Random News And Notes 27 May
We kick off today with reason #987354723 for why we should ban the CCP from US businesses and land investments. A US based self-driving truck company, TuSimple, transferred a large amount of data to a Beijing-owned company one week after pledging to the U.S. government to stop sharing sensitive technology with Chinese partners.
May I suggest that it is far past time to ban TikTok and any other Chinese apps as well? It’s not like there needs to be any new legislation, it already passed and was signed into law. That Trump keeps givin g extensions is literally against the law.
Moving on. . . .
Another Dem politician took a trip to El Salvador to see gangbanger and Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This time it was Maryland 4th district rep Glenn Ivey.
Because El Salvador is a sovereign nation and not beholden to US lawmakers, prison officials did not let Ivey in to see Garcia. I find the Dem obsession with illegals like Garcia both amusing and troubling. Amusing because they continue to be on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue. Troubling because that is what the radical leftist base wants.
I do not begin to know the details of this next one, it just came to my attention yesterday and is a very complex case.
President Trump has just issued a pardon to former Culpepper county VA sheriff Scott Jenkins. Jenkins was convicted by a jury in December 2024 on charges including one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud and seven counts of bribery concerning federally funded programs. The charges stemmed from an alleged cash for badges scheme. The pardon comes just as Jenkins was set to begin a 10 year term in the federal slam.
There are claims that the judge in the case, Judge Robert Ballou, a Biden appointee, acted improperly and excluded potential exculpatory evidence. The judge also went on an unhinged rant against the sheriff from the bench. Like I said, I don’t know what is what in this case, so I present it to you to decide.
A man drove a car through a crowd in Liverpool, England yesterday. The streets were crowded in celebration of the Liverpool FC* winning the Premier League Championship.(Yeah, that’s soccer, and a commie sport if there ever was one, but they like it so who am I to question?) At least 27 were injured including 4 children. As with all these incidents, take the first few days worth of reports with a grain of salt.
Initial reports say a 53 year old white man was taken into custody over the incident, but the Liverpudlian police are careful not to say he was the driver. All the video and images I’ve seen of the driver seem to me to be of a much younger and darker skinned man than the guy who got banged up. Given the long standing practice of the police in the UK to cover up for certain ethnicities and religions, I’d be surprised if we get any more official info.
*The Liverpool FC is owned by the same sports conglomerate that owns the Boston Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins and sports net NESN.
I am really glad I am not an administrator at an Ivy League school right now. Especially Harvard. President Trump has just announced another policy directive aimed at Harvard. This one cancels and/or reassigns contracts with the university worth around $100 million.
The GSA is also urging all executive agencies to search for other vendors for contracts currently held by Harvard.
As we used to say in the Army BOHICA.
Ok, but. . .
When are we going to start to see results? I have previously recommended patience. However, enough time has passed that we should start seeing things happen, not just more press releases with no outcomes.
In what I can only call a promising start, the Trump admin has fast-tracked the permitting and approval of a new uranium mine in Utah.
Now we just need to get our smelting and ore processing facilities back up and running. You hear a lot about China having the market cornered in rare earths. That is only partially true. They do not have any more of the ores and other raw materials than anyone else, in fact the US has far more of that than China. What China does have is about 80% of the smelting and processing capabilities world wide.
