‘Really Hard Thing To Spin Out Of’:
Dem Strategist Blames Obama, Bernie Sanders
For Hurting Party’s Blue-Collar Image
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 3/17/2025 4:54:51 PM
Democratic strategist Basil Smikle on Monday blamed former President Barack Obama and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for weakening the party’s brand as a champion of working-class Americans. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten in September highlighted how strongly former President Donald Trump was performing with “working-class voters,” a demographic that traditionally leans Democratic. Smikle, on “Chris Jansing Reports,” argued that both Obama and Sanders contributed to a long-term perception that the party does not prioritize the working class — without even mentioning Trump.
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The Trump administration has directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end language translation services for people calling for information about their immigration or employment status or their benefits.
In keeping with his March 1 order making English the official language of the United States, the president has directed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to cancel a contract with a translation service provider, according to Government Executive magazine.
Judge says dismantling of USAID was unconstitutional,
orders Musk to restore access for employees 37 replies
orders Musk to restore access for employees 37 replies
Elon Musk's attempt to unilaterally dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the United States Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ordered Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to immediately give USAID employees access to their "email, payment, security notification, and all other electronic systems," and ordered a pause on any efforts to shut down USAID.
Judge Chuang wrote that Musk's takeover "usurped the authority of the public's elected representatives in Congress to make decisions on whether, when, and how to eliminate a federal government agency, and of Officers of the United States duly appointed under the Constitution
Biden Rural Broadband Guru Who Accomplished
Nothing Quits Because Trump Might Make Progress 9 replies
Nothing Quits Because Trump Might Make Progress 9 replies
The Biden appointee who headed a $42.5 billion program to provide broadband internet access in rural America, which hooked up exactly ZERO homes in three years, has quit in a huff. Democrat apparatchik Evan Feinman resigned Sunday and left behind a blistering, counterfactual, and self-serving letter blaming Elon Musk, “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington.”
Apparently, Feinman's departure was preciptiated by Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick's intention to change the focus of the program from laying fiber optic cable to providing rural internet service,
Considering the massive changes that Donald Trump is bringing to D.C. and the wrecking ball applied to much of the government bureaucracy in his first few months in office, the president's actions on undoing the Biden administration's whole-of-government attacks on gun owners and the firearms industry have been relatively modest, but there's a sign that may be starting to change.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's declaration of gun violence as a "public health crisis" has been wiped rom the website of the Department of Health and Human Services; a move the White House said is a direct result of the president's executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to
The Pentagon has declared the deployment of a Navy warship to enhance security measures along the U.S. Southern border.
Navy warship USS Gravely was deployed to operate in U.S. and international waters on Saturday, assisting “with border security operations.”
“USS Gravely departed from Naval Weapons Station York, [Virginia], for a scheduled deployment to the Gulf of America,” stated Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell.
“It’s not only vital for the United States to have control of our border via land. It’s equally important to control our territorial waters, and this deployment directly supports U.S. Northern Command’s mission to protect our sovereignty,” he added.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reported that over 12 million people 120-years-old and older were found to still be listed in the U.S. Social Security database.
On Tuesday, DOGE posted an update on their website, revealing that out of over 12 million individuals aged 120 and up in their records, approximately 3.2 million have now been classified as deceased.
“For the past two weeks, @SocialSecurity has begun a major cleanup of their records,” the announcement said. “Approximately 3.2 million number holders, all listed age 120+, have now been marked as deceased. More work still to be done.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ridiculed Americans who dare to suggest that people should be allowed to keep what they earn, promising that government was there to stop them from doing so.
Schumer, who made an appearance Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” spent much of the broadcast on his heels playing defense as the hosts grilled him over his last-minute support for the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed Friday and will fund the federal government through September.
During one segment, however, he paused to mock American conservatives and business owners who have the audacity to argue that they should be able to keep what they’ve earned and operate the businesses
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst asked the Department of Defense (DOD) on Tuesday to investigate a U.S. defense contractor owned by an individual with extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence and influence agencies, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Ernst’s letter urges DOD to audit “and, if necessary, suspend or cancel all contracts” with New York-based S&L Aerospace Metals LLC, which has received approximately $60 million in defense contracts and subcontracts to produce fighter jet, attack helicopter and guided missile launcher parts. The letter cites a February 2025 DCNF investigation finding that Chinese government and state media reports had identified S&L’s CEO
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“Courts all over the country rely on representations from the government and expect them to be correct,” Boasberg chided at the time.
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A Republican lawmaker is demanding that the man responsible for leaking President Donald Trump’s tax returns in 2019 testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
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The disgraced, far-left Associated Press’s latest lying piece of fake news involves spreading the blatant falsehood that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard described President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very good friends.”
There is just one problem: she did not say that.
Naturally, it was only after this lie, in the form of a screaming headline, had been blasted all over the world, that the AP retracted its lie.
If I may, I’d liked to suggest to the AP that they spend less time cry-babying about not gaining access to certain White House events and more time NOT lying.
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Judge says dismantling of USAID was unconstitutional,
orders Musk to restore access for employees 37 replies
orders Musk to restore access for employees 37 replies
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Sacré bleu! Talk about a Napoleon complex.
Some stories don’t require a lengthy set-up. They speak for themselves (and today, they’re parlez-vous-ing exclusively in French):
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"Give us back the Statue of Liberty", centre-left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement.
"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" he told cheering supporters.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts scolded President Trump Tuesday for demanding that a federal judge who blocked the swift deportation of Venezeulan gang members be impeached.
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Talk about karma!
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Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly gets rid of his
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Chevy Tahoe truck 25 replies
electric Tesla Model X, buys gas-powered
Chevy Tahoe truck 25 replies
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Crockett responded
Trump strips Hunter and Ashley Biden of
Secret Service protection ‘effective immediately’ 24 replies
Secret Service protection ‘effective immediately’ 24 replies
President Trump revoked Hunter and Ashley Biden’s Secret Service security detail on Monday after the former first son, surrounded by more than a dozen agents, was spotted on an “ultra-luxurious” getaway in South Africa when he was due for a deposition in court.
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous!”
“He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned,”
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Soon after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act
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“Don’t tell me it’s about the rights of women’s sports,” Rapinoe railed. “That is totally disingenuous to say that.”
The 40-year-old went on to claim that Trump biological men competing against women “isn’t an issue,”
Ceasefire over as Israel strikes Gaza
after Hamas refused to release hostages,
officials say 21 replies
after Hamas refused to release hostages,
officials say 21 replies
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