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Heartlanders are getting used to the new sheriff in town and are cautiously optimistic that the promises made will actually be kept. ICE agents have been freed from their Biden shackles. The US Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as secretary of Defense and Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security. Elite media outlets have claimed exhaustion in trying to follow number 47's hit-the-ground-sprinting energy, and just when folks think they can keep up, a liberal podcast host wants Democrats to become more MAGA-like.
Biden Forever – That Didn't Work Out
ICE agents are allowed to do their jobs now that a new president in the Swamp is cracking down on illegal immigration. The Biden-era policy that outlined no arrests in "sensitive locations," such as churches and schools, magically evaporated on the floor of the Capital One Arena on Inauguration Day.
One gang member, a Haitian national with 17 felony convictions, was part of the first of many so-called illegal alien roundups. He called for Biden and Obama to help him and vowed he would never return from whence he came. "Well, that tells you everything you need to know," said Ginger Hollis of Pleasanton, TX.
Fox News caught video footage of the incident. It shows the disheveled and cuffed captive yelling: "I'm not going back to Haiti. F*** Trump! You feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro!"
In South Dakota, Don Oakland advised the criminal: "He's lucky he gets to go home. If he would have come into any other country illegally, he'd either be in prison or dead."
This statement is a perfect example of hopeful migrants who are woefully ill-informed: President Obama deported migrants like it was his job. Biden was the open-gates fellow with midnight plane rides. Regardless, heartlanders found the whole incident amusing. Mike Dunica in Marion, IN, commented: "Haiti bound with the hammer down. Enjoy your trip."
The Perpetual "NO" Man
The Senate voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as the secretary of Defense in a 51-50 vote. Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Not ready to play nice and seemingly hoping to be ousted in their next primary, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined Democrats in voting no. McConnell always seems to vote no for some reason – unless, of course, it’s for Lloyd Bentsen as Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary.
Down in Birmingham, Joseph Montalto commented: "The 3 RINOs in the Senate are only good for one thing. They give us the gavel. I can see Maine, a blue state, electing that old bat, but Alaska and Kentucky get your s--t together." LNN Does NOT condone name-calling; just passing it along.
It's been a good several years since the electorate politely asked PawPaw McConnell to retire, but that once polite rhetoric has gained some snark; Gary Peel in Silver Lake, KS, exhibited said snark: "The Senate was never intended to be an assisted living facility, time for Mitch to move to memory care."
Ken Adams of Hattiesburg, MS, added:" McConnell is the poster child for term limits. He has been a senator for 40 years. When you have been in Washington that long you begin to protect Washington more than the people of the USA. It's time to retire, Mitch."
MDGA
Podcast host Charlamagne tha God inspired a new tagline for the left: Make Democrats Great Again. During the "Brilliant Idiots" podcast this past week, Charlamagne said Democrats are losing the war, and it all goes back to Biden's spree of pardons.
Before Donald Trump was sworn in, in the sad and waning hours of the Biden presidency, number 46 issued pre-emptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and the members of the Jan. 6 committee, in fear they would become "targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions." Charlamagne pointed it out with disgust and claimed: "Right now, they have literally proved every conspiracy theorist right. You pardon, you do preemptive pardons for Dr. Fauci. Biden, you did preemptive pardons for your whole [expletive] family," he said.
One Arizonan wasn't so flattering to Mr. C. Anthony Robbins wondered: "Why would anyone respect or listen to him after he sat there and let Biden tell him he wasn't black. "The GOP is well known for having long memories, you know.
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