MEDIA: To fully understand just how remarkable today's exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump.

Via Darren Beattie's Revolver.NEWS,
<URL:https://revolver.news/2025/01/to-understand-epic-dustup-with-colombia-you-need-to-know-how-pre-trump-dc-handled-these-issues/>
| We're glad this Colombia dustup happened. Now the entire world can
| see that this is an even bolder, fiercer President Trump. The last
| time he was in the White House, the GOP establishment still had
| their hooks in his administration. But this time, Trump has
| surrounded himself with MAGA warriors--and it shows.

see Cynical Publius on whether Marco Rubio's State.GOV FSOs are
facilitating repatriation flights:
<URL:https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1883653586032238739>
| Traditional Approach:
|
| 1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
| 2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task
| force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland
| Security.
| 3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
| 4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is
| unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the
| process.

Will Trump order Kristi Noem to order DHS.GOV to ask the Big Tech Bros
to shadow-ban legacy American proles who co-opt their websites to spew
mal-information about their dispossession at the hands of the Cheap
Labor Lobby?
John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"Globalist gatekeepers are working to cancel @michellemalkin for
taking a stand and putting America first. Their agenda driven virtue
signaling and leftist smear tactics will never work. Michelle is an
American hero. America first is unstoppable." - Jaden McNeil
<URL:https://twitter.com/McNeilJaden/status/1234871106022133760>