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After being trashed by the Canadian press for bending the knee to Trump and showing he's a weakling, the bastard son of Communist thug Fidel Castro offered a Strong statement that he would "respond" if Trump follows through on his pledge to slap a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports unless our communist neighbors to the north help stop illegals and drugs flowing across the border.

... Canada will "respond to unfair tariffs in a number of ways, and we're still looking at the right ways to respond, but our responses to the unfair steel and aluminum tariffs were what ended up lifting those tariffs last time," he said.

Ted Cruz: Daniel Penny should sue the Soros out of Alvin Bragg.

"Alvin Bragg is an absolute catastrophe. First, he indicted Donald Trump in a partisan case, and then he indicted Daniel Penny for saving the lives of other subway passengers from a deranged lunatic threatening to kill everyone," Cruz said in the statement. "Penny should sue Bragg for malicious prosecution and hold this rogue Soros prosecutor accountable."

I don't know what the rules of a malicious prosecution lawsuit might be, or if Bragg is protected by sovereign immunity or what. I sure wish Penny could sue him and win bigly.

America's Groomer Dad Tim Walz, a self-estimated "knucklehead," said he was totally surprised by Trump's victories because the hand-picked, professionally-curated attendees at his silly rallies were totally onboard with him and Kamala.

"It felt like at the rallies, at the things I was going to, the shops I was going in, that the momentum was going our way, and it obviously wasn't," Walz told KSTP-TV's Tom Hauser, as the Washington Examiner reported. "So, yeah, I was a little surprised."

It's easy to argue that Walz's surprise is due at least in part to the fact that Democrats stay within their bubbles far too often. Friendly interviews, failure to associate with anyone who doesn't fall in line with left-wing values, and a blind belief that only leftists are virtuous and right make for surprise when a leftist finds out that people who disagree with him exist.

One can excuse Walz for sounding like a typical cosseted leftist for his surprise that the American electorate didn't welcome him and Harris with open arms, but the reason he thinks the ticket lost is downright laughable. You might want to sit down for this if you aren't already.

"I really, I thought we had a positive message, and I thought the country was ready for that," he told Hauser. No, seriously -- that's what he thinks.

Tim Walz's whole family went to the media to announce they were voting for Trump. I don't know how you lose your entire family but still convince yourself "America is with me."

President Trump's already delivering.

President-elect Donald Trump won't take office for another five weeks, but his election is already causing a sea change in America's illegal immigration crisis.

In sprawling migrant camps across Mexico City, people are giving up their plans to cross into the United States and are instead planning to settle in Mexico or begin the long trek back home.

'I'm just going to give up and go back to Venezuela,' said a woman in one of the squalid encampments, where thousands of migrants have constructed tents with tarps and scrap material.

'I have children to take care of,' she added. 'I'll just go back because, with Donald Trump, it's going to be too hard.'

This is a cruel reality for millions of people drawn to Mexico by the Biden administration's indulgent border policies -- only to find that Americans overwhelmingly rejected the misguided approach in the 2024 election.

The young mother of two had hoped to have already entered the US through President Joe Biden's 'humanitarian parole' program known as CBP One.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported that, since January 2023, the federal initiative has allowed entry into the US for 771,000 migrants, at a rate of about 1,600 people a day. But that program was also quickly overwhelmed by the volume of requests resulting in a massive backlog.

Now, the Trump transition team says the program will end on Day One of the new administration.

Elon Musk wants all federal workers to actually come back to work. Not only does he personally believe in the importance of actual physical presence in a workplace, but he figures that many federal workers will quit rather than start working normal office hours again, thus giving him a bunch of self-firing bureaucrats.

But the federal employees union, which must be decertified by Congress, is pushing back.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 federal and Washington city workers, said assertions that staffers are abusing work-from-home flexibility are serving as cover for Republican lawmakers to try to tear down the government.

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"Exaggerating the number of federal employees who telework and portraying those who do as failing to show up for work is a deliberate attempt to demean the federal workforce and justify the wholesale privatization of public-sector jobs," AFGE said on its website.

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At issue is a report on telework released by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) last week, which she shared with other senators. The report is expected to bolster efforts by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, an outside group led by tech mogul Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, to have federal employees back in the office five days a week.

"For years, I have been tracking down bureaucrats relaxing in bubble baths, playing golf, getting arrested, and doing just about everything besides their job," Ernst said in a statement. "Federal employees need to return to work, but if they don't want to, I will make their wish come true."

In her report, the Iowa senator said 90 percent of federal employees telework, while only 6 percent report to the worksite full time. In addition, close to one-third of staffers work remotely.

"If you exclude security guards & maintenance personnel, the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%!" Musk said on social media last week, referring to Ernst's report.

While the GOPe continues to insist that the party be ruled by a gerontocracy hopelessly out of touch with today's actual party members -- and owned by corporate interests -- Democrats move to push their aging criminals out of committee leadership positions.

The Democratic Party is shaking up its committee leadership in the House of Representatives following its crushing November election defeat.

Despite failing to take back a majority, Democrats have retained their top leadership in the House of Representatives, tapping House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar to stay on in their current roles. Meanwhile, the knives have come out at the committee level, with a slew of Democratic representatives launching bids against more senior panel members for top committee posts.

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, 61, mounted a challenge against Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, 77, for the top role on the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 2, with Nadler ultimately dropping out of the race Wednesday amid a surge of support for his younger opponent.

"As our country faces the return of Donald Trump, and the renewed threats to our democracy and our way of life that he represents, I am very confident that Jamie would ably lead the Judiciary Committee as we confront this growing danger," Nadler wrote in a Dec. 4 Dear Colleague letter announcing he was dropping his bid.

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The Nadler coup reportedly comes amid a push from Democratic lawmakers for generational change as the party faces a second Trump administration, according to The New York Times. Congressional leaders, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly lobbied Raskin to challenge Nadler following Raskin's efforts as a leading force in President-elect Donald Trump's 2021 impeachment and the Jan. 6 investigation, with Nadler's opponents arguing he wasn't fit for the task of taking on Republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.

So much for the "content of their character."

Monday night's "Justice for Jordan Neely" protest over Daniel Penny's acquittal devolved into infighting when a black woman interrupted the Black Lives Matter mob to tell off all the white activists assembled, many of them masked.

Hero:

posted by Ace at 05:40 PM

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