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Trump copies a Clinton move from 1995. Not so "politically correct" nowadays....

SF thinks this would fall under the category of "Bad Idea" for the cartels.......(IMHO - considering who the border "Czar" is today in place of VP Harris in the previous administration) https://nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/mexican-cartels-order-suicide-drone-attacks-on-border-patrol/ Mexican drug cartels plan attacks on Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives to fight US crackdown Mexican drug cartels are ordering their members to attack US Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives in a desperate bid to thwart the crackdown at the border, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post. The alert, which cites social media posts and other sources, cautions federal agents “to remain cognizant of their surroundings at all times” in the face of the new threat. “On February 1, 2025, the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center (EPT-IOC) received information advising that Mexican cartel leaders have authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to be used against US Border Patrol agents and US military personal currently working along the border with Mexico,” the internal memo titled “Officer Safety Alert” said. “It is recommended that all US Border Patrol agents and DoD personnel working along the border report any sighting of drones to their respective leadership staff and the EPT-IOC.” Federal agents working the border are also advised to “carry proper equipment” at all times, including first aid kids, tourniquets and body armor. The memo also notes that rifles “should be readily available.” News Nation, which first revealed the memo, also reported that posts on TikTok and other social media sites by the cartels have advised illegal migrants to “spit and urinate” in ICE agents’ food and defecate in their vehicles. Other posts have encouraged assassins to target agents. The new threat from narcotraffickers south of the border comes amid a major crackdown on illegal immigrants crossing into the US under President Trump. Just days after taking office, Trump vowed to send 10,000 US troops to help secure the border, while his border czar Tom Homan has launched deportation raids across the country targeting migrant criminals. Mexican cartel bosses, who recognize the stepped-up US presence at the border will cut deep into their drug and human trafficking operations, have turned things up a notch, the leaked memo showed.

Well, guess what - This is what happens if you are the Commandant of the USCG and you don't follow direct orders from the CIC (Commander in Chief) when ordered to aid in border control (The USCG is under the DHS) YOU GET FIRED and replaced by someone that follows orders. That is how the US military works BTW. The acting Commandant is now mobilizing. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-fires-coast-guard-commandant-linda-fagan/ https://maritime-executive.com/article/uscg-surges-assets-to-border-protection-following-trump-s-orders

Fair question. No - not booted from anything - my facebook account is populated with many of my business associates and I keep it very neutral there for the reason that lefties get offended pretty easily. It's kinda discouraging that it seems only Muda and myself usually post here when I remember just a few years ago this site was well populated. I stumbled on to the OOB many years ago, and I just haven't left. Yet..... Muda on the other hand.......?

President Elect Biden warning to Former President Trump in 2000 - "Don't issue "preemptive pardons" to your family or others" because he's concerned about "blah-Blah-blah" - precedence, stuff like that ...... President Biden in 2025 - Never mind what I said in 2020.......This guy is gonna come after all of us for what we did to him and his family...... https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/us-news/biden-warned-against-trump-preemptively-pardoning-family-after-2020-election/ Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons to family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020 — before he went on to pardon his own son and siblings while doling out the highest number of presidential pardons and commutations in US history. In a December 2020 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Biden warned against then-outgoing President Trump issuing preemptive pardons to his adult children, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and possibly even one for himself before the Democrat’s Department of Justice took over. “It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks (at) us as a nation of laws and justice,” Biden told Tapper during the joint interview with then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. That concern, however, was short-lived, with the ex-commander-in-chief on Monday announcing the unprecedented decision to grant blanket, preemptive pardons to his siblings and their spouses, claiming his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.” “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said.

Dr. Fauci can thank his lucky stars Former President Biden was able to somehow convince us that he was able to legally get more votes than any other President in the history of the United States..... What do you expect from the former President who knows how guilty his family is? Even his so-called allies have started using the Biden crime syndicate moniker. But by doing this, he can blame it on Trump. He is hoping to stop the investigations that are sure to come. Former President Biden is the epitome of what comes from 50 years of being a slimy well connected and experienced Senator. He showed he had no fear of using "lawfare" to eliminate his political opponent. The Democrat Party made him a scapegoat.

Well - I guess nothing says "Trust the Science" like a blanket pardon from (former) President Biden.....

So now that the Gulf of Mexico is being renamed Gulf of America, SF has a bunch of collector's item maps that still read Gulf of Mexico. Gonna hang on to those dudes, they gonna be worth a whole bunch.....🤣

In other words - "Get the F out of DC". https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/us-news/trump-to-suspend-security-clearances-of-51-former-cia-contractors-who-falsely-implied-hunter-biden-laptop-was-russian-fake/ Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake President-elect Donald Trump, on Day 1, plans to suspend security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed reporting tied to Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election, according to a report. Trump will repeal the clearances of the so-called “Spies Who Lie” as part of a flurry of executive orders he’s expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office, Fox News reported, citing a senior administration official familiar with the matter.

And with this final middle finger gesture to the country by President Biden, Former President Carter can RIP knowing he passed THE worst President in history moniker on to this guy. https://nypost.com/2025/01/20/us-news/biden-pardons-fauci-milley-and-jan-6-committee-staffers-in-final-hours-of-presidency/ Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and Jan. 6 committee staffers in final hours of presidency

The official portrait of 47......Looks a little ticked..... https://nypost.com/2025/01/16/us-news/trump-vance-official-portraits-released-ahead-of-inauguration-day/

"Just a bit outside!" "Mr. Baseball" - Bob Uecker at 90. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43439250/beloved-brewers-broadcaster-bob-uecker-dies-age-90 MILWAUKEE -- Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who, after a short playing career, earned the moniker "Mr. Baseball" and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90. The team announced Uecker died Thursday morning, calling it "one of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers history." In a statement released by the club, Uecker's family said he had "faced a private battle with small cell lung cancer" since early 2023. "Even in the face of this challenge, his enthusiasm for life was always present, never allowing his spirit to falter," the family said.

Welp - I guess so......

A prime illustration of the dumbassery of California liberals....... 1) An effort to increase fire safety in 2019 was halted because of an "endangered" shrub. 2) The LADWP was fined over $2 million after the shrub was trampled. 3) The fires in SOCAL right now have mostly burnt the shrubs anyway. 4) Actually the shrubs need wildfires to sprout new growth........ https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/california-bureaucrats-halted-pacific-palisades-fire-safety-project-to-save-endangered-shrub/ California’s eco bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in California that is coming under scrutiny following the devastating outbreak of the Palisades Fire — the most devastating blaze in Los Angeles history, which has consumed the very same area. In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) began replacing nearly 100-year-old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park, when the project was halted within days by conservationists outraged that federally endangered Braunton’s milkvetch plants had been trampled during the process. The goal of the project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades area by replacing the wooden poles with steel, widening fire-access lanes in the area, and installing wind and fire-resistant power lines — all after the area was identified as having an “elevated fire risk,” according to the LA Times. “This project will help ensure power reliability and safety, while helping reduce wildfire threats,” the LADWP said at the time. “These wooden poles were installed between 1933 and 1955 and are now past their useful service life.” But, after an amateur botanist hiking through the park during the work saw the harm done to some of the park’s Braunton’s milkvetch — a flowered shrub with only a few thousand specimens remaining in the wild — and complained, the project was completely halted, Courthouse News Service reported. Instead of fire-hardening the park, the city — which the state said had undertaken the work without proper permitting — ended up paying $2 million in fines and was ordered by the California Coastal Commission to reverse the whole project and replant the rare herb.That work saved about 200 Braunton’s milkvetch plants — almost all of which have now likely been torched in the wildfires that consumed Topanga Canyon, along with nearly 24,000 acres of some of LA’s most sought-after real estate. It was not clear whether the steel poles were ever installed. The good news for the milkvetch, however, is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub. 3 In the week of chaos that has claimed at least 24 lives, California and LA leadership have faced scrutiny over their approach to wildfire safety verses conservation — most notably from President-elect Donald Trump, who accused Gov. Gavin Newsom of prioritizing the wellbeing of “worthless fish” over Californian’s safety. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt… but didn’t care about the people of California,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, accusing Newsom of blocking his 2020 federal order to divert water runoff from northern California to southern reservoirs. That order was halted days after Trump issued it, with Newsom responding to criticism from conservationists who argued it would harm the endangered minnow-like fish and other native fish. Delta smelt, once an important part of the local California ecosystem, are now effectively extinct — meaning they still exist, but their numbers are so few that they no longer have any impact on their environment. In the years since Newsom sued to block Trump’s order the two politicians have bickered back and forth over California water-access, with Trump vowing to block wildfire aid to the state as recently as September if the governor doesn’t give in. Newsom, in response, called Trump’s accusations “pure fiction.” “The Governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” a spokesperson previously told The Post. But California’s water supplies have been scrutinized amidst the fires — especially after some fire hydrants in the city ran dry as firefighters battled the flames, and the pressure for what water they had was often low. Most notably, the county-run Santa Ynez Reservoir — which is right in the heart of Pacific Palisades, and can hold 117 million gallons — was empty when the fires broke out last week, and has been out of commission since around February 2024. Gov. Newsom, however, told NBC News the state’s reservoirs in southern California were all “completely full” when the fires started. Last week the governor announced a probe into why the reservoir was empty. Exactly what sparked the fires remains under investigation, but they are believed to have begun not far from Topanga State Park on a trail in the neighboring Temescal Gateway Park. Neither the LADWP nor the California Coastal Commission responded to request for comment.