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FRANK ON FRIDAY – Imports, Exports and Deports
Well, we certainly have had quite the interesting April so far. April normally is a rather quiet month. Winter is ending, Spring is beginning, baseball is back, and thoughts run to Easter, Passover and taxes. Not so this year.
The juggernaut that is Donald Trump has changed the narrative. Friend and foe alike are shocked, shocked to learn that Trump is doing exactly what he has been saying he would do for the past 40 years – impose higher tariffs to stop foreign countries from ripping us off on trade by imposing on the U.S. tariffs that keep our products from being sold abroad, making kickbacks to their local companies, dumping their products on our markets, and creating currency and other trade barriers to rig the system of international trade. Maybe our trade policy made sense after World War II, but not anymore.
Unsurprisingly, the foreign thieves who have been stealing us blind for 70 years are upset that the U.S. finally is objecting to being robbed. Wall Street is upset because it reaps profits by shamelessly investing in foreign companies that produce goods with slave and near-slave labor. It’s just good business, you see.
Both the foreign countries and Wall Street are content to let Uncle Sucker continue to expend blood and trillions of dollars in the defense of the very nations that enjoy the security we provide, then turn around and rob us. A simple “thank you” would have sufficed.
The Democrats are upset, because the very existence of Trump upsets those bastards. They’re publicly denouncing the Trump tariffs, while being privately ecstatic that Trump has handed them an issue to tout. Of course, the Democrats can profit from this issue if and only if the U.S. economy is severely damaged by Trump’s tariff plan, but that’s OK with them.
If they cared about American citizens they wouldn’t have sold out the U.S. to China, they wouldn’t have admitted millions of illegals, they wouldn’t be supporting criminals and opposing law enforcement, and they wouldn’t be supporting murdering Islamic terrorists. But I digress.
And so, on April 2, Trump unleashed his reciprocal tariffs, nearly all of which were still lower than the ones our so-called allies are levying on us. You would have thought the end of the world was nigh.
Publicly, our trading partners, who have been waging a trade war on us for 50 years, denounced the U.S. for starting a trade war. Behind the scenes, according to Trump’s trade team, they’re saying, “OK, you got us, we never thought we could get away with it this long.”
Being pigs, the pigs on Wall Street are squealing loudly. “How dare Trump interfere with our phony, baloney profits? Harumpf!” “How dare Trump temporarily derail our crooked gravy train?” “We could have a recession, a depression, and, and, how can we entice any more unsuspecting sheep to invest their hard-earned money in an over-inflated stock market?”
The Fake News has pumped up the tariff issue, sowing panic with predictions of lost fortunes and devastated 401k accounts. Democrats know that, in panic there is profit. As usual, the truth lies elsewhere.
Yes, between April 2, and April 8, the Dow Jones Average fell from 42,225 to 37,645, that’s about 11%. The Fake News, aided by the Wall Street denizens screamed that $8 trillion, or $10 trillion, or $12 trillion had disappeared, all because of Trump. But then, on April 9, the market went from 37,000 to over 40,000 overnight, climbing 8%. None of them said, “Great, we just got back $8.6 trillion of our paper profits.” According to these pricks, we’re still facing Armageddon.
Don’t buy into the panic. The market fell 11% in 6 days? It’s not the first time. In October 1987, the market fell 22% in one day. We’re all still here. And keep in mind, every other time the market fell it was because our government and the financial “experts” had seriously mishandled the economy. We either had high unemployment, runaway inflation, or both. The financial wizards who are now crying foul clearly don’t have clean hands.
The 2008 recession, and global financial crisis that saw numerous bank failures, the end of Lehman Brothers, the bailout of AIG insurance, and the collapses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, was caused by stupid politicians from both Parties, who empowered lending institutions to give mortgages to millions of insolvent borrowers. The stock market fell 53% that time. The banks and the Wall Street pigs got government bailouts, and over 8 million poor homeowners lost their homes. And we’re still here.
Meanwhile, a virtual parade of foreign trade representatives is streaming in and out of the White House. Some 130 nations are looking to cut deals with the U.S. to avoid high tariffs. Even the Euro trash from the European Union are looking to deal. China, so far, is holding firm. Xi tried to cultivate European nations to stand with him against Trump. They declined. Good decision.
Eventually, the Chinese will have to agree to a deal. I don’t know what’s holding them up, because they’ve never lived up to any agreement they’ve ever made. We can live without most of the Chinese crap they send us. But if 300 million Chinese get laid off, Xi quickly will become the former Chairman of the CCP. This will work out. I’m not sure we’ll see a Golden Age, but business should improve.
That does it for imports and exports. Now to the deports. Tens of thousands of illegals have, so far been rounded up for deportation. But not without a fight. No, not a fight from the illegals, but from District Court Judges who have somehow gotten the notion that they’re in charge of immigration decisions.
In one case, a Maryland District Judge ordered the government to return Salvadoran MS-13 gang member Abrego Garcia to the U.S., from the Salvadoran prison to which he was deported. This case went to the Supreme Court, which ordered the government to “facilitate” his return. Whatever that means.
AG Pam Bondi has been clear on this. “He’s not coming back and we don’t want him back.” Salvadoran President Bukele has said, he’s not releasing him or sending him back. The Administration has told the District judge, in all appropriate legal language, to pound sand, pointing out that the courts have no authority to order a president to contact a foreign nation, or to control foreign policy. The battle rages on.
Then there are the 530,000 illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, to whom Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden granted parole, under his executive authority. A District judge in Massachusetts named Indira Talwani (yes, that’s the judge, not the litigant), has stayed the Trump Administration’s termination of the paroles, under the same authority Biden used to grant them.
According to Judge Talwani, one president can let them in, but another president can’t throw them out. Can’t wait to hear the explanation of that one. Then again, all 530,000 don’t live in Massachusetts, so, as the Supreme Court recently explained to District judges, she has no jurisdiction over this entire crowd of wretched refuse.
And against this backdrop, Democrats keep backing the wrong side of the issue, siding with illegal aliens over American citizens every time. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who had nothing to say when an illegal alien criminal murdered Maryland mother of five Rachel Morin, has announced he’s going to El Salvador to get Abrego Garcia out of prison. You just can’t make this crap up.
Even after the November election losses, Democrats insist on opposing every attempt to make Americans safer. As a recent U.S. president is fond of saying, “So sad.”
FRANK ON FRIDAY – The Disloyal Opposition
The term “loyal opposition” was coined in 18th Century Great Britain to describe the Party out of power in the Parliament. The idea was that the out-of-power Party, although thoroughly opposed to many of the policies of the ruling Party, could hold the government accountable while still respecting the legitimacy of the State. The point was that, despite their differences, both Parties shared a commitment to the nation’s stability.
The notion of a loyal opposition once prevailed in our country as well. The Parties often disagreed on policy, but remained dedicated to national stability, and the legitimacy of the State never was questioned. This was especially the case when it came to foreign policy, where the maxim was that “politics stops at the water’s edge.”
There is no better example of that maxim at work than in the lead up to World War II. FDR’s attempts to rearm America, institute a draft, and provide war materiel to Great Britain were strenuously opposed by isolationist factions in both Parties. But once the bombs started falling on Pearl Harbor, the America First Committee dissolved overnight, and every elected official stood behind FDR.
In today’s America, we no longer have a loyal opposition. The Democrats don’t accept the legitimacy of our government, so loyalty doesn’t exist. And to hear them talk, we really no longer even have an opposition. They’re opposed to everything that the Trump Administration is doing, to be sure, but they offer no alternative. They have no opposing view, and no alternative policies to offer. All they offer America is “resistance.”
Left-wing organizations declared their resistance to Trump on November 6, but the movement took some time to get itself going. Perhaps they were confused by memories of Al Sharpton’s now famous advice, “But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.” Huh?
They took a while to build up steam. The ever-irritating Whoopi Goldberg tried to help it along. “Remember, the resistance is real. You’re not alone.” Then, lying fraud Senator Corey Booker completed a pointless 25 hour harangue on the floor of the Senate, which I suppose was intended to cement his claim to be a leader of the Democrat Party. It didn’t work.
So the Dems moved on to last weekend’s nation-wide Hands Off protests. The question was “hands off what?” As best I could tell, the protestors were demanding that the Trump Administration keep its hands off Medicare and Social Security. If that was their cause they needn’t have bothered, since those programs are not now, nor have they ever been at risk.
As with most things Democrat, the protests were stirred up by the chronic and habitual lies of the Left. “Trump will do away with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.” No he won’t be cutting those programs, nor will Elon Musk and DOGE be cutting anyone’s benefits. As Trump and Musk have said repeatedly, the reduction of waste, fraud, and abuse will permit benefits to increase.
Another hallmark of the protests was the makeup of the crowds. The protestors were by and large middle-aged to elderly white folk who were taking a break from composting and making their own sandals, assisted by the usual scruffy-looking 20-somethings, who are required to go outside to protest every week or so, to give their parents a chance to go into the basement to clean the crumbs out of the seams of their gaming chairs.
The protestors are the same people who rallied to Save the Whales, then rallied to Save the Planet by building windmills that killed the whales, then rallied to require all cars to be electric, and now are busy fire-bombing Tesla dealerships to destroy electric cars. Fickle, aren’t they?
The point is that the protests were largely pointless. The problem for the Democrats is that they have no identifiable leader. Bernie the Bolshevik Sanders and AOC are traveling the country on their “oppose the oligarchs tour.” Bernie is railing against “billionaire oligarchs,” which ignores the fact that nearly all the billionaires are funding his Party.
Failed Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz is making a bid to be the Democrat Leader. He’s offering himself as the unlikely poster-boy for masculinity, but remains the same hapless boob he was during the election campaign. And Walz isn’t suggesting that Democrat policies need to change. He’s said, “Don’t ever shy away from our progressive values. One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Neighborliness? Like the friendly neighbors who massacred untold millions in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea … need I go on? No. Tim Walz is not the answer.
Then there’s AOC. She fancies herself the leader of the Democrats. But her leadership begins and ends with hatred of Donald Trump. She criticized Democrats who said the were resigned to a second Trump term, “If you’re a senior Democrat that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.”
There’s that word again. Fascism. It means government control of everything. Business, speech, life itself. And Democrats fail to see that they are the true fascists. So AOC is not the leader the Democrats are waiting for. She’s simply a reflection of their psychosis.
But what about the new darling of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett? She’s a Texas Congresswoman who has taken to saying the most appalling things. She’s from the insult wing of the Democrat Party. She’s called wheelchair bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott “hot wheels.” She hails from the so-called Progressive Party that labels any dissent as racism, yet consistently spews stone-cold racism.
Remember the Democrats claim that Trump would outlaw inter-racial marriage? Here’s Jasmine, on Republican Byron Donalds, “The fact that you’re sitting around talking about ‘life was better under Jim Crow,’ like, is this because you don’t understand history? Or literally it’s because you married a White woman and so you think that whitewashed you?” “I feel like they give [Donalds] his talking points and he’s like, ‘Yes, massa. I got it.'” Progressive, huh?
It gets worse. Here’s Jasmine on immigration. “So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact we are a country of immigrants.” The fact is ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.” “OK, I’m lying?” “You’re not, you’re not. We done picking cotton. We are. You can’t pay us enough to find a plantation.” Yeah, except for the Democrat Plantation they’ve been toiling on for decades.
And like too many Democrats nowadays, Jasmine is perfectly comfortable with using violence to accomplish her ends. A majority of Democrats say murdering Trump would be justified. After all, he is Hitler according to them. Jasmine doesn’t disagree. She has said Ted Cruz should be “knocked over the head.” And she wants Elon Musk to be “taken down.” And she has said Democrats need to be “OK with punching.”
Too many Democrats agree with Jasmine. They’re mindset is, if you can’t outvote them, then sue them, fire bomb them or kill them. This is not a loyal opposition. This not resistance. It’s sedition.
Democrats have no leader, no plan, and no shame. They have devolved into a violent hate group, fed by lies, promoting no improvements, and signifying nothing. Let’s hope they keep up the bad work.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – The DOGE Revolution
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been hard at work since January 20. Surprising no one, the Democrats are screaming bloody murder. The purpose of DOGE is to ferret out government waste, fraud and abuse in order to reduce the cost of a federal government which has ballooned to an extent never envisioned by our Founders. You would have thought that our government officials would be working toward that goal anyway, but they’re not.
I mean, they always talked a good game. Thomas Jefferson said, “The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” But that was a long time ago, and anyway, he owned slaves, so that must be wrong. Grover Cleveland said, “Public service is a public trust.” But now, nobody trusts the government. More recently, President Eisenhower promised an administration “clean as a hound’s tooth.” But that’s hard to do when every other elected official is a horse’s ass.
Democrats are against any attempt to improve the system. Their counterpoint to the DOGE actions is their go-to tactic – lying. According to NPR, one of the agencies on the DOGE hit list, “So far, the Trump administration has not shown clear evidence of fraud.” Democrat politicians have attacked Elon Musk as “incompetent.” Attorneys General from 14 states are suing to block DOGE from accessing federal data. If there’s no fraud, and the DOGE boys are incompetent anyway, why would they do that?
It turns out they’re doing that because the entirety of the federal government IS A FRAUD. The federal government, which currently is spending some $7 trillion a year is a model of inefficiency. 580 federal agencies are spending your tax dollars. And DOGE revealed that all the money they’re spending comes out of one Treasury bank account. Isn’t that efficient? No. You see, all the agencies do is tell Treasury to pay, and Treasury pays, no questions asked, and no verification required. For everything. Payroll, Social Security payments, Medicare and Medicade payments, contracts, grants, you name it.
But the agencies must be verifying the legitimacy of the claims before telling Treasury to pay, right? Ah, it turns out they’re not. Are they corrupt? Possibly. Lazy? Some might be. But here’s the latest news from DOGE. Even if these bureaucrats all are perfectly honest public servants, they can’t verify the claims even it they want to.
The Feds are paying $100 million a year for internet technology, to keep 50 year old computer systems running. Crazy right? But it gets worse. They’re running 700 different antiquated IT systems that are incapable of communicating with one another.
Maybe that’s how, in a country where 310 million people are eligible for benefits, 398 million people are receiving checks. Not evidence of fraud? Maybe that’s how we could have Social Security payments being made to 16 million people between with reported ages of between 110 and 369. Social Security personnel reported this in 2008. Nothing ever was done about it. At the average Social Security level, that’s $380 billion a year, but not evidence of fraud? Maybe that’s why 75% of illegal aliens are receiving Social Security benefits. But nothing to see here, right?
And hey, you know what? Maybe that’s why the SBA made loans totaling $300 million to children under age 11, and another $300 million to people supposedly over age 115. You see, once presented with a loan application bearing a supposedly “active” Social Security number, SBA couldn’t find out that one borrower was 9 months old, and another was going into business at 115. But I’m sure there must be an innocent explanation for all this, right?
The DOGE boys found out that 40% of the calls to Social Security offices to change the direct deposit accounts of recipients were fraudulent. Social Security employees told them this fact, but I guess that’s really not evidence, right?
And some agencies don’t even have computers. Federal pension records are kept in 22,000 file cabinets inside a limestone mine in Pennsylvania. When the Trump Administration offered early retirements to thousands of employees, it was told that no more than 8,000 retirements could be processed per month. The government has been planning to do something about this for years. Members of DOGE are digitizing decades of records in a matter of months.
The goal of DOGE is to cut spending by a trillion dollars by eliminating fraud, waste and abuse. Democrats object. Once again they have selective amnesia. President Clinton fired 426,000 employees. No one complained. To date, DOGE is responsible for firing 0.015% of 2 million employees, and we’re told the government has been “gutted.”
Then there’s duplication of effort. The NIH has 27 Chief Information Officers at 27 centers. But the researchers don’t have the capability of sharing their findings with other scientists. The IRS has 14,000 employees whose only job is to issue laptops and phones to IRS employees. If each issued 2 a day, they could service the entire agency in a month. There are 4.6 million active credit cards for the 2 million employees. The cards rang up $40 billion in charges last year. No one can say for sure where all the cards are.
The sad state in which the Trump Administration found our federal government was one in which a government that takes it upon itself to audit the financial practices of private industry cannot pass an audit of its own finances. Without the improvements being implemented by DOGE, our government will become insolvent and no legitimate employee, recipient or creditor will be paid.
The current system is unsustainable, but Democrats object to any cuts, modernization, or transparency. They don’t want the poor taxpayers to be able to look behind the curtain. I wonder why? And it’s really not just the Democrats. Republicans are equally to blame. A large majority of our elected officials prefer to run the government under the trip to Disney World philosophy. They figure that the reason they’re going to Washington is not to save money, but to spend money.
This idiocy cannot continue, however changing the system will be a daunting problem. For too long, our elected officials have regarded the federal treasury as their own bottomless piggy bank. They’re addicted to spending.
I made that observation nearly 25 years ago. In the very first installment of FRANK ON FRIDAY, on August 11, 2014, I wrote about The Junkie State. The piece quoted a former drug addict who described the conduct of addicts. “They always ask you for money.” “They always lie.” “They promise to go to rehab, but the drug makes them feel too good.”
Those observations are equally applicable to our government. It constantly asks you for money. “The rich need to pay their fair share.” It lies constantly. “The Affordable Care Act.” “The Inflation Reduction Act.” “Elect us or democracy ends.” And it always promises you it will reform. “The era of big government is over.” But it never changes.
Addicts rarely change unless they’re forced to do so. Over the years, I’ve listened to countless addicts, facing the prospect of prison, swear to judges that this time they’ll change, if you give them only one more chance.
In 2014, I wrote that our government needs an intervention. Maybe DOGE is that intervention. But I’m not hopeful because I’m not naive. The drug addict is at the mercy of the court. The Congressional addicts can ignore the DOGE improvements and go back on the road to ruin. I hope I’m wrong.
FRANK IN FRIDAY – The Attack of the Robes
I’ve observed before that the Donald Trump odyssey that began in 2015 can be likened to the titles of the various movies in the Star Wars series. First we had, A New Hope. Then, in 2020, there was The Empire Strikes Back. 2024 brought us, The Return of the MAGA. And now that he’s back in office, the Rebel Alliance is taking fire from a new enemy, unelected, life-tenured judges, who have usurped the authority of the Executive branch. The next episodes in this series may be called, The Judicial Menace, and The Rise of the Robes.
In February alone, U.S. District Court judges imposed 15 nationwide injunctions on the Trump Administration to reverse, delay, or frustrate policy decisions. These injunctions include two on the Executive Order challenging birthright citizenship, and orders restoring fired employees of the Executive branch to their jobs, preventing the firings of probationary employees, ordering the military to reinstate transgender members, ordering frozen USAID grant money to be paid, and most recently, D.C. Judge Boasberg’s verbal order that planes deporting violent gang members to El Salvador must return to the United States.
Each of these injunctions represents an intolerable intrusion by the judiciary into the workings of the Executive Branch. The President’s authority derives from Article II of the Constitution, which is short and sweet. “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The authority of a president to supervise and remove executive officers, execute the laws and conduct foreign policy has been recognized by the courts for 100 years.
Leftist judges are attempting to flaunt Supreme Court precedent with orders and injunctions that seek to prevent the Executive from implementing the policies that caused a majority of voters to cast their votes for Trump. This is a time-honored Democrat tactic. Having lost the presidency, the House and the Senate, the Democrats’ go-to tactic is to get judges to order policies that would never pass muster with the electorate. Simply put, that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.
In the Federalist Papers, the Founders envisioned the judiciary as the least powerful branch of the government. Bolshevik Bernie Sanders and AOC (All Out Crazy) currently are touring the country denouncing Trump’s use of his executive power as the creation of an “oligarchy,” rule by a few people. Once again, irony is lost on them.
77 million people put Trump into office. Democrats now are relying on a couple of hundred liberal judges to undo the election. In any case, Bernie and AOC know as much about oligarchy as they know about fascism. Newt Gingrich this week published an article on this issue, entitled, An Intolerable Judicial Dictatorship. In it, he quoted Thomas Jefferson’s statement that, making judges the ultimate deciders of law would “place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” That oligarchy has arrived.
Not content to accept the vesting clause of Article II of the Constitution that they swore to uphold, these judges have taken it upon themselves to carry out the functions of the various departments of the Executive branch, including immigration enforcement, Executive branch personnel staffing, and even the operations of the Department of Defense.
DOGE uncovered massive waste, including payments of millions of dollars to terrorist groups under the guise of foreign aid. Trump froze disbursement of questionable grant spending pending a national security revue. An Obama appointed judge ordered the monies paid.
Another Obama appointee enjoined the firing of an NLRB member, and the stripping of security clearances from the Perkin Coie Law Firm. The judge denounced Trump as “A president who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a dictator.” The law firm has since capitulated, making concessions that settled the matter.
Biden appointee, and self-professed lesbian, judge Ana Reyes thinks she’s running the Defense Department. Trump issued an Order banning transgender persons from the military. Ignoring the fact that the judiciary has no authority to decide who is and is not fit to serve in the military, Judge Reyes has ordered them reinstated. The order prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to observe, “Since ‘Judge’ Reyes is now a top military planner, she/they can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids … after that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.”
The worst example of judicial overreach is that of D.C. District Judge Boasberg. ICE has been rounding up criminal illegal aliens from Tren de Aragua and MS13 for immediate deportation. Such removals are are in accordance with immigration laws on the books.
In response to a hastily filed supposed class action lawsuit based on a newspaper article about deportations of criminals to El Salvador, Judge Boasberg conducted a hearing in which he issued a verbal order that the planes carrying the criminals were to be turned around and returned to the United States.
The deportations were based on the 1798 Enemy Alien Act, which the court claimed was inappropriately applied. I also thought the use of the Act was a stretch, until I researched it. The Act authorizes the summary removal of aliens where there has been a declared war, or where a president has proclaimed that the U.S. has been the victim of a “predatory incursion” by elements from a foreign government.
Trump issued such a proclamation, alleging that Venezuelan gang members were dispatched by the Maduro government to prey on the United States. Judge Boasberg held a second hearing in which he berated the government, “Why was this proclamation signed in the dark on Friday, early Saturday morning, and then these people rushed onto the planes? To me, the only reason to do that is if you know the problem, and you want to get them out of the country before a suit is filed.”
Boasberg is way over his head on this one. First, there is no requirement that the Executive branch give 10 days notice before taking action, so as to give every crook, nutcase, and anarchist a chance to throw a wrench into government operations.
Secondly, in 1948 the Supreme Court decided that the decision as to whether conditions enabling use of the Enemy Alien Act is justified, namely, whether there is a war or incursion, and whether or not it has ended, is a political decision invested in the president and is not subject to judicial review.
Thirdly, the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court ought to know that, even a valid verbal order isn’t worth the paper that it’s not printed on. A valid order must be signed and filed with the court before it’s in effect.
Boasberg’s actions have prompted calls for his impeachment. I thought that was a bit much till I learned that Boasberg was the judge who signed the phony FISA court warrants that permitted the Obama Administration to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign, opening up the phony Russiagate investigation.
Then, when it became known that the evidence he was given was false, and that some of it was concocted by an FBI agent, Boasberg conducted the trial of the agent. After being found guilty, Boasberg said the agent had suffered enough and gave him probation. Most judges I know don’t appreciate being lied to, and when they learn the court was the victim of fraud, are in no mood to dispense mercy.
Boasberg then participated in the alleged reform of the FISA court regulations by appointing Obama DOJ veterans David Kris and Mary McCord to the job, both of whom helped to perpetrate the Russiagate collusion hoax. On this evidence, I’d say Boasberg is Chief Judge of the Deep State.
The only workable solution for the Attack of the Robes is a strong opinion of the Supreme Court, reminding the judges of the separation of powers and prohibiting nationwide injunctions.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – How Low Can They Go?
In 1962, Chubby Checker had a hit song, The Limbo Rock, which celebrated the Caribbean limbo bar dance.
Every Limbo boy and girl
All around the Limbo world
Gonna do the Limbo rock
All around the Limbo clock
Jack be Limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go under Limbo stick
All around the Limbo clock
Hey, let’s do the Limbo rock, ah-ha-ha-ha-how
Limbo lower now
Limbo lower now
How low can you go?
Remember that? Insane Democrats are now reprising the Limbo Rock lyric, “how low can you go?” with their irrational support of MS-13 gang member, domestic abuser, and suspected human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Let’s recap. In March, President Trump issued a proclamation which designated gangs including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations which had made a predatory incursion into the U.S., thus making their members immediately deportable under the Enemy Aliens Act.
In mid-March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who illegally entered the U.S. in 2011, was arrested in Maryland by ICE. On March 15, he was one of some 250 gang members deported to El Salvador under the Enemy Alien Act. The detainees were sent to a maximum security prison. The Left immediately lost its mind.
Judge Boasberg, in the D.C. District, who the Supreme Court has decided had absolutely no jurisdiction, ordered the planes turned around and the violent gang members returned to the U.S. I wish the criminals could have been dropped off at his chambers, but they already were out of U.S. airspace.
Of the 250 gang members deported, Democrats apparently have identified Abrego Garcia as the poster boy for their “Trump is Hitler” meme. A Maryland District Court judge ordered the government to “effectuate” bringing him back. The government appealed. On April 8, the U.S. Supreme Court largely left the District Court order in place, after amending it to state that “effectuate” might exceed the court’s authority by interfering with the President’s foreign policy authority, and replacing “effectuate” with “facilitate.” Nobody’s sure what that means. The Supreme Court will revisit the issue next month.
The lying media keeps calling Abrego “a Maryland man.” He’s not a Maryland man. He’s a Salvadoran man who illegally entered the country. They keep complaining that Abrego needs to have due process. But he already got it.
In 2019, an Immigration judge found that Abrego was an illegal alien, and an MS-13 gang member, and thus doubly deportable. Abrego appealed that decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which affirmed the lower court decision.
When he went to court, Abrego claimed that if he were sent back to El Salvador, he might face violence from a rival gang. The logical inference is, if he was worried about violence from a rival gang in El Salvador, then he admitted he’s part of a gang himself.
Abrego’s arms and hands are covered in MS-13 gang tattoos. The Maryland District Court judge was not impressed by this, and the lying media ignores it, but as a former head of a Prosecutor’s Gang Unit, here’s how it works.
Members of gangs such as MS-13, the Latin Kings, and the Bloods, etc., are dangerous, but not very careful about advertising their gang status. They insist on displaying tattoos that announce their gang membership and rank. They also insist on gathering together to take group photographs of one another, all tatted up, and throwing their respective gang signs. Then, when arrested, they all deny being gang members.
Now, if a person engages in such behavior, he’s a gang member. Case closed. If he sports gang tattoos without being a member of the gang, the gang will kill him for dissing their fraternal organization. Likewise, if he formerly was a member, and now claims to have seen he error of his ways and denounces the gang, they’ll kill him on general principles. So effectively, his choices are to keep committing crimes in the gang, be incarcerated with the other gangsters, or death. Abrego got what was behind door number two.
As for the Court orders, the President of El Salvador made clear that he is not releasing Abrego from custody, much less returning him to the U.S. And Homeland Security has stated unequivocally that we don’t want him back, and we’re not bringing him back.
Moreover, as the Democrat poster boy for improper deportation, Abrego is not Mr. Clean. In 2022, he was stopped by a Tennessee State Trooper, driving a vehicle owned by a convicted human trafficker from Texas to Maryland, containing 8 unidentified, undocumented men, with no luggage, and all of whom gave the Trooper the same home address. Abrego said he was driving them to work at a construction site in Maryland. Uh huh.
Abrego also was the subject of 2 domestic violence restraining orders, filed by his wife, who told police he was a gang member. Now she’s expressing her remorse at his being so shockingly deported to the country of his birth. But as I said, Abrego was the cleanest of the deportees, so the Left is stuck with him, and they’re not letting up.
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Senator who’s name no one ever heard before because he’s done nothing of note, made a pilgrimage to El Salvador to “demand” his release. Van Hollen got a meeting with a quite healthy looking Abrego. After the meeting, Van Hollen danced around the question whether he asked Abrego if he’s a gang member, cryptically saying he already knew the answer.
Van Hollen and his fellow Democrat arsonists keep complaining that Abrego was “disappeared,” and warn that Trump is coming next for all black and other minority citizens. This is, of course, bullshit, but it’s all they’ve got, and Abrego is all they’ve got. One must ask of Van Hollen, “how low can you go?” And here he comes now –
President Trump’s reaction was predictable. “Radical Lunatic Democrats and their Comrades in the Fake News Media are falsely making Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia out to be a very sweet and innocent person, which is a total, blatant, and dangerous LIE.” “Garcia has been found by two separate Courts to be a member of the violent, Killer gang MS-13, was in our Country illegally, and is under a Deportation Order.”
“It is despicable and unAmerican for Liberals and the Mainstream Media to hate our Country so much, and be obsessed with protecting criminals, instead of working to keep our Border, streets, and families safe. Those lying to the American People on behalf of violent criminals have to be held responsible by the Agencies and the Courts. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
But Democrats are not listening. Even Spartacus himself, lying fraud Senator Corey Booker, is planning an El Salvador trip. We don’t have to ask “how low can he go?” because he’s proven his ability to go low time and time again. Here he comes now-