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#1 - ‘No Kings’ Crowd Gets Wrecked by One Brutally Honest Media Column — by Thomas LaDuke

The lady who penned this piece goes right for the jugular.

As protesters gather for "No Kings" gatherings, rallies and even a First Amendment concert in New York City on President Donald Trump's 80th birthday, I can't help but snicker. If Trump is acting like a king, he's doing a lousy job of it.

Hot diggity dog.

I really can't agree with that more.

Democrats and others who have opposed his policies have had no issue challenging Trump and those policies in court. While I don't have total figures yet because Donald Trump still has a lot of his second term presidency to go, it seems every couple of days, he is having a lawsuit filed against something his administration is attempting to do.

Sure doesn't seem like he is a king to me — a man with overwhelming authority.

Mostly because he is not.

#2 - JD Vance Ventures Onto 'The View,' Serves Up an Unforgettable Schooling — by Nick Arama

He also put down their "inflation" take. The problem, of course, is media never puts anything in context, which is why they've been twisting Trump for more than ten years. 

Behar's comment is also another example of how wrong liberal media can be on facts. While there's talk in Congress about additional spending, the Trump plan for the ballroom was from private donations, which would create much-needed space that we would have in perpetuity, and he probably won't even get to use it. The Reflecting Pool was repaired with National Park Service (NPS) money, which is what the money is supposed to be used for — maintenance on NPS properties. The UFC event was paid for by the UFC, except for security. But Joy doesn't seem to know (or care) about any of that. 

Vance explained one of the big subjects that the left constantly gets wrong, a subject on which the Trump team has had great success — border security and immigration enforcement. Sunny Hostin pushed the claim that (as to illegals) the "majority are not criminals" and you're "separating them from their families."

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#3 - Josh Hawley on Warpath After Baseball Players Targeted, and MLB Won't Like What May Be Coming Next — by Sister Toldjah

From what I understand, the MLB's attendance has been bouncing back over the last four years after previously seeing declines.  They are not going to like Hawley's strong insinuation that he's about to haul them into a Senate committee hearing, especially with America 250 celebrations already underway.

There's an old saying about baseball being "as American as apple pie," and you can bet your sweet bippy that the MLB is trying to figure its way out of a seemingly no-win situation to avoid any more bad publicity: fauxfend the LGBTQ Alphabet Mafia by changing the "rule" about handwritten/affixed personal messages or further anger a very ticked off United States senator by standing by their warning? Decisions, decisions.

#4 - New: Desperate Fauci Emailed Biden for Pardon on Inauguration Morning — by Ward Clark

That's the interesting part: Dr. Fauci's lawyers seemed pretty determined, even desperate, to get that pardon signed and accepted before Donald Trump walked back into the Oval Office.

Now, as we know, that pardon power is pretty near absolute, and cannot be revoked. That's by design.

It's the autopen angle that's troubling. The Department of Justice's Pardon Attorney made a point of mentioning that. Autopen signatures have, in the past, generally been used for ceremonial documents, letters of recognition, and so forth. Not for official documents with the force of law, like pardons. 

This makes it unclear whether Joe Biden, in the last hours of his presidency, even knew these pardons were being signed in his name; but then, there was almost certainly a lot that Joe Biden didn't know what was going on, so long as he got his afternoon pudding cup and his nap.

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#5 - Clueless Joe: Biden Brags to Jay Leno About How He Tried to Destroy Energy Independence and Weaken the US — by Bob Hoge

Here’s the problem, Einstein (I mean, Joe) — you may have attempted to kneecap our energy independence, but you didn’t invent a replacement technology. Sure, “green energy” advances have progressed, but the tech is nowhere near as efficient, cost-effective, and reliable as good old fossil fuels, as our Ward Clark has documented relentlessly.

It’s like cutting off the hose, but forgetting to provide an alternative source of water. Without water, everything dies. Without energy, economies wither (and/or end up having to depend on foreign powers — often our enemies).

Laugh all you want, Joe, but it’s decisions like these that thankfully have you trading jokes on a California highway with Jay Leno and not making decisions in the Oval Office.

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