@#2 ... Remember when MAGATS cried that BLM protests could theoretically potentially block ambulances? ...

@#6 ... How did the dem admins manage to deport even more illegals that dt, without the pushback? ...

Maybe because the Dem admins followed the law instead of following Pres Trump's policy of cruelty and killing American citizens?

@#12 ... That might have been Sun Tzu. ...

Found this ...

... Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts ...

Of course, Pres Trump might likely say that he has no say in the awarding of such contacts to the ~blind trust~ managed by his sons.

More from the article ...

... American Ascent launches Monday with an eye toward building a bench of young conservatives that could flip some of the dozens of congressional seats that will be held by aging lawmakers in 2028.

The 501(c)(4) will be run by Ryan Neuhaus, the former Heritage Foundation chief of staff. Its partners include an array of new-right allies of Vice President JD Vance, including Turning Point Action, which has already endorsed Vance for president in 2028, as well as the conservative think tank Claremont Institute and the watchdog group Oversight Project.

A PAC that has backed challenges to other GOP incumbents led by Andy Surabian, a longtime aide to both Vance and Donald Trump Jr., will also partner closely with the effort.

The effort was in the works before last week's GOP washout. Still, its leaders say those results show Republicans must double down rather than shrink back from an aggressive populist agenda on issues from immigration to the economy.

"For too long, the Republican Party has relied on rerunning candidates over and over again," Neuhaus said. "The American people told us pretty clearly that they want to see younger, more energetic politicians leading in America, representing them. They want to feel closely connected to them, and American Ascent is going to accomplish that."

When asked if their recruits would primary incumbent Republicans, Neuhaus demurred. "That's up to them," he said, referring to the candidates. "But I'll prepare any young and able and competent American to run for higher office."

Neuhaus is the former Heritage Foundation chief of staff who shouldered the blame for Kevin Roberts' controversial video defending Tucker Carlson last year, after the podcaster hosted a friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. ...

@#10

But, does AG Blanche have a good offense, aside from his bomber le torse?

@#9 ... LOL ~ That's scared talk.

Blanche is scared! ...

What's the US football adage?

The best defense is a good offense?

... Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contract ...

The grifting continues?

... The chip-making giant said its board had no reason to believe the company's secrets or national security were compromised, ...

So far as currently seems to be known.

Time will tell.

CEO Huang seemed to have violated his oath to his wife in this affair.

So, what does that say about how he may regard his responsibility towards Nvidia?

@#13 ... President Donald Trump emerged Monday with muddled accusations of election fraud, nearly a week after saying he would accept the sweeping Republican losses in the midterm elections. ...

Pres Trump seems to have two main concepts that govern his alternate-reality life ...

1) He always wins.

2) Everybody loves him (see #1).

If anything in the real world falls outside of those two governing concepts, then the real world is obviously wrong.

Kudos for the recovery.

Pres Trump's Policy of Cruelty seems to be continuing.

@#8

And, as I have stated previously, it was the ascent of the Tea Party within the GOP that led to my change on party registration from Republican to Unaffiliated here in CT.

(CT has an Independent Party that seems to align itself with the GOP more often than not. That's why I went to the Unaffiliated designation in my voter registration.)

Of course, that prevents me from voting in any primaries here in CT.

So my opinions don't count in primaries. ...

@#6 ... All the sane Republicans were primaried or otherwise removed from the Republican body politic decades ago. ...

I'm not yet convinced about the "decades ago" aspect.

But I'll generally agree that since the Tea Party, the GOP seems to have taken on a major turn towards sucking up to the uber-wealthy.

@#4 ... For some reason ...

So, your current alias (bot?) does not know why it posts the same comment over and over?

Quite telling.

So the voters in Hungary also seemed to have voted corruption out of their government.

More from the article ...

... Both apps signed customers in through ForgeRock, an identity platform now part of Ping Identity, and on those servers the researchers reached an administrator console that still used its default password.

They tested the full attack only on their own and consenting owners' cars in the United States, in February 2026, and both systems were fixed about two hours after they reported the problem.

Shubham Shah and Sam Curry published their work late last week. They had started with the apps: both brands signed customers in through the same platform, which runs in two parts: one for login and one, called OpenIDM, that holds customer records.

OpenIDM comes with a built-in administrator console powered by the Apache Felix tool. ForgeRock's own hardening guide tells operators to remove this console or protect it before going live because it stores its own password separately from the rest of the system. On these servers, it was still there and still used the documented default: the word admin for both the username and the password.

The console was blocked from the open internet, but the edge that guards the site and the Java software behind it read the same web address differently. By adding encoded slashes and extra characters, the researchers made the edge treat the request as a harmless static file while the server treated it as the path to the console, and the default password did the rest. The full method is in their technical analysis. ...

@#24 ... Any official member of congress can introduce a bill regardless of which team controls the chamber. That's meaningless. ...

Meaningless? I would disagree.

If it is so meaningless, why is it getting so much attention? Perhaps the introduction, itself, is significant?

... It will indeed have to wait for any kind of action, if there is one. ...

Agreed. There's the rub.

Time will tell.

@#17 ... And how will persecuting Hegseth release the Epstein files and reduce gas, housing, grocery and healthcare prices? ...

OK, two comments ...

1) The MAGA Republicans are still in control of Congress. This is happening in a MAGA-controlled Congress. So there's that.

2) Secondarily, those things may need to wait until January when the new Congress is sworn in.

Pres Trump, like most bullies, likes to project strength.

But in this instance, he has once again failed to do so.

And has shown himself to exhibit the behavior of a whining two-year-old, complete with a temper tantrum.

Hardly a good show for the "most transparent Administration ever."

... videos capture an unexpected reaction ...

Unexpected?

Why?

@#15

... or ask him to resign?

Regardless, I am not convinced of such an outcome at this point.

Pres Trump seems to adore Sec Def Hegseth's prancing about on a stage (maybe Pres Trump admires Sec Def Hegseth's derrière?), i.e., the performative aspect Sec Hegseth brings to the table.

Pres Trump, I'll say, seems to be clueless about Sec Def Hegseth's apparent lack of military strategy.

But so long as Sec Def Hegseth prances about on a stage, Pres Trump seems to be happy.

Will that change?

I wish I knew ...

Stay tuned.

@#12

So, Rep Massie's seems to be saying that Sec Def Hegseth should be impeached, not because he is ineffective, but because his effectiveness has violated laws and the Constitution.

@#11 ... "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesnt get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know." ...

Wow, Sen Massie has been reported in multiple media as actually saying that.

Wow.

Also, from what Rep Massie stated ...