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Tuesday, July 29. 2025

Tuesday morning links

NY Times: Women Are Tired of 'Mankeeping'


It’s Time to End the Public School Monopoly on Education


Bill Maher Admits He Was Wrong About Trump’s Tariffs: ‘I Gotta Own It’


How Trump Just Turned Europe Into A Vassal Market


Trump Drops a Truth Bomb About the Epstein Files


Democrats' Rating Collapses To Generational Low As Midterm Cycle Nears; New Poll Finds


Trump has the resolve to defend the West. We are invited to deplore his strong actions on the border. But the overwhelming response is “This is what I voted for”


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Trump Drops a Truth Bomb About the Epstein Files ... Trump’s logic here is bulletproof.

That's not how it works. Investigative files are normally not released. That's because they often include innuendo and other unverified information. Maxwell is also still appealing her conviction, so releasing the files could jeopardize a possible retrial.

To appease his most conspiratorially-minded followers during the campaign, Trump said he would release the files, while propagating various conspiracy theories. Yet, Trump hasn't released the files under his control. (Grand jury testimony is protected by law.)
#1 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 09:25 (Reply)
The most parsimonious explanation is that Trump is in the file. That does not mean there is information in the files that could lead to a criminal charge against him or others in the files, as they would have probably already been charged. That doesn't mean the information wouldn't be embarrassing or suggestive (such as the birthday letter already released).
#1.1 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 09:47 (Reply)
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Trump has the resolve to defend the West ... We are invited to deplore his strong actions on the border. But the overwhelming response is “This is what I voted for”

Polls show quite the contrary. Only about 30% of Americans want immigration reduced, while nearly 80% think immigration is good for the country.
 
#2 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 09:29 (Reply)
Controlled immigration is good for the country; uncontrolled immigration is not. When my relatives came over, they were sponsored, and the sponsor was responsible for the immigrant.
My wife's grandfather sponsored over 50 families. Two decided they did not have to work and assimilate. They got sent back.
#2.1 don on 2025-07-29 10:58 (Reply)
don: Controlled immigration is good for the country; uncontrolled immigration is not.

Agreed, which is why there have multiple attempts to pass legislation which would regularize immigration. The proposed bipartisan bill in 2024 increased funding for border enforcement and for migrant processing, provided funding for new technology to enhance border security, tightened asylum standards, and granted rapid expulsion authority to shut down the border during periods with high levels of border encounters. However, that attempt was scuttled by Trump.
#2.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 11:10 (Reply)
That bill was a disaster. It included a bunch of spending for Ukraine, and pathways to amnesty. The bill even had stalwart Democrats like Jayapal speaking against it. But yeah, Trump scuttled the bill.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said it “contains some of the same tried and failed policies that would actually make the situation worse at the southern border” and criticized the bill for not doing more for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, for instance, while Rep. Priya Jayapal, D-Wash., expressed “alarm” over the legislation. “There is no question that we need significant changes to our immigration system,” Jayapal said in a statement. “However, this proposal includes none of the thoughtful reforms to do that or to actually address the situation at the border in a humane way that recognizes the contributions immigrants make to our economy and our communities.”


Tell us how, under President Trump, border crossings have now been reduced to zero, with no new legislation?

What would happen with your rinky-dink poll, if illegal was the adjective before immigration in all those questions? Say, if the question was: Do you support no borders, wide open immigration, with no background checks, automatic EBT card issuance along with free housing and medical, for all those that cross into the country?

A Wall Street Journal poll shows Americans abandoning, hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. Maybe Gallop just oversampled Democrats, along with the dishonest question phrasing.
#2.1.1.1 B. Hammer on 2025-07-29 14:38 (Reply)
B. Hammer: The bill even had stalwart Democrats like Jayapal speaking against it.

Jayapal was dissatisfied from the political left, because it included some hard line policies. That's not unusual. It was a compromise bill sponsored by Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma.

B. Hammer: But yeah, Trump scuttled the bill.

GOP senators seethe as Trump blows up delicate immigration compromise

B. Hammer: Tell us how, under President Trump, border crossings have now been reduced to zero, with no new legislation?

Because Trump doesn't "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", such as laws on asylum. It's easy when you aren't constrained.

don's point above was, "Controlled immigration is good for the country; uncontrolled immigration is not." We agreed with Don's point. However, Trump is trying to stop all immigration, including asylum for refugees which is written into the law. Perhaps you agree with Trump, but as pointed out above, the majority of Americans believe immigration is good for the country, and most also support offering asylum to refugees.
#2.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 15:10 (Reply)
Lankford is the chief proponent of amnesty which will not happen. It is always the same rino senators proposing amnesty. The polls outcomes depend on language and are a political persuasion technic. I prefer Eisenhower's solution with operation "wetback" along with an end to immigration. The neo-Malthusian environmentalist should be happy with that solution. We do not need more immigrants to drive wages down or stand in the welfare lines.
#2.1.1.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2025-07-29 16:18 (Reply)
Biden's control of the border was non-existent. Giving someone a hearing in 10 years is tantamount to telling them have a good time. Until we can take care of the needs of our own citizens, we have no business taking on more. Just take a stroll down Kensington and look at the walking dead. No borders, wide open immigration, with no background checks, automatic EBT card issuance along with free housing and medical is a more accurate border policy description under Joe Biden.
#2.1.1.1.1.2 don on 2025-07-29 16:54 (Reply)
'Not constrained'. Is that a joke? Trump is more constrained by the judiciary than any president in history.

Asylum laws are a farce. Broad interpretation. If someone with the proper skin color, has a scrape on their hand, the Biden administration would grant them asylum and send an airplane to pick them up. Religion of Peace persecuted Christians need not apply. Trump is enforcing existing laws. Something the Democrats and their RINO buddies refuse to do.

Speaking of Mitt Romney. He was seething because Trump wouldn't give him Secretary of State. What a putz. He and McConnell are poster children of what is wrong with the GOP. Total sell outs.
#2.1.1.1.1.3 B. Hammer on 2025-07-29 17:41 (Reply)
don: Giving someone a hearing in 10 years is tantamount to telling them have a good time.

The law requires due process for those seeking asylum. The Biden administration had worked with Congress to tightened asylum standards (see above), but Trump nixed that deal.

B. Hammer: Trump is enforcing existing laws.

International and federal law requires due process for those seeking asylum. The contours of that due process are set by statute. Trump has stopped all asylum claims, contrary to law.

B. Hammer: Asylum laws are a farce.

Then change the law. Or just admit you reject limited representative government and prefer authoritarianism—because at least the trains run on time.
#2.1.1.1.1.4 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 20:32 (Reply)
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How Trump Just Turned Europe Into A Vassal Market

"America is not an empire."
#3 Zachriel on 2025-07-29 09:31 (Reply)
If you look up "desperation" in the dictionary it includes Zach's name. Not his picture because Zach isn't real. But he/it/AI is desperate to find something wrong that Trump actually did to tar him with.
#4 OneGuy on 2025-07-29 09:35 (Reply)
It is rather pathetic.
#4.1 B. Hammer on 2025-07-29 10:36 (Reply)
re NY Times: Women Are Tired of 'Mankeeping'

Then why don't they stop? No one is forcing them.

Or is this just another case of the NYT columnists inventing something to whine about?
#5 feeblemind on 2025-07-29 10:49 (Reply)
State mandated education has always been state mandated propaganda. Funding the public institution is only useful to those that are part of the institution and all can see the politization of education since its inception. Fund the parent/student. End the reign of the political overseers.
#6 indyjonesouthere on 2025-07-29 16:29 (Reply)

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