Major Carey of Virginia asked if I did not feel myself bound by my constitutional obligations to deliver up fugitives under the fugitive slave act. To this I replied that the Fugitive Slave act did not affect a foreign country, which Virginia claimed to be, and she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that insofar at least she was taken at her word
General Benjamin Butler 1861
A lot of people have a lot of things to say about the Israeli strike on Iranian Nuke sites but rather than get deeply into this let me just state the obvious:
Iran has openly spent years developing a nuclear program with the intent to destroy Israel.
Iran has openly spent considerable effort to make war on Israel through proxies.
Iran has publicly stated for decades their intent to destroy Israel, exterminate the Jews and has openly advanced that position worldwide at every opportunity.
Yesterday Israel gave a response to these forthright and open declarations by Iran that can be summed up in three simple words:
Democrats 1861: If Republicans ONLY stopped trying to enforce federal Law in the south the violence will end
Democrats 1957: If Republicans ONLY stopped trying to enforce federal law in Arkansas there would be no violence.
Democrats 2025 If Republicans ONLY stopped enforcing federal immigration law in LA there would be no riots.
Oh and in all three cases it involved Democrats flying non-US flags, Confederate the first two times, Mexican and for some reason Palestinian now.
Closing thought: Nothing says “organic protests not paid for or organized by Democrats & Democrat NGO’s like having to pass out American flags to change the bad optics of the first few nights.
100 years ago we had one of the wisest Presidents ever in office. That man was Calvin Coolidge. He was known for an age of prosperity but also known for giving good advice such as this line:
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
Coolidge once held the office of Vice President, JD Vance the current Vice President apparently has taken his advice to heart and put out a hilarious tweet in the face of the whole world screaming for him to say something about Trump vs Musk which said:
Slow news day, what are we even going to talk about?
It’s worth pointing out that Elon Musk is right that the “Big Beautiful Bill” does not cut as much as it should and spends more than it should, that is simple math and Elon is very good at math.
But as an engineer he should also be good at the math involving tolerances, that is, how far you can push something before you reach the danger point.
As I’ve already pointed out, this is the best bill that could be gotten out of the house with the majority you have, the math is very direct, you needed one more than a majority in the House and 50 votes in the senate on a reconciliation bill.
Without bigger majorities you can’t do better than this. It’s not just a matter of straight math it’s a matter of tolerances and Musk should know this.
There was a lot of talk coming out of the MSM over yesterday but the thing that I found absolutely Hilarious was this tweet from the official Democrat party twitter/x account:
I'm sorry but getting @TheDemocrats to call for the release of the #EpsteinFiles is troll level ULTIMATE!
I think the feud is a real thing but if it's not this is 12 dimensional chess not 4 https://t.co/lsWAZGv8T8
In case the tweet doesn’t show the Democrats tweeted:
Kill the bill and release the Epstein Files!
Yes you read that right, the DEMOCRATS are now suddenly calling for the release of the Epstein files. I replied thus:
I’m sorry but getting @TheDemocrats to call for the release of the #EpsteinFiles is troll level ULTIMATE! I think the feud is a real thing but if it’s not this is 12 dimensional chess not 4
This is why you should never tweet while angry or on a emotional high.
If I’m Trump I tell Pam Bondi: I know you’re going through them but dump them all by the end of next week they asked for it.
I say the end of next week because this is going to be the only story for the next few days so if you have news you want hidden now’s the time to drop it.
I often refer to Tip O’Neill’s excellent autobiography “Man of the House” because it has so many lesions on how politics works. Yesterday’s kerfuffle remined me of one such story.
LBJ was meeting with Tip and called for some polling figures and an aide was slow in getting them and Johnson chewed him out with a profanity laced tirade. When Tip spoke to the aide saying that president or no I wouldn’t take that kind of grief from anyone the aide answered: That’s just his way five minutes from now he’ll forget all about it.
If there is one consistent thing about Donald Trump it’s the ability to work with people that he doesn’t agree with or even doesn’t get along with because he is completely goal orientated. You will see him make peace and a deal with anybody as long as it advances his goals. He’ll let Elon rant and jab him gently as he has so far but one there is a common goal he won’t be shy about making up with him, particularly when he knows he holds all the cards right now.
There are folks like Steve Bannon, who never liked or trusted Musk who want Trump to go all Houthis in Yemen on him.
Trump won’t rise to that bait. He’ll simply let good economic numbers for the country (and bad stock numbers for Tesla) speak for themselves. He’ll let folks like the teamsters who voted for him remind him that he may have kicked in money but the voters were showing up at rallies for Trump long before he turned up and that with one customer base already upset with him it’s not a good idea to upset a second until Elon reaches the Cardinal Richelieu moment from the 1948 version of the Three Musketeers:
When that moment comes (and there are signs it already has) Trump will take this scene from The Chosen to heart:
Let’s pray for them both and hope Elon this scene from the classic picture Harvey to heart.
I recommend pleasant over smart too or to quote Tip O’Neill again: “I always knew how to count.”
Finally there is one point on this thing that I completely missed that John Nolte didn’t:
Nolte said, “We don’t know what’s really going on, but I do know that Trump is sticking his finger in the eye of his biggest donor and that never happens. How many times did Barack Obama piss off George Soros? Zero.”
Seriously can you think of any pol, even one who doesn’t have to face the voters again, who is willing to stand up to his biggest donor to advance what he thinks is right? Does nobody see the amount of street cred this gives Donald Trump in terms of fighting for his principles? Who else has ever done this?
It’s like the story of the Mafia approaching Rocky Marciano to try to get him to throw his title fight against Don Cockell to clean up on the odds. Rocky rebuked them saying he was ashamed that they were Italian. The dons were disappointed but were impressed that he stood up to them.
In the end when Musk realizes this he will get that his best chance to meet his goal of reaching Mars is with Trump at his side vs sword to sword.
Yesterday the left was partying like Satan until 3 pm on Good Friday, let me remind them it quickly went down hill for him from that point.
One of the problems with being a person who is used to getting his way is that occasionally you don’t and when you’re not used to it you can make statements you will regret in the future. This is one of them:
Now I could say a lot about this the most logical thing being that if Trump had been actually involved with Epstein (or if he had been for that matter) there is zero chance that the Biden White House or the Biden FBI would not have leaked it long ago, certainly they would have done so during election 2024 as Musk should be smart enough to know but right now he’s angry and so he is speaking out of his hat without knowing.
However unlike Elon Musk who was too busy worrying about cars and rockets in 2016 to be paying attention to the Epstein story I WAS paying attention to it and thus saw the critical clip from Morning Joe from May 16th of 2016. I’m keying to the critical part
Everybody at the Table knows who Jeffery Epstein is, and what the story is
Nobody at the table wanted to talk about it
and more:
Mind you Trump hasn’t even bothered to say a word about Epstein yet and the table does its best to spin this in a different direction, but the very fact that Trump is who is forced MSNBC to deal with the story even if most of dealing with it was talking about Trump’s willingness to go there.
Take a look at the set of dejected faces on that video, remember those faces are being broadcast on MSNBC to liberal viewers who would never do a web search of the words “Jeffery Epstein + Bill Clinton”
Donald Trump did that and if you’re a conservative it’s a joy to behold.
The real funny thing and the giveaway wasn’t the video alone, it was the steps that were taken to hide it making copyright claims and burying it:
So, You’ll have absolutely no problem sharing this clip with people far and wide and giving them a hint about the relationship between Jeffery Epstein and Bill Clinton and how the media views it…provided you are someone like me who
already saw the clip
remembered what show it was on
knew what day it was broadcast
And knew what time segment to look for
As for everyone else NBC says to you: Beware of the Leopard!
Again this doesn’t get done if Trump was involved.
Now I’ll give Elon a pass for not knowing this as he wasn’t paying attention back then but an engineer should know better than to open his mouth before knowing what he is saying is true.
I strongly suggest resolving this rift if it can be but it not so be it.
Update: Forgot to mention that it was the TRUMP administration that arrested and jailed Epstein after being protected by dems forever.
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