Author Archive: Stephen Green

NOPE, STILL NOT SICK OF ALL THE WINNING:

CHANGE: Obama coalition flips to Trump as youths and parents back 47.

In a shocking new survey, Trump has the support of younger voters, millennials, parents, and the growing majority of those who get their news from new media such as long-form podcasts hosted by celebrities such as Joe Rogan.

Pollster Jeremy Zogby said that the president has maintained his 49%-48% approval-disapproval rating over his first weeks in office.

But, he added, that is with support from a group new to Trump and steady backing from Hispanics and black voters.

“Building on our final poll release of the 2024 election, which highlighted Trump’s new broad coalition — notably younger and first-time voters that played a large part in carrying him to victory — we find today that the under-45 vote buttresses the president’s approval rating,” said Zogby, the managing partner of John Zogby Strategies.

“The president scores high among parents raising children — a voting bloc that largely corresponds with millennials who have now entered their 30s and 40s — the same group who helped carry President Obama’s victory in 2008. That amounts to a generational flip since the president’s first term when those older than 65 were a major source of Trump’s support,” added Zogby.

In fact he said, older voters don’t approve of Trump, with 58% expressing disapproval.

And dead voters preferred Harris by an even wider margin.

YOU DO NOT HATE THE MEDIA ENOUGH: USAID set to be hacked from 14,000 workers to just 294 as Trump team shreds humanitarian agency.

First, great job on all those cuts. Second, how was that humanitarianism going?

USAID was a slush fund for the well-connected and their enablers in the media.

OF COURSE THEY DIDN’T AIR ANYTHING THAT WOULD MAKE HER LOOK BAD:

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: The Left’s Endgame: Are You Not Entertained? “Note: Most Thursdays, I take readers on a deep dive into a topic I hope you’ll find interesting, important, or at least amusing in its absurdity. These essays are made possible by — and are exclusive to — our VIP supporters.”

JK ROWLING: “This ‘why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?’ line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.”

Ed posted Rowling’s entire tweet earlier, but this part needs breaking out: “Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women’s and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity. It’s also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.”

The Left transmogrified a mental health issue into a civil rights issue precisely because doing so “undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women’s and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity.”

Any means to increase their power, fair or foul.

YES: 19 Years Is Enough, President Trump: Push Disney and ABC to Re-Broadcast ‘The Path to 9/11’ While Releasing the DVD. “After reminding us of the ‘length to which ABC, its news division, and its parent company (Disney) have gone to protect and curry favor with the Clintons’ — ‘in 1996, ABC News hired George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton campaign and White House official’ and said ‘symbol of ABC News has an ongoing relationship (involving large sums of money) with Bill and Hillary Clinton, a relationship that he and ABC News attempted to cover up from viewers’ — John Nolte gets to the gist of the matter and reminds us of what befell the mini-series after it was broadcast 19 years ago.”

KRUISER: My Three-Letter Response to the Dems’ Caterwauling About ‘Unelected Officials’: EPA. “After listening to them scream about threats to ‘democracy’ for over a year, we’re all aware that the Democrats don’t know much, if anything, about the Constitution of the United States or how the government works, especially here in the era of hyper-regulation. One could say that congressional Dems are being deliberately obtuse when battling the Trump 47 administration, but I’m comfortable with saying that they’re stupid.”

WERE THERE ANY MAINSTREAM OR LEFTWING (BUT I REPEAT MYSELF) MEDIA OUTLETS NOT GETTING TAXPAYER MONEY?

If there were, I bet it’s a short list.

RESULTS: Mexico deploys 10K troops to southern border, following through on vow that paused Trump tariffs.

The deployment, titled “Operativo Frontera Norte,” has Mexican soldiers going to the border towns of Juárez and Chihuahua.

Sheinbaum also intends to send troops to border towns Matamoros, Mexicali, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Tijuana.

Trump triggered the tariffs – along with ones on Canada and China – in an attempt to force the curtailment and end illegal migration and drug trafficking, particularly the flow of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

Trump agreed to pause the tariffs for a month after making an agreement with Sheinbaum to work together on security and trade. Part of the deal was having more agents from Mexico at the border to combat drug trafficking.

There’s nothing here that Biden couldn’t have done using the same approach and even the same phone. But the former regime wanted a crisis and got one.

Related: Border Crossings Down 93%

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Rainbow Rage Mob Takes Another Hit From Trump. “While the Democrats were busy ruining the dreams of young female athletes in the name of diversity, they were also busy demonizing anyone who opposed them as transphobic bigots. Kowtowing to an extreme fringe became so important to them that the feminists who hadn’t shut their mouths for forty years suddenly had nothing to say about the rights of young women being trampled upon by males.”

CHANGE: USAID employees around the world will be placed on leave Friday and ordered to return to US.

As of 11:59 p.m. ET Friday, “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs,” said a statement posted on the USAID website, which is back online after going dark last week.

The statement said it is preparing a plan for personnel posted outside the United States “under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days” and terminate “contracts that are not determined to be essential.”

As the name implies, a direct hire is a government official directly employed by the US government, as opposed to contractors, who make up a large part of the USAID workforce. Many of those contractors have already been furloughed or laid off. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Thursday afternoon.

The statement on the website ends with: “Thank you for your service.”

Will there be collateral damage? Certainly. But the rot runs so deep that the only fix is along the lines of “kill them all and let God sort them out.” Anything worthwhile can be reestablished later, if desired.

THE AMOUNT TRIPLED IN JUST A FEW HOURS. ARE WE SURE IT’S ALL BE FOUND?

Related: The USAID Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Minute

Much more to come.

DOES DATA REPUBLICAN EVER SLEEP?

I’ve been too busy to play around with this new tool but it might be her best yet.