Diaper Diplomacy, 1 April 2026

US Central Command, 1 April 2026

Does Anyone Win

… ICE reforms they had been demanding, but can tell their base they held the line on not funding ICE & CBP and have now established a precedent that ICE and CBP can be separated out.

Republicans were unable to fund ICE & CBP through appropriations after negotiations w/ Senate Dems collapsed, so they will now have to turn to the complicated budget reconciliation process, which will require only a simple majority of 51 votes in the Senate to pass. However, the process could take months, and it's not a guarantee. Trump wants the bill on his desk by June 1st.

All of this as DHS has been unfunded for almost 50 days and a lot of people are hurting in the process.

Does anyone win?

… directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process.

We appreciate that Senator Graham and the Senate Budget Committee have already initiated the process of developing a budget resolution that will ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump Administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies.

We operated under a belief that while our country is in the midst of an international armed conflict, Democrats might finally come to their senses and understand that defunding our homeland security agencies is beyond reckless and very dangerous. While we hoped they would accept the 60-day CR to fund the Department entirely so that bipartisan negotiations could continue, it is now abundantly clear that Democrats place allegiance to their radical left-wing base above all else — including their own power of the purse — which means open borders and protecting criminal illegal aliens. That is not acceptable to Republicans in Congress, nor is it to the American people. We cannot allow Democrats to any longer put the safety of the American public at risk through their open border policies, so we are taking that off the table.

In following this two-track approach, the Republican Congress will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited. In return, Democrats will once again demonstrate to the American people their support for open borders and keeping criminal illegal immigrants in America.

The Whole World Is Watching

Tonight at 6:24 P.M. EST, for the first time in over 50 YEARS, America is going back to the Moon! Artemis II, among the most powerful rockets ever built, is launching our Brave Astronauts farther into Deep Space than any human has EVER gone. We are WINNING, in Space, on Earth, and everywhere in between — Economically, Militarily, and now, BEYOND THE STARS. Nobody comes close! America doesn’t just compete, we DOMINATE, and the whole World is watching. God bless our incredible Astronauts, God bless NASA, and God bless the Greatest Nation ever to exist, the United States of America!

Donald J Trump

The Only Country

We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow “Birthright” Citizenship!

Donald J Trump

… them out — have a legal right to birth American Citizens is the gravest and most preposterous of all constitutional abominations.

… back to Beijing, never to return.

That child holds an American passport.

That child never sets foot here again.

Then eighteen years pass.

They vote. From Beijing. By mail.

We never agreed to that.

… one of many reasons why the Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship matters.

Happy Passover

A Lifelong Legislature of Lawyers Who Prefer the Robe to the Campaign Trial

… most definitely not what happens.

We do not actually have a supreme court, we have a lifelong legislature of lawyers who prefer the robe to the campaign trial.

One-third of the court makes decisions based entirely on what is best for the Democrat party and never wavers from that mission. Only two of the nine justices seem to have any consistent interest in determining a given law’s text and original meaning.

Of the remaining four, the chief justice thinks he’s a thermometer whose job is take to the temperature of the country and then make decisions based on whether they’ll make people like him. The former professor seems to think she’s still writing academic papers. The former Western judge is occasionally reliable when he’s not claiming boys can become girls or fan-girling over Indian treaties. The final justice seems to be saddled with the horrifying task of corralling the two rudderless and emotional basket cases into something resembling coherence.

And if that weren’t horrifying enough, let me comfort you with the observation that this collection of Democrat party operatives, weepy thermometers, wannabe legislators, and only sometimes actual lawyers is actually the least dysfunctional of the three federal branches of government.

Happy Wednesday!

Invitation to Joint Meeting of Congress

Eric Swalwell, 1 April 2026

… stupid, narcissistic idiot to fall for that."

"Anybody who would fall for her honeypot is just a joke."

The President of the Islamic Regime in Iran