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Today's News with Larry Schweikart

Today's News with Larry Schweikart

By: Larry Schweikart
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 Check out this daily round-up of happenings in politics, government, foreign affairs, entertainment, culture, and more. It's a fresh take on the news with the signature witty edge of the "intellectually irreverent" New York Times #1 bestselling author, historian, and political pundit Dr. Larry Schweikart. The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow.2023-2024 Larry Schweikart Political Science Politics & Government World
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  • Today's News, May 12, 2025

    Today's News, May 12, 2025
    May 12 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) In a titanic announcement, President Trump has given "most favored nation" status to . . . the USA when it comes to drugs! This immediately offsets the massive differences in prices between the same drugs in Europe and the US and promises to lower costs immediately. If prices go up in Europe, well, . . . Trump has called this the most "consequential executive order in history." And he'd be right. By the way, this would require the federal gubment to pay the same prices under "most favored nation," causing all Medicare and Medicaid prices to fall. It was absolutely brilliant, and the Hoax News Media is screaming about Pfizer's stock price. Pfizer may not like it, but the rest of the market soared 1,000, with the Dow now back to over 42,000. It will be 46,000 by Christmas---at least. By the way, "Aristophanes" on X suggest that in part this is Trump getting back on Big Pharma over screwing up the China Virus vax and damaging him with what he wanted to be a signature issue, and now one he has had to drop. Oh, and politically? This means that after Trump cut the DemoKKKrats' fiscal nuts off at USAID, he now has sucked off all their Big Pharma donations for 2026. Buh bye. 2) Violent idiot DemoKKKrat toadpunchers who invaded an ICE facility and got physical with agents may face criminal charges, said the DOJ. Hope so, but I'll believe this when I see it. In reality, this terrorist party ought to be banned, like the Nazis in Germany. 3) I for one don't have a problem with the new Air Force One from Qatar as long as its swept for bugs. Consider it another type of Statue of Liberty or Resolute Desk. 4) In awesome news, Texas AG ken Paxton is way ahead of Sitting Spooge John Cornhole. We now can likely replace two melondrippers, Cornhole and Yertle. Can we get three? Uncle Thom, are you listening? 5) The DemoKKKrat civil wars are heating up as the Ragin' Cajun, James Carville, told Illicit Mullah Omar to leave the DemoKKKrat Party. They want to do domestic terrorism their way.. And, once again, voter registration continues to move toward Rs, even in deep blue Delaware, Rutabagta's home state, where both parties lost voters, but Ds lost 2x as many! I'll give you the news, even when it's not good. In PA, Ds have gained for 3 straight weeks, most likely because of some D primary races, especially in Philly. Overall D lead down to just 93,000 though from 1.1 million in 2016. 6) "The Punisher" Pete Hegseth has removed General Thoroughly Modern Milley's security clearance and seeks to have him demoted. Good. The guy is a complete Benedict Arnold without class. But while we're on the subject of the U.S. Army, it is ditching helicopters for the new trirotor planes. 7) This retired NASA doctor says he saw a "flying saucer" with USAF markings at Cape Canaveral in 1992. Fortunately, it wasn't accompanied by one of these: 8) Once Cackles lost the election, Rutabaga pushed out almost $40 billion in useless green "loans" and other giveaways. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. of these people need to be in jail, pardons or no pardons. 9) DOGE has discovered 100,000 gubment employees who are also collecting unemployment insurance. Gravy train is over, spoogies. 10) This is epic. There will be no "East Plano Islamic City." Good. 11) Rasmussen today has Trump/nation up 3 on the "Right track" question. IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 11) The Trump Administration is hiring 20,000 new ICE agents to aid in deportations. And Trump redicrected illegal criminal alien housing funds to a new homeless veterans center. 12) Rutabaga's evil administration sent 300,000 fake addresses to DHS and other agencies tasked with eliminating the criminal invaders. The evil that was the Rutabaga administration was satanic and approached that of Nazi Germany. 13) This was wild, except after exposing a tunnel network under Congress, the reporters didn't go down in it and look around. Scared of what you might find? IN CULTURAL NEWS 14) But of course: a former "Teacher of the Year" in San Diego was sentenced to 30 years for sexual abuse of a student. IN TRANSOID NEWS 15) DemoKKKrats now are introducing bills to ELIMINATE women's sports. Only a matter of time, since it's clear Transoids are men who are cheating to beat women. 16) Some 11% of those arrested in the Columbia U. library takeover "identified" as "they/them" transoid creepazoids. 17) When will parents AND kids say ENOUGH? A Minnesota male is dominating female softball. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 18) President Trump said that in extended negotiations with the ChiComs, they have arrived at a "total reset in trade. Trump says 80% tariffs appear about right, but for now the standard 10% tariffs plus a 20% ChiCom surcharge are in place. Still seems low to me. For now there is a pause on the 125% rate. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that in conversations with the ChiComs they said they flat out ignored any of their own concessions to Rutabaga because, well, he was Rutabaga. ...
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    16 mins
  • Today's News, May 8-10, 2025

    Today's News, May 8-10, 2025
    May 11 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) President Trump announced the first of numerous big tariff deals with Mediocre Britain, and that the 10% tariff would remain. The world better get used to this. A 10% tariff is the baseline, the vig, for doing business with the U.S. It will soon be our income once the income tax is replaced. As Jeff Childers points out in his "Coffee and Covid," the unscrupulous Wall Street Journal may be starting a pivot on the tariff. Meanwhile this has allowed Trump to cut all non-defense spending in his new budget: "a step forward" says former conservative congressman Thaddeus McCotter. 2) Senator John Fetterman apparently cut loose on a rant---"Why does everybody hate me? What did I ever do?"---in a meeting with the teacher's union. Fetterman Massacre, listen to me bro. You ARE NOT WELCOME in the DemoKKKrat Party if you have ANY of these positions: You support Israel, you support human life, and you actually like America. He has gotten bad polling news in his attempt to hold his seat. We'll see. I think he's ok. 3) Two big announcements from Pam Bondi on Wednesday afternoon. First, the FBI has arrested 200 child predators., which, it is clear, is just the start. Second, she laid to rest notions advanced by Congressman James Comer that the Epstein evidence was destroyed. Quite the contrary she said, they have so much of it it's taking an enormous amount of time to go through. As I suspected and have argued, the FBI has "tens of thousands of videos" in which they need to scour to remove and redact any images of kids or minors. Jeff Childers notes that if foreign pols are on the tapes, revealing their names now in the midst of tariff negotiations would result in a wave of demands for immunity tied to the economic plan. Or, as he calls it, a "hopelessly complicated plate of competing incentive spaghetti." Meanwhile the Trump administration released 60,000 pages of Robert F. Kennedy documents. And DOGE has deactivated over 500,000 gubment credit cards. 4) Seth Keshel lays out the four types of soverignty that are absolutely essential going forward. 5) After being forced to withdraw Ed Martin's name for US Attorney to D.C., President Trump named Judge Jeanine Pirro. This is unusual, as she hasn't tried a case in forever. But her APPOINTMENT is interim, meaning the Senate can't do anything about it, and it bypasses Uncle Thom Tillis. It also sent a clear signalt when Martin was then named special prosecutor to investigate prosecutors, and, perhaps, Uncle Thom himself. Trump characteristically did NOT name a "moderate" to take over for Martin. Meanwhile, the DOJ has launched a criminal investigation of NY AG Letitia James. Hey, you know that dranged leftist who spit on Ed Martin? Yeah. That's called assault and she was arrested. I'd make it a heavier charge, since DemoKKKrats are demon-possessed, & her spittle was venomous, I'd charge her with assault with a deadly weapon. 6) Someone apparently read Kash Patel the riot act on FBI cuts, which will happen now with his support. Everybody is cutting. So far, DOGE cuts have totaled over 61,000 jobs, not counting another 77,000 in buyouts and retirements. Plus Trump fired the Zero-appointed Librarian of Congress. Oh and the FEMA boss was fired, too. 7) Six new arrests for illegal voter harvesting in TX. You know, the kind of fraud certain people said couldn't happen? Jeff Childers, who has become a regular here, wrote of this: "Paxton’s latest move is historic, not just for who he arrested, but for what it signals: a willingness to confront entrenched electoral abuse, even by putting officeholders in handcuffs. It’s a legal line-crossing. . . ." 8) Groomer City (San Francisco) has been brought to a halt by a network glitch in its train system. 9) Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter has died at age 85. 10) Trump has re-started the dormant collections on student loans. 11) This story says New York is "swinging wildly to the right." IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS 12) The Newark, NJ mayor was arrested for breaking into an ICE facility. Good. More handcuffs. More perp walks. It is abundantly clear that DemoKKKrats are wallowing in stupidity, thinking that aligning with evil, murderous invaders is somehow a political win. How long before they wake up? Possibly never. They, like Hollywood with its woke, are now so invested in this idea that I don't think they can ever escape it. IN CULTURAL NEWS 13) The great Ryan Burge takes a look at the nation's "megachurches" (2,000+ members), finds they are mostly in the south, west, mid-center but NOT in New England, and that they are non-denominational, which is the fastest-growing "denomination" in the country. 14) Robert Francis Prevost, an American, was elected Pope and will reign as Leo XIV. Reviews are mixed on how liberal or conservative he is. Richard Baris is a hard "no," so that tells me a lot. Trump congratulated him. Leo, not Rich. IN ECONOMIC NEWS 15) Prices are falling ...
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    19 mins
  • Today's News, May 6-7, 2025

    Today's News, May 6-7, 2025
    May 8 2025
    IN POLITICAL NEWS 1) Probably the single biggest complaint and point of tension between Trump and the MAGA electorate is the seemingly glacial pace of indictments for the political traitors and conspirators, along with the the tardiness in releasing the Epstein list. Jeff Childers, in his "Coffee and Covid" column, argues that a far more important DOJ war is going on against human trafficking, where no fewer than 270 (!!!) investigations are under way. In all likelihood, that consumes 1,000-2,000 DOJ personnel and, when combined with the 70+ court battles DOJ has to fight, you are now looking at another 1,000 personnel. FBI director Kash Patel says that the bureau is in a full-scale war with a trafficking group called "764," and that they have already arrested over 200 leaders of the group and freed a large number of children (Patel did not give specifics). Every single one of the 55 FBI field offices is involved in this war. The 764 and other groups prey on white, underage girls, getting to them through social media, games, and chat forums. Many of these groups are flat-out satanic, and many are neo-Nazi white supremacist. Childers, a lawyer, gives a case-file example of how this worked. The Moloch-lovers who compose these groups are called "accelerationists" because they want to accelerte civilization's collapse. Demonic Diddlepickles is more like it. An X account named "BX" has posted a review of these poodlepinchers. As Childers warns, this isn't a bunch of toss-off toadstools fomenting in their basements. This is a global and digital organization of Baal-humping malcontents every bit the equivalent of al-Qaeda, but with different tactics. As "friends" on X, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media pages they use phrases such as "You're so mature for your age" or "Your parents don't get you" to start the grooming cycle. Please read the whole column. While some would say, "Well, the Epstein files are so high profile it would send a message." Apparently from the get go---and AG Pam Bondi has highlighted this repeatedly---the Trump administration places such a high value on saving these kids from trafficking that it is willing to take the hit for diverting resources from a guy who didn't kill himself and whose operation is shut down. 2) Speaking of investigations and prosecutions that need to be done, but which we apparently don't have the resources for, Rutabaga's evil administration targeted "non-criminal conservatives" who spread "disinformation." 3) Writers at The Liberal Patriot are desperately dredging up the ghost of Zero (Barack Obama), forgetting that he lost a record number of DemoKKKrat seats nationally and locally. Zero never helped the DemoKKKrats, and lost significant national support even though he beat an inept and globalist Minion Romney in 2012. So, yeah, boys. Keep dredging up the Ghost of Racist Past. Meanwhile, Richard Baris's Big Data Poll has Trump at 48% approval, 47% disapproval. And I think Rich would agree that no matter how hard he tries to adjust, there are another 1-2% of pro-Trump voters who just refuse to be polled, skewing the results downward. Rasmussen also had Trump up, and over 50%. 4) In huge news, with both John Roberts and ACB voting with the majority, the Supes upheld President Trump's transoid ban. Here is a review of all the court cases pending against the Trump admin. If you just look at green vs. red (approve vs. blocked) green is winning. Many are still "pending." 5) It's Wyoming, so why is this important? Because it is 100% in line with every other state we can track: GOP gained a net of 120 over DemoKKKrats and 40 over BOTH DemoKKKrats and Independents. Now, in NC we see the normal pattern of GOP beating DemoKKKrats (again), bringing their overall lead down to 105,000 from 175,000 in 2020, but in NC Republicans have now taken an 83,000 lead in active voter registration. Meanwhile, Seth Keshel's substack offers a quick review in which in seven battlegrounds Rs have out gained Ds. Every. Single. One. The latest from NH, where Rs gained more than the Ds and Is put together, while in NV, May statistics show the GOP netted 2,200 over the Ds. 6) Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has left the DemoKKKrat Party for the Republicans. 7) Fetterman Massacre, the Human Ox, has defended Israel. Uh oh. Now DemoKKKrat snakescratchers are questioning his mental health. These are the same people who think women are men and the same ones who said, when Fetterman was in the hospital with a stroke and was temporarily brain dead, that he was sharp as a tack. 8) Shocked, I tell ya. A new House report shows that the FBI "butchered" the report on the softball game shooting, downplaying the anti GOP animosity of the shooter, who left a clear letter indicating his hatred of Republicans. Seriously, we need to raze the FBI as an institution. 9) President Trump met with the newly elected governor of the 51st state, who insisted Canada would NEVER become part...
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    23 mins

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