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Greenland and Gulf of America only start to move the needle if we're six months in, inflation is on the rise, and he's still babbling about this shit instead of getting prices down like he promised it would be stunningly easy to do.
I'll also say that the AP stuff is a really big deal for the folks on the Left because it's yet another shot at the crumbling legacy media. The Left, for decades, relied on institutions like the legacy media, "culture" and academia to prop up their ideas. Now that the Rs have essentially negated legacy media (no more media bias claims from me because it just doesn't matter anymore) and, to my shock, become the "cooler" party (take that you fucking scolding prudes), the Left has lost giant advantages and is now competing much more fairly in the Marketplace of Ideas. And, losing to....DJT.
Higher Education you can't really unwind, but what you can do is punish the idiocy that comes out of it. And without control of the Media to amplify and push that bullshit -- but instead to subject it to the marketplace of ideas -- that's being neutered, too.
We have about as a fair a fight as we've had since FDR took over. And it kills the fucking Progs and the Elites. And shitting on the grossly self-important AP is a giant reminder of where we are and how much they've lost.
Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]? Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
Greenland and Gulf of America only start to move the needle if we're six months in, inflation is on the rise, and he's still babbling about this shit instead of getting prices down like he promised it would be stunningly easy to do.
He's in his honeymoon period
Right. He's gotsa to win on the economy. Or he fails. Bigly.
I mean, for me, he's already given us Remain, began an full-on assault against DEI and scored a modest success with Panama. The performative Mexico/Canada crap was nonsense. And I completely disagree with letting Adams off the hook. And I generally support the reduction of government but it's been at or over the Constitutional line -- which, as a process guy, i'm not a fan of, but, you know -- it's not unheard of (see The Chairman re eviction and student loans). So, the process is, at points, dubious -- and, more pragmatically, w/o legislative action, it's durability is limited.
Total mixed bag for me. As I expected.
But, yes -- the economy is it.
Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]? Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
Ironically the more successful he is at "sealing" the border the less critical that issue will be with voters over time.
I do think his interest in Canada or Greenland is legit even if voters don't care (despite his repeated insistence Canada has nothing and makes nothing we want when it comes to trade).
Yeah, with DJT and his words, I sort of take a wait and see approach. He says so much that is garbage. I dunno.
I definitely think he has an interest in Greenland. Look, if Denmark was only asking $10M then that's an objectively undeniable YES. So, I do mean it when I say I'm interested but it is, as with most things -- cost-dependent.
Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]? Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
I'm curious if Greenland's supposed mineral wealth would make it worthwhile or not. We're a much bigger target than Denmark is so we would probably have to provide much greater security than they currently do. And it's a large place (300k more square miles than Alaska) and a hostile environment. There's barely more than 50,000 people and they're 90% Inuit, not Danish.
That's putting aside the desires of the people themselves. By most things I read, they are as enthusiastic for joining the US as Canadians are.
On the AP ban, I think it's true most people couldn't care less.
But reading comments today and I think there is a 1st Amendment case there. No one has a constitutional right to be part of the press pool on Air Force One. Sure. But they previously HAD that privilege and the White House explicitly told them they were being kicked off until they adopt the White House's preferred terminology. Write what we tell you to write or you'll be punished.
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