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Sunday, April 6, 2025

After weeks of the mainstream media and the Democrats pushing the narrative that Trump has been a disaster for the economy, the March jobs report just blew that narrative out of the water. If this report tells us anything, it's that after just a few short months of cleaning up the disastrous Biden-Harris mess, America is back

According to the report, the U.S. economy added a whopping 228,000 jobs in March, a tremendous vindication of Trump’s America First policies—far exceeding the 140,000 jobs that economists had predicted.

Health care led the charge, adding 54,000 jobs across ambulatory care, hospitals, and nursing facilities—exactly the kind of growth that strengthens essential services. Social assistance also outperformed expectations, bringing in 24,000 new jobs, with a major boost from individual and family services.

Retail also made a comeback in March, adding 24,000 jobs as food and beverage stores rebounded. Transportation and warehousing saw a significant jump as well, adding 23,000 jobs—nearly double the sector’s average monthly gain—driven by increased demand for couriers and trucking.

Wages continued their upward trend. Average hourly earnings rose by 9 cents in March, bringing the yearly increase to 3.8%, while production and nonsupervisory workers also saw gains. Meanwhile, the average workweek held firm, suggesting employers are maintaining steady hours for their workforce.

“GREAT JOB NUMBERS, FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “IT’S ALREADY WORKING. HANK [sic] TOUGH, WE CAN’T LOSE!!!”

What makes this even more impressive? This happened while Elon Musk was busy draining the swamp through the Department of Government Efficiency. For weeks now, the narrative has been that Trump and Musk were killing jobs. Well, how ridiculous does that narrative sound now?

Naturally, left-wing media outlets tried desperately to put a negative spin on the news.

“March’s report marks another solid month of job gains and a continuation of a historic expansion of the labor market,” CNN reported. “Whether that continues, however, remains to be seen. Recent economic data has indicated that uncertainty and layoffs are on the rise amid some monumental policy shifts from the Trump administration.”

The timing of this report delivered another crushing blow to the Democrats, as it comes mere days after Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on countries that unfairly take advantage of the United States. Democrats have been predicting for weeks that Trump was going to tank the economy with his tariff threats. The March jobs report proves his America First policies are working.

Here's what really matters: After just three months of Trump's leadership, we're seeing real economic growth again. The Biden-Harris administration left us a struggling economy, and we’re starting to see things turn around.

The March jobs report is just the beginning. Remember, folks, this is what happens when you put a real business leader in charge instead of career politicians who couldn't run a lemonade stand.

The left can keep predicting economic disaster—they've been wrong about Trump's policies for eight years and counting. Meanwhile, the rest of us will keep winning as America becomes greater than ever before.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/04/04/america-is-back-march-jobs-report-crushes-expectations-n4938586

'It Consumes Every Part of a Person': The Left's Unprecedented Attack on Elon Musk Exposes Ugly Truths

'It Consumes Every Part of a Person': The Left's Unprecedented Attack on Elon Musk Exposes Ugly Truths

By Mike Miller

It didn’t have to this way. Not in the United States of America. Yet it not only is; it also exposes ugly and, shameless truths about the state of today’s radicalized left.

Perhaps even worse, Congressional Democrats, the quasi-official Democrat media, and willfully-ignorant social media keyboard jockeys not only refuse to condemn the ugly truth; many of them vociferously defend it.

This is not the America in which I grew up, and it’s damn sure not the America I want my children and grandchildren to experience in the future. The Democrat Party’s steady move to the left over the years was at first insidious; gradual, often subtle, but always with harmful effects — many if not most those harmful effects intended.

But now? If we only look back as far as the 2020 George Floyd riots (AKA: “mostly peaceful protests”), in which we saw unbridled hatred and violence, burning, looting, and the deaths of at least 25 Americans, we also saw the lengths to which the left is willing to go — which brings up back to Elon Musk.

Never mind that Musk and his companies have developed Tesla, SpaceX, STARLINK (high-speed internet around the world) PayPal, OpenAI, Twitter, and X (formerly Twitter), he is now “uniquely evil” for contributing to Republican politicians, and his seemingly unwavering support of the President Donald Trump and his administration.

ALSO READ: Watch: NYC 'Takedown' Protesters Flaunt Disturbing Signs About Violence to Teslas

NY Dem's Latest Move Is a Blatant Attempt to Ruin Tesla Solely Because of Elon Musk's Ties to Trump

Incidentally, also never mind that billionaires like George Soros and Meta Corp. (formerly Facebook Corp.) CEO Mark Zuckerberg have donated heavily to Democrat politicians and avidly supported — if not directly aided — left-wing policies.

Political commentator Jonathan Turley weighed in the left's campaign to destroy Musk:

This scorched Earth campaign [against Musk] was evident this week in New York, where democratic legislators are again moving to weaponize state laws for political purposes — just like they did with Trump.
New York state Sen. Pat Fahy (D-Albany) is pledging to bar Musk from direct sales in the state. Fahy has been a longtime advocate of electric vehicles. The move will make it more difficult not just for Musk but other EV dealers to survive, but climate change policies be damned. Fahy and her colleagues want to get at Musk in any way they ca

The bottom line is, Tesla has lost their right to promote these when they’re part of an administration that wants to go backwards. Elon Musk was handed a privilege here. No matter what we do, we’ve got to take this from Elon Musk. He’s part of an effort to go backwards.

"Take what"? And "backwards" to what?

The question is rhetorical; if the radical left (unopposed by the Democrat Party) is allowed to get its way, Musk and his empire must be utterly destroyed. Hyperbolic? Not a bit.

Fahy isn't unique, noted Turley:

*The left decries political violence like January 6th but is largely silent as Teslas are set on fire and Cybertrucks are covered with graffiti. It promote boycotts and rallies with a wink at the vandals. As the violence increases around the country, the left has held protests featuring signs like “Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy.”
* Democrats have made the defense of immigration a core issue and have objected even to the use of the term “illegal” or “unlawful” to refer to those crossing the Southern border. Yet, they have attacked Musk due to his status as a naturalized citizen. He is denounced as a “foreigner” “meddling” in our government. Some questioned Musk’s loyalty because he is a naturalized American.
* Those who insist that they believe in free speech are supporting censorship and opposing Musk for restoring free speech protections on X.
* In California, labor advocates oppose expanded operations from SpaceX that would benefit workers in the state. California Coastal Commissioner Gretchen Newsom tried to block increased SpaceX launches despite their benefit for both the California economy and national security. Because he “aggressively injected himself into the presidential race,” it does not mater that this would cost money and labor opportunities. Retaliation for “hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods” was more important.

Unbridled hatred indeed.

Having grown up in the turbulent late-60s and 70s, the mere thought of today's the truly radicalized left would have been unthinkable — and be supported by the Democrat Party, no less — yet here we are.

It's safe to say that today's left, including the Democrat Party, has lost its capacity for shame. Their bitter hatred continues to eat them alive, yet they appear to relish their own self-destruction. As Turley put it, "it consumes every part of a person."

"They are disgusted only by the refusal of others to yield to their demands, not the use of any means to achieve political ends," Turley opined.

The question is how far the left's blind hatred will take them — or ultimately destroy them.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/04/02/it-consumes-every-part-of-a-person-the-lefts-unprecedented-attack-on-elon-musk-exposes-ugly-truths-n2187427?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The FBI Admits They Knew the Hunter Biden Laptop Was Authentic From Day One

The FBI Admits They Knew the Hunter Biden Laptop Was Authentic From Day One

Matt Vespa

This story isn’t over. Heads should roll over this elaborate plot to muzzle the Hunter Biden laptop story, which the FBI knew was authentic from day one. Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag, and Catherine Herridge wrote in Public about the now-released, though heavily redacted chats, the bureau had among top officials and the agent who acted like the liaison between the FBI and Silicon Valley. The bureau had an extensive team working with social media companies to suppress certain opinions and stories while trying to influence public opinion. That operation has blessedly been obliterated. We also learned that an FBI official authenticated the laptop in October of 2020, which was when the gag order was issued (via Public):

In 2024, an FBI official admitted to House investigators that an FBI employee had inadvertently confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to Twitter on a conference call the morning of October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published a story about it.
“I recall that when the question came up, an intelligence analyst assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division said something to the effect of, ‘Yes, the laptop is real’,” testified the then-Russia Unit Chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force in a closed door transcribed interview.
[…]
The FBI provided the chat messages to congressional investigators with heavy redactions.
Some of the redactions on the chats are marked “OGC AGC,” which appears to mean that they were made by the FBI’s Office of General Counsel and Associate General Counsel.
An individual whose name is blacked out, tells Elvis M. Chan, the San Francisco-based FBI special agent tasked with interacting with social media companies, there was a “gag order” on discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop. In a separate exchange, Chan is told “official response no commen(t).”
In the chat, the FBI officials showed awareness that the laptop may have contained evidence of criminal activity.
Asked Chan, “actually what kind of case is the laptop thing? corruption? campaign financing?”
Another FBI employee responds, “CLOSE HOLD —” after which the response is redacted.
To which Chan responds, “oh crap” appearing to underscore the serious nature of the probe, which included felony tax charges. Chan adds, “ok. It ends here”.
[…]
According to the IRS whistleblowers, DOJ prosecutors blocked standard investigative protocols that might have led to Joe Biden ahead of the presidential campaign.
“There were a lot of overt investigative steps that we were not allowed to take because we had an upcoming election,” said Joseph Ziegler, the IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden probe.. “And it related to the president's son. So not even the candidate.”
The FBI chat is cryptic and the heavy redactions make it difficult to discern context. For example, an employee says to Chan that “[redacted] has a gag order from [redacted]... got checked by [redacted] had to backtrack - sorry!”
[…]
Shapley added, “It was misinformation to try to make something else look like misinformation.”
The IRS whistleblowers [Gary Shapley and Joseph Zeigler], who were recently elevated to IRS headquarters to support badly needed cultural change at the Agency, said federal investigators “corroborated” early in the case that ‘The Big Guy’ on Hunter Biden’s laptop was then candidate Joe Biden.
[…]
Speaking exclusively to Catherine Herridge Reports after Hunter Biden’s guilty plea to felony tax charges last fall, the IRS whistleblowers said the FBI, IRS, and Justice Department knew immediately the Hunter Biden laptop was real.

And yet, Democrats want us to believe the opposite, and still do despite the evidence that their little scheme got busted. Their clowns at the FBI got exposed, their operatives in the intelligence community burned, and their allies in the liberal media self-immolated the last shred of their credibility. It’s over. The Department of Justice knew this damning story about Joe and Hunter Biden was real, and the powers that be, with the media’s help, moved to suffocate the story. They failed. It might have taken months for them to catch up, but with Joe Biden still president and this laptop story still floating around, it was clear that the device wasn’t Russian disinformation.

The FBI and DOJ need an overhaul, and we have Kash Patel and Pam Bondi leading that effort, respectively. This is the swamp, folks. And in most cases, you can see why the feds always win and crush their opposition. You need a heavyweight fighter like Trump to bust this up.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/04/03/the-fbi-admits-they-knew-the-hunter-biden-laptop-was-authentic-from-day-one-n2654878?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

This Private Spaceflight Is a Very Big Deal

This Private Spaceflight Is a Very Big Deal

Stephen Green

"...To boldly go where no man has gone before" launched every episode of Star Trek that I watched in reruns as a kid, but Monday night I watched as two men and two women did it for real aboard a Crew Dragon spaceship that put human beings into a polar orbit for the first time ever.

This is a bigger deal than you might think.

Fram2 is captained and financed by crypto billionaire Chun Wang and his hand-picked crew, consisting of cinematographer Jannicke Mikkelsen, polar scientist Rabea Rogge, and explorer Eric Philips. None are former fighter pilots, NASA astronauts, or government employees of any kind. All show the kind of daring that would make Captain James T. Kirk proud.

Even dedicated space buffs were a bit taken aback when news of Fram2 reminded us that human beings had never flown a polar orbit before. You might wonder why, but Fram2's five-day mission has a stellar rationale.

Following Monday's successful launch and orbital insertion aboard a spaceship named Resilience, not Enterprise — alas! — they're conducting nearly two dozen experiments, including the first human X-rays in space. The crew will have plenty to keep them busy, but looking further forward, nothing might be more important than potentially deadly Van Allen Belt radiation. Apollo missions missed the worst of it by transiting quickly through the Belt, but orbital missions pass through it multiple times each day. Fram2 won't fly through the worst parts of the Van Allen Belt — just enough to gather vital data.

A cynic might say that Fram2 is nothing more than a billionaire's risky ego trip, but that science package will teach valuable lessons in how to shield crews outward bound for Mars. It's a long voyage, and getting there won't be easy.

When President John F. Kennedy announced his intention of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth," he said that America chooses to do these things, "not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

The commercialization of space, primarily so far by SpaceX, hasn't made getting to orbit any less audacious — it's "merely" much more routine. But commercialization has opened up space to a new mindset: "We do these things not because they are easy, but because we can."

All it takes is a little imagination, a lot of courage, and an estimated quarter of a billion dollars or so. It wasn't so long ago that no amount of money in the world could buy anyone a trip to orbit like Fram2, which comes just on the heels of the high-flying Polaris Dawn mission, another purely commercial effort.

Today, private spaceflights are for billionaires — or mere multimillionaires (and friends of Jeff Bezos) willing to settle for a suborbital joyride aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. It won't be long before millionaires will enjoy short stays aboard luxury space stations in low Earth orbit, just like the ISS but much more comfy. After that, maybe a brief "spacation" won't cost much more than a trip to Disney World.

The thing about the future is that it always arrives sooner than you think. Fram2 brings Star Trek's 23rd century that much closer.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/04/02/this-private-spaceflight-is-a-very-big-deal-n4938519?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Why We Should Be Very Angry About the Tariffs — and Why Trump Is Right Again

Why We Should Be Very Angry About the Tariffs — and Why Trump Is Right Again

Kevin McCullough

On April 2nd, President Donald J. Trump did something no other modern president has had the spine to do. He declared “Liberation Day” and slapped sweeping tariffs on the very nations that have been gutting the American economy for decades. A 10 percent universal tariff across all imports. Targeted, punitive tariffs up to 34 percent on bad actors like China. And guess what? We should be furious—not at Trump—but at the spineless presidents before him who let things get this bad in the first place.

Let’s be clear: these tariffs didn’t start a trade war. They responded to one.

For decades, our so-called allies and trading partners have been gleefully waging economic warfare on the United States, with the full permission — no, the encouragement — of prior administrations. China flooded our markets with cheap steel, violating trade norms and collapsing American mills. The European Union protected its own industries while slapping barriers on ours. Japan, Taiwan, and others enjoyed one-sided access to our consumers while shielding their own markets with layers of red tape and tariffs.

And what did our leaders do in response? They looked the other way. Smiled. Shook hands. Signed one-sided trade deals. Sold us out. They told us it was for the “global good,” for “peace,” for “prosperity.” But the only people prospering were in Beijing, Brussels, and Tokyo. In small-town Ohio, Detroit, and western Pennsylvania, all we got were pink slips and boarded-up factories.

Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are long overdue justice. They’re a correction to a rigged game that’s been hurting American businesses, workers, and families for far too long.

Let’s talk steel and aluminum. In 2018, President Trump placed a 25 percent tariff on foreign steel and 10 percent on aluminum to push back against dumping and reclaim our national security edge. That wasn’t a rash decision — it was backed by years of data showing our dependence on foreign metals made us vulnerable. Yet in that time, D.C. elites told us to let it happen. That “free trade” meant letting foreign nations cheat while we played by the rules.

Even our farmers haven’t been spared. Take California’s almond growers — part of a $23.6 billion ag export economy. Under previous administrations, they were hung out to dry as countries like China and India retaliated against our lack of backbone by imposing their own crushing tariffs. Instead of defending our farmers, those in power shrugged and said it was the cost of doing business in a “global economy.”

It’s nonsense. And it’s unforgivable.

Now, the hand-wringers in the media — and predictably, the Biden administration holdovers — are moaning that these tariffs could raise consumer prices. That they could cause friction. That they might prompt retaliation.

Good.

Let them squirm.

Because the goal here isn’t to make life easy for globalist bureaucrats. It’s to bring fairness back to American trade. To restore dignity to American work. And to put America first — unapologetically.

Treasury Secretary Bessent was right to warn other nations not to retaliate. The message is simple: this isn’t about starting fights, it’s about ending decades of economic surrender. For too long, the U.S. has subsidized the success of other nations while they’ve exploited our openness. That ends now.

And let’s talk about the bigger picture. These tariffs aren’t just about economics — they’re about sovereignty and national security. COVID-19 exposed what happens when America offshores everything from microchips to medicine. We were left scrambling. Now, with these tariffs, we have a shot at rebuilding critical industries here at home.

We’ve heard for years that American manufacturing is a relic of the past. That we should get used to “service sector” jobs. That we can just code apps and order stuff from China. But what happens when China turns off the tap? What happens when global supply chains buckle?

We need American factories. We need American steel. We need Americans building things again.

Tariffs may cause short-term adjustments, but they pave the way for long-term independence. And that’s worth every penny.

The truth is, these tariffs are a moral issue. When we allow foreign governments to manipulate currency, exploit labor, and dump products in our markets, we’re enabling injustice. And when our own leaders look the other way, they’re complicit.

President Trump isn’t just fixing trade — he’s exposing the rot. He’s showing us how many American politicians were more loyal to global think tanks than to the people who elected them.

And that’s what really stings the establishment.

Because Trump — like Reagan before him — puts the American people first. Not in rhetoric. Not in focus-grouped slogans. But in action. Bold, unapologetic, unmistakable action.

Where Reagan challenged the Soviets, Trump is challenging a corrupt globalist system. And just like Reagan was right then, Trump is right now.

If you’re not angry about these tariffs, you’re not paying attention. We should be furious — that it took this long to get here. Furious at presidents who smiled while our industries died. Furious at politicians who used middle America as a bargaining chip for Davos clout.

But thanks to Trump, the tide is turning.

He may be the only president since Reagan who’s had the courage to stare down the world and say, “You will not take advantage of America anymore.”

And for that, every American — every farmer, every factory worker, every small business owner — should be standing and cheering.

Because it’s about time someone stood up for us. Shame on the ones who didn’t. And thank God for the one who finally did.