Pretty Cool to Be Proud Again...aint it?

4th at Saratoga.

The shrine of American racing is Saratoga - America's oldest racetrack. Apologies Churchill. For the first time, racing occurred there on America's birthday. Played America the Beautiful while a huge flag was unfurled at the finish line. Neat.

Talk about Proud. Trump Ain't Finished

Nope, not all. So what is he likely to hone in on next?

Russia for sure. Putin is intractable. Better not put those B2s in the hangar just yet. Time to tighten the screws. Start using those frozen Russian assets to send weapons to Vlod (thru NATO). Cut off their er-uhl.

Finish the Trade Deals. Trump just set 8/1 deadline. Ask the Mullahs about his last deadline.

Extend the Abraham Accords. Lock in Saudis and UAE.

Finish cleaning up the Uni's. Penn's a good start.

Accelerate DOGE and, most importantly, inculcate. DOGE proved emphatically pols can ALWAYS be trusted to do what's in their personal best interest with taxpayer $$$. Without management processes and rewards/consequences, all this waste will creep back in that's for sure. Not sure Trump or Musk believe this or have the bandwidth. Believe me it matters.

Once the deportations are largely finished and the border locked down, start the process of codifying new Immigration law. It would be smart to leave the dreamers alone and legalize long term, good guy immigrants. We need the resources and it's smart politics.

Not that The Donald has asked my advice, but here is what I would do as a first step toward reformation of our immigration situation. I would allow all illegals, who have been here for 20 years or more and kept their nose clean, permanent status. Not citizenship or even a pathway thereto. There is a legal status called withholding of deportation, which seems to work. There would be a lot of upside to such a gesture and one that could take some of the heat off ICE, who is doing exactly what must be done and what Americans voted for last November.

Debt is a HUGE PROBLEM. A big part is Congress never cleans up after disasters. After 911, the 2008 crisis, COVID, each of which mandated other worldly spending to combat. Those excessive expenditures are never excised. They are simply are baked in. So easy for Congress to give away your money.

Still, it's time to tackle entitlements. Start with Social Security. Let the dust settle from the deportations and the BBB. Get a few more wins internationally (Put Putin in his place). Then revise SS. Tell Americans you, Donald Trump, don't want to be known as one more President who kicked the can down the road. By the way this shouldn't be that hard. Don't touch current benefits. Extend retirement age to 78. (Just kidding - maybe 70/72). Increase dramatically the cap on deductions. Think somebody making $2M a year will notice? There's actually quite a few not crazy options already been floated.

And then there's the elephant in the room. China. Beefing up the military is a good start but we need to start treating Xi like the malignant enemy he is.

It Really Is Hard to Believe...

isn't it? That NY, the largest city in the country, is seriously considering electing a pure, unadulterated Socialist as mayor. I mean this guy, Zhoran Mamdani, doesn't pull any punches. Obama, Harris and multitudes of other leftie politicians have long espoused Socialist doctrines but they don't dare come out and say...Hey, right in your face, I'm a Democratic Socialist!

Which is exactly what this nut job Mamdani asserts again and again. No need to speculate with this clown.

All one has to do to see where this leads is travel a little bit south to Doral and talk to all the displaced Venezuelans. That country went from the 4th richest country in the world a few decades ago to a place where there is no food on the shelves.

Guess that's what happens when your opponent is Andrew Cuomo and your city is run by Leftwing zealots.

Case you're wondering Mamdani is not some struggling third world victim of US imperialism. His father is a Columbia professor and his mother is too.

BTW he lied on his app to CU. Said he was African American and Asian. His parents are Indian. He also failed to get into Columbia even though Daddy teaches there.

Just another left-winger who believes hating America is the ticket to fame and power (and $$$).

Speaking of Which...

Now that Newsom and Harris have fallen on hard times and Schumer confirms daily that he is a doddering old fool only a quarter turn off Biden, the emerging favorite to become standard bearer of the Democratic Party is AOC. Of bartender fame.

I can certainly see why. Her constituents in Queens must be ecstatic over progress in the neighborhood. A recent headline details..."AOC's 'Red Light' district ruled by violent migrant gang taken down by Feds." Goes into how new gangs have taken over after Tren de Aragua was rounded up recently. Talks about rampant drugs, prostitution and assaults. Nice job. Presidential Timber for sure. Hope she makes a better martini.

Schumer Comes Through Again

After the horrific flooding tragedy in Texas cost over 100 lives many of whom were kids, the first thing Ole Chuck Schumer did was...was...of course, blame Trump. Then boatloads of libs jumped in. Sharpton, Stephanopoulos and the like. Blamed it on cutbacks to the National Weather Service, which was actually OVERSTAFFED in the offices where the flooding occurred.

Seems this was truly a freak of nature. River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes in the middle of the night.

Amazing isn't it how every national disaster is the White House's fault when a Republican lives there. And yet nothing stuck to Biden. Of course, a 360 investigation must occur. Miraculously, with children still missing, the Libs and LSM already have the answer. It's Trump and DOGE, of course.

I hereby invoke my rights under the Fifth Amendment...

We've all heard those magic words. The latest incident involved none other than the personal physician of former President Joseph R. Biden. In this week's testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Doctor Kevin O'Conner pled the 5th. Before you jump to the conclusion this was all about patient privilege, HIPAA or some other semi-legit grounds, guess again.

He pled the 5th when asked two questions.

First, were you ever asked to lie about President Biden's health? Second, did you ever have reason to believe he was not up to the job of President of the United States?

No answer is the answer.

Put It to Bed

20 years ago in Palm Beach County Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to prison for his conduct involving a high school girl.

Every since and especially in the last 5 years he's been in the headlines. Where did he make his money? By blackmailing celebrities? Exactly which celebrities were complicit in having sex with minors? Was Epstein being protected because celebrities were involved or he was an intelligence asset or part of Mossad? Did Epstein actually kill himself or was he taken out? Was there an "Epstein List" that names all the prominent personalities who were complicit?

Well, it looks like all the evidence may be in. While it is irrefutably clear Jeffrey Epstein was a predacious pedophile, a true American scumbag, he was not an intelligence asset, he did not gain access to millions by blackmailing celebrities, he was not murdered but DID kill himself and there is NO Epstein "list".

Boo hoo, all you lascivious, sensationalist conspiracy theorists. I know you won't stop, but, for now at least, this a dry hole. Some are now speculating Trump is hiding the List so he can leverage Dems. Yeah, right.

And yes, AG Pam Bondi did step in it by carelessly saying the List was on her desk and she was going to review personally. Big faux pas there, Pam.

In Case You Don't Think Midterms Matter...

(Which, of course, I know you don't), think again. House Minority Leader, Hakim Jeffries, said if the Dems controlled the House after the 2026 midterms, he wouldn't rule out defunding ICE. Yes, the same ICE that is carrying out the #1 most important mandate of the 2024 national election.

Weepin and Gnashing of Teeth

There will be all sort of recriminations as the Trump DOJ goes after people like Comey, Biden's Doc, Clapper, Brennan and all the other Leftwing criminals that lied to the American people for the past 10 years. The ones who perpetrated the Russia hoax, harassed Trump to the point where leftist rhetoric resulted in two assassination attempts, told us Biden was sharp as a tack and so on.

Just remember. If these people get away with these outright lies and orchestrated deceptions - THIS WILL NEVER STOP. Important liars have to go to prison. Including Hilary. And especially Comey.

Tucker Carlson is a...

jackass. Now hates Trump and thinks he invented MAGA. Been totally wrong about many things including that bombing Iran would start WW3. Attacks MAGA guests like Ted Cruz, while tossing softballs to enemies like Vladimir Putin and, recently, the lying through his teeth President of Iran. Don't forget that his series of conspiratorial misfires got him fired from Fox News. Remember the alleged Dominion Voting Machine allegation that forced Fox to pay $800M in damages?

Have a nice weekend.