Friday, February 7, 2025

Flotsam and Jetsam -Some Friday DIY

 Sorry, had to go and do something:

The Incoming Trump Tornado

You Won't Believe Who Senate Democrats Say Is Trump's 'Most Dangerous Nominee' – PJ Media
Sean Davis on X: "By a vote of 53-47, Russ Vought has been confirmed as Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget." / X
Senate confirms Russ Vought as new director of the Office of Management and Budget | Just The News
Senate Democrats delay committee vote on recommending Patel for final vote or FBI director | Just The News
Trump's second term so far: I guess this is what "draining the swamp" looks like - The New Neo
Trump Evicts Fired DEI Admiral - Off The Press
Hey waiter, this whine tastes like liberal tears
CNN Admits That ‘Trump Is Winning,’ and It’s Glorious – PJ Media
Obama coalition flips to Trump as youths and parents back 47 - Washington Examiner
Instapundit - NO COMMON SENSE ON THE LEFT: When President Donald Trump promised during his inaugural address that
Michigan Rep. Laurie Pohutsky opts for ‘voluntarily sterilization’ to avoid pregnancy in ‘Donald Trump’s America’
Bill Ackman on X: "Natural selection. Darwin was right." / X
Liberal Reactions to Trump Presidency are UNHINGED - YouTube
The Morning Briefing: The Rainbow Rage Mob Takes Another Hit From Trump – PJ Media
“MAGA agonistes,” by Victor Davis Hanson
The New ‘Resistance’ - WSJ
'Unprecedented': El Salvador Makes the U.S. an Offer We Can't Refuse – PJ Media
CNN Data Guru Harry Enten Lands Coup de Grace on Democrats After Trump Signs EO Protecting Women's Sports – RedState
AG on X: "The thing about this image is that it’s an 80-20 issue that Dems simply handed to Trump and the right to appease some extreme activists. It’s about as easy of a win as there is in politics
Mace Goes Nuclear on Democrat Who Accused Her of Using a 'Slur' During Committee Hearing – PJ Media
Secretary Rubio Positions to Give JD Vance a Run for Thiel's Money - The Last Refuge
JD Vance reveals how the White House will uproot religious persecution: 'It ends with this administration' - Blaze Media
Trump Announces DOJ Task Force to ‘Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias’ - The Epoch Times
Rashida Tlaib And The Riviera Of The Middle East - Victory Girls Blog
Pictured: The golden pager symbolising Israel’s renewed friendship with the US
Trump Issues a New Warning About Remaining Hostages
Trump Threatens Investigation Into California’s High-Speed Rail Boondoggle

DOGE and the USAID Scandal

How Is Elon Finding Despicable Gov't Waste So Quickly? He Has a Secret Weapon—and It's 'Intelligent' – RedState
Elon Musk's DOGE agency gains access to Medicare, Medicaid payments - UPI.com
Scott Adams on X: "Democrats are terrified of DOGE and Musk because they have never witnessed this degree of competence. It looks alien to them. I mean that literally. People with experience see in DOGE a process that is necessarily messy but 100% on target in terms of speed, talent, and energy" / X
Kurt Schlichter on X: "If it’s a coup, who is Trump taking power from?" / X
Jeff Carlson on X: "Dude literally caught a rocket" / X
Elon Musk on X: "Exactly" / X
Elon Musk on X: "No kidding" / X
‘Every Night’: MSNBC Seems to Have Found a New OBSESSION in Elon Musk
My Three-Letter Response to the Dems' Caterwauling About 'Unelected Officials': EPA – PJ Media
Dan O'Donnell on X: "Wisconsin Public Radio (@WPR ) reported that the number of anti-Elon Musk protesters at the State Capitol today was in the “thousands.” The Milwaukee @JournalSentinel said it was “about 400.” Here is the actual number: https://t.co/wqQu4bbR0V" / X
Big Picture Context for USAID Revelations - Are We Being Managed? - The Last Refuge
Fed agencies ending $8M Politico contracts after Elon Musk calls them 'wasteful' use of taxpayer money
Althouse: "THE LEFT WING 'RAG,' KNOWN AS 'POLITICO,' SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000"
Instapundit - WERE THERE ANY MAINSTREAM OR LEFTWING (BUT I REPEAT MYSELF) MEDIA OUTLETS NOT GETTING TAXPAYER MONEY
RBe on X: "We're all missing the important question. The question is "Is the US Government Politico's biggest customer?" From the looks of it, the answer is yes. But in any case, it's very clearly a payoff. We're wasting effort arguing about how this payoff was structured to look legit." / X
Karoline Leavitt Makes One Thing Clear After It's Revealed Legacy Media Received USAID FundsUSAID employees around the world will be placed on leave Friday and ordered to return to US | CNN Politics
Fusilli Spock on X: "There is a US agency, with a $50B budget, that was redundant to our US State Dept, but with next to zero oversight or transparency, funding all sorts of ridiculous and partisan projects and allies. Democrats are defending this up to and including the threat of violence." / X
Day Two of Politico Pro Scandal: Hewitt v Stein – HotAir
Instapundit - HOW THE SCAM WORKS
Insurrection Barbie on X: "According to the Columbia Journalism Review, USAID supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organizations in 30 different countries. No wonder the news all sounds the same." / X
Peachy Keenan on X: "Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" https://t.co/5CzzZT0i2H" / X
Defunding USAID Is About Shutting Down Left-Wing Propaganda
Check Out The Corporate Media Outlets Raking In Taxpayer Cash | The Daily Caller
Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers With Over $1,300,000,000 Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball To Foreign Aid | The Daily Caller
Dana Loesch on X: "Why the hell should anyone pay taxes again after the criminal way our government has stolen from us to fund Democrat campaigns and gun control? You Republicans better get a big set of brass balls and abolish the IRS in addition to every agency not authorized under Art 1 Sec 8." / X
Wait, USAID Was Involved in Donald Trump's Impeachment?
Bombshell Report Links USAID to Trump's Impeachment – PJ Media
Ace of Spades HQ Michael Shellenberger: USAID and the CIA Funded Trump's First Impeachment
If Presidents Can't Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake
Joe on the Crazy USAID Spending Being Uncovered - YouTube
KG on X: "The American people endured a century-long psychological operation meant to turn them into leftist cattle, and broke through an election system rigged from top to bottom against them to elect the most right wing leader in Modern history. The impossible is what Americans do best." / X
Instapundit - CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
Stephen L. Miller on X: "CBS News treating a government employee like they are in witness protection is amazing. Blurred silhouette and everything." / X
Former USAID Administrator Samantha Power Appears on CBS Late Night to Defend Institutional Interests - The Last Refuge
USAID Target Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Responds to USAID Revelations - The Last Refuge
USAID set to be hacked from 14,000 workers to just 294 as Trump team shreds humanitarian agencyAlthouse: "I want to tell you that this is not about politics. But foreign aid is the least popular thing government spends money on."
Peachy Keenan on X: "Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" https://t.co/5CzzZT0i2H" / X
ZitoSalena on X: "How Steelworkers (or any number of other industries impacted by trade, politics, corporate takeovers, dispassionate & disconnected hedge fund owners & mergers) felt 40 years ago. And ever since for that matter." / X
NBC, ABC Remain Bitter Over DOGE Obliteration of USAID
Politico Co-Founder: Left-Wing Media Has 'Never Been Weaker' – HotAir
Instapundit - WELL, YOU’VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE:
Trump And Musk's Federal Buyout Offer Extended—Over 40,000 Workers Accept: What To KnowWhatever Will Become of All the Displaced Swamp Creatures? – PJ Media
BOO and YAH! Insurrection Barbie SHREDS Democrats Over the Press Conferences They DIDN'T Hold – Twitchy
Althouse: Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein talk about the "crazy shit" Elon and his 6 "young wizards" have found over at USAID.
More Than 40,000 Federal Workers Have Accepted Buyout Offer - The Epoch Times
Instapundit - OUT ON A LIMB: If Presidents Can’t Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake. If the executi
CNN Host Loses It When a GOP Rep Presses Her About Military Families and Remote Work
She's Gonna BLOW! Elon Musk TRIGGERS TF Out of Liz Cheney with Just 1 Word About Her USAID Connection – Twitchy
Secretary Sean Duffy on X: "I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from" / X
ROUND TWO: Hillary Clinton Pokes Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy a Second Time, Gets Torched Again – RedState
DataRepublican (small r) on X: "1️⃣ Gov-funded NGO gets a USAID grant for something vague like “strengthening education.” 2️⃣ That NGO dumps millions into a DAF (Donor-Advised Fund). 3️⃣ The DAF isn’t required to disclose what the NGO told them to do with the money. 4️⃣ But somehow, every hyperpolitical" / X

Illegal Immigration
 
Trump DOJ slaps Illinois, Chicago with lawsuit over sanctuary laws - Fox News
WHOA: Border Crossings Down 93% – PJ Media
Poll: Surprising ICE Approval Rates, Including from Latinos as Trump Steps Up Deportations – WokeSpy
Mexico deploys 10K troops to southern border, following through on vow that paused Trump tariffs | Just The News
Ace of Spades HQ ICE Showed Up to the Apartments Taken Over by Tren de Aragua, But the Apartments Were Empty -- A Traitor in ICE Tipped Off the Foreign Alien Prison Gang Members
Ace of Spades HQ FCC Investigating George Soros-Owned Radio Stations for Providing Leaked Information About Where ICE Is Operating

The Fading Biden Administration

Trump says raw footage of Kamala Harris' '60 Minutes' interview proves 'election interference' | Blaze Media
Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 on X: "At very end of unedited @60Minutes video posted today by CBS, @BillWhitakerCBS called Harris’ economic policy proposals “logical.” When cameraman asked to get an over the shoulder shot of Whitaker: “Well we were talking about how you’re gonna pay for it and I mean I truly do mean https://t.co/Nj3eRf0mMk" / X
End Wokeness on X: "Kamala Harris was stumped when asked how she would pay for her plans & then admitted that our taxes would go up. 60 Minutes never aired this. https://t.co/5lsKckD6oD" / X
Ace of Spades HQ Pressured by Lawsuit and Owner Shari Redstone, 60 Minutes Finally Releases the Unedited Word-Salad Nonsensical Kamala Harris "Interview"
The Army’s Special Treatment of Capt. Rebecca Lobach – HotAir
The Army’s Special Treatment of Capt. Rebecca Lobach - RealClearDefense
The Worst Democrat in Congress? : The Other McCain
'Fight Harder!' Rank-and-File Democrats Want Blood, and Democratic Lawmakers Aren't Giving Them Any – PJ Media
The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal

Electoral Politics as Usual

Republicans Aim To Send Ranked-Choice Voting Into Extinction
Nevada Has More Registered Republicans Than Democrats For The First Time In 18 Years – WokeSpy
Polls Show Americans Overwhelmingly Support Voter ID Laws
‘I’m Not Sure If That’s Possible’: John Fetterman Says Dems May Have Lost Key Demographic Forever - The Daily Caller

The Culture Wars 

This Was One of the Most Chaotic CNN Panels and Scott Jennings Was the Target
George Mason backtracks, says female students can criticize tampons in men’s bathrooms - The College Fix
Riley Gaines: 'Lia' Thomas Whipped It Out In Locker Room, NCAA Didn't Care - Off The Press
Restroom Ruckus: Michigan GOP’s Bathroom Bill Will Most Likely End Up Circling the Drain in Partisan Fight
Former UPenn Athletes Sue Over Lia Thomas - Off The Press
Benny Johnson on X: "This is the greatest revenge arc in sports history" / X
NCAA Bars Men from Competing in Women's Sports | National Review
Lawfare Resumes: Judge Blocks Trump's Order Sending Transgender Prisoners to the Correct Prison – RedState
J.K. Rowling on X: "This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical" / X
Instapundit - GROSSMAN & SHAPIRO: “Disparate Impact: The Next Step in Restoring Meritocracy Is to Reject t
TaxProf Blog Appeals Court Blocks Order Requiring LSU To Reinstate Law Prof Who ‘Used Vulgar Language To Criticize Gov. Landry And President Trump’
Instapundit - #WINNING: Carl’s Jr. Super Bowl ad brings back bikini-clad burger models after yearslong clampdown
Thomas Catenacci on X: "BREAKING: New Jersey's massive lawsuit accusing the oil industry of causing climate change was just dismissed with prejudice. The case was pursued by the NJ AG, but funded by liberal NGOs. Similar cases in MD and Delaware have also been tossed. A huge blow for eco activists. https://t.co/Mv044iMLWp" / X

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity up and running at The Other McCain.

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