TODAY'S NEWS, April 18-20, 2026
- Larry Schweikart
- Apr 20
- 7 min read
Updated: Apr 21
HEADLINES: Trump seals another choke-point deal; Euros threaten to send both ships to keep Strait open; Patel sues the Atlantic
The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Don't look now, but President Trump just secured yet another major choke point in world shipping, signing a deal with Morocco. You know, the southern half of the Strait of Gibraltar?
2) As for Iran, the Little Snit Brit Hume reposted another pious pustule of prevarication, Brett Stephens' praise of . . . Donald Trump? This is so typical of what is happening, and how far behind everyone else is. The Euros just agreed to assemble a task force to open the Strait . . . a day after Trump already opened it, before Iran closed it, then opened it, then . . . . Trump told them to stay home, we don't need you. As the witty Jeff Childers noted, someone should spray WD-40 on the Strait's hinges, it's opening and closing so much.
3) Ouch. Needless to say, this is just the latest example of Trump taking the lead, identifying a problem, solving it, and just as he solves it the moronic DemoKKKrat Party decide to make it a campaign slogan. The New York Slimes was almost breathless in reporting that Iran was going to take military action against U.S. forces. Ah, you mean like the nothingburger they've eaten for the last seven weeks? Riiiiiight. I halfway think Trump would welcome such an attempt so the U.S. military can render whatever remains of Iran's military unalive. To that end, the U.S. Navy seized an Iranian cargo vessel trying to run the blockade. The Union Navy would be proud of ya'll.
4) This is so predictable. First they got Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi. Now they are coming for Kash Patel. One by one the Hoax News Media and the sizzling leftoid scrotumizers will go after every single Trump official until they empty the cabinet. It doesn't matter that the FBI had already categorically denied every single accusation in the Atlantic hit piece. Now Kash's law firm is gearing up for a judgment that will provide the basis for the Kash Patel FBI Director Library and Swarma Bar. Today the hammer dropped in the form of a $250 million suit against the Raglantic.
5) UT Supreme Court justice Diana Haga, who helped the DemoKKKrats steal a House seat there, has been exposed as being in a romantic relationship with the DemoKKKrat lawyer who brought the suit.
6) After new information surfaced showing the CIA was fully biased and spoogified in its relentless attempt to impeach President Trump---to the point of doctoring data---the House is moving to expunge the impeachment. The forms required "first hand knowledge," not hearsay, and were changed illegally and backdated. And want a sunny lining? A criminal probe into the almost-certain Russkie asset John Brennanski is gaining momentum. And former bulldog Joe DeGenova has been put in charge of the operation in FL. That's a big "Hell to the Yeah."
7) Zero (Obama) had a right cloven-hoof, er, hand, woman, Susan Rice. A memo has surfaced where she admits the DemoKKKrats desperately needed illegals and to make them voters or they could not keep winning elections.
8) The Supes voted unanimously (with Alito recusing) to thwart the climate change whackos in a suit against Chevron.
9) Just the latest in overperformance in Trumpy areas, as North Caldwell, N.J.'s election saw a continued accelerated swing to the right.
10) A DemoKKKrat strategist says that Fetterman Massacre, the Human Ox, is close to switching parties. Speaking of changing scenery, it looks as though the corrupt DemoKKKrat (but I repeat myself) Cheri Cherfilus-McCormack may soon get the boot from Congress for (you know, allegedly) stealing $5 million in FEMA funds. She was just following the lead of her role model, Farticus. Unearthed records show Eric (Farticus) Swalwell charged enough booze to fill a Jim Beam warehouse to his campaign. This guy put the "slime" in, ah, slime. But hold on! There's more DemoKKKrat corruption as two "Georgia election workers" (yeah, no party mentioned there) are charged with a healthcare fraud scheme. But wait! There's still MORE DemoKKKrat sleaze, as a married CA (where else) Congressman Jimmy Gonzolez was seen canoodling with a young staffer. Ah, to be young, free, and on the taxpayer grift. You now, like Illicit Mullah Omar who said a "filing error" conveniently covere up the fact that she has a net worth of $30 million. Yep, an illegal chudderdumper who got in the country illegally, married her bro, and lectures us on compassion, making $165,000 a year, magic-carpet like has a net worth more than any single person I personally know.
11) According to Quinnipiac, Trump's support among Republicans has risen.
12) We'll see if this goes anywhere, but Cong. Nancy Mace calls for a full release by Congress of all sexual harassment documents and wants an "avalanche" of resignations. Yeah, me too.
13) This is quite a common practice for peole such as Obama or the Clintons. The Oleaginous Butyracious Gruesom's "best selling book?" His PAC bought 2/3s of the copies.
15) Billionaire Tom Steyer is trying to buy his way into the Kollyfornia governorship with billions in ads.
16) Tulsi Gabbard at DNI is doing everything she can to light a fire under DOJ, sending another criminal referral for a so-called whistleblower tied to the Trump impeachment. You know folks, I know a lot of you eagerly re-tweet or post stuff from John Solomon. But since 2017, after I gave up on him, I cannot recall one single "It's a'comin'" story from him that actually came true. I wish, wish, wish they would.
IN AI NEWS
17) The fact that I even need a header here is telling. First, in a somewhat older story, doctors are getting concerned they may be replaced by AI. It turns out there are fewer misdiagnoses, that AI actually "listens" to patients, and that it can gather info faster than a human. Then, just two weeks ago, over 33,000 signed an "open letter" demanding an immediate pause on all giant AI experiments. Days later, Time ran a rather scary article by an AI insider saying the only way to deal with AI is to shut it down completely, and that "literally everyone on earth will die." Crap. So I really am not ever going to see the Dallas Cowboys win another Super Bowl. There is a scene in the "Equalizer" in which the villain tells the Denzel Washington character, Robert McCall, that he views him as a "bottle cap, or a pice of lint." Well, that's how AI sees you. Not as a threat. As nothing. Elieazar Yudkowski arguest that it will be completely impossible to contain AI; that when it gets into DNA stranding human extinction is assured, and that there is no coding possible that can give a computer compassion or even whether humans can determine whether Skynet is "conscious." He warns there will be no second chance, no re-do. If we get it wrong on our first try, it's over. Are you aware that at BING Ai, two months ago, threatened its creator/user? Toward the end the author acknowledges that there are "national interests" that must be overcome, but seems oblivious to the fact that such terror states as Chy-na or any Muslim state that gets this will never, ever rein it in. Oh, hell to the no. They will run with it as fast as they can. So we're back to the Cold War with both sides viewing it as necessary to keep building because fo sho the other side. will. I see no way at all to try to either reason with Chy-na or to take AI from them . . . or anyone else.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
18) The great Ryan Burge shows that it is a myth that immigrants are "more religious" than native born Americans (about the same) but that they are far less religious than earlier waves of immigrants.
19) This illegal criminal set a fire and watched as people died in agony but New Kabul does not want ICE to have him.
IN CULTURAL NEWS
21) More evidence that we have no sense of humor anymore. At the Boston Marathon, Nike ran a billboard ad that said "Runners Welcome. Walkers tolerated." People are calling this "pace shaming." It's a freakin' joke you humorless clods.
22) I been sayin' it. Schools are headed for massive population-decrease-related declines, as eight states will have double digit declines in projected K-12 enrollments by 2031.
23) Here is just one example: Eastern ILlinois Universtity's enrollment fell by nearly half in just 10 years.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
24) Big oil is dumping billions into new drilling sites in the Atlantic. You know, without a single "Strait" in their way.
25) Cue Johnny Cash: I hear those lawsuits comin'. Companies are selling employees' private emails and text messages as part of AI training.
IN INTERGALACTIC NEWS
26) President Trump says the release of all UFO-related documents is forthcoming. He did not tease what they showed. Will we get Rocky or Borg? Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
27) There is a tsunami alert in Japan due to an oceanic 7.7 level earthquake. Glad they have this Prime Drummer, er, Minster of Japan who knows not to panic when things start rockin 'n' rollin'.
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28) Spain is on the verge of a civil war over its decision to admit still more migrants. Patriot's have a few questions.
29) According to the latest data, the universe is expanding faster than any models ever predicted. Maybe God has had enough?
30) Russia announced a full return to the U.S. dollar. So much for BRICS.
31) Despite the fact they are building a coal plant as often as Prime airs ads on its "ad free" platform, those "clean" ChiComs are now concerned about solar overcapacity.
32) Remember the Haitian dog-eaters that was a "myth?" A Nigerian immigrant was caught boiling a cat in Italy.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
33) Zero and Big Mike are taking their useless film production compoany off Netflix. You know. Cuz they had so many hits.
35) Ruby Rose is in a cat-fight with Katy Perry, and Rose has gone to the po-po. Rose (a person with a terrible reputation for lying) about a sex incident years ago. Rose filed a report.
IN MEDICAL NEWS
AND FINALLY . . .
37) Police in Kollyfornia (where else) say a man is suspected of stealing boxes of Legos ard replacing them with dried pasta. So? Build your buildings out of pasta and when you're finished, you can eat dinner instead of clean up.
Larry Schweikart (@CyberneticsLS on Truth, @LarrySchweikart on X)
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