HALF-FULL REPORT 04/18/25
Welcome to the Good Friday HFR. This is a solemn day – not of celebration for that comes overmorrow on Easter Sunday, but the opportunity for Christians across the world to reflect upon the deep significance of what Christianity means to their lives, and to recommit themselves to it. For TTPers, may you all have a most meaningful Good Friday.
I’ve been away from the HFR for a long time – my last HFR was on February 28, and now it’s April 18. There is simply no way I can adequately thank Mike Ryan enough for his six straight HFRs while I was in Africa and Bhutan. Especially since each was so exceptionally profound, phenomenal, even awe-inspiring.
The same goes for the TTP Team – Miko, Mellie, Deuce, Joel, Greg & Michelle – who, along with Mike, made sure TTP remained superlative over the last six weeks. I am so very appreciative to you all.
So here we go – where do we start? Well, how about the Dems picking the absolutely stupidest, most ludicrously counter-productive and self-destructive hill for their party to die on?
It’s not just the racist lunatics in the party like Jasmine Crockett, but normally more sane folks like Carville who have simply lost their minds. What are we talking about? This sums it:
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NY Post, Thursday, April 17
On August 5, 2023, mother of 5 Rachel Morin, was brutally raped and murdered on a hiking trail near her Maryland home. The details eof her rape-murder were horrific. On Monday (4/14), via incontrovertible DNA and other convincing evidence, Salvadoran illegal alien Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree rape and first-degree murder after one hour of jury deliberation.
Was there the slightest sympathy or condolences shown by Maryland’s Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen to Rachel’s heartbroken mother Patty Morin? Of course not. Hollen couldn’t be bothered, busy having margaritas with deported illegal alien and MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Why? Because getting criminal illegal aliens whom Trump has deported back to their home countries returned back to the US is now the Number One Single Most Important Issue for the Democrat Party: Key Democrat Strategist James Carville: Bringing El Salvadoran National Abrego Garcia to U.S. Should Be at Top of Democrats’ Agenda.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt invited Rachel’s mother Patty to speak at the White House briefing on Wednesday (4/16). After a gut-wrenching graphic description of what Hernandez did to her daughter, she asked of Democrats like Hollen: “Whose side are you on? American citizens and your American constituents or illegal alien criminals and terrorist gang members?”
The White House Press Corps was cowed into silence, with no questions asked of her. For they know, as do we all, the answer: The Dems have chosen illegal alien criminals over their fellow Americans as their hill to die on. And die they will.
Yesterday (4/17), CNN Data Analyst Harry Enten reported the results of the latest CNN-Washington Post poll: CNN’s Harry Enten Finds Most Voters Want ALL Illegal Immigrants Deported: ‘Americans Like Where We’re Going’ Under Trump. 56% of all voters want all illegals booted out, not just proven bad guys.
And going straight up against that is now the Dems’ #1 issue? Some really serious malfunction has shut down the prefrontal cortex in Democrat brains. Well, hallelujah! Good riddance. We may very well not have the Democrat Party to kick around for much longer.
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Here’s the word to add to your vocabulary this week: Kritocracy (cry-tock-rah-see). It means a tyranny of unelected judges who control a government by their edicts based on their personal biases.
That, of course, is precisely the Democrat lawfare being waged upon Trump’s attempt to govern via their Obama-appointed TDS-infected judicial stooges.
A typical example this week. Wednesday (4/16): DC District Court Judge James Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Admin in Criminal Contempt for ‘Defying His Order’ to Turn Around Planes Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members – Threatens to Appoint Prosecutor.
This is, of course, laughably ridiculous, as the previous Monday (4/07), SCOTUS ruled 5-3 to vacate Boasberg’s order! Boasberg needs to be prosecuted by Bondi DOJ.
That ruling was based on the legitimacy of Trump’s invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA) that provides the Executive with the legal authority to deport illegals. On Friday (4/11), Chief Justice Roberts issued an administrative stay regarding federal judge Paula Xinis’ order for the US to “effectuate” the return of the Salvadoran illegal Abrego Garcia back to America.
Roberts’ ruling contained this statement:
“The intended scope of the term ‘effectuate’ in the District Court’s order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court’s authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”
In other words, our Constitution provides three separate branches of the federal government, with no one branch enabled to rule the other. Here, the Chief Justice is making it clear that the federal courts have no constitutional authority to tell the President how to conduct foreign policy and national defense.
Roberts is saying: Kritocracy is constitutionally forbidden in America.
Yet, as we have been discussing, ruining the President’s pro-America agenda with kritocracy is the Dems’ entire game plan. So how can Roberts’ declaration be implemented to force the abandonment of their kritocratic plan?
A start came yesterday (4/17) when Kathleen Leavitt made this official statement from the White House flat-out defying any court order to do otherwise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouj2lCt7FKY
That could lead to doing the same to such wacko TDS rulings such as Obama-Appointed Judge Indira Talwani Blocks Deportations of Over 500k Migrants. Since lower federal courts have no constitutional authority to make such rulings, Bondi DOJ could declare such rulings are, in effect, “null and void,” they don’t legally exist.
Albeit, probably wise to caveat it with “until and unless SCOTUS rules otherwise,” or some such escape hatch.
Bottom line. The Dems are disintegrating mentally and emotionally, and deserve to be pushed off the edge of the cliff on which they are teetering. Finish them off by shattering their judicial lawfare scam. Good riddance.
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Hovering on a Oval Office wall overlooking President Trump’s Resolute Desk is a large portrait of his predecessor, President Ronald Reagan.
Having first worked for him as State Chairman of Youth for Reagan in his original campaign for California Governor in 1966, traveling so many hundreds of miles with him in his limo all over the state (he didn’t like to fly) — then as his personal liaison to anti-Soviet insurgencies all over the Third World developing the Reagan Doctrine throughout the 80s when he was President. I am confident I know what he would think of Trump’s second presidency so far.
Certainly he would be appalled at Biden’s invasion of America with millions of illegals and would be 100% in favor of Trump’s attempts to extirpate them from our land.
The same for Biden’s policy of letting men pretend to be women and ruin women’s sports thereby – and Trump ending it.
He’d love DOGE. He’d be all in favor of Trump’s tariff policies, especially as they pertain to China. He’d well know China has chosen to be the implacable enemy of America dedicated to its destruction – and has to be confronted straight up on many fronts before it’s too late.
So there’s much he’d have to smile about gazing down upon his successor.
Then again, he would have no respect for ridiculing our neighbor country Canada as it should be the US’ 51st state – gratuitously insulting for no real purpose whatever. The same for gratuitously alienating a friend and ally Denmark with bullying truculence, when it would be so easy to achieve a win-win deal regarding Greenland.
But this pales in comparison for the disgust and contempt Reagan would feel towards Trump regarding Ukraine.
Yesterday, April 17:
USA has voted against a UN resolution on cooperation with the Council of Europe because it included the words “condemnation of Russian aggression against Ukraine”
Only 8 other states voted against:
– Russia
– Belarus
– North Korea
– Eritrea
– Mali
– Nicaragua
– Niger
– Sudan pic.twitter.com/7CbVTLUmO4— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 17, 2025
Reagan would regard Trump as a coward for not having the decency to acknowledge there is no other cause for the war in Ukraine other than Putin’s Russian aggression. For not having courage to recognize that Vladimir Putin is a psychopath, willing to send hundreds and hundreds of thousands of his countrymen to their death for the satisfaction of his pathological ego.
The body count of Russian casualties, dead and wounded, many maimed for life, will reach over one million sometime this summer. Putin couldn’t care less. Anymore than he cares for all the innocent women, children, and elderly Ukrainians he slaughters with his missiles bombing apartment buildings and children’s playgrounds.
This week, Trump had the effrontery to blame Zelensky for the war and refused to blame Putin for his Palm Sunday missile attack on the city of Sumy slaughtering 3 dozen women and children and seriously wounded over a hundred. Then has the temerity to say it’s useless for Ukraine to fight a country 20 times its size so why send them any weapons?
At that last, assuredly Reagan would lose his temper, unable to imagine such stupidity and cowardice. I can hear him saying, “Does this president have any understanding at all how we won the Cold War? We sent Stinger missiles to illiterate peasants in Afghanistan to shoot down Soviet Russian MiGs and helicopter gunships, and defeated Russia! The Ukrainians are among the most sophisticated people militarily on the planet now, and the most heroic! Why is this president on the side of evil regarding Russia??”
In so many ways, Trump is doing a superb job. But I know that President Reagan would have contempt and disgust toward him regarding Putin’s Russia.
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Sorry about that, but I had to get that off my chest. Let’s focus on all the really good things Trump is doing and hope he comes to his senses on this one issue.
Especially. focus instead on China. Here’s a must-read by Hot Air’s David Strom yesterday (4/17): China Is In Much Deeper Trouble Than Most Realize. And Trump’s tariffs are making all those troubles worse… fast.
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Today is solemn and coming to a close. Right around the corner is a day true celebration. Enjoy a wonderful Easter Sunday with those you love and care for.
