Vice President JD Vance appeared in Germany on Friday for the annual Munich Security Conference and didn't hold back against America's ostensible allies. In a blistering speech that drew groans from the crowd, Vance ripped European hypocrisy on democracy and freedom of expression, pleading with them to get their houses in order.

Greg Price @greg_price11
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JD Vance went to the Munich Security Conference and roasted the entire continent of Europe for being petty tyrants and criminalizing freedom of speech, including a British man arrested for praying at an abortion clinic.

2:02 PM · Feb 14, 2025. //

VANCE: I'm here today not just with an observation but with an offer. Just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite and I hope that we can work together on that. In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town, and under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree.

Margot Cleveland
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🚨🚨🚨Judge in ⬇️case denies stay pending appeal. Court's reasoning based on his huge walk back of what he really enjoined saying basically "oh, I've only ordered you to not do what you can't legally do." 1/. //

The pattern seems to be that judges respond immediately to requests for temporary restraining orders with overbroad language, then quietly walk the language back once the headlines pass.

The Trump administration celebrated the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services by rolling out the creation of the Make America Healthy Again Commission.

Make America Healthy Again arose as a slogan after RFK Jr. joined the Trump campaign. While some of Kennedy's ideas about health could be classified as "exotic," he asked questions that no one else seemed interested in talking about. Like why, with our enormous national investment in biomedical research and health care, is our nation a crap hole of health outcomes, particularly from chronic diseases?

This is from the introduction to the executive order creating the MAHA Commission:

Under the Constitution, “the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion.” For his decisions, “he is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.” His choices cannot be questioned in court because “the subjects are political. They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive.”

Who penned these outrageous words? Democrats and many pundits might answer Vice President J.D. Vance. Over the weekend, Vance provoked an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

But the usual suspects would be wrong. The right answer is John Marshall, the greatest chief justice in Supreme Court history. And he did not squirrel this view away in a private journal. Instead, Marshall publicly explained that courts could not review presidential decisions on “political” subjects “entrusted to the executive” in a Supreme Court opinion.

He announced this principle not just in any case, but in Marbury v. Madison, the greatest opinion in Supreme Court history. The very same Marbury that concluded that federal judges should reject unconstitutional statutes, also recognized that courts could not intrude into the president’s exercise of his constitutional — dare we say “legitimate” — powers. Marshall’s opinion has given rise to the “political question doctrine,” which prohibits courts from reviewing decisions vested in the Constitution in the other branches, such as making war, prosecuting cases, and conducting impeachments. //

During the Vietnam War, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman sued to stop the bombing of Cambodia (which President Richard Nixon had ordered). Holtzman obtained an injunction from a district court. The court of appeals promptly stayed the district court order. Holtzman petitioned Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who oversaw that court of appeals, to vacate the stay. Marshall properly refused, writing “the proper response to an arguably illegal action [by Nixon] is not lawlessness by judges charged with interpreting and enforcing the laws.”. //

The question whether the president can fire heads of “independent” agencies such as multi-member commissions is still debated, but the clear trend of recent Supreme Court decisions indicates that the president can remove these officers if they refuse to carry out presidential orders. No doubt Trump’s recent removal of members of the National Labor Relations Board are intended to set up a case to settle this question at the Supreme Court. Our prediction is that Trump will win that dispute — decisively.

At the heart of this issue is the de minimis provision, which originates from Section 321 of the Tariff Act of 1930. This provision was initially designed to prevent the government from incurring excessive costs and hassles for small imports made by individuals in a single day, as long as the fair retail value of those imports did not exceed $1. Over the years, Congress has raised this threshold multiple times, and it currently stands at $800, making it the most generous de minimis exemption in the world. In contrast, Canada’s de minimis exemption is capped at only $15. //

A congressional report revealed that between fiscal year 2018 and 2021, more than two-thirds of de minimis imports came from China (including mainland and Hong Kong). In 2023 de minimis imports comprised an astonishing 1 billion parcels valued at approximately $54.5 billion, with around $18 billion in shipments originating from China.

The Select Committee on the CCP estimated that two Chinese companies accounted for more than 30 percent of the daily de minimis shipments in the U.S. These companies are Shein, a fast fashion online retailer based in Singapore that sources most of its products from China, and Temu, a China-based e-commerce marketplace offering a wide range of items from cosmetics to knock-off iPods. These companies ship their merchandise directly to American consumers at extremely low prices, utilizing small shipments that are exempted under de minimis provisions.

Engelmayer is the first judge ever to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the president of the United States that also forbids a cabinet secretary from accessing his own records without giving these parties an opportunity to respond. He offered zero analysis of his constitutional authority to make such a radical ruling, the federal rule governing injunctions and temporary restraining orders, or why he is enabling fraud and grift by blocking access to records that show who got government money and for what. //

The situation is actually worse than that. Here’s the timeline of the court filings. All these initial documents were filed by New York Special Trial Counsel Colleen Faherty. //

1:04 a.m. — Faherty e-mailed four items — the complaint, the legal memorandum, her prior affirmation, and the order granting the TRO — to two government lawyers, only one of whom had been a recipient of her 7:32 p.m. email.

1:14 a.m. — The complaint was refiled with the deficiency corrected. Note that a properly filed complaint was not filed until more than a half-hour after Judge Engelmayer had already entered his order. //

The accelerated timeline is simply incredible, especially in view of the voluminous materials that any diligent judge would analyze to render a proper opinion. And I mean “incredible” in its literal sense of “not to be believed.”

The last documents filed in support of the request for a TRO were at 10:13 and 10:15 p.m. These included the legal memorandum with its citation to 54 court opinions. Did Engelmayer read these? Not a chance. Did he read any of them? If he did, you can’t tell it from his order, other than one citation from him to a single case that had no resemblance to the case before him. //

Even if Engelmayer had received and began to study these materials immediately after he had them all, he spent less than two-and-one-half hours reviewing and analyzing the materials presented to him before entering his order at 12:39 a.m.

That’s not even counting the time it would have taken Engelmeyer to write his order. If he took only a half-hour to do that, he spent less than two hours to peruse the voluminous record and then begin to write his order. He could not possibly have considered more than a small fraction of the cited cases and other authorities in that time. It raises the question of how much of this order was AI-generated.

Tim Carney
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1) The ACLU believes there are four branches of the government.
2) It's favorite "branch" is the imaginary one that has zero democratic accountability.
Casey Mattox
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ACLU: "Not only would such mass layoffs violate federal law, but this action would undermine the important and historic check that the career civil service has had on curbing abuses by the executive branch.". //

Judge O'Boyle ruled that [shocked face] none of the plaintiffs had standing to file suit to stop the buyout because they'd suffered no harm. Indeed, virtually every one of the court actions filed to stymie the Trump administration could be settled in five minutes if judges simply took the idea of "standing" seriously. The unions had claimed harm because they were being forced to spend time and money trying to stop the buyout, which could be devoted to other, unnamed, and probably criminal, union activities. Judge O'Boyle said the plaintiffs can't "spend their way into standing, neither can the plaintiffs in this case establish standing by choosing to divert resources towards “respond[ing] to tremendous uncertainty created by OPM’s actions” and away from other union priorities."

The bigger picture was the nature of the complaint itself.

Second, this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to consider the plaintiffs’ pleaded claims. While not binding on this Court, the decision in Am. Fed’n of Gov’t Emps., AFL-CIO v. Trump (“AFGE”) is instructive. 929 F.3d 748 (D.C. Cir. 2019). In that case, the court held that the plaintiff-unions’ claims fell within the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute’s (“FSL-MRS”) scheme and therefore the district court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. Id. at 754.

This means the unions must exhaust appeals through the agency and then through the Federal Labor Relations Authority before heading to federal court.

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.

Mrs. deWinter
6 hours ago
One thing that struck me reading Trump's statement here in this article is how much information President Trump gives the public about his phone call with Putin. The details, the ideas, the goals, the reasons, the strength. When Biden made calls, we barely knew about them, and there were no details given. The transparency of this new administration is so welcoming and a relief. We know who is in charge and we know what they are doing.

He traveled to Europe by way of a C-17 cargo plane with a command pod rather than in a Gulfstream executive jet. //

He traveled with his wife and child. This has become something of a standard image of all Trump Cabinet secretaries. Trump has had his grandchild at his desk. Sean Duffy's family is prominent in events. JD Vance's wife and kids travel with him. Musk's kid was at the press conference he held yesterday. The image of family as a central point in life rather than an adjunct to your job is striking when compared to previous administrations, including Trump 1.0. See my colleague Brandon Morse's post on the subject: Elon Musk Is Demonstrating the Best Pro-Life Strategy Right Now and It's Heartwarming to See – RedState. //

I'm old school on uniforms. I think the custom of wearing BDUs (utilities, fatigues, whatever you want to call the field uniform) all the time is horrendous. When I was a young officer, you weren't allowed to wear BDUs off-post. Period. You couldn't go to a fast food place or run an errand on the way home or at lunch wearing BDUs. In my view, if you can't break out the Class A uniform to welcome the SecDef and note the color guard is in dress uniform, then there is no possible occasion that calls for them. But, if you do wear BDUs to greet the SecDef, show him the respect of wearing a fresh set. Meeting the head of the Department of Defense in wrinkled BDUs is a calculated insult because I really don't believe this three-star or his aide are that stupid. //

This is just the tip of the iceberg. If you're willing to greet your boss in wrinkled clothes and allow him to be heckled by dependent wives, you can imagine what else is going on out of sight.

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze
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Elon Musk answering more questions in the Oval Office than Joe Biden did in 4 years.
9:45 PM · Feb 11, 2025. //

Standing next to President Donald Trump, Musk lambasted the bureaucratic state, noting that it is antithetical to democracy to have unelected officials operating outside the authority of elected representatives. No doubt, he was referencing several recent court decisions that have sought to prevent Trump from being president despite his holding of the office. //

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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ELON MUSK: "If the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives... then we don't live in a democracy... It's incredibly important that we fix that..."

9:31 PM · Feb 11, 2025. //

Well, we have this unelected fourth, unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, which has, in a lot of ways, currently more power than any elected representative. That's not something that people want, and does not match the will of the people. It's something we've got to fix. //

This is what Democrats refuse to accept, and for completely cynical reasons. You do not have a democracy if federal bureaucrats can simply override, either directly or through lawfare, any change to the status quo made by the President of the United States. If an agency has such total control that it can stop the executive branch from even changing the content of government websites, that is authoritarianism despite the faceless nature of federal employees. American voters voted for change by electing Donald Trump. They did not vote for federal judges to stop any and all reforms under absurd legal theories.

Democrats see the bureaucracy as a protection of their power structure. As long as it persists, they don't have to win elections. They can simply continue their reign of terror from the shadows, hiding behind millions of federal employees exercising immense control without any accountability. That's what Trump is seeking to stop, and it has Democrats screaming bloody murder. //

MUSK: You know there's crazy things like, we just finished the examination of Social Security, and we've got people in there that are 150 years old. Now, do you know anyone that is 150? I don't, okay. They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out. So, you know that's a case where I think they're probably dead, or they should be very famous. One of the two. //

The federal bureaucracy has been a gravy train for Democrat partisans for decades. Somehow, despite relatively normal salaries (though far too high in some cases), many of these people become fabulously wealthy. How did Samantha Power, who headed USAID during the Biden administration, see her wealth surge up to $30 million holding the position she did? These are questions that deserve answers. //

Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte
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Cuteness overload!

Elon Musk is talking about how he's going to cut the deficit in half and his son X is whispering to President Trump and picking his nose.

Little boys will be boys! It's nice to see beautiful young families back inside the White House!
0:22 / 0:22
9:41 PM · Feb 11, 2025. //

There's something wholesome and refreshing about children being normalized in public spaces again. Whether it's Musk or Vice President JD Vance, we are seeing a return of kids not being seen as a burden but as a blessing worth cherishing. Once again, it represents a stark contrast to the hateful resentment shown by the left, and Musk calmly answering questions while Democrats screech like banshees is why the latter keep losing.

Four DHS officials working for the sub-agency FEMA are being terminated after they violated one of President Donald Trump's executive orders. As RedState reported, a payment of $59 million was sent to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal immigrants during the first week of February. That came after the White House ordered a stop to such spending, with the intention being to redirect the money to disaster relief for Americans.

JD Vance @JDVance
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If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal.

If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal.

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.
3:13 PM · Feb 9, 2025 //

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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President Trump demolishes Fake News "reporter" @svdate on Air Force One:

POTUS: "I don't know even what you're talking about. Neither do you. Who are you with?"

@svdate: "HuffPost, sir."

POTUS: "No wonder. I thought they died."

11:08 PM · Feb 9, 2025. //

The president certainly has a way with reporters, doesn't he? Let's talk about the dishonest framing of Date's question, though.

Read what Vance wrote again. Did he ever "suggest" the administration would "enforce it themselves" regarding going around a Supreme Court ruling? Was the Supreme Court even mentioned at all? The answer to all those questions is no. Instead, what Vance did was state a plain fact, at least in his view of the law. Namely, that the judge is out of line in usurping the statutory authority of the executive branch to control the bureaucratic state.

No doubt, the remedy to those things will be an appeal, and when it reaches the Supreme Court, it will likely end up being a bloodbath for the bureaucracy. On that front, Democrats and the press should be careful what they wish for regarding waging these court battles. The only reason Roe v. Wade was overturned is because leftists picked a fight they weren't ready to win over a state law in Mississippi.

Do you know who did brag about ignoring the Supreme Court, though? That would be one Joseph Robinette Biden. //

MajorKong
7 hours ago
Vance has the benefit of being correct on the legal point as well. The relief is extra judicial. Not available to the court. Bondi needs to ask for sanctions against the judge at the next level. //

emptypockets
4 hours ago
So that's why HuffPo got a seat in the press briefing lineup. For their value as a chew toy.

During a Pennsylvania trip, Secret Service agents spotted a drone tracking Trump’s motorcade—they opened the moonroof and took it down with an electromagnetic gun.

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Russ Vought has frozen all new funding to that agency. In a memo to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Vought, who was just confirmed as Office of Management and Budget Director, said, "This letter is to inform you that in the Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025, the Bureau is requesting $0."

Earlier, Vought had announced that he'd discovered the CFPB was sitting on a $711.6 million "reserve fund." //

The beauty of this move is that when Elizabeth Warren set up the CFPB, she attempted to insulate it from influence or management by either the Executive or Legislative branches. Contrary to other agencies that are managed by a group of directors who the president can remove, the CFPB had a single director who could only be removed for cause. The Supreme Court struck down that arrangement in 2020. She also had the CFPB draw funds directly from the Federal Reserve, bypassing the appropriation process. In the best "it isn't a tax" tradition of John Roberts's jurisprudence, that funding arrangement survived a Supreme Court challenge. This combination of events has led to a situation where one man, that would be Russ Vought, can do pretty much as he wishes because there is no Congressional oversight, and he can't be forced to spend money because there are no appropriations. //

This letter is to inform you that for the Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025, the Bureau is requesting $0.

During my review of the Bureau's finances, I have learned that the Bureau has a balance of $711,586,678.00 in the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Fund. By law, I must take account of this sum when determining the amount "reasonably necessary" for the Bureau to fulfill its statutory authorities.

I have determined that no additional funds are necessary to carry out the authorities of the Bureau for Fiscal Year 2025. The Bureau's current funds are more than sufficient — and are, in fact, excessive — to carry out its authorities in a manner that is consistent with the public interest.

A Warning Written for Tomorrow

January 18th, 2021.

The capital of the free world looked like a war zone.

Armed troops patrolled empty streets. Barriers rose like steel forests. And in a quiet corner of the White House, someone uploaded forty-five pages to the government website.

No ceremony. No press release. Just a document dropped into the digital void.

"The 1776 Report"

But Two days later, it vanished.

Scrubbed from official servers.

Dismissed as propaganda.

Lost in the chaos of transition.

And yet, something survived.

What most Americans never knew was that this wasn't just another government report. This was a diagnosis of what was killing the American spirit—and more importantly—a blueprint for its renewal.

Written not for 2021, but for this exact moment in 2025, as things begin to change.

"We have arrived at a point," it warned, "where the most influential part of our nation finds these old faith-based virtues dangerous, useless, or perhaps even laughable."

Simple words. Surgical precision. Like a doctor naming a disease everyone felt but no one would acknowledge.

But here's what made the report extraordinary:

it mapped the exact pressure points where renewal would begin.

Like a military assessment written for civilians like me.

A battle plan disguised as historical analysis.

"The facts of our founding," it declared, "are not partisan. They address the concerns of ALL Americans—every class, race, religion, and region. Properly understood, these facts resolve the concerns and fulfill the aspirations of our entire people."

Critics called this empty rhetoric in 2021.

They should have read more carefully.

Those weren't just words.

They were coordinates, marking exact points where American renewal would begin. //

The sun rises early in Washington. Its first rays catch marble columns that have watched over the capital for centuries. But something's different in these opening weeks of 2025. Something electric. Something unstoppable.

Inside those buildings and institutions being audited and gutted for the first time in forever, a forgotten report's prophecies are finally becoming reality.

Look closer.

The DS meeting its match in digital sunlight.

Critical Theory crumbling against hard truth.

Identity politics dissolving in the face of American renewal.

What he never bothers to explain is how state attorneys general have any standing to challenge the internal workflows of the Treasury Department, how auditing a system within the Treasury Department is beyond the power of the Treasury Department, how the Executive Branch can violate the separation of powers by carrying out an audit, or how DOGE's action is anything other than the epitome of the "Take Care Clause" which would seem to anyone without TDS to require laws to be obeyed.

It should be to no one's shock that the lead clown in this pathetic circus of TDS sufferers is Letitia James.

The complaint presents a veritable "parade of horribles" of things that "might" happen, which, even if true, fall in the "not your circus, not your monkey" category of complaints. //

This will turn out to be more performative than real. When a federal judge ordered a halt to Trump's spending freeze (see Biden Judge Puts Trump's Spending Freeze on Hold and Orders the Feeding Trough Opened), the administration essentially answered, "yeah, no."

Defendants do not read the Order to prevent the President or his advisors from communicating with federal agencies or the public about the President’s priorities regarding federal spending. Nor do Defendants construe the Order as enjoining the President’s Executive Orders, which are plainly lawful and unchallenged in this case. Further, Defendants do not read the Order as imposing compliance obligations on federal agencies that are not Defendants in this case. Defendants respectfully request that the Court notify Defendants if they have misunderstood the intended scope of the Court’s Order. //

We'll soon see how Attorney General Bondi responds to this nonsense and if she's willing to draw a line at this sort of judicial overreach. If she goes along with it, it effectively means that the President literally does not have the authority to give directions to the Executive Branch, and the Treasury Secretary cannot establish policies in his agency without getting the approval of some judge somewhere based on the complaint of random people. //

Lugger66
a day ago
As i said u might as well have a judge say DT cant be POTUS.
Truth is not only does this need to be slapped down they need to be punished. //

anon-adwq
a day ago
Treasury Secretary made the DOGE auditors employees of the Treasury. So the Judge's order now applies to people who do not exist ("outside auditors"). Game, set, match. Trump's team is well ahead of the flailing activist Democrat judges. They can scream into the wind. The common meme picture of the screaming Karen can be updated to wearing judicial robes. Gotta love it! //

PubliusCryptus
a day ago
This conflict is a make or break event. The Judiciary has been out of control for generations now and it must be forced back into its Constitutionally defined role. Judges who exceed their authority must be removed from the bench and prosecuted for abuse of their powers. Their abuse has been going on for so long and their hubris has reached such a level that I fear simply ignoring them will not solve this problem. Arrest and imprison them.

GBenton
a day ago
This is what I'm talking about, lol. They're so cooked.

The Swamp depended on both parties keeping secrets about how the Uniparty is a parasitic infection in our government.

But Trump isn't playing the game of going into government with a few hundred grand salary and suddenly being worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

He and Musk have F U money already.

And they are opening the books to a People's Audit (that sounds communistic, but I mean it in a populist sense), and they are gonna destroy these vampires with good old fashioned sunlight.

The Dems could tie him up in court, they could log jam in Congress, and they could use agencies to sandbag with noncompliance.

But they can't stop being exposed by sunlight when Musk controls the largest social media platform and the public is already super pissed off.

This is check mate, Dems.

Any move you make to resist makes you complicit to corruption.

Trump and Musk are not going for incremental reform, they are tearing down what the Uniparty has built over the past century.

Take that, Frankfurt School and Cloward Piven - THIS is how you collapse a corrupt system.

NavyVet GBenton
a day ago
Exposing the flood of illegal outflow is one thing. The next step is to uncover where it went.

Where did those tens of millions of accumulated small donations to ActBlue come from? Methinks these streams of illegal payments.

Now, if the democrats did not know, were innocent, they would be just as curious as us, and just as outraged. The fact that they are doing all they can to obstruct, prevent exposure, prevent scrutiny, tells us, they already know what we will find. They are guilty and they know it.

At this point, they would be wise to cut their losses, demand transparency along with us, and be happy that all they lost is the wellspring of our tax dollars. But they are not wise. By fighting exposure, they implicate themselves as knowing criminals.

RICO! RICO! RICO! You listening, Pam? RICO!

GBenton NavyVet
a day ago
Yes, and the bitch for the corrupt is that DOGE is bringing receipts.

The downside of the surveillance state they built is that it's now being used to expose their fraud.

Sorry, not sorry, lol.

Their Frankenstein monster is gonna destroy them.

anon-73eu GBenton
20 hours ago
I think I love that the most. Obama set up the Digital Dept that Trump is going to use to nail everyone of those idiots. And oh my, the RICO possibilities. (yeah had to clean up what I really wanted to write).

Obama 'What magic wand do you have?' to Trump on the economy in 2016.
Trump 'YOURS' on fixing everything else in 2025.

While the final fate of USAID is in the hands of Congress, there is no doubt that the organization's reputation has been burned to the ground. Perhaps more important is the people, domestic and abroad, who managed the web of leftist programs will not have the financial staying power to wait until this all gets settled. They will move on to other jobs. Lastly, we've turned the spotlight on the truth of how our money was used to spread political propaganda inside the United States to support one of the two major political parties.

Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE
Unburdened by what has been.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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This building is now occupied by @CBP
9:10 PM · Feb 7, 2025. //

This is the new headquarters for US Customs and Border Protection.

If the agency is able to survive this near-death experience, nothing will ever be the same again.

GBenton
18 hours ago
I can only imagine what it's like to try to run a blog with this much incoming news.

But if the Democrats planned on a 90 day effort from Trump with something to fight every month or every week, they were woefully unprepared for something new every day - multiple times a day.

With social media coverage on X and on New Media like Red State and even Fox 24/7.

If this pace keeps up, can't see how they find their footing.

Especially when Trump's DOGE is cutting off their money supply and exposing genuine scandals that the public is outraged over because it affirms the frustrations that caused them to vote for Trump in the first place.

Dems are in deep, deep existential crap.

They probably shouldn't have tried to imprison Trump or delete him.

He's got no choice but to tear their stuff by the roots and scorch the earth so they can't regrow.

A century of Marxism is getting taken head on and from all sides.

OrneryCoot GBenton
18 hours ago
Ain't life grand? Trump figured out where the money was coming from and went for the throat. He has a good number of other targets, but this one will really sting a long list of players in the progressive movement, inside and outside of the government. Now to proceed at the same speed to the next targets.

GBenton OrneryCoot
17 hours ago
Because of how Trump 1.0 struggled with obstacles I suspected he would hit the Democrats on their weak flank rather than fuss with a slim majority in Congress.

My assumption was he would expose their corruption and criminality and destroy their brand so they would lose more seats in the mid terms and he'd secure his legacy in 2028.

The swamp is their home turf and there are enough Qusiling RINOs to sabotage his agenda in Congress and the courts are too often partisan adversaries rather than adjudicators of the law.

But the Democrats are a confidence game. They depend on the public not seeing what they are really doing.

I thought he'd focus on Crossfire Hurricane and a litany of other stuff like that to dirty them up.

Instead, Musk hit a flank I didn't even know existed in such a concentrated target - USAID is their piggy bank.

Sure, I figured they were corrupt, but that the whole mess could be exposed that quickly was a surprise to me - and probably them, too.

Now I'm positive this is just the tip of the iceberg. Every agency will reveal more rot.

And the states probably have satellite operations that mimic the larger pattern. Then there's the international stuff and NGOs and scumbags like Soros, etc.

The public is angry about inflation and crime and Trump exposed the Dems are stealing money and they ARE criminals.

Maybe they can survive this but I don't see how if all their grubby paws just got caught in the cookie jar.

After Trump's speech the other day about God and unity, it seems to me he will gut and destroy them but he will also make deals with Democrats like perhaps RFKjr to take over the husk of the party once he's done burning it to the ground.

The current leadership is all done though, the dominos he's set up haven't fallen - yet.

But he just said today there was "possibly" criminality with the funds at USAID.

In Trump-speak that means he has evidence of criminality.

Like I've been saying, he knows they tried to kill him. They ignored Sun Tzu and left him no way out but to go through them.

He can't just let power swap back and forth with the Uniparty every 2 to 4 years - they will never leave Trump or his family in peace.

So he has to destroy their machine. We're a few weeks in and they're taking massive hits that seem to be aimed at toppling them.

OrneryCoot GBenton
14 hours ago
With the way that Trump has become a one man wrecking ball for the Democrats along with his absolutely soaring approval from the public, I think that it may be a bit harder for the quislings to try and stop him. Not if they want to stay in office. The RNC is firmly in Trump's camp, and they control a lot of the money that goes into the midterm campaigns. Those who aren't on board may suddenly find themselves in the same position as Cheney and Kissinger...pariahs from the political world. It's all about the momentum and the scoreboard. So far, Trump is doing well enough to counter even the more prominent quislings like McConnell. If he keeps racking up wins, especially wins like USAID which are just bananas in their scope, I expect some legislation that will make those wins permanent. If Trump can get the House and Senate to start making real cuts in the Leviathan, we may yet save the country.

GBenton Light dispels darkness
17 hours ago
I'm guessing the controlled opposition, the RINOs, the Dems pet accomplices, are gonna be real quiet and hope they don't get exposed.

The impression I get is that Trump is so far ahead of them, he's got so much power in the government they built to oppress us, and so muchdirt on them that the old games are not gonna work.

He played their game last time.

This time, he's hitting them from all sides and he already knows all their weaknesses.

The thing to remember is they are all criminals and traitors.

And Trump can expose them all.

I'd bet money there are terms of surrender being negotiated behind the scenes with some pretty big names.

As soon as they really get that Trump already has them a move or two away from check mate they'll do whatever it takes to save their asses.

They can't even take him out because he's already got enough dirt to expose them even if he's gone.

The ultimate insurance policy is having them dead to rights.

Remarks
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP
AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
February 6, 2025
THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of Communications

For Immediate Release

U.S. Capitol

Washington, D.C.

8:18 A.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. This is very beautiful, I must say. This is a beautiful place. And our country is starting to do very well again. It’s happening fast — a little faster than people thought.

Thank you especially to Senator Marshall for the beautiful introduction. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. Great senator you are. //

From the earliest days of our republic, faith in God has always been the ultimate source of the strength that beats in the hearts of our nation.

We have to bring religion back. We have to bring it back much stronger. It’s one of the biggest problems that we’ve had over the last fairly long period of time. We have to bring it back.

Thomas Jefferson himself once attended Sunday services held in the old House Chamber on the very ground where I stand today, so there could be nothing more beautiful than for us to gather in this majistic place — it is majestic — and reaffirm that America is and will always be “one nation under God.”

At every stage of the American story, our country has drawn hope and courage and inspiration from our trust in the Almighty. Deep in the soul of every patriot is the knowledge that God has a special plan and a glorious mission for America. And that plan is going to happen. It’s going to happen. I hope it happens sooner rather than later. It’s going to happen.