The following is a post someone made to People Magazine that puts it all into perspective.
She was a 37-year-old woman, a mother of three kids. It’s the middle of a work week. The father of those children is deceased. She is her children’s only living parent. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is getting home to her kids.
And what is she doing instead?
She’s out of state, in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Her partner is right there, too, filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment. Around them: whistles blaring, people yelling, pure chaos…manufactured chaos, so agents can’t do their lawful duty.
Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders. She ignores the orders. I think this person sums it up perfectly
Then, she puts the car in reverse. Still doesn’t comply.
Then, she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent.
Now, put yourself in the agent’s shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act and refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you.
You get a split second.
You don’t get the luxury of “Maybe she’s just stressed.” You have to assume the worst. You have to think of protecting other people because if you assume the best and you’re wrong, you don’t go home and maybe others are injured or killed.
So, the agent fires after she makes an intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated she’s willing to escalate.
Now…imagine her three kids.
At school,…sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals.
She didn’t think about them.
She didn’t think, “If I get arrested, who picks my babies up?”
She didn’t think, “If I get hurt, who takes care of them?”
She didn’t think, “If I die, who raises them?”
She thought about protecting criminals. She thought about interfering with federal agents.
She thought about the camera.
She thought about the crowd.
She thought about the moment.
There is no amount of evidence, money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense.
As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense.
At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. And, she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness.
Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accident… but by a series of deliberate choices.
🚨 Scott Jennings just DROPPED THE MIC on CNN over Maduro polls.
CNN: “42% of Americans oppose Trump’s capture of Maduro!”
Jennings: “It’s TRUMP. 42% would oppose it if he cured cancer PERSONALLY in the Oval Office tonight!”
“For his next trick, Trump tricks Dems into defending narco-terrorist communist DICTATORS!”
“Dems agreed Maduro had to go, Biden put a $25M bounty on his head! But when Trump ACTS, they reflexively oppose. EMBARRASSING.”
Absolute fire.
“What would you do?” Great commentary by Glenn Reib on FB.
Dear America,
Here’s a question for everyone who hates Donald Trump, and I ask it with genuine curiosity and just a touch of smug clarity:
So tell me… what would you do? Because so far, all I hear is outrage with no operating instructions. You inherit a country with $30+ trillion in debt, a border that was effectively unenforced for decades, trade deals that hollowed out manufacturing towns, endless foreign wars with no victory conditions, NATO allies who openly admitted they weren’t paying their share, a federal bureaucracy that outlives presidents, and a media class that abandoned neutrality a long time ago. Those are facts. Not vibes. Not opinions.
Now answer the question. Do you renegotiate trade deals and bring jobs back knowing Wall Street will scream? Or do you keep the status quo and call it “global cooperation”? Do you pressure NATO allies to finally pay their bills, something they later admitted they did because of Trump, or do you keep sending American money so no one calls you rude? Do you enforce existing immigration law, which Congress already passed, and accept the media hysteria? Or do you selectively ignore the law and pretend that’s compassion? Do you pull troops out of endless wars and get accused of abandoning allies, or keep Americans dying indefinitely because withdrawal looks messy? Do you confront a bureaucracy that slow-walks orders and leaks to the press, or do you pretend that unelected agencies undermining elected authority is just “how government works”? And now let’s add the newest example everyone’s suddenly hyperventilating over: What do you do with Maduro? A narco-trafficking dictator with a U.S. arrest warrant.
A man who ran his country into the ground, starved his people, crushed dissent, and turned Venezuela into a cartel-run failed state.
Do you: Look the other way because “international norms”? Issue strongly worded statements while people suffer? Or do you take him into custody, put him on a plane, and let a federal court handle it, like we do with criminals?
Because that’s what leadership looks like. This isn’t “running Venezuela for oil.” This isn’t imperialism. This isn’t some Marvel-villain fantasy. It’s law enforcement at the international level, something we used to understand before performative outrage replaced common sense. And notice the irony: Venezuelans are dancing in the streets, while the left are losing their minds from their couches screaming about legality.
So I’ll ask again: What would you have done instead?
Because here’s the part I enjoy watching people avoid:
Most Trump critics wouldn’t do any of this. They’d manage headlines. They’d restore “norms” that clearly weren’t working.
They’d trust the same experts who were wrong about trade, war, borders, inflation, and foreign policy, over and over again.
They’d look calm while nothing changed. And then they’d blame voters when the country kept deteriorating.
You don’t have to like Trump’s personality. That’s irrelevant.
You don’t have to like his delivery. Also irrelevant. What is relevant is that for the first time in decades, someone actually challenged: bad trade deals, NATO freeloading, endless wars, open-border chaos, bureaucratic unaccountability, and now, dictators who thought they were untouchable.
And instead of debating those actions on their merits, people lost their minds because he didn’t ask permission first. So I’ll ask again, slowly, smugly, and factually: What would you do differently, under the same pressure, with the same enemies, and the same constraints? Not what sounds nice. Not what polls well.
What actually works. If your answer is “be nicer,” that’s not policy.
If your answer is “restore norms,” that’s nostalgia. If your answer is “trust the system,” that’s surrender. Criticism without a better plan under real-world conditions isn’t intelligence. It’s comfort. And comfort has accomplished exactly nothing.
Me-I trust Trump
Facts Matter: The Truth Behind the Dec 25 Fisherman Rescue
On Dec 25, the Philippine Coast Guard rescued fisherman Larry Tumalis after less than 24 hours—not "three days" as claimed.
Let’s be clear: we received ZERO prior information from the Chinese vessel. We were already conducting search-and-rescue operations with BRP Cape San Agustin.
When a Chinese warship moved toward him and launched a small boat, the fisherman panicked. He wrote “HELP ME” using exhaust carbon—not because he needed rescue, but because he was afraid.
This comes amid a pattern of intimidation at sea. Don’t let propaganda rewrite what happened. Know the facts. Stand with our fishermen. Defend our sovereignty.
#WestPhilippineSea #DefendOurWaters #KnowTheFacts #PHSovereignty
A Chinese “research vessel” operated 19 nmi off Cagayan, North Luzon, an undisputed Philippine province
It switched off its AIS & ignored challenges from PCG
If this were innocent passage, if it was legitimate research, it would not hide
This was not research. This was spying
China wants us to believe that this massive ship, water-cannoning a bangka- a tiny wooden canoe- is just a “fishing boat.”
Their entire territorial claim is built on lies and somehow they’re still terrible at lying.
Chinese Coast Guard races to snatch airdropped food & medicine for Filipino troops at Second Thomas Shoal, then dumps it in the sea because apparently it's 'construction materials.'
Peak b@rb@rism from a regime that claims to be a 'responsible power.'
SHAME ON BEIJING.
They didn’t use kitchen knives. They used axes to slash the boats and high-powered strobe lights to disorient the crew
It was coercive, aggressive and barbaric to do this during a humanitarian rotation and resupply mission.