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Thursday, February 19, 2026
This could have been the worst week for Trump’s enemies yet.
Hostages released, the Iranian deal was torn up, a new embassy at the speed of Trump, and some dark and twisted discoveries that the institutional left desperately tries to hide. More MAGA packed into one week than anyone thought possible.
We lost a national treasure. The Boy Scouts of America, an American icon for more than a century. RIP.
All this and more in this week’s Half Full Report.
[Just wanted to make sure you saw this. We have room for only one, possibly two more couples. Carpe diem!]
What are you doing this Fourth of July? You may be spending it with friends and family, of course.
But if not, consider that it’s on a Wednesday this year, the middle of the week, so you may be able to get the week off. If so, how about celebrating the Fourth with your fellow TTPers in the most enchanting – and safest – country in Europe?
You first learned about Portugal’s history and why Rebel and I call it California in Europe back in January 2014. We held three TTP Retreats there in that year and it’s time we had one again.
In the years since, Portugal has been discovered as the coolest “must-see” destination in all Europe. That’s because Portugal has got everything. Fabulous climate, beaches, food, wine, history, charm up the yingyang, and the sweetest, nicest people in Europe.
This is an intimate get-together of no more than a dozen TTPers to discuss the world in depth with me. And I might as well give you a warning up front.
In addition to learning more about the world than you thought possible in under a week, you run the risk of falling head over heels in love with Portugal. I describe it as utterly captivating, and once you are there you’ll easily understand why.
You’re looking at the death warrant of the Mullah regime in Iran. It’s the final green light given to the Iranian people to overthrow the rulers they hate.
Iran’s economy is right on the brink. The new sanctions – which the President will enforce with a hammer, right on all the Euroweenie (particularly German) companies doing business the Tehran Terror Master – will push it into the abyss.
The protest movement – growing silently and spreading widely – will quickly become too massive to contain. Regular soldiers, Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards), and even Basij (paramilitaries) are joining the protests – or refusing to attack them – in droves.
We are witness to an astounding moment in modern history. This month, May 2018, will see the simultaneous solving of the two greatest world threats, that of North Korea and Mullah Iran. And peacefully, without war.
Rather than horrific war with South Korea or possibly nuclear war with the US, the President has made offers China’s Xi and North Korea’s Kim can’t and won’t refuse. All three will be standing on the awards podium in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Mullah Regime will now implode, collapse upon itself, without an outward explosion of war with its neighbors – much like the fate of the Soviet Union. The revolt of the Iranian people will have bloody moments – hopefully not many – but the Mullahs are doomed.
That this has been accomplished by a man upon whom the Left and Deep State has waged savage, relentless, and morally despicable war since his election is virtually miraculous. Anyone who now denies the extraordinary genius of this man is willfully and perversely blinding himself to the obvious.
We are in the midst of a truly historic presidency. Take time to savor it. And take time to watch, then read, below the President’s brilliantly courageous speech yesterday (5/08), followed by the text of the statement he signed.
Headline, May 7, 2018: Reuters/Ipsos Backs Away from Own Poll Showing Trump Surge
“Follow Stormy Daniels so you can stay informed of what’s important in our country,” satirically tweeted Roseanne Barr.The Fake News Media gave more coverage last week to the claim of an aging pornslut that she had consensual sex with Donald Trump than they did to actual news.
Despite this, the president’s job approval rose. Which mystifies the Lying Swine.
“Perhaps the most surprising result at the end of a week convulsed by scandal was a Rasmussen poll finding President Trump with a positive approval rating of 51 percent, the highest level since March of last year,” wrote Tina Nguyen in Vanity Fair.
Reuters, as you can see above, is so stunned by Trump’s approval gaining 10 points since last month they refused to publish their own poll.
Most Trump supporters think he did have a fling with Stormy, knew lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to keep her mouth shut, this poll indicates. But we don’t care.
Why aren’t we as scandalized as leftie journos think we ought to be?
Explosives require careful handling. Sometimes they blow up in your face.
After the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency.
Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops. But now the administrative state’s multifaceted efforts are starting to unwind, and perhaps even boomerang, on the perpetrators.
In truth, it’s not just Washington apparat. The entire multiplex world of the establishment is crumbling in a variety of arenas, from entertainment to Silicon Valley to the workplace.
It would probably give Robert Mueller a nervous breakdown, not to mention James Comey, Andrew McCabe and the rest of the FBI cabal, past and present, but at this point the special counsel seems to be actually causing the reelection of Donald Trump.
Most of the country, other than the greed heads in the media and extreme Democrat Party operatives, no longer gives a hoot in Hades about the "Russia Probe." They're frustrated and sick of it.
There's a dawning national consensus of "enough already" reflected by Judge Ellis when he demanded to know exactly what Paul Manafort's possible money laundering schemes of years ago had to do with Trump colluding with Russia in the 2016 election. The same might be said of Stormy Daniels, whose Russia connection is even more remote.
But let's skip past the subplots of the moment to the greatest of all unintended consequences of this endless investigation -- the decline and fall of the Democrat Party.
“What did they know and when did they know it?” and “It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up” are two of the biggest journalistic clichés of our time.
But clichés or not, sometimes they are true and they both apply (and then some) to the astonishing Eric Schneiderman situation.
This appalling scandal should be nothing less than a spiritual crisis for the Democrat Party and so-called liberals and progressives everywhere.
It should. But it probably won't be, even though the level of hypocrisy is stratospheric. And that is the essence of the problem.
But the initial question immediately arises. Since now six women (the NY Post has the latest per the cover story above) have reported near identical pathologies on the part of Schneiderman.
Didn't anyone know about this?
When President Trump presided over a business roundtable in Cleveland last weekend, it was one of several events he has hosted in the Midwest since Election Day.
Trump held a raucous victory rally in Ohio just a few weeks after he won the presidency, and has since made frequent trips to Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan: He will visit Elkhart, Indiana today (5/10)
Trump skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month and instead campaigned in central Michigan. The president’s courting of voters in the Heartland is a shrewd political calculation by Team Trump. The POTUS has this figured out:
Democrats have been counting on the Great Lakes to deliver a Big Blue Wave this November to help win back control of Congress, but with no compelling message aside from impeachment, no policy agenda for the economy or national security, and no tactical strategy to lure swing voters back, Democrats might reverse the historical trend of the out-of-power party gaining more power in the midterm election.
Welcome to the Mayday HFR. Fortuitously timed with this being the week of May Day, May 1st – or as TTP calls it, Commie Day.
Mayday is the international signal of distress that been in use since the 1920s. For that is the HFR’s theme this week.
Listen – can you hear it? Vast swarms of Fascist Lefties, from Washington DC to Mexifornia, from Democrats on Capitol Hill to Social Justice Warriors throughout the land, are screaming “Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!” in panic and terror. The sound is simply Schadenfreudelicious.
They are screaming about so many things causing them to lose their minds that it will take a while to cover them – so let’s get going…
Berlin, Germany. For millennia, especially here in Europe, the First of May was a happy, joyful celebration of life after winter, with dancing around a Maypole and crowning a pretty girl with flowers as Queen of May.
I grew up in California. When we were kids, my sisters would always get up early to pick flowers, and leave them in a basket at the front door for Mom, our family’s Queen of May.
Today is a national holiday in Germany, as it is in over 30 other countries in Europe and dozens of other countries around the world. But not as May Day.
Instead, it’s called International Workers Day. Since it was the invention of Communists in 1889, it should be called Commie Day. Only Communists could take an innocent celebration of springtime and turn it into celebration of murder, terrorism, hate, and envy.
Here’s the story. It begins not in Europe but in America.
One of the locals smirks and says, “Why that’s easy – it’s because you gringos stole half our land.” The American takes a tug on his beer and says, “Really?” The local responds, “Yes, and what’s worse – you gringos stole the half with all the paved roads!”
Overmorrow this Saturday, millions of us gringos will celebrate May 5th. Yet Cinco de Mayo is a phony tradition, a joke on los Norteamericanos, then exploited as a marketing gimmick by Mexican restaurant chains as an excuse for us to get wasted on Jose Cuervo.
So at TTP, our tradition on May 5th is to explain la verdad, the truth, so you’ll understand why it should be called Cinco de Farsa, The Fifth of Farce.
Which is, to begin with: Nobody in Mexico cares about May 5th. Only we, us gringos, pretend to. For if you ask just about any reveler at the nearest Pancho Villa’s Cantina or some such Mexican-themed bar anywhere in the US, just what is being celebrated on May 5th, you’ll get either a blank stare or "It’s their July 4th " ignorance.
So first the true history of Mexico. You’ll learn more about Mexico’s history in ten minutes than you ever did in school or anywhere else.
Then the reality today — the horrific truth of how treasonous Dem fascists and their useful idiot Rino masochists are using Mexico to destroy their own country.
[This astonishingly insightful analysis of Jack Kelly needs to be read by your Congressman and Senators – please consider sending it to them –JW]
There was “nothing new” in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic news conference Monday (4/30) in which he exposed Iran’s nuclear weapons program, say Obamunists and NeverTrump fellow travelers such as Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN).
In one way that’s true. Those who have been paying attention have known for years the mullahs were Hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons, that Obama’s Iran deal would do nothing to stop their pursuit of nukes or slow it down, almost certainly would accelerate it.
But that’s not what Obamunists and Corker – who turned the Senate’s treaty making power on its head to get the Iran deal through – told the American people.
By dismissing Netanyahu’s disclosures as, yawn, “nothing new,” Obamunists are telling us they are not the most easy to bamboozle dufuses in the history of humankind. They are, instead, bald-faced liars – either the most corrupt cowards ever to head and staff a U.S. administration… or traitors.
Everything President Obama did during his eight years in office has harmed the United States. It is becoming ever more likely that this was not by accident.
Robert Mueller has plenty of questions for President Trump, and maybe he will get to ask them. Most of them are perjury traps rather than real questions for the president.
Surprisingly, they contain very little that wasn’t in the public domain though prior leaks. In other words, the president is not a target because they have nothing implicating him, and so they want to use the interview to create such material.
But the conduct of the investigation by the special counsel and his team has raised a lot of questions as to its foundation, conflicts of interest, fairness and methods.
If you believe the last Harvard Caps-Harris Poll, much of the public supports Robert Mueller going forward with his investigation, although the Washington Post reported yesterday (5/01), “The number of people who say the Mueller investigation should continue is shrinking.’
That shrinking would no doubt continue if Mr. Mueller were required to answer a few questions himself. In a deposition under oath with threat of perjury. Such as:
