Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Democrats have been screaming that the Department of Justice is supposed to enjoy a level of independence from the President, and his visit to the halls of the DOJ was simply more evidence that he plans to be an authoritarian and that President Trump plans to use the justice department as a weapon against his opponents.
Except, the executive powers are, according to Article II of the Constitution, “vested in the President of the United States.” That means that all executive departments and agencies fall under his direct supervision. He is the CEO of the executive branch. No part of the executive branch is independent from the President. Each of them are his responsibility, and they operate and serve according to his supervision, and pleasure. The Department of Justice is a part of the executive branch. The Office of the Attorney General has been a part of the executive branch, and under the supervision of the President of the United States, for over 200 years – ever since the Attorney General’s office was created in 1789 (and transformed into the Department of Justice in 1870, at which point the Attorney General became the head of that department).
The Democrats used the Department of Justice to go after Trump, and now the President is in control and he is determined to “restore fair and impartial justice” to the DOJ. Now, they are nervous because he plans to use the DOJ to go after lawbreakers, while hammering the “Marxist prosecutors” who served under the Biden regime.
The weaponization of the justice system has ended.
Now, we wonder, will Obama’s DOJ decision to weaponize the Justice Department against the Tea Party in 2010 be brought to accountability? How about Obama’s decision to use them to spy on Donald Trump? Will that be exposed further than it has been so far? What about the continuous attacks by federal prosecutors against Trump while Biden was in office, which was a pursuit of the exact same strategy? Is that also in the crosshairs? I think that is a big possibility, and they are frightened of it. Trump gave a speech at the Department of Justice, and now all they can do is cry. It’s HIS department. If falls under the executive branch. He won the election. The real jury, the court of public opinion, has told the Democrats and the bureaucracy that they want Trump and his people doing what they can to take out the trash. And, it is Trump’s decision on how the Department of Justice carries out its duties, and whether or not he decides to take out the trash, and which pieces of trash he will toss. Trump will be firm, but fair, with the department – but there must be consequences for unlawful and unethical activity, which is along with what he said. According to Trump, it is now time to end unjustified prosecution for political reasons.
Trump is there, and if he doesn’t stop the madness, the whole lesson will be lost and the criminalities inside the executive branch will continue.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Government shutdowns are not government shutdowns. The term is ominous, but the truth is not. Mandatory spending does not stop, despite the cries of the Democrats and establishment hacks, and in truth if the shutdown had gone down Trump’s administration would have been in charge of deciding which government employees are not mandatory and tell them bye bye because of the shutdown. In short, a shutdown would have made it easier for Trump to do the things they are screaming about him doing.
It was a trap sprung beautifully, and the angry Democrats do not know what to do.
Chuck Schumer knew, and he let everyone know that despite the fact that the progressive lefty radicals of the Democratic Party were screaming madly their objections, he was prepared to allow cloture to be invoked on a continuing resolution that will keep the government funded through September.
The bill actually reduces spending, and it makes sure DOGE can continue its work, and illegal alien captures may continue without fear of any funding issues. The Democrats were trapped. Either way, DOGE and border security as Trump desires would continue as Trump wanted. It’s a bitter pill for Democrats because though they want to “resist,” they can’t. Trump gets what he wants no matter what happens. Schumer and any members he pulls with him understand that. Nonetheless, the less sophisticated radical progressives of his party, and the wacky hard left, are now turning against Schumer and any Democrat that sided with him because the bill passed the Senate and is headed to the desk of the President of the United States.
I have to give Schumer a little credit, here. His detractors are screaming he’s not representing his constituency as a Democrat. According to the radical fringe lefties his duty in a “democracy” is to listen to the people (despite the fact that the hard left lunacy of the radicals is only popular with less than 20% of the population). The fact is, a representative’s primary concern is not supposed to be what their constituents believe but what is most in line with the Rule of Law. The Rule of Law is “truths” that are “self-evident,” as Thomas Jefferson explains in the Declaration of Independence.
The laws of nature and of nature’s God, Jefferson also stated in the Declaration, is a part of the Rule of Law; or Natural Law as John Locke called it — making it a part of the natural order of things.
Schumer must know, but can’t admit, that reducing spending as this bill will accomplish as a law, rooting out fraud and waste in the government, and protecting our country from illegal aliens entering the country that are not someone we would accept if we vetted them is a good thing — and in line with the Rule of Law/Natural Law/Common Sense.
The Democrats who sided with Schumer and voted for cloture to bring the bill to a vote on the floor did the right thing.
The House Democrats are freaking out because they say they want a check against Elon Musk and DOGE. That, in its own right, is amazing due to the massive hypocrisy of it all. No check was demanded, no control over the President was called for, and the courts did not attempt to unconstitutionally micromanage the President regarding his job dealing with the executive branch when he was a Democrat “expanding” the government and “increasing” federal spending, yet reduction of the size, scope, and spending frenzy of the government has them in screaming fits of rage. Every President in my lifetime has complained about federal spending, has promised to reduce wasteful spending, and have vowed to go after the national debt. Yet, now that President Trump is actually acting upon that promise, they are calling him an authoritarian and are doing everything they can to oppose his actions be it through executive orders, or actions in line with information gathered by DOGE.
Which is it? Do you want an efficient government, or not?
It was all talking points to pacify the voting public, but in the end none of them planned to actually take action because they really did not want to reduce spending, cut the waste, or reduce the debt. They didn’t have the guts to make the difficult decisions of laying off workers and curtailing programs because such moves could expose the money laundering and criminalities being carried out behind the curtain. Like the Wizard in the faraway land of Oz, levers are being pulled that they would rather not be seen. They worship the bureaucracy, and the don’t believe Americans have the right to know what is going on in their government.
Except, the Constitution says otherwise…
- Article I, Section 5: Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same.
- Article I, Section 9: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
Congressional activities on the floor are to be published for the public to view, as must be the expenditures of federal monies.
We have to make sure we also remember an important truth. The liberal left progressives lie. When they say that DOGE is dismantling important programs administered by the federal government, in truth the Trump administration is preserving workers and programs that are vital to the operations of the federal government. If the workers or programs are not essential, if they are a waste of money or redundant, or if they believe fraud and corruption is tied to the programs…cut away. Corruption is being targeted. Waste is being targeted. Which makes me wonder: are the Democrats so angry because they are actually trying to cover up or protect their own corruption?
The executive branch belongs to the President. His job is to execute the laws of the United States, and spend the money as it is appropriated…but, as I’ve argued in the past, he’s in a real world application of spending those monies so if he believes Congress is providing too much money for a particular item or that the item is redundant, corrupt, or wasteful he can adjust how much is spent. It’s called the presidential power of impoundment.
In 1974, in a move to lash out at Nixon, Congress passed a law to take away that power, using Watergate to pressure President Richard Nixon to sign it. But, I have to ask… Can Congress use legislation to change the Constitution?
No.
The Presidential Power of Impoundment remains in force, despite screams to the contrary.
The Democrats, despite Schumer’s momentarily cry of uncle, have no constitutional argument to support their resistance, their use of the courts to try to micromanage the executive branch, or their attempt to keep him from reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy. And, with their antics, the reality is that a higher court than the federal court system is paying attention: The court of public opinion. Will the temper tantrums and antics of the Democrats backfire on them? The 2026 mid-term elections will tell us all we need to know because it will likely be a big GOP win because the Democrats have no strategy, no argument, and no way to debate reasonably in the arena of issues and politics. They lost in November of 2024 because their lies have been exposed, and they have no idea what to do other than what they’ve always done: attack, lie, and throw temper tantrums.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Democrat Senator that almost nobody outside of Michigan even recognized who provided the response to President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress tried to come across as a moderate during that speech as she has tried to attempt her entire political career in Washington. The former CIA employee, however, didn’t take long to shed that sheepish outfit and reveal herself as the hard left radical wolf that she really is. Typically, that’s the way true leftists are. They try to insert their radical agenda incrementally hoping that the average normies don’t notice, but once they think they are in the clear they start huffing and puffing like the true radicals they are, ultimately exposing who they really are. U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) made recent comments about Trump voters on the leftist lady gabfest known as ABC’s The View that betrayed her attempt to cultivate an image as a moderate Democrat by challenging the intelligence of supporters of her political opponents.
As Fox News reported:
Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin was ripped by conservatives on social media on Tuesday after an interview where she likened President Donald Trump’s election to the “angry teenage years” of the United States where voter brains are still being formed.
“Representing a state here, people voted for Trump and voted for me, I have a responsibility to represent my entire state,” Slotkin said on ABC’s “The View.” “But I don’t think there’s anyone who feels like what’s going on right now is normal. Even if you voted for Trump, right?”
“I think there is a feeling in the country, and I often say this, you know, we’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country. These are, like, our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we’re happy, we’re sad. We want this, we want that, and what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back to kind of what,” Slotkin said before being cut off by Joy Behar.
It is fascinating that the tiny mind of Slotkin believes supporters of President Donald Trump are like teenagers who are too angry, immature and foolish to know what to think politically, but, if you take Slotkin’s comparison out to some logical conclusions, she radically believes with the rest of the Democratic Party that those same teens have plenty of maturity and brain development when it comes to life-altering surgeries and hormone procedures to their sex organs and still developing bodies that are irreversible and that their ability to make those decisions which were planted into their heads by lefty teachers and entertainment characters are at such a revelatory level teens decisions regarding those matters must be hidden from their foolish old-fashioned parents.
Even The Hill which historically tends to mirror the lefty-ness of the lamestream legacy media, though I will admit they do have writers that have proven not to be completely out of their minds, reported with confusion about Slotkin’s recent remarks on “The View”:
The exchange came during a discussion about Rep. Al Green’s (D-Texas) disruption during Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress. The moment led to the congressman getting censured and divided many Democrats over whether his actions were appropriate.
Some have argued Green crossed the line and made Trump look even more presidential by engaging in what they describe as petty behavior. Others say that Green was right to call attention to the GOP spending cuts that nonpartisan estimates say will necessitate cuts to entitlement programs — even as the president pledges not to touch those benefits.
Slotkin was asked if she thinks the state of the country amounts to a “five-alarm fire,” as former Biden administration White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said recently.
“I think what the President is doing to our economy — you all just talked about it this morning — I mean, like, sorry, people may not know the federal budget. They know their own home budget, and they know exactly how much they’re spending,” Slotkin said in response.
“So I think whether it’s the economy, whether it’s our national security, right — cutting people who keep us safe, and then handing over places like Ukraine to a guy like Putin — or our democracy, right — threats to who we are as a democracy — I think that we are absolutely in extraordinary times and it requires an extraordinary response,” she added.
Slotkin, the co-hosts of “The View,” and the Democratic Party in general don’t understand that their attack tactics are no longer working. They only understand their bubble, and since on the House floor during Trump’s speech they saw the antics of the Democrats acted out “passionately,” they think Americans can somehow relate to that and will turn against Trump and the GOP in response.
Then, like Slotkin’s remarks, it all backfires, and they can’t figure out what happened, or why it happened. They don’t see the hypocrisy, the disjointed arguments, and the inconsistencies. They don’t understand that outbursts like Al Green’s don’t make them look like revolutionaries, but that things like that make it look like they are throwing temper tantrums. They are arguing as if they are resisting “The Man,” but the reality is that they have been at the top of the heap for so long in places way beyond the Capitol they don’t understand that in reality the American People see Trump as the revolutionary. He’s the one going against the establishment, The Man, and the elites…not them.
To “counter the President” they don’t realize that their juvenile activities aren’t working anymore. If they are going to be able to grasp onto any relevance ever again they need to be able to compete in the arena of ideas. They have to prove Trump’s ideas are contrary to what’s best for America and then provide an alternative that people believe is better. Instead, they are reacting to everything Trump is doing, resisting every move Trump and the Republicans make, and in doing so they are opposing positions that 80% of Americans generally agree with and they are huddling in some dark corner with a radical leftwing ideology that less than 20% of the people believe is good for America in the future.
One wonders…are these the days of the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party’s hard left antics? Can they survive as a political party if they don’t reassess their positions and abandon the fringe hard-left radical wing of their party?
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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