NOT JUST ASTROTURF, SUPERTURF:
🚨#BREAKING: A Charlotte NC man claiming to be protesting President Trump in favor of veterans and social security…
…later admitted he was a USAID worker living in Vienna Austria who was told to come back home after USAID was shut down
You cannot make this up!!! pic.twitter.com/Xvzw0BUws5
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 7, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: A price tag on gun rights; Gov. Polis should veto Senate Bill 3.
On March 28, Colorado Senate Bill 25-003 reached Governor Polis’ desk, and if he doesn’t veto this bill within ten days it becomes law, going into effect Aug 1, 2026.
Originally presented as a firearms magazine enforcement bill, Senate Bill 3 has evolved into a far more restrictive piece of legislation these past few months. Despite repeated assurances from its Democrat sponsors—Senator Tom Sullivan, Senator Julie Gonzales, Representative Andrew Boesnecker, and Representative Meg Froelich—that this is not a gun ban, it still is, but now only if you’re underprivileged and can’t afford an eligibility card.
If this bill becomes law, purchasing a semi-automatic rifle, shotgun, or gas-operated handgun would require the following steps:
Schedule an appointment with Colorado Parks and Wildlife Undergo a background check by a third party Locate a certified instructor and complete the required training course. A 12-hour class must be taught in two days, not one. Pass a test with a score of at least 90% and be able to demonstrate that you can use the firearm safely. It’s unclear what firearm will be used for this as students cannot purchase a gun before class to bring with them and even if the instructor has a rifle, it most likely won’t be the same as the one they plan to purchase because there are hundreds, if not thousands, of variations. Schedule an appointment with the local sheriff’s office for final approval. Upon receiving approval, when purchasing the firearm, complete another background check and comply with a three-day waiting period. Each step of this process has fees, amounting to at least $300 total to get an eligibility card that is only valid for five years.
Gov. Polis has yet to indicate whether or not he’ll sign the bill, veto it, or let it go into effect without his signature.
CLEAN YOUR KEYBOARD: Solareye Compressed Air Duster. #CommissionEarned
LORD, I HOPE NOT: China Will Launch An Invasion Of Taiwan In Next Few Months: Intel Sources.
The ambassador’s statement has been interpreted as Beijing now deciding that the time may be ripe for a move against the ROC as the opening round in a direct conflict with the US.
Intelligence sources who have spoken to 19FortyFive about this story now state that they believe an attempt by China to do just that is no less than six months away.
The same intelligence sources elaborate further that the “six months from now” time frame is being prompted by the belief among the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) senior leadership that the US administration in Washington will either be unwilling or unable to prevent an invasion by the CCP and its military arm, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Previously: How DC became obsessed with a potential 2027 Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Why the sudden rush?
MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Bombshell Study Reveals How Many Leftists Support Killing Trump and Musk.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Higher ed researcher’s book asks: ‘Who needs college anymore?’
DIDN’T EARN IT: New York State Will Defy Trump’s DEI Order for K-12 Schools.
INEXPENSIVE GIFT FOR SKETCHERS: Mr. Pen- Metal Mechanical Pencil Set with Lead and Eraser Refills. #CommissionEarned
“RULE OF LAW.” California’s reckless defiance of Title IX.
THAT WAS FAST: WH Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett: More Than 50 Countries Started Trade Negotiations This Weekend.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, what do you base your – where do you base your conclusion that you’re not going to see an increase in prices? Just about every economist who’s looked at this said you are going to see an increase in prices, including Goldman Sachs, including JP Morgan, including the chairman of the Federal Reserve?
HASSETT: Well, there might be some increase in prices. But the fact is that if we’re going to be a heavy burden on the U.S. consumer, then this trade deficit that for 30 years we’ve seen really since China entered the WTO would be something that would have gone down. It would have gone down over time. It would have responded to the prices.
The bottom line is that China entered the WTO in 2000. In the 15 years that followed, real incomes declined about $1,200 cumulatively over that time.
And so, if cheap goods were the answer — if cheap goods were going to make Americans real wages, real welfare better off, then real incomes would have gone up over that time. Instead, they went down because wages went down more than prices went down.
So, we got the cheap goods at the grocery store, but then we had fewer jobs. And that’s why President Obama and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and President Trump have come out saying, we’ve got to come up with a better policy, a policy that treats our workers fairly compared to everybody else.
And now, President Trump, true to his word, just like he promised during the campaign, just like he put into his campaign platform, he’s delivering on his word.
Hang on. This ride isn’t for the squeamish.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Make the Illegal Alien Criminals Stay at Judge Boasberg’s House. “Here’s an idea: turn Boasberg’s house into an Airbnb for the Tren de Aragua killers he’s so eager to protect. Heck, let’s raise money to help expand his residence so that he can house more of them. I’d be willing to do a fundraiser for that.”
WELL, GOOD: Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Working. “Not trade wars. Trade negotiations.”
DON’T FORGET WHAT THEY DID TO US:
Collins to Fauci: “There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don’t see anything like that online yet—is it underway?”
Within a day of Collins’s email, Google started to censor search results for “Great Barrington Declaration.” https://t.co/CRs17IS70c
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) April 7, 2025
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Al Green says he’ll present articles of impeachment against Trump in next 30 days. “The Texas Democrat was censured by the House on Feb. 2 for disrupting Trump’s Feb. 4 joint address to Congress. The House adopted the measure with a 224-198-2 vote, and Green became the 28th House member to be rebuked by the lower chamber.”
RIVERS OF BLOOD: Britain is lurching towards civil war, and nobody knows how to stop it.
Enoch Powell warned you, and was vilified for it.
MARK JUDGE: Jonathan Capehart’s WaPo Hissy Fit. “Sounds pretty bad. Yet as one delves into the details of why Capehart walked, it’s Capehart himself who looks pretty bad. Imperious, while at the same time hyper-sensitive; self-righteous while morally confused; resentful while equally obtuse; ideologically brainwashed and thus incapable of independent thought, Jonathan Capehart is everything wrong with journalism in 2025. No wonder Jeff Bezos is scrambling to sweep out the stables at The Washington Post.”
Sweep faster, Jeff.
FLASHBACK: Nothing to see here, just the biggest global corruption scandal in history. I’d be interested in seeing someone tie together the Panama Papers and the new corruption that DOGE is discovering.
LIGHTNING DEAL: 33,000ft Packable Rain Jacket Men’s. #CommissionEarned
IT’S ABOUT TIME: How Europe hopes to turn Ukraine into a ‘steel porcupine.’
First, Europe would procure more munitions and weapons systems on Ukraine’s behalf, including crucial air-defence missiles. Second, it would boost Ukraine’s own defence industry, which it calls “the most effective and cost-efficient way to support Ukraine’s military efforts”. The plan is the brainchild of Kaja Kallas, a former Estonian prime minister who is now the European Union’s top diplomat. She wants to double military aid to Ukraine this year, to €40bn ($44bn).
The case for investing in Ukraine’s indigenous arms industry is compelling. Ukraine was a big weapons-manufacturer during the Soviet era, but the industry largely vanished after independence in 1991. Nonetheless, there was an engineering base and a thriving new tech sector to draw on when Russia launched its full-scale invasion three years ago. The country had the foundations: a solid manufacturing sector and loads of engineering schools and universities from which people with highly specialised knowledge transitioned to defence, says Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former defence minister who chairs the Centre for Defence Strategies, a think-tank in Kyiv. “Since 2022 the development has been extremely active. There is a constant innovation process,” he adds. Whereas arms procurement in the West typically takes years, in Ukraine an idea can be translated into a weapon in a soldier’s hand within months.
Last year Ukrainian arms firms churned out $10bn-worth of kit, according to a report in March by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (uif), another think-tank. That represented an extraordinary three-fold increase from 2023, and ten-fold from 2022. The more than 800 private and state-owned enterprises in the defence sector employ 300,000 skilled workers. Oleksandr Kamyshin, who oversees the defence industry for Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, says that this year production will be about $15bn, but the sector will have the capacity to produce about $35bn. The constraint is simply lack of money, which he hopes allies will assist with.
It’s nice to see Europe talk about really stepping up — after three years — but will they follow through?
AN OLD POINT, BUT IT CHECKS OUT:
That is the true test of which system is worse: it’s the side that built the wall to keep people from escaping https://t.co/LxuMmEIWE8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2025
DO TELL:
I saw a Tesla protest in Sarasota, FL yesterday
All old people
All white
All similar signs
Seemed strange to not see any young people and barely any diversity
This entire operation feels paid https://t.co/1kAvstVVrR
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 6, 2025
Related:
Everybody is asking why it’s all white boomers at these protests.
People. There hasn’t been a Jimmy Buffett concert in two years. TWO YEARS they’ve gone without a Cheeseburger in Paradise.
It was only a matter of time before they started rioting. It’s gonna get worse.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 6, 2025
UPDATE:
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— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) April 6, 2025
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