Is Jamie Raskin Having a Psychotic Break?

posted by Richard Blakely at American Thinker 

Jesse Watters says:

These people [Democrat leadership] have convinced themselves that when they’re not in power, they’re going to die…but nobody’s dying. They never do.

[snip]

Trump’s the first president in forty years to cut waste, fraud and abuse.  Democrats are jealous that he is doing things that they ran on and never did.  That’s what is making them crazy.  Their dirty little playbook was to say that they were going to do stuff, never do it, and then just keep running on it again, and again, and again, so they could be politicians for life, and get rich insider trading and taking half the week off.  But Trump is fixing the problems and finding their fraud. So, the jig’s up.  And when they say the world’s going to end.  Yeah, their world’s ending.  Their reality is over, and they never thought it would happen. So, they are having a hard time coming to grips with reality. Clinical psychologists call this a ‘psychotic break,’ when you sever yourself from reality and live in a different world that you have created in your own mind.

Is Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-MD, having a psychotic break?  ,

[W]hen we come back to power, and we will, we are not going to look kindly upon people who…facilitated authoritarianism in our country, because that’s an assault on our Constitution, and on our people.

Raskin was ranting about President Trump’s deportation of illegal alien criminal gang members back to their country of origin.  ,

The whole idea that [Nayib] Bukele doesn’t have any power to return an American prisoner who was sent to him under an agreement where he is getting paid $6 million by America is ridiculous.

Obviously, something has slipped in Raskin’s mind.  The “American prisoner” to which Raskin is referring is not an American, but is instead an illegal alien from El Salvador who has been found to be a member of MS-13 in two different American courts and now has been returned to his country of origin where he was imprisoned because he is a criminal.

Further proving that something has slipped in Raskin’s mind, concerning foreign countries supporting Trump’s policies, Raskin has threatened them with retribution “when [Democrats] come back to power.”  Raskin has even called for cutting off foreign aid to El Salvador in response to its cooperation with the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal alien criminal gang members.

Raskin’s comments were made on “Pod Save America” hosted by Tommy Vietor on April 19 with Vietor agreeing with Raskin that Democrats should “threaten to take action against any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”

The Google dictionary defines “rendition” to mean, “the practice of sending a foreign criminal or terrorist suspect covertly to be interrogated in a country with less rigorous regulations for the humane treatment of prisoners.”

Well, joining Raskin, it looks like Vietor’s mind has slipped as well, as the word “rendition” would not describe an “American citizen,” but on top of all of that, these deportees are not American citizens. That is why these illegal aliens are being deported back to the country from which they came.  These deportees are Salvadoran gang members running violent criminal rackets in the U.S. undermining the U.S. democracy and safety of American citizens.

Jesses Watters stated, “Barack Obama deported three million illegals.  No one called him a dictator, and no one said citizens are next.  Obama’s people didn’t even think it was controversial.”  Then Jesse played a clip of an interview taken with a member of Obama’s administration who stated that Obama was deporting 400,000 illegals per year, and now we have the Democrat party crying over 261 illegal alien violent gang members being deported to their country of origin, which then promptly put them into prison, because of crimes already committed against humanity.

Then Jesse brought up the truth that Obama drone-striked an American citizen overseas, with Jesse asking the questions, “What has more due process?  Your president murdering you without a hearing? Or your president flying an illegal alien home?”

Is it any wonder that old-time level-headed Democrats are leaving the sinking Party’s ship?  Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after 44 years of “service,” has decided not to run for re-election in 2026.  Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., did not seek Senate re-election in 2024.  Manchin “lamented the ‘divide between Democrats and Republicans across the country, and stated that Americans were “just plain worn out by the partisanship.”  Manchin was ranked as the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate by one nonprofit organization.  Democrats have left or are leaving because the Democrat party is itself, having a psychotic break.

Even the liberal Harvard University Youth Poll shows that the approval ratings for Democrats in Congress among Americans age 18–29 is 23%, which is a nosedive from the 42% approval in the spring of 2017 at the start of Trump’s first term.

So, there is hope that people are realizing that the Democrat party is having a psychotic break and is totally out of touch with American citizens and common sense.

What is fascinating and horrifying at the same time, is when you observe who it is agreeing with the Democrat party as they threaten foreign countries supporting President Trump’s policies.  The agency agreeing with the Democrat party’s politics is…the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, which is threatening countries that dare cut deals with the United States of America.

Who are these Democrats representing, their constituency, or China?  Are they acting like a U.S. representative, or, are they acting like the Chinese leader who Joe Biden called “a dictator” at least twice?

So, who is the dictator, Trump or the Democrats who are acting in the same fashion as a communist dictator?

One cannot help but notice that Raskin quit wearing his pirate skull-cap after an op-ed criticized him concerning the fact that he looked like a pirate.  Even without his pirate’s hat, he apparently still has a pirate’s heart.

Perhaps that is what is wrong with all of the Democrat party.  They all have lying, thieving pirate hearts, and Trump is stopping them and ending the grift.  Trump called Democrats “the enemy from within”, stating that they are more dangerous than any foreign adversary of the United States.

Was he wrong? 

X22, On the Fringe, and more- April 26

 

Cloward-Piven and the Migrant Invasion

posted by Bruce Majors at American Thinker 

John Maynard Keynes, who should be burning in Hell for his shyster economic theories, is largely responsible for our current looming apocalypse. His theory basically is that only demand, made more real than just wishing for things by creating fiat money and credit, is important, since in his myopic, context-dropping theory, people produce a supply when there is a demand. (That they’d want the money they are paid to be valuable enough to buy someone else’s products he neglects to envision.)

His theory was by at the time. But politicians usually ignored the refutations, since they saw a way of expanding their power and budgets while using a bit of Cambridge University produced con artistry as cover. Politicians are the first ones to get to spend new fiat currency and credits, deciding which donors, cronies, businesses, organizations will get it, before it causes inflation and reduces the purchasing power of the currency in general. It allows a constant redistribution of wealth to whoever controls the printing press and those nearest to them.

Keynes is also famous for saying: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” Once again he is wrong. We are currently being pushed even faster toward disaster, not just by his voodoo macroeconomics, and not by the ideas of dead economists, but of a deceased sociologist.

The sociologists in question are a husband and wife team, the late Richard Cloward and his wife Francis Fox Piven (still with us at 92), professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The Cloward-Piven Strategy, which the couple first published in the socialist magazine, sought to bring change out of chaos. The idea was that social workers and other government employees and leftist groups (Ms. Piven was on the board of Democratic Socialists of America) would cajole anyone they could to apply for every government assistance program, until the welfare state was so overloaded it broke down, which would lead, they thought, to the institution of a “free” minimum guaranteed income for every American.

Whether this would have worked or not, subsequent strategists on the left clearly decided to expand it by importing poor people from anywhere in the third world. With billions of poor people you could certainly overload government assistance programs. You could also use them to replace misbehaving American voters. (Cloward and Piven were also the people behind.) If you were really anti-American and “anti-imperialist” you could hope the expanded government, funded by Keynesian currency debasement, would lead to the collapse of the dollar as a reserve currency and the end of American power internationally. (Allowing the neo-Maoists of the CCP to take control of vast regions of the world.)

But government assistance programs are not the only systems buckling under Cloward-Piven-designed overload. The current legal battle to force President Trump to give every illegal alien due process in extended court hearings before they are deported is an attempt to overload the courts. Progressives have never been in favor of generally. They might favor it for criminals or juvenile delinquents, but for citizens at large they have opposed an individual’s right to sue government regulators who force them to get a vaccination before they can hold a job or serve in the military, who tell them what cakes they must make or weddings they must service, or in general what economic activities they can engage in. Even in immigration policy, President Obama deported 313,000 illegal aliens in 2012 without any judicial review, earning him complaints from the ACLU.

But Obama had the confidence that he could win elections by appealing to actual American voters. Biden and Kamala Harris had no such confidence. The mass importation of 20 million unvetted illegal aliens by the Biden administration was mainly intended to plump up and multiply the number of Democrat congressional districts and the number of Electoral College votes of Blue states, as well as to replace American voters with fraudulent “motor-voter” illegal alien voters in all jurisdictions.

But it has another “change out of chaos” effect. The court system cannot provide due process for 20 million illegal aliens Biden imported who must now be deported. Trump and his supporters are not responsible for this. As radio pundit Larry O’Connor observes: “…if liberals or socialists or Trump-hating Republicans or libertarians or all the propagandists in the media are outraged by this reality, their outrage should be focused at Biden and Kamala and Mayorkas for creating this nightmare not Trump for triaging it.” Consider the reductio: If an invading army marched (or flew) into the United States, would Democrats say before anyone fires on them they must each individually be tried in court, because invading non-citizens deserve due process? As Bill Ackman tweeted: “A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.” Unfortunately SCOTUS now seems to be supporting this America dooming policy.

Trump should keep deporting illegal aliens, especially the sex-trafficking, wife-beating, gang member scum among them. If Congress needs to pass legislation codifying that due process is not available at all (or to the same extent) for illegal aliens, then Congress best get to it.

Is Beijing Overplaying Its Hand?

Is Beijing Overplaying Its Hand?

Rare earths as a lever in the trade war.

by THOMAS KOLBE for spectator.org

China is escalating its trade war with the United States to dangerous new heights: a ban on rare earth exports is putting global supply chains under extreme pressure. Is Beijing overestimating its economic resilience?

The U.S. and China are locked in an unrelenting trade standoff. While U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports have soared to 145 percent, China has virtually since announcing the ban on April 4. These critical minerals are essential for building electric vehicles, wind turbines, and military technology. With this move, Beijing is inflicting significant damage on its own economy. Is China’s leadership truly prepared to destabilize global supply chains and cripple its ?

Over 150 million of China’s 750 million workers depend directly or indirectly on the export sector, which accounts for 19 percent of GDP. Beijing’s mercantilism fuels a $1 trillion annual trade surplus — 1 percent of global economic output. Through currency manipulation, capital controls, and systematic patent theft, China has kept this jobs machine running at full throttle.

Criticism of China’s economic nationalism isn’t just American bravado. Beijing’s aggressive trade policies target the entire West, with economic powers like Europe long in its crosshairs. Yet, remarkably, Donald Trump’s trade strategy is often dismissed in Europe as reckless saber-rattling.

The narrative paints the U.S. as bumbling adolescents stumbling into conflict, while the Communist Party’s leaders posture as sovereign victims, always in control. Conveniently forgotten is how Beijing’s central planning triggered the collapse of its domestic real estate market.

The real estate sector once served as a stabilizer, churning out millions of vacant apartments. At its peak, it represented 7 percent of global assets and became a social safety net in a country grappling with high youth unemployment. Its crash forced the government to double down on exports while simultaneously launching the “Dual Circulation” initiative in 2020 to bolster the domestic market.

Reconciling these contradictory goals seems like squaring the circle. But in the Communist Party’s five-year plan, even this economic quantum leap can be conjured. Expect creative accounting to dominate soon: in Q1, China’s GDP reportedly grew by 5.4 percent, while tax revenue plummeted by 3.5 percent —economic math, “Made in China“.

China’s Achilles Heel

With surgical precision, the Trump administration is slicing into the Communist Party’s export machine — a risky but overdue move. It’s logical, targeting the Achilles heel of an adversary that repeatedly encroaches on America’s sphere of influence, as seen with the Panama Canal. (RELATED: To Secure the Panama Canal, Reinstitute the Monroe Doctrine)

Through its sprawling Belt and Road Initiative, China advances a geopolitical offensive — a soft colonialism backed by repression when push comes to shove. Tibetans and Uyghurs know the consequences of domestic dissent; human rights abuses are Beijing’s last resort when resistance grows. China’s sanctimonious criticism of America’s tough tactics rings hollow.

Correcting Mercantile Imbalances

Trump’s tariff wall, now resembling a temporary embargo, should be seen in Beijing as a serious attempt to correct imbalances in the geopolitical balance of power. But the conflict risks global collateral damage. How will China’s leadership respond to a wave of bankruptcies and mass layoffs in its export sector if it fails to redirect its flood of goods elsewhere?

Beijing shouldn’t assume Europe will passively absorb its surplus, flooding the market with cheap products. The risk of importing China’s jobs crisis is real. Brussels has repeatedly proven adept at raising the drawbridge to shield its internal market from foreign competition.

Searching for Alternatives

While Brussels braces for a potential export surge, Washington is already taking decisive action to break China’s geopolitical leverage. True, China controls about 70 percent of global rare earth production and processes 80 percent domestically. But this very dominance is spurring the rapid development of new sources elsewhere.

On March 20, Trump signed the Executive Order “Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production,” hailed as a “Declaration of Independence” from foreign dependency. Leveraging the Defense Production Act and a “National Energy Emergency” (EO 14156, January 2025), the order will dismantle regulatory barriers in mining and accelerate private investment in this critical infrastructure sector.

This strategy includes negotiations to secure Ukraine’s rare earth reserves and the somewhat quirky Greenland discourse, where the world’s eighth-largest rare earth deposits are at stake, drawing attention from major players like the U.S. and EU. 

Hope also lies in Australia, notably exempt from U.S. tariffs in this sector. Its mining companies could emerge as major winners in this trade crisis, cementing Australia’s role as a key geopolitical partner for the Trump administration. Through strategic resource alliances, the U.S. could partially close this supply gap and defuse Beijing’s very real threat.

The U.S. is embedding its tariff strategy in a broader push to rebuild American industry. A prime example is Apple’s announcement of a $500 billion investment in its home base, which the White House directly attributes to tariff measures. Other major firms, including TSMC and Stellantis, have also pledged significant new investments in the U.S., signaling a wave of industrial reshoring in response to these trade policies.

Advantage USA

The geopolitical chessboard is harder to read than ever. Even a strategic resource alliance between the U.S. and Russia shouldn’t be ruled out — dialogue between Washington and Moscow has resumed, and America’s gradual withdrawal from Ukraine’s conflict zone opens new negotiating space.

If Trump’s team secures robust resource partnerships, potentially including Russia, China’s leverage would crumble. Moscow’s price would be steep: its close ties to China could fray. Yet China has increasingly relied on Russian energy and resource supplies in recent years.

The interplay of forces is complex, with mutual dependencies ruling out quick fixes. The question is: Which superpower is willing to impose greater hardship on its citizens in this trade war? Or will the resilience of their internal systems decide the outcome? Are Western democracies, despite their crises, superior to China’s authoritarian model without succumbing to its allure of power and control?

Ultimately, Trump’s pressure on China’s weak spots will likely force Beijing to make concessions. A deep economic crisis, compounded by China’s deflationary trends, is something Beijing cannot afford.

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Watch Longshoremen Union – A Predictable Democrat Strategy to Weaponize Absent China Goods in Coming Months

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

[AUTHORS NOTE: Having attended the ASEAN conference to make contacts, after a brief respite at home I spent the past several weeks traveling Southeast Asia to research the likely impact from Trump’s tariff and global trade reset. Visits included manufacturing and distribution facilities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and South Korea. What I will share with you in the next few months is an overview from direct first-hand discussions, contrast against the MSM financial media outline.]

The predictable doomsday Wall Street Journal narrative includes a forecast for a massive drop in exports from China as shipping conglomerates begin to outline a drop in trans-pacific sea cargo and container carriers.

What I would say to concerned Americans is to filter out the political narrative and remind yourself of the expanded footprint throughout SE Asia that Beijing has already established.  Chinese companies, many of them subsidized by the CCP, are pre-positioned to begin transnational shipping. I have witnessed it first-hand.  However, here’s the WSJ narrative as it begins.

WSJ – The number of ships sailing from China to the U.S. laden with clothes, electronics, furniture and other goods is plunging, as an accelerating number of cargoes are canceled.

The scrapped sailings come after the Trump administration ratcheted up tariffs on China while giving a three-month reprieve on punitive levies for much of the rest of the world.

At the Port of Los Angeles, one of America’s biggest gateways for imports from China, executive director Gene Seroka told port officials Thursday that he expects a 35% drop in import volumes in two weeks “as essentially all shipments out of China for major retailers and manufacturers has ceased.”

The trade war between the U.S. and China has triggered retailers and manufacturers to switch their supply lines and rush products out of other parts of Asia, such as Vietnam and Malaysia. Companies are making hurried decisions about imports as they gear up for the peak shipping season this summer when retailers bring in supplies for the new school year and the fall and winter holidays.

Bookings out of China fell 60% in the past week after Trump imposed a succession of tariffs on China that reached 145% on April 9, according to Nathan Strang, director of ocean freight at Flexport, a San Francisco-based company that helps companies ship cargo around the world.

Importers that work with Chinese manufacturers that also have factories in other parts of Asia are pivoting: “They’re saying, ‘Today we are stopping China production, tomorrow we are starting Cambodia,’” Strang said.

Dozens of canceled sailings from China were due to reach U.S. seaports in the coming weeks. Freight demand from China to the West Coast of the U.S. could fall 28% next week, while demand at East Coast ports could plunge 42% the following week, according to Alan Murphy, chief executive of Denmark-based data firm Sea-Intelligence. ”The impact is staggering,” he said. (more)

♦ Key point for consideration: Just because cargo comes from Vietnam, Cambodia and/or Malaysia ports instead of China, does not mean the product within the cargo is not Chinese.  In reality the tentacles of Beijing’s proactive positioning are very visible within each of the aforementioned nations.

It is also obvious from the approach taken by President Trump and his trade team; they are well aware of the belt-and-road hubs China established in the past decade.

Following the 2017 tariff hammer, China rapidly began leveraging their prior SE Asia investment as a workaround to what Beijing forecast as a tariff risk they strategically wanted to manage.  Chinese companies are now embedded throughout ASEAN nations.

Indeed, there may be fewer container shipments directly from China, however those alternate supply lines noted in the WSJ article are filled with mostly Chinese products.

The result: the containers that arrive to the U.S. from Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and even India, will likely be carrying a high percentage of products made in China, along with a combination of products from final assembly or finishing in the export hub.  [It is worth noting India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is well aware of this also.]

♦ Into this dynamic I would proactively note interested political followers in the USA should pay close attention to how the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) responds to the corporate media narrative.

The narrative will be that fewer container ships from China (tariff impact) will have a negative impact on dock workers and tradespeople who work in the ports for U.S. imports.  Fewer imported cargo containers equal less work for the longshoremen; that’s the first part of this predictable corporate narrative.  However, in 2024 President Trump was forcefully out front in supporting the ILA union contract position.

Will the International Longshoremen’s Association stand with Trump, or will they drop support as the global trade reset emphasizes domestically manufactured jobs?  That will be an interesting aspect to watch because the dockworker union leadership will face massive pressure to comply with the anti-tariff narrative.

♦ The last political aspect for proactive review comes from what will predictably be a massive push at the end of this year to emphasize any shortfalls in product supply issues.  Democrats will blame President Trump for empty shelves, missing parts or finished consumer goods (true or not).  Even small sector products that might be missing will be dramatically emphasized.  Prepare for this, because it will be part of the 2026 election narrative.

Democrats, Wall Street multinationals, corporate media and all of those interests who are opposed to the trade reset and tariffs will seek to exploit and influence consumer anxiety as the holidays loom closer.

There Goes the Sun, Little Darling

There Goes the Sun, Little Darling

Jeffrey Blehar for National Review

The London skyline with St. Paul's Cathedral and the Thames River in London, United Kingdom.(SHansche/Getty Images)none

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. Now, per the Telegraph, U.K. scientists will do the next best thing: Block it out.

Experiments to dim sunlight to fight global warming will be given the green light by the Government within weeks.

Outdoor field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine, are being considered by scientists as a way to prevent runaway climate change.

A confession of bias: On top of being ineradicably skeptical about the global climate “agenda,” I am also a 44-year-old layman with a lifetime’s worth of apocalyptic science-fiction reading under my belt, and thus perhaps not the ideal person to judge such endeavors. I’m the sort of hopelessly risk-averse naif, after all, who would have told you it was a bad idea to encourage Chinese military scientists to recklessly engage in gain-of-function research with deadly viruses in a poorly secured lab. So what do I know?

But it’s hard not to wonder at a scientific method that, in the words of commentator Gregg Easterbrook, responds to mere uncertainty about climate with “let’s tamper with the source of all life.” I certainly remember being lectured constantly by my eco-conscious grade-school that aerosols were in fact deadly poison: dissipating the ozone layer, immiserating the Third World, killing off the globe’s most lovably vulnerable creatures, etc. Now I guess we’re going to inject them straight into the sky to block out the sun. (In fairness, it beats some of the other options that have been proposed.)

Leave aside the fact that environmental activists have now persuaded the British government to adopt the philosophical worldview of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. Leave aside the fact that it seems like a poor idea to mess with a system as complex as the climate of Great Britain in order to respond to speculative fears about the climate. We are told by the leader of research that “Everything we do is going to be safe by design. We’re absolutely committed to responsible research, including responsible outdoor research.” All well and good, of course, until crop yields are accidentally wrecked for an entire season or somesuch.

This experiment will almost certainly come to nothing; it is nevertheless hard not to laugh at the audacious folly of our elites when their proposed response to humanity wrecking the environment by artificially mucking about with it is to save the environment . . . by artificially mucking about with the engine of all biological life. At least there’s no danger of unanticipated consequences here!

SCOTUS’s Refusal To End Leftists’ Judicial Coup Is Damaging Its Credibility More Than The Media Ever Could

By refusing to rein in the lower courts’ lawlessness, SCOTUS has greenlit a judicial coup that is stymying the will of 77 million Americans.

Shawn Fleetwood reporting for The Federalist

Not a day seems to go by without some activist lower court judge issuing an overreaching injunction blocking part of President Trump’s agenda.

Throughout Wednesday and Thursday alone, judges across multiple venues handed down decrees barring numerous executive actions taken by the president since returning to office. From DEI to election policy, these cases are but a few of the more than 170 lawsuits Democrats and left-wing political actors have filed to sabotage Trump and the 77 million Americans who voted for him.

Despite this clear effort to destroy American democracy via a judicial coup, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seems to have no interest in stopping it. The nation’s highest court has had ample opportunities to halt these lower court judges’ destructive antics but has repeatedly declined to do so.

The first notable instance of this cowardice came to fruition in early March. In a 5-4 decision, a majority on the court declined a request from the Trump administration to shut down a ruling from a Biden-appointed district court judge. The judge had ordered the State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to disburse roughly $2 billion in foreign grants to nongovernmental groups.

Comprised of Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and the court’s Democrat appointees, the majority offered no rationale for the decision, a move that left Associate Justice Samuel Alito “stunned.”

Writing for the dissent, Alito underscored the overreaching nature of the lower court’s order and chastised the majority for its unwillingness to shut down such abusive behavior. He wrote, “Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise.”

By declining to rein in the Biden-appointed judge’s outlandish behavior, the high court’s majority all but gave the green light to activist judges across the country to take similar actions on leftist-backed lawsuits filed in their respective jurisdictions. As previously noted, this has encouraged these judicial supremacists to issue blanket injunctions barring the Trump administration from implementing policies the American people voted for, thus effectively rendering the 2024 presidential election results moot.

SCOTUS’s inclination to tolerate judicial tyranny among the lower courts is perhaps unsurprising, however, given that a majority of the justices have indicated their own infatuation with overstepping the constitutional limits erected by America’s founding document.

In the dead of night on Easter weekend, without explanation, seven of the justices essentially usurped the executive branch’s authority over immigration by blocking Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan gang members. Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Alito dissented, with the latter once again penning a scathing opinion blasting the majority’s “unprecedented and legally questionable” actions.

It’s unclear exactly what game the high court’s majority is playing. Even for a wannabe politician like Chief Justice Roberts — whose primary concern seems to be protecting the judiciary’s “legitimacy” rather than interpreting the Constitution as written — the decisions to allow the lower courts to run afoul of America’s constitutional order and issue late-night orders are unlikely to sit well with the public. In fact, one could argue the high court’s antics are doing more damage to its reputation than leftists’ smear campaigns ever could.

Recall over the past few years when Democrats and their media allies ran hit pieces against many of SCOTUS’s Republican-appointed justices. While much of this manufactured psyop was directed at the high court’s most reliable originalists (Thomas and Alito), the end goal was the same — to delegitimize the body and its constitutional rulings in the eyes of the American public.

Yet, for all their bluster, the media’s smear campaign didn’t seem to have significantly affected non-leftists’ opinion of the Supreme Court. Pew Research data published in August shows that the decline in the court’s favorability in recent years has been driven almost exclusively by Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, whose views of the court turned sour following the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

But what the media couldn’t do to SCOTUS — destroying its credibility among Americans — the high court is now doing to itself. By refusing to rein in the lower courts’ lawlessness, the justices have authorized a judicial coup that is stymying the will of the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump.

The longer a majority on the high court allows this circus to continue, the more faith citizens will lose in its ability to operate as a capable branch of government.

BREAKING! Trade War Backfires: U.S. Farm Collapse Sparks Global Food Crisis

BREAKING! Trade War Backfires:

U.S. Farm Collapse Sparks Global Food Crisis - This video investigates how U.S. tariffs have triggered a devastating farm crisis and global food chain collapse.

We break down the soybean crash, pork tariffs, and dairy export loss that have caused corn prices to plummet and provoked retaliation from China.

From rising grocery prices and farm bankruptcies to a deepening rural recession, discover how this supply chain crisis is reshaping American agriculture.

100 Days In: Trump’s Word Is His Bond

100 Days In: Trump’s Word Is His Bond

Kevin McCullough at Townhall

AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

1. The Border is Closing—Fast

Day One, the new Trump Department of Homeland Security—under the iron will of Secretary Kristi Noem—reinstated Remain in Mexico, revoked Biden’s reckless parole authority abuses, and began mass processing of illegal entrants for immediate deportation.

Border apprehensions have dropped 41% since January. Trump didn’t need 100 days to act—he needed one. And construction has resumed on key wall segments. ICE raids are back. Sanctuary cities are sweating. And the asylum loopholes are slamming shut.

2. Energy Independence, Round Two

Remember $7 gas? Trump does too.

One of his first executive actions in 2025 reopened federal lands and offshore zones for energy development. Permitting for natural gas pipelines has been fast-tracked. The war on coal is over. And OPEC+—which spent the Biden years jerking America around—is suddenly dealing with a U.S. energy giant that’s not playing nice anymore.

Just 100 days in, and gas prices have dropped 54 cents nationally. That’s not a coincidence. That’s leadership.

3. America First is Back on the World Stage

The foreign policy pivot has been swift—and unapologetic. The blank checks to Ukraine? Canceled. Trump forced NATO allies to meet their obligations again, telling them, “Pay up or shut up.”

China? Tariffs are back on critical sectors. The CCP has already requested back-channel negotiations to avoid a second Trump trade war—which they know they’d lose.

And Iran’s terror proxies? After the Houthi strike, Trump showed them exactly how precise and devastating American force can be when not shackled by the UN or Biden’s begging diplomacy.

4. The Administrative State is in Free Fall

Trump 47 came into office with a mission: dismantle the Deep State before it dismantles the Republic.

He invoked Schedule F to reclassify and remove bad-faith bureaucrats obstructing his policies. Hundreds of career saboteurs across DOJ, FBI, and DHS have already been reassigned, suspended, or fired. A second Church-style committee is being considered to investigate civil liberties abuses dating back to Russiagate.

Even better: agencies are being consolidated or eliminated altogether. The Department of Education’s funding has already been slashed, with school choice on the legislative fast-track.

5. Law & Order is More Than a Catchphrase

Federal prosecutors, with Trump’s DOJ at full throttle, have reopened investigations into BLM-linked financial fraud, COVID relief fraud, and even the political abuses of the 2020-2024 censorship regime.

Meanwhile, police across the country—long demoralized under leftist mayors and Soros-backed DAs—are being federally supported again. Grant programs have been redirected toward real policing, not social experiments.

And on crime? The Trump-backed “Justice for Victims” act is pushing mandatory minimums for violent repeat offenders. If you riot, loot, or assault a cop—expect federal prison time.

6. SCOTUS and the Rule of Law

Within days of retaking office, Trump nominated and swiftly confirmed two appellate court judges who had been blocked under Democrat control. He’s on pace to flip the ideological balance of two more circuits before the end of 2025.

And with whispers of Justice Sotomayor’s possible retirement growing louder, the Trump team is already prepared. A shortlist of constitutional originalists is waiting in the wings.

7. The Economy: Unleashed, Again

The Trump tax cuts are being expanded. Regulatory strangulation—resurrected under Biden—is being reversed through targeted executive action.

Markets surged on Inauguration Day and have climbed 10% since. Small business confidence has hit a post-COVID high. And with the Fed holding steady, the Trump administration is preparing a Main Street Lending Revival to boost manufacturing and domestic production.

Wages are ticking up. The dollar is stabilizing. And inflation? It’s beginning to fall—again—because confidence has returned to the American economy.

The wall isn’t finished. The cartel corridors still need to be shut. And the DOJ, FBI, and intel community still need a deep, public housecleaning. President Trump is also signaling a major offensive against online censorship, with plans to rein in federal collusion with tech companies and restore First Amendment protections to every American.

The legislative push for universal school choice is gaining momentum. The tax code is on deck for further simplification. And the groundwork is being laid for a realignment of global trade—one that restores American dominance and ends dependency on adversaries like China.

But if this is what the first 100 days of Trump’s second term looks like, imagine what the next 1,300 will deliver.

Call to Action: Stay in the Fight

Donald Trump didn’t return to Washington for the vanity. He came back because the mission wasn’t finished. And already—day by day, executive order by executive order—it’s getting done.

But let’s not be fooled: the regime that tried to bury him, that tried to bury us, is still fully operational. The sabotage, the leaks, the censorship, the media gaslighting—it’s all still active.

So we stay active too. Show up. Speak up. Push back. Share the truth. Flood the zone with facts. And above all—stand with the only man in Washington who’s kept every word he’s ever given us.

Trump is proving once again: America can be great when it’s led with strength, clarity, and conviction.

He’s keeping his word.

Let’s help him finish the work.