Team MAGA took home a few wins this week. Ask just about any heartlander, and they will tell you all about their faith in the good Lord above – but when it comes to the Epstein files and political comeuppance being promised for two years now, seeing is believing. So, when the Comey indictments came about this past week and the Secretary of the Treasury took a hard stance on the issuance of Commercial Driver’s licenses (CDL) for over-the-road truckers, well, it seemed to many flyover folk as the closest thing to a miracle in politics they were going to get.
Former FBI Director James Comey is finding out that actions do have consequences. He may have muttered something similar all those years ago when he locked billionaire entertainment entrepreneur Martha Stewart away for a lot less than what many politicians have done and remained free. But no longer is the former untouchable strolling on the beach and making seashell dream castles. Instead, he may be spelling out “help” with his bathroom decor or Zen Garden sand.
Well, the dam was unplugged, and the facts, rumors, and innuendos poured out. The Donald Trump for President Facebook page posted this: “Former FBI assistant director James Kallstrom in charge of the NYC field office told me [Fox reporter Elizabeth MacDonald] James Comey ‘is one of the worst, most politicized directors I’ve ever seen. Just horrendous,’ that he ‘did not recognize the agency I gave 28 years of my life to’ under Comey.”
During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s The Story, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) had his moment in the limelight: “[James Comey] was bound and determined to destroy President Donald Trump. And he came close to doing it. But because the president’s incredible resilience under all that pressure, he was ultimately unsuccessful.”
Scott Miller in Manti, UT, agreed: “Yes, he was along with many others. Now the chickens have come home to roost, and they will pay for their actions.”
Jaded heartlanders aren’t buying that the guy will serve any time, though. Dave Mayfield in Little Rock, AR, prophesied: “A leftist judge will throw it out. If not, a deep state jury will exonerate him.”
Tennis star Serena Williams made a calculated misstep: She made a stink about a cotton boll decoration in her 5-Star hotel lobby, claiming to her followers, “Personally, for me, it doesn’t feel great.” Doubling down, in a different post she kept gnawing at the bone, insisting it “feels like nail polish remover cotton,” before storming off camera.
Clown World posted “Imagine checking into your 5-star hotel suite and the biggest problem is … a vase of cotton.” Others pointed out that she wore a wig of the same shade of white.
In Dallas, Freddy Soto quipped in his best game show emcee voice, “Welcome to the hidden world of Cotton! Let’s see if we can find cotton inside the Ritzy Hotel. I can see cotton pillows and bed sheets and spread. In the bathroom I can see cotton towels and ear Q-tips. Cotton is everywhere and I feel good. Oh, by the way, my whole family picked cotton – this was the way we were able to survive the long coming months of Fall, Winter and Spring.”
In Mississippi, Judy Hawkins-McDonald was up next: “I can assure you, Serena Williams has never picked a boll of cotton in her life! I grew up chopping and picking cotton. Guess what….I love cotton.” That galvanized farmers in the Delta to go crazy. Buddy Chastain of Lavonia, GA, responded: “Judy, I did the same, raised as a sharecropper.”
Sonny Hebert in Alabama also had a say: “I assure you she has never lived in poverty in the rural area of a southern state, while rocking her white privilege card like a number of us has.”
President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, has issued new regulations to remove almost 200,000 dangerous migrant truck drivers from the nation’s highways.
“The combination of a catastrophic failure of states to follow the law and a broken system has created an imminent hazard to American travelers,” Duffy said on Friday morning , announcing emergency rules to exclude dangerous foreign drivers. It was also a salvo across the interstates and highways to California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose state issues the most licenses to illegals – more than 25% of non-domiciled CDLs were issued, and Duffy doubled down on enforcement of a regulation requiring drivers to understand English.
That’s a Yuuuge win for the American Trucking Association, whose web page states: “We are currently operating in what is statistically the most dysfunctional Congress in modern history. In 2023, only 27 bills passed both the House and Senate and were enacted into law. This race to the bottom was not particularly close: Just one year prior, Congress enacted nearly 250 bills—almost 10 times as many.”
In Oklahoma, Elaine Meddock set a sobering tone for TDS sufferers: “I’ve worked on both sides, driving and enforcement. We don’t have a shortage of truck drivers. Foreign drivers have driven the wages back down to 1997 levels. So good American drivers had to find other ways of making a living. Hopefully they can go back to work soon at a better wage.”
In Bemidji, MN, Larry Neft was cautious, saying, “In Minnesota on the test computer they say if you can’t read the questions an interpreter will be provided.”
But most folks were thrilled that there was movement in the right direction. John Pecoraro in Prior Lake, MN, simply stated, “I voted for this!”
In DeRidder, LA, Daniel Stracener said, “That’s great, I guess I will go get my CDL again.”
The new Duffy regulations are also a win for political advocates for American truckers. Those organizations have prompted member truckers to vote in the pending 2026 midterm election.
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