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Michael Walz OUT as NatSec Advisor. Sundance was right… again 😉
Mike Walz has been fired.
Sundance called it.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-mike-waltz-just-got-fired/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mike-waltz-alex-wong/
Sure hate linking CBS but it is a datapoint
Sundance posts about it in 3…2…1
Just came back to post the additional info, Tex.
Thank you 👍🏻
You are welcome and that is the first time I have been called Tex….I like it 😎
👍🏻 😁
I shall carry on then…God bless you 😘
He probably had it all written up earlier, just waiting for the moment 😎 😉
“Sure hate linking CBS but it is a datapoint”
…- Here’s TGP for ya, Tex*:…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-his-deputy
*: – *Hat Tip* to Betsy…
More…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mike-waltz-and-deputy-deleted-after-signal-fiasco-report
PDJT: Rick, I know you didn’t want it but I need you as NSA to fix the NSC
Rick Grennel: Ok I will do it as long as I get to hire the NSA going forward
Rick G gets the job for now
That’s an excellent and plausible scenario.
Grennel’d be great, if not then General Flynn, though maybe he’s damaged goods at this point?…
…- Wikipedia, incidentally, is currently showing lil’ Marco as acting:…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor_(United_States)
General Flynn please.
Excellent!
Now what about his wife and sister-in-law?
They’re burrowed in somewhere in the administration, and are just as much in need of expulsion as Mike.
Crime Wave will not end until 2020 Riots are prosecuted.
typo, nix “like”
https://x.com/Aethelleas/status/1420297893081231360
Here’s the Gutfeld episode from last night. This episode starts with a run down of who the opposition is to President Trump and his MAGA agenda in DC.
We have seen it but many may not have stepped back and properly assessed the situation.
Big picture, there is real NO opposition in DC. They are reduced to a total clown show. AOC, Bernie, Shartacus? That’s all they have. The fake news is a joke too. It’s all collapsing spectacularly.
https://rumble.com/v6ssy0d-gutfeld-gutfeld-full-episode-april-30-2025.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Sundance said he wouldn’t last. (Sundance, batting a thousand)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-plans-to-oust-national-security-adviser-mike-waltz-00321200
John Solomon says resigns.
ZeroHedge says fired.
Everything’s tracking as expected. 😆
The Financial News Media is ripe with fraud typically publishing hit pieces on stocks to fraudulently manipulate share prices. The SEC should put a stop to the practice…
“Extremely Bad Breach Of Ethics”: Elon Musk Blasts Wall Street Journal’s CEO Search Report | ZeroHedge
Tesla Chairwoman Robyn Denholm denied a Wall Street Journal report claiming the board had begun searching for Elon Musk’s successor, calling the story “absolutely false.” Musk echoed the rebuke, slamming the story as an “EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS” by the legacy media outlet.
“Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company,” Denholm wrote in a statement published on X via Tesla.
She emphasized, “This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published),” adding, “The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead.”
Musk chimed in, calling the WSJ story by Emily Glazer, Becky Peterson, and Dana Mattioli “an EXTREMELY BAD BREACH OF ETHICS that the WSJ would publish a DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE and fail to include an unequivocal denial beforehand by the Tesla board of directors.”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/extremely-bad-breach-ethics-elon-musk-blasts-wall-street-journals-ceo-search
Bannon re-reporting Jennifer Jacobs that Walz and Alex Wong are soon to be out at NSC. If true good news but Walz COS Brian McCormack needs to go with him.
Turns out Mark Halperin is Jennifer Jacobs source: here he is tagging Waltz to stir the pot LOL
Whoa Mike Waltz and Wong are out!
MSM finally got their CHAOS…😂🤣😂
Trump’s First 100 Days of Tariffs: The First Steps Toward The Golden Age Of America
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-first-100-days-of-tariffs-the-first-steps-toward-the-golden-age-of-america
Just noticed this nice summary article:
https://www.rt.com/news/616578-trumps-foreign-policy-calculated/
“Trump’s foreign policy is calculated – not chaotic.”
First PP: “The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency have sparked a wave of commentary portraying him as a revolutionary. Indeed, the speed, pressure, and determination with which he has acted are striking. But this view is superficial. Trump is not dismantling the foundations of the American state or society. On the contrary, he seeks to restore the pre-globalist republic that the liberal elite long ago diverted onto a utopian internationalist path. In this sense, Trump is not a revolutionary, but a counterrevolutionary – an ideological revisionist determined to reverse the excesses of the liberal era.”
Last One: “In sum, Trump is not tearing down the American system but striving to restore it. His counterrevolution is aimed at reversing liberal-globalist distortions, reinforcing sovereignty, and returning realism to international affairs. It is this mission – not chaos or confrontation – that is defining his presidency.”
Very good and thoughtful read . . .
Chaos has always been the favored word of the media when describing a President Trump presidency.
Regardless of who set this up, the left has their first scalps:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mike-waltz-alex-wong/
Regardless of whether the left got their first scalp or not, this is a blessing.
Scalp? Not even close, more like a bloody tumor that has just been removed from the administration body and cast to the tribe of the enemy.
I doubt the Marxist savages in the deep-state-owned media will be holding the bloody object high in hand and whooping away.
He was one of theirs.
Yeah they’ll claim that.
CTH knows better thanks to the gracious host.
Make sure everybody’s friends do too.
As SD said, Waltz was the wrong guy for that job.
Not sure the Senate will confirm him though.
Not necessary
Both are laden with head lice.
Don’t react to the Left. be like Stephen Miller and treat them serious until they feel stupid
NSA Waltz and DNSA Wong both *OUT*:…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-his-deputy
BYE FELICIA.
now bring in someone that will hold the NSA accountable.
No Vindman bros.
I know Flynn has his faults, but I do believe he could be trusted in this role
Yes! Let’s get General Michael Flynn into the position he richly deserves.
As a Bonus – IC heads would explode.
No he did not. None, absolutely none.
Whom was helping to develop a leak ( coyly adding a person to a group chat) in the signal chat?
( which indirectly subverted a policy implementation process ( negotiating instead of mindlessly throwing money or kinetics – unless deemed truly necessary ) from a team )
(as resume protection) Someone is not saying whom.
I do not know
Conventionally I’d go with either Alex Wong or Waltz’s Chief of Staff Brian McCormack (possibly one of either of the two’s staffers, as a cut-out for ‘plausible deniability’ purposes) as most likely… – Unless Waltz himself was given marching orders to self-immolate…
…- On the other hand I’d quite fancy my chances laying bets on this Andrew Peek guy (or one of his staffers, as per the above…):…
…Reasons:
…- See, e.g. this:
“He had applied to SAIS during active duty as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Afghanistan, where Peek served as a special advisor for the Commander’s Initiatives Group of General John Allen in Afghanistan. Dr. Peek had been requested for this role by Allen’s predecessor, General David Petraeus, and handled the intelligence, special operations, and Pakistan portfolios for the commander. He also served as a reserve intelligence officer for US special operations forces.”
…- And this:
“He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His dissertation under Dr. Eliot Cohen focused on the proxy wars of Iran, Russia, and Pakistan.”
…- From here:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/andrew-l-peek
…- Then check these out:… 😉
https://radioatlantic.splashthat.com
https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrjB78
(…- Same podcast ep., just different flavour at each link… – Check out the pics of the speakers at the first link, then the podcast description at the second…)
…- NB, re those two quotes, and just to be clear: SAIS = School of Advanced Internationl Studies, at JHU.
The name Wong is a clue that something is Wrong.
Ahhh…Soooo…
Halperin is not MAGA, his father was Kissinger man.
I know that. But the point is the content of his post. I’m trying to post it without all the links. I found it interesting.
Of course! It was interesting, just adding a tidbit of info about Halperin family for those unfamiliar–this rot goes back generations .
Got it. Thanks.
Be interesting to see who the “others” are. Besides Waltz and Wong.
Exactly, and Wiles to SecDef: “bring in a team of ‘serious’ people” . . .
K E L L O G G !!!!!
Yes please.
My thought too!!
How soon before President Trump
kicks him to the curb….
And when he does 👍👍👍👏👏
He’s Ukraine 100%
..make it 110 %…
So Halperin doesn’t get rich with his speculation however much we MAGA would like him to be right here is a Transcript :
Halperin, then Sean Spicer, then some fellow Dan.
Initial Report on National Security Adviser Changes
So this morning, just to take you a little bit behind the curtain, I was headed into my location to do the program and I got a text from a very nice source who said, “You want to call me?” And it turns out that three different people, two the original source and two others, have confirmed that the plan now by the White House is to remove the National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who was on Fox News this morning just not that long ago, and his deputy Alex Wong and much of the current staff team at the National Security Council because of unhappiness throughout the national security establishment of how they’re doing. The West Wing’s unhappy, the State Department, the Treasury, unhappiness, and of course this was around before Signal Gate. It was widely reported that Signalgate ironically may have saved Waltz’s job because the president didn’t want to be seen as if he were giving in to Jeffrey Goldberg, his new best friend. But there’s lots of levels of unhappiness and it’s less about Signalgate than it is about, as I understand it from my sources, a general belief that it’s not being run efficiently in an organized way. It may happen as early as today, it may not happen ever because it’s Donald Trump, but the plan is for it to happen soon, maybe this weekend, one source says this weekend, we’ll see.
Potential Replacement Candidates
But the original choice to replace the national security adviser for many in the government was a guy named Christopher Landau. He’s currently the deputy secretary of state. He is said to be doing such a good job and is so valuable to Marco Rubio that Rubio says, “No, you can’t have my guy.” So he’s got job lock because he’s doing well. Some people have experienced that, you know what that’s like. So Landau, I’m told, will not get the job, even though he’s very highly thought of, because he’s so highly thought of. A candidate that’s being discussed, who has support at very high levels within the administration, is Steve Witkoff, the president’s friend and special envoy to everything. Witkoff has a lot of senior-level support, but he also has enemies, and two of my three sources pointed me to this New York Post story that ran yesterday, very strange story, popped up in the New York Post in the middle of the day yesterday, savaging Steve Witkoff with anonymous quotes saying he’s over his head, way over his head, he shouldn’t be leading the Russia negotiations, that other countries are confused by him, that people in the government think he’s amateurish. The story was filled with savage blind quotes. Do we have the money quote, Paul? I don’t know if we do or not. There we go. “Nice guy, but a bumbling effing idiot,” this person said of Witkoff. “He should not be doing this alone,” meaning negotiating these deals. Now, will his critics be more happy with him as head of the NSC? Not according to my sources, and they believe that some people believe that the reason the Post story popped up was because word was beginning to spread that Waltz was out and that Witkoff was his likely replacement, and what the speculation is, this New York Post story is aiming at stopping that.
Source of the New York Post Story
One more for me, one more item for me, and by the way, the thing that’s not, you know, we always focus on the headline, and I brought this up before, I also focus on the byline because you can always figure out, or at least the breadcrumbs are there, who’s leaking it. And this is, that wasn’t one of the Post White House reporters, that was actually their Pentagon reporter, national security reporter. So you can tell where that came from, right, who, which side is pushing that, because it wasn’t like it just got dropped by one of their White House beat reporters. Yeah, I see in the chat, people are saying, “Well, the reason Wong and Waltz are at is because they’re neocons.” Again, my reporting is that this has to do with competence, not ideology, that people just don’t believe they’re running the NSC in enough of a professional manner.
Pentagon Staffing Concerns
Lastly, we saw the president in a photo op with Pete Hegseth yesterday in the cabinet, made it kind of semi-awkward joke about Hegseth. Susie Wiles and other senior officials have made it clear to Pete Hegseth, he has to get the Pentagon staffed at the senior level by people who know how to run the building, who are, in the word used over and over, adults. And so, don’t be surprised if part of the storyline here, in addition to my sources saying Waltz and Wong on their way out, will be more senior, experienced senior people at the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth, I don’t know, that this is not what my sources said, but the mood music is, he’s got one more chance to get this right. He has to bring in people, he has to staff it right, and he has to stop having these big controversies.
Reaction and Analysis
So, Sean, your overall reaction to what we’re reporting here. My overall reaction is that it’s not, I mean, look, there’s always, I’m surprised that it took a hundred days for people to get the knives out. I had been given the team really high marks for how well they were operating together and cohesively, etc. So, we’ll see how this plays out. To your point, the thing with Trump is that, you know, that we also saw the national security adviser Mike Waltz out this morning on Fox and Friends talking up the successes that they’ve had. Now, they’re not his, cause he talked about recruiting goals, and actually falls more into Hegseth’s world, but I think that part of what they’re trying to remind, clearly the president, is, hey, things are going well on the national security front, we are addressing a lot of these big issues, morale and recruiting and focus on shipbuilding and weaponry and things like that. So, I, you know, if he’s having a good deal, on the heels of, by the way, a very, very big Ukraine deal announcement last night, which I will say, if we want to talk about who’s down, watching Scott Bessent in that video last night was huge, right? This is a big deal for the Treasury Secretary last night to really show, if you want to talk about who’s ascendant and who’s doing well. But I think the one thing I will tell you about Trump is that when things are going really well, he’s probably more hesitant to do something that will, from a personnel standpoint, shake things up. So, it’ll be interesting to see. My guess is that, like, if you get through the weekend, and remember, you mentioned the thing today, Trump is getting on a plane at, I think, 10 a.m. or going to the prayer breakfast at 10:00 and then heading to Alabama, from Alabama back to Mar-a-Lago. So, to me, it’s sort of like, if he doesn’t make a, if a decision hasn’t been made already, and I get the sense that it hasn’t, then you, as long as he’s not around, that’s a good sign, right? It’s almost like, if you’re Waltz, you just bought another four or five days, yeah, because he’s leaving, he’s going to end up in Palm Beach tonight and not be back till probably Monday, I guess.
Further Discussion on Trump’s Decision-Making
Yeah, let me agree with one thing and partially disagree with another and then go to Dan. Sometimes you report something based on sources, and it doesn’t come true, it’s called a permanent scoop, okay? I’ll be clear, Donald Trump may not do this, everybody says he’s going to do it, he’s let it be known that’s his plan. So, the thing I partially do agree with, I do believe it is a quote-unquote final decision, I do believe he’s made up his mind, but he could change his mind. Well, no, no, so, so, here’s the thing, if he has made up his mind, right, I can see a scenario where today, whether it’s on Air Force One or whatever, there’s a Truth Social that comes out and says, “I want to thank my good friend for serving this, and here’s who’s doing it.” You know, kind of how he’s made some personnel changes in the past, but that means that the decision is locked and loaded, and there’s no changing it. If that decision has not been made, which at least the New York Post story seems to suggest, but that’s more of a hit against Witkoff than it is against Waltz. And what could delay a decision or an announcement, or could allow Waltz to keep his job, even though the current plan is for him not to keep his job, they can’t find an alternative, they can’t find a replacement, they don’t want to announce. I will say, without a success, with Flynn and McMaster, where he had Flynn leave, and then people brought, you know, people, including General McMaster, down to Mar-a-Lago to interview, in this case, they don’t want to do that, I’m told, they want to announce the replacement. There’s about to be a White House briefing, I wouldn’t be surprised if it came, started, yeah, I’m saying, it’s under, just underway, so we’ll monitor that, and if they’re asking, if they start to ask about Waltz, we’ll go to it.
Additional Perspectives
Dan, what are your thoughts on this reporting? I actually think it’s, I say this in all seriousness, I think it’s a real positive. I think it shows that Trump and Susie Wiles and the team understand there are problems. We’ve talked about this for a while, that Pete Hegseth, in normal conditions, would never be Secretary of Defense for anybody, just given his track record of management prior and his so far track record of management today. You know, the national security, there has not been as much leaking about how disorganized, like, the kitchen is, you know, behind the door, but by all accounts, Mark, from what you’ve said, and a few others, it is, you know, pretty bad. So, I give them credit, like, a lot of administrations, it’s easy to just dig in and say, I won’t give a scalp, it’s another thing to say, we have to make a change, now, how do we do it. So, I actually give them credit. I will say, his answer to Terry Moran the other day, with saying, you know, he’s doing a great job, whatever, Trump generally doesn’t do that if he’s not happy with someone, he’ll say, you know, they’re getting along, and, you know, we’re working, like, if he’s not confident in you, there’s a little bit more of a tell, and I felt like that remark to Terry Moran on the ABC interview showed that, at least for that point, that, you know, he seemed pretty strong with Pete. Yeah, I think he’s strong with Pete, if Pete fixes it, he’s giving Pete a full chance to fix it, but he’s got an eye on, gotta fix it. And, like I said, I wouldn’t be surprised to see, you know, and I mean this in all seriousness, I’ve said this the other day, like a General Kellogg, who’s, you know, three-star retired, come in, but somebody who’s got stars on their shoulder, who is in Trump MAGA world. There’s a couple other guys that were there with us in the 2016 campaign, we had well over, you know, hundreds of flag officers support the president, get somebody in there who’s been around the building a few times, but has solid MAGA credentials. I mean, you know, like, I mean, well, anyway, there’s General Tata, there’s a bunch of these guys that I think would show that he actually has someone MAGA-approved that’s been in the building. Yep, absolutely.
Conclusion and Next Steps
Alright, we’ll monitor the White House briefing, folks, you guys will just bring it in if you, if we see that she’s being asked about Waltz, we’ll continue to see if, what else is reported on that. I’ll say again, the current plan is for the national security adviser and his deputy and much of his team to be replaced, but Donald Trump is not final till Donald Trump puts it on Truth Social or says it in some other way, so we shall see.
I sure hope Susie Wiles is not threatening to get rid of Hegseth!
Agree 100% Wiles and Waltz have deep ties in Jacksonville politics. My opinion has consistently been that the flack Hegseth has taken….. everything at DOD, leak wise, signal gate, etc stems from Waltz neocon COS McCormack, who was the body man of Dick Cheney and Wong who is a Bolton acolyte.
I sure hope that Susie Wiles is not controlling anything in the oval office.
Actually, if you watched the cabinet meeting yesterday Susie is the most favored in the cabinet. It seems she is the king maker as far as President Trump is concerned. I hate to see so much power invested in one member of the cabinet.
Note: Rubio made a special mention of Witkoff and the good work he has done on the Ukraine/Russia front. President Trump listens to Rubio.
Further proof President Trump resides in the most tightly controlled Silo in existence.
Susie Wiles is Brutus.
The last part of the X post is interesting.
“Other national security changes coming, as Susie Wiles & others have told @SecDef
he needs to bring in a team of serious people to help stabilize the Pentagon pronto….”
So Susie Wiles is telling SecDef what to do and how to do it?
Wonder if Mike Flynn is under consideration for NSA–wouldn’t that be full circle!
That would be AWESOME now that we have definitive proof that General Michael Flynn did NOTHING Wrong.
Sundance re Mike Waltz….
Bannon agreed completely yesterday with Halperin.
Here’s another interesting piece from the same venue – this time comparing Trump to Gorbachev, while remaining kind to both:
https://www.rt.com/news/616547-ivan-timofeev-trump-gorbachev/
The author’s point is that “both were formers,” and that both are now acting at a time when decades-old institutions and practices are stagnant and failing. It is an interesting analogy.
The author also acknowledges that “the USSR” was a completely-different political concept, so the analogies are not exact. And, to his credit, he does not throw his political predecessor under the bus. (Nor should he have.)
IMHO: Gorbachev was the last one to pilot a ship that was already going down. He piloted it to a soft landing. He did his task honorably and well. (RIP.)
If your gonna do a MAGA dance, don’t do the wong waltz.
Especially with two Leftist feet.
You and HN got the jump on Wordman(tm)!
My thoughts exactly. WORDMAN™ is gonna be jealous!
Sum Ting Wong?
The last Waltz.
in the District of Cr*me…
Glad Waltz is out. If your NOT MAGA you need to be fired. I hope both Bondi and Patel take note.
about the time ..to fire neocon Waltz and his sidekick…now there is someone who would be better to do adv. Kellogg cereals ….. instead to do negotiations with Russia…
I wonder if Waltz’s (dismissal) resignation was predicated on closing the Ukraine minerals deal first. I think his buddies in the DS were hoping he could sabotage it.
Maybe he can become a security guard at The Atlantic HQ?
Bad riddance Judas!
The negative aspect is that he left a very strong congressional seat.
That might be a good thing also. Don’t you think? Less RINO’s and NEOCON’s yes?
Diana Larkin–A Word from the Lord: OVERWHELMING VICTORY–Rumble video
text: JOURNAL ENTRIES Video – OVERWHELMING VICTORY–excerpts:
“…I AM EQUIPPING you with My GREATER GLORY so that many can come to FREEDOM and FULLNESS of LIFE.”
“This GRAND ADVENTURE that you are living will have A HAPPY ENDING. All your LOSSES will be COMFORTED and RESTORED. …This has been a very difficult season as you saw the DEEP DARKNESS that had INFILTRATED your world, but the balance to that has been a REVELATION of My POWER and My DEEP LOVE for you. …This has been a season of SHARP CONTRASTS between GOOD AND EVIL, between LIFE AND DEATH, between HATRED AND LOVE. This has been necessary to AWAKEN the world to the CREEPING, LYING DARKNESS. Stay with Me to the END, and I promise you A HAPPY ENDING!” …….
Isaiah 40
27-31 Why would you ever complain, O Jacob,
or, whine, Israel, saying,
“God has lost track of me.
He doesn’t care what happens to me”?
Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening?
God doesn’t come and go. God lasts.
He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine.
He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath.
And he knows everything, inside and out.
He energizes those who get tired,
gives fresh strength to dropouts.
For even young people tire and drop out,
young folk in their prime stumble and fall.
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength.
They spread their wings and soar like eagles,
They run and don’t get tired,
they walk and don’t lag behind.
Hallelujah!
Rest in the Vine: “Overwhelming Victory!”: A Word from the Lord by Diana Larkin
and “A National Day of Prayer”
Don’t let Americans forget how hard the Democrats fought to bring this violent gang member back to the US!
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‘I am afraid’: Another protective order filing against deported ‘Maryland man’ championed by Dems surfaces
Excerpt:
In addition, the form said Abrego Garcia had threatened her and wrote that she has a recording in which he “told [her] ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/another-protective-order-filing-against-deported-maryland-man-championed-dems-surfaces
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Somehow this guy’s older brother with very similar background story preceded Garcia and made it into the U.S. and has attained citizenship.
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The big question is why are they fighting so hard for that particular man? What information does he have that is so important to the Dems or WEF. Can he spill beans about who paid for MS13 to get in, or what he was tranporting gang members for? Or what they have been tasked to do?
Mexico IMO has actively tried to invade the USA.
The Alien Enemies Act would therefore enable Trump to send every illegal Mexican in the USA out of the country without court intervention.
The leftists are not prepared to lose millions of future votes without a big fight.
Venezuela almost certain has sent criminal onto the USA to plunder it.
The Alien Enemies Act would therefore enable Trump to send every illegal Venezuelan in the USA out of the country without court intervention.
The leftists are not prepared to lose those future votes without a big fight either.
removing their demographic war by 60% making the offspring of illegals that remain Independents or leaning Right.
What does that mean? Not being familiar with legalese I am having a problem discerning the ruling. Thanks.
The ACLU is now counsel or the attorney for every person being deported under the Alien Enemies Act whether they asked for an attorney or they did not.
The SCOTUS is scheduled to hear arguments on the birthright citizenship case on May 15, 2025. The case challenges a Trump administration executive order that seeks to limit who qualifies for citizenship based on their parents’ immigration status.
Four questions in the Supreme Court arguments in birthright citizenship cases
Analysis by Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center
Wed April 30, 2025
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-vladeck-analysis
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 in three cases challenging an executive order President Donald Trump signed on January 20 purporting to limit who is entitled to “birthright citizenship,” i.e., who automatically becomes a US citizen if they are born on US soil.
The argument is not formally about whether Trump’s policy is constitutional, but is, instead, focused on a technical question about the injunctions that three different lower courts issued to block the policy from taking effect.
The court’s ultimate decision will have a lot to say about whether and to what extent the policy is allowed to go into effect. While extraordinarily significant, that is not necessarily the same thing as a ruling on the policy’s legality; it is distinctly possible that the Supreme Court will go out of its way to not address whether Trump’s policy is constitutional in a ruling that nevertheless allows it go into effect across much (if not most) of the country.
Trump’s order directs federal agencies to not recognize as citizens individuals born in the United States on or after February 19 if, at the time of their birth, (1) their father was not a citizen or lawful permanent resident (“Green Card” holder); and (2) their mother was either unlawfully present in the United States or lawfully present with only temporary status (e.g., a student visa).
Multiple lawsuits were filed almost as soon as the executive order was signed seeking to block it. And within days, the order was blocked by a number of federal courts –including, as relevant here, federal district courts in Massachusetts, Maryland and the state of Washington. Each of those courts entered “preliminary” injunctions concluding that the executive order was unlawful, blocking it indefinitely while the government appealed.
As especially relevant here, each of the injunctions were “nationwide” injunctions – meaning they blocked the government not just from applying the policy to the plaintiffs in those cases, but from applying it to anyone, even those living outside of those three judicial districts. Thus, when the Trump administration asked the federal appeals courts to pause those injunctions, it also asked them, in the alternative, to at least narrow the injunctions so that they’d apply only to the plaintiffs. All three appeals courts (the Boston-based 1st Circuit; the Richmond-based 4th Circuit, and the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit) turned down both requests. That’s when the Trump administration took all three cases to the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration has framed its request to limit the injunctions as a “modest” one.
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This STILL doesn’t address the KEY problem enabling the judicial coup currently taking place – any one of 94 district courts shopped for political bias to submit national injunctions when NATIONAL issues should be the exclusive realm of the SCOTUS ONLY!!!!!!!!!!
If that isn’t FIXED, the USAID (CIA) “Rule of Law” technique (rule by unelected, appointed, partisan judges overriding elected politicians) described in detail by Mike Benz has succeeded here just as it has in foreign countries where the CIA uses it to thwart POPULIST politicians.
“Until very recently, federal judges were so reluctant to raise this Constitutional issue that they almost never issued such injunctions. They issued injunctions only for their own circuits and left it to the Supreme Court to resolve questions about nationwide application.
But nationwide injunctions in contentious cases have become more common recently, and it is likely that the Supreme Court will be forced to address whether inferior-court federal judges do in fact have nationwide authority.
I think it is quite unlikely that the Supreme Court will affirm this.
I am not addressing here the question of whether I think Trump and DOGE’s authority to block Treasury payments should prevail. I am predicting that it almost certainly will prevail.” – Eric S Raymond
Warfare on Lawfare
Feb 10, 2025
https://www.kunstler.com/p/warfare-on-lawfare
Excerpt:
The DOJ under Pam Bondi can designate the US Solicitor General to petition the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for certiorari — to expedite the resolution of this constitutional issue as to whether Mr. Trump, as chief executive, and his bona fide appointees, can carry out executive functions. The arguments against that appear to be weak.
It is the President’s duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed, meaning that the departments under him do their jobs correctly, which would give him inherent authority to audit and restructure agencies like USAID. Both judges Nichols and Engelmayer are arrogating executive and legislative functions on policy-making to themselves, triggering a separation-of-powers dispute that the SCOTUS must adjudicate promptly.
What matters most in these cases is that SCOTUS has an opportunity to put up new guardrails against the hijacking of the federal courts for the purpose of lawfare — that is, for political dirty-fighting under color-of-law. The law is slow-moving, arcane, and incomprehensible to most non-lawyer citizens and that is why the Party of Chaos has misused it so liberally.
I consider the result of the “birthright citizenship” case to be determinative of whether the Republic has any chance of surviving.
When you give part ownership and legal decision-making rights to the progeny of those who stole into our country, and who are far more fertile, you are giving away your country.
And to those whose comprehension of our founding principles and appreciation for them is not usually adequate to preserve our form and function.
This is a giving that is actually a wrongful taking based on an intentional misinterpretation of a Constitutional Amendment passed specifically for the purpose of ensuring that former slaves were adopted into the promises of the original Constitution.
And this Supreme Court scares me.
“you are giving away your country”
Just as important as that or even more is what I pointed out is happening RIGHT NOW which is, effectively, rule by lower court judges, a judicial coup, which can, as intended, forever obstruct necessary, major reforms.
And a good number of those activist judges are the “anchors.” Anchor Babies.
I totally agree. This SC seems to take our Constitution and twist its meaning into something it never was intended to be. Their job is to protect and defend the Constitution. This group does neither very honorably. All bets are off on any decisions they make. I still can’t believe Roe got overturned. No western country that I know of uses birth right citizenship except the USA and there’s very good reason not to allow it. Will the SC be willing to protect the country and its supreme law of the land?
The Wong decision will be upheld.
If a parent of the rugrat is here with lawful US government permission, we get to keep the rugrat as a citizen, and pay dearly.
The other migrants are essentially marauders – two-legged migrating locusts in search of the best eating and Baby Locust is the child of unlawful invaders and a citizen of each parent’s country.
China Hints It’s Open to Trade Talks | Barrons
George Glover
Updated May 01, 2025, 9:57 am EDT / Original May 01, 2025, 6:37 am EDT
State media signaled Thursday that China may be open to entering trade talks with the U.S., boosting hopes that the world’s two largest economies will be able to strike a deal on tariffs.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-tariffs-trade-talks-trump-0707cadb
Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
New – Ohio Governor Poll
🔴 Ramaswamy 50%
🔵 Acton 45%
🔴 vs Ryan – Ramaswamy +7
YouGov #B – RV – 4/24
8:53 PM · Apr 30, 2025
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Another judge…
Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for swift deportations is illegal, Trump-appointed judge rules
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/trump-deportations-court-ruling-00321455
The lawfare beat goes on; it is endless. Worse, the judge is a Trump appointee. I anticipate that SCOTUS will allow this ruling to languish indefinitely within the appellate process before addressing the case. Then, the final outcome is very likely a coin flip.
Here is another link:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-federal-judge-bars-trump-administration-using-alien/
another judge rule it legal.
We can probably thank the Federalist Society for yet another lousy judge recommendation.
District Court Southern District Of Texas judge Fernando Rodriguez rules use of AEA illegal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2000771/gov.uscourts.txsd.2000771.58.0_1.pdf
It needs to be understood that the United States is undergoing the largest invasion in human history.
September 1939
I need to speak to a judge of the Polish Supreme Court about a very urgent matter.
This is so crazy. If China started sending in people over the Mexican border and having them plant bombs around our country, under this guy’s logic, the President would have to go get court permission to remove the invaders. This whole area is simply not an appropriate subject for the judiciary to be involved with.
Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
🚨Folks, I’m seeing A LOT of what I believe is misreporting regarding an order entered yesterday by Judge Thurston. Her ACTUAL order appears to be consistent with federal law: 1/
Cont…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1917692670094307814.html
” So she is NOT saying they can’t arrest without a warrant and it should be easy to prove “flight risk” on an individual basis…in fact that’s precisely what ICE requires, which prompted Trump Administration to argue case was moot.”
Too legal and everything for me to follow.
“Elon Musk on what it’s like to be friends with President Trump and run DOGE…”
What the heck? Autism coming through?
They have sleepovers and raid the icebox. Classic.
I love it. Grown men can be good friends.
Well, Nature has an article behind a highway robbery paywall by ChiCom sciencers discussing a MERS-CoV-like mink coronavirus that binds to the ACE-2 receptor.
I think we may have just found the next terror weapon ready to be deployed after Summer Riot Season!!
I wonder what Ultra Methylene Blue does to spike proteins??
ACE 2 plays into angiotensin and CV/blood pressure issues.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-ace2-receptor-how-is-it-connected-to-coronavirus-and-why-might-it-be-key-to-treating-covid-19-the-experts-explain-136928
Aggiegirl: I worked on the marketing of angiotensin enzyme inhibitors in the pharma business, going back to 1983. The first ACE inhibitors (captopril, from Squibb, and enalopril, from Merck) were derived from the venom of a South American snake. At the time, ACE inhibitors were a new class of drugs to treat high blood pressure and heart failure.
Byron York
@ByronYork
The Dow opened April 1 at 41,879. It closed April 30 at 40,669. For you stats people: Is that the worst April since 1932, as the Wall Street Journal declared earlier this month?
Cont…
And
The Dow is only 30 stocks with not much tech. The Nasdaq Composite QQQ was brutalized and down almost 30%. It has recovered some but stocks like Apple,
Google, NVDA and Amazon were slaughtered and still down 25% to 30%.
Dividend Aristocrats and Dividend Kings seem to be safer.
Very interesting…have you heard of Smart Power???
https://rumble.com/v6sqjkv-the-ngo-supergroup-who-lobbies-congress-to-give-themselves-more-money.html
Why is Kemp the only Repub that can win in GA?
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Brian Kemp (R) leads Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (D) in 2026 U.S. Senate matchup by +3 points, 49%-46% – AJC poll
I have no idea, but I’ll take him over Ossoff. Not that I trust him in any way, but didn’t he warm up a bit to President Trump? It sounded like he was much more complimentary the last time I heard him speak. Although you know his RINO tendencies will come out as soon as his vote is needed.
“. . . I’ll take him over Ossoff.” This what they do, they run these RINOs against Dems, knowing that we have no choice but to vote Republican. Yes, we can not vote but that’s not what we do. The GOP nearly always has MAGA by the short hairs. I likely won’t live long enough to see the MAGA take over of the GOP but I know it will be glorious.
Kemp knows how to butter everybody’s bread-R and D.
Kemp is the ultimate RINO. Think of a corrupt Romney.
MGT would destroy Ossoff!
“Corrupt” Romney? isn’t that just a Romney?
Good point, I stand corrected.
Before or after she gets wealthy from her insider trading in Palantir stock?
I don’t know enough to weigh in on that, but no one in Congress should own stocks.
So when they get elected there should be an automatic divestiture of all stocks and bonds to eliminate this possibility.
She bought Palantir 4/8/25.
Palantir announced a $30 million DHS contract leas than 3 weeks later, then the stock shot up 48%.
Miz Margie sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
Conveniently..
First she should have to sell and give the proceeds to charity. Second, there should be an investigation of the matter.
I’ve heard nothing but crickets.
Why do I believe a hugely popular governor (not by Republican standards) is this close in polling to this little crap weasel?
GM announced that they will not raise prices. I see this as good news, since the media has been lecturing everyone that vehicles will increase by 40%.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/gm-ceo-breaks-silence-over-tariff-pressure-what-it-means-for-your-wallet
they couldnt coordinate with other car companies.
competition is making them serve us
Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Federal district court enters first merits ruling on Alien Enemies Act habeas case. On question of class certification: Court punts on whether class cert. under Rule 23 is available & considers if All Writs Act provides analog, i.e. another way to do a class. 1/
Cont…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1917961145412919643.html
The National Day of Prayer service is just finishing up.
President Trump stood through the entire event, just as he did the 100 Day Rally in Michigan … just as he did all his campaign rallies.
PDJT will turn 79 years old on June 14, Flag Day. I continue to marvel at his incredible stamina.
This is London –Coming soon to Texas and Florida. L8OGy.caa.mp4
And Virginia.
The citizens let this happen. If we do the same then we get the same results and lose. Up to us, we the people of America. I don’t feel any sympathy for the native Brits for this. They had ample opportunity to stop it by forcing their govt. to change. Seems it’s too late now but it isn’t for us. Yet.
Pakistani men and women in Burqas!
Another unfortunate pick by someone in POTUS orbit—WHo is recommending these people I wonder? https://loomered.com/2025/04/30/exclusive-pro-illegal-alien-and-dei-advocate-ashleigh-bondoc-joins-doj-as-special-assistant-to-white-house-senior-counselor
So Bondi hires a longtime BLM activist in Woodward and if that wasn’t bad enough Bondi hires Bondoc who is a hardcore pro DEI advocate as his assistant . C’MON !!!!!!!
That’s not an unfortunate pick, it’s a unforgivable pick .
Ashleigh Bondoc, an attorney with a history of advocating for illegal aliens and DEI policies, has been appointed as a Special Assistant to Stanley Woodward, the Senior Counselor to President Donald Trump and the newly nominated Associate Attorney General, within the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Ashleigh Bondoc is an individual with a pro- open-borders and DEI background. Bondoc ran Diversity Career Panel Discussions which focused on promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in professional settings.
There are probably listening devices on their phones. Wonder if they are allowed to bring them into a cabinet meeting?
Did you ever discuss buying a new car, hiring a landscaper, etc.. and next thing you know ads for cars and landscaping pop up?
you are hitting a serious point.
why is advertising the root of all spying.
Yes.
Hubby and I take turns intentionally talking about some ridiculous item or service just to see how long it takes to pop-up-ad itself on our phones. 🤔😂
What….? Yeah, you have to laugh at them.
If anyone wants to see how sleazy our corporate executives have become, this short article is worth a read. The Ryanair CEO is throwing a tantrum about tariffs and threatening to buy from China’s Comac instead of Boeing. He said that all he cares about is the lowest price. God forbid you pay a bit more to purchase from an American company. I know that Boeing has its flaws, but I’d trust them any day over some Chinese operation. Ryanair has no interest in what’s best for the country…just sleazy business. I’ve never flown this airline, but do yourself a favor, and don’t ever use them. A greedy person like this should never be anywhere near a company where safety is a priority.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ryanair-drops-33b-bombshell-boeing-163252495.html
Boeing has it’s flaws is an understatement.
Look who it is…China Joe. I’m surprised you’re not crying about tariffs in your post.
BRILLIANT….Even chinese airlines won’t buy from chinese plane manufactures. so ,this shytebum goes out and buys junk to affect his bottom line. Nope, don’t worry about passengers….
Boeing is pretty shaky these days. Not so sure they should be the comparison company here.
No way he actually buys China jets in the near future. Not certified by EASA (Europe’s FAA)
In addiation, Boeing Jets into Ireland/EU are only a problem if Ireland or EU wants to retailiate.
Not smart on their part. Airbus has backlogs for years for the A320/321 series. COMAC 939 is years away at best.
Also Ryanair is nearly 100% Boeing 737. Adding another type adds expenses beyond the acquistion cost.
Their subsidiary airline Lauda Europe has 26 older A320-200, leased until 2028. These are not used by Ryanair mainline.
He’s making noise trying to keep costs low. His yappin’ would be better served to the coneheads in Brussels working on trade deals.
Reports are also saying that CHYNA is having second thoughts giving up Boeing slots.
Another black-robe about to bite the dust?
The california judge trying to block the President’s deportation efforts is being exposed for a big blatant conflict of interest and violating the law requiring disclosure of said conflict.
Her husband is a real estate broker who caters to illegals and property owners who rent to them. He’s also a known Trump hater.
If it’s investigated and found to be true, which it is, her ruling is void. Hopefully her black robe will also disappear. But it is california, so…..
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/05/01/biden-judge-blocking-illegal-immigrant-deportations-faces-conflict-of-interest-allegations/
These judges really are despicable.
One of the rare cases where the code says SHALL recuse. Your hubby is making money (taxpayer subsidized?) off the illegal alien industry while wifey in robes pontificates about how you can’t ask people with brown skin for their papers. This isn’t the Canadian border, but the Mexican border. Are you only supposed to ask white people for their papers?
A couple of those 300,000 plus lost children have been found:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/us-news/hsi-agents-rescue-teen-migrant-sisters-from-sex-traffickers/
This seems to be a common fate. Probably every single person who has been a victim in this nation will be allowed to stay forever due to what they suffered while here – part of the plan.
Homeland Security agents rescue migrant teen sisters from sex traffickers — after they arrived in US as unaccompanied minors
Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations saved the girls, ages 16 and 18, Saturday from captivity at a hotel in West Covina, California, where Christopher Ramirez was allegedly “pimping” the young sisters out, sources told The Post.
The feds are still looking for co-conspirators who helped move the migrant girls, who are from Honduras, from Texas to California and forced them into prostitution, sources said.
The Trump administration has already reunited roughly 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children with family members or “safe guardians” in its first 70 days, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trici McLaughlin said in a previous X post.
“Unlike the previous administration, President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem take the responsibility to protect children seriously and will continue to work with federal law enforcement to reunite children with their families,” said McLaughlin.
Some of the thousands of missing migrant children have been found to be working in exploitative conditions in slaughterhouses and factories because of the lax vetting policies the Biden administration adopted to screen their adult sponsors.
Running out of conspiracies… Bio labs in Ukraine!
PS, Jail Fauci now!
The Chinese lab was funded because the US government wanted to know about Chinese virus research and the people who did it.
The funders such as Fauci believed the Chinese could safely handle dangerous viruses since they had about a billion people’s lives at stake themselves.
It was moved offshore to hide it from Americans and because our wicked Deep State Occupation Government was full partners with the Chinee Military Dictatorship.
Who builds Weapons together?
A: Allies
FBI reassigns agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, two people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
The reasons for the moves were not immediately clear, though they come as the FBI under Director Kash Patel has been undertaking broad personnel changes and as Deputy Director Dan Bongino has repeatedly sought to reassure supporters of President Donald Trump who are critical of the bureau that their complaints are being taken seriously.
“The Director and I are working on a number of significant initiatives to ensure that the mistakes of the past are never repeated, and that many of your open questions are answered,” Bongino wrote in one recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter. He did not specify what mistakes or questions he was referring to.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-reassigns-agents-photographed-kneeling-during-2020-racial-justice-protest-ap-sources-say/ar-AA1DX8im
More Winning from President Trump and his team!
“Trump Administration Celebrates Release of More Detained Americans”
Excerpts:
Trump administration officials this week celebrated the return of dozens of US citizens detained abroad who have been released in the first 100 days of the president’s second term.
“Thanks to @POTUS‘s leadership, Belarus has released another wrongfully detained U.S. citizen,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday in reference to the release of Youras Ziankovich.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/05/01/tony-holden-release-n2656371
Sebastian Gorka DrG on X
47 hostages in 100 days thanks to the President.
This is today, Dulles Airport.
Tony Holden is a contractor from Memphis that was imprisoned for four years and hasn’t seen his youngest daughter since she was a baby.
He’s home. Because of President @realDonaldTrump
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I am almost through with this interview between Tucker Carlson and a woman for whom I can’t express the depth of my admiration, Catherine Austin Fitts.
There is so much in this interview that it will take some time for me to absorb it..
But…
I implore my friends in this remarkable Tree to spend one hour and fifty minutes to listen. If there is a more relevant video to understand the times we are in, the players (many still nameless… but God knows who they are), and their demonic agenda, I truly dont know know what it would be. Much of what she discusses Sundance has alluded to in past threads.
This remarkable, intellectually brilliant, Christian woman gives insight into things which I am convinced were never meant to see the light of day.
One point…
Harvard is on the big fat middle of the evil; and if one ever wondered why they, with a $50 BILLION endowment, are so outraged about the threat of the withdrawal of federal funding, after listening all will be clear….
Please listen.
I suspect there are deeply nefarious forces which would rather no one heard this.
The video is embedded in this article, which was the only place I could find it yesterday.
Hoping Tucker will soon post it on his sight.
https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2025/04/catherine-austin-fitts-tucker-carlson-legal-elites/
….site….
I have followed Catherine Fitts for quite awhile now. She is amazing and wicked smart. This is a great interview and hopefully a lot more people listen to her after this one.
Oh I do, too, Cjzack…
Towards the end she spoke passionately about her faith and her “people bank”…
A riveting interview with much needed moral direction.
I’ve come to realize that I am not made for this world, at least not the way it is now. I bet I am not alone. Blessings, my friend.
War on Terror is ongoing since 911. Someone in the DOJ must not have let this judge know. He is big mad at DOJ lawyers. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-federal-judge-bars-trump-administration-using-alien/
WARNING: Adult language from Ilhan.