As I said last week nobody would have my take on Lindsey supporting Trump and of course no one did, but Tucker had a take that was in line with my view that Lindsey must be profiting from the war machine. He thinks Lindsey is trying to scapegoat Z because he knows that DOGE and the feds are going to actually do an audit of where all the graft in Ukraine is going.

One of you asked if I was going to comment on today’s debacle in the White House and I said probably but now I’ll say certainly. Z came in thinking that he could keep treating us as his personal ATM and it would be business as usual. A terrible mistake given that he was no longer dealing with Magoo. And he didn’t bother to wear a suit. His homage to the Fidel Castro costume is wearing very thin. He’s not some general or militia leader. In fact I looked it up and he never even served in the Ukraine military. So quit playing soldier.

And he was already behind the eight ball because as JD pointed out, Z campaigned for Kamala a month before the election because he knew that the gravy train would continue indefinitely. You lost and need to recognize that things changed and your arrogance needs to calm down. You blew it because you are way in over your head and you need to understand that.

Trump is not going to join you in a war against Russia. Forget it. Trump is looking out for us and is not going to sublimate our interests for yours.

Now here is one thing that you won’t hear anywhere else and I mentioned it to a couple of you as it was happening. Lindsey Graham is being touted as some kind of hero for supporting Trump and Vance. And I admit that at first glance it pleasantly surprised me as well, but then my twisted mind kicked in. I have never been particularly fond of him because you can never trust him except in one area where you can be certain of his vote and that is for spending our money on any war. I think someone needs to follow the money from the military industrial complex to him.

Now here’s my twisted assessment of what he actually did, although I may be giving him more intelligence than I should, but by praising Trump he can maybe gain some cred with MAGA, but he also knows it will mean that the war goes on and you can count on him continuing to vote for more money to Ukraine. So he can have his cake and eat it too. Just my twisted musings.

Several cases have come up recently that are foreshadowing what’s to come for a return to the constitution. First I believe it was yesterday a case was heard by the Supremes dealing with the burdens in a discrimination case. I don’t recall the case name but it was a case asserting that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies equally to majorities and minorities. In 1973 the Supremes decided McDonald Douglas v Green and stated that to make out a prima facie case of discrimination you had to show that there was an opening and you applied and you were qualified and you were rejected and they kept looking for other people for the job.

Subsequently lower courts have invented a further requirement if you’re white or straight etc., in the majority, that you had to provide more evidence to require the defendant to proffer the reason you were rejected. This case challenges that requirement that majority candidates have to prove more than minority candidates under the law. The Supremes with the possible exception of KBJ during the argument basically said there is nothing in the statute that would even remotely require different standards depending on your status.

And yesterday I believe that Chief Justice Roberts stopped a judge who required that the Trump administration disburse $2 billion dollars in ’aide’ by midnight last night. It appears that even Roberts is becoming fed up with district court judges trying to insert their opinions for how the president should run the executive branch. They have no business or authority to do that and I predict that when these cases get to the Supremes that they will seriously restrict the power of district court judges. And also as I have said previously, Congress has the authority to limit the jurisdiction of district courts and Senator Mike Lee is introducing legislation to do that.

And now just tonight some Clinton judge in California issued an injunction to prevent OPM from firing probationary employees saying that there is no where in law that gives OPM to fire employees in other departments. The problem for this idiot is that OPM didn’t fire anyone outside OPM. It advised that each agency evaluate these employees and fire who they decide to. Just ignore this decision and tell this idiot that OPM didn’t fire them, their agencies did and they have absolute authority to do so for any or no reason. In the probationary period you are an at will employee.

I don’t know about you but I continue to be amazed about just how corrupt our federal government is. Every day DOGE exposes more and more corruption and fraud and bloat. I have previously ranted about it with respect to the bloated staffing in the government based on my experience in the swamp. And I have pointed out bloated contracts that I witnessed.

And I’m sure you know about $800 hammers and $1000 toilets and yesterday I saw a whistleblower who had been in the Navy and I believe in submarine service and he was named. And he said that they were paying $10,000 a piece for supposedly ‘rigidified’ HDMI cables that could be bought at Best Buy for $20 or $30.

But the shear scope of the waste continues to blow my mind. And not unsurprisingly in many cases the waste finds its way to Dem donors or family members or former Dem politicians.

I may be naive. I know and have said before that the government doesn’t do anything well but I had no idea just how extensive the corruption and fraud is. I think now you could probably cut pretty much every agency’s budget and staff in half and we wouldn’t notice.

I said Leo Terrell was in charge of the Civil Rights Division in DOJ. He’s actually the Senior Counsel in that division and principally responsible for heading up a task force looking into prosecuting antisemitism.

Harmeet Dhillon is actually the head of that division and I should have remembered because I wrote about it previously. And she is awesome and fearsome and Maine is toast.

First the power of the podium is a real thing and I have benefited from it on many occasions, but the purpose of this rant is to convey to you what just occurred to me. Bondi’s DOJ is investigating Maine for violations of Title IX and what just occurred to me is guess what? Leo 2.0 Terrell is the person who heads up the civil rights division of DOJ. Maine is toast.

I have ranted about the men in women’s sports before but what I don’t understand is what sane person can be in favor of it. Men are clearly athletically superior to women. Not a put down just a fact. We are stronger and faster and all scientific evidence proves it. So why are many on the left denying the obvious and hurting the women who they claim to champion.

Today Trump bitch slapped the governor of Maine on national television for her idiotic position and I loved it. For a little background for those who may not know, the issue in Maine revolves around a boy, who claims he is a girl, who won the state pole vaulting championship by 8 inches over the second place girl. I’m actually surprised it wasn’t more because my best friend in high school was the state pole vault champion and I guarantee you that upper body strength is primarily the thing needed in the sport, and men have much greater upper body strength than women. Just a fact. Now the thing you may not know is that the boy who won the girl’s championship competed in the boys championship the year before and came in fifth.

Then he suddenly decided to identify as a girl and won their championship. And if you saw the photos, he didn’t change a bit. This is a guy who went through puberty as a boy, never took puberty blockers or is on estrogen. He just said I can’t win as a boy and so I’m going to say I feel like a girl so I can win. This shit has to stop and so I’m ecstatic that Trump shot her down and now Bondi is investigating Maine for violations of Title IX.

One more thing I want to mention is that these idiots on the left need to understand the power of the podium. I don’t know if I have ever talked about it before but it is a real thing. If you’re the one with the microphone standing behind the podium, you already have a tremendous advantage over anyone else who wants to question you. And then add to that that the guy with the mike is the president and the most powerful man on earth and he’s extremely quick on his feet and funny and glib and you should just shut up.

I saw an article and thread today that agrees with my assessment that Sean is a lousy interviewer. I’ve said it for years and they severely criticized his Trump Musk interview because he can’t just ask a question and then sit back and let them talk. He feels the need to insert himself and his ‘insights’ into the conversation. Listen he had one of the smartest people in the world and undoubtedly the best most insightful president in my life and he couldn’t just shut up.

He reminds me of a woman in my division who was working with me on an enforcement case and we were interviewing one of the leading figures in the world on fire matters who we had hired as our expert. I would ask him a question and she would answer and she had zero expertise in anything scientific but felt the need to try to show she was knowledgeable. She wasn’t and so I had to take her aside and tell her to shut up. He’s truly the expert and I want his answers not hers. That’s why we hired him.

Some people just try to hard to make themselves relevant.

I have been meaning to do this for a while and am now because after the initial reporting, everyone even on Fox, keeps saying that Hegseth restored the name of Fort Bragg. In case you missed it, he restored the name Fort Bragg, but it is Pfc Roland L. Bragg not the former Confederate General Bragg, who from what I have seen was actually a lousy, mostly unsuccessful general.

Pfc Bragg was a WW II hero who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. So Pete restored the name while actually naming it for someone else. A smart move.

As you know, Zelenskyy is apoplectic because Trump is meeting with Putin in Saudi Arabia to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Now he’s stupid. I have been in many mediations and it is a common tactic of mediators, as a couple of you know, is to meet with the parties separately. Now normally the parties would appear before the mediator together and then when an agreement couldn’t be reached they meet with the parties separately to find out what they might be okay with and what’s a nonstarter and how they might be able to reach a compromise.

Now in this case a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy would be unproductive. Zelenskyy would be a loose cannon, and probably make a resolution much more difficult. So Trump is doing the right thing.

He can find out what is Putin’s redline and then what is Zelenskyy’s redline nonnegotiable issues and press them both to compromise with pressure for what the US might contribute to mix in terms of enforcement. That’s how it works!