03/20/26: Little did I know that when I voted for Trump, someday, this story would be relevant once again…
December 7, 1989. I’d joined Dai Ichi Kangyo Bank, in One World Trade Center, the preceding March. Our office windows faced south, looking out on NY harbor, the Statue of Liberty, and faintly off in the distance, the awesome Verrazano bridge.
Back then, they hadn’t forgotten, and Air Force planes were doing graceful, forceful loops above and over the harbor, some at about our height (the 49th floor).
As a rule, the bank paid their American staffers very poorly, and the imported Japanese executives treated them with disdain, barely-concealed contempt.
Remember, now, this was still when all of the Japanese investments in real estate still appeared to be the revenge of WWII (by 1991, the roof caved in. Eventually, it was estimated that the Japanese had lost $10 billion. And that was ten billion in 1991 dollars, back when the word “billion” induced instant heart attacks).
When he saw the planes, Marco, a tall, handsome Italian-American young man, impetuously ran over to the windows, jumped up and landed on a swivel chair, and waved a cloth above his head, screaming with joy and seething with hatred for the bank and the people that he worked for.
They all eventually left. I shoved off in 1994.
I wondered what ever happened to him. I hope he prospered.
I remember the “received wisdom” that Japan would defeat us economically (from the 80’s when I was starting my career). Didn’t quite turn out as predicted—the “lost decade” turned into, I think 15-20 years.
Then it was the EU and now China. Seems like such predictions have a shelf life (like the climate doom grift).
In the 80s I was skeptical, now I typically find whatever is being peddled by the “elites”, globalists, the Left and Dems and their allies in the MSM is…garbage or cliches
News item May 2026: The last Japanese real estate-invested dollar, inspired by the soldiers who remained on the captured Pacific islands long after WWII ended, has surrendered to authorities on Governor's Island and will be repatriated home next week.
It’s hard to tell sometimes with Japanese, but I hardly saw offense or surprise in the Prime Minister’s reaction. More likely, the journalists who clutched their pearls for the nth time were showing their utter leftish immunity from humor. They really, really need to get a life.
I wouldn’t even call that a joke. It was a statement of fact. It’s well known that the Japanese don’t teach their children about that attack, preferring to cover it up. Also, it’s a classic example of Trump not taking crap from anyone about anything. And it worked, didn’t it? He knows exactly how to play the enemedia.
My niece taught English at several levels in Japan for about five years before returning home. She said that the schools do teach about the war including the Dec 7 attack but they do it in a very controlled manner. They try to focus on the reasons leading up to the attack and the forces leading the country to war rather than the war itself. She thought it was very accurate in its accounting of why the country felt it needed to protect its interests given the politics and culture of that era. She was very impressed with their education system and told me we wouldn’t be graduating illiterate kids if we followed many of their practices.
Japan at the time felt cornered because FDR was cutting off their oil supply, at a time when most of it came from the US. In an amazingly short time they had modernized their economy and built up a large military, both of which would wither without oil, since they had no domestic sources, and the alternatives to America were Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies. So they attacked Pearl Harbor, the home of the US Pacific Fleet. But, apparently in a stroke of pure luck, the American aircraft carriers were not in port -- and if WWII proved anything, it was the importance of air power.
I may be criticized for this ... but looking back at these events, it's hard to decide whether FDR was purposely goading them into war ... certainly he knew about Japanese naval capacities, since in WWI he had been Secretary of the Navy. Did he WANT that Day of Infameeh?
We will likely never know what FDR knew and when he knew it. But he strongly believed that Japan was dangerous and we would clash at some point. I don’t believe he knew Pearl Harbor was the target because had Japan destroyed the dry docks the story would have been much different. I don’t believe the Emperor wanted a war but he was not deciding things, the Military was. They understood they could not win a protracted war with us yet they failed to completely destroy the dry docks and they did not search out the location of the carriers we had at sea. That was a a colossal error on their part. Had they destroyed the carriers, they could have forced us into a negotiated ceasefire. I guess God played a big part in the outcome. My dad was on the USS Maryland and was hurt in the attack. He often said that as bad as the damage was, Japan stopped far too soon if the goal was to destroy the fleet. He never believed FDR knew Pearl was the target ahead of time.
Actually… I read somewhere that Pearl is the number one tourist destination for Japanese outside their own islands. It used to infuriate my mother in law, who lost a love in the ensuing conflict. These days I doubt many teenagers even know what happened there or anywhere else. I think it’s safe to allow this joke, but then I’m not an AWFL journalist with sensitive nerves.
While I was in the US Navy, our ship was docked within view of the Arizona memorial. Hard to describe the feeling I felt looking at the memorial & knowing what was below it - kind of eerie.
Thank you for your service. Few recountings of events that occurred before my arrival on this earth cause an immediate lump in my throat and teary eyes than the attack on Pearl Harbor and especially the sinking of the Arizona. May they rest in peace.
03/20/26: Excellent point. As an issue or topic of conversation, Pearl Harbor four generations later is a ghost of its former self. Those two words today mean very little or nothing to quite many of us.
He needs to keep coming up with clever responses to their inane questions asking why he didn't tell everyone ahead of time when, how and where we were going to conduct military operations.
The thing is he did tell them when. Prior to the first bombing, he said he'd give them ten days to reach a deal. They tried to stall. Day ten, BOOM!
This time around he gave them a couple extra hours, waiting to drop the hammer until they crawled out from under their rocks believing that Trump wouldn't attack in broad daylight.
Here's the thing I wonder about. Israel said they were able to pinpoint the ayatollahs location because they'd hacked the traffic cameras in Tehran.
Why would they give away something like that? Did that leak get compromised, or was that meant to deflect scrutiny away from the real source of the information?
At any rate, reading that communist China immediately began removing millions of cameras in their cities was hilarious!
Trump is playing 3D chess. Our enemies are suffering. Our fairweather fiends like England are getting crumbs instead of cake and our real friends are rewarded.
Japan's Prime Minister got treated like front row guest at a stand up comic's performance. Maybe she was surprised, but by now she And the world should know to expect things like that with President Trump.
Trump is in no hurry to open the Strait of Hormuz , we don't get oil from there. The ones suffering from the closure are China and the Peons. No worries, spring is just around the corner so they won't all freeze to death.
I, too, thought it was unusual that Israel's method of using the traffic cameras was revealed. IIRC, it was the New York Times that revealed that, and it seems to me like a deliberate type of sabotage (treason). Just like that Wall St. Journal article that purported to be in indepth video interview of Tucker, but actually doxed his home location, security system, etc. (This was BEFORE Tucker went into bizarre mode.)
We may never know exactly what the story is on these, but the revealing of the traffic cams usage was certainly not "innocent reporting".
Today is the Vernal Equinox. The sun sits directly above the equator (10:46 am) on its way to the Northern Hemisphere. Still waiting for the effects of winter to subside, though.
While it seems the hack of the cameras was helpful, supposedly Mossad had a human source quite close to the Irani senior leadership…and this was the key to knowing where they would be (at least that is what I’ve read fwiw). Also, they bought the propaganda that Trump would “chicken out” and gambled that we would never strike in daylight hours.
Yeah.I mean , after all , when Payton Manning was playing he would yell Omaha , and then tell the whole world what he is going to do next , yeah , why not do that??
03/20/26: Things never change. Before WWI, the magazine "The Masses" in Greenwich Village was a liberal publication which respected and published opposing points of view, as well as many humorous pieces. After WWI,,in the 1920s, management chaos prompted the relatively sane staffers and editor to quit; and The Masses morphed into a humorless Communist propaganda rag. One hundred years later...
This is the reset the world didn’t see coming. Under Donald Trump, alliances aren’t about paperwork—they’re about performance. NATO talks, hedges, and hand-wrings. Real partners act. Israel hits targets. Saudi Arabia backs the play. Others step up or get exposed. That’s the difference. You don’t telegraph operations to committees—you execute with the allies who can deliver. The media hates it because it shatters the old order. Good. The new model is simple: strength, speed, loyalty. If you’re in, you’re in. If not, step aside. America doesn’t need fair-weather friends—it needs allies who show up when it counts.
Yeah, but the jerks they have in sports team locker rooms picking up the jockstraps and dirty towels all go on to become sports writers and analysts so they can get even with the athletes who didn't even know their names.
Yeah, sort of the same situation that Trump faces. That is, getting constant unwarranted criticism from the back-benchers who can't achieve success except by tearing another down.
Just what would Europe do if Russia - by accident, oops! - hit a European country? They have nothing - no armies to speak of, (the UK has a smaller military now than they did in 1776!), no navies, Air Force, or even materiel that they haven’t gotten from the US - so what then?
Yet they prance about, all tough sounding and unified in their support for Ukrainians dying by the thousands in that meat grinder, wholly empowered by who? Us, that’s who.
Literally every aspect Ukraine’s war effort is only made possible by US equipment, intelligence and technology. If we just unplugged them from Starlink they would be completely blind and rendered utterly powerless. Maybe we should, or at least say we will. Things might change real quick over there.
For our 250th anniversary celebration we may want to consider writing a Declaration of Independence from NATO and the UN and deliver the signed copies to the members of the EU. . . effective on July 4, 2026.
As an added thought: Include language that all military bases in their respective countries become a sovereign territory of the USA, forfeiting their control over our use of that real estate.
I would stand with a Declaration of Independence from NATO/UN jackassery 100%. We don't need them, they need us yet they treat us like dirt. Let them live by their own wits. And kick the UN out of New York. The air will smell much sweeter.
03/20/26: I always get a thousand likes when I remind people that if the plug is pulled on the UN, Manhattan real estate values would fall through the floor; the ripple effects would be quite extensive as well. What better revenge could President Trump obtain than to be the person responsible for this happening?
Trump can’t stop our membership in the UN. And our NATO membership either. Congress has to do so and it will never do so unless there is a reasonable substitute. We may hate what the UN and NATO have become but not going to happen. Neither party has the will or backbone to do so. The best we can hope for is a remodeling of both organizations purpose, members, and a scaling back in its personnel size. Congress is so ineffective today they could not agree on naming the House and Senate bathrooms after someone.
03/20/26: I do believe he has jettisoned all of his business interests in NY; besides, if he hasn't, with a reported net worth of six billion dollars, I doubt if his still-owned NY real estate investments went south.
If Russia or China went all in on the US, does anyone really think Nato would - or could - do a damn thing? Hell, France would preemptively surrender and join them.
I saw yesterday that our great benefactor, John Thune, has already announced his opposition to Trump's pulling us out of NATO. Is there anything that Thune will back America in at all? All the things on his plate and that is what he chooses to comment on. What a disgusting and worthless slug he is.
He is an enemy of state. I am not sure Johnson is far behind him on doing as little as possible to help the agenda that a majority of voters (both parties) support (SAVE Act), although I haven't seen a trusted-source poll on departing NATO.
Thune is a buffoon. It’s amazing that he doesn’t know how Trump works yet. The man should pick up a book —The Art of the Deal—and learn what he doesn’t know.
I was thinking the same thing- what a stupid question. How about framing the question, ‘was not including allies in your decision to proceed, reflective of how little you think of them?’
Quayle was a bright guy in reality. His so-called ignorance was a product of the Wapo and NYT. Sad we have two non-American news organizations in this country so dedicated to propaganda.
Those people in those countries who believe nor think that depending on China rather than the US have a hard truth coming there way and probably sooner rather than later. What it will be who knows? But it will dawn on many of them that their dislike of Trump and dependence on China has a price and they’ll be the ones paying it. I think Germany may be the first to get slapped upside the head with reality.
You would think that Germany might have learned a lesson after they laughed at Trump for deriding their dependence on Russian oil. And then Russia invaded Ukraine.
Especially with Carney to the north of us kowtowing to China as fast as he can. The Canadian citizens and we are going to have to deal with his stupidity for years to come. We'd better vote wisely.
03/20/26: And no matter what happens, they act as if it doesn't matter at all that their abandonment of nuclear power has been an ongoing, daily financial disaster.
To me, the poll shows how effective the media has been in demonizing PDJT. Most of those countries have both a Left-wing media and the citizens are low information types who get fed the anti-Trump coverage. This is one more example of why you cannot hate the media enough.
A simple comparison of the weaponry used in this little conflict should wake the EU weenies up. Let the Chinese give/sell them weapons that fail 99% of the time instead of having US's pinpoint strike capabilities in their backyard. It's a matter of dependability. They depend upon the US, we don't/can't depend upon the EU and NATO.
Considering the current state of affairs, I would rather the first would be Merry Olde England. They have strayed farthest from a civilized, sensible path.
The Saudis are sunni moslems, who do not hold the same apocalyptic vision as do the shia. For a shia moslem, a minority comprising approximately 20% of all islam, if the mahdi delays in springing forth out of the well in which he has been hiding for fourteen centuries, it is appropriate to bring about events that will bring him out. Since the mahdi allegedly brings order (in the sense of bringing about global submission) out of chaos, it is necessary that chaos is initiated. That is the reason they have no fear of disrupting global equanimity with terror and warfare against the "enemies of islam," viz., everyone who is not a shia moslem, including the sunni majority. On the other hand, there is no significant apolyptic strain in sunni islam; they are content to simply wait for the end times. Of course, in both strains of islam the ascendancy of their "religion" is a given as is the defeat, whether by death or submission of all non-moslems. This is why, despite the current rift between Iran and much of the rest of its neighbors, there can never be a true alliance between the Christian West (which at this time, means specifically The USA) and any islamic nation; that would be literally a pact made with the devil, since islam is entirely a satanic entity. Sadly, it is readily evident to anyone with eyes to see that many formerly "Christian" nations in Europe have made that pact, which explains why they are reluctant to do anything that might offend their islamic overlords. Europe, after both causing and experiencing the devastation of World Wars I and II is simply a spent force in the world. Europe no longer exists as part of the West; it is now merely a matter of geography, some lines drawn on a map without any real substance. Trump knows this and is acting in the best interest of the country over which he was elected president.
One thing you can say about China and Russia is that they have almost zero tolerance for Islam within their borders, as they rightly recognize it to be the threat that it contains.
For a time, it was mostly contained within countries in the ME, but over the last twenty years has been allowed to migrate into the West, throughout Europe, the UK and Canada, and in the US as well, and at alarming rates. Big mistake.
Anyone who thinks you can live side by side with a fanatical religious entity whose sole “divine” mission and purpose for being is subjugation and domination is just stupid.
Trump’s comeback to that reporter, (who was Japanese btw), was one of the all time most brilliant, perfect and slam dunk responses ever! The fact that he said it in the presence of the Japanese Prime Minister made it even moreso.
Japan may wish to bury that particular episode from their memory, but the USA never will. It is all the more poignant in that Japan has now become one of our true Allies.
Trump has been taking heat for reminding our European fake Allies of all the blood and treasure this country has spent on their behalf over the last 100 years, bailing them out and saving their asses from the domination of their enemies, and protecting them ever since. And what have we gotten in return? Absolute squat. Worse than that, our largesse has only been taken advantage of to extraordinary extremes by them all, while they prance around in all their smug self-righteous pomposity.
The uncomfortable reality Trump is revealing to all nations of the world, friend and foe, is this: you’re either for us or against us, but none of you can survive without us.
The most stellar quality of Trump is he is real - realer than real - there’s not a shred of phony in him - and he faces reality head on, with no apologies. With regard to our so-called Allies, NATO in particular, he has little patience with pretense and phonies. But he is humble when others humble themselves. Just never mistake that for his forgetting exactly who they are and what they’ve done.
Trump is a master at the non-political: simply put a spotlight on someone and let them show you who they are by actions, not rhetoric. It's called the private sector. Put up or shut up. Next...
"Thomas G. Kelley is among the 7 Navy Medal of Honor recipients who have not been honored with a ship’s name." In Andy Rooney voice - I wonder why that is?
Not surprising that this happened under Obama: "Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced on May 18, 2011, that the 14th Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship would be named in honor of civil rights and labor leader César Chávez."
'The Obama Presidency'...The greatest blight ever on US Presidential history. Just look at his library (and BS bookstore) and imagine how many of his administrations screwup decisions were made, many which have yet to be discovered. Anyone who could conjure up such an abomination needs watching.
This week it was shown that the payroll for Obama’s library is quite inflated—$740K for Valerie Jarrett, for ex. And yet they are advertising for UNPAID volunteers to serve as docents. This while they sit on prime real estate in Chicago which they lease for a nominal amount.
The Chicago corrupt way perfected to an art, then foisted on our nation by BHO and his gang of creeps.
That was great comedy - loved that show. I also liked the film, "My Favorite Year" which depicted an episode where Errol Flynn (Peter O'Toole) was scheduled to appear on Sid Ceasar's (Joseph Bologna) show.
I checked further: In June 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson (T-AO-206). The change aims to remove political figures from ship naming and honor Oscar V. Peterson, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient. The original name, assigned in 2016, honored Harvey Milk, a Navy veteran and LGBTQ+ rights activist.
I did not know we had a ship named after Chavez. How ridiculous, with or without any allegations. I remember years ago my parents going to Hawaii & visiting the Harbor Memorial & saying there were far more Japanese there than Americans. Setting aside the location factor, that surprised me. Who/what gets lost too many times amidst all the forgotten history is the US. MacArthur & Marshall - were it not for the US, Japan & Europe/Britain & Germany would be toast, yet it would appear only Japan remembers. The opening poll surprised me & I don’t know why- why it surprised me or why so many felt that way. Interesting & telling.
I spend the winter in Florida. We have several Canadians here where we live and the poll results confirm what I am seeing in them. They have big mouths, but are mostly limp wristed socialists who really hate Trump. They will be perfectly happy being owned by the Chicoms.
"...clutched their Pearl Harbors". Another LOL from Don. Thanks for making my morning!
03/20/26: That's a "slow burner"! (I just got it...).
This is what I voted for. We didn’t know what he was talking about when he he said ‘we are going to win so much you’ll get tired of winning (not)’
But he knew all along how well some simple measures would work.
Trump is the only president I have voted for that I knew what I was voting for.
astute observation sheila barkofske. looking back i understand exactly what you are driving at.
best post of the thread actually. i'll be keeping an eye out for your name and posts.
common sense is hard to find now-a-days. i wish i had thought of it but am glad you are here to set me straight.
respects.
EXACTLY!!
Before Trump, sadly, I often knew what I was voting for: the lesser of two evils.
Ditto.
Totally true, and it's about time!
03/20/26: Little did I know that when I voted for Trump, someday, this story would be relevant once again…
December 7, 1989. I’d joined Dai Ichi Kangyo Bank, in One World Trade Center, the preceding March. Our office windows faced south, looking out on NY harbor, the Statue of Liberty, and faintly off in the distance, the awesome Verrazano bridge.
Back then, they hadn’t forgotten, and Air Force planes were doing graceful, forceful loops above and over the harbor, some at about our height (the 49th floor).
As a rule, the bank paid their American staffers very poorly, and the imported Japanese executives treated them with disdain, barely-concealed contempt.
Remember, now, this was still when all of the Japanese investments in real estate still appeared to be the revenge of WWII (by 1991, the roof caved in. Eventually, it was estimated that the Japanese had lost $10 billion. And that was ten billion in 1991 dollars, back when the word “billion” induced instant heart attacks).
When he saw the planes, Marco, a tall, handsome Italian-American young man, impetuously ran over to the windows, jumped up and landed on a swivel chair, and waved a cloth above his head, screaming with joy and seething with hatred for the bank and the people that he worked for.
They all eventually left. I shoved off in 1994.
I wondered what ever happened to him. I hope he prospered.
I remember the “received wisdom” that Japan would defeat us economically (from the 80’s when I was starting my career). Didn’t quite turn out as predicted—the “lost decade” turned into, I think 15-20 years.
Then it was the EU and now China. Seems like such predictions have a shelf life (like the climate doom grift).
In the 80s I was skeptical, now I typically find whatever is being peddled by the “elites”, globalists, the Left and Dems and their allies in the MSM is…garbage or cliches
News item May 2026: The last Japanese real estate-invested dollar, inspired by the soldiers who remained on the captured Pacific islands long after WWII ended, has surrendered to authorities on Governor's Island and will be repatriated home next week.
Exactly. Thanks Jack!
It’s hard to tell sometimes with Japanese, but I hardly saw offense or surprise in the Prime Minister’s reaction. More likely, the journalists who clutched their pearls for the nth time were showing their utter leftish immunity from humor. They really, really need to get a life.
I wouldn’t even call that a joke. It was a statement of fact. It’s well known that the Japanese don’t teach their children about that attack, preferring to cover it up. Also, it’s a classic example of Trump not taking crap from anyone about anything. And it worked, didn’t it? He knows exactly how to play the enemedia.
My niece taught English at several levels in Japan for about five years before returning home. She said that the schools do teach about the war including the Dec 7 attack but they do it in a very controlled manner. They try to focus on the reasons leading up to the attack and the forces leading the country to war rather than the war itself. She thought it was very accurate in its accounting of why the country felt it needed to protect its interests given the politics and culture of that era. She was very impressed with their education system and told me we wouldn’t be graduating illiterate kids if we followed many of their practices.
Well, our education system is less about education and more about the grift.
And I say that having several family members who are excellent, dedicated teachers. It's the system that is the problem.
More precisely, it’s the people who run it, decide policy, and many of the teachers. All controlled by the unions.
Dissolve the Department of Education, break teachers unions, fund school vouchers and charter schools.
Japan at the time felt cornered because FDR was cutting off their oil supply, at a time when most of it came from the US. In an amazingly short time they had modernized their economy and built up a large military, both of which would wither without oil, since they had no domestic sources, and the alternatives to America were Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies. So they attacked Pearl Harbor, the home of the US Pacific Fleet. But, apparently in a stroke of pure luck, the American aircraft carriers were not in port -- and if WWII proved anything, it was the importance of air power.
I may be criticized for this ... but looking back at these events, it's hard to decide whether FDR was purposely goading them into war ... certainly he knew about Japanese naval capacities, since in WWI he had been Secretary of the Navy. Did he WANT that Day of Infameeh?
We will likely never know what FDR knew and when he knew it. But he strongly believed that Japan was dangerous and we would clash at some point. I don’t believe he knew Pearl Harbor was the target because had Japan destroyed the dry docks the story would have been much different. I don’t believe the Emperor wanted a war but he was not deciding things, the Military was. They understood they could not win a protracted war with us yet they failed to completely destroy the dry docks and they did not search out the location of the carriers we had at sea. That was a a colossal error on their part. Had they destroyed the carriers, they could have forced us into a negotiated ceasefire. I guess God played a big part in the outcome. My dad was on the USS Maryland and was hurt in the attack. He often said that as bad as the damage was, Japan stopped far too soon if the goal was to destroy the fleet. He never believed FDR knew Pearl was the target ahead of time.
Japan was very imperialist and horrific to the areas they occupied. There's a reason China and Korea still hate them with a passion.
And the dopes fall for it, EVERY SINGLE TIME! it’s pretty amazing
Actually… I read somewhere that Pearl is the number one tourist destination for Japanese outside their own islands. It used to infuriate my mother in law, who lost a love in the ensuing conflict. These days I doubt many teenagers even know what happened there or anywhere else. I think it’s safe to allow this joke, but then I’m not an AWFL journalist with sensitive nerves.
While I was in the US Navy, our ship was docked within view of the Arizona memorial. Hard to describe the feeling I felt looking at the memorial & knowing what was below it - kind of eerie.
Thank you for your service. Few recountings of events that occurred before my arrival on this earth cause an immediate lump in my throat and teary eyes than the attack on Pearl Harbor and especially the sinking of the Arizona. May they rest in peace.
I believe it's a memory that's etched forever in the minds of those that see it.
Even just seeing the Arizona memorial in video or pictures, it gives off an eerie feeling.
I didn't feel very friendly to the Japanese tourist standing next to me at the memorial.
03/20/26: Excellent point. As an issue or topic of conversation, Pearl Harbor four generations later is a ghost of its former self. Those two words today mean very little or nothing to quite many of us.
A reminder that we may forgive, we don't forget.
He needs to keep coming up with clever responses to their inane questions asking why he didn't tell everyone ahead of time when, how and where we were going to conduct military operations.
The thing is he did tell them when. Prior to the first bombing, he said he'd give them ten days to reach a deal. They tried to stall. Day ten, BOOM!
This time around he gave them a couple extra hours, waiting to drop the hammer until they crawled out from under their rocks believing that Trump wouldn't attack in broad daylight.
Here's the thing I wonder about. Israel said they were able to pinpoint the ayatollahs location because they'd hacked the traffic cameras in Tehran.
Why would they give away something like that? Did that leak get compromised, or was that meant to deflect scrutiny away from the real source of the information?
At any rate, reading that communist China immediately began removing millions of cameras in their cities was hilarious!
Trump is playing 3D chess. Our enemies are suffering. Our fairweather fiends like England are getting crumbs instead of cake and our real friends are rewarded.
Japan's Prime Minister got treated like front row guest at a stand up comic's performance. Maybe she was surprised, but by now she And the world should know to expect things like that with President Trump.
Trump is in no hurry to open the Strait of Hormuz , we don't get oil from there. The ones suffering from the closure are China and the Peons. No worries, spring is just around the corner so they won't all freeze to death.
I, too, thought it was unusual that Israel's method of using the traffic cameras was revealed. IIRC, it was the New York Times that revealed that, and it seems to me like a deliberate type of sabotage (treason). Just like that Wall St. Journal article that purported to be in indepth video interview of Tucker, but actually doxed his home location, security system, etc. (This was BEFORE Tucker went into bizarre mode.)
We may never know exactly what the story is on these, but the revealing of the traffic cams usage was certainly not "innocent reporting".
Today is the Vernal Equinox. The sun sits directly above the equator (10:46 am) on its way to the Northern Hemisphere. Still waiting for the effects of winter to subside, though.
https://youtu.be/lSoCT4IHpsE?si=kkFx3mGgLW5OynGp
Hilarious commercial. I remember those two guys well. Thank you for sharing!
My high school go to training alcohol.
It's easy. Just move a thousand miles south.
Funny guy
While it seems the hack of the cameras was helpful, supposedly Mossad had a human source quite close to the Irani senior leadership…and this was the key to knowing where they would be (at least that is what I’ve read fwiw). Also, they bought the propaganda that Trump would “chicken out” and gambled that we would never strike in daylight hours.
Wrong on all counts
Stupid questions deserve that kind of response
Ron, he merely has to be who he is !!
If you can live down with it ,
Yeah.I mean , after all , when Payton Manning was playing he would yell Omaha , and then tell the whole world what he is going to do next , yeah , why not do that??
03/20/26: Things never change. Before WWI, the magazine "The Masses" in Greenwich Village was a liberal publication which respected and published opposing points of view, as well as many humorous pieces. After WWI,,in the 1920s, management chaos prompted the relatively sane staffers and editor to quit; and The Masses morphed into a humorless Communist propaganda rag. One hundred years later...
Twat rag for twat liberals.
Journalists today have a very poor grasp of history -- and of humor.
As to history -- it is full of people who fought each other, even for centuries, that are total friends now.
And as to humor -- Leftists, as the intolerant geeks they are, simply have none.
And productive jobs.
She is a very gracious and graceful lady
No doubt about it. She’s a pleasure to watch.
This is the reset the world didn’t see coming. Under Donald Trump, alliances aren’t about paperwork—they’re about performance. NATO talks, hedges, and hand-wrings. Real partners act. Israel hits targets. Saudi Arabia backs the play. Others step up or get exposed. That’s the difference. You don’t telegraph operations to committees—you execute with the allies who can deliver. The media hates it because it shatters the old order. Good. The new model is simple: strength, speed, loyalty. If you’re in, you’re in. If not, step aside. America doesn’t need fair-weather friends—it needs allies who show up when it counts.
The big reveal here is much of NATO is unable to support their charter. The US is the only one who can project power and bring hell to breakfast....
"America doesn’t need fair-weather friends . . "
The EU members are like the lazy do-nothings I worked with in the 1990's who were on the short-list of being laid off in the next down business cycle.
Put the EU back-benchers where they belong: In the locker room on towel laundry duty or hauling the water jug for the players.
Yeah, but the jerks they have in sports team locker rooms picking up the jockstraps and dirty towels all go on to become sports writers and analysts so they can get even with the athletes who didn't even know their names.
Yeah, sort of the same situation that Trump faces. That is, getting constant unwarranted criticism from the back-benchers who can't achieve success except by tearing another down.
He does anything, they shit on it.
Just what would Europe do if Russia - by accident, oops! - hit a European country? They have nothing - no armies to speak of, (the UK has a smaller military now than they did in 1776!), no navies, Air Force, or even materiel that they haven’t gotten from the US - so what then?
Yet they prance about, all tough sounding and unified in their support for Ukrainians dying by the thousands in that meat grinder, wholly empowered by who? Us, that’s who.
Literally every aspect Ukraine’s war effort is only made possible by US equipment, intelligence and technology. If we just unplugged them from Starlink they would be completely blind and rendered utterly powerless. Maybe we should, or at least say we will. Things might change real quick over there.
For our 250th anniversary celebration we may want to consider writing a Declaration of Independence from NATO and the UN and deliver the signed copies to the members of the EU. . . effective on July 4, 2026.
As an added thought: Include language that all military bases in their respective countries become a sovereign territory of the USA, forfeiting their control over our use of that real estate.
I would stand with a Declaration of Independence from NATO/UN jackassery 100%. We don't need them, they need us yet they treat us like dirt. Let them live by their own wits. And kick the UN out of New York. The air will smell much sweeter.
The air would smell sweeter if not for the Mamdani Strench.
Ignorant people voted for him. Let the ignorant people learn a life lesson then.
Yup. Two consecutive governors told me they didn't need me or my money to visit. I believe them. Not that I had any plans to visit, anyway.
03/20/26: Baghdad Hochul (gov) has done her usual 180* and is now begging the rich NY expatriates to return (fat chance).
It has got to be really bad for Hochul to eat this kind of crow and beg people to come back. Couldn't happen to a better deserving Socialist.
And they're giving her the Yonkers salute, the middle finger.
03/20/26: I always get a thousand likes when I remind people that if the plug is pulled on the UN, Manhattan real estate values would fall through the floor; the ripple effects would be quite extensive as well. What better revenge could President Trump obtain than to be the person responsible for this happening?
Trump can’t stop our membership in the UN. And our NATO membership either. Congress has to do so and it will never do so unless there is a reasonable substitute. We may hate what the UN and NATO have become but not going to happen. Neither party has the will or backbone to do so. The best we can hope for is a remodeling of both organizations purpose, members, and a scaling back in its personnel size. Congress is so ineffective today they could not agree on naming the House and Senate bathrooms after someone.
Let alone bathrooms by gender.
But he would pay a price too, in the value of his own properties.
03/20/26: I do believe he has jettisoned all of his business interests in NY; besides, if he hasn't, with a reported net worth of six billion dollars, I doubt if his still-owned NY real estate investments went south.
If Russia or China went all in on the US, does anyone really think Nato would - or could - do a damn thing? Hell, France would preemptively surrender and join them.
Appatently you do not inder stand yet haw ashamrd we should be of our success...elect a few more Democrats and it might sink in...
I saw yesterday that our great benefactor, John Thune, has already announced his opposition to Trump's pulling us out of NATO. Is there anything that Thune will back America in at all? All the things on his plate and that is what he chooses to comment on. What a disgusting and worthless slug he is.
You are being kind, sir.
He is an enemy of state. I am not sure Johnson is far behind him on doing as little as possible to help the agenda that a majority of voters (both parties) support (SAVE Act), although I haven't seen a trusted-source poll on departing NATO.
And Cornryn.
Thune is a buffoon. It’s amazing that he doesn’t know how Trump works yet. The man should pick up a book —The Art of the Deal—and learn what he doesn’t know.
He knows. That's how he plans on doing the opposite.
Great idea! Get it to the White House
A stellar idea✨🇺🇸
Only our President Trump could prove how stupid journalists are.
It doesn't matter if they are US or Japanese.
Truly an international joy!
Thanks and looking forward to seeing tomorrows week in review
I was thinking the same thing- what a stupid question. How about framing the question, ‘was not including allies in your decision to proceed, reflective of how little you think of them?’
03/20/26: No disrespect intended for President Trump, but Dan Quayle could prove, as a general rule, how stupid LEGACY MEDIA journalists can be.
I forgot the Quayle ridicule
Thanks for reminding me
Quayle was a bright guy in reality. His so-called ignorance was a product of the Wapo and NYT. Sad we have two non-American news organizations in this country so dedicated to propaganda.
She understood the reference to Pearl Harbor was not a sick joke because she knows our president well enough to call him Donald.
Those people in those countries who believe nor think that depending on China rather than the US have a hard truth coming there way and probably sooner rather than later. What it will be who knows? But it will dawn on many of them that their dislike of Trump and dependence on China has a price and they’ll be the ones paying it. I think Germany may be the first to get slapped upside the head with reality.
You would think that Germany might have learned a lesson after they laughed at Trump for deriding their dependence on Russian oil. And then Russia invaded Ukraine.
They are too weakened to have many choices today. Should be a lesson for us as well.
Especially with Carney to the north of us kowtowing to China as fast as he can. The Canadian citizens and we are going to have to deal with his stupidity for years to come. We'd better vote wisely.
Yep, history teaches lessons. Ignoring it eventually gives you few choices.
03/20/26: And no matter what happens, they act as if it doesn't matter at all that their abandonment of nuclear power has been an ongoing, daily financial disaster.
That poll was shocking & should be a wake-up call for the USA to get out of NATO & also the UN.
But we don't want to make things easier for Red China by handing them those two organizations on a silver platter.
To me, the poll shows how effective the media has been in demonizing PDJT. Most of those countries have both a Left-wing media and the citizens are low information types who get fed the anti-Trump coverage. This is one more example of why you cannot hate the media enough.
I try, but I'm just one man.
A simple comparison of the weaponry used in this little conflict should wake the EU weenies up. Let the Chinese give/sell them weapons that fail 99% of the time instead of having US's pinpoint strike capabilities in their backyard. It's a matter of dependability. They depend upon the US, we don't/can't depend upon the EU and NATO.
Considering the current state of affairs, I would rather the first would be Merry Olde England. They have strayed farthest from a civilized, sensible path.
The Saudis are sunni moslems, who do not hold the same apocalyptic vision as do the shia. For a shia moslem, a minority comprising approximately 20% of all islam, if the mahdi delays in springing forth out of the well in which he has been hiding for fourteen centuries, it is appropriate to bring about events that will bring him out. Since the mahdi allegedly brings order (in the sense of bringing about global submission) out of chaos, it is necessary that chaos is initiated. That is the reason they have no fear of disrupting global equanimity with terror and warfare against the "enemies of islam," viz., everyone who is not a shia moslem, including the sunni majority. On the other hand, there is no significant apolyptic strain in sunni islam; they are content to simply wait for the end times. Of course, in both strains of islam the ascendancy of their "religion" is a given as is the defeat, whether by death or submission of all non-moslems. This is why, despite the current rift between Iran and much of the rest of its neighbors, there can never be a true alliance between the Christian West (which at this time, means specifically The USA) and any islamic nation; that would be literally a pact made with the devil, since islam is entirely a satanic entity. Sadly, it is readily evident to anyone with eyes to see that many formerly "Christian" nations in Europe have made that pact, which explains why they are reluctant to do anything that might offend their islamic overlords. Europe, after both causing and experiencing the devastation of World Wars I and II is simply a spent force in the world. Europe no longer exists as part of the West; it is now merely a matter of geography, some lines drawn on a map without any real substance. Trump knows this and is acting in the best interest of the country over which he was elected president.
One thing you can say about China and Russia is that they have almost zero tolerance for Islam within their borders, as they rightly recognize it to be the threat that it contains.
For a time, it was mostly contained within countries in the ME, but over the last twenty years has been allowed to migrate into the West, throughout Europe, the UK and Canada, and in the US as well, and at alarming rates. Big mistake.
Anyone who thinks you can live side by side with a fanatical religious entity whose sole “divine” mission and purpose for being is subjugation and domination is just stupid.
Trump’s comeback to that reporter, (who was Japanese btw), was one of the all time most brilliant, perfect and slam dunk responses ever! The fact that he said it in the presence of the Japanese Prime Minister made it even moreso.
Japan may wish to bury that particular episode from their memory, but the USA never will. It is all the more poignant in that Japan has now become one of our true Allies.
Trump has been taking heat for reminding our European fake Allies of all the blood and treasure this country has spent on their behalf over the last 100 years, bailing them out and saving their asses from the domination of their enemies, and protecting them ever since. And what have we gotten in return? Absolute squat. Worse than that, our largesse has only been taken advantage of to extraordinary extremes by them all, while they prance around in all their smug self-righteous pomposity.
The uncomfortable reality Trump is revealing to all nations of the world, friend and foe, is this: you’re either for us or against us, but none of you can survive without us.
The most stellar quality of Trump is he is real - realer than real - there’s not a shred of phony in him - and he faces reality head on, with no apologies. With regard to our so-called Allies, NATO in particular, he has little patience with pretense and phonies. But he is humble when others humble themselves. Just never mistake that for his forgetting exactly who they are and what they’ve done.
So well put Suzie !
Excellent observation!
Mind sweeper’s in the US have gone into action publishing and broadcasting as much disinformation as possible.
03/20/26: Good one!
Trump is a master at the non-political: simply put a spotlight on someone and let them show you who they are by actions, not rhetoric. It's called the private sector. Put up or shut up. Next...
"Thomas G. Kelley is among the 7 Navy Medal of Honor recipients who have not been honored with a ship’s name." In Andy Rooney voice - I wonder why that is?
Wait…. what?
We actually have a Naval vessel named after a Communist terrorist?
(There are things other than great comedy that endanger keyboards in the morning… 😳 )
Not surprising that this happened under Obama: "Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced on May 18, 2011, that the 14th Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship would be named in honor of civil rights and labor leader César Chávez."
'The Obama Presidency'...The greatest blight ever on US Presidential history. Just look at his library (and BS bookstore) and imagine how many of his administrations screwup decisions were made, many which have yet to be discovered. Anyone who could conjure up such an abomination needs watching.
This week it was shown that the payroll for Obama’s library is quite inflated—$740K for Valerie Jarrett, for ex. And yet they are advertising for UNPAID volunteers to serve as docents. This while they sit on prime real estate in Chicago which they lease for a nominal amount.
The Chicago corrupt way perfected to an art, then foisted on our nation by BHO and his gang of creeps.
Speaking of great comedy, one of the poll choices could have been Sid Caesar.
All good choices and better than naming a US Naval vessel after a communist
That was great comedy - loved that show. I also liked the film, "My Favorite Year" which depicted an episode where Errol Flynn (Peter O'Toole) was scheduled to appear on Sid Ceasar's (Joseph Bologna) show.
Remember we also had a Navy ship named after Harvey Milk… I believe it was renamed.
I checked further: In June 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson (T-AO-206). The change aims to remove political figures from ship naming and honor Oscar V. Peterson, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient. The original name, assigned in 2016, honored Harvey Milk, a Navy veteran and LGBTQ+ rights activist.
Our Secretary of War rocks!
Indeed he does! I had forgotten that renaming.
War heroes only. “Activists” need not apply.
I did not know we had a ship named after Chavez. How ridiculous, with or without any allegations. I remember years ago my parents going to Hawaii & visiting the Harbor Memorial & saying there were far more Japanese there than Americans. Setting aside the location factor, that surprised me. Who/what gets lost too many times amidst all the forgotten history is the US. MacArthur & Marshall - were it not for the US, Japan & Europe/Britain & Germany would be toast, yet it would appear only Japan remembers. The opening poll surprised me & I don’t know why- why it surprised me or why so many felt that way. Interesting & telling.
The mis-education system at its finest Shirley !!
I spend the winter in Florida. We have several Canadians here where we live and the poll results confirm what I am seeing in them. They have big mouths, but are mostly limp wristed socialists who really hate Trump. They will be perfectly happy being owned by the Chicoms.
I hope the Charleses and LuAnns outnumber them!
Those two are some of my favorite Canadians!
Mine, too!