Process & Progress w/TSA & Useful Idiots & Communists – Top 3 Takeaways – March 31st, 2026
Takeaway #1: Process & Progress
The first online targeted ad platform was launched (Google’s AdSense). The book, Money Ball, was published. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix was too. Pirates of the Caribbean topped the box office. The New Jersey Devils won the Stanley Cup. LeBron James was the first pick in the NBA Draft. We’ve started today’s Top Three Takeaways with a flashback to...June of 2003. There’s one other thing that with historical hindsight is perhaps worth nothing too. It’s also the last month that at least half of the country looked at Congress and thought...yes give me some more of that sweet congressional action (or something like that). June of 2003 was the last month that any accredited pollster (Gallup) found that at least half of the country approved of the job that Congress was doing. Btw, that same Gallup poll has congressional approval pegged at 16% today. A related kinda fun fact...the lowest Congressional approval rating on record occurred in November of 2013 (9%). All of this is to say that for nearly 23 years which has encompassed two Republican Presidents, two Democrat presidents, Republican congressional majorities, Democrat congressional majorities and split congressional majorities – the most consistent trend in politics has been that the average American hasn’t been happy with whatever is or isn’t happening on Capitol Hill. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon as we’ve now experienced the two longest partial government shutdowns in American history within a span of about six months with no congressional activity that’s even set to take place for two weeks when the Senate next holds a session again. It’s against this backdrop that a clearly frustrated President Trump has continued to move forward with historically aggressive levels of executive actions. Consider this...Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know what those presidents have in common? They’re the only presidents have signed more executive orders during a four-year term than President Trump already has with 252 in his second term. In other words, only nine presidents have been more aggressive in any four-year period – and at the current pace it’s quite likely Trump will be top five all-time. However, aggressive use of executive authority is one thing, effective use of it is another thing. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hold the hearing to decide whether President Trump’s use of executive action to attempt to end birthright citizenship for babies of illegal immigrants is legitimate. On Monday we saw...
Takeaway #2: Effective use of President Trump’s executive authority...
to pay TSA’s employees after five weeks of working without having gotten paid. And the early returns were promising. Over the weekend, TSA callouts peaked at 12.4%, as of Monday the number came down to what appears to have been about 9% as paychecks began to be received. Today figures to be a key day to see how many TSA employees show up to work after having been paid (a normal callout rate is about 2%). What we did see was immediate progress in wait times for passengers on Monday. While airports like LaGuardia (with wait times topping out at over two hours) were still a mess with high callout rates, most airports saw significant improvement. In fact, South Florida’s Palm Beach International Airport and Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airports saw typical wait times of under 15 minutes throughout the day with MIA pacing about 25-minute waits – which was only about 3 minutes longer than the typical Monday. 25 minutes was also the average at Hartsfield in Atlanta, which is the world’s busiest airport. So, while Congress’s process on DHS funding continues to amount to nothing, the early returns on President Trump’s related executive action is progress.
Takeaway #3: Useful idiots and communists
As I’ve spoken of since prior to the first orchestrated protest last year, those who show up to protest under the name of ‘No Kings’ fall into two camps. Useful idiots and communists. There is no in-between. In my initial reporting on the fraudulent movement, I brought you this... The origin of the manufactured “NoKings” movement occurred last August (2024) when then-Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer introduced what he dubbed the No Kings Act, which was attempted legislation aimed at countering the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity that ended many of the Left’s undemocratic, and anti-American, efforts attempting to prosecute and imprison their political opposition. NoKings is a collaboration led by Indivisible, a Marxist organization founded in 2019 in opposition to President Trump, and the recently founded 50501 Movement, a Marxist organization that took the lead in attempting to organize May Day (the communist holiday) events across the country. That’s right, in case you missed it, the first event by No Kings was literally in celebration of the communist holiday of May Day. Thus, every person who shows up for No Kings things is literally a Marxist-communist supporter (as in the organizers) or a useful idiot unintentionally supporting a Marxist-communist movement because they’re riddled with TDS. The organizers learned from the scam-BLM movement (which as I immediately exposed back then was similarly founded as a Marxist organization), just how easy it was to use and manipulate the Left, and it’s built in news media apparatus so they’re at it again. As noted by Fox News yesterday: about 500 organizations with an estimated combined annual revenue of about $3 billion sponsored and organized the demonstrations, creating a centralized protest apparatus even while organizers tried to market the activists as "grassroots." The network included traditional Democratic advocacy organizations, like Indivisible, MoveOn and the American Federation of Teachers, alongside openly socialist and communist groups such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization and local chapters of the Communist Party USA. Some of the openly pro-communist groups marching alongside Democratic activists are connected to a global activist network funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon now based in Shanghai, promoting messaging critical of U.S. democracy and sympathetic to China’s political model. The network has funded conferences, media outlets and activist organizations promoting narratives that portray the United States as a "fascist" and "hyper-imperialist" power while defending the authoritarian governments of China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran. So that’s the nexus of this and the role the TDS riddled useful idiots play in this. Yes, if you have TDS, that’s the company you keep.