St. Patty's Day 2025 Overnight Open Thread [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy to all ye Hordeluns, and a Happy St. Patty's Day to ya! If yas aint drunk yet, we'll try to fix that for ya. Step inside the O'EnnTee - but watch out for pinchin' if ya don't has any green on ya!
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Playground Pals Cafe
—Ace
What are we going to do about the Baby Hippo Crisis?
Corgis are potato-shaped babies.
Another dog enjoying the playground.
A dog raised by cats has a feline personality.
A woman made a shelter for unhoused cats.
Cat brings her kitten to lay with the human baby.
Capybaras enjoy their luxurious spa.
When you see your chance, take it.
An okapi, or "forest giraffe." Looks like a mix of three different animals.
The okapi, often called the "forest giraffe" or "zebra giraffe," is frequently mistaken for a cross between a zebra and a giraffe, but it's actually the only living relative of the giraffe
Dog enjoys a toy.
Little dog tries to herd big birds.
Rescuing a poor sweet dog abandoned by its owners in the middle of a storm.
All great public works and innovations are powered by, at root, beaver.
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Trump Deports Pro-Hezballah Professor
—Ace
Homeland Security @DHSgovLast month, Rasha Alawieh traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah-- a brutal terrorist who led Hezbollah, responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree. Alawieh openly admitted to this to CBP officers, as well as her support of Nasrallah.
A visa is a privilege not a right--glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is commonsense security.
The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader's funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon.When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, "openly admitted" her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday.
"A visa is a privilege not a right," the spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement to The New York Times. "Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied. This is common-sense security."
The department did not say how it knew that Dr. Alawieh had attended the funeral, which was held in a sports stadium and attracted tens of thousands of people. It also did not respond to questions about whether Dr. Alawieh has been accused of a crime or immigration violation.
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Late on Sunday, a team of lawyers from the firm of Arnold & Porter, who had been set to represent the family, withdrew from the case, telling the court their decision was made "as a result of further diligence."
The federal judge overseeing the case decided to postpone a hearing in the case on Monday after Ms. Marzouk requested more time to prepare. She represents Dr. Alawieh's cousin, Yara Chehab, who brought the case first to try to stop the government from deporting Dr. Alawieh, and then to seek her return to the United States.
Whoopi Goldberg is sad that her terrorist and rapist illegal alien pals are afraid of being deported.
President Donald Trump's administration deported over 200 of gang members part of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and several members of MS-13 to El Salvador and Honduras on Saturday, which sparked backlash as a judge issued a last-minute order attempting to block the deportations. Goldberg warned that the Trump administration could randomly choose any American to be deported to a country they are not familiar with, though that would be a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution."If they can just come up and take somebody because they've made a decision that you're supposed to be that person, anyone of us could find ourselves being deported to some country we've never been," Goldberg said. "Well you know, it is very clear to me that if we don't continue to say, listen, I understand you want to clean out all the bad stuff, I get it. But why do you now have access to my personal information? I get the things you're trying to do, I don't get why you're taking my stuff, not just me personally, but every single one of you and your constitutional right of free speech."
Bonus: A judge hit large-cootered donut wagon Fani Willis with a big fine for hiding subpoenaed documents about her affair with Sweetdick.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been slapped with a $54,000 penalty for blatantly violating Georgia's open records laws in her politically motivated prosecution of President Donald Trump.
"The county's Superior Court Judge Rachel Krause formalized her ruling Friday and ordered Willis to pay $54,264 in attorneys' fees and litigation costs after 'intentionally' failing to provide records requested by Ashleigh Merchant, the attorney who filed the motion to disqualify Willis from prosecuting Trump on charges of allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election," reports Fox News Digital.
Krause stated that Willis' office failed to provide documents related to the employment of Nathan Wade, the former special assistant district attorney forced to resign from the Trump case due to his romantic relationship with Willis.Merchant believed that Willis and Wade may have financially benefited from Wade's appointment as the special prosecutor in the case.
"Defendants -- through the Open Records custodian, Dexter Bond -- were openly hostile to counsel for Plaintiff, Ms. Merchant, and testified that Ms. Merchant's requests were handled differently than other requests," the court order said.
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Polls Are Made for Strippers But I'm Pretty Sure This Stripper Is Really Into Me
—Ace
A new NBC poll shows Trump with the highest approval ever and a party almost completely united behind him.
Check out how they spin that finding:
Poll: Trump faces early challenges on the economy as a united GOP backs big change
A new NBC News poll shows Trump with a job approval rating as high as he's ever had. But doubts loom in voters' minds, especially over the economy and government cuts.
How will Trump handle the "challenge" of record popularity?
Voters are starting 2025 sour on the state of the economy and President Donald Trump's handling of it so far, even as his election to a second term sparked an upswing in positive feelings about the direction of the nation, according to a new national NBC News poll.
So what they're trying to avoid stating clearly is that voters had had a terrible impression of the economy and the nation's direction under Biden, and now, under Trump, they are much more positive about the economy and the direction of the country. NBC wants to emphasize that the public still has doubts -- not that the public's mood has shifted much more positive than it had been.
Buoyed by jubilant and unified Republicans, who are standing in lockstep with Trump and the expansive agenda he and congressional leaders are pushing in Washington, more registered voters see the U.S. as heading in the right direction than at any point since early 2004, though a majority still say the country is on the wrong track. Trump's approval rating also equals his best-ever mark as president (47%), though again, a majority (51%) disapproves of his performance.
Remember, this is a #Rigged NBC poll of the NPR editors and fading celebrities with multiple transgender children. The numbers may be a touch off.
Meanwhile, driven in part by a pessimistic shift among Democrats since Trump's election, just 18% of voters rate the economy as "excellent" or "good" -- not as low as the poorest economic marks during the Biden administration, according to CNBC polling from 2022, but within a handful of points and as low as that mark has been in NBC News polling since 2014. Majorities of voters disapprove of Trump's early job performance on the economy (54% disapprove, 44% approve) and how he's handling inflation and the cost of living (55% disapprove, 42% approve)....
Overall, the poll reflects an America that remains deeply divided in the months following Trump's 2024 victory, as it was in the months before.
The liberal media rule is that if any liberal is unsatisfied with a Republican, the public is "deeply divided."
Biden, on the other hand, was popular, until the media pressured him to drop out.
...In another change from Trump's first term in the White House, the public has come around on his deportation-focused immigration policies, though voters are wary of his handling of other issues, including foreign policy.
Voters like the general idea of the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump-blessed effort to slash government jobs and spending. But they harbor reservations about its rapid-fire execution so far, as well as about billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk, DOGE's de facto head.
And voters are split evenly on which party they'd like to see win the 2026 midterm elections, even as the Democratic Party faces record-low popularity and fractious divides over how to respond to Trump. (The survey was conducted March 7-11, before Senate Democrats provided a handful of votes to help resolve a government funding fight.)
"While this survey shows a mixed result for Donald Trump, Democrats are the ones in the wilderness right now," said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies. Horwitt called Trump's upside-down numbers among independents "a flashing red light across the survey."
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Trump's job approval rating (47%) and personal favorable rating (46%), along with the 44% who believe the country is on the right track, are at all-time highs in NBC News polling during his political career.
But they are also far below where previous presidents stood during the "honeymoon period" of new administrations, marking the polarization that has defined the Trump years. Slightly more disapprove of Trump's job performance (51%) and view him personally negatively (49%), and 54% see the country as on the wrong track.
Yes, because the Demented Usurprer Biden drove the country into a ditch and it's taking time to get ourselves out of it.
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When it comes to the issues, Trump fares particularly well on immigration. Fifty-five percent of voters approve of his handling of border security and immigration, while 43% disapprove. A similar share, 56%, say he's bringing the "right kind of change" on the issue, while 25% say he's bringing the wrong change and 18% say he isn't bringing change.
But that's the only one of the five issues tested in the poll -- border security and immigration, foreign policy, the economy, inflation and cost of living, and the war between Russia and Ukraine -- that sees a majority of American voters approve of how Trump is handling it.
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Just 1% rate the economy as "excellent" and 17% as "good," with 39% calling it "only fair" and 43% rating it "poor." While Republicans are more likely to have favorable views of the economy than others, majorities across virtually every demographic still view the economy in an unfavorable light.
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The NBC News poll also gauged voters' feelings on what kind of change Trump is bringing as president, with 40% saying he's bringing the right kind of change to inflation and the cost of living, while 30% say he's bringing the wrong change and 28% say he isn't bringing change.
On trade and tariffs, 41% say he's bringing the right change, 38% say the wrong change and 18% say he is not bringing change.
Overall, 46% said Trump is bringing the right kind of change, 30% said he's bringing the wrong kind of change, and 21% said he's not bringing change.
A CNN poll finds that the Democrat Party is more unpopular than it has ever been in their polling history.
The Democratic Party's favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.With many in the party saying publicly that their leaders should do more to stand up to President Donald Trump, Democrats and Democratic-aligned independents say, 57% to 42%, that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than working with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.
The survey was taken March 6-9, days before 10 Democratic senators -- including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- voted with Republicans in the chamber to advance a GOP-authored spending bill to avert a government shutdown, much to the chagrin of many other Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics.
Democrats view their own party unfavorably:
...Democratic-aligned adults say, 52% to 48%, that the leadership of the Democratic Party is currently taking the party in the wrong direction. That's another shift from eight years ago, when views on this metric were largely positive.
Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at just 29% -- a record low in CNN's polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 attack at on Capitol. The Republican Party's rating currently stands at 36%.
That's driven in part by relatively high levels of dissatisfaction within the Democratic Party. Just 63% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents report a favorable view of their own party, a dip from 72% in January and 81% at the start of President Joe Biden's administration. The decline comes across ideological wings, with favorability ratings for the Democratic Party falling by 18 points among liberals and moderates alike since the start of 2021.
The public no longer believes the Democrat Party is "mainstream."
...Both the Democratic and the Republican parties are viewed by about half the public as having views and policies that are too extreme, rather than generally mainstream. That's a change from 2022, when most Americans -- 56% -- called the Democratic Party's positions mainstream. Views of the GOP have remained effectively unchanged over that time.
Democrats don't like any of their possible candidates:
Democrats, who overwhelmingly consider Trump too extreme, have yet to consolidate around any one-party leader to serve as a counterpoint. Asked in an open-ended question to name the Democratic leader they feel "best reflects the core values" of the party, 10% of Democratic-aligned adults name New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 9% former vice president Kamala Harris, 8% Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 6% House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Another 4% each name former president Barack Obama and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, with Schumer joining a handful of others at 2%.More than 30% didn't offer a name in response. "No one," one respondent answered. "That's the problem."
Democrats are particularly angry at Cuck Schumer for suggesting he was going to fight the CR before cucking out like a closet cuck. They're so angry, in fact, that Schumer has cancelled his book tour -- he's afraid of protests and difficult questions, but is also, he says, afraid that some of his leftwing supporters might try to physically attack him.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has canceled book tour events this week because of security concerns amid a backlash over his support for a Republican bill to prevent a government shutdown last week.
As a commenter said, he must be afraid of all those White Supremacists angry at him for not being more opposed to Trump.
...Event pages for several of the planned stops for Schumer's book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, which is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, showed postponement announcements on Monday morning.
"Sen. Schumer's book tour events during the week of March 17 are being postponed for security reasons. We will work to reschedule this event at a later date," reads the page for an event planned to be held Wednesday at Sixth & I, a synagogue in Washington, D.C.
There were calls to protest his speeches following his vote on the funding bill, which is also known as a continuing resolution (CR).
"PROTEST SCHUMER'S BOOK TOUR NEXT WEEK," Emma Vigeland, co-host of the left-leaning show The Majority Report, posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday while also sharing a list of events planned for this week.
Backlash against Schumer continued into Monday, as he faced growing calls from the party to step down as the Democratic Senate leader. An online petition of Democrats who would withhold party donations until he steps down had been signed nearly 25,000 times.
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Radar Online: Joy Reid Furious at MSNBC, Eager to "Torch Network to the Ground"
—Ace
MSNBC deserves Joy Reid (and she deserves MSNBC).
The story goes that she conspired with other leftwing lunatic hosts Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Nicole Wallace to stage an internal coup and stop the network from attempting to "moderate." (There is no evidence it is doing so.)
Is MSNBC racist for firing the black conspirator while keeping the white conspirators? Of course it is. #MSNBCSoWhite
EXCLUSIVE: Dumped Host Joy Reid Set to 'Scream Bloody Murder' Over Being Axed from MSNBC -- 'She Knows Where the Bodies are Buried and Is Getting Set to Torch Network to Ground!'
Joy Reid, axed from MSNBC, is reportedly preparing to reveal network secrets and cause turmoil.An unrepentant Joy Reid is set to scream bloody murder and seek vengeance against MSNBC for canceling her show, The ReidOut, and unceremoniously kicking her out the door, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The 56-year-old anchor, who had been with MSNBC for over a decade, is said to be furious over what she sees as a backstabbing betrayal from the very network she helped build.
An MSNBC insider said: "She's livid, and she knows everything. She's ready to burn the house down."According to sources, Reid signed her own death warrant by holding an internal summit with other anchors, including Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell and Nicolle Wallace, to unite in battle against the network's new strategy to be less left-wing biased.
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Now, sources said she's looking to roast those she believes betrayed her.
The insider warned: "MSNBC wants her to sign an NDA, but that's not going to happen. If they think they are going to silence her, they better think again."
So she's making threats, or her lawyer is making threats, to try to extract an outsized payoff. Don LeMon pulled the same scam. So did Chris Cuomo.
More from the Daily Mail: Cashew-headed conspiracy queen Rachel Maddow has burned bridges with MSNBC, too.
And her ratings have plunged. Wrong time to call out the executives.
Rachel Maddow's rant at MSNBC bosses backfires spectacularly as her ratings slump
Rachel Maddow's rant at MSNBC bosses appears to have backfired spectacularly as five million viewers fled the news program in a massive 22 per cent ratings slump.The Rachel Maddow Show dropped from 2.3 million viewers to 1.8 million viewers since the election of President Donald Trump won the election.
The star did even worse with younger viewers aged 25-54, losing 29 percent - or almost one third - of the group advertisers care about most, as reported by Fox News.
She lost a quarter of her audience, or 24 percent, in the first two months of 2025 compared to the same time last year - showing viewers are tuning out now that Joe Biden is no longer president.
Despite the overall decline, Maddow's show still managed to win its time slot last Friday and most nights last week, only losing out on Tuesday when President Trump delivered his address to the joint session of Congress.
This ratings disaster comes after Maddow had an angry meltdown with network bosses over the ousting of Joy Reid and other 'non-white' hosts.
The $25 million a year host erupted at MSNBC's new boss Rebecca Kutler live on air, saying it was 'disturbing' that 'non-white hosts in primetime were losing their shows.'
Katie Phang, who is Asian American and Jonathan Capehart, who is black, lost their primetime shows too.
Both will remain at the network, but in less high-profile roles.
Influential media newsletter Puck highlighted how Maddow's own enormous salary could help expand MSNBC's ranks considerably.
The network is laying off 125 producers- many of whom work on Maddow's show - but will rehire 110 of them.
Her program, The Rachel Maddow Show, typically reaches around 2.1 million viewers a night.
Maddow struck a $25 million a year deal which only saw her required to host one show a week, on Monday night.
She agreed to take a $5 million pay cut last year, lowering her massive salary from $30 million to $25 million - which would still equal to the combined earnings of at least 250 production staff who make each of her evening shows possible.
She agreed to cover the first 100 days of the Trump presidency after he won his second term in office and will return to her one shift a week role in April.
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Now It Can Be Told: UK "Intelligence" Also Knew Covid-19 Was Manufactured in Fauci's Wuhan Lab, and Also Lied to the World About It
—Ace
Are these the West's intelligence services, or China's?
Before getting to that, the New York Times now admits the truth: Yes, covid-19 came from the Wuhan lab.
Why did they participate in this massive lying psyop against the American people?
They didn't, they say! They were "badly misled," you see.
Now, the NYT -- and not even in its own editorial voice -- wants to play victim of The Science(R):
Since scientists first began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world -- no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.
So, the Wuhan research was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission: It certainly seemed like consensus.
We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratory's research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions may have been terrifyingly lax.
Ahem. "Has since emerged" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here. As early as April 2020, those "terrifyingly lax" protocols had already come to light. We also knew at that same time that the State Department had flagged the Wuhan Institute of Virology for violating safety protocols required for the kind of gain-of-function research it was conducting as far back as 2018. We also knew that The Science(R) still had zero evidence for a natural zoonotic leap to humans to explain the outbreak epicentered in the same town as the lab:"The idea that is was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there's almost nothing on the other side," the official said.As my colleague David Ignatius noted, the Chinese government's original story -- that the virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan -- is shaky. Research by Chinese experts published in the Lancet in January showed the first known patient, identified on Dec. 1, had no connection to the market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn't sell bats.
And yet, the New York Times went out of its way -- as did the rest of the Protection Racket Media -- to spend years treating anyone who questioned the "consensus" around a natural zoonotic leap as either a crank, a racist, or worse. Even when hints that the intel community had its doubts about the "consensus," the media rushed to defend The Science(R) from any scrutiny whatsoever.
The Regime is abandoning the China-protecting cover story of a "wet market spillover." The lie just won't hold, and is causing the world's "intelligence" services, leftwing media, and leftwing government officials further losses of credibility they just can't afford.
So the truth is being dripped out, slowly.
They all knew, they all lied, David Strom says.
We just found out that Germany's intelligence services concluded long ago with 80-95% confidence that covid-19 was cooked up in Fauci's Wuhan branch.
Now it turns out that MI-6 always knew the truth, too.
Not only did they lie, but the "intelligence" services targeted people telling the truth for censorship, debanking, and reputation-destroying smears.
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US Warplanes Pound Houthi Terrorist Camps in Yemen as SecDef Hegseth Promises More;
Trump Warns Iran
—Ace
Trump ordered the airstrikes after coming in from a round of golf:
Iran-backed terrorists and scumbag pirates in Yemen have been attacking shipping attempting to navigate the Red Sea.
The Houthi rebels attacked over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors, from November 2023 until January this year. Their leadership described the attacks as aiming to end the Israeli war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The campaign also greatly raised the Houthis' profile in the wider Arab world and tamped down on public criticism against their human rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent and aid workers.Trump, writing on his social media platform Truth Social, said his administration targeted the Houthis over their "unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism." He noted the disruption Houthi attacks have caused through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, key waterways for energy and cargo shipments between Asia and Europe through Egypt's Suez Canal.
"We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective," Trump said.
This is important, because if the Red Sea passage becomes any more unusual, global shipping will be disrupted and made much slower and more expensive:
Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. and the United Kingdom began a series of airstrikes against the Houthis starting in January 2024. A December report by The International Institute for Strategic Studies said the U.S. and its partners struck the Houthis over 260 times up to that point.U.S. military officials during that period acknowledged having a far-wider target list for possible strikes. While the Biden administration didn't go too far into explaining its targeting, analysts believe officials largely were trying to avoid civilian casualties and not rekindle Yemen's stalemated war, which pits the Houthis and their allies against the country's exiled government and their local and international allies, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Trump administration, however, appears willing to go after more targets, based on the weekend's strikes and public remarks made by officials.
"We're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS News' "Face The Nation" on Sunday. "That's the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out."
Rubio added: "Some of the key people involved in those missile launches are no longer with us, and I can tell you that some of the facilities that they used are no longer existing, and that will continue."
Israel also launched its own airstrikes on Houthi-held sites, including the port city of Hodeida, over the rebels' missile and drone attacks targeting Israel.
National Security Advisor Waltz confirmed the elimination of Houthi terror leaders.
National security adviser Mike Waltz confirmed on Sunday that U.S. airstrikes "took out" multiple Houthi leaders in attacks this weekend.Asked how the U.S. attacks this weekend differ from strikes under the Biden administration, Waltz said those "back-and-forth" strikes "ultimately proved to be feckless attacks."
"This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out," Waltz said in an interview on ABC News's "This Week."
"And the difference here is, one, going after the Houthi leadership and, two, holding Iran responsible," he continued.
Waltz stressed the negative consequences that the Houthis have had on global commerce.
"It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained and helped the Houthis target not only U.S. warships, but global commerce, and has helped the Houthis shut down two of the world's most strategic sea lanes," Waltz said, noting nearly three-quarters of global shipping "is now diverting around southern Africa, adding to the cost of goods, disrupting global economies, adding to -- or shutting off supplies to the United States."
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Trump Declares the Presidential Pardons Signed Not by Biden But By His Aides Operating the Auto-Pen to be "Void"
—Ace
Fake Jake is big mad. He lies about the situation, claiming that Trump is asserting an unconstitutional right to cancel pardons. In fact, he's asserting that only the president has the power to pardon, and these pardons were never signed by Biden, and therefore never had any effect from the moment they were presented to public.
Jake Tapper @jaketapperAt 12:35 am ET, the president decreed that he was nullifying President Biden's preemptive pardons of members of the January 6 committee, an assertion of a power the Constitution does not bestow.
Sean Davis @seanmdavJake Tapper, who a jury declared to be fake news, didn't say a word when Biden claimed to unilaterally amend the Constitution via a tweet. I guess Tapper is also back to claiming Biden was of sound mind despite trying to sell a book absolving Democrats of lying about Biden’s mental state for years.
Trump didn't make these unsigned phony pardons void. They were born void because Biden didn't sign them.
Judge Orders Trump To Turn Deportation Plane Around and Bring the Illegals Back to America; Trump Pulls the Old "My **dio Is Break*** **, Can You Re***?" Gag
—Ace
Trump sent a planeload of illegal alien criminals to be held in El Salvador's vibrant and diverse prisons. A federal judge decided he's the Commander in Chief now and ordered the plane to return.
Trump said "whoops, the plane's gone too far, can't call it back now, gee willickers sorry."
And the left is having a nervous breakdown.
Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flightsThe Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply, two senior officials tell Axios.
Why it matters: The administration's decision to defy a federal judge's order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial.
"Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis," national security attorney Mark S. Zaid, a Trump critic, wrote on X, adding that Trump could ultimately get impeached.
LOL. They thirst for a constitutional crisis like they thirst for racism and "white supremacy."
The White House welcomes that fight. "This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we're going to win," a senior White House official told Axios.
A second administration official said Trump was not defying the judge whose ruling came too late for the planes to change course: "Very important that people understand we are not actively defying court orders."
State of play: Trump's advisers contend U.S. District Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority by issuing an order that blocked the president from deporting about 250 alleged Tren de Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1789.
The war-time law gives the executive extreme immense power to deport noncitizens without a judicial hearing. But it has been little-used, particularly in peacetime.
"It's the showdown that was always going to happen between the two branches of government," a senior White House official said. "And it seemed that this was pretty clean. You have Venezuelan gang members ... These are bad guys, as the president would say."
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"There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said.
"They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.
"The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist [Tren de Aragua] aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory," Leavitt said. "The written order and the Administration's actions do not conflict.""Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear -- federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President's conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion," Leavitt added. "A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil."
On Sunday, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele responded to Boasberg's order by joking, "Oopsie... too late," in an X post. He also shared footage of heavily-armed Salvadorean authorities escorting the alleged gang members off the planes, shaving their heads and rounding them up in their prison cells.
A total of 261 illegal aliens were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador yesterday -- 137 of which were through the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 101 others were Venezuelans removed via Title 8 and another 21 were Salvadoran MS-13 gang members. Two others were MS-13 ringleaders and "special cases" for El Salvador.
A senior Trump administration official confirmed the numbers to Fox News on Sunday, explaining that the migrants' alleged crimes included kidnapping, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated assault, prostitution, robbery and aggravated assault of a police officer.
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THE MORNING RANT: The Conservative Milestone of Canceling Your Wall Street Journal Subscription
—Buck Throckmorton
Most of the legacy media had a terrible left-wing bias my entire adult life, with one very prominent exception – the Wall Street Journal. Upon my graduation from college in the 1980s, I subscribed to the WSJ. It was not only a valuable resource on all matters related to business and economics, but it also reported politics and other news with a commitment to journalistic impartiality. And most importantly, its editorial page was an oasis of conservative thought.
As we rolled into the 21st Century, the journalistic controls lapsed, and the reporting started to mirror the left-wing propaganda you could find in the New York Times. When the Trump era rolled around, the editorial page announced its obsolescence by becoming an unhinged haven for NeverTrumpism. Whether it was shilling for overseas wars, or acting as a leading voice for the uniparty, every page of the WSJ was now aligned with the Washington morass.
When I canceled my Wall Street Journal subscription in 2016 it carried an emotional punch. It was like terminating a long-time friendship with a person who had once been so important in your life.
The substack of former commodities trader Jeffrey Carter (@pointsnfigures1 on Twitter) is a must read for me, as he is always informative and educational. Last month he wrote about his decision to cancel his Wall Street Journal subscription.
I started reading WSJ in college (1980s) & I finally cancelled my subscription in 2016. For me, it too was a sad milestone, reflective of not only bias, but how the opinion page was stuck in an era that had passed & and its journalists were no longer investigative, or very smart. https://t.co/8W81UBo7cb
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) February 6, 2025
In his substack, Mr. Carter writes not only of the WSJ’s wokeness and anti-Trump bias…
I have been reading the WSJ daily since I entered college in 1980. That’s 45 years of reading one paper. The WSJ used to be very good. It still has some good writers. However, much of the paper has lost its objectivity. It’s either gone woke, or the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the writer is so bad it is impossible to get decent information.
…but also about how it is incapable of even engaging in traditional journalism on non-political subjects.
I don’t want to know the stuff about Palantir that I can find using a simple web search. I want to know why Palantir does what it does, what kind of people it hires, and what kind of corporate culture it has. I want insights I can’t get from numbers. The same goes for any other company.
Most disturbing, the Wall Street Journal has become a propaganda outfit staffed by politically indoctrinated zealots.
The younger writers weren’t taught journalism in Journalism School. They were taught indoctrination, which is how they write. They are also kind of dumb when it comes to understanding how businesses operate.
There was one other publication in the ‘80s and ‘90s that I valued as much as the Wall Street Journal, and my act of canceling that subscription also felt like breaking up with an old friend. That magazine was Forbes. Under editor James Michaels, its journalists could condense so much “what, why, and how” into less than 1,000 words, and it had a right-of-center leaning. I was such a fan that I supported Steve Forbes in the 1996 presidential primaries. After Mr. Michaels retired in 1999 and the magazine went primarily digital, it became an unfocused mess that leaned hard to the left.
Forbes is now dead to me, as is The Wall Street Journal. The digital publications now carrying their names are a disgrace to those once-great journalistic institutions.
[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
The Morning Report — 3/ 17 /25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Hope you all had a nice restful weekend, I suppose the title for today's report is Houthi and the Blowhards. First up, Trump ordered the military to hit the terrorists operating out of Yemen hard.
The strike came two days before Trump ordered “decisive and powerful Military action against the [Iran-backed] Houthi terrorists in Yemen” on Saturday for their “unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other” assets. Trump warned the Houthis their time was up and warned Iran to stop supporting the Houthis or else “America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it!”
And you'll be shocked, shocked I say to learn that he dared do this on UN Islamophobia Day! Oh the humidity! At least it wasn't during transexual goat bestiality pride month. The optics would've been terrible.
And speaking of unhinged, thuggish, revolting terrorists, we have the Democrat Party and leftism right here. Esteemed lurker extraordinaire and Ace cruelty fan-boi Victor Davis Hanson posits the question:
What Are the Left’s Solutions for the Problems They Created?
The U.S. faces mounting trade deficits, immigration crises, and endless foreign wars, while critics of Trump's policies offer no viable alternatives to Biden-era failures.
Well, as I assume he and I know we all know, it's not just Biden-era, but Wislon-era, FDR-era, JFK/LBJ-era, Carter and Clinton, and unless the leopard changes tts spots, whoever God-forbid may be the future Democrat occupants of the Oval Office. And the answer is, the solution is always to exacerbate the problem by borrowing, spending and regulating more and more of our wealth and freedoms away from us as the means for them to destroy whatever is left of our Republic as founded that yet still has a pulse and seize absolute power. All the while blaming those who oppose them for causing the problems and seeking the destruction of "our precious democracy" (Vomit!).
Democracy? They rig it! Don’t fall for their “save democracy” tears. The Journal of Democracy reported that 20% of Democrats supported violence in 2021 — less than the GOP’s 30%, but still despicable. They cheered the riots of 2020. Harris tweeted support for bail funds — then cried when Trump defeated them in 2024. Now Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) proposes his Electoral College “reform” bill in 2025, a blatant power-grab aimed at eliminating red states like Texas. Trump won big; they can’t stand it. . . The 2024 election proved one thing: Trump flipped Nevada, according to Newsweek, as voters nationwide turned away from Harris’s woke rhetoric. Pew Research reported Democrats at 31% approval in 2023 — lower than a snake’s belly. From Schumer’s amnesty to AOC’s disdain for law enforcement, their actions reflect contempt for America. Texas feels the strain at the border, but this is a battle for every patriot — our kids, our flag, our future. Trump is draining the swamp again; Republicans must leave these traitors behind. No mercy, no retreat.
The fly in the ointment is while the Democrat Left lives by the mantra "By Any Means Necessary," what are we who desperately want to restore and preserve our nation, society and heritage willing to do, and can do to stop them. And voting harder as we all know is not the answer. Somehow, Donald Trump prevailed last November, and if you can believe the polls, The Democrat Party is at historic lows in popularity while, despite the constant propaganda barrage, Trump and what he is delivering is skyrocketing.
Considering what the courts have done to Trump, anti-abortion protesters, vocal parents at school board meetings and the J-6 victims of the Garland Archipelago, and now what the courts are doing to Trump's legitimate actions in deporting criminal illegal aliens and firing goldbrick federal bureaucrats, the options in fighting and winning the counter-counter-American revolution are whittled down to that which we do not want to contemplate, but that the other side have eagerly embraced, from molotov cocktails, to pre-positioned pallets of bricks to bullets and Swatting. To name but a few.
Meanwhile, as the Democrat Party seems to be tearing itself apart from within as the Left hand battles it out with the Far Left hand to see which one comes out on top, as we have seen most recently with the battle over voting in favor of the continuing resolution. The epicenter of that shitstorm was Chuck Schumer:
Fresh off defending a Hamas supporter, Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke to the New York Times to promote his book about antisemitism. Topping that howler, Schumer claimed that the Democrats are authentic. “We are the party of working people. We feel that very, very strongly. That’s who we have always been.”Sen. Schumer is a millionaire Harvard grad. After graduating from Harvard, he went into politics. His party’s last presidential graduate spent her entire life in politics. Pretty much the case for the party’s past nominees who spent their entire lives in politics. That’s one definition of “working people”, but not one that actual working people have.
Schumer blathers about billionaires, but that’s who funds his party. The Democrats are a party of political ideologues who work for billionaires and then claim to be ‘working class’. And that’s politics for you.
Sadly, anti-Semitism has been around for millennia. But if Martians landed on earth and the first person they encountered was Chuck Schumer, they'd be waving Swastikas and Korans all the way back to the red planet. Ugh.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
Have a great day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The Democrat party is not simply irrelevant. Rather, it is America’s greatest adversary.
The Democrat Party: The Enemy Within?
- Victor Davis Hanson: The U.S. faces mounting trade deficits, immigration crises, and endless foreign wars, while critics of Trump's policies offer no viable alternatives to Biden-era failures. (and Wilson/FDR/LBJ/Carter/Clinton - jjs)
What Are the Left’s Solutions for the Problems They Created?
- Roger Kimball: Trump’s DOJ speech called out corruption, promised justice reform, and sent the media into a frenzy over his bold rebuke of the establishment.
Trump’s DOJ Speech: A Reckoning for the Deep State and a Media Meltdown
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Daily Tech News 17 March 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The LibreWolf developers are insane. (Reddit)
So is Reddit, but leave that for the moment.
There's this guy named Bryan Lunduke. He's a Linux journalist and YouTuber who comments extensively on the fallout of wokeness in open-source software projects - like the Godot game engine, which woked itself to death last year.
He has spoken out against software codes of conduct - what I call codes of cancer. His name is one of the handful that ChatGPT would sooner die than speak aloud.
And his name has been banned from the LibreWolf forum. (LibreWolf is a fork of the Firefox browser.)
And if you ask why, you will be banned.
Ask why someone was banned, and you will be banned.
They haven't gone full Mullenweg yet, but the clock is ticking.
"Libre" does not here mean "Congress shall make no law"; it means "Join the glorious revolution or die, and we don't care which".
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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 16, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! A happy St. Patty's Day eve to all ye lads and lassies. Is your green beer ready? Have you already started partying? However you are spending your Sunday evening, thanks for making time to visit the ONT. Step on in and tell everyone what's on yer mind!
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Gun Thread: Third March Edition!
—Weasel
Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be Third March Edition? Seems like just last week was the second Gun Thread of March edition, and now it's the third Gun Thread of March edition! I sense a pattern emerging here. Do you?
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
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Food Thread: Fatty Bones From Six Time Zones (Away)!
—CBD
Yes... that is indeed two roasted bones, filled with delectable, fatty, unctuous marrow! As a first course for dinner, that is hard to beat. I have seen this in American restaurants, though presented differently: cut along the long axis.
Anyway, it's delicious, and something that I should be able to make easily. But I have tried a few times, and for whatever reason they turned out okay, but not delicious.
Any suggestions?
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First World Problems...
—CBD
They fixed it!
I know I sound like a lunatic, but it is these sorts of lazy problems, caused no doubt by warped priorities (DEI anyone?) and an obvious lack of a work ethic, that is the dividing line between the First World and everyone else.
Even MAGA is going to have a tough time fixing this sort of stuff, even though it is absolutely the correct way to approach the problem.
But this is a lighthearted post, so... who has the best screw-up story? Clerks who can't ring up a box of cereal... auto mechanics who forgot to replace the oil they drained... Landscapers who mowed down all of the freshly planted flowers... political parties that chose a mean, molesting, senile fool, and then replaced him with a drunken retard... bank tellers who can't count... etc!
Government Spending? No! Government Borrowing... or Government Stealing
—CBD
Government Spending. Except that is a misnomer. We should be calling it Government Borrowing, because that is exactly what it is. On the other hand... maybe it should be called "government stealing," because they are stealing our grandchildren's livelihood! It is impossible to become wealthier by borrowing every year for generations, and yet the central bank and our brilliant bar-tending, foul-mouthed elites in Congress seem to be convinced of the positive effects of government borrowing, or more accurately, government creation of inflated dollars. I don't think that even John Maynard Keynes imagined never-ending deficit spending, yet here we are!
American families that become wealthy spend less than they earn, and save what they don't spend. Yet the prevailing argument is that government is immune from those basic tenets because it can create demand with monetary policy, and that will grow the economy. Obviously government can't run out of money, but that pesky little thing called inflation is the unavoidable and economy-destroying result of running the printing presses or, nowadays, simply creating more digital funds.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s administration is “laser-focused” on cutting the deficit and getting spending “under control,” part of his larger vision of “reprivatization” of the U.S. economy so economic growth is no longer dependent on government spending but instead on private sector growth. Bessent said he joined Trump on the campaign trail last year and later joined his cabinet because he was “so alarmed” by the “high level of government spending” that had taken hold in recent years.
This is why President Trump and his team are disruptors. They are not content simply to slow the rate of increase of government spending/borrowing. They understand two things.
First: the size of the government budget requires borrowing...forever! That is ultimately untenable, and will destroy our economy. The budget must be cut. There is no other option.
Second: Government spending is inherently less efficient at growing economies. In fact, based on our experience over the last two generations, it is obvious that government spending retards organic economic growth, by crowding out investment and inserting a chaotically inefficient system that rewards rent seeking and outright fraud. Government must shrink, and be removed from competition for investment dollars.
Getting control of the budget will yield immediate results, as the financial markets recognize that more private investment funds will be available. Will there be short-term shocks? Of course. Those financial markets are dependent on a constant stream of government dollars created to fund the deficit and pay bond interest. And there will be uncertainty as the Trump administration formalizes its tariff plans. But when future government spending and borrowing is better understood, and the tariffs are set, business will be able to plan for the future with much more certainty.
But the biggest change will be that government will not be competing as much for investment dollars, and will not be crowding out innovation and entrepreneurialism. Simply unleashing Americans from the tethers of a huge and all-encompassing government will go a long way toward correcting the imbalance of government vs. the private sector.
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-16-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, stay safe from spring thunderstorms, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
NOTE: Today's Sunday Morning Book Thread will be somewhat abbreviated. A massive storm rolled through here Friday night, knocking out power to most of the town. My side of town has been completely without power since Friday night and I don't know when it will come back. Parts of my neighborhood are just devastated.
Prayers up for any other Morons in the path of this brutal storm.
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Daily Tech News 16 March 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Amazon has announced Alexa+, which updates the existing voice assistant to... Something something generative AI something. (Liliputing)
What's the catch?
- The option to have your smart devices not transmit everything you say straight to Amazon HQ will be removed on March 28. (Ars Technica)
George Orwell did not dream of this.
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