Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Holds First Cabinet Meeting on TV

And, of course, Sundance at CTH has the video, President Trump Holds First Cabinet Meeting. Nick Arama at RedState notes the Left Flips Out Over Elon Attending Cabinet Meeting -- the Internet Has Perfect Response. Dragonswife@Dragonswife1953, "September 20, 2024. Jill Biden was not part of the cabinet either, but she was allowed to sit in on Joe's cabinet meeting. Were you upset about that at all? Of course not." "Allowed?" No, she ran it, because her husband was non compos mentis. "It's a common practice in Cabinet meetings to have speakers come to inform the Cabinet on important topics. In this case, Musk was speaking about DOGE. He was not "presiding" over the meeting. Trump was. He introduced Elon and discussed that subject, then moved on to other topics. But the left doesn't care about reality." Ace, Trump Holds First Meeting of Full Cabinet. At Fox, Tulsi Gabbard gives exclusive glimpse of Trump's first Cabinet meeting, "'We are all in sprint mode,' Gabbard told Fox News Digital in an interview at the White House." Sundance also hosts President Trump Holds Impromptu Press Conference During XO Signing Session and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Discusses Visa ‘Gold Cards’, Reciprocal Tariffs, Budget Balancing Priorities with Bret Behr. At the Smallest Minority, “Frankly My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn.”

At Hat Hair VIP, Beege Welborn notes There's a Lot Happening at the EPA. WUWT Breaking: EPA Reportedly Urges Trump to Repeal Endangerment Finding, Washington Post Claims. The EPA has a solid core of true-believing ideologues, without mass firings and replacement, it will be a difficult agency to rein in.

On the foreign policy front, sundance contributes Canada’s Freeland Says She Will Form Nuclear-Armed Alliance Against United States (seriously? are you tempted Trump to invade?) and The EU and NATO Collective Face Indefatigable Will of Godzilla Trump. Jonathan Garthwaite at TownHall hears Victor Ponta: I Can Work With President Trump To Make Romania and Europe Great. Mary Chastain at LI reports the DNC Shares Fake Clip of Donald Trump Jr. Criticizing Ukraine, "Morons." Even Mediaite admits Viral Video of Don Jr. Arguing America ‘Should Have Been Sending Weapons to Russia’ Is Fake.

Duane Patterson at Hat Hair is incensed at how a Biden Judge Invokes the Mythical Irrational and Imprudent Clause to Block Trump "“In the simplest terms, the freeze was ill-conceived from the beginning. Defendants either wanted to pause up to $3 trillion in federal spending practically overnight, or they expected each federal agency to review every single one of its grants, loans, and funds for compliance in less than twenty-four hours,” US District Judge Loren AliKhan wrote as she issued a preliminary injunction against the administration. “The breadth of that command is almost unfathomable.” “Either way, Defendants’ actions were irrational, imprudent, and precipitated a nationwide crisis,” she added. In other words, she formed a political opinion. She came to the conclusion that she didn't like what Trump and his team were doing, because politically, she thought it would cause too much chaos and commotion, and in her own definition of prudence and irrationality, used her political views to directly impact her rulings." Misty Severi at JTN reports the Supreme Court agrees to Trump admin's request to delay midnight deadline to unfreeze foreign aid "The emergency application was approved by Chief Justice John Roberts. It is not clear what the new deadline will be." Erick Erickson@EWErickson, "Big Trump win at the Supreme Court just now. Does not have to pay out foreign aid as ordered by a lower court." At Althouse, "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday night handed the Trump administration a victory for now..." "The NYT reports. . . . Anyway, Trump's victory in the Supreme Court isn't much... just preserving the status quo (as Trump disrupts the status quote), but it may feel awfully auspicious."

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh, "#BREAKING: Trump signs executive order fully implementing DOGE's government waste cutting initiatives. "Each Agency Head shall, with assistance as requested from the agency's DOGE Team Lead, build a centralized technological system within the agency to seamlessly record every payment issued by the agency pursuant to each of the agency's covered contracts and grants, along with a brief, written justification for each payment submitted by the agency employee who approved the payment. This system shall include a mechanism for the Agency Head to pause and rapidly review any payment for which the approving employee has not submitted a brief, written justification within the technological system." And much more - officially putting every agency under the supervision of DOGE's team leads." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, NEW: Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Submit Plans for Mass Layoffs. The weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth is almost audible here, 40 miles away. Da Caller, Intelligence Agencies Pushback Against DOGE Requests, Giving Trump A Clear Message. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Elon Musk: 'I'm Getting a Lot of Death Threats'. ABC News@ABC, "Elon Musk says he’s getting “a lot of flak” and death threats for his work with DOGE aimed at overhauling the federal government and making budget cuts, but insists, “If we don’t do this, America will go bankrupt. That’s why it has to be done.” https://abcnews.link/i9cTsaH" At Twitchy, Trans Woman Who Vandalized Tesla Dealership Arrested With Incendiary Devices. Althouse, "Musk is notorious for sharing edgelord memes on X, the kinds of things that might be passed around by teenage boys." "Writes Jill Filipovic, in "The Adolescent Style in American Politics/The version of manhood placed on display by Trump and his aides is the one imagined by teenage boys" (The Atlantic)." Declaration of Memes@LibertyCappy, "The Left’s crybaby tactics don’t work anymore." Sarah Hoyt says Don’t Fall For It. At PJM VodkaPundit reports Data Republican Just Got Doxxed, and the Outpouring of Support Will Warm Your Heart. Ben Whedon at JTN reports on the DOGE Dividend: Nearly 60% back Trump plan to give back some federal savings to taxpayers "Support for the plan dropped to 45%, however, should federal spending increase, with 28% opposing it in that scenario and 27% unsure." 

Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE "US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled: -$69mm for the Eurasia Foundation to do "digital transformation activity" in Europe -$32mm to Internews for programs including "media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova" and the promotion of “sustainable media outlets" -$7mm for the American Bar Association to promote the "resilience" of the "Eurasian legal sector and civic society" -$520mm for a consultant to do ESG investments in Africa and "mobilize private sector resources and expertise” -$25mm to “promote biodiversity conservation and promote licit livelihoods” by developing “socially responsible” behaviors in Colombia -$40mm to "improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants" -$42mm for Johns Hopkins to research and drive "social and behavior change" in Uganda -$45mm to "address[] the needs, opportunities, and challenges identified by activists and other civic actors engaged in nonviolent collective action" -$52mm for the World Economic Forum." Fox, DOGE says Texas nonprofit with former Biden transition member reaped millions operating empty facility. "As a result of the contract, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments jumped from $8.3 million in 2020 to $520 million in 2023." Tom Knighton at TAW on Money spent On the week of Thanksgiving, a chow hall ran out of food. . . . And yet we can fund male circumcisions in Tunisia."

At the Daily Economy, USAID’s Nefarious Activities Go Beyond Foreign Aid Corruption. Da Signal, House DOGE Panel to Examine How Foreign Aid Spreads ‘Woke Agenda’. Twitchy, MTG Slams the Door on Moskowitz’s Desperate Democrat Stunt: The Queen of ‘No’ Reigns Supreme. Atop Da Hill, Johnson says deal to avert shutdown will probably be ‘clean,’ without DOGE cuts “It looks as though it is becoming inevitable at this point,” while pointing fingers at Democrats for “placing completely unreasonable conditions on the negotiations.” Beege Welborn, Republicans Go There: Jacking the Tax Up on University Endowments UPDATE. Matt Blackwell@matt_blackwell, "I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)."

Collin Rugg@CollinRugg, "BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi confirms that Jeffrey Epstein files will be released *tomorrow.* “It’s pretty sick…” Watters: “A lot of people are wondering, 'cause you said last week that you have the Epstein files on your desk. When can we see them?” Bondi: “Tomorrow… breaking news right now, you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office.”" Nick Arama at RedState, Pam Bondi Just Made Big Announcement About Release of Epstein Info. OTP, Pam Bondi Says Some Epstein Files, Including Flight Logs, Will ‘Hopefully’ Be Released Thursday. PJM's Matt Margolis, Pam Bondi Just Revealed New Information About the Epstein List. “There are well over—this... this will make you sick—200 victims. Two hundred. So we have well over, over 250, actually,” Mia Cathell at TownHall reports Pam Bondi Dismisses Biden-Era DEI Lawsuits Involving Merit-Based Hiring of Firefighters, Cops. At NewsMax, DOJ Dismisses DEI Lawsuits Involving Cops, Firefighters.

Matt Vespa says the Secret Intel Community Sex Chat Confirms Pretty Much Everything We Suspected About the Deep State. :Yet, the chats were somewhat funny in the sense that these people would be dumb enough to put this stuff on their government devices. Its participants spewed their hatred toward the Libs of TikTok and Ben Shapiro. They also have an irrational dislike of Italian Americans. It’s a total horror show, but it also reveals what we’ve suspected about the spook community, and the deep state is true: they hate conservatives. We have receipts now." And Reports Tulsi Gabbard Prepares to Fire Intel Employees Who Participated in Secret Sex Chats PopTimes, Leaked Trans Sex Chats on NSA’s Intelink Expose Abuse of Federal Resources to Advance Ideology. Ace, Tulsi Gabbard To Fire 100 "Intelligence" Community Perverts Who Wasted All Day In Government-Permitted Groupchats Talking About Fake Vaginas and Anal Bleaching, "Leftists ruined the workplace like they ruined everything else." Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres, "TULSI GABBARD ANNOUNCES SHE HAS TERMINATED ALL 100+ NSA EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN TRANSGENDER SEX CHATS." ABC, 100 intelligence staffers to be fired for engaging in explicit chats: Gabbard, "The participants must be dismissed from the NSA by Friday, official says." Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Those Perverts Who Chatted About Sex All Day At CIA/NSA/DIA--Gabbard Fired Them All.

At Breitbart, Auburn’s Bruce Pearl Issues Stark Warning to ‘Bad Guys’ After Bongino Named FBI Deputy Director. Bruce Pearl @coachbrucepearl, "Congratulations to my friend and great patriot Dan Bongino. The bad guys best keep their head on a swivel!" One of those is Jim Comey, Capt. Ed calls it Too Creepy to Check: Did Comey Run a 'Honeypot' Trap on Trump's 2016 Campaign?

Charles Haywood @TheWorthyHouse, "Attacking the law firm Covington & Burling is an excellent move. In general, large law firms are one of the most pernicious groups in the country, working for free for the Left. The destruction of several should send a message to lawyers--stay in your lane, or get punished." Jonathan McPike@JonathanMcPike "Can confirm. At my last law firm, when corporate clients were pressuring Jones Day to fire President Trump as a client after the 2020 election, I posted on LinkedIn that President Trump was an American citizen and had a right to a lawyer. Bedrock principle of our “profession”; shouldn’t have been controversial. But then some schmuck partner in our Cincinnati office forwarded my post to the head of the firm, complaining that my post was “bad for the brand.” I had to march into the principal’s office and defend myself. I got told, “We aren’t going to tamp down on your right to free speech, but this isn’t going to do for your career what you want it to.” I read between the lines, and that’s why I no longer work in Big Law. And neither should anyone else. Raze it to the ground. State and local bar associations, too."

VodkaPundit, Tapper & Thompson Blow the Lid Off That Story You Knew in 2020. Dave Strom, Hilarious: Jake Tapper to Explain Biden Brain Coverup and Why It Was a Bad Idea. Twitchy, ‘There’s No Bottom for These People:’ Jake Tapper to Release Book on Cover Up of Biden’s Mental Decline. Driscoll at Insty, OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Hilarious: Jake Tapper to Explain Biden Brain Coverup and Why It Was a Bad Idea. "The book isn’t out yet so I could be wrong, but I think the chances that Jake Tapper will spill the beans on how he and the rest of the Pravda Media colluded with the White House to cover up Biden’s senility are about zero."

Here's Jake Tapper incensed over Joe Biden's "stutter" and outraged over claims of Biden's cognitive decline.

Now he's cashing in on a book about Biden's cognitive decline and media cover up. There is no bottom for these people.
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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 26, 2025

Althouse, Who's in the worst position to write a book about the coverup of Biden's cognitive decline? End Wokeness @EndWokeness "Tapper then: It's a conspiracy theory to say Biden has cognitive decline. It's a stutter. Tapper now: A book on the cover up" Ace, sees One Media Hero Steps Forward to Blow the Lid Off the Biden Dementia Cover-Up. That Hero? Biden Defender Fake Jake Tapper.  Natalie Winters@nataliegwinters, "The WH Correspondents’ Association is not the “free press.” For 4 years they covered up Biden’s cognitive decline. All while colluding with big tech, fact checkers, and the government to censor the American people. They’re regime media."

John Sexton, Monica Lewinsky: Bill Clinton Probably Should Have Resigned. I thought so too, but then Al Gore? Althouse, He's cool — he's podcasting. Gavin Newsom. Call it the Fireside Chats. I stole that. At ET, Tim Walz Rules Out Run for Open US Senate Seat in Minnesota. From the Midwesterner, Jocelyn Benson argues it’s not illegal to use Secretary of State resources to promote her campaign. Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge "Nearly 7 point swing for the Republican in Connecticut special election. I'm starting to wonder if Connecticut and New Jersey will be swing states by 2028."

From NewsMax, Trump Plan: Fines, Prison For Illegals Not Part of Registry. At WaEx, Tom Homan: ‘We know who leaked’ Aurora ICE raid to Tren de Aragua. NYPo, Michael Moore says deported migrants could have cured cancer, stopped ‘asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032’.

At Da Mail, Jeff Bezos sparks OUTRAGE with overhaul of Washington Post opinion page. Capt. Ed, Bezos: WaPo Will Now Defend 'Personal Liberties and Free Markets'. T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams, "My personal theory is that Bezos finally picked up a copy of WaPo last year and actually read what was in it." Althouse, "I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom..." "Said Jeff Bezos, quoted in "Washington Post Opinion Editor Exits as Bezos Steers Pages in New Direction/Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on 'personal liberties and free markets'" (NYT)." Breitbart reports WaPo Editor Quits After Bezos Orders Opinion Page to Defend Free Markets, Personal Liberty. Ace, Jeff Bezos Orders His Leftwing Rag to Run Columns on the Topics of "Free Markets" and "Personal Liberties;" Opinion Editor "Steps Away" Rather Than Implementing the Plan.

Dave Strom reports MSNBC Bloodbath Continues, Hitting Most of Rachel Maddow's Staff Hard. Ace, MSNBC Fires "The Majority" of Rachel Maddow's Staffers, "Night of the Long Faces. Note that she could easily pull a Jay Leno. When NBC wanted Leno's show to reduce costs, Leno famously took a $10 million per year pay cut so that he could pay his staff with no job losses or pay cuts. The Pretend Socialist Rachel Maddow will not be taking even a $1 million pay cut to keep any of the people she knows and works with employed.."

John Kass calls the Divine Miranda Devine the Bravest Woman in America. From NYPo, Fired CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge reveals photos of files on Hunter Biden, COVID origins seized by network: ‘Attack on investigative journalism’. She's pretty brave too. Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "Gross! The ordinary people and the unlicensed peasants are able to speak with and even influence elites in DC who are running the government. The NYT is horrified." Congressman Brandon Gill@RepBrandonGill, "PBS @NewsHour came into my office begging for more taxpayer money today. They handed me a mug labeled ‘Made in Texas’… but it was actually made in China. Just like their programming, it's all a façade. We’re done funding left-wing propaganda."

Duane Pattersom at TownHall reports  Muh Democracy Wars, Maine Edition: Democrats Silence, Strip Voting Rights of State Rep. for supporting real women's rights. Da Fetched, Bill Maher Predicts Democrats Will Lose Every Election Due to Forcing Trans Ideology on Kids. Ace, Another Transgender Terrorist Plotted "Mass Casualty" Attack in Corpus Christi, Texas, "The media have steadfastly avoided noticing this very serious trend."  John Sexton hears 'Radical Agreement': Supreme Court Likely to End Separate Standard for White, Straight People

John Sexton Reports Columbia's Barnard College Expelled Two Pro-Hamas Students Who Disrupted a Classroom. From Behind the Black, Pushback: North Carolina University quickly backs down when challenged over its remaining DEI policies. Chris Rufo thinks The Right Is Changing Cancel Culture’s Rules.

The Wombat contributes In The Mailbox: 02.26.25 (Afternoon Edition) EBL: Lucas Film’s Kathleen Kennedy finally exiled to the wilderness,, How Ukraine Resisted Russia: Day 1, Twitchy: Adam Schiff Slams Jeff Bezos For Not Burning WaPo To The Ground As Democrat Propaganda Outlet, Politico Really Hopes Conservative SCOTUS Justices They Hate Will Rein In Trump’s Executive Powers, and “There’s No Bottom For These People”, Louder With Crowder: Democrat governor, who is a Twinkie away from a triple bypass, calls RFK Jr’s health views “dangerous”, False Reality: What Joy Reid’s Firing Exposes About The Left , TikToker calls for Elon Musk to be killed WHILE bragging about not paying taxes, now the US Attorney’s office is involved, Woke congresswoman goes on unhinged rant that if Trump deports too many illegal immigrants, no one will pick our food, and “The View” claims it’s anti-Christian to oppose wokeness… then mocks Christians, Vox Popoli, God Mode Achieved, Her Work is Done, Defending The Wood Perilous: Why Hasn’t God Destroyed Us Yet?, Gab: The Transhumanist Delusion, CDR Salamander: The Fourth Year Of The Russo-Ukrainian War Is Upon Us, and Don Surber: USA Is A Refuge For Manufacturing.

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