The third-quarter GDP grew at an annualized rate of 4.3%. What more needs to be said about Trump’s handling of the economy? His team knows economics. So much for the morons who said his tariffs would tank the economy.
Richard Paladino
Over 100 illegal immigrant drivers were arrested in California during a recent ICE enforcement operation. No, they weren’t driving cars; they were driving 80,000-pound tractor-trailers. Trump’s administration is trying to protect us, while Democrat governors are doing everything they can to obstruct ICE enforcement.
Grant W.
Excellent column by Rachel Marsden on Dec. 18. She worked with incompetent Pete Hegseth at “Fox News”, and knows what he’s all about. The “Tough Guy” is claiming “Top Secret” on the video where he ordered the killing of survivors on the “Alleged Drug Boat.” What’s not secret is that Hegseth is desperately trying to avoid a court-martial for violation of International Law and the American War Crimes Act. Fire Hegseth and lock him up.
Journalism. Invariably, where one finds communities in distress, one finds progressive news outlets complicit in that dysfunction. The Scranton Times-Dispatch, critic of Trump’s economic policy, would qualify. Apparently forgotten, it took Fed Chairman Paul Volcker two painful years to remedy Carter’s “stagflation.” Also memory-holed? This newspaper’s 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden, who transformed 1.2% inflation into 4.95%, a figure that would have been greater but for the irresponsible tapping of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
M. Furlong
Trump isn’t MAGA. He’s a stupid, but cunning con man; strings pulled by the likes of Miller, Voight and Loomer. They’re not MAGA either. They’re a symptom. They’ve just distilled MAGA ignorance, directing it to their own ends: greed, influence and power. The venal, selfish cruelty of true MAGA fanatics is destroying a country they believe belongs only to them. It’s the America they’re creating we hate. We don’t want that America for our children.
Here are things you should know about me: I’m independent, not a Democrat; pre-Trump, I paid very little attention to politics, but was fully aware of how despicable he was; I believe most politicians are/become corrupt; I believe our government consistently works against us; I didn’t want to vote for Hillary, Biden or Kamala. But when given a choice, you don’t pick Satan.
Diana
A Tennessee truck driver was killed in a crash with a Tour Bus driven by a Chinese driver. The Chinese driver could not speak English and was looking at videos on his phone at the time of the crash. The Chinese driver had a CDL from New York State. New York has the written CDL tests in Chinese, Spanish, and Russian. Believe it or not!
Michael Stern
Through the words and actions of the manchild, he has embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage, and divided us as a nation. Is this what you voted for?
Jay Miller
A friendly word of advice to the Democrat Party, their mainstream propaganda media machine, and the obnoxiously dimwitted TDS minority … If you just leave your President Trump alone to do the job the majority of Americans voted for, so many of the problems we inherited from the Obama/Biden/Harris administration would be gone, and America would be great again.
Aric
“This week we found out: The Mar-a-lago raid was not legally executed, Georgia was stolen in the 2020 election, Trump tariffs have not caused inflation, and Bill Clinton was Epstein’s #1 pal.” – Chris Stigall
Lawrence Duran and Marianella Valera, of Miami, were co-owners of American Therapeutic Corporation. Duran was sentenced to 50 years in prison, and Valera to 35 years in prison for defrauding Medicare of $205 million, netting $87 million. Trump commuted both of their sentences on May 28th. Republicans pushing massive entitlement cuts, claiming waste, fraud, and abuse, have it wrong. These are the people who are the real thieves, not the needy.
RealAmerica
Thanks for the laugh, Michael Stern. In a recent post, you were quoting scripture from the Bible. Yet you are an avowed member of MAGA with deep-seated TDS-Trump Devotion Syndrome. Showing your love for a convicted felon, convicted sexual abuser, and possible abuser of young women, and habitual verified liar, shows your hypocrisy. Of course, this is MAGA.
JR
KC (they/them) keeps humiliating themselves with every post. Now they’re leaning on disgraced former prosecutor Jack Smith, the embodiment of partisan lawfare—exposed for bias, investigative abuse, and overreach so blatant his cases against Donald Trump imploded in court. The propaganda didn’t work. Turn off CNN, step outside, and try reconnecting with reality.
Missy Miss
Striking the drug boats is now at 59% approval. I am proudly one of them! We’re lucky to have a true leader in the Oval Office. This is what America voted for!
Barney
Still Amazed, how would a civilian have intimate knowledge of what the boats were carrying, throwing overboard, what’s in the gas containers (oil?), no fishing equipment, etc. Do you have access to satellite images the government doesn’t release? Drugs: no users, no need for the supply chain. We’re cleaning the wrong house. My logic decries murder, the difference between what is known and what is surmised/propagandized.
Logical Lady
Stocks and employment up. Inflation and gas prices are down. Border secured. No more electric car mandate. I can buy my groceries with my savings from gas. Orange man bad … I understand.
Leftists Are So Sad
Democrats mourn cartel speedboats being destroyed while lamenting tragedies like the Reiners caused by the drugs those cartels sell. The left condemns stopping traffickers as “inhumane,” yet acts shocked when narcotics ruin families and lives like the Bidens. You can’t grieve the consequences while excusing the cause. Drugs destroy lives everywhere. Stop pretending the devastation is only tragic when it reaches wealthy Hollywood neighborhoods. The hypocrisy isn’t subtle — it’s obvious.
Klinger
Isn’t it interesting that if you want the government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate, but if you don’t want the government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
Billy G
The other day, I saw a Democrat at a news conference complaining that nothing is made in our country these days. He said, “I recently bought a new TV, and on the back it read — Built in Antenna. I don’t even know where “Antenna” is!
Jim Fitch
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