Did Trump Just Win AGAIN??: Dow Jumps, Oil Tumbles After Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz Open

I'm fed up with the guy...but dayum...

McCarthy: Trump DoJ's Farcical Powell Probe Continues

For all the good things Trump has done, and even in light of the madness still infecting the blue team, I just can't really support him anymore.

This sort of lunacy seems obviously inexcusable.

Perhaps, of course, it is legally defensible. I've certainly learned over the past decade that I usually don't really understand what's going on.

But I don't think so in this case.

I'm starting to hope that the Dems take over both houses and impeach him.

Vance is, I think, like a sane Trump, basically.

Justin Fairfax Murder/Suicide

Oh my God this is horrible.

Just horrible.

Paul Al Rahe: There's a Case for Tariffs

This seems obviously right to me.

I'm no economist, and I don't really deserve an opinion here.

But I do find the gap between these two things surprising:

[a] the passion with which tariffs are opposed by the relevant people

[b] the apparent strength of their actual arguments.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that tariffs are generally bad. But I'm in no way convinced that they're bad in all cases. The two obvious cases being:

[i] another country has put tariffs (or their equivalent) on us

[ii] Rahe's case; the industry in question is crucial to defense.

One argument is:

It would be better for the industry in question to be efficient and resilient enough to compete on its own against adversaries.

Well, sure.

But if the adversary is subsidizing their widget industry...

Well, I should have probably stopped with I'm no economist...

Lefty WI Teacher Goes Full Retard re: Men in Women's Sports

Orange Man Bad; Make Iran Bad

Big if true.

But kinda seems to me like just another in the flood of Orange Man Badisms pouring out of the media.

It seems pretty unlikely to me that this has made Iran worse...

But what do I know?

Uchimata From Everywhere On Everyone

Spanberger Makes Anti-Gun Bills Worse

Sends them back to the General Assembly.

The Democrats are just awful...in case you hadn't noticed....

Although it won't happen, I wish the voters would just crush them for this.

I suppose I'll retire some day...but when that day comes, it won't be here.

Trump Shoots Himself in the Ass Yet Again: Retweets Trump-as-Jesus Pic

What the hell is wrong with that guy?

Susie Wiles:

For the love of God (as it were):

Take.

His.

Phone.

Away.

USA Rebuilding Air Bases on the "Second Island Chain" (Guam, Peleliu, Tinian, etc.)

Friend of mine has worked on some of these as a landscape architect preserving some of the old parts of the bases--e.g. Tinian.

Ryan McBeth: Trump's Blockade Will Run China Out of Oil by 6/8

Now Trump's Beefing With The Pope

eyeroll

Seriously?

You're gonna tell the pope what he should think about Christianity?

I mean, I'm no christian, and I think full-on pacifism is nuts.

But Trump just can't let anything go.

My main worry about the Catholics is their role in assisting illegals in entering the country. Maybe christianity is no respecter of borders. I don't know. But it would seem to make a certain amount of sense.

But we're a secular republic. The pope speaks with no authority so far as the USA goes.

I don't care about the pope--who's alleged to be another Woketarian--at all...

But I'm just sick of Trump and especially his unhinged tweeting.

Just STFU and do your job.

Evil Dictator Orban Overthro....No, Wait...

How did Orban’s ‘autocratic regime’ end?

He was… voted out? https://t.co/RaxBv9xLye

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 12, 2026

Communism

New Leftist Acronym Just Dropped: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+

They left out the 'R' for 'retarded'...

It's hilarious that the Newsweek contributor is taking this nonsense seriously...and is pissed that no one else is.

Spanberger: VA Not A Sanctuary State

If she's telling the whole truth, I have to grant that it's a much more reasonable set of policies than I've been led to believe:

Noonan: Trump Shocked His Followers With His Vulgar, Threatening Social Media Post About The War

Agreed.

That was the last straw for me.

He's been maintaining my reluctant support because he's done so many good things--but mostly because the Democrats are so abjectly insane. They are not an option anymore. That leaves Trump.

Who is, of course, better than just not-the-Dems--he's done a credible job of rolling back a fair bit of the damage they've done.

So: on the domestic front: he's been good.

But foreign policy has always been the sketchiest part of this deal with the devil.

The mullahs deserve to be stomped. They are an insane, murderous, occupying force--as I understand it, anyway. I absolutely want them turned into small piles of ashes. 

But the threat to destroy the entire country...the entire civilization...WTF wat that??

Combined with the apparently poor planning (by Trump and...shudder...Hegseth...not by the military), the loony swinging back and forth, the apparent ceding of the Strait of Hormuz...the off-and-on declarations of victory... It just seems like a big pile of stupid and crazy.

Trump was a gamble.

I big, fat, gamble.

He's done a lot of good--and has been incalculably better than (shudder again) Harris or any other major Dem would have been.

And, of course, much of the left's criticism of him is itself nuts.

But I've gotta say, these unhinged midnight tweets about annihilating whole civilizations...that's just it for me.

Somebody should have taken his phone away ten years ago.

And it doesn't help how full of shit the wingnuttier regions of the wingnutosphere are in their defense of him. They really will say anything to avoid facing the truth about him.