Timothy Birdnow

I caught Senator James Lankford on Meet the Press this morning. Lankford was defending the President's decision to call out the National Guard in California to stop the riots in L.S., riots which Governor Gavin Nuisance, er, Newsome denies are even happening, calling them "peaceful protests" despite fires and cops being hit by cinder blocks and the like.

Lankford rightly pointed out that the National Guard would primarily be in support roles.

Of course he could have also pointed out that, given the horrible response of the Golden State to the wild fires in the Pallisades, one cannot trust California and her greasy kid stuff Governor to handle any such crisis.

Welker used this to pivot to the border, and then to the human trafficker Kill More, er, Kilmar Garcia, whom Trump sent to El Salvador and is only now bringing back to the U.S. Welker was indignant: "the court ordered his return in April and it's only now he's coming back" illustrating how she and all the Democrats care more for criminal aliens than Americans. Lankford rightly pointed out that Trump followed the law, going through the whole process step by step - the way it was designed to work. But Welker kept INSISTING that Garcia was denied due process. At least three times Lankford pointed out he was given due process, in much the same way as any illegal alien caught at the border would have been. He pointed out that aliens have different, abrogated due process rights and that was ratified by any number of court decisions over the years. Welker simply ignoreed what he said and kept badgering him to try to get him to agree Trump is denying due process. It's clear she was given talking points to stick with for this interview. Sher was suprised he wasn't playing along.

She also badgered Lankford about his having been a deficit hawk and now supporting the Big Beautiful Bill. He pointed out the CBO numbers assumed a major tax increase - which is what not passing B cubed would be - will not slow economic growth, which of course it will. It would, he argued, cost more to not put the bill in place. He's right.

Meanwhile Senator Corey Booker came on to spin a web of outrageous lies about Trump's calling in the National Guard to Los Angeles.

Anong those lies - a reiteration of the lie that Trump did nothing to stop the J6 riots, and that rioters BEAT police officers, killing several. Both claims have been solidly debunked; the only person who died of violence on J6 was a protester. And Trump did things - he asked protesters to go home, and he wanted to call out the National Guard by Nancy Pelosi - who is in charge of the Capitol Police - nixed that.

But it was Trump's fault according to Booker.

Booker also lied when talking about the B cubed bill; he said 93 MILLION Americans will see massive health insurance rate increases, and 16 million will lose it entirely, for instance. Welker never called him out on this - or on anything.

Booker is calling this a "Paul Revere moment".

Strange; Mr. Booker has never pushed any sort of serious budget cuts and yet now he's a deficit hawk.

Oh, and Booker is also claiming the riots in L.A. - mostly by illegal aliens - are entirely peaceful and that Trump is essentially invading the Golden State.

Spartacus lieth.

And Kristin Welker facilitated him, and refused to fact check him in the same manner she "fact chec ked" Senator Lankford.

Also, during the panel, there was universal praise for Elon Musk. One of the panelists even said Musk brought in "very talented and bright people". Of course just a week ago the whole narrative would have been the exact opposite. Now they love Musk since he's turned on Trump.

Maybe this is a ruse? Maybe it's a way to get the Left to switch sides, then when Musk comes back to Trump they have egg on their faces? I don't know but I hope so.

At any rate Meet the Press is nothing but a show, no more of a news program than Gray's Anatomy is a text about medicine. it's just an act. A con.

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