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Top O' the BriefingHappy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Shezwald felt happiest when other restaurant-goers supported his choice of a third patty melt. Look, I know that things are going very well these days for those of us over here on the right side of the political aisle. President Trump and his merry band of anti-Swampers have been hitting one home run after another since lunchtime on January 20. Heck, now that the dismantling of the Department of Education is underway, I should be so thrilled that I don't care what happens going forward. People all around me have been writing and talking about the five-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID nightmare back in 2020. Thinking about all of that is something that I try not to do. I'm very good at compartmentalizing and I like to keep the COVID-19 dark stuff locked up in a place where my conscious or subconscious aren't likely to stumble upon it. The remembrances of others these past couple of weeks have, unfortunately, unlocked the COVID compartment. Rick wrote a VIP post the other day detailing why he thinks a pandemic "reckoning" is in order. I couldn't agree more. We would all like that, I'm sure, even though we may differ on how to go about it. After reading my partner in thought crime Stephen Green's column reminding us of the COVID celebrity lockdown serenade I might be advocating for harsher punishment for the tyrants. Quoth the VodkaPundit:
Look, on my best days just hearing "Imagine" makes me get in touch with parts of my psyche that weird me out a little. It's truly one of the most hideous famous songs in the history of music. Stephen has more on that in his column. Recalling the lockdown celebrity singalong cover of "Imagine" really triggered my desire for retribution. I wouldn't be surprised if one day people are allowed to plead "Imagine" in court and get away with all sorts of things. The Trump administration is doing a good job of cleaning out the tyrannical riffraff from the federal bureaucracy. Better yet, he's replacing them with some people who were blackballed for telling the truth in 2020. This is from Catherine:
That is a bit of sweet revenge, I suppose. Let's be honest though, we're all hoping that the key government players from the pandemic to get their due. Seeing Anthony Fauci perp-walked and outfitted in an orange jumpsuit is the dream, isn't it? If President Trump's undoing of Joe Biden's autopen preemptive pardons works out we may get to see that. Fauci insisted that he didn't need a pardon for anything, but evil people never view themselves as evil. I'm sure Adolf Hitler fancied himself as a sparkling wit who was delightful at parties. Consequences aren't a big part of the lives people on the Left who do awful things to others, which is galling. The worst of the COVID tyrants — Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer come immediately to mind — have body counts for which they're not being held responsible. Cuomo lost his job because he was a sexist pig at work and he's already attempting a political comeback. All of the elderly people he sent to die in nursing homes don't seem to weigh on his conscience at all. I'm no legal expert, so I don't know what, if anything can be done to the execrable people who held sway during the pandemic. I just know that complete societal breaking is just around the corner if people who abuse their power to ruin the lives of others keep getting away with it. |
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
The Morning Briefing: I Don't Want to Be Greedy, but Can We Get Some COVID Comeuppance Now?
Secretary Collins Goes Off on CNN Host After Getting Asked This Question
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins obviously thought he was going on-air to discuss issues impacting those who have served our country. Instead, he was part of the liberal media’s fishing expedition on the non-scandal of the Signal chats involving top Trump officials, which inadvertently included a known anti-Trump writer, Jeffrey Goldberg, who alleges secret war plans were disclosed. That’s not true, but it’s got the media and the DC elite in a tizzy. After being asked about this matter, Collins rightly deflected because he was not privy to this information. He wasn’t on the chat, but the media is using this to try to drive wedges into the administration. The old anti-Trump sentiments within the GOP have been erased. Those who don’t like the president, who for some reason still call themselves Republicans, are now Democrats. After being pressed on the Signal chat again, Collins had enough, attacking the network for accusing a Navy veteran, Zachary Young, of exploiting desperate Afghans trying to flee the country when the Taliban retook the country:
“Respectfully, sir. I’m asking the questions here,” said CNN host Kaitlin Collins. That verdict was issued earlier this year, when CNN was ordered to pay millions in damages.
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The Dems' 'Deep Problems' Go Beyond This, MoveOn
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The left-wing group MoveOn is firing warning flares for congressional Democrats: there are “deep problems” within the party base, they warn. It’s primarily due to the feeling that the far left has regarding the current state of things. They feel the Democrats aren’t doing enough to stop President Donald J. Trump, and that could impact volunteerism among this rabid army of unhinged childless cat ladies (via The Hill):
There’s nothing about the cost of living, egg prices, or building an alternative agenda that’s appealing to voters come midterm time. It’s Trump rage and Elon Musk derangement syndrome. The Left has plenty of billionaires subsidizing their antics, which is why the anti-Elon screeching is limited and ineffective. Egg prices are now down at least 45-52 percent. The market is a bit wonky, but that’s due to a reset in the works for months. Democrats are still myopic and obsessed with things that won’t help them. Forget white working-class voters—Democrats are now losing nonwhite voters in the same demographic. Democrats saw a 23-point swing against them among voters in immigrant communities. For young people, Gen Z is gearing up to be the most conservative youth voter bloc in 50 years. Blowing up Teslas isn’t going to change these deep, structural issues, and I hope the Left never fixes them. Trending on Townhall Videos |
Prince Harry Steps Down As Patron Of African Charity He Co-Founded In Honor Of Mother Princess Diana
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| JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – OCTOBER 03: (L-R) George Sibotshiwe,
Executive Director, Vuyo Lutseke, Youth Reporter Mary-Ann Nobele, Prince
Harry, Duke of Sussex, Youth Reporter Musa Khuzwayo, Thando
Mbele-Sibotshiwe and Dr Bhakti Hansoti attend a Sentebale reception and panel discussion at The Saxon Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prince Harry has resigned as patron of the African charity that he co-founded in 2006 in memory of Princess Diana — his late mother. After stepping down from Sentebale, the youth-focused charity he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, the 40-year-old Duke of Sussex claimed in an announcement that he was both devastated and “in shock.”
Meanwhile, Harry has vaguely explained that due to the continuous unrest behind closed doors between the charity’s chairwoman, Dr. Sophie Chandauka,
and the board of trustees — he was compelled to step down. The Duke of Sussex also reminded the public that the foundation was first founded “in honor of our mothers” in a joint statement with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho.
Harry established the foundation, which translates to “Forget me not,” in memory of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales — since she loved forget-me-not flowers, which are also called “Scorpion grasses.” In a subsequent statement, the charity’s former trustees, Damian West, Audrey Kgosidintsi, Mark Dyer, Timothy Boucher, and Kelello Lerotholi also unanimously announced their decision to step down from their positions on the board.
Soon after, Chandauka, who was essentially accused of being the instigator behind the ongoing “unrest,” leading to the charity’s heads stepping down — responded with a statement of her own, asserting that the recent departures do not intimidate her.
She continued, explaining that the issues arose after she “dared to blow the whistle about issues of poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny, misogynoir — and the cover-up that ensued.” Harry’s abrupt departure occurs only a few months after Richard Miller, who had served as Sentebale’s CEO for five years, resigned. Miller’s departure followed the resignations of Baroness Lynda Chalker, an 18-year director, and Andrew Tucker, a 10-year veteran of the charity in a senior role. Following the resignation of advertising guru Johnny Hornby last year, the charity also saw a significant transformation. Hornby was chairman for five of the organization’s eleven years as a trustee. Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here. https://www.oann.com/alerts |
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Trump to Newsmax: 'Very Comfortable' With Leak Resolution
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President Donald Trump told Newsmax on Tuesday that he's "very comfortable" with the explanation and resolution of how an editor with a magazine ended up on a group thread with members of the White House national security team. Trump hosted "Greg Kelly Reports" at the White House for an extensive and wide-ranging interview. Trump
spoke with host Greg Kelly about how Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was invited to be part of a Signal app group thread about an attack on Houthi terrorists in Yemen. The link to Goldberg was on White House national security adviser Mike Waltz's team, Trump said. "And what it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line with permission; somebody that was with Mike Waltz — worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level — had, I guess, Goldberg's number or called through the app, and somehow this guy ended up on the call," Trump told Kelly. "Now, it wasn't classified, as I understand it. There was no classified information. There was no problem, and the attack was a tremendous success. "I can only go by what I was told; I wasn't involved in it. But I was told by — and the other people weren't involved at all. But I feel very comfortable actually," the president added. Kelly asked Trump if hard lines should be used for future meetings instead of Signal. "Well, I like hard lines, but the best way is to be in the situation room, or some other room, where you're all together, where you don't have — any time you have a line, whether it's air or whether it's hard, there's always a risk that people are listening," Trump said. Trump earlier Tuesday gave Waltz a vote of confidence and said he "learned a lesson." Trump, like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
and Waltz on Tuesday, when he spoke publicly about the situation for the first time, assailed Goldberg and the content he produces. "Yeah, Goldberg's bad news. It's The Atlantic. It's failing. … They made up all sorts of stories about me," Trump told Kelly. "Goldberg's a loser; his magazine's a big loser." Mark Swanson ✉Mark Swanson, a Newsmax writer and editor, has nearly three decades of experience covering news, culture and politics. © 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved. |
Where Were These Guardians of Justice During the Biden Administration?
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Since the very beginning of his term as President, Donald Trump has been hit with a lot of TROs, injunctions, and other legal procedures blocking his measures to undo many of the things Biden did. And a lot of the things Biden did are why Kamala Harris got a severe beat down in general, not to mention her own incompetence in particular. But the results of the last election demonstrated pretty clearly that most voters did not care for DEI, FBI/Legal overreach, and perhaps most of all, the invasion of illegal aliens enabled, abetted, and encouraged by federally crafted negligence on our southern border. We didn't like that, so we voted in someone who promised to restore the latter and eradicate the former. The progressives did not like that, so after coming out of shock, they began doing the same stuff that they did with Trump before the election: lawfare. And even though those things didn't entirely work out so well for them, they seem to be big believers in persistence. If, at first, you don't succeed... Everyone knows about Judge Boasberg
and Judge Reyes,
who blocked Trump's deportation measures against terrorist gang members and the prohibition of transgenders in the military. Last week, Trump called for the impeachment of Boasberg and was rebuked (at least indirectly) by SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts for doing so. Checks and balances, I get it. Then you have U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman
attempting to block the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Middle Eastern guest who has no inherent right to be here except at the pleasure of the federal government. As a foreign national who actively supports terrorism on college campuses, his proselytization diametrically conflicts with the outlook of said government, and now he is a cause célèbre of the American left. Move over, Luigi Mangione. So, to date, there are some 30 at least, maybe more, injunctions against Trump's EOs and orders. More likely to follow. It's a lot more than have ever been issued against any other president in history. RELATED: Judge Boasberg Rules on Trump Admin's Motion to Vacate Order Blocking TdA Deportations Pete Hegseth Has a 'Modest Proposal' for the Activist Judge Fighting the Pentagon's Transgender Ban So okay, I understand that Trump is brash and bold, and while I am sure he runs these measures past Legal before he issues them, it's apparent that many of them are still...brash and bold. They're controversial, no question. But are they legal? I guess we will learn soon enough since the administration is currently going through the legal appellate process to find a remedy. This will take time, and no doubt will be slow-walked by a bureaucracy that hates Trump's guts. As for impeachment of judicial members, it will never happen unless Republicans get 2/3 of the majority in the Senate and hold a majority in the House two years from now. So, I don't know what the answer to the problem is, but I do have the following question about these federal judges who seem to have realized the power they have over an administration. Where were these Guardians of Justice when Joe Biden illegally invited and lured in millions and millions of "new Americans and undocumented immigrants?" Where? Why nowhere, of course. These robes seemingly had very little to say about U.S. Code § 1325 (based on Article IV, Section IV of the Constitution) and its undeniable violation. A violation that has, and will continue to for decades, fundamentally changed the history of America. Letting in millions and millions of aliens, and then making the citizenry pay for their everything from schooling, health care, drunk driving deaths, rapes, murders, and any other crimes they committed while here has changed life for us all on many different levels. Now, progs like to use descriptors from "hard-working, good people seeking a better life" to "who will pick our crops and make up our hotel beds?" (Note to any progressives in the unlikely event of reading this: The latter sounds an awful lot like "who will pick our cotton and sweep up around the Big House?") Basically, I don't care if they are good people; I only care if they are bad people because they should not be here in the first place. We have plenty of our own good people and really don't need any new bad ones. Still, where were these judges when Biden (or whoever was pushing the knobs behind the curtain) was busy border-busting? This newfound sanctimony and sudden respect for the rule of law was absent over the last four years, and the impact it will have on this country is going to be generational. And I cannot help but wonder if any of them can be suspended for impropriety. The only reasoning I can follow is that they are either partisan or incompetent, and neither of these will present well before the Federal Judicial Conference, the policymaking body of the federal judiciary. According to the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980, a judge can be subject to complaint and reprimand for operating with a bias, mental incapacity, or otherwise unable to do his job fairly. And again, I think that if you're not going to enforce border law (when the issue is presented to you), it's either because you're partisan or incompetent. This panel cannot fire judges, but they can reprimand them and rule that they should voluntarily retire. All that might do is put a scratch on their legacy, but at least it does that. If these people are egomaniacs, maybe it will hurt some. Who knows. Perhaps a reason they will give when called into the principal's office is that "Well, President Biden never issued an EO or a directive that we could properly strike down. He never proclaimed verbally or in writing an order that effectively said, 'The border is now open to all foreign nationals; come on in.'" No, he didn't. He just (and again, it was probably somebody else) covertly let the friendly bureaucracy know what his wishes were, went on speaking tours welcoming all of our new friends, and gave them food, lodging, and airfare. From that, all things flowed since the Left clearly understood that the Great Replacement Theory was to become their newest debutant. And, golly, what do you know? It was organic. It just sort of happened, and nobody, not even Biden, could stop it. Force of nature... What I find really, really disturbing is that these judges who are now blocking what we voted for because of their hallowed respect for the law did not have enough of that same respect to question what they saw happening on the news and in front of their faces every day. They never considered issuing any sort of TRO or injunction against Homeland Security or Customs Border Protection. Customs Border Protection? Weren't those guys victims in all of this? Yes, but they had to get their orders from somewhere, and filing an injunction against them would have forced the government's hand. It might have at least revealed the next level of fraud. But nobody did that. And Biden? Doesn't the buck stop with him? If we can all agree that it did (and yes, I know he was non compos mentis, but a TRO or injunction would still have demanded a response), then where did all of this newfound judicial courage to challenge the White House come from? Well, I guess it came from hating Donald Trump. From institutional animosity comes amazing things. So, what can the new administration learn from this? I suppose they can determine that new policy has to be implemented in the dark with a wink and a nod...."Just do it...You know what the Boss means." I guess they can also learn that eventually, when the Right relinquishes power, our own federal circuit judges have the exact same tools to use to block, obfuscate, and slow-walk a Democratic president's will. I'm not advocating that because it corrupts a system we all believe in, but on the other hand, progressives count on it to hamstring us. Trump, in his last term and nearly 80 years old, could also simply ignore these rulings and enforce his own orders anyway. Joe Biden defied a SCOTUS ruling and forgave $48 billion in student loan debt, and nothing happened to him/his administration. No federal judge — neither on the circuit nor the highest court there is — seemed to have anything to say about that. Well, why shouldn't Trump do the same thing and just ignore them? Because as tempting as that might be, Trump has more integrity than that, and he knows it would help to wreck the system even more so than it already is. So he goes through the appellate process and tries to right the wrongs, relying on the same judiciary system that screwed him in the first place. I just hope there are still some good judges left in that pool. 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Cori Bush Admits Democrats Discussed a $10 Trillion Bill to Help Fight 'Climate Justice' 😲
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Former Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman recently revealed how Democrats had been pushing for what started as a $10 trillion bill to help fight climate change. Ten. Trillion. Dollars. The two Squad rejects discussed the behind-the-scenes negotiations on their new show, hosted on the Zeteo News Network, a project of MSNBC retread Mehdi Hasan. The show, called "Bowman and Bush,"
😁😆😂 promises that the two former members of Congress will be "getting super honest about American politics." In the first episode, Bush (D-MO) revealed that progressives insisted on a "climate investment" while trying to implement the Build Back Better Plan and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The investment was to include funding to fight "climate justice." That price tag "kept going down down down," according to Bush, insisting the money being taken away was "more money for lead pipes." "I think it was 3.9 trillion. Did it start at 3.9 and go down, or did it ..." Bowman (D-NY) recalled. Bush replied, "I thought we were at 10, and then it went down to 6 and then down to 3." What we ended up with were two bills—one at $1.9 trillion (Build Back Better) and another amended to $1.2 trillion in spending (Infrastructure)—that were thinly veiled climate and tax hike agenda boondoggles that sent inflation spiraling. Imagine it had been $10 trillion. Bush has long been an advocate of simply printing money for new progressive pet projects. One Juneteenth in 2023, the former lawmaker pushed for $14 trillion in reparations for slavery in America, calling it a good “starting point.” She actually introduced legislation pushing for that amount and was joined by Bowman in the process. “America must provide reparations if we desire a prosperous future for all,” she demanded. “The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of black people,” Bush said. It's a good thing these two woke idealogues are no longer representing anybody in Congress. Who knows what legislation they'd be pushing next at what price? Why stop at $14 trillion? Why not just continue to make up numbers like eleventy trillion? Is it any wonder this dynamic duo delivered farewell speeches at the end of their congressional careers, and basically nobody - other than their Squad teammates - showed up? If nobody showed up for their goodbye speeches, who will be watching their new show? As of writing this, their first episode has earned just over 71,000 views on YouTube, which is not exactly impressive. |
We Know How Kamala Harris Responded When Her Team Told Her She Was Going to Lose
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We know how Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly reacted when she was told that she wouldn’t be the next president of the United States. It’s part of a new book written by Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple
in Uncharted, which details the former vice president’s ascendency to the top of the ticket via an internal coup to her brutal crash on Election Day, where voters told her and the Democrats, they weren’t interested in them continuing this insane agenda that had destroyed the country. Excerpts were published, and it’s a little interesting how this campaign came together on the kitchen table at Naval One Observatory. Harris had top talent from the Obama operation. Still, not even they, with their exceptional political acumen, could save this woman who was flat-out unqualified and unprepared to be president. Everything seemed to be a struggle for her; Harris was ahead of her skis, but the deed was done. The open primary option that Barack Obama had hoped for quickly died, as Joe Biden endorsed Harris shortly after he stepped down from the 2024 ticket. Was it revenge for the ouster? Who knows, but every call Harris made to the top Democrats didn’t make opposition overtures; she wouldn’t face a primary challenge. The Democrats wanted to avoid a coronation but chose one anyway. It ended up being a $2 billion-plus boondoggle. What kills me is this feeling of elation on election night. Was drug use rampant, or was this crew so deep in the bubble that reason got squeezed out of this atmosphere? I think it’s the latter. There also appears to be a defined split between the on-air talent and the pollsters, the latter of which thought the former was insane for saying they were winning the race. Reality slammed into Harris when campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon
told her that she was going to lose the blue wall states (via Vanity Fair): [emphasis mine]:
The piece ends with O’Malley calling her 12-year-old twin daughters to tell them Harris and the Democrats were defeated soundly by Donald J. Trump, who had completed the greatest comeback in American political history. Liberals are obsessed with being on the right side of that arc—they weren’t. We were. A part of why the Democrats lost is that they don’t know how people think anymore. They were aloof on the unpopularity of the Biden agenda, the anger over the cost of living, and the outrage over the deluge of illegal immigrants. They didn’t know that immigrant voting communities had a 23-point swing to the Republicans and that nonwhite voters who identify as conservative or moderate are now aligning with their white counterparts. What about young people? Gen Z is trending to be the US's most conservative youth voter bloc in 50 years, a point that makes lefty data cruncher David Shor a bit uneasy when he analyzed the numbers. What’s more damning for Democrats is that if every registered voter were dragged to the polls, Trump would still win the popular vote, not by 1.7 percent, but closer to five. It’s the tip of the iceberg of many structural and political issues facing Democrats. If they don’t fix them, post-2030, a Democrat could win every state Harris carried, plus Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and still lose the presidency. For now, the Democrats have zero urgency to fix their appalling brand. |
Here's Why The Washington Post's Attack on Karoline Leavitt Is Beyond Laughable
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It’s not the worst hit piece. It sort of weaves between the lines of attacking Leavitt and charts her meteoric rise within Trump's world. The headline does set the tone: “In Karoline Leavitt’s world, Trump’s word is enough.” And there is plenty of lamentation about how this White House treats the condescending, snobby, and out-of-touch fake news press, who no longer have the power they once wielded because we all see their game. It’s why this administration was able to lock out The Associated
Of course, there’s 2020 election stuff and other anecdotes about her upbringing and family life in the piece. Here’s why this piece is ridiculous: first, of course, anything that makes the political class look bad, like the work DOGE has done to expose waste and fraud, the media will say is lacking in evidence. The fact checkers are all DNC operatives, or should be considered as such, so that means nothing. The Washington Post
might as well be a clown store because no one cares if you’re a reporter who works there, you’re just another left-wing stooge trying to foment division through well-manufactured fake news. Speaking of fact-checkers, was Karine Jean-Pierre subjected to a piece like this when she lied to the nation during the Biden administration, which had a president who was mentally incapacitated, physically depleted, and all-around moped and shuffled his way around while the nation burned? Everyone knew Biden was cooked; his aides noticed on day one of his presidency. Why didn’t anyone do anything? Why wasn’t there a piece about how Karine stood up there and lied incessantly? You already know the reasons. It again shines light on the war between us and the legacy media. There is ‘us and them,’ and these people should be treated with disdain and unbridled hatred. "Karine Jean Pierre stood at the White House podium for almost 3 years dissembling and deflecting, and the Washington Post never once wrote a story like this about her," wrote RealClearPolitics' Tom Bevan. That perfectly describes this piece. We must hate them more than they hate us, then we can go about plotting how to destroy this institution that has about as much utility to the nation as fool’s gold. Trending on Townhall Videos |
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