BOP
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How else are Bass's constituency supposed to loot and vandalize if people are constantly going in to their homes and property? Duh!
Trump's America
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BOP
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Aw, shuckie darn, Chuckie!
If last week was a tectonic wake-up call, this week the Trump Administration unleashed a 7.8 magnitude earthquake against the deep state. The world is literally changing before our eyes. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal made history, perhaps unknowingly, with its story blandly headlined, “White House Orders Pause of Federal Financial-Assistance Programs.” The sub-headline said only that “Agencies scramble to understand the unexpected memo.” Then, Politico ran a related and oddly similar headline, more blunt but also more confused: “‘It will kill people’: Chaos, confusion after Trump halts US foreign aid.”
Chaos. Confusion. Epoch-making. What Trump has done was, until yesterday, unimaginable. When the Wall Street Journal called “the memo” “unexpected,” it was a masterpiece of understatement, kind of like describing the Hindenberg as an unscheduled travel delay.
It came in two parts (so far). Yesterday, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) unleashed a two-page memo upon the entire federal government. It was nothing less than a multi-trillion-dollar, whole-of-government spending freeze, excepting only a small handful of essential items like Medicare, emergency relief, payrolls, and Social Security. Like that, Trump shut down the government.
You can be sure that nothing like this has ever happened before. It has completely flipped the script. Instead of Trump trying vainly to wrestle control over a vast bureaucracy, now the bureaucrats must come to Trump for permission to do anything.
Overnight, Trump has managed to turn the vast, out-of-control federal bureaucracy into a command-and-control system.
“Many in the aid space,” Politico reported, “said they couldn’t remember any such sudden halt to funding in the past.” One darkly predicted destruction, saying, “This order is cruel and deadly; It will kill people.”
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) predicted it would create total chaos, insisting, “It will mean missed payrolls and rent payments and everything in between: chaos for everything from universities to non-profit charities, state disaster assistance, local law enforcement, aid to the elderly, and food for those in need.”
Neither the WSJ nor Politico quoted anybody supporting the freeze, or any Republican at all, for that matter. They didn’t even quote any other prominent Democrat voices apart from Schumer’s. There’s no narrative yet, no talking points. The completely one-dimensional report means the media is in shock, terrified, cowed. It doesn’t know which way to turn or what to think.
Can he really do this?
Expect a tsunami of litigation starting … right now.
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I appreciate his not touching social insecurity, but I'd be okay even if that stopped. I still have my annuity and my investments. I'd have to tighten the belt a notch, but not the end of the world.
I will keep hammering on this, however: we. need. legislation. We need to make this sh*t permanent instead of this country and her people being batted back and forth between Presidents like a ping pong ball or something. Get. it. done. Republican'ts.
BOP
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The budget drills alone in the DoD were enough to about kill us. Drill after drill after drill, with meetings with Congressional staffers; money being taken back from programs, reclamas flying back and forth between NAVAIR and Capital Hill....
Good to see other agencies are being called to have that same level of micromanagement.
glhs837
Power with Control
See, that's the thing. This growth the federal govt into every singe aspect of every Americans day to day lives isn't "our country". This notion that America should bow down to other nations and let them wipe the trade carpet with our faces isnt "our country". The concept that police are evil and criminals are the heros isn't "our country". The idea that we shouldn't have borders, and that we should be providing food and shelter and service for every criminal that walks across isn't "our country". The idea that I should be forced to call a man in a dress Ma'am and let him share a restroom with my daughter isnt "our country".
And there are hundreds of other things that are not our country. And enough of us finally spoke up to make a change. The old saw about doing the same thing and expecting a different result? Giving away the store in trade, and allowing tiny percentages of people to decide the path of our society, culture, and govt has resulted in massive division, debt, and danger to our country. So we'll see how doing things differently does.
glhs837
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Kinnakeet
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Miley is not to be trusted he needs to be monitored 24/7 as he will sell more info to chinaThat list gets nowhere close even to accounting for just reversals. Trump also signed another order expressly reversing 78 different Biden executive orders and memoranda. He canceled the “CBP One” app that allows migrants to apply for asylum with one-touch ordering, fueling tearful coporate media interviews with illegals whose free cell phones stopped working at 12:01pm.
General Milley’s cartoonish military portrait, which looked like it was drawn in crayon by a moderately skilled middle-school student, and was only hung ten days ago, has been removed.
Maybe General Milley will move to China, since he loves it so much.
Apart from “reversing the mistakes from the last four years,” Trump also turned an executive freeze-ray on large swathes of government, including all foreign aid, all new regulations, all new refugee admissions, and all non-emergency hiring, until his Administration can get its arms around things. I’m not sure anything like that broad, operational suspension of government has ever happened before during peacetime. It will throw a monkey wrench into any resistance.
Not surprisingly, the President issued a raft of orders related to the border, which was one of two national emergencies Trump declared (the other was on energy).
(Hilariously, hypocritical corporate media placed scare quotes around the word “emergency” yesterday reporting on Trump’s declarations, despite having had no problem using the exact same word without decoration to describe five years of an “emergency” over a mild cold virus.)
Finally, before we get to the good part, another fascinating development is worth noting. In the hours following Trump’s swearing in yesterday, the Senate was working. It voted to confirm former Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Trump’s Secretary of State, dynamiting the disgraceful Antony Blinken out of the job. Senate committees also advanced Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) and John Ratcliffe (CIA Director).
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Hegseth and Ratcliffe both “are expected to be confirmed.”
The President also ordered remote workers back to the office “effective immediately.” The most recent study by Nancy Mace’s office showed an unimaginable 92% of them —nearly all— are still working remotely in pajamas. Federal office buildings will have their lights switched on this morning for the first time in years.
Imagine the DC traffic this morning. Some of these people have never been to their offices before and aren’t even sure where they are. Surprise!
Behind the headlines and apart from the executive orders, a deep-state massacre has begun to unfold, a government-wide reorganization the New York Times hyperbolically labeled “a Day 1 blood bath.” Pink slips went out to over a thousand political appointees embedded throughout the bureaucracy, including an assistant director here, a handful of managers there, all four judges on the immigration court, and so on.
Oh — I haven’t seen any order or news about this, but during comments yesterday Trump promised to re-direct the 88,000 new armed IRS agents to help process aliens at the border. He might have been kidding. He probably was kidding. But he didn’t sound like he was kidding. And after all, Biden reassigned special DHS investigators from child trafficking and fentanyl to the border to make sandwiches for migrants. So, there’s precedent.
Now think about just how much pre-planning and effort all of this swamp-draining represents. We can thank the Heritage Foundation for this terrific Day One experience. Over the last four years, they’ve laboriously cataloged every federal position that needs to be changed and that can legally be changed. They painstakingly drafted many of Trump’s excellent Day One executive orders.
What we’re witnessing is the ripened fruit of the much-maligned ‘Project 2025’ that we’ve heard so much progressive whining about. Project 2025 was always designed to drain the swamp.
It’s begun. The Swamp has finally started draining. Can you hear it? Gurgle, gurgle.
But no executive order excited us more than did the pardons of what Trump called “the January 6th hostages.” He didn’t pick those words accidentally.
☕️ OPEN THE DRAINS ☙ Tuesday, January 21, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The first 18 hours of the new Trump Administration might be the most transformative period in U.S. history. But that's only scratching the surface: The drains have been opened.
Pete pulled Miley's security clearance yesterday.
Tell me that Milley didn't have that Douglas MacArthur vibe about him.
Nicole Shanahan Vows to Fund Challengers to Senators Who Do Not Support RFK Jr Nomination
Former vice-presidential running mate to Robert F Kennedy Jr, Nicole Shanahan, has released a video threatening to personally fund primary challengers for those Senators who do not support the nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Saying, “Bobby may place nice, I won’t” Ms. Shanahan is vowing to target Senators, many of them she funded, if they cower to Big Pharma and Big Agriculture. Additionally, Shanahan provided a list of key Senators and their contact details for a public pressure campaign. Robert F Kennedy’s first confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 10:00am EST.
Trump is following through with unprecedented and swift action to begin his presidency – which has reset the national mood
Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen said it best: “Last week has totally reset my conception of what’s possible, in two wholly different dimensions.”
As Andreessen often is, he’s right.
Soon after November’s election, I suggested that if Donald Trump were smart, he’d come in like a wrecking ball: Move fast, break things and precipitate change across many fronts all at once, subjecting the Democrats, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) to shock and awe.
Boy, has he ever done that, unleashing unprecedented change in just his first 100 hours.
He banned DEI throughout the federal government, closed the borders to illegal immigrants (according to Customs and Border Protection, illegal crossings dropped 97% by Trump’s second day in office), halted government censorship efforts, refocused the Defense Department from social issues to warfighting, and started a massive cleanup at the corrupt Department of Justice.
In other words, the radical “Resistance” the plagued Trump’s first term was always a 2-dimensional branding exercise, a cheap cardboard cutout. It was never an actual movement. Bacteria-like, the Resistance only thrived in a temperature-controlled culture of anonymity where defiance was cost-free—where brave bureaucrats could slow-roll policies, leak fake news to the press, and quietly sabotage the Trump 1.0 Administration while still cashing their taxpayer-funded paychecks with ironclad job security.As we will see, those assumptions are now in doubt. But in 2017, the stakes were low and there were no real risks, not with any real consequences. So partisan federal workers boldly cast themselves as brave warriors for democracy wielding jiu-jitsu-like weapons of bureaucracy.
But Trump 2.0 flipped the script. Now there are real consequences. People are getting fired. There’s real accountability—Trump’s Team seems to know who they are. This time, there’s no guarantee the Resisters can ride out another four years unscathed. The big blue wall is cracking. Now that they’re forced to stand on their principles and take tangible risks, it looks more like a cowardly, disorganized retreat than steely-eyed defiance.
Fong is a Lego figurine version of The Resistance. It’s not real. It has always been mirage constructed out of convenient narrative. “The Resistance” is like those inflatable fake tanks that confuse the enemy. Sure, Fong dragged her feet, made a little scene, emoted to reporters, and fed the narrative—but Fong wasn’t really willing to fight. Let somebody else do it.
The Resistance narrative is a media myth. There was never a true rebellion; it was always just a childish, passive-aggressive, bureaucratic temper tantrum wearing a cheap Halloween superhero mask and cape.
Now let’s look at that second article.
☕️ FROZEN ☙ Thursday, January 30, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The terrible or terrific (depending on your point of view) brilliance of Trump's mass-firing plan begins to emerge from the fog of war. The Democrats are realizing they are playing major catch-up.
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