Trump v. Zelensky
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky were in a heated exchange yesterday. Somebody needs to remind President Zelensky that he would already be speaking Russian if it weren’t for the United States of America and our taxpayers.
He is in no position to be taking political shots at the first Republican president who just won the majority of the vote in a very long time. Zelensky also told Trump that the United States will not get one penny of any mineral resources from Ukraine.
Zelensky rejected a “partnership” deal that would have given U.S. companies mining rights to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as a way of recouping the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars we have given to Ukraine.
Does the phrase “biting the hand that feeds you” translate in Ukrainian?!
How hard is it for Mr. Zelensky to understand that he should be trying in every way possible to stay on the right side of the president of the United States? By the way, Zelensky’s hostility isn’t just toward Donald Trump.
During the sleepwalking Biden administration, which magically kept finding billions of dollars in the Treasury to keep that war going, Zelensky complained that he wasn’t getting more. According to reports of a leaked phone call, sleepwalking Biden, in a moment of lucidity, angrily suggested that “Zelensky could show a little more gratitude.”
As a reminder, we have no treaty obligations with Ukraine. It is not a member of NATO. So, there is no obligation to continue breaking our budget, putting us further in debt, while we borrow money from nations like communist China to give to Ukraine.
Speaking of communist China, Zelensky has been begging communist China for investment deals that he won’t give us. In what world does that make any sense? Xi is Putin’s ally!
Meanwhile, this “paragon of democracy” has canceled elections, banned political parties, closed churches he didn’t like, and nationalized the media.
Bad Attitude
This attitude Zelensky apparently showed to Biden, Trump, and the American people is the result of decades of welfare. It’s the international equivalent of the illegal alien who races across the border into America for taxpayer-funded benefits and then carries the flag of the country he ran away from while protesting our immigration laws.
“How dare you, America, send me back to the hellhole I escaped from,” he says while waving the flag of the hellhole he escaped from! (See next item.)
The entire “free world” has concluded that there is nothing for them to worry about. They can kick us in the groin, punch us in the face, and when things really get bad, the good old U.S.A. will bail them out.
I don’t know who is advising Zelensky, but he should be the “Trump whisperer.” The day after Donald Trump won the election, he should have been getting advice on how to stay on the right side of Donald Trump.
This president has a very different foreign policy from the “policeman of the world” view held by the DC Uniparty. As a result, Zelensky should realize that he has to make a very strong case to Donald Trump.
Any time he is at a microphone, Zelensky should begin by saying, “It’s another day, and I want to start by expressing my gratitude to the United States and the American taxpayers for helping me and my country stay out of the clutches of Russia.”
That’s how every sentence every day from Zelensky ought to begin.
For Citizens Only
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday declaring that federal tax dollars are for American citizens only, not illegal aliens.
We’re constantly told that illegal aliens can’t access federal benefits. But we all know they do. Hospitals are going bankrupt because of illegal immigration. Many schools are overcrowded and underperforming in part because of illegal immigration.
One study found that the failure to enforce our immigration laws is costing taxpayers as much as $450 billion a year, giving illegal aliens all kinds of things that half the country can’t afford.
Making The FBI Great Again
Kash Patel was confirmed by the Senate today to be the director of the FBI. The vote was 51 to 49. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined all 47 Democrats in voting against Patel’s confirmation.
Patel’s confirmation is a big blow to the Deep State, which is why he is exactly the right man to lead the FBI at this time. Devin Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Patel was “instrumental in unraveling the Russia collusion hoax and finding evidence of government malfeasance.”
Reforming the FBI and restoring the public’s trust will be an enormous task. But it is vital to ensuring the future of our constitutional Republic as a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Congratulations, Director Patel!
Putting Girls Last
Earlier this week, a boy won the girls’ state high school pole vault competition in Maine. The boy, who claims he is now a girl, was a boy competing on the boys’ team last year. He placed fifth.
At Monday’s competition, he jumped 11 feet, beating the second-place girl by eight inches. But that 11 feet was only one inch away from the girls’ state record. Meanwhile, his 11-foot jump would have placed him 10th in the boys’ competition.
President Trump signed an executive order protecting women’s sports on February 5th. The photo of him surrounded by girls of all ages at the signing ceremony will become iconic in its own right.
The order instructed all federal departments and agencies to “rescind funding to programs that fail to comply with the policy established in this order.” The Maine Principals Association declared last week that they defy Trump’s order, as have high school athletic governing bodies in California and Minnesota.
The Department of Education’s Civil Rights office has launched investigations of potential Title IX violations in California and Minnesota.
What do these three states have in common? They are all controlled by the Democrat Party. Their educational establishments are controlled by the radical left. These battles will rage for years, giving the Supreme Court many cases to consider.
As we have pointed out many times, the left and progressivism always start out claiming to protect a particular group, but eventually they end up destroying the group they claimed to be protecting.
The left was all in on feminism. That’s why Title IX was passed to begin with – to give girls a chance to excel in sports. Now the same people who claimed that girls didn’t get to play sports like boys did are allowing boys to play in girls’ sports.
Now, they’re cheating girls out of medals, trophies, and scholarships. And they think this is “progressive.”
Finally Home
The bodies of four dead hostages, seized during the October 7th attacks, were returned to Israel this morning. They were Kfir Bibas, who was just 9 months old when he was kidnapped, his brother Ariel, who was 4, and their mother, Shiri Silberman Bibas. The body of one of the oldest hostages, Oded Lifshitz, 85, was also returned.
In the last month, as Hamas has dribbled out hostages, there have been some of the most disgusting scenes of pure, unadulterated evil imaginable. Brutally animalistic mobs by the thousands (mostly men and boys, but also a number of screaming women) have engaged in near riots, surrounding the hostages as they are being released.
The Palestinian mobs spit on the Israeli hostages, scream disgusting things at them, and try to assault them. It’s hard to comprehend that these are human beings engaged in this kind of debased behavior.
This morning, they fell to an even lower level of hell by doing the same thing to the caskets of the dead Jews as they were paraded through the streets on their way to the Jewish homeland. There were little children eagerly trying to get at the caskets.
Oded Lifshitz was spending his retirement years taking sick children in Gaza to Israeli hospitals for treatment. Just a reminder, most of the Israelis in the area Hamas attacked would be considered “progressive” on the Israeli political spectrum. They lived next to the border because they wanted to demonstrate goodwill between the people of Israel and the people of Gaza.
Some say, “Well, the poor people of Gaza don’t want to be ruled by Hamas.” The people of Gaza elected Hamas to rule them. Polling also shows that support for Hamas is higher now than it was before the terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. The number of Gazans who still proudly say, “I support the attack,” is sky-high.
So, they’re sitting there in the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings, with maimed and dead bodies, saying, “Yes, I support this. I won’t be happy unless we can kill the Jews.”
The United States, Europe, and other countries of goodwill should not spend one dollar in Gaza until this poison can be ripped out of that area. If it can’t be removed, there needs to be a meeting to determine what can be done with people who are hellbent on a second Holocaust and will not be deterred. (See next item.)
I’m sure there are good people in Gaza. But they are beside the point. They are not in charge of anything, and most of their neighbors disagree with them. There were good Germans who didn’t want the Holocaust to happen, but they didn’t matter.
Antisemitic Poison
As the Muslim population of Australia has grown over the years, so too have incidents of antisemitism. There are frequent attacks on Jewish homes and schools. Synagogues have been firebombed. Now, another controversy has gripped the country.
Muslim nurses working at a hospital in Sydney bragged on social media about what they were doing to Jewish patients. One female nurse said, “I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them.” A male nurse said, “You have no idea how many Israelis . . . came to this hospital and . . . I send them to (hell).”
They were thrilled to share what they were doing to Jewish patients. It’s disgusting and evil.
It is also another reminder of why we must ensure that our immigration policies are not importing this hate into our country.