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BREAKING: Donald Trump says he may demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States. pic.twitter.com/Jh6zPx4urh
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 21, 2024
He should seize the St. Lawrence Seaway too.
h/t Mauser
You may recall this oldie: Did you hear about the socialist joke? It’s poor quality but everybody gets it.
Better than anyone, Donald Trump knows that today’s woke-leftists have no sense of humour. Moreover, Trump has learned that ridicule and sarcasm are effective batons for handling such foes. It can bowl them over.
More than half a million Venezuelans have entered the US illegally since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Until Biden became president, few Venezuelans arrived illegally. Only around 4,500 arrived in 2020. After Biden’s inauguration, however, numbers exploded: 50,499 Venezuelans illegally entered in 2021, another 189,520 in 2022 and a whopping 334,914 in 2023.
This means that Venezuelans now rank second in illegal immigration into the US, after Mexicans, who still take the number one spot.
The Regime Media went into full meltdown mode over the death of the 1500-page cromnibus bill that went down in flames once DOGE chairs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy became aware of some of the bill’s provisions. D.C. media reacted at the very un-D.C. pressure placed upon the cromnibus with equal parts shock and horror.
Actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman mocked Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Broadway debut, calling it “baffling” and comparing her casting to “a Make-A-Wish grant” for critically ill children.
A New York man has pleaded guilty to running a undeclared police station for the Chinese government in lower Manhattan, more than a year after the US justice department unveiled efforts aimed at disrupting Beijing’s efforts to locate and suppress Chinese American pro-democracy activists.
Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China, in connection with opening and operating an overseas police station for the PRC’s ministry of public security, or MPS.
Chen, who pleaded guilty for acting as an illegal agent, faces five years in prison when he is sentenced next year.
None of his Canadian counterparts have even been looked at funny.
You’ll be relieved to know that even as time is running out for the Biden-Harris regime, White House apparatchiks are still hard at work for the American people, dealing with the real problems that affect our day-to-day lives. On Thursday, the regime happily announced the launch of what it billed as “the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate.” Now that’s just super, as everyone who knows how important it is for the government to police people’s attitudes and make sure they don’t commit thoughtcrimes, but the initiative, especially coming in these last days of the regime, raises more questions than it answers.The primary question is: why are Biden-Harris wonks launching policy initiatives? Unless the left throws us a massive curve on Jan. 6 or sometime before Jan. 20, which is possible but unlikely, the Biden-Harris regime has just under five weeks left before it is consigned to the dustbin of history. Are five weeks enough to stamp out “Islamophobia,” which the left has been whining about since even before 9/11? Or does the regime intend to give deep state bureaucrats marching orders that it will follow, under the radar, during the incoming Trump administration? Or is the whole thing just grandstanding?
Fighters funded and trained by the US and UK tell The Telegraph they had advance warning the regime would be overthrown
The United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, fighters have claimed.
British and American-trained fighters in the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA), a group aligned against Islamic State, were told “this is your moment” in a briefing by US Special Forces before Assad was ousted.
In the first indication that Washington had prior knowledge of the offensive, the RCA revealed it had been told to scale-up its forces and “be ready” for an attack that could lead to the end of the Assad regime.
What could possibly go wrong?
President-elect Donald Trump has once more brought up the notion of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, this time saying “many Canadians” support the idea.
“Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State,” Trump wrote in a Dec. 18 Truth Social post, adding that Canadians would “save massively on taxes and military protection.”
I would.
There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded from Whittaker Chambers’ fight against communism.
In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and passing secret U.S. government documents from traitorous New Dealers to his Soviet handlers in Washington, D.C. He broke with communism in 1937-38, then joined the staff at Time, where for the next decade he fought a one-man literary Cold War against communism at home and abroad, including an effort to warn the country about the Chinese communists during World War II and after.
The federal government is promising a suite of measures to disrupt the flow of fentanyl and strengthen 24/7 surveillance of the Canada-U.S. border — including outfitting the RCMP with helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance towers and creating a new joint “strike force” to go after organized crime.
Newly sworn-in Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, flanked by a handful of cabinet colleagues, provided more details Tuesday about how the government plans to spend $1.3 billion to secure the Canada-U.S. border and allay U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about irregular migrants and drugs.
I call BS. Trudeau will deliberately botch this to punish Canadians.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ deputy campaign manager admitted there is zero value in Democrats talking to outlets like The New York Times (NYT) and The Washington Post (WaPo) because those outlets are already in the tank for the party.
Rob Flaherty told Semafor’s Max Tani that the Harris campaign decided to skip interviews with major corporate press outlets because data showed readers of outlets like the NYT and WaPo already supported Harris.
One simple variable, more than anything, determines when you think the nation peaked.
The plucky poll slingers at YouGov, who are consistently willing to use their elite-tier survey skills in service of measuring the unmeasurable, asked 2,000 adults which decade had the best and worst music, movies, economy and so forth, across 20 measures. But when we charted them, no consistent pattern emerged.
Canadian authorities are preparing for a wave of unauthorized border crossings by migrants fleeing tough immigration measures from the Trump government, and early reports from Quebec media are suggesting that attempted crossings from upstate New York are already on the rise. While increasing border security is part of the solution, Canada should also look at closing a loophole in our border agreement with the U.S. that could be incentivizing illegal migration.
Donald Trump mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his top minister’s surprise resignation — after the pair clashed on how to handle the president-elect’s looming tariffs.
Trump jumped on Trudeau’s waning popularity and troubles after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quit Monday night, with the president-elect labeling his Canadian counterpart “Governor,” referencing a previous joke about the US annexing its northern neighbor.
