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Daniel Clarke-Pounder, 24, burned down three EV chargers in a South Carolina parking lot Friday — where he scrawled “f–k Trump” and “long live the Ukraine,” according to federal prosecutors.
The good thing about South Carolina as opposed to some blue state or city? This psychopath will actually go to jail.
Instead of wasting our legal system dollars on leftist domestic terrorists, WHY NOT JUST DEPORT THEM?
Another woman (who looks like a boy) attacked a Tesla dealership, and is facing 20 years.
Why waste the prison space? She loathes America and our Bill of Rights. She wants to destabilize and wreck what’s left of our great country? She hates it here? Deport her. I choose Iran.
Enough is enough.
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Second best option: Criminally charge him. U.S. Attorney General Bondi has accused him of enabling terrorists.
Try him with treason.
Impeachment too lightweight. This is war, people.
Whenever a leftist judge decrees, “The President may not unilaterally deport anyone without the support of Congress and the courts” what he means is the following: “No President named Trump, nor any other President whom I dislike, may deport anyone without my permission.” Essentially, the leftist judge — totalitarian that he is — means to say, “If I like you, you may stay; if I don’t, then you may not.” The leftist would be happy to deport Elon Musk, but not the terrorists who seek to destroy America. It’s the same way leftists rule on criminals and crooks. If you’re of the favored race or demographic group, you can murder and steal without a problem. If you’re a Democrat and if you’re a leftist, no worries. The judges challenging Trump know full well that he’s upholding his oath of office, to protect Americans from violent criminals and thugs. Their objection arises from the fact that the judges are on the sides of the criminals and thugs, who form their constituency.
As for Supreme Court Justice John Roberts explicitly condemning President Trump, Roberts was a conservative judge when appointed Chief Justice two decades ago, and seemed to remain that way until Obama. Whether someone has blackmailed him or he simply likes being cool at D.C. cocktail parties, Roberts might as well be an Obama or Biden appointee. Isn’t it time to look at impeachment of HIM?
Roberts claims you can’t impeach a judge because you disagree with him. Then why in the hell would you impeach a judge??
A Satanic ritual on the grounds of the Kansas State Capitol…
That’s the dastardly plans of an organization called The Satanic Grotto. They’re calling their March 28 event a “black mass” — a protest disguised as “free speech” in response to pro-life legislation.
In reality, this is an open attack on the Holy Eucharist and a direct affront to our faith.
This act is not an exercise in free speech – it is a grave sacrilege.
We cannot stand by in silence.
We’re close to victory – legislative leaders in Kansas have heard our call to shut this down. This week, they took a crucial step by modifying the capitol’s building and grounds policies, changing assembly rights for anyone wishing to demonstrate at the Statehouse – including the Satanic Group.
But we can’t stop now.
The battle is still on.
CatholicVote is taking decisive action to oppose this sacrilege. We’re organizing a protest and prayer rally at the Capitol to ensure this blasphemous event is met with a powerful, visible response.
We encourage ongoing prayer – but we also need your support in other vital ways to guarantee that our message is heard loud and clear.
Here’s what you can do right now:
1 Pray for reparation – This is first and foremost a spiritual battle. Wherever you are, please join us in prayer on March 28. Your prayers for reparation are vital in this fight to defend the Holy Eucharist.
2 Donate – The costs of organizing this protest and rally on short notice are significant. From signs to bringing in speakers, we need your financial support to make this a powerful stand for our faith. Your contribution will make a real difference in this urgent fight.
3 Sign the petition – Your voice matters. Add your name to the growing list of people demanding that this sacrilegious ritual be stopped before it even begins.
4 Spread the word – Share this message with your friends, family, and church community. Encourage others to get involved, pray, donate, and take action.
Governor Laura Kelly has failed to take action to shut down this twisted mockery. It’s up to us to demand its immediate cancellation – and offer acts of reparation.
We cannot allow these extremists to desecrate what we hold sacred. Your help – through prayer, donations, and action – is essential as we continue to fight for our faith.
We must defend our faith, our beliefs, and the Body of Christ.
God will not be mocked.
P.S. Please share this message with everyone who stands against this sacrilege – or could attend the protest on March 28. Every act of support, every prayer, and every contribution matters.
Nearly two months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s approval rating matches his all-time high.
Congressional Republicans also enjoy record ratings, while views of congressional Democrats tumble near an all-time low, according to the latest Fox News Poll.
Half of voters, 49%, approve of the job Trump is doing as president, matching his high from April 2020. That’s also better than at the same point in his first term (43% approved in March 2017). He is at high marks among key groups, including women, Black voters and voters under age 30. (For reference, in January, a 52% majority of voters approved of the job Trump was doing handling the presidential transition.)
Nine in 10 Republicans approve of Trump, while the same number of Democrats disapprove. Six in 10 Independents disapprove of his job performance.
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News across the aisle isn’t as rosy. For Democrats in Congress, 66% disapprove of the job they are doing, with only 30% approving — nearly matching their record low of 29% approval in November 2013. The current 36-point deficit represents a marked decline from the 23-point difference in October 2023, the last time the question was asked (37% approve, 60% disapprove), and the high of +10 in April 2009 (50-40%).
The boost to the GOP approval is primarily attributable to more Republicans backing their party today (88%) than in October 2023 (54%). Again, the partisan contrast is striking, as only 49% of Democrats approve of their party’s lawmakers today vs. 74% in 2023.
Israel said Wednesday it launched a “limited ground operation” in northern Gaza to retake part of a corridor that bisects the territory, and the country’s defense minister warned that the army plans to step up the attacks that shattered a two-month ceasefire “with an intensity that you have not seen.”
The military said it had retaken part of the Netzarim corridor, which bisects northern Gaza from the south and from where it had withdrawn as part of the ceasefire with Hamas that began in January.
Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Palestinians in Gaza that the army would again order evacuations from combat zones soon, and that its attacks against Hamas would become more fierce if dozens of hostages held for more than 17 months were not freed.
As Israel continued its airstrikes on Gaza Wednesday, the United Nations said an international United Nations staffer was killed and five others were wounded in a strike Wednesday on a U.N. guesthouse in Gaza.
Jorge Moreira da Silva, head of the U.N. Office for Project Services, declined to say who carried out the strike in the central city of Deir al-Balah but said the explosive ordnance was “dropped or fired” and the blast was not accidental or related to demining activity.
He did not provide the nationalities of those killed and wounded. The U.N. body, known as UNOPS, carries out infrastructure and development projects around the world.
The Israeli military, which has carried out a heavy wave of airstrikes throughout Gaza since early Tuesday, denied earlier reports that it had targeted the U.N. compound.
But Moreira da Silva said strikes had hit near the compound on Monday and struck it directly on Tuesday and again on Wednesday, when the staffer was killed. He said the agency had contacted the Israeli military after the first strike and confirmed that it was aware of the facility’s location.
“Israel knew this was a U.N. premise, that people were living, staying and working there,” he said.
After the strike Wednesday, the wounded were rushed to Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in central city of Deir al-Balah. One man was carried inside on a blanket held up by medical workers. Another lay on a hospital bed, his knee bandaged. A blue protective vest emblazoned with “UN” rested on a nearby bed.
There have been no reports of rocket fire or other Palestinian militant attacks since Israel unleashed the airstrikes overnight and into Tuesday, ending a ceasefire with Hamas that took hold in January. The Israeli bombardment continued into Wednesday, though at a lower intensity.
The Gaza Health Ministry said at least 436 people, including 183 children and 94 women, have been killed since Israel launched the strikes early Tuesday. It said another 678 people have been wounded.
The military says it only strikes militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because it operates in densely populated areas. Gaza’s Health Ministry records do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
The military said in a statement that as part of the new offensive, it struck dozens of militants and militant sites on Wednesday, including the command center of a Hamas battalion.
The war in Gaza, which was paused in January by an internationally-mediated ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, has been among the deadliest conflicts ever for humanitarian workers, according to the U.N.
The resumption of fighting launched by Israel early Tuesday risks plunging the region back into all-out war. It came weeks after the end of the first phase of the ceasefire, during which Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages for prisoners and were set to negotiate an extension to the truce that was meant to bring about an eventual end to the war.
But those negotiations never got off the ground. Hamas has demanded that Israel stick to the terms of the initial ceasefire deal, including a full withdrawal from Gaza and an end to the war. Israel, which has vowed to defeat Hamas, has put forward a new proposal that would extend the truce and free more hostages held by Hamas, without a commitment to end the war.
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“Trump attacks his political enemies,” says an MSNBC headline. Political enemies? Oh yes, the people who tried to put him in prison, not for lawbreaking but for political rivalry, and who literally made up laws in order to convict him, and still didn’t succeed. THOSE political enemies, right? The media establishment is rotten to the core — rotten to the core, and way beyond.
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“Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.
“There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked. That’s what they were doing at a level that’s never been seen before,” President Trump said yesterday at the DOJ, going on to name Biden, Garland, “and their cronies,” specifically.
Biden, Garland and all who enabled them should not be walking free today.
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Schumer says a government shutdown is dangerous, will give DOGE free reign. Bring on the shutdown then!
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President Donald Trump is expected to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday after he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about the prospect of peace in Ukraine.
A White house official confirmed plans for the talk with NewsNation.
Putin agreed with Trump to implement a limited ceasefire that would shield energy infrastructure and to begin negotiations on a maritime ceasefire to reopen Black Sea shipping. The Russian Ministry of Defense has accused the Ukrainians of targeting their oil fields within hours of the agreement.
Following the Trump-Putin call, the White House released a readout highlighting Russian interest in cooperating on security in the Middle East. Both parties also agreed to begin negotiations for a lasting peace.
“This conflict should never have started and should have been ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts,” read the readout. “The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.
Many pundits, including lawyer Robert Barnes, are harping on impeachment of these rogue judges. I think that has little, if any, hope of success.
Nor do I think defunding or changing the jurisdiction of the courts will work. We’re easily 20 votes in the House and 20 votes in the Senate short of either of those options.
But Trump is winning, and can continue to win, by other means, practical means, historically time-tested means.
First understand that TIME IS ON OUR SIDE. These agencies have been closed. People have been fired. Buildings are locked up. Some are sold already. Policies are already in place. Ownership is 9/10 of the law.
The longer it takes to get something “back” or to get people re-hired, the more we win. Federal employees can’t go without paychecks—even with unemployment—for long. Some will get other jobs. Some will move. With every single dropout, we win. Every dollar saved, we win.
So a judge orders grants to “green” turned back on? So what. The Secretary should already have new rules in place that, gee, now every grant must go through a re-review process of a 3-member panel, with its decisions reviewed by a 5- member panel. Sorry, that’s just the process. Those reviews should take as long as Charlie Manson’s parole.
New rules should require the Secretary to personally review every check on a grant and to countersign.
The “mail” needs to be really, really slow.
Think this can’t be done? Look at the South’s response to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education order to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” How’d that work out? Wasn’t til the late 1960s this was even remotely accomplished. Give Trump a 5 year window and this criminal government apparatus is finished.
Hold up staffing requests. Whenever possible rehire with MAGA people (the old “spoils system”). In reality, some of these jobs WILL be refilled with MAGA anyway.
Require physical signatures from judges on the order in accordance with the law before you comply.
Appeal, appeal, appeal.
Change the wording of the releases and closures ever so slightly to require an all new ruling.
In short, every day that goes by that agencies are closed and not spending money makes it LESS likely they will ever recover—regardless of what Justice Johnny and the Supes say.
President Trump reportedly wants to invalidate the Biden pardons agains Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Sen. Adam Schiff and others.
Great news. Cheney, Schiff and Kinzinger are traitors and actual insurrectionists of the worst kind, destroying and falsifying evidence and essentially saying, “So what? It’s Trump.” Let’s get the ball rolling to convict as many of these people as possible. If we don’t, like injured snakes who are still poisonous, they will strike again. This is war, and to win you must decisively defeat your enemies, just like the Nazis.
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The judge who ordered illegal Venezuelan gang members returned to the U.S. faces calls for impeachment from some.
Impeachment? Deport him. Drop him from a helicopter into the middle of starving Venezuela and let him fend for himself. He loathes America and our Bill of Rights. He loves totalitarianism. Let him live in totalitarianism. Himself, and every Biden or Obama judge. They are at least as bad as terrorists, and they have wrecked our country and its freedom enough with their batty ideas. While we’re at it, let’s deport the Bidens and Obamas, too.
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Democrat Senate leader Schumer has postponed a book tour due to “security concerns” after backlash for passing President Trump’s continuing resolution bill.
No sympathy here. However, it further illustrates: The Democratic Communist Party of America is violent. Either you’re with them, or they destroy you. By any means they feel like. Study the ruthless savagery of the Maoists, the Soviets, Hitler’s National Socialists or Cuban, Venezuelan totalitarians.Then examine America’s Democrats. They are the same.
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You are called “Nazi” if you applaud Elon Musk. How is it Nazi to support reduction in the size, power and cost of government?
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According to a CNN poll of Democrats, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is the preferred leader of their party, the one who most closely matches their views: AOC, the explicit socialist and Communist.
You can laugh. But remember that the Party of AOC is not dead. And it has come back to life again, and again. The Democratic Communist Party of America controls the media, schools, pretty much everything cultural. Trump can weaken and annoy them for 4 more years, but not necessarily eviscerate them. Under an AOC-like Democratic Party, American patriots and lovers of individual rights will be far more threatened than anything ever seen in this country to date. Even if you could eradicate AOC, another lunatic monster will simply take her place. Trump’s victory last year is not the end of the war.
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You see, at first, when someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works – but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is: First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.
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