Charlie Kirk
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For the first time in my lifetime we have an administration that is dead serious about rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in government so the next generation doesn’t live as debt slaves.
Every expense must be justified—with our tax dollars you are guilty until proven innocent.
5:11 PM · Feb 24, 2025. //
The thing to realize about the government is that it's not a citizen of the United States, and thus isn't subject to the same rights as we are. In fact, the government doesn't technically have any rights, it has allowances as agreed upon by the people of the United States of America. It has certain powers, to be sure, but these powers can be increased, decreased, or eliminated as the people see fit.
As you can see, this is exactly what's happening with DOGE. The people demanded a reduction in government power and a removal of waste, and that's exactly what's happening. Even as the Democrats and leftists cry foul, the government is losing its power.
There is a simple truth buried here.
If a government is unable or unwilling to reveal how it's using the money it takes from us with the threat of punishment for not giving up, then it's not our government. //
. In fact, government is often times a necessary evil, born out of a need to inhibit the worst impulses of man, whether those impulses be foreign or domestic. It is a system necessary for civilization to happen in an imperfect world, but it's the fact that we have an imperfect world that the system we create to curb is itself imperfect, and thus needs to be monitored, audited, and sometimes destroyed, at least in part so as not to have to be destroyed in its totality.
the Trump administration totally expects they are going to lose in court a lot. Do you know what it costs to do an executive order? A piece of paper and a Sharpie. That’s it. And they can go right back to the drawing board. One of these courts said, hey, the language was too vague. You know what that tells them? Just go draft another one. It's not like legislation where you need a bunch of people to agree on something.
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They’re going to fight at every single turn. And that means appealing absolutely everything with the knowledge that they’re going to lose some of them because it costs them nothing. Executive Orders are the easiest thing to issue.
I do not see this as Trump losing over and over and over again. I think the more important bigger story is that they’re not going to stop and they’re going to keep fighting it every time, and they are going to win some of these. //
Political-Paige
4 hours ago
SCOTUS could end all this tomorrow with a sweeping (and utterly unassailable) order that these District Courts lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions against the Executive.
But the Roberts Court is so timid that it's allowing unprecedented chaos to reign across the country as activist inferior court judges strut their unearned power games.
It's appalling.
Hoi Polloi Boy
6 hours ago
Lib: It's been called the Gulf of Mexico for centuries!!
Dude: Cool bro! Now do genders.
EDMUND
6 hours ago
They really wanna die on this hill?
GeoMcGeo
5 hours ago
Democrats have used the hammer of controlling local schools through access to federal funding for decades.
frylock234
6 hours ago
No, I believe the Feds can withhold funding over refusal to follow Federal policy. They've done it before to enforce speed limits I think it was? Nice highway funding ... too bad you don't want to conform to our thoughts on proper speed (or maybe it was blood alcohol limits). The state could do as they wished, just without those federal highway dollars.
Stoutcat
7 hours ago
”…the irony of it all is that Donald Trump never served a day the freaking coward…”
Did Biden? Did Obama? Did Clinton?
NavyVet Stoutcat
6 hours ago
President Trump was shot by a democrat, in the democrat war on America.
That makes President Trump a combat veteran in my book.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
TexasVeteran Stoutcat
7 hours ago
At least he attended a the New York Military Academy and learned to salute properly! That puts him well ahead of the three presidents mentioned above!😁
Nick Sortor @nicksortor
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🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump is expected to appoint Kash Patel to Acting Director of the ATF in addition to his role as FBI Director, per ABC
The ATF’s days are NUMBERED 🔥
11:46 PM · Feb 22, 2025. //
Gun Owners of America @GunOwners
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🚨BREAKING🚨
President Trump has asked Kash Patel to be acting director of the ATF. Kash is a true constitutionalist and is fiercely pro-gun. 🇺🇸 🔫
2:24 AM · Feb 23, 2025. //
anon-8ry7
6 hours ago
Maybe Kash won't be as busy as we thought because maybe he was told to shut the ATF monstrosity down.
The speed and efficiency with which the new POTUS and his team are setting fire to The Swamp has even the most seasoned Washington D.C. veterans looking around in a daze. I know that the majority of those who have watched and written about politics are also stunned, including those of us here at RedState. //
I can't recall at any time over the past 30 years anyone talking about cutting and restructuring the FBI or the CIA, even as campaign rhetoric. That Trump and his team are actually moving forward with this is an absolute first in the history of how the federal government is used and how it interacts with the citizens that they serve. //
Some of the pie-in-the-sky predictions of cutting the overall deficit within a year to a year and a half could become reality. Trying to tackle long-term entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare could start to be moved upon and not with fantasy 10-year projections.
He has never served on the Air Staff in the Pentagon. He has never served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has never worked in the procurement community or for a Defense contractor. In short, there is nothing about him that would make him stand out as a choice other than he is untainted by the uncontrolled coercive medical experimentation that masqueraded as the COVID-19 vaccination program and also by any contact with the Air Force's DEI program. You can read his full bio at JOHN D. CAINE > Air Force > Biography Display.
Another plus for him is that retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander "Krispy Kreme" Vindman disapproves.
There is a lot in Caine's selection that recalls General George C. Marshall's decimation of pre-World War Il Army leadership and dipping deep to find lieutenant colonels, like George S. Patton, Jr., to catapult into the general officer corps. It is hard to believe he will not be the only top military leader with a non-traditional background.
Trump maintains an informal relationship with many journalists, calling them spontaneously or sending them articles ripped out of newspapers with his handwritten thoughts out of the blue. But I guess you could say I know him better than most. I was the only journalist to predict he would win in 2016. My former editor at the New York Post used to call me the “Trump Whisperer.” I am also the reporter who popularized the phrase coined by Republican strategist Brad Todd: “the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” And I was four feet away when a bullet hit Trump in 2024.
Plenty of journalists have disparaged me for being too sympathetic to Trump. They’ve blasted me for not being critical enough of his crimes, his coarseness, his history with women. But all I’ve ever done is report on what I see. I grew up among his base, and I know why they love him.
The Republican candidate took his case to a shale-industry gathering, and found a welcoming crowd. //
The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
Of course, Trump presenting himself as a king got the knickers of many folks in a twist—including some Republicans who weren’t amused. Hochul, meanwhile, said in a snitty retort, “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king.”
My take on these sorts of provocative posts by the president is that they are done on purpose with the full knowledge of the outrage they will fire up in some quarters. There are several reasons for this: 1) He’s very possibly the funniest president we’ve ever had, with the exception perhaps of Ronald Reagan, and 2) he enjoys watching the meltdown because it causes leftists to go into hysterics and make utter fools out of themselves.
Some have argued that, seeing as the NYC skyline is in the back of the meme, he means he's the King of New York, which is both the title of a movie and a phrase. It could be construed as a clapback at the city and state that he feels has treated him so poorly over the last decade.
But does anyone truly believe his goal is to bring back monarchy to the United States? //
Tech in RL
2 days ago
This is Trump’s version of, “Look, squirrel!” While leftists go into conniption fits about declaring himself King of New York and start shouting at the sky, Trump slips out the back and implements another part of his agenda. //
anon-jzji
2 days ago
Dems pick the worst side of every issue and then double down on it. Definitely, fight to keep an irksome toll in place- a toll people hate! Yeah, that'll work. She has a lot of gall to write that we're a nation of laws, considering she is daily defying the nationals' "laws" by protecting illegals. //
anon-ymous99
2 days ago
Democrats take Trump literally but not seriously.
Supporters take Trump seriously but not literally.
Don’t know who said it originally (Bari Weiss?), but the statement is spot on. Dems as a group are utterly humorless, lecturing scolds, who paradoxically play on emotion and outrage to control and distract their portion of the electorate. Hochul exemplifies them.
FreeNation anon-ymous99
2 days ago
It was Salena Zito, a journalist from Pennsylvania. Part of the appeal of Trump (and the horror for many) is that he doesn't speak diplomatically. Obama would speak for an hour and nobody would even know what he said because diplomatic jargon. Then the journalists would come on TV and tell us the meaning of all that jibberish. All part of the elite's control of the uneducated people.
Mopani FreeNation
2 ago
Interestingly, I first heard it from my wife, who never reads or listens to the news unless I tell her stuff (she just can't stand all the garbage and asks me to filter it for her). I commented on it here a month or two ago, and now I hear it frequently! 😂
January 18, 2017 at 07:43 AM
Trump's New York years deserve a better look to discern the eventual President-in-the-making. //
One of the innumerable ironies about Trump is that the candidate embraced by "Middle America'' was long regarded as the quintessential New Yorker – loud, brash, a lover of the good life and seeker of the limelight. The idea he would emerge years later as the 45th president of the United States, would have seemed as unlikely as the star of "Bedtime for Bonzo'' ending up as 40th Chief Executive. Yet just as historians have since scoured Reagan's Hollywood years for clues to his metamorphosis as a successful politician and statesman – including his stints as president of the Screen Actors Guild – so also do Trump's New York years deserve a better look to discern the eventual President-in-the-making.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is focused on keep his promises which includes cutting costs for the American people. One of the things he promised was to stop the congestion pricing in New York. New York had imposed a $9 fee on everyone entering NYC below 60th Street. That would include a lot of the people who go to work in NYC. They were able to do this because they got approval under a Federal Highway Administration pilot program.
Trump revoked the approval this week, and celebrated freeing the people from the oppressive nature of the fee, "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" He may have been trolling. He also may have been making reference to the movie "King of New York," or how some referred to him as "King of New York," given his prominence there in the past. But you're not acting like a king when you're trying to give money back to the people.
If a New York Times report is to be believed, Donald Trump doesn’t want to do the hard work of actually being president. //
While the idea of a president with no power sounds crazy to American ears, it’s actually how a lot of advanced democracies work around the world. Many countries have a ceremonial figurehead — either an elected president or a hereditary monarch — who represents the nation at state dinners and ribbon-cutting ceremonies. And they also have a head of government, usually the prime minister, who makes all the important policy decisions.
In the United States, we’ve combined these roles into a single person, and it hasn’t been working very well. It’s made the presidency an impossibly demanding job, while giving our head of government a degree of prestige that makes it harder to hold him accountable for his policy mistakes.
So here’s a modest proposal: Let’s make Donald Trump king of the United States. This seems to be the job he actually wants. And replacing America’s powerful elected president with a powerless hereditary monarchy would improve the American political system. //
Should America have a weak president like Italy or a constitutional monarch like Great Britain? As Vox’s Dylan Matthews has argued, the key advantage of a constitutional monarch is that he or she has absolutely no democratic legitimacy. An elected president is always going to be tempted to meddle in politics, no matter how much the Constitution formally limits his role.
But there’s zero danger of a hereditary monarch like Queen Elizabeth doing this. She knows that the public is only going to support her continued reign if she remains strictly neutral in political fights. In short, it’s precisely a monarch’s lack of democratic legitimacy that makes monarchy a better model than a weak presidency.
If Trump merely became a figurehead president for four or eight years, there’s a danger that his successor would try to once again exercise real authority. Which is why the smarter play would be to make Trump’s vision of a powerless presidency permanent: Abolish the presidency and turn President Trump into King Donald.
King Donald would rule for life, but he’d have few of the powers of the current presidency. He wouldn’t have the power to veto legislation or appoint judges, ambassadors, or members of the Cabinet. He wouldn’t command the military or negotiate treaties. Congress might retain the power to impeach him, but with the king having a largely symbolic role there’d be no reason to use it.
In a lot of ways, Trump has been preparing to be America’s monarch all his life. His gold-encrusted Manhattan penthouse seems tacky now. But it — as well as with his winter palace in Palm Beach, Florida — are appropriate residences for America’s reigning monarch.
The role of a monarch is to preside over important occasions and accept the adoration of the public without doing any real work. No one’s personality is better suited to this role than Donald Trump’s.
eburke
3 hours ago edited
Trump 2.0 has a whole different persona than Trump 1.0. No bombast...no histrionics...no exaggerating... just calm, measured, steely resolve.
When I was in business, those who ranted and raved never bothered me because, as they say in Texas, I knew they were all hat and no cattle. The ones that I took dead serious were the ones who calmly, and in measured terms, communicated to me their intentions and expectations.
As Harry S. Truman said, "I never gave them hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell." Well, Hell is coming for dinner, and the Left hasn't figured out that they're on the menu.
anon-xyfl eburke
2 hours ago edited
"You tell them I'm coming... and Hell is coming with me!"
-- Wyatt Earp, Tombstone
-- Donald Trump, 2025
eburke anon-xyfl
2 hours ago
"Get ready, little lady. Hell is coming for breakfast."
-- Chief Lone Wattie, The Outlaw Josie Wales
--Donald "Josie" Trump, 2025
I don't think talking means that you're weak. I think talking is a tactic in order to get to a goal [...] We need to be able to have these conversations with the Russians.
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Again, I go back to the fact that we had it perfect in terms of peace. We were handed a war, and now we're being criticized of, "well how do you dig us out of a war, and you're not doing it fast enough and you're not doing it fair enough." So we're a little frustrated. //
We articulate very clearly under Donald Trump: We don't do regime change. We are going to deal with the countries that are in front of us. And our criteria is, not how do we make that country better, how do we make America better, stronger, more prosperous for the people here. //
Burns' final question was whether Grenell had plans to run for California Governor in 2026. The audience cheered in approval.
Honestly, it's not in my plans unless Kamala Harris runs for governor. If Kamala runs... If Kamala runs...
You're jumping in? Burns interjected.
I mean, here's the thing: we already know who she is. We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to define who Kamala Harris is. If she's going to run, a Republican is going to win and I may not be able to resist trying to run against her.
I promise you the following, there will be accountability within the FBI and outside of the FBI, and we will do it through rigorous constitutional oversight—starting this weekend. //
I am living the American dream, and anyone that thinks the American dream is dead, just look right here. You're talking to her first-generation Indian kid who's about to lead the law enforcement community, the greatest nation on God's green earth. [Applause.]
That can't happen anywhere else. To the senators and the men and women of the United States House of Representatives, you placed an enormous trust in me, an enormous leap of faith—one that I didn't know that I could possibly earn back, but I'm gonna spend every single day on this job doing so. The fact that you placed the confidence you did in me has inspired me to reach new heights at this job.
With the reelection of Donald Trump in November 2024, it was clear that the failing message of "toxic masculinity" was soundly rejected once and for all by voters who were fed up with having their intelligence insulted on issues like "transgender rights," along with a subset of disaffected male voters who felt abused, abandoned and betrayed by the Democrat Party.
Vice President JD Vance in particular has not been shy about promoting the benefits of unapologetic masculinity (and at times being an example of it), and during his Thursday speech at CPAC 2025, he knocked it out of the park in remarks he made on making masculinity - and femininity - great again:
My message to young men is I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge, you should try to cast aside your family, you should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive.
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The cultural message is I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we are going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that."
Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital
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🚨NEW: Elon Musk comes out on stage at CPAC 2025 and is presented a golden chainsaw by Argentinian President, Javier Milei, and yells, “THIS IS THE CHAINSAW FOR BUREAUCRACY!” 🔥
10:48 PM · Feb 20, 2025. //
If he hadn't done enough already by reviewing finances with his team, now Trump has also tasked them with reviewing regulations in accordance with a new executive order. //
review regulations, with emphasis on those that are cost heavy.
Any regulations that aren’t in line with the Trump administration policy will be rescinded or modified, including those determined to be based on “unlawful delegations of legislative power,” that inflict costs on private parties that don’t also benefit the public, that harm national security interests, and other criteria.
Trump signed two Executive Orders Thursday that focus on rolling back the role of the federal government beyond its statutory functions and ensuring that those efforts are emphasized across all departments and agencies. The orders are titled "Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy" and "Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Regulatory Initiative."
Let's take a look at them one at a time, beginning with the easiest. //
When combined with the Trump Executive Order requiring the repeal of ten regulations for each new one published in the Federal Register (see Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation), we can see the groundwork being laid to eliminate the superfluous government agencies and regulations that have no greater purpose than to aggrandize power to the bureaucracy. Add that to the concerted legal attack on the Administrative State (Trump Declares War on the Administrative State), and Trump could very well end up having rolled back a century of our descent from a constitutional republic into a being held in serfdom by an unelected, responsive, and uncaring bureaucracy. //
Popdaddy
6 hours ago
Months of pre-election planning went into this. There are other plans and so much more can be accomplished. //
Dieter Schultz
5 hours ago
When combined with the Trump Executive Order requiring the repeal of ten regulations for each new one published in the Federal Register (see Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation), we can see the groundwork being laid to eliminate the superfluous government agencies and regulations that have no greater purpose than to aggrandize power to the bureaucracy.
I think soon... maybe before the 6 month mark but, sooner rather than later... we'll need another attack vector on the bureaucratic state and that would be for enough states to get together and challenge the regulations and federal laws as being unconstitutional in that they encroach on the states' duties and responsibilities under the Constitution.
Trump can apply tremendous pressure from the inside and deflate the bureaucratic bubble but, I suspect, it'll require the states... well, anyway, a core of the red states... to make it impossible for the federal government's overreach to ever be resurrected by the elites when Trump and his heirs leave the world's stage.
Chauncey Gardner
5 hours ago
Ward, they didn't just ignore the law. Remember that all employers in the US are required to fill out an I-9 for every employee. Both the employer and employee are required to attest (under penalty of perjury) that the employee is in the country legally. That is an additional overt, illegal act. If you don't like the law, get it changed but you can be assured that if the media found out Trump was hiring illegals and lying about it on the I-9, they would be screaming for him to be charged. //
PubliusCryptus
4 hours ago edited
HSI says the owners, who are both lawful permanent residents in the US,
So they weren't Americans? If so, let's make that clear; These were foreigners hiding foreign invaders. It appears that these somebodies were lawful, but not law abiding, residents; they should no longer be "lawful residents". All their property should be seized and they should be deported immediately after they serve their jail sentences. That's called deterrence.