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Shit, Trump went there. What node plexus is he trying to excite with this one?

Others say it was a hook to get viewers.

Dow Jones Industrial Average sailed past 50,000 points Friday, a milestone that sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists had confidently predicted would never happen because President Trump’s policies would first reduce the American economy to a smoking crater populated only by unemployed factory workers trading bitcoin for canned goods. CNBC, June 2024 (even before the election):

Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning
economists warn a second Trump
term would 'reignite' inflation
Jun 25 2024

Sixteen! Sixteen Nobel laureates took breaks from polishing their prizes (which are apparently handed out like candy by Scandinavian Epstein fanboys) to warn us Trump would “reignite inflation.” And … the Dow just hit 50,000, with eggs and gas cheaper than ever. Too bad the Nobel Institute doesn’t have a return policy. Maybe the Committee should create a new category for people who excel at failing upward. ...

Killjoy commentators and Democrats grumbled about how passing 50,000 doesn’t really mean anything, since it’s just a psychological accomplishment; after all, there’s not real difference between 49,999 and 50,000, which is like telling your wife that being married for 30 years doesn’t really mean anything special since, using logic, it’s just one more than 29.

Another possibility is that tariffs are working, investment is flooding into the U.S., American companies are actually becoming more valuable, and consumer sentiment is much stronger than the “polls” suggest. But don’t wait for corporate media to tell you any of that.

Yet the press assiduously avoids mentioning that 99% of the video was about that fraud.

Which should have been expected and makes that "hook" a bad play.

Karoline Leavitt

@PressSec
President Trump promised to restore law and order to the United States.

Newly released data proves he is delivering: the murder rate in America's largest cities plummeted in 2025 to its lowest level since at least 1900 — marking the largest single-year drop in murders on record.

This dramatic decline is what happens when a President secures the border, fully mobilizes federal law enforcement to arrest violent criminals, and aggressively deports the worst illegal alien offenders.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Sounds like Trump, but I can't find it on Truth, so it's probably fake.

For over thirty years, when ICE arrested illegal aliens living inside the country —not on the border, but in places like Minneapolis or Houston— those detainees could slow deportation down to glacial speed by requesting a “bond hearing” to argue for their release on bail. Nobody really knew why; it was just how things were done. Norms and customs.

But the Trump Administration took a fresh look at the statute and said, hey, wait a minute, the law says people “seeking admission” to the United States don’t get bond hearings. It just says “shall detain.” Shall. It also says that, if you’re here illegally, you’re still considered to be ‘seeking admission’— you just skipped the line. In other words, a person who never bothered to apply for citizenship doesn’t magically get more rights than someone who at least tried.

The Fifth Circuit agreed, 2-1. Judge Edith Jones (Reagan appointee) wrote that “the text says what it says, regardless of the decisions of prior Administrations,” essentially ruling that thirty years of doing it wrong doesn’t numinously make it right. ...

The decision might sound technical, but the practical implications were huge. Now, if an alien crossed illegally and ICE finds them —wherever they are— they’re done. They won’t walk American streets freely again unless they win their removal proceeding (which is highly unlikely). In the meantime, they must stay in detention. They can’t go home to get their things. They are simply done, and the longer they fight, the longer they remain in detention.

Their choice now is to either agree to deportation, or cool it in detention while their lawyers waste time on futile filings. Then they get deported anyway when they lose.

After this decision, many more illegal aliens will simply surrender their frivolous court fights and accept deportation, which will both relieve court backlogs and also help convince many more illegal aliens to self-deport and avoid the trouble. (Thanks and h/t to Will Chamberlain’s cogent analysis.)

https://x.com/willchamberlain/status/2019990330200719636

Right after taking office, President Trump signed executive orders telling federal agencies to eliminate their DEI programs and requiring all government contractors to certify they don’t operate them either. Then a Baltimore federal judge (of course) promptly enjoined Trump’s orders, ruling they violated free speech and were unconstitutionally vague. But Friday, the Fourth Circuit “reluctantly” overturned that injunction — and here’s the kicker: an Obama appointee wrote the majority opinion.

Judge Albert Diaz ruled that Trump’s orders can’t be challenged head-on en masse, only through how agencies apply them to specific cases. “President Trump has decided that equity isn’t a priority in his administration,” Diaz wrote, “and so has directed his subordinates to terminate funding that supports equity-related projects. Whether that’s sound policy or not isn’t our call.” Translation: We’re judges, not legislators. ...

Let’s not miss the significance. An Obama judge admitted —in writing, in a published opinion— that it’s not the judiciary’s job to decide whether Trump’s policies are “sound.” Someone check and see if hell froze over. When Judge Diaz told liberals to “keep the faith,” he seemed unaware that their ‘faith’ is using the courts to override elections. In other words, he just excommunicated them from their own religion. ...

In related news this week, CNBC ran this equally encouraging headline. Corporate struggle sessions are evaporating:

Corporate DEI index sees 65% drop in
participation from Fortune 500 companies
Feb 4 2026

A nation heals. (With special thanks to tenacious conservative influencers like Robby Starbuck, who mercilessly hounded companies till they scrapped their stupid DEI departments.)

The Trump administration has secured a federal consent decree declaring one of former President Joe Biden’s mass-migrant parole programs unlawful and preventing any future administration from reviving a similar system for the next 15 years.

The settlement, approved by Judge T. Kent Wetherell in federal court in northern Florida, emerged from a lawsuit filed by the state of Florida in 2023 and places strict limits on how the federal government may use the Department of Homeland Security’s parole authority under Section 1182(d)(5).

RINOs and LOLBerts give Dems a majority to stop Trump's All-American Tariffs.

Constitutional Text: Article I, Section 8 explicitly grants Congress the authority to regulate commerce and impose tariffs:

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”

“To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

Tariffs are a form of duty or impost on imported goods, so this power belongs to Congress.

The president has no direct constitutional authority to impose tariffs on his own. However, Congress has delegated significant tariff-related powers to the president through various laws over the decades.

Today's Deep Question: Why Is Violent Crime Plummeting in the US?

And thus we come to the missing word. Axios never once mentions the word "immigration" in this analysis, despite it being the primary law enforcement effort by the federal government in 2025. It was the biggest change in law enforcement, wherein ICE and Border Patrol agents began aggressively enforcing detainers and deporting criminal illegal aliens, many of whom had connections to transnational crime organizations. That effort led to a mass outward migration of illegal aliens in 2025. In fact, 2025 saw an overall net loss in migration for the first time in decades, and not by just a handful either...

Given that the immigration enforcement efforts in the US have focused on criminal illegal aliens, and that this has prompted a net outward migration of tens of thousands of aliens, did it not occur to Axios that this might explain a sudden drop in crime across the US? It is, at least, a relevant factor, especially given that this enforcement effort appears to be the only significant policy shift that took place in the year when results shifted as dramatically as Axios reports. Its omission from their analysis is a stunning lacuna in their logic, while their claim that the crime decline somehow contradicts Trump can only exist in a bubble that locks out any of Trump's initiatives as potential contributing factors.

I'm all for Trump's tariffs, but Massie is right that it's a power the Constitution gives to Congress:

U.S. economy adds 130,000 jobs in January, exceeding expectations

Nonfarm payrolls last month came in at 130,000, well above economists’ estimates of 66,000 and up from a downwardly-revised mark of 48,000 in December. It was the strongest rise in positions since December 2024.

Job gains in healthcare, social assistance and construction helped to offset losses in federal government roles -- which analysts at Morgan Stanley said have been weighed down by deferred employee resignations.

I'm all for Trump's tariffs, but Massie is right that it's a power the Constitution gives to Congress:

https://apnews.com/live/trump-immigration-climate-change-2-12-2026

Apparently Trump announced on Truth social he wants to find a way to dump everything UNredacted

President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin formally terminated the Obama-era “endangerment finding”— a 2009 regulatory determination that carbon dioxide, methane, and four other greenhouse gases endanger public health. That simple finding cascaded into hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of rules, guidances, crimes, and other regulations.

EPA built the finding into a massive temple to the climate gods. Then last year, EPA Chief Zeldin made an unimaginable promise. He said he would “drive a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” We applauded the sentiment, but nobody believed he could pull it off. ...

Once CO2 was legally dangerous, the EPA could regulate basically anything that produces the common gas, like anything that burns fuel, moves, exhales, or farts. Cars, trucks, power plants, light bulbs, gas stoves— even backyard grills, if they felt like it. The EPA regulated reams of products, and would have eventually regulated cow ‘emissions,’ undersea volcanoes, and the hot air generated by Congress (which is by far the largest emitter on the planet).

That’s why revoking the “determination” didn’t just change a rule. It yanked the legal foundation out from under seventeen dreadful years of fantastically expensive and ever-expanding climate regulation. ...

The (new) EPA said the repeal will save Americans at least $1.3 trillion and roughly $2,400 per new vehicle.

Got a link? I can't find it at https://truthsocial.com/realDonaldTrump/

I wonder why this was allowed in first place