HOMAN INTEREST STORY: Tom Homan Destroys Van Hollen for Prioritizing MS-13 Member Over American Victims.
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April 21, 2025
GOODER AND HARDER: The City of Oakland, CA Is in the Very Best of Hands. “Speaking as an observer of one failed city (Chicago) to another (Oakland), I would recommend to Mayor Lee that she keep living in a dream world, because Oakland’s real world really, really sucks.”
IF GUN CONTROL IS SUCH GOOD POLICY WHY DO ITS PROPONENTS ALWAYS HAVE TO LIE? NJ AG Matt Platkin Can’t Reconcile His False Narrative That the Bruen Ruling Resulted in More ‘Gun Violence.’
RIP:
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. pic.twitter.com/jUIkbplVi2
— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) April 21, 2025
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Who knows this one?
Doc : In vino veritas.
Ringo : Age quod agis.
Doc : Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.
Ringo : Juventus stultorum magister.
Doc : In pace requiescat!— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 20, 2025
LIMITED TIME DEAL: CQR Men’s Tactical Pants, Water Resistant. #CommissionEarned
THIS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN COURT: Equity Sucks When It’s Their Turn: AP Loses Case to Regain White House Press Perch.
JOURNALISM: Border Crossings Grind to Halt as Trump’s Tough Policies Take Hold.
In this border city, large groups of migrants marching toward the U.S. have all but halted. Migrant encampments are disappearing, and few people are trying to sneak across remote desert areas to start new lives in the U.S.
“The door is closed,” said Yorman Briceño, a Venezuelan migrant staying at a church-run shelter in Ciudad Juárez, just across from the border from El Paso, Texas.
He had been waiting about six months for his Jan. 23 appointment to request asylum in the U.S. under a Biden-era program, until it was scrapped by President Trump on Jan. 20. Now, after watching how others have been rounded up in immigration sweeps and extradited by the U.S. to a notorious prison in El Salvador, he said he wasn’t even sure he wanted to go anymore.
“There’s no more hope for entering legally as long as Donald Trump is there, and anyone telling you otherwise is lying,” said Briceño.
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised to shut the U.S. border to illegal immigration after surreptitious crossings reached record levels under the Biden administration.
As the issue featured prominently in the campaign, migrant encounters tallied by U.S. authorities fell precipitously in the months leading to the election. Since taking office, Trump has delivered on his pledge as encounters have since fallen further to their lowest levels since the 1960s.
Why does this WSJ report ostensibly about illegal immigration begin with a sad tale of an immigrant who has been trying to cross legally since before the election?
TRUTH:
Democrats have destroyed every major city in the USA where they're in power. https://t.co/cedfTdYQWC
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 20, 2025
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Chris Matthews to Jim Acosta: Trump Is Like Hitler And The Holocaust.
Matthews asked and answered his own question, “What did Hitler do? What did Hitler do in the Holocaust? He took people from Germany to other countries where there was no German law. There was not even a pretense of German law. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, and they killed.”
Acosta helped Matthews double down, “And so when you see what’s happening right now with this El Salvadoran Gulag, I mean, this CECOT Gulag he’s basically taking a page out of that playbook, you think.”
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Acosta naturally agreed, “No, and there’s a component here that is deeply disturbing because it seems to be all about inflicting cruelty. It’s all about making an example out of this person and saying, ‘We’re going to be cruel to this guy, and so you better not come here or we’re going to be cruel to you too.’”
Of course, the people Trump is deporting are illegal immigrants. Even if one supports bringing Garcia back on the grounds he shouldn’t be sent to prison without due process, he is still an illegal immigrant who could just as easily be re-deported to another country like any other illegal immigrant. That’s not exactly mass murder on an industrial scale.
The 2006 version of Chris Matthews was much less of a fan of illegal immigration:
HOWARD FINEMAN, THEN OF NEWSWEEK: Everybody is focusing on the divisions in the Republican Party. I find the Democratic Party interesting on this too. In the old days, the unions, the labor unions …
MATTHEWS: Do we still have unions?
FINEMAN: We do have some. But the unions would have said wait a minute, all of our wage an hour workers who are doing pretty well here, are going to get killed with a wave of 11 million illegal immigrants. We‘ve got to stop it.
But the union leadership today has said no, no, because we have so many Hispanics in our unions, because we know the stories of personal struggle and family travail, we‘re not going to oppose this. As a matter of fact, we‘re going to get on board and shape it the way we want, so it‘s all those people against the cloth coats that you were talking about [GARBLED]
MATTHEWS: I think the country is going to get really ticked off at a government that won‘t do what they tell them to do. A country without borders is not a country. If you don‘t have a border—I‘ve never heard of a country in the world that doesn‘t have a border. That‘s what defines a country. If you don‘t enforce it, you‘re a joke.
(CROSSTALK)
FINEMAN: Well, this is bigger—as I travel around and talk to people, this is a bigger issue around the country than people here inside the beltway in the elite understand. That doesn‘t mean that that will will be reflected in legislation. Often it isn‘t. That‘s the story of Washington.
MATTHEWS: By the way, if you‘re a European trying to come to America and move here, or an African, West African, and you‘re waiting in line somewhere at a U.S. consulate nowhere, whether it‘s Albania or Nigeria, you‘re waiting in line dutifully. You show up every day, you fill out the papers and you wait and you wait and you wait.
Meanwhile, people are slam banging across the Mexican border every night with the searchlight on, and now we‘re saying put them ahead of you in line.
Oceania has never been at war with illegal immigration.
THAT OUGHT TO CLEAR UP ANY REMAINING CONFUSION: ‘Hail Satan!’ Scream Pro-Trans Athlete Protestors.
I NAMED A KID AFTER HIM, BUT THIS IS ALSO GOOD: We want the Secretary of the Navy to name a U.S ship for Robert A. Heinlein.
On the bounce!
ICYMI: “RULE OF LAW:”
A number of judges have seemingly adopted a constitutional meta-principle: what a past President did, President Trump may not undo https://t.co/UlEWsVJxag
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 18, 2025
The trick he’s playing here is to pretend that the left hasn’t already violated these norms and set these precedents
The left is well past the Rubicon but is gaslighting the right for even approaching it https://t.co/BalT782mxY
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) April 19, 2025
I mean, wouldn’t it at least be a bit embarrassing to have those “principles” turn on and off every four years?
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 19, 2025
The problem is that our system has a crisis of legitimacy.
ex-President Applesauce illegally and deliberately imported somewhere between 10mm and 20mm illegal aliens into the USA and illegally provided them with tax dollars you and I earned on the sweat of our brows.
All of…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 19, 2025
ARGENTINA, THESE ARE YOUR PRIORITIES? Argentina’s Scientists Create Gene-Edited Polo “Super Ponies”.
NO KIDDING? EVERYBODY SURPRISED BY THIS IS : EXCUSED FROM FURTHER PARTICIPATION IN THE DISCUSSION: Hamas Claims Uncertainty Over U.S.-Israeli Hostage’s Fate.
IF YOU WERERN’T AWARE YOU WERE WILLFULLY UNAWARE: Miller Tells Harrowing Story of Just How ‘Inhuman’ Biden’s Immigration Policies Were.
I FULLY SUPPORT GUN CONTROL; YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLACE THREE SHOTS INSIDE THE PERIMETER OF A HALF DOLLAR AT 25 YARDS: FSU Students Lobbied for Gun Control Before Mass Shooting and Completely Missed the Point.
LORD FORGIVE THEM, THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO: Leftists Celebrate Easter With Drag Queen-Themed Event Mocking Christians.
PUBLISHERS OF ALL COLORS ARE THE SAME: Black Writers Seem to Have No Interest in Any Author (in Any Human?) Who Ain’t Black (or Who, at Best, Ain’t a Member of Some Minority).
Me, the only color of writer that interests me is black letters on a white page. Mostly because the opposite makes my eyes hurt.
THERE IS A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN THIS COUNTRY: Symone Sanders Thinks Black Americans Are Next to Be Deported .
I’m not even saying that crazy people should be locked up, but there’s no need to put them in front of microphones.
OH, THEY’RE TRYING. IT AIN’T GONNA FLY: Kilmar Abrego Floyd.
There have been too many lies, and the masks are all off.
WE MUST NEVER FORGET: Past Forgetting.
THIS IS IMPRESSIVELY BRAZEN: Lies, Damned Lies And The Labour Party.
Labour party edits a video from Farage where he quotes a false Labour party claim about his party. Cuts the clip to removes the bit around it where he explains that he’s quoting them and instead labels it as “his words, not ours”.