Republican Operatives
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Clem72
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What is this bullshit. So Trump can restructure the entire government with an EO, but needs a task force to declassify one document? Really? And what's with that term, this document isn't "classified", not unless it meets the strict definition for classified that means spillage of the document could cause grave harm to the United states. At most it's CUI. This sounds like they are setting up a structure that they can later blame for not getting it done.
That's it, case closed. You're never going to see this list.
“You have Democrats now out having rallies to stop him. What is he doing? He’s identifying and allowing us to cut out fraud, waste, and abuse. How could they be against that? It’s irrational. It’s going to work against them,” Johnson said.
Musk is also helping Congress perform its constitutional duties by using transparency to keep the Executive Branch in check, saying that “the oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy has not turned over the data. They wouldn’t give us the information we were seeking. We didn’t know all this because it was hidden.”
“Now Elon has cracked the code. He is on the inside of the belly of the beast, Mark. And he is unveiling and revealing all these things that we knew intuitively were happening, but we didn’t have the evidence,” Johnson continued.
Musk is also helping Congress perform its constitutional duties by using transparency to keep the Executive Branch in check, saying that “the oversight job has been hindered because the deep state and the bureaucracy has not turned over the data. They wouldn’t give us the information we were seeking. We didn’t know all this because it was hidden.”
“Now Elon has cracked the code. He is on the inside of the belly of the beast, Mark. And he is unveiling and revealing all these things that we knew intuitively were happening, but we didn’t have the evidence,” Johnson continued.
ontheriver
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I LOVE that man!
A few people may have noticed that I resisted an enthusiastic endorsement of Donald Trump during the election.
But now, I’m amazed by the Trump cabinet (many of whom I would have picked).
I love his message to the Ukrainian warmongers, and along with his DOGE initiative shows I was wrong to withhold my endorsement.
So today, admittedly a little tardy, I give Donald Trump my enthusiastic endorsement!
(Too little too late some will say, but, you know, it is sincere, there is that.)
Don’t expect this endorsement to be fawning.
I still think tariffs are a terrible idea, but Dios Mio, what courage, what tenacity.
Let's Go Privateering!
Time to go a’privateering?
We’ve heard a bit about letters of marque and reprisal recently. Sen. Mike Lee has proposed bringing back letters of marque in a thread on X, suggesting them as a tool for going after Mexican drug cartels. Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, the private security company (it’s rude to call them “mercenaries”) has also weighed in in favor of this approach. My own Congressman, Tim Burchett (R-TN) has introduced legislation allowing the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal against cartels, the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act of 2025, co-sponsored with Rep. Mark Messmer, (R-IN). (The full text of the bill is here.)
This isn’t a new idea, really. Letters of marque and reprisal date back centuries; and even in this century there have been proposals to use them again, particularly after 9/11 when they were proposed, particularly by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) as a way of going after terrorists. More recently, people have proposed “Cyber Letters of Marque and Reprisal” to go after hackers.
Is there anything to these ideas, or do they just appeal to our swashbuckling side? Let’s talk.
This isn't the worst idea I ever heard. Of course, since it would involve humans the possibility (probability) for corruption would be quite high. Unless the penalty was enormous - swinging from a gallows comes to mind.
SPEAKER JOHNSON: ASKING PUBLIC SERVANTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR WORK ISN'T UNREASONABLE
"The public work force needs to be treated with dignity and respect, and so do the American taxpayers.
In the private sector where most of us come from, it is not unusual for you to have to fill out weekly reports on what you're doing.
I don't think it's a crazy concept."
Along those lines, buried in this month’s news was a remarkable little nugget. The Harvard Crimson reported the story under the headline, “Republicans Are Floating Plans To Raise the Endowment Tax.” Big universities sit smugly behind vast, multi-billion-dollar ‘endowments,’ which are only taxed at a paltry 1.4%. They weren’t even taxed at all before Trump’s first term.
But earlier this month, Trump ally Representative Mike V. Lawler (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill to raise the endowment tax to 10%. That number could change as the bill moves through the legislative process. Some Republicans have mentioned tax rates as high as 35% — the same “fair” tax rate everyone else pays.
Lawler’s bill makes for the second such bill introduced in the current session.
This endowment tax proposal isn’t just about revenue—it’s a direct shot at the left’s ideological fortress. For decades, elite universities have functioned as protected political laboratories, insulated by billions in tax-free wealth, all the while pushing radical social policies, churning out activist bureaucrats, harboring failed democrat politicians and disgraced media personalities, and weaponizing DEI dogma against their own students and faculty. Now, their financial immunity faces a real threat.
In a 2023 campaign video, President Trump promised to start a new free online university for Americans— funded by taxing private University endowments. He specifically called out the protests at Harvard. Those protests eventually led to the resignation of Harvard’s super-diverse then-president Claudia Gay, with a little help from Christopher Rufo, who exposed Gay’s serial academic plagiarism.
Don’t overlook the awful threat posed by Trump’s campaign promise. Trump’s tying the tax increase to a free online university is political genius. First, the narrative is golden. Instead of “punishing” Harvard and its peers, the GOP can frame it as redistributing the wealth of elite billionaires from pampered Harvard students to low-income Americans.
Second, a free, fully credentialed online university—funded by an Ivy League endowment tax—would signal a tectonic shift in higher education. It would break the academic cartel’s grip by offering a competitive alternative that isn’t dominated by leftist gatekeepers and Marxist claptrap. Universities would have to start justifying their astronomical tuition prices if students can get a serious education elsewhere.
They could even call it, Trump University. Just saying.
I think the Republicans are serious about it. The loony, woke chickens are returning to their endowment roosts.
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But earlier this month, Trump ally Representative Mike V. Lawler (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill to raise the endowment tax to 10%. That number could change as the bill moves through the legislative process. Some Republicans have mentioned tax rates as high as 35% — the same “fair” tax rate everyone else pays.
Lawler’s bill makes for the second such bill introduced in the current session.
This endowment tax proposal isn’t just about revenue—it’s a direct shot at the left’s ideological fortress. For decades, elite universities have functioned as protected political laboratories, insulated by billions in tax-free wealth, all the while pushing radical social policies, churning out activist bureaucrats, harboring failed democrat politicians and disgraced media personalities, and weaponizing DEI dogma against their own students and faculty. Now, their financial immunity faces a real threat.
In a 2023 campaign video, President Trump promised to start a new free online university for Americans— funded by taxing private University endowments. He specifically called out the protests at Harvard. Those protests eventually led to the resignation of Harvard’s super-diverse then-president Claudia Gay, with a little help from Christopher Rufo, who exposed Gay’s serial academic plagiarism.
Don’t overlook the awful threat posed by Trump’s campaign promise. Trump’s tying the tax increase to a free online university is political genius. First, the narrative is golden. Instead of “punishing” Harvard and its peers, the GOP can frame it as redistributing the wealth of elite billionaires from pampered Harvard students to low-income Americans.
Second, a free, fully credentialed online university—funded by an Ivy League endowment tax—would signal a tectonic shift in higher education. It would break the academic cartel’s grip by offering a competitive alternative that isn’t dominated by leftist gatekeepers and Marxist claptrap. Universities would have to start justifying their astronomical tuition prices if students can get a serious education elsewhere.
They could even call it, Trump University. Just saying.
I think the Republicans are serious about it. The loony, woke chickens are returning to their endowment roosts.
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I'd like to smack the smirk off those progbot "journalists" faces.