At CDR Salamander, 21-Days of Trump Chapter 2: How is Everyone Holding Up? "Not we Americans...but the rest of the world." Pretty well, except for Europe, which is having fainting spells. Capt. Ed at Hat interprets CBS: We Regret to Inform You That Trump Is More Popular Than Ever. From the Free Bacon, Trump Wins Again: Electric-Focused Car Ads Absent from Super Bowl After Exploding on Biden's Watch. At WaEx, Trump orders Treasury to stop ‘wasteful’ production of pennies. It cost's 3 cents to make one. The value of the dollar has dropped at least 10 fold since I was a kid (the dimes had real silver, now worth more than $2). I would OK with admitting this reality, and getting rid of the nickel too, and dropping a zero off our currency.
From Misty Severi at JTN, Gabbard clears final procedural hurdle before full confirmation vote. "Gabbard is expected to be confirmed later this week, on Wednesday." Atop Da Hill, whining that Hegseth moves to implement Trump’s ban on transgender troops. Like pennies, they cost more than they're worth. From NewsMax, Hegseth Signs Memo Reversing Renaming of Fort Bragg, "renaming of Fort Liberty, North Carolina, to Fort Roland L. Bragg. The new name honors the heroic service of Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II veteran awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart for his extraordinary bravery during the Battle of the Bulge", not the previous Bragg, a Confederate general. Jeff Charles at TownHall, Trump Ramps Up Purge of ‘Woke’ Ideology in the Military. NewsMax, Trump Fires Military Academies' 'Woke Leftist Ideologues'. Annapolis Cap Gazette, Trump orders ‘immediate dismissal’ of Naval Academy Board of Visitors, noting near the bottom "Former President Joe Biden also removed members of the service academy boards when he took office in 2021". At Da Fetched, Ex-FBI Director Admits Kash Patel’s Looming Confirmation Vote Has Deep State in PANIC, the old prevaricator, Andy McCabe. Stephen Kruiser at PJM thinks Trump Can Outlast the Dems' Desperate Stalling Tantrums.
Duane Patterson at Hat Hair is impressed The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Just Got Rocked by Vought. Streiff at RedState, Acting CFPB Director Freezes Funding for the Agency. Sundance at CTH is ecstatic, Budget Boss Russ Vought Tells all CFPB Staff to “Stop Work.” "Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought is also the interim Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is under review by DOGE and on Monday morning Russ Vought told CFPB staff not to come to work. Vought sent an email to employees this morning saying they should “not perform any work tasks.” They were directed to contact the top lawyer for the Office of Management and Budget “to get approval in writing before performing any work task.” Vought is also serving as the bureau’s acting director. The previous director, Rohit Chopra, was fired by Trump, a Republican, on Feb. 1. Vought’s message followed one on Saturday evening that ordered the bureau to “cease all supervision and examination activity.”" Sean Davis@seanmdav, "Tens of thousands of angry liberals in D.C. had to drive to work today for the first time in four years, and their seething rage at having to go to work—for Donald Trump!—is making me laugh so hard." At OTP, Over 65K Federal Workers Have Accepted Trump’s Buyout Offer. "That represents about 3% of those who were offered the deal—a large job cut by any measure, but short of the White House’s reported goal of slashing between 5% and 10% of the federal workforce through buyouts." From the Peacock, Judge extends freeze on Trump's unprecedented plan to get millions of federal workers to resign, "U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. said the pause would continue until he rules on a preliminary injunction."
Bill Shipley (shipwreckedcrew) at substack is enjoying the Chaos At DOJ In The First Week Of The Trump Administration? Blame Barack Obama. "For 12 of the past 16 years the ranks of DOJ Attorneys have been stuffed full of liberal progressives -- time to go." A Michelle Tafoya podcast at Hat Hair, Chaos? Congressman Wesley Hunt Is Loving It. Fox, DOJ moves to dismiss federal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. From NYPo, Trump’s DOJ to toss NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ historic bribery case, agrees with Dem that charges were politically motivated by Biden admin. The Peacock squeals Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, "Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence in 2020. The former governor had served about 8 years on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat."
At PJM VodkaPundit sees J.B. Pritzker Tries to Out-Trump Trump, and It Goes Hilariously Wrong.
Leslie Eastman at LI, notes Greenland’s March Election Focused on its Independence, "Vote is slated for March 11th, and one of the Greenlander political parties explicitly cited the Compact of Free Association option in its plans to push for independence." From NewsMax, Trump: Gaza Ceasefire Should End Saturday If Hostages Not Released. At ET, Trump Signs Proclamation Recognizing Feb. 9 as ‘Gulf of America’ Day.
The Manhattan Contrarian sees Kindergarten Konstitutional Law Come To The Southern District Of New York. Bonchie at RedState, Federal Judge Makes Ruling Against Trump Admin That Might As Well Be a 'Soft Coup' John Lucas at Bravo Blue, More Revolution from the Insurrectionist Federal Judiciary, "A rush to judgment and the Rules be damned." Ace, Obama Judges (Illegally) Blocks Trump's Freeze on Federal Spending, Also Forbid Trump from Exercising Authority Over Bureaucrats. "Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued the ruling, reinforcing a temporary restraining order (TRO) previously placed on the administration." Capt. Ed, Lawfare's Last Gasp: The 'Emergency Docket' TROs. Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity… OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come. Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road . . ." Robert Kimball at Am Great, Trump, Musk, and the Deep State: The Battle Over Transparency Begins, "Trump and Musk are unraveling the deep state’s secrets at record speed, and the left is panicking—wielding emergency orders, judicial overreach, and legal theatrics to stop the exposure." Althouse, "This is a remarkable intrusion on the Executive Branch that is in direct conflict with Article II of the Constitution, and the unitary structure it provides." ""There is not and cannot be a basis for distinguishing between 'civil servants' and 'political appointees.' Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the President. A federal court, consistent with the separation of powers, cannot insulate any portion of that work from the specter of political accountability. No court can issue an injunction that directly severs the clear line of supervision Article II requires. Because the Order on its face draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction, it should be dissolved immediately...." It's the "MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF EMERGENCY MOTION TO DISSOLVE, CLARIFY, OR MODIFY EX PARTE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER" filed in State of New York v. U.S. Department of Treasury." NewsMax, Trump DOJ Files to 'Dissolve' or 'Modify' Judge's Treasury Ruling. Sundance sees President Trump File an Urgent Motion to Nullify “Impermissible” Court Order Blocking Treasury Officials from Access to Systems.
From the WSJ, DOGE’s First Round of Cuts Went to Trump Priorities, but Bigger Targets Await, "After defunding DEI and climate-change programs, Musk’s team mobilizes a giant review of government real estate." Insty at his NYPo gig, Incompetent or crooked? Elon Musk exposing Washington’s rotten system. Both, of course. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair is aghast that Dems are Willing to Shut Gov Down to Save Fraud and Abuse From Trump: Double Down, Dudes. Da Signal, Trump Is Leading a Historic Counterrevolution Against the Deep State. At Twitchy, Desperate Dems Tried to Change What DOGE Stands for and Elon Musk Torched It. From RCP, Sen. Andy Kim says Cuts To USAID "Devastating To National Security," "Doing China's Work For Them". Monica Showalter at Am Think notes Larry Summers and four other Democrat Treasury secretaries come out together to howl about DOGE. Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers, "I join Treasury Secretaries Rubin, Geithner, Lew and Yellen in writing this @nytopinion guest essay because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy, https://nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opi" but back in 2023, Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers, "Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘what we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture.'" At Althouse, Does the average American sense that Lawrence Summers or Elon Musk is motivated by the public good? Harry Bōlz @elonmusk "Listen Larry, we need to stop government spending like a drunken sailor on fraud & waste or America is gonna go bankrupt. That does mean a lot of grifters will lose their grift and complain loudly about it. Too bad. Chris Bray at substack, Your Job Is to Push the Yes Button, "the secretaries make the game clear." "Five former senior government officials, feeling themselves wonderfully virtuous, have casually upended the entire American system of government without noticing that they’ve done it. Dire warning: The President of the United States is acting like he’s in charge of the executive branch."
Phil Mickelson @PhilMickelson "If you’re outraged at all the ridiculous and wasteful government spending you should be. If you’re outraged that DOGE is looking into things, I wonder why?" KanekoaTheGreat, @KanekoaTheGreat, "Dems: We need 80000 IRS agents to audit your $600 venmo payment. Reps: There are over $100B annual entitlement payments to people without social security numbers. Dems: Auditing is extremely dangerous to our democracy!" Kanekoa The Great @KanekoaTheGreatTHREAD: I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports. Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West. A deep dive" WokeSpy, Just 294 out of 14,000 USAID Employees Identified as “Essential”. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Dem Senator Backs $20 Million Sesame Street Funding for Iraq Amid USAID Cuts. From NewsBusters, The Dispatch Ran One of the Dumbest 'Fact Checks' on Critics of Politico’s Gov't Funding. Beege Welborn wonders if Now That There's No $ From USAID, Romania May Get the Guy They Voted for the First Time. Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele "Today, the entire local opposition called for a massive demonstration against mining. Every political party joined the call, along with 90% of all NGOs, universities, churches, and activist groups. They ran a month-long mainstream media and social media campaign, had the backing of the country’s most powerful news outlets, chose a holiday (Sunday) so no one had to work, organized preparatory events, and more. This is what they achieved. It’s clear there is no opposition without USAID money" @instapundit@instapundit, "If your ministry has to close down after state funding dries up, it's not a "ministry," it's a state church." Quote Tish Harrison Warren @Tish_H_Warren "Trump is shutting down Christian ministries. Ministries I've supported may have to close their doors. I've never seen anything like this. https://worldrelief.org/pr-world-relie" Don Surber on Trumping the media "Deep state can no longer use tax money to pay off media." Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "On the one hand it's hilarious and pathetic - but on the other it's incredibly instructive - that US corporate media continues to refer to propaganda outlets funded by USAID as "independent media." Trump and Musk attack "independent media"! (by cutting their US Govt funding)." VodkaPundit at PJM, thinks Heads Are Going to Explode When DOGE Cancels This Boondoggle. John Sexton at Hat Hair wonders Will DOGE Put a Big Dent in Tesla? WokeSpy, Democrats Spent Obscene Amounts of Taxpayers’ Money to Create Transgender Animals through DEI Grants. Oversight Committee @GOPoversight "Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace ) Opens Hearing on the Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty “Late last year the White Coat Waste Project exposed that more than $10 million dollars in taxpayer funds were spent creating transgender mice, rats, and monkeys. “These DEI grants funded painful and deadly transgender experiments that forced lab animals to undergo invasive surgeries and hormone therapies at universities across the country. “For example, the Biden-Harris Administration spent $2.5 million taxpayer dollars to study the fertility of transgender mice.” Well, you don't want them practicing on trannies do you?
Dave Strom, How Bureaucrats Think About Accountability.
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Tyler Winklevoss@tyler, "The calculus for joining government is radically changing. The promise of gaining control of enormous dark money government slush funds and routing them to your friends who stand up totally vague and nebulous NGOs that then launder the money back to you and your other friends, is disappearing before our eyes. People who go into public service will actually have to be motivated by public service, not by kleptocratic, self-enrichment schemes. If they want to get rich, they will have to write a book or "produce" some show or documentary for Netflix that no one watches." Jesse Kelly@JesseKellyDC, "I just visited the Vatican for the first time last month. It was freezing. While in line outside, there was a homeless man with no shoes or socks on begging right outside the Vatican gates. Then I walked through Vatican security. No more homeless people to be seen." Quote The Associated Press@AP, "Pope's point-man on migration and aid concerned about USAID cuts, alarmed at US migrant crackdown https://apnews.com/article/vatica"This is what we’re dealing with everywhere in government
— Harry Bōlz (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
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PJM's Scott Pinsker thinks he knows Why the Losing Losers in the Democratic Party Keep Losing. "Stagecraft is, for now, Democrats’ statecraft." Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "One of the underrated aspects of why the Democratic Party is in the dumps right now is that they are so lame and cringe. That’s showing up with young voters. Luckily, they’ve made David Hogg vice chair of the party so that’s sure to up their appeal." Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "Democrats have identified two groups of people they’ll go to the mattresses to defend: illegal immigrants and government employees. What a platform." From Behind the Black, It won’t be Democratic Party stupidity that will give Republicans victories in ’26 and ’28 "That forceful achievement, reshaping the federal government spectacularly in only a short time, will do more to win votes than anything else. And it will work because as they shut down huge swathes of the federal government, the public is going to quickly discover how little they needed those bureaucracies. The nation will go on. In fact, it is likely to thrive as never before. And that will make voters flock to the Republican Party in ’26 and ’28 in numbers that no poll yet anticipates."
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