If you can read this, it means I beat the cat to the last pot of Rococo Coffee. That was a close one!

Trump Lifts Commercial Fishing Ban In Central Pacific - Fishing Industry Celebrates
April 20, 2025

□ [“Late at Night, Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegals"]

They're getting edgy.  Court decisions usually come during working hours, but they jumped in on this one.  There's a lawsuit from the ACLU citing the recent Supreme Court decision that the administration must provide time for a chance to appeal.  The court had sided with Trump on that particular case but left this in place for someone else to use immediately.

Trump's position is that Tren de Aragua are foreign terrorists and that's how they get treated based on the Alien Enemies Act.  Sounds like determining that should be more relevant to the Supremes, but the way they jumped in on this indicates yet-another issue.  Alito and Thomas' dissent that the others rushed in - in the middle of the night - before a lower court had a chance to respond.

This is getting an opening lesson in the nuts-and-bolts of court processes.  Alito states that the Supremes can only be involved if the lower circuit court of appeals had made a ruling, which they couldn't because the appeal was just a temporary restraining order from the court below them.  And now they can't because the Supremes rushed in.

Alito even cites a written rule, Rule 23.3, that something like this can only happen “in the most extraordinary circumstances.”  Otherwise let the lower courts handle things first.  And they're doing this just because ACLU lawyers for illegal alien detainees begged them to get involved.  So they did.  In the middle of the night.  Gee, nothing suspicious about that.

Peaceful “Free Iran” Protest Held by Conservative Group Outside the White House
April 19, 2025

□ [“Trump Releases Photo of MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Tattooed Knuckles"]

You can question if the pic Trump is showing is real, but the tattoos on his left hand are also in the pic of Sen. Van Hollen finally getting to barge in and meet his idol.  Now he gets to laugh about taxpayers funding his trip.  It's probably why other Democrats are trying to do it too, and other Democrats are trying to do it too.  They're probably using this to promote an upcoming Presidential campaign although at least the House Oversight Committee has said taxpayers won't fund those trips.

Trump also made sure to get a list made of his crimes, wife-beating, human trafficking, declared to be an MS-13 member, all that stuff.  Of course the media ignores this, MSNBC even made sure to drop coverage just before he started reading the list.  There's even talk that Van Hollen violated the Logan Act, supporting an enemy combatant.  I'm sure this won't go anywhere but it's another argument of what the left is really into.

I want to know why the left is obsessed with this guy and not P. Diddy.  No one is visiting him, we have no word if he's doing all right.  But that would mean showing more support to American citizens than to foreign thugs.  The only way that's going to change is if MS-13 was trafficking victims to P. Diddy and his ilk.  That would explain a lot.

Illegal Alien Arrested in Tennessee After Impregnating 11-Year-Old Girl He Met on Facebook
April 20, 2025

NYPD Chief Files Lawsuit Against NYC Councilwoman Who Bit Him During Protest
April 19, 2025

□ [“DNC Vice Chair David Hogg Tries to Make Amends with $100K Gift to House Dems"]

Because 25 year-olds always have a spare hundred grand to throw at people who are complaining about them.  That's how you know they're 'working class.'  Hope this doesn't make the guy miss paying rent next week.  For that matter, is any Democrat going to question where he got the money from?

I do get the impression that he's not going to last long, at least not unless he makes the party a lot smaller.  He comments on this gift by saying he's not playing nice, he's still going to purge the party of Democrats in safe districts.  Anyone in the party who doesn't see him as an idol to be worshipped would see a problem there and the party already has a lot of those.

□ [“As AOC Flies Around on ‘Fight Oligarchy’ Tour, Residents of Her District Beg FBI for Help"]

They're overwhelmed by crime, gangs, drugs and sex-workers, while she's busy trying to get more power over more people.  And she's one of those in a 'safe district.'  This is how little the common people mean to those self-proclaimed elites.  That's what the party has been reduced to.

□ [“New Poll Shows Voters Are Tired of the Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ – Even in Blue California"]

I do not trust polls so this is entirely anecdotal, but it does provide a signal of how the leftists are just making things worse for themselves.  Just the fact that they're fighting so hard for illegal immigrants against Americans should be worrisome.  Then there's the way they never account for any obvious help Trump has given everybody.  Notice that leftists have shut up about the cost of eggs all of a sudden.  I don't keep track of gas prices but those in my vicinity seem to be going slightly down, or at least staying where they were.  This is helpful and leftists refuse to admit that.

Instead they're stuck on the *woke* agenda and whining about how oppressed they with no one ever telling them to STFU.  Oppression doesn't work that way and they're too stupid to realize it.  But everyone else can see this.  I am still skeptical about Trump but one undeniable positive aspect is how he's brought this to a head where it's so clear what the left always does and how it ruins civilization.  I really do think this was part of his plan all along.

Elitist Michelle Obama Spotted in Los Angeles with $4,000 Luxury Handbag
April 20, 2025

□ [“Illinois Defies Trump’s Executive Order to Protect Female Rights in Sports"]

This is a multi-layered part of the conflict.  It's not just the pretend-gender advocates, it's also an argument about state rights.  There is a point to be made that if you want taxpayers to fund your penis getting chopped off, go to this state, not that one.  This is one reason even Democrats are (reportedly) getting tired of this anti-Trump pro-*woke* rhetoric.  Individually and collectively, we all reach a point where 'just leave us alone!' is how we respond.  But the left doesn't do that.

Also anecdotal, but I get this impression from Britain's reaction to their Supreme Court saying there's only two genders.  For the first time in decades, the British people see light at the end of the tunnel, that reality is finally involved in the fantasy their elites have imposed.  Until now, only the large Muslim community had been able to point to that.

□ [“Transgender Brazilian Lawmaker Slams Trump’s ‘Hatred and Fixation’ After U.S. Visa ‘Detransitions’ Her to Male"]

Like this thing, what is going on in Brazil  that they even let it walk around loose, much less install it into a position of power?  This does happen in non-white countries and there's no evidence, but I can't shake the impression that global elites are effectively installing creatures like this so they can pretend this really is a 'new world order.'  There are Muslim transgenders and I don't remotely understand how they can permit those things to exist, but that's my suspicion.

I'm still astounded to think about how quickly this movement appeared and then how it started going away.  With more thought in hindsight, it may become obvious, but it's still a 'how the hell did that happen?' moment.  It's been around for a long time, whether you're talking about Christine Jorgensen or Dr. Frank N. Furter, but all of a sudden they're supposedly everywhere and you'll be punished for not obeying.  And then people started waking up and reality started coming back.  They're still trying but the movement is clearly waning.  I cite the Bud Lite ad as the place where things moved into reverse and that was over two years ago.

Fauci Raked in $3.5 Million During First Year of Retirement from Government
April 20, 2025