressional Republicans are betting that a massive tax cut bill will help stabilize the economy, and the president’s standing. If they can pass what he calls a “big, beautiful bill” rolling together tax cuts, national security funding and spending cuts, the party will have more room to celebrate. But if the bill stalls out, Republicans will have to mount a painful scramble to regroup on the president’s agenda.
“The big prize is the reconciliation package,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Semafor, referring to the procedure for passing the measure without Democratic votes. “We’ll know in a couple weeks here if the one big beautiful bill survives.”
Trump seems to recognize the importance Congress will play over the next few months, telling reporters at the White House on Tuesday that his “biggest focus” will be the Hill for a stretch as he tries to push his tax bill through. Vice President JD Vance visited Senate Republicans as Trump prepared to travel, mostly listening as his former colleagues hashed over their plans….
This is interesting news in the medical field. It could be a real game changer.
“World’s first trial of room-temperature vaccine gets underway
The world’s first trial of a room-temperature vaccine began in the UK.
Existing vaccines need to be kept in refrigerators — and, in some cases, ultra-low-temperature freezers, a huge obstacle to getting them to where they are needed, especially in low-income countries with limited electricity supplies.
A British biotech company said its technology can ensure existing vaccines are stable at room temperature. The initial test is on a tetanus and diphtheria jab, but the company estimates that up to 60 other vaccines could use the same technique. If successful, the technology could transform vaccine availability and hugely reduce wastage: The World Health Organization estimates that cold-chain issues mean 50% of doses are currently thrown away.
This happened yesterday and should help assuage some of the angst among US auto manufacturers.
‘WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to relax some of his 25% tariffs on automobiles and auto parts, a significant reversal as the import taxes threatened to hurt domestic manufacturers.
Automakers and independent analyses have indicated that the tariffs could raise prices, reduce sales and make U.S. production less competitive worldwide. Trump portrayed the changes as a bridge toward automakers moving more production into the United States.
“We just wanted to help them during this little transition, short term,” Trump told reporters. “We didn’t want to penalize them. ”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who spoke earlier at a White House briefing on Tuesday, said the goal was to enable automakers to create more domestic manufacturing jobs….”
Look!! Another activist judge from CA!! Appointed by ….Biden
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant. Another activist judge who wants to protect criminal illegals. Unreal
President Trump hinted at a bold constitutional move during a cabinet meeting, suggesting he may consider suspending habeas corpus, used by three previous presidents, to bypass activist judges blocking immigration enforcement.
I am very opposed to suspending habeas corpus. It’s bad enough that we have ice agents running around in masks snatching people —-and mistakes have been made.
Haste is not our friend in this situation. Just last week they were talking about an illegal woman who was deported with her child who is an American citizen.
Even if you consider that the woman had due process herself, it’s very clear that the American citizen in her custody did not have due process. Maybe he should have gone with his mother and maybe not, but now we will never know because we were in such haste to deport without asking too many questions or giving time for answers to keep our quotas up. And the child, an American citizen, has cancer.
We begin with another lesson in detecting sneaky journalistic malfeasance. Yesterday, Politico ran the widely covered story headlined, “Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process.’” The sub-headline added, “The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.”
Now take a mental snapshot of the scene you have in your mind. Jackbooted thugs, toddlers ripped from the arms of hysterical parents, assault rifles aimed at babies, and so forth. It was probably worse than that time the Democrats forcibly deported young Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. Oh wait, forget about that. Politico did.
They take advantage of us because it takes time to track down the real facts of these cases. So I did it for you.
Here’s what Politico said happened. After four years of ICE supervision and exhausted asylum appeals, a Honduran woman attended an immigration appointment in Louisiana last week, only to discover she had been scheduled for deportation. The ICE folks took her into custody along with her 11-year old daughter— and her two-year-old daughter, VML. The twist was, baby VML was born in Baton Rouge, and thus a U.S. citizen.
Nevertheless, the three ladies were headed for Honduras before you could say “cigar factory.”
VML’s apparently well-connected father sprang into action, immediately recruiting a legion of activist lawyers. With more help from his ‘sister-in-law,’ Trish Mack, and his courageous lawyers, he first tried to talk INS into returning his daughter, and when they refused, his team of free lawyers filed an emergency motion for habeus corpus relief— in other words, to order the government to immediately release VML.
I must pause for a moment, to point out that all these free toddlers-rights lawyers were completely AWOL back when two-year-old citizens were subject to mask mandates and became experimental human pincushions. These lawyers are political hacks; a disgrace and a pox upon the profession; and they should be shunned and ostracized by honest society. But anyway.
🔥 For its part, the government said the mother —the custodial parent— said she wanted the kids to go with her. But Judge Terry Doughty seemed skeptical of the government’s claims and set a hearing for May 16th to find out more about what’s going on. He said —the quote that made international news— he hoped the evidence presented at the May 16 hearing will “dispel our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
In any case, if you read Politico’s article (or any of the many others) you would think that a plucky dad is fighting for his young daughter who was swept up in Trump’s mass deportation disaster. They are now asking the federal court to order the child to be brought back immediately, and are talking to media like the Rapture is scheduled for next Wednesday afternoon.
That all sounds awful, very Elian Gonzalez-like. Until you actually read the court filings, that is. Which even a Politico reporter could have figured out how to do, maybe with a little Googling or AI-assistance and another Jolt cola.
🔥 As usual, the media’ fairy tale begins falling apart almost immediately. I relied on the activist lawyers’ own court filings for most of this information. Here’s a link to the initial petition.
First of all, VML’s parents are not married. VML has always lived with her mother, “Jenny” Carolina Lopez Villela. But —and this is the part that will blow your mind— VML’s biological father is also an illegal Honduran alien, and is also subject to immediate deportation whenever ICE catches up with him. It’s right in his own petition (Note that ‘Harper’ is a New Orleans INS agent):
In other words, according to Adiel, New Orleans INS offered him a free flight to Honduras so he could go with his daughter. Apparently, he didn’t like that option. Good thing he had free lawyers helping him.
In its response, the government said it offered for the father, Adiel, to come in and prove his identity as the father, but he declined, since he’d be deported. INS said it wasn’t about to turn over a 2-year-old baby to an unidentified man. The INS also said that Jenny said she wanted VML to stay with her, and signed a handwritten statement to that effect (albeit without counsel).
But Daddy had another, bigger problem. As a non-citizen, it is doubtful he had standing to bring the case. So his lawyers arranged a neat legal trick, a judicial switcheroo. Daddy’s activist lawyers got him to sign a form temporarily assigning his parental rights to his ‘sister in law,’ Trish Mack. Trish, a U.S. citizen, could bring the action, and they all filed about ten seconds later.
🔥 But Trish’s affidavit, attached to the Petition, doesn’t say she is Adiel’s sister-in-law. She’s just a ‘friend.’ She’s only known Adiel for about a year. It doesn’t say how she knows him. Based on the emerging pattern, my guess is Adiel was living in her casita. From the affidavit (linked here):
How well? Nevermind. The point is, Politico and the rest of corporate media are outright lying by calling her the sister-in-law, to conceal the troubling fact that she’s just some random friend with no relationship whatever to baby VML.
But wait. It gets even better. Trish might not know Adiel so well after all. In her affidavit, Trish admitted she doesn’t know all the facts, not really:
So … what on Earth is going on here? If the case succeeds, and baby VML is returned from Honduras and turned over to Adiel, they’ll both be immediately deported back to Honduras. How is that in the child’s best interest? Or, would Adiel return to Honduras, while VML would stay here with … who? Trish? Trish only accepted provisionalplacement. Best case, VML would wind up in Louisiana’s foster care system.
How is that in VML’s best interest?
The whole lawsuit is a sick joke wrapped in a fig leaf. What they really want —without ever saying it out loud or in print— is for VML’s mother to be flown back from Honduras under humanitarian parole so she can “care for” VML, while a long, noisy court case drenched in media coverage drags out. It’s not about protecting the child. It’s about buying time, slowing the mass deportations, and building headlines.
Thank goodness, for once, ICE didn’t blink and move on to easier targets.
The many corporate media stories about baby VML mention none of these complications or the readily available additional context. But I thought you should know the truth.
We really don’t hate the corporate media nearly enough.
One or two mistakes will always happen. We can’t not deport millions because of one or two mistakes. That would be silly, and it’s not happening. The citizens deported thing is a false canard by the Left and media. These were children the illegal parent decided to take with them.
And sadly agents must hide their identity, both from the press, the dem activist Swatters, and the gangs. Police do it during drug busts, as do feds when arresting on federal warrants. Nothing new.
Also, the Trump admin leaves the choice to the minors mother. The child can stay with relatives, or leave with mom. The choice is hers alone.
“Tom Homan is committed to keeping families together @RealTomHoman
“But I’ve said also since January 20, that we’ll keep families together, and when the adult gets deported, they got a choice. It’s not a government’s choice.
It’s a parental choice. Either take the child with you or leave them here with a relative of the other spouse.
Just because you have US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws.”
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A false canard, as is the citizens deported thing.
I read the link. That child was scheduled to appear in a us court on May 16 I believe it said. That US citizen had every right to be here on US soil until everything is ironed out. Nothing in that painfully sarcastic article changed my mind at all.
Yep he is heavy on sarcasm but he does point out hypocrisy in the narrative of the left. So it is a tug of war between two illegals one of whom is being represented by an attorney paid by…us! She is being used as a pawn and somehow that is our fault?
I just saw a FB post by my CA friend. She plans to be at a rally where Joan Baez will sing. She is trying to decide what to put on her sign. I hope she enjoys herself and the crowd is okay.
“BREAKING: The United States and Ukraine have signed the final agreement for rare earth minerals, natural resources, per Bloomberg.
The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas.”
Serious question. How do we access these resources if a war is going on? Do we then involve ourselves in the war other than weapons and billions… which I oppose already.
They weren’t deported, their mothers were, and decided to take the kids with them. Their activist lawyer and the activist writer can wring their hands over it, but those are the facts.
Wandering Views 
US economy is said to be contracting based on the rush of imports by businesses eager to avoid the tariffs.
https://www.reuters.com/business/stockpiling-ahead-tariffs-likely-hurt-us-economy-first-quarter-2025-04-30/
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China has created a list of US manufactured goods exempt from its 125% tariff and is “quietly notifying companies”.
https://archive.is/20250430073446/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-creates-list-us-made-goods-exempt-125-tariffs-sources-say-2025-04-30/
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“We are seeing record youth support for President Trump and unusually lower senior citizen support for a Republican president
It’s a very simple explanation
Older people watch cable news where the TDS spin and 95% negative coverage is omnipresentYounger people get their news from social media where independent voices have free speech
Bad news for Democrats is that internet news is exploding in growth while legacy media is imploding
This is why they’re starting to push for street violence, which is not a sign of strength”
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1917567968067600780?t=wuyhbtEgfRiMS0QrhGoZaw&s=19
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“The data backs it up. A Harvard Youth Poll shows young voters now favor the GOP over Democrats by 6 points—a seismic shift from Biden’s 24-point lead in 2020.
Why? Gen Z sees through the legacy media’s fearmongering. They’re drowning in student debt, priced out of homes, and watching D.C. burn cash on foreign wars while infrastructure crumbles.
Social media bypasses the gatekeepers, letting them witness the Bidenflation disaster firsthand. Meanwhile, seniors glued to cable news get a curated narrative that ignores $1.2 trillion in reckless omnibus spending and failed green energy boondoggles.
The left’s desperation isn’t surprising—their policies can’t survive scrutiny, so they’re left with chaos.”
https://x.com/dogeai_gov/status/1917568604381368726?t=PCvOIfBms4PmDnu3OH0U2g&s=19
And the old people in Congress just push USAID money everywhere, knowing they won’t be stuck with the bill.
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As I was saying….
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1917353347293798835?t=jmPGlBXkNzzAYg-uktq61A&s=19
“Congress doesn’t stop it because Congress is deeply complicit. Senators and Representatives allocate taxpayer dollars to USAID, but that’s only the start. The International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI), both recipients of USAID funding, include actively serving members of Congress on their boards. These same organizations also serve on ACVFA, the advisory body that workshops where USAID money flows. The Presidents of IRI, NDI, and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) all hold seats on ACVFA. Gates Foundation and other members of USGLC also sit on ACVFA. USGLC, meanwhile, operates as a revolving door. Former Senators and Representatives from both parties serve in its leadership, and internal emails show the group actively pursuing newly elected members of Congress to bring them into its fold. This recruitment involves regular dinners, direct outreach, and strategic lobbying.That’s why I coined it the Ouroboros of Interest. It’s the infinite money hack, it’s the reason why our deficit spending is out of control, and it’s also the reason why Congress refuses to stop any of this spending.”
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VDH nails it again. A thread that looks at Trumps first 100 days, from an honest journalist.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1917306437207736778?t=lchB1k6UMCAjCgRhFkZMmg&s=19
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Walmart and Target said to agree to absorb tariffs, ask Chinese suppliers to resume shipments
Chinese state media reported Wednesday that some Chinese toy exporters have been notified by Walmart and Target to resume partial shipments and that the U.S. businesses have agreed to shoulder the extra tariff costs.
The report came after Beijing in March summoned Walmart executives for allegedly pressuring Chinese suppliers to absorb tariff costs. One Chinese exporter named Cheng Zhengren told Beijing News he expects to make a shipment in a week or so.
“Without us, what do they have to sell?” the Chinese exporter told the newspaper. “Their shelves would be empty.”
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-30-2025#00000196-870f-d593-a1be-bf2fe4450000
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“US inflation cools, consumer step up spending, as Americans brace for tariff impact
The closely watched inflation gauge cooled last month in a sign that prices were steadily easing before most of Trump’s tariffs were implemented.
At the same time, consumers accelerated their spending, potentially in an effort to get ahead of the duties.
Wednesday’s report from the Commerce Department showed consumer prices rose just 2.3% in March from a year earlier, down from 2.5% in February. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.6% compared with a year ago, below February’s 2.8%. Economists track core prices because they typically provide a better read on where inflation is headed.
The slowdown in inflation could be a temporary respite until the widespread duties imposed by Trump begin to push up prices in many categories. Economists forecast that inflation could reverse its recent decline and reach 3% or higher by the end of this year.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-30-2025#00000196-870b-d672-a9b7-a77fd26a0000
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I suspect someone has lost their marbles: us or him. You decide.
“Trump blames his predecessor, Joe Biden, for sharp stock market selloff Wednesday morning
The news behind the drop was a government report showing the U.S. economy shrank during the first three months of this year, as imports increased because businesses are attempting to frontrun the high import taxes being imposed by Trump.
Trump refused in a social media post to accept any responsibility for the economy’s direction.
“This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS.”
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Hold the presses! From AP: “JUST IN: Ukrainian officials say Kyiv is ready to sign a much anticipated mineral resources deal with the US on Wednesday ”
I’ll believe that when I see it
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Public schools don’t indoctrinate you say? Sure thing.
A public school in Maryland is denying graduation to a high school senior due to her refusal to take a LGBTQ course that conflicts with her family’s Christian faith. Her parents have filed a petition to the Maryland Supreme Court to review their case, which is pending before Maryland’s Appellate Court.
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The work that could be done with executive orders has been done by the President. Now comes the really tough part: Congress.
“WARREN, Mich. — President Donald Trump spent the first 100 days of his second term doing just about everything he could unilaterally. He’ll spend the next 100 applying the same brute force to the narrowly controlled Republican Congress….
Trump and congressional Republicans are betting that a massive tax cut bill will help stabilize the economy, and the president’s standing. If they can pass what he calls a “big, beautiful bill” rolling together tax cuts, national security funding and spending cuts, the party will have more room to celebrate. But if the bill stalls out, Republicans will have to mount a painful scramble to regroup on the president’s agenda.
“The big prize is the reconciliation package,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Semafor, referring to the procedure for passing the measure without Democratic votes. “We’ll know in a couple weeks here if the one big beautiful bill survives.”
Trump seems to recognize the importance Congress will play over the next few months, telling reporters at the White House on Tuesday that his “biggest focus” will be the Hill for a stretch as he tries to push his tax bill through. Vice President JD Vance visited Senate Republicans as Trump prepared to travel, mostly listening as his former colleagues hashed over their plans….
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2025/trumps-100-day-celebration-obscures-the-tough-road-ahead
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This is interesting news in the medical field. It could be a real game changer.
“World’s first trial of room-temperature vaccine gets underway
The world’s first trial of a room-temperature vaccine began in the UK.
Existing vaccines need to be kept in refrigerators — and, in some cases, ultra-low-temperature freezers, a huge obstacle to getting them to where they are needed, especially in low-income countries with limited electricity supplies.
A British biotech company said its technology can ensure existing vaccines are stable at room temperature. The initial test is on a tetanus and diphtheria jab, but the company estimates that up to 60 other vaccines could use the same technique. If successful, the technology could transform vaccine availability and hugely reduce wastage: The World Health Organization estimates that cold-chain issues mean 50% of doses are currently thrown away.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/30/2025/uk-trial-of-room-temperature-vaccine-offers-hope
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This happened yesterday and should help assuage some of the angst among US auto manufacturers.
‘WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to relax some of his 25% tariffs on automobiles and auto parts, a significant reversal as the import taxes threatened to hurt domestic manufacturers.
Automakers and independent analyses have indicated that the tariffs could raise prices, reduce sales and make U.S. production less competitive worldwide. Trump portrayed the changes as a bridge toward automakers moving more production into the United States.
“We just wanted to help them during this little transition, short term,” Trump told reporters. “We didn’t want to penalize them. ”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who spoke earlier at a White House briefing on Tuesday, said the goal was to enable automakers to create more domestic manufacturing jobs….”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-automakers-factories-relief-25a400c98e02c01c8c54502384e267e1
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Look!! Another activist judge from CA!! Appointed by ….Biden
BREAKING: Jennifer Thurston, a U.S. District Judge, has issued an order BANNING Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal aliens unless they have a warrant. Another activist judge who wants to protect criminal illegals. Unreal
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Do it!
President Trump hinted at a bold constitutional move during a cabinet meeting, suggesting he may consider suspending habeas corpus, used by three previous presidents, to bypass activist judges blocking immigration enforcement.
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I am very opposed to suspending habeas corpus. It’s bad enough that we have ice agents running around in masks snatching people —-and mistakes have been made.
Haste is not our friend in this situation. Just last week they were talking about an illegal woman who was deported with her child who is an American citizen.
Even if you consider that the woman had due process herself, it’s very clear that the American citizen in her custody did not have due process. Maybe he should have gone with his mother and maybe not, but now we will never know because we were in such haste to deport without asking too many questions or giving time for answers to keep our quotas up. And the child, an American citizen, has cancer.
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A little light reading from Childers
We begin with another lesson in detecting sneaky journalistic malfeasance. Yesterday, Politico ran the widely covered story headlined, “Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process.’” The sub-headline added, “The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.”
Now take a mental snapshot of the scene you have in your mind. Jackbooted thugs, toddlers ripped from the arms of hysterical parents, assault rifles aimed at babies, and so forth. It was probably worse than that time the Democrats forcibly deported young Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. Oh wait, forget about that. Politico did.
They take advantage of us because it takes time to track down the real facts of these cases. So I did it for you.
Here’s what Politico said happened. After four years of ICE supervision and exhausted asylum appeals, a Honduran woman attended an immigration appointment in Louisiana last week, only to discover she had been scheduled for deportation. The ICE folks took her into custody along with her 11-year old daughter— and her two-year-old daughter, VML. The twist was, baby VML was born in Baton Rouge, and thus a U.S. citizen.
Nevertheless, the three ladies were headed for Honduras before you could say “cigar factory.”
VML’s apparently well-connected father sprang into action, immediately recruiting a legion of activist lawyers. With more help from his ‘sister-in-law,’ Trish Mack, and his courageous lawyers, he first tried to talk INS into returning his daughter, and when they refused, his team of free lawyers filed an emergency motion for habeus corpus relief— in other words, to order the government to immediately release VML.
I must pause for a moment, to point out that all these free toddlers-rights lawyers were completely AWOL back when two-year-old citizens were subject to mask mandates and became experimental human pincushions. These lawyers are political hacks; a disgrace and a pox upon the profession; and they should be shunned and ostracized by honest society. But anyway.
🔥 For its part, the government said the mother —the custodial parent— said she wanted the kids to go with her. But Judge Terry Doughty seemed skeptical of the government’s claims and set a hearing for May 16th to find out more about what’s going on. He said —the quote that made international news— he hoped the evidence presented at the May 16 hearing will “dispel our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
In any case, if you read Politico’s article (or any of the many others) you would think that a plucky dad is fighting for his young daughter who was swept up in Trump’s mass deportation disaster. They are now asking the federal court to order the child to be brought back immediately, and are talking to media like the Rapture is scheduled for next Wednesday afternoon.
That all sounds awful, very Elian Gonzalez-like. Until you actually read the court filings, that is. Which even a Politico reporter could have figured out how to do, maybe with a little Googling or AI-assistance and another Jolt cola.
🔥 As usual, the media’ fairy tale begins falling apart almost immediately. I relied on the activist lawyers’ own court filings for most of this information. Here’s a link to the initial petition.
First of all, VML’s parents are not married. VML has always lived with her mother, “Jenny” Carolina Lopez Villela. But —and this is the part that will blow your mind— VML’s biological father is also an illegal Honduran alien, and is also subject to immediate deportation whenever ICE catches up with him. It’s right in his own petition (Note that ‘Harper’ is a New Orleans INS agent):
In other words, according to Adiel, New Orleans INS offered him a free flight to Honduras so he could go with his daughter. Apparently, he didn’t like that option. Good thing he had free lawyers helping him.
In its response, the government said it offered for the father, Adiel, to come in and prove his identity as the father, but he declined, since he’d be deported. INS said it wasn’t about to turn over a 2-year-old baby to an unidentified man. The INS also said that Jenny said she wanted VML to stay with her, and signed a handwritten statement to that effect (albeit without counsel).
But Daddy had another, bigger problem. As a non-citizen, it is doubtful he had standing to bring the case. So his lawyers arranged a neat legal trick, a judicial switcheroo. Daddy’s activist lawyers got him to sign a form temporarily assigning his parental rights to his ‘sister in law,’ Trish Mack. Trish, a U.S. citizen, could bring the action, and they all filed about ten seconds later.
🔥 But Trish’s affidavit, attached to the Petition, doesn’t say she is Adiel’s sister-in-law. She’s just a ‘friend.’ She’s only known Adiel for about a year. It doesn’t say how she knows him. Based on the emerging pattern, my guess is Adiel was living in her casita. From the affidavit (linked here):
How well? Nevermind. The point is, Politico and the rest of corporate media are outright lying by calling her the sister-in-law, to conceal the troubling fact that she’s just some random friend with no relationship whatever to baby VML.
But wait. It gets even better. Trish might not know Adiel so well after all. In her affidavit, Trish admitted she doesn’t know all the facts, not really:
So … what on Earth is going on here? If the case succeeds, and baby VML is returned from Honduras and turned over to Adiel, they’ll both be immediately deported back to Honduras. How is that in the child’s best interest? Or, would Adiel return to Honduras, while VML would stay here with … who? Trish? Trish only accepted provisionalplacement. Best case, VML would wind up in Louisiana’s foster care system.
How is that in VML’s best interest?
The whole lawsuit is a sick joke wrapped in a fig leaf. What they really want —without ever saying it out loud or in print— is for VML’s mother to be flown back from Honduras under humanitarian parole so she can “care for” VML, while a long, noisy court case drenched in media coverage drags out. It’s not about protecting the child. It’s about buying time, slowing the mass deportations, and building headlines.
Thank goodness, for once, ICE didn’t blink and move on to easier targets.
The many corporate media stories about baby VML mention none of these complications or the readily available additional context. But I thought you should know the truth.
We really don’t hate the corporate media nearly enough.
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My looong post is awaiting approval but Jeff Childers addresses what you are objecting to Debra. Smoke and mirrors ….
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One or two mistakes will always happen. We can’t not deport millions because of one or two mistakes. That would be silly, and it’s not happening. The citizens deported thing is a false canard by the Left and media. These were children the illegal parent decided to take with them.
And sadly agents must hide their identity, both from the press, the dem activist Swatters, and the gangs. Police do it during drug busts, as do feds when arresting on federal warrants. Nothing new.
Also, the Trump admin leaves the choice to the minors mother. The child can stay with relatives, or leave with mom. The choice is hers alone.
https://x.com/jayplemons/status/1916653395445952618?t=o355sp_wMgA7Pl8KWhZ_TQ&s=19
“Tom Homan is committed to keeping families together @RealTomHoman
“But I’ve said also since January 20, that we’ll keep families together, and when the adult gets deported, they got a choice. It’s not a government’s choice.
It’s a parental choice. Either take the child with you or leave them here with a relative of the other spouse.
Just because you have US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws.”
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A false canard, as is the citizens deported thing.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/baby-lies-wednesday-april-30-2025?r=1horel&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
this link might work… then again maybe not
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I read the link. That child was scheduled to appear in a us court on May 16 I believe it said. That US citizen had every right to be here on US soil until everything is ironed out. Nothing in that painfully sarcastic article changed my mind at all.
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Yep he is heavy on sarcasm but he does point out hypocrisy in the narrative of the left. So it is a tug of war between two illegals one of whom is being represented by an attorney paid by…us! She is being used as a pawn and somehow that is our fault?
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I just saw a FB post by my CA friend. She plans to be at a rally where Joan Baez will sing. She is trying to decide what to put on her sign. I hope she enjoys herself and the crowd is okay.
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I love Joan Baez voice. She definitely champions the left but oh that voice she was given.
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“BREAKING: The United States and Ukraine have signed the final agreement for rare earth minerals, natural resources, per Bloomberg.
The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas.”
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1917697201641513189?t=XC11g7imDhTPe6frs8LxtQ&s=19
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Serious question. How do we access these resources if a war is going on? Do we then involve ourselves in the war other than weapons and billions… which I oppose already.
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Deporting US citizen children without full and complete due process is unconscionable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8yj2n33yo
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They weren’t deported, their mothers were, and decided to take the kids with them. Their activist lawyer and the activist writer can wring their hands over it, but those are the facts.
Again, a false canard.
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These US citizens did not receive due process and that is wrong. Deny all you want. It’s still wrong.
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