But the most ridiculous thing she says there is that Democrats "do not, in fact, use [the filibuster] when we need it." She then goes on to say, "It's only used to block Dem policies. Never to block harmful GOP ones." Not only is that not true, it's the complete opposite of the truth. In fact, Democrats, during the first Trump administration, pioneered the extensive use of the filibuster as a legislative tool, using it 327 times in one year alone to halt Republican policies. Does that sound like Democrats "never" use the filibuster "to block harmful GOP ones?" //

Kyrsten Sinema
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Literally zero Senate Democrats support the filibuster.

38 voted to filibuster the continuing resolution yesterday.

8 who previously voted to eliminate the filibuster (1/19/22) did not filibuster.

1 who previously campaigned against the filibuster did not filibuster.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC
Still no.

In fact, the same Dems who argue to keep the filibuster “for when we need it” do not, in fact, use it when we need it.

It’s only used to block Dem policies. Never to block harmful GOP ones.

Could have proved us wrong. Instead they proved the point.
12:50 PM · Mar 15, 2025 //

What Sinema is pointing out is what should have been obvious from the beginning of this entire discussion. Democrats have no boundaries. They do not actually believe anything they say at any given moment. Everything they do is in pursuit of raw power. The ends always justify the means. Sinema stood up to that notion, and Democrats took her out. Now, those same Democrats get to roll around in the disgusting sludge of their own hypocrisy as they cling to the filibuster as a tool against Donald Trump.

TRUMP: I blame the Democrats, and Chuck Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I'm concerned. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian.

(Reporters erupt). //

houdini1984
8 hours ago
"Palestinian" is just another way to say antisemite. Schumer is a Palestinian.

Department of Government Efficiency
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In 2020-2021, SBA granted 5,593 loans for $312M to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used… Show more
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In 2020-2021, @SBAgov issued 3,095 loans, including PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and EIDL (Economic Injury Disaster Loan), for $333M to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.

In one case, a 157 years old individual received $36k in loans.
4:10 AM · Mar 9, 2025. //

While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used an SSN with the incorrect name.

@DOGE and @SBAgov are working together to solve this problem this week. //

ShowMeGrl/Maybe Maybe Not Steve351C
4 hours ago
Bingo! I think that's where ActBlue has been getting its illicit funds - that and overseas dark money. I guarantee Soros didn't spend one penny of his own money, the money he's spent came through his bogus foundations which has been funded by USAID. I've also noticed that the rent-a-crowds have disappeared too. //

polyjunkie
5 hours ago
It is almost certain that these fraudulent loans ended up with some funding going to the Democrat party. In any event, the Democrats have overseen the greatest waste of taxpayer funds in the history of the galaxy.

GBenton Indylawyer
4 hours ago
Obama and Biden tried to fundamentally transform America so we could never recover or undo their damage. and Biden was Obama's third term, so the agenda was the same.

Trump is not only doing what he promised, he is tearing out what the dems have built over the past 100 years. If he succeeds, he won't just set them back an election cycle, he'll make it nearly impossible for them to rebuild because he's also changing the culture and the public is getting red pilled on how the Dems have deceived and abused us.

So I can see why Walz and Kamala are the lingering faces of the party - no one with a brain will want to step into this meat grinder.

With ActBlue imploding and Soros in the crosshairs, the Dems may find 2026 and 2028 to be excruciating, especially if we secure the elections with voter ID and paper ballots.

No fraud, no Dem victories, IMO.

All the presidents after Reagan except Trump LIED about what they would do or just failed. Obama wasn't hope and change, he was hate and divide. Biden wasn't a return to normalcy, nor did he build back better, he was a braindead fascist who destroyed everything in his wake.

And Bush's "compassionate conservatism" was total horseshit big government neocon warmongering insanity.

Which is why Trump is blowing minds because he just says what he thinks and then does it. Like him or not, he's not lying.

He does use misdirection and surprise and some deception to keep the enemy on their toes, but he's fundamentally restoring America from the ground up and if the GOP stays the course after 2028 and keeps promises, the Dems are in really, really deep shit.

They can't counter populism with populism lite because no one believes them and Trump occupies that lane and "me too" brands don't tend to work.

Just wait until the crimes and corruption is revealed - the Democrat brand will be radioactive for a generation and Socialism, woke, big government and Communism will be deeply unpopular with the majority of voters. Biden innoculated GenZ from wanting to vote for Dem wokist tyranny.

stripmallgrackle Indylawyer
5 hours ago
We all know that's why the DC establishment pulled out every stop trying to turn him into a national disgrace. They knew he he meant it when he campaigned on the bread and butter promises that every candidate for office has been peddling for decades.

They also know Trump is smart, despite the daily bilge they feed to the media. Worse, the real change Trump is bringing will expose the elites for the lying, self serving scoundrels they are. He's giving voters a real difference in leadership that they can judge future candidates against.

But try telling that to the die hard democrat next door.

What could be happening that would cause most of the executives and all but one of the lawyers to flee a sweet gig? Former RedState colleague Bill Shipley has some insights.

I have no information on this subject but ....

In my experience, this kind of thing starts to happen a large businesses with shady operating practices when law enforcement starts to make contact with senior officials about want to ask them some questions.

That leads to lawyers getting involved.

That leads to lawyers telling their clients that it would be in their interest to part ways with the enterprise.

During the 2024 campaign, we began to see a lot of suspicious activity that indicated federal election campaign violations on a Biblical scale. //

Experts working for the committee used AI to analyze more than 200 million FEC records spanning the last 14 years and identified suspicious trends, including hundreds of $2.50 donations from the same individual, donations in amounts far greater than the donor could afford, and unusually frequent donations from elderly people or first-time contributors.

Further investigation revealed that ActBlue accepted donations from prepaid credit cards and foreign credit cards. They even accepted contributions from countries under sanctions. //

Nineteen Republican attorneys general launched an investigation into ActBlue's fundraising practices. //

ActBlue probably will not survive this. The flight of its senior staff and legal department indicates potential felony indictments on the horizon. A lot of hostile eyeballs will be watching ActBlue's donations very carefully using sophisticated data analysis tools. ActBlue's brand will be associated with fraud and lawbreaking far beyond what we associate with the usual Democrat-run organization. I'm sure WinRed, the less effective Republican clone of ActBlue, will be found to have similar problems. All of this is sure to lead to increased monitoring of online fundraising by the FEC and the Department of Justice. And in November 2026, we'll see just how many real people donate to Democrats. //

houdini1984
2 hours ago
The good news is that this turmoil has absolutely nothing to do with the new focus on identifying and eliminating government fraud and waste. It's just a coincidence that leftist protests have slowed down and the donations have started to dry up. After all, these organizations and movements have always been entirely organic in nature, never relied on misdirected government funds, and the people involved in them are just taking some time off to get outside and touch some grass.

No need to follow the money...

jester6
6 hours ago
The Legacy Media Bubble is like a commemorative snowglobe. Those of us outside know the snow is fake and the buildings aren't real. Those living inside think those buildings are their whole world and they are facing an apocalyptic blizzard.

Keep shaking that globe, Donald.

A New Harvard-Harris poll taken between February 19-20 of 2,443 registered voters shows that a whopping 75 percent of Democrats say they do not believe that Joe Biden and his hapless administration threw the doors of the United States wide open for millions of illegal immigrants to pour into the nation deliberately. The poll asked this question: "Do you think Democrats deliberately kept the southern border open to bring millions of immigrants into the country illegally, or was that not their deliberate policy?" Of those polled, 80 percent of Republicans believe the opposite, that Biden administration immigration policies were very deliberate.

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.

Democrats tried a last-minute protest in front of the FBI building and I have to admit this picture made me laugh. //

Where were all the crowds? Elon Musk snarked that the "public outrage was high" -- when there were only the five Democratic politicians in the picture. //

Chelan Jim
a day ago
That photo is really pathetic and illustration of their lack of power. Someone mentioned earlier "notice the protests are not materializing." Before the election, they would have sent out the "call to arms" and there would have been buses bringing in professional protestors. We would have seen photos of them. Not now.

Perhaps it is true...those protests, that seemed to materialize spontaneously, were mostly financed thru tax payer funds!!!

This is interesting. A Minnesota Republican state representative, Steve Drazkowski, claimed some time ago that he had the goods on the Squad member, Ilhan Omar (D-MN.) The allegations included, among other things, federal tax fraud, immigration fraud, perjury, bigamy, and incest.

The video presented in the X post below was reportedly recorded in 2019.

And this is, Minnesota, Republican State Representative Steve Drazkowski and has the RECEIPTS: affidavits, eviction notices, documents…

Demanding for the arrest of Ilhan Omar for the crimes of federal tax fraud, federal immigration fraud, federal student loan fraud, and state violations of perjury, bigamy, incest, kickbacks and acts of campaign fraud abuse from east coast to the Mississippi River, Boston, Washington, New York, Chicago and Florida.

“She @Ilhan was found guilty of the violations by the Minnesota campaign finance board and ordered to return those funds. Ms @IlhanMN appears to be a serial career criminal.”

Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air traffic controller shortage and upgrade our outdated, World War II-era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks, we have already begun the process and are engaging the smartest minds in the entire world.

Here’s the truth: the FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees. Less than 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.

Mayor Pete chose to use this amazing department—that is so critical to America’s success—as a slush fund for the green new scam and environmental justice nonsense. Not to mention that over 90% of the workforce under his leadership were working from home - including him. The building was empty!

When we finally get a full accounting of his mismanagement, I look forward to hearing from him.In the meantime, I will not rest until I return the Department of Transportation and its incredible employees to its mission of efficiency and safety. //

jri500
8 hours ago
For 2 years during the Idiot Biden administration, the FAA DID NOT HAVE one single training classes for new Air Traffic Controllers (ATC). In the meantime, Biden's FAA refused to hire 1,000 newly qualified ATC graduates because they were WHITE.

When training finally resumed, FAA couldn't fill training classes because they couldn't find enough woke, minority, physically or psychologically challenged (WTF???) candidates to fill them. ANYTHING BUT WHITE. FAA is currently short about four (4) thousand ATCs. Add to that, the mandatory retirement age is 54!

The tower in DC called for a full staff of 30 ATCs. They had about half that. And the night the crash happened, 1 controller was doing the job of 2. Every airport in the country is short staffed. And democRATS are trying to blame Trump? He's been in office less than a month.

Thomas Hern @ThomasMHern
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CNN interviewed eleven Arizonans who voted for Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024.

All eleven said they support the job President Trump has done in his first month in office.

"He got transgenders out of women's sports, that's number one!"

Dana Bash did not seem very pleased.

5:42 PM · Feb 17, 2025 //

Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
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🚨NEW: @FrankLuntz says former Biden, Clinton voters who flipped to Trump in 2024 "love" how fast he's moving 🚨
"They love the pace of change. They were very fed up over the last four years. They wanted action, they wanted results. They looked at prices, they looked at affordability, they looked at immigration. And they didn't see anything happening."

"They wanted to see a reduction in wasteful Washington spending and they're seeing that...For the first time they have confidence in the future, which is why you now see some significant shifts in the polling for the direction in the coming years."

9:00 PM · Feb 17, 2025. //

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📊 President Trump Job Approval

🟢 Approve: 55% (+12)
🔴 Disapprove: 43%

Was net: +6 (51-45) on Feb. 6
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• @NapolitanNews | RMG Research
• #63 (2.3/3.0) | 3,000 RV | 2/10-14 | ±1.8
11:40 PM · Feb 15, 2025. //

Weminuche45
7 hours ago edited
They focus on change itself, and the pace of change, while mostly ignoring the direction of change, the goals, the policies, the results.

Their conclusion will almost certainly be that they should double down on their existing religion of toxic ideology and policies by driving their garbage faster and harder, with more screeching, wailing, fear, outrage and deconstructing of traditional American values.

The harder and faster they drive unwanted unpopular change, the more they will self-destruct. Changing what to change would require loosening their external TDS riddled tunnel vision and spending some difficult time looking in the mirror at what they see there. I dont see much sign of that, yet anyway.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you just watched that video, but shut your eyes and listen to the words from those Democrat politicians, you would think you are listening to President Trump, Elon Musk and our entire administration, who are saying the exact same things that Democrat politicians promised the American people they would do for decades. President Trump is just the first president in our lifetimes to actually do it. And now you see the Democrat Party and the mainstream media spiraling out of control about a very simple promise: rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from our federal bureaucracy. This is a promise President Trump campaigned on. He is now delivering on it.

I've been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington, D.C. swamp who are trying to fearmonger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned Social Security checks. So I want to set the record straight on your show tonight, Sean, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do so. President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the Doge team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration. They haven't dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments and so their goal in going into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things: Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them, Number two, to identify payments that are going to deceased people who are no longer living and should no longer be receiving that money and number three, to protect the integrity of the system for hardworking Americans who have been paying into it their entire lives.

Western Lensman
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🚨Hakeem Jeffries left grasping for a response after ABC's Jon Karl reads off massive favorability numbers for Trump:

“Donald Trump's favorability rating is HIGHER than it ever was the first time around.”

63% favor govt recognizing only two sexes

60% favor deporting illegals

60% favor expanding O&G production

59% favor declaring emergency at southern border

Trump has put Democrats in the position of opposing his massively popular positions — “defending the indefensible” — and they have no coherent answers.
3:53 PM · Feb 16, 2025. //

My favorite part about this whole clip is the expression of utter shock on Jeffries' face. He looks like a deer in the headlights on a dark highway. I was half expecting him to splutter, "But, but… CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS! THERE’S A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!”

When the charges against Adams were revealed, he was accused of big stuff...like taking airline upgrades and helping the Turkish embassy navigate NYC's byzantine building code system; see BREAKING: We Now Know the Charges Against New York Mayor Eric Adams – RedState. The charges were framed to look big time, but they were eerily reminiscent of the hit jobs done on Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, where normal activities were mutated into federal felonies by lawyers out to get a scalp.

A sea change happened when Adams defended Trump at a press conference in the last days of the election: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Breaks With Dems Over Despicable Rhetoric: Trump Not a 'Fascist,' 'This Is America' – RedState. //

There was some speculation that Trump might pardon Adams; that didn't happen, but Trump did order DOJ to dismiss the charges against him; New: Trump Justice Dept. Directs Prosecutors to Dismiss Federal Corruption Charges Against Eric Adams – RedState. That's when the fun started. //

This shootout is nowhere near over. Bondi and Bove are still surrounded by disloyal and hostile staff. The judge in NYC is bound to do something other than accept the filing; otherwise, he'll be a social pariah. Ultimately, a judge can't force the government to prosecute a case it wants to dismiss.

It is good that this first battle came this early and over a fairly trivial issue. A lot of unreliable staff have been identified and are no longer employed. The attorneys who came to work for DOJ as a government service and not as a political commissar should now feel more comfortable knowing they have the support of the DOJ leadership team.

Pam Bondi wrote to DOJ on her first day in office, “Any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination, consistent with applicable law.” There is no doubt she is serious. //

Skibum
a day ago edited
If you want to know if the prosecution of Mayor Adams was political, ask yourself whether the DOJ would have prosecuted Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago under the same circumstances?

The answer is "NO"! Johnson just got caught with a closet full of bribes with more to come and DOJ prosecutors are nowhere in sight.

Adams went off the Democrat reservation when it came to illegal immigration and Johnson did not. Adams was prosecuted.

While the Democrats' stance on the matter is divorced from MAGA's—hardly news—what is notable is that it's also quite divorced from what was traditionally the Left's position on USAID.

Prolific mainstream and left-wing journals have reported on some of USAID's more nefarious dealings for many years, often posting critical coverage of the organization itself. Just a few weeks ago, an opinion article in American socialist magazine Jacobin kicked the organization while it's down as it became clear Trump aimed to gut it. Left-wing website The Grayzone published a similarly critical feature around the same time.

Though Democratic President John F. Kennedy established USAID in 1961 with humanitarian ambitions in mind, the organization has been distorted far beyond its intended use.

Over the years, USAID has indubitably used "humanitarianism" as a veil for regime change efforts in countries the U.S. sees political climates as unfavorable. //

Many suggest USAID also aided a regime change effort in Ukraine in 2004. This narrative came not from pro-Trump media, as one may expect it to—it was actually reported by The Guardian at the time. //

Onetime left-wing hero Matt Taibbi tore into USAID as far back as 1997 when he blamed it for making the world more hostile for American citizens because of its attempted manipulation of international politics. Furthermore, he suggested that on top of its shortsighted political engagements, it made life worse for those it intended to help. A February 3 tweet indicates he still feels largely the same about the organization. //

It's just another example of how Trump has so emphatically destroyed the traditional American political axis and recruited a cult of supporters so disillusioned with the federal government that they've gleefully adopted a traditionally left-wing viewpoint.

As for the Democrats, their marching in defense of a regime change tool that Trump's base is giddy to destroy is extraordinary, but unsurprising. The USAID saga is a further indictment that the party's messaging and actions have estranged portions of the Left—so much so that some of them are even in Trump's cabinet.

$300 million worth of medications are sitting on pallets about to expire thanks to Trump's effort to gut foreign aid. These drugs would've prevented people from going blind from a preventable tropical disease—Donald Trump would rather waste them in an East African warehouse. ///

The fastest shipping to South Africa is 25 days. If true, these were expiring long before Trump ordered anything. //

GreenLanternMD
5 hours ago
The even funnier part is that what he’s describing sounds like ivermectin. //

OrneryCoot Largo Patriot
4 hours ago
It shakes them to their core and infuriates them. They have been accustomed to being the gatekeepers for all of the knowledge disseminated to the poor yokel masses, and shaping what is delivered to suit their purposes. They now have millions of fact checkers that can spotlight any falsehood or narrative almost instantaneously. They are continually being caught in pants-on-fire lies, and it erodes their credibility ever further. Thus, even more people dig in deeper on their half-truths and outright lies. It is snowballing so quickly that they are being replaced as the arbiters of truth in real time. The Democrats who push this and benefit from it are in a state of existential threat and denial that the old ways just don't work anymore, and they become ever more shrill and frantic. It is absolutely amazing to witness. Hallelujah!

From his confirmation hearing, it was clear that RFK Jr. knows his most significant challenge will be bringing Medicare and Medicaid under control and improving the quality of service to consumers. He also understands the nature of the opposition he will face from monied interests who make money off of keeping us on drugs for a lifetime rather than focusing on exercise and nutrition as critical factors in keeping us healthy. Just remember, we don't have a health care system -- we have a sick care system. There is no money to be made off healthy, active people.

Even though RFK Jr. is not in sync with the Trump administration on everything, abortion comes to mind. I have no doubt that he will be a team player and color within the lines because this is the last chance of his lifetime to make a difference, and he is more focused on being a change agent than an ideologue.

The nomination of RFK Jr. to HHS has the possibility of being a brilliant pick that puts the US on track to better health and a much more sane use of health care and medical research dollars, or an utter disaster. But like with Tulsi Gabbard, Trump is the guy who will pay the price if RFK Jr. self-immolates and if he is fine with that risk, he deserves to have his man in place.

Now he does. //

anon-j4cj
4 hours ago
This guy Kennedy is supposedly a Democrat, and how many Democrats voted for him ? ZERO! Don't ever buy that "reaching across the aisle" BS again! It doesn't exist. This is our triangulation of the Democrats with RFK, Jr. and Tulsi. WE are the ones with the coalition; Americans are throwing off the chains of Marxist slavery. //

epaddon
4 hours ago
The irony for all those Dems and liberals who have spent decades with their silly Camelot nostalgia and pining for a restoration that the first Kennedy to serve in a Cabinet since 1964 is in a Republican Administration. :). //

GBenton ECoolidge19
3 hours ago
The political spectrum is changed. It's the elite vs the people more than right or left, at least with most Americans who are not hardcore partisans. I've come to believe that the Uniparty divided us into R vs D and then played pretend like there was an actual difference. Reality was the RINOs made sure the limited government Christian conservatives never won. Government only ever grew. We were told that was inevitable. Real reformers like Reagan were impeded by establishment RINOs like the Bushes who support bigger government in perhaps only marginally different ways than establishment Dems. Thus, the progressive Commies are mad they never got their full Communism and conservatives are mad we keep losing to the left. Now, Trump has taken populist ideas and shown that we can agree on more than we disagree on the core stuff like health and liberty. We'll have to agree to disagree on some things and let voters decide at the state level, but that's Federalism. Either way, the Uniparty can no longer divide us into fake party lines.

American Deplorable ™
9 hours ago
"Who's gonna pick our cotton?"

Dems 1860.

"Who's gonna pick our vegetables?"

Dems 2025

"We need more gardeners and maids"

Also. Dems 2025

"Hey where did everybody go?"

Axios reported last week that groups such as MoveOn and Indivisible are harassing lawmakers with tens of thousands of phone calls demanding more from their leaders.

The left-leaning outlet revealed that over a dozen Democrat lawmakers had "received historically high call volumes," insisting they "do more" to stop Trump.

Hilariously, those congressmen and women have had to remind these groups that their hands are a bit tied because they got shelled in the elections and currently hold no majorities. They suggested the groups start calling Republicans instead.

"You are literally calling the wrong people," one House Democrat explained. //

Axios has followed up on that report by noting that the calls seem to have continued unabated. MoveOn and Indivisible are making the Democrat Party very ... divisible.

House Democrats had a closed-door meeting in which they lashed out at these liberal groups for siccing their unhinged masses on them and tying up the phone lines.

One source who attended the meeting indicated House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is "very frustrated" with the progressive groups for taking their anger out on the party that best represents their interests.