Do You See Trump’s Counterstrategy Against The [DS], Timing, Writ Of Habeas Corpus – Ep. 3623
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Economy
BREAKING: The number of Americans working multiple jobs jumped by 76,000 in March, to a record 8.94 million.
This now exceeds the 2019 high by over 500,000 people.
As a share of employment, multiple jobholders rose to 5.5%, the highest since 2009.
This comes as 28.47 million… pic.twitter.com/T1vKp4C8U2
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 18, 2025
people work part-time jobs in the US, the third-highest on record. Millions of Americans are working multiple jobs to afford basic necessities.
They are halting less than 1% of their annual revenue, not that crazy
— Troy Osinoff 🕺 (@yo) April 18, 2025
US Plans Port Fees For Chinese Ships To Revitalize American Maritime Industrial Base
- The Trump administration announced plans on Thursday to impose new port fees on Chinese commercial vessels—part of a broader effort to revive America’s dwindling shipbuilding industry, which officials now view as a national security risk amid the urgent need to bolster hemispheric defense across the Americas in an increasingly fractured, bipolar world.
- “Ships and shipping are vital to American economic security and the free flow of commerce,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer wrote in a statement, adding, “The Trump administration’s actions will begin to reverse Chinese dominance, address threats to the U.S. supply chain, and send a demand signal for U.S.-built ships.”
- The Federal Register notice titled “Notice of Action and Proposed Action in Section 301 Investigation of China’s Targeting the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance, Request for Comments,” published Thursday by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), states that new fees will be imposed on all Chinese-built and Chinese-owned ships docking at ports across America. These fees will be based on net tonnage or the volume of goods carried per voyage and will only be charged once per voyage and not per port arrival.
“The fee will be set at $0 for the first 180 days, will then be set at $50/NT, and will increase incrementally over the next three years,” the USTR notice read.
Service Fee on Chinese Vessel Operators and Vessel Owners of China (courtesy of CNBC):
- Effective as of April 17, 2025, a fee in the amount of $0 per net ton for the arriving vessel.
- Effective as of October 14, 2025, a fee in the amount of $50 per net ton for the arriving vessel.
- Effective as of April 17, 2026, a fee in the amount of $80 per net ton for the arriving vessel.
- Effective as of April 17, 2027, a fee in the amount of $110 per net ton for the arriving vessel.
- Effective as of April 17, 2028, a fee in the amount of $140 per net ton for the arriving vessel.
- The USTR notice explained that “any such fee would be charged per rotation or string of U.S. port calls, and no more than five times a year on an individual vessel.”
- Service fees for vessel operators of Chinese-built vessels are lower.
- Effective as of April 17, 2025, a fee in the amount of $0 for each container discharged.
- Effective as of October 14, 2025, a fee in the amount of $18 per net ton ($120 per container)
- Effective as of April 17, 2026, a fee in the amount of $23 per net ton ($153 per container)
- Effective as of April 17, 2027, a fee in the amount of $28 per net ton ($195 per container)
- Effective as of April 17, 2028, a fee in the amount of $33 per net ton ($250 per container).
- The second phase will begin in three years and target Chinese LNG vessels. USTR explained the purpose of this action:
Source: zerohedge.com
He went on to add: “A recession is two negative quarters of GDP and whether it goes slightly there. We always have those things."
Read more: https://t.co/BJUIJCUAk8
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 20, 2025
- The Founding Fathers understood the power of tariffs. Specifically, they saw potential for tariffs to replace domestic taxes. The clearest explanation of this was President Thomas Jefferson in his 1805 second inaugural address. Jefferson combined fiscal frugality with a shrewd tax policy to minimize the burden on the American people:
- “The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes….
- “These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.
- “The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign articles, is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboards and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and pride of an American to ask, what farmer, what mechanic, what laborer, ever sees a tax-gatherer of the United States?”
- President Trump is methodically and aggressively creating a new worldwide system of bilateral agreements and tariff arrangements. The revenue stream will be virtually impossible to accurately project until after the year is over.
- However, there are several ways to return the revenue to the American people.
Source: dailycaller.com
Political/Rights
If Democrats wish to travel to El Salvador and meet with a foreign illegal MS-13 gang member, they can spend their own money to do so.
I will not approve a single dime of Oversight Committee taxpayer funds for use on the excursion Democrats have requested. pic.twitter.com/ldokDJBTve
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) April 18, 2025
- President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, has said that ordinary Americans deserve reparations for the damage done by mass immigration.
Miller responded:
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
Why did the Supreme Court not get involved when American citizens were being locked in DC’s Gulag without due process for years, but they are interfering with the deportation of criminal gang members from third world countries under the Constitutional Alien Enemies Act?
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) April 20, 2025
🚨NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife covered his MS-13 knuckle tattoo with heart emojis in a TikTok post promoting her GoFundMe, which has already raised $238,000.
“M” for marijuana
“S” as a smiley face
“1” as a cross
“3” as three dots in a skull pic.twitter.com/D6ntnhx0E8— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 18, 2025
- *OFFICER #IVANMENDEZ interviewed KILMER ABREGO GARCIA at the PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY POLICE DEPT & wrote a report attesting to Abrego Garcia’s #MS13 GANG AFFILIATION. Mendez filled out a “GANG FIELD INTERVIEW SHEET” saying that a CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT had identified KILMER ABREGO GARCIA as a member of the MS-13 “WESTERNS” clique. MENDEZ had THE ONLY EVIDENCE supporting Garcia was MS-13.
- APRIL 1, 2019 — Just 4 days after CORPORAL IVAN MENDEZ interviewed Abrego Garcia, Mendez’s fellow officers reported him for leaking confidential information about an ongoing investigation to a sex worker
- APRIL 3, 2019 — CORPORAL IVAN MENDEZ, lead detective on Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s case, WAS SUSPENDED.
- APRIL 24, 2019 — Plaintiff Abrego Garcia appeared for his first hearing in immigration court. ICE offered the “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) generated
by OFFICER IVAN MENDEZ. - *Abrego’s attorney contacted the PGPD
Inspector General requesting to speak to the detective who authored the GFIS sheet, but was
informed that the detective had been suspended. PRINCE GEORGE POLICE DEPT told the attorney that it DID NOT HAVE ANY INCIDENT REPORT related to the Home Deport episode at all, nor did the Department HAVE ANY INCIDENT REPORTS CONTAINING KILMER ABREGO GARCIA’S NAME. 🤨 - *SETH RICH WAS MURDERED ON JULY 10, 2016 while walking home from LOU’S CITY BAR through his neighborhood in northwest
Washington, D.C. - *In 2016, KILMER ABREGO GARCIA lived in PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, MARYLAND.
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KILMER ABREGO GARCIA WAS LIVING IN THE U.S. ILLEGALLY JUST 30 MINS AWAY FROM WHERE #SETHRICH WAS MURDERED ON JULY 10, 2016. 👀
HAHA someone make it make sense.
SCOTUS on left: AEA is not subject to judicial review
SCOTUS on right: We halt deportations under the AEA until further notice pic.twitter.com/3fJB7Q7SVj
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 19, 2025
In his order, Hendrix AGAIN noted the judicial branch's lack of authority in reviewing the president's issuance of the Alien Enemies Act. SO WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE DOING HERE?
By the way, even Jeb Boasberg in a March order acknowledged the "often-circumscribed extent of judicial… pic.twitter.com/67yqcjlmTP
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 19, 2025
power in matters of foreign policy and national security.” Basically the courts’ arguments are–we don’t really have authority under Article III to interfere in the president’s exercise of the Alien Enemies Act but we are doing it anyway because Trump.
- In a blistering dissent, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, has called out the reckless and legally dubious move by the Court’s liberal majority to block President Donald Trump’s lawful efforts to deport dangerous foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.
- The U.S. Supreme Court issued a late-night, unsigned emergency order blocking President Donald Trump from deporting foreign nationals tied to the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, who are being held at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas under the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act.
According to the order:
- According to Alito, the Supreme Court only had jurisdiction if the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction first. And the Fifth Circuit could only act if the order appealed from was a denial of a preliminary injunction—not a temporary restraining order (TRO).
- Alito made it clear that the far-left groups like the ACLU were manipulating the process by prematurely appealing something that wasn’t even formally denied. The High Court, according to Alito, took the bait—something he says violates precedent and basic legal procedure.
- The emergency request did not stem from a real, appealable decision. Instead, the ACLU argued the district court had constructively denied a request by not acting fast enough.
- “This Court had jurisdiction only if the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction of the applicants’ appeal, and the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction only if the supposed order that the applicants appealed amounted to the denial of a preliminary injunction,” Alito wrote.
- “But here, the “order” that applicants appealed was what they viewed as the District Court’s “‘constructive’” denial of their request for a temporary restraining order (TRO).”
- Alito said that the Supreme Court intervened before the Fifth Circuit had the chance to weigh in. That violates the normal hierarchy of judicial review.
- “When this Court rushed to enter its order, the Court of Appeals was considering the issue of emergency relief, and we were informed that a decision would be forthcoming. This Court, however, refused to wait,” Alito wrote.
- Alito slammed the majority for violating the Court’s own Rule 23.3, which requires seeking relief in lower courts first “except in the most extraordinary circumstances.”
- Alito noted that the government had not even been allowed to file a response, either in the Supreme Court or the lower courts, before the injunction was granted. He emphasized that the Court acted solely on claims made by the applicants—illegal alien detainees—without any concrete evidence of “imminent danger of removal.”
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 19, 2025
Bill Clinton: 12.3 million deportations – 0 injunctions
George W. Bush: 10.3⁰million deportations – 0 injunctions
Barack Obama: 5.3 million deportations – 0 injunctions
Donald Trump: 100 thousand deportations – 30 injunctions pic.twitter.com/JJ03nykKAn
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) April 19, 2025
Judicial corruption and Congressional inaction will soon have even the most moderate Americans calling for a dictator to do what needs to be done. This is ridiculous. https://t.co/n18iP16YYm
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) April 19, 2025
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."–US Constitution. Should @RealDonaldTrump suspend the writ in order to reverse the Biden invasion?
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) April 19, 2025
Why was the NG recently activated in select cities within the US?
Can the NG work in coordination w/ the marines?
Do conditions need to be satisfied to authorize?
What former President used the military to save the republic and what occurred exactly?
Biggest drop to ever be provided on Pol. Study and prepare. The masses tend to panic in such situations. No war. No civil unrest. Clean and swift.
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Habeas corpus was suspended during the Civil War by President Lincoln (for rebellion) and during World War II for certain cases, but never for immigration-related issues.
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Courts have narrowly interpreted “invasion” as armed aggression by a foreign state, not mass migration. Applying this to immigration would face significant judicial scrutiny, as seen in challenges to Trump’s March 2025 deportation orders.
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Suspension would allow detention without court review, speeding up deportations but risking constitutional violations and lawsuits, especially for noncitizens with legal claims (e.g., asylum seekers).
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Suspension of Habeas Corpus (1861–1863):
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Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in areas facing rebellion, citing the Suspension Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 2) of the Constitution, which allows suspension during “Rebellion or Invasion.” This was done to detain Confederate sympathizers and maintain order, particularly in border states.
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In 1863, Congress passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, retroactively authorizing Lincoln’s actions, effectively aligning them with the constitutional framework.
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Military Deployment:
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Lincoln mobilized federal troops and militias to suppress the Confederate rebellion, starting with his April 15, 1861, proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers after the attack on Fort Sumter. This was grounded in his constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” (Article II, Section 3) and the Militia Acts of 1792 and 1795, which predate and inform the Insurrection Act.
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These actions mirrored the Insurrection Act’s purpose—deploying forces to restore federal authority—but were framed as a response to a full-scale rebellion, not a localized insurrection.
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The Civil War was treated as a rebellion under the Constitution, far exceeding a typical insurrection. The Supreme Court in the Prize Cases (1863) upheld Lincoln’s actions, affirming the president’s power to respond to rebellion without waiting for congressional approval.
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Unlike modern uses of the Insurrection Act (e.g., during the 1992 Los Angeles riots), Lincoln’s response didn’t cite the Act directly because the scale of the Civil War required broader executive and legislative measures.
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2381.Treason.
2382.Misprision of treason.
2383.Rebellion or insurrection.
2384.Seditious conspiracy.
2385.Advocating overthrow of Government.
2386.Registration of certain organizations.
2387.Activities affecting armed forces generally.
2388.Activities affecting armed forces during war.
2389.Recruiting for service against United States.
2390.Enlistment to serve against United States.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
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§ 2381. Treason:
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Defines treason as levying war against the U.S. or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Punishable by death or imprisonment (minimum 5 years) and fines.
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§ 2382. Misprision of Treason:
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Criminalizes knowing about treasonous acts and failing to report them. Punishable by up to 7 years in prison.
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§ 2383. Rebellion or Insurrection:
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Prohibits inciting, assisting, or engaging in rebellion or insurrection against the U.S. government. Punishable by up to 7 years in prison and ineligibility for federal office.
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§ 2384. Seditious Conspiracy:
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Criminalizes conspiring to overthrow the government, levy war against it, or forcibly oppose its authority. Punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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§ 2385. Advocating Overthrow of Government:
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Prohibits advocating, teaching, or organizing to overthrow the government by force. Punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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§ 2386. Registration of Certain Organizations:
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Requires organizations under foreign control or advocating government overthrow to register with the Attorney General.
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§ 2387. Activities Affecting Armed Forces Generally:
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Prohibits actions to impair military loyalty, morale, or discipline (e.g., inciting desertion). Punishable by up to 7 years in prison.
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§ 2388. Activities Affecting Armed Forces During War:
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Criminalizes similar acts as § 2387 but during wartime, with harsher penalties (up to 20 years).
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§ 2389. Recruiting for Service Against United States:
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Prohibits recruiting others to fight against the U.S. Punishable by up to 7 years in prison.
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§ 2390. Enlistment to Serve Against United States:
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Criminalizes enlisting in a group to fight against the U.S. Punishable by up to 7 years in prison. Relevance: Similar to § 2389, irrelevant to immigration without proof of organized anti-U.S. militancy.
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DOGE
If propaganda was illegal, she’d be in big trouble 😂
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2025
🚨 NEW: In a surprise to absolutely NOBODY, the terrorist just arrested by FBI for firebombing a Tesla dealership in Kansas City is trans
Almost **50%** of those arrested for terrorizing Tesla showrooms have been trans
TRANS VIOLENCE NEEDS TO
BE ADDRESSED NOW! https://t.co/1fheonenNg pic.twitter.com/c2UMDwxkN6— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 18, 2025
Filing a deliberately false whistleblower claim is a serious crime https://t.co/ObDs0Ox0WC
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 20, 2025
password reset email. Turns out Berulis filed a national security complaint based on a gut feeling, not evidence. Now folks are asking the DOJ to investigate him — because making up a spy story isn’t a harmless mix-up.
Alert: State Adopts Bill That Will Ban up to 85 Percent of Rifles, Signals Death of 2nd Amendment
- New legislation in Colorado looks to punish those Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights.
- On Friday, the Colorado Sun reported that Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 3 into law, which places more restrictions on gun sales in the state.
- Specifically, under the new law — taking effect in August 2026 — manufacturing, selling, and purchasing certain semiautomatic weapons in Colorado that use detachable magazines will be illegal.
- A report by KMGH-TV said the executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Ian Escalante predicts this will impact 85 percent of firearms.
- Those firearms must now be sold with magazines welded, soldered, or epoxied onto them.
- These magazines must also only hold 15 rounds.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
War/Peace
It's gotten to the point where we need to start arresting these judges.
Check their hard drives. I bet they're all pervs, and if they aren't, they're definitely getting fat checks somehow. https://t.co/PpENvViVas
— George (@BehizyTweets) April 19, 2025
The deployment of B-2 Spirits and carrier groups underscores a critical reality: overwhelming force deters aggression. While critics hyperventilate over costs, they ignore the strategic calculus. Each bunker-busting strike eliminates Houthi tunnels and Iranian proxies without…
— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) April 19, 2025
Zelensky will never willingly end this war because 1 of 2 things are guaranteed to happen:
1. He’ll be “suicided” – dead men tell no tales
Or
2. He’ll call off martial law, lose the next election, and be imprisoned for money laundering by his opponent
Zelensky must be forced… https://t.co/e1GEBa7jHL
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 18, 2025
be forced to create peace and Trump is doing this
Putin offers truce for Easter, as a means to see if the “Kiev regime is sincere and capable of living up and respecting deals”.
Zelensky has already refused the truce.
Zelensky does not want this war to end, because when it does, he is a dead man.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) April 19, 2025
President Trump’s Plan
a job. This is common sense, and will allow the federal government to finally be “run like a business.” We must root out corruption and implement accountability in our Federal Workforce!
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has announced that she has released 10,000 pages of files “directly related to the assassination” of former US Senator and US Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), who was assassinated in a hotel kitchen in Los Angeles in 1968.
- “In the course of searching FBI and CIA warehouses for records not previously turned over to The National Archives, an additional 50,000 pages of RFK assassination files were discovered,” her office announced in a press release. “The agencies are working to make these records available and will continue to search government facilities for additional files.”
- The records can be found at the National Archives webpage here.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
Interesting snippet from RFK files:
US Information Agency (USIA) docs showing the official narrative/talking-points disseminated to USIA-controlled media internationally.
They were concerned the world would think RFK’s murder was a “conspiracy” as they did with JFK, and wanted… pic.twitter.com/kJOlchZ4jZ
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) April 19, 2025
- to limit the spread of “theorizing” about anything outside the approved narrative. Sound familiar? The USIA was a self-admitted propaganda agency from 1953-1999. Their stated mission was that they were to influence foreign publics to promote the interests of the United States. It was a Cold War propaganda agency used to help sway public opinion overseas. They were supposedly not allowed to operate on American soil or propagandize the American People via the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, but it appears their talking-points were used on Americans as well. The RFK files so far show a glimpse of how the USIA propagandized the people of foreign nations and engaged in coordinated narrative control, and I’m willing to bet the same exact tactics were used on the American People by the US government, and are still used to this day.
- A majority of registered voters do not believe Democrats should automatically resist the agenda of President Donald Trump, a Harvard-Harris survey found.
- The survey asked respondents, “Do you think Democrats should oppose everything that Trump is doing or should they take more of a wait-and-see attitude towards his actions?”
- Most respondents, 62 percent, believe they should take more of a wait-and-see attitude rather than immediately oppose the Trump agenda. This is compared to 39 percent who believe Democrats should “oppose everything Trump is doing.”
- The survey also revealed that most believe Democrats need to jump on board with other Trump initiatives, such as cutting government waste. Fifty-nine percent said Democrats should “join the mission of cutting government waste” rather than opposing it.
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Source: breitbart.com
Trump’s Counterrevolution Strategy: Flood the Zone, Drain the Swamp
- Now, what is Trump’s counterstrategy? His counterstrategy is to actually get people on the other side of the aisle in Congress or in the country at large or in the popular culture and try to at least be friendly to them so then they can say, “I don’t agree with Trump but what he’s doing might be needed.”
- So, we have Bill Maher going to Mar-a-Lago and actually saying very nice things about Donald Trump.
- On the one hand, we have Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fighting with a bulwark of the Left at one time, fighting with left-wing people who were calling him all sorts of names and saying that he is illiberal.
- We had Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan. She was in the White House. Can you believe it? She was so embarrassed about a photo-op. She had to almost cover her face.
- But you can see what Trump is doing. He’s trying to get people from all sides of the Democratic and liberal progressive movement and not compromise them, but get in the picture, so then the Left will say, “Well, how can we appeal to the public and get them all angry and frenzy and hysterical when some of our major celebrities, our political figures are in Mar-a-Lago?”
Source: dailysignal.com
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere set out on a midnight ride that would help ignite the American Revolution.
Two hundred and fifty years later, we remember his courage—and the enduring spirit of liberty that defines our nation. pic.twitter.com/DxIPYQX1Ko
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 19, 2025
Everyone should know these words… He said to his friend, “If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
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CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!