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Blocked From Reaching the U.S., Migrants Begin the Reverse Journey South As President Trump’s migration policy begins to bite, growing numbers of people are heading back through Panama and Colombia https://archive.is/qRCtx#selection-2429.0-2437.124

Brace Yourselves: The Next Media BIG LIE Is About to Drop Stephen Green Before I tell you about the legacy dinosaur media's next BIG LIE, I need to show you how they'll sell it. It starts, as these things always do, with the Left attempting to control the language to alter your perceptions about how the economy performed under Presidentish Joe Biden and will perform under President Donald Trump. We might be done with Biden but he isn't done with us, as you're about to see. There was a recession in late 2021/early 2022, commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of economic shrinkage. Except the "non-partisan" National Bureau of Economic Research decided to change the commonly understood definition. In 2022, wouldn't you know, it turned out that "many factors go into that calculation," and that the Biden recession wasn't a recession at all when you looked at the "many factors" that nobody had ever looked at before. The White House got into the game, too, with the White House Council of Economic Advisors citing a "holistic look at the data," instead of playing by the established rules. The press played along and pretended the recession never happened. Convenient, eh? I'd also add that if you take away Biden's monstrous budget deficits, any economic growth that happened on his watch was an illusion. We entered a government-engineered recession during the lockdowns of 2020 and, thanks to epic economic mismanagement under Biden, we never left it. Budget deficits are a drag on future growth and should be subtracted from our GDP figures. But the same government that spends more than it takes in — currently by trillions of dollars — pretends that deficits are growth and, again, the press plays along. Private sector jobs and wages stagnated under Biden because everything was driven by Big Government and sold to you by Big Media. It was a helluva party that Biden threw for his well-connected buddies. Now comes the hangover, and some on the Left already have a word for the recession that hasn't happened yet: Trumpcession. Assuming we do end up with a recession, they'll probably call it the Trump Depression or something along those lines. I might be exaggerating but not by much. {snip} All of our "growth" for the last five years is due to unsustainable deficits that will haunt generations of Americans yet to be born. Economic decisions are increasingly driven by growth-killing mandates and regulations imposed by Biden and the Democrats during 2021-2022. Consumer spending is driven in large part by cheap imports from a country that hates us. Getting over our addiction to new debt will be painful. Undoing the Biden regulatory binge comes with political risks that some so-called Republicans in Congress refuse to take. Homeshoring — or at least friendshoring — comes with the shock and pain of tariffs. The last time a new president faced an economic crisis like this one was Ronald Reagan in 1981. The recession he engineered with Fed Chair Paul Volcker that year genuinely was one of the worst since the Great Depression, but it was the price that had to be paid to wring Johnson/Nixon/Carter stagflation out of the system. It was a helluva risk they took but it paid off with 20 years of almost uninterrupted and unprecedented growth. So hang on tight because the so-called Trumpcession is in reality the final price to be paid for four years of Joe Biden. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/03/11/the-legacy-dinosaur-media-has-the-next-big-lie-ready-to-go-n4937779

Elon is obviously over the target. That’s why they keep attacking him with paid protests against DOGE, Tesla dealership terrorist attacks, and X cyberattacks. These attacks will backfire like they always do. We will all support Elon, X, and DOGE even harder now. https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1899152991577616702?

How Trump Thwarted Democrats. “Democrats thought Trump’s second presidency would be a repeat of his first. They cornered him last time by triangulating lawsuits, the bureaucrats and RINOs to stymie a president they believed unworthy of the title. Republicans in the Senate saddled the newbie with a Cabinet of Termites. He trusted them. Bigly yuge mistake. Ha ha ha. 8 years later, the establishment has not changed its playbook. Football may be a game of inches, but politics is a game of adjustments. Trump adjusted.” https://donsurber.substack.com/p/how-trump-thwarted-democrats?

If we are having a recession over a decline in govt spending, then the GDP wasn't real to begin with. The US govt has a $2 trillion annual budget deficit. That is basically $2 trillion of artificial GDP that is funded by more debt. Removing $2 trillion of GDP is where the actual economy is. https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1899190558687670304?

BREAKING: ABC news is preparing for mass layoffs. https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1899444135263621335? .

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Musk says the cyberattack on   @X & nbsp;today originated from IP addresses in the Ukraine area. https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1899201922583994739?

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Vance Memes Trolling the Humorless Left FTA: This came to mind in the oddest of ways, in connection with clueless liberals looking at the proliferation of funny and self-deprecating memes of J.D. Vance, a few of which were featured in TWiP yesterday. The number of Vance memes is growing at a geometric rate; if they keep growing at the current rate, they will eat up all the pixels on the internet faster than you can say “population bomb.” Vance is said to find them very amusing, but the left is wondering, “How can MAGA people be demeaning Vance with these memes?” The Guardian calls them “grotesque.” The Atlantic asks, “Who Is Posting Those Unflattering J. D. Vance Memes?” In every image, Vance has been reanimated as an utter doofus. . . Of course, people love making memes that portray their political adversaries as hapless and incompetent. That’s not exactly what’s happening with these images of Vance. The memes are going viral on the left-wing internet. But they are equally, if not more, popular on the right. . . So why is the right willing to make fun of one of its own with memes?“ Oh, maybe, just maybe, because they are funny? But serious people on the left (that would be all humorless leftists, right?) don’t think this is funny at all Kyle Smith commented, “The idea of a Dem making fun of Obama [with similar memes] is unthinkable of course. Because he’s their religious leader.” Making a self-deprecating meme of the Lightworker is blasphemy and a sacrilege. (Just think how often the media fact-checks the Babylon Bee.) But look, since the Vance memes are going strong, let’s not be left out of the party: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/vance-memes-trolling-the-humorous-left.php "You know, I'm something of a JD Vance myself"

#WTH How to think about Syria It's more complicated than many want you to believe Danielle Pletka Syria is a beautiful country, destroyed by decades of exploitation by the Assad regime, and its allies, Russia, Iran, and Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Since the late 2010 uprising against the Assad regime, about half a million Syrians have been murdered. The Assad regime was so important to the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran that rather than simply sacrificing the liability that was Bashar al Assad — son of longtime Syrian tyrant Hafez al Assad — and installing a different leader and aiming for reconciliation, Tehran backed Assad to the end, with hundreds of thousands dead, millions of refugees, and heavy costs to the regime and its proxies. Assad, who now lives under the protection of Vladimir Putin with his stolen billions, is a member of the minority Alawite sect (about 10 percent of Syria), an offshoot of Shiism that Sunni Muslims view as apostasy. The vast majority of Syrians are Sunni, though the country also has a sizable Muslim Kurdish and Druze minority, as well as a shrinking Christian minority and a handful of Jews. https://whatthehellisgoingon.substack.com/p/wth-how-to-think-about-syria

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GOOD: Pete Hegseth Drives the Stake Through Climate Change Driving Defense Policy. The Department of Defense is abandoning its nearly two decades-long focus on climate change as a national security issue. In a terse message to CNN, Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said, “Climate zealotry and other woke chimeras of the Left are not part of that core mission." This is a major change for the Department of Defense that goes back at least five administrations. For reasons I've never really understood, the military has been vulnerable to environazis for decades. At Fort (Braxton) Bragg, large swaths of training area were put off limits because they were allegedly the nesting grounds of the then-endangered (it had a status upgrade in December) red-cockaded woodpecker. A freakin woodpecker. An acquaintance of mine was relieved of his command because one of his troops had pasted a picture of the bird on a target on a rifle range (the 1,000-inch range), and the wrong person happened onto the scene. If you're wondering why US Navy ships compare unfavorably to Soviet trawlers, circa 1980, in terms of rust, it is because the best paint is environmentally friendly. {snip} If climate change is real, it will be addressed at home and abroad by agencies not called the Department of Defense. When the Defense encounters it, it will come in the form of weather and terrain; how we got there will be an academic exercise. Secretary Hegseth is right; his focus has to be on training troops, structuring forces, modernizing equipment, and building warrior spirit to win wars, something Defense has gotten out of the habit of doing over the last 41 years. https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/09/pete-hegseth-drives-the-stake-through-climate-change-driving-defense-policy-n2186468 .

Can you say government corruption ? I knew you could. DOGE Makes Another Bombshell Discovery Matt Margolis The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just dropped a bombshell that exposes the mind-boggling incompetence of Biden's administration. It has uncovered nearly $2 billion in "misplaced" funds at HUD, but that's just the appetizer in this feast of government waste. Here's the shocking truth: During 2020-2021, the Small Business Administration handed out 5,593 loans totaling $312 million to "business owners" who were 11 years old or younger. That's right — while our kids were stuck in Zoom school, we’re supposed to believe that a bunch of their classmates were apparently running multimillion-dollar enterprises. Even better, these pint-sized entrepreneurs all used Social Security numbers that didn't match their names. Totally legit, right? Remember, this was during the pandemic, and, according to Fox News Digital, it is “unclear what they were used for.” But wait; there's more! The SBA wasn't content just funding kindergarten startups — they also approved 3,095 loans worth $333 million to borrowers over 115 years old. One particularly industrious 157-year-old scored a cool $36,000. Now, we can sit here and pretend that this is all legit, like Democrats do, or we can acknowledge that Elon Musk is exposing massive amounts of real fraud and should be celebrated, not attacked, for shedding light on all this government waste. Sadly, Democrats can’t do that. For all their talk about saving Medicaid and Social Security, how many billions of dollars are wasted annually that could go towards the solvency of these programs? No. Democrats would rather raise taxes to achieve that. Heaven forbid that someone actually hold bureaucrats accountable for throwing away taxpayer money! These are the same people who screamed about "protecting democracy" while shoveling cash to overseas jihadists and radical social justice programs through USAID. This isn't just government incompetence; it's criminal negligence. Every dollar handed out to nonexistent children and impossibly old "business owners" was a dollar stolen from legitimate small businesses struggling to survive during the pandemic. And where was the Biden administration's legendary "oversight" during all this? https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/10/doge-exposes-another-massive-fraud-scheme-n4937747

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After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department. Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform. .