Trump’s cabinet is starting to shape up and it is already more solid than his first – naturally, some people already have objections to this or that pick on varied grounds but, hey, its much better we’re complaining about Trump picks than watching in dismay as Harris picks one corrupt lunatic after another. Rubio at State surprised me but I think he’ll be fine. Noem at DHS is also a bit of a surprise but also fine. On and on like that.
Trump is also laying out some agenda items and his education reform proposals – to force colleges to actually teach rather than be mere indoctrination centers – are key to the long-term survival of the United States. I’ve said for decades that we have an American Left because it is taxpayer subsidized. There are massive numbers of people who are perfectly useless being paid big money ultimately from taxpayers to advance Leftist causes in spite of popular disapproval. Just forcing colleges to cut their bloated administrative staff will be a huge victory for sanity. Deportations of illegals by the million is definitely on the agenda and I hope Democrats try to stop it – the more they are perceived as defending illegals, the better for us long term. Nobody other than corrupt fools wants illegals in country…getting them out was one of the main issues decided by this election and the people want them out. Preliminary moves are being made to bring the Ukraine war to an end (shaping up as de-facto recognition of Russian territorial gains; the cost of trying to expel the Russians being just too high for such a marginal issue – most of the people who live in Russian-occupied territory are ethnic Russians; its basically returning Ukraine’s eastern border to where it had been under the Czars).
Our House majority is terribly narrow – and it is the result of Democrats getting a lot of really good gerrymandering…some of it forced by judicial decisions. Basically if we got this House vote in 2016 it would have been 250 GOPers…now it is, at best, going to be 222. The Red States were also screwed in the census redistricting…there are 8-10 House seats sitting in Blue States which should have been assigned to Red States after 2020. This does make it crucial that we win in 2028…we must control the head count in 2030 and ensure a legal distribution of House seats (and, of course, Electoral Votes…Trump could have won without WI/MI/PA if House seats and resultant EV’s had been legally distributed). We will naturally have some House RINOs try to screw us…but we do have the power of victory. Trump won, and decisively – even the most RINO GOPer is going to be terrified of crossing Trump, at least early on…and that is when most of the work has to be done.
The Senate battle right now is over Majority Leader – I would prefer Scott but that will very much be decided by the internal dynamics of the GOP Senate. I’m looking on it calmly because even if we get ultra-RINO Cormyn, the bottom line is that common sense dictates cooperation with Trump. In 2017, McConnell didn’t go that route because he and the rest of the GOPe were convinced that Trump was a flash in the pan and a mistake…nobody looking at election results can say that now. Trump represents a huge electoral constituency which the GOP will need to retain if they want to win going forward. Failure to back Trump at least on the crucial votes would be catastrophic for the GOP.
Just keep in mind that we’re only past the first step here – we won. But the task of reviving America is going to be a long and difficult one. It won’t be remotely completed during Trump’s term. All we’re really doing here is stopping the bleeding and laying the groundwork for the future. Keep faith, keep smiling and keep praying.
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Neither of these potential choices is what I would prefer. I don’t think Rubio has what it takes, or should take, to deal with the other national leaders and the responsibilities of State. But then we survived Clinton and Kerry and even Blinken, so the bar is now set pretty low. And Noem, for all her successes in NDak, doesn’t have the scope of experience to handle DHS. Her puppy-killing fiasco showed more than animal cruelty, it illustrated a very concerning personality trait of inability to take responsibility for bad decisions, which in her case were based on her ego not letting her take responsibility for not knowing how to train a dog. I saw a profile of personality traits I personally hoped would never be allowed near real power. Gabbard would have been a much better choice.
I couldn’t agree more. If I made a list of 10 potential SOS candidates, Rick Grenell would have been at the top of my list. Marco Rubio wouldn’t have even been ON the list. Gabbard would have been a much better choice for DHS. And I think it’s short-sighted to pick legislators, particularly House members because of the ultra-slim majority.
Pompeo did something that pissed Trump off, and I don’t remember what it was. I thought he was a pretty decent SOS, certainly better than anyone else in the last couple of decades.
Grenell was my first pick for SoS…but, we don’t get to pick! I’m sure deals have been made, promises issued. The usual political stuff which just can’t be avoided 100%.
I think Rubio will surprise some people … he’s smart, well spoken, and by being the Senate Intel committee that last several years, I think he has a good grasp on what’s going on. There could have been better picks but also worse picks so, give Rubio a chance. I think Gabbard will be appointed Sec. of Defense.
Who do you want as press secretary, which will be a huge job battling the press. I think Vivek or Scott Jennings, would be good or bring back Kayleigh … she was great.
“bring back Kayleigh”
Yes 👍🏻
John Ratcliffe for CIA … good pick. John was all over the fake Russia Collusion hoax from the onset.
Ratcliffe is one pick I agree with 100%.
Notice the TOTAL lack of Generals. I never did like Kelly during the first administration. Matis I thought was good – until he wasn’t. He’s now on the Board of General Dynamics.
I think our Military “General” Class are real similar to our Federal Bureaucrat “Expert” Class. All the deep state credentials but zero common sense.
Looks like Trump is going to win the popular vote by around 3 million votes, or about the same as Hillary in 2016.
That really has to hurt our Liberals.
Makes me laugh!
HOLY SHIITE – Pete Hegseth for DefSec. Did not see that coming
JD Vance warns US could withdraw NATO support if European Union censors social media
Given the direction the UK and Europe is moving towards with all kinds of government censor of people’s spoken opinions, I rather like this approach. We certainly don’t need to support any nation that would act against our best interest and at the same time, punish their own citizens for speaking their thoughts. He’s not even sworn in yet and Trump is already making big changes.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jd-vance-warns-us-could-withdraw-nato-support-if-european-union-censors-social-media/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-11-12&utm_medium=email
It’ll be interesting to see how many people convicted of crimes (especially made up crimes), that Trump will pardon in his first few days. Trump himself mentioned the J6 defendants. Plus I suspect he’ll consider many people with strongly held religious view, prosecuted and jailed for nothing more than create fear. And then, I believe there are still a number of people being held in jail without trial for extended periods, those perceived as enemies of the left for whatever dreamed up reason. It is sure to make a few leftist heads explode when the releases start.. If there were any real journalist in the legacy media, I’m sure there would be a lot of stories to be told, though I doubt they’re interested.
I know there is a 70 year old grandmother in jail for praying outside of an abortion clinic. She needs to be released and given a medal.
I have high hopes for the new DOGE department led by Elon and Vivek, as we all know our Federal Government is bloated and ineffective. We have all mentioned that 10%-20% of employees in every bureaucracy could easily be eliminated without losing any productivity and that would be a good start. Then let’s move some departments out of the DC Corridor and spread them out around the country. In other words, let’s break up the deep state party. MAGA !!
Along with the Education reforms, this is the most critical thing for Trump to get done – cut a swath through the bureaucracy. This would be so even if it hadn’t been overtly hostile to Trump and the GOP…it has grown too large and ossified; bureaucracies always have to be massively cut back from time to time as they always start to strangle the host after a while.
Employment growth in government accelerated in 2023 (+709,000), exceeding growth in 2022 (+299,000) and 2021 (+392,000).
Government accounts for nearly 2 million employees.
Two States still need to clean up their election process, AZ and WI. We are all aware of AZ’s inability to count ballots in a timely manner which just invites fraud. Strange that AZ went heavily for Trump and most all Republican House candidates but split the ticket and voted for Gallego. That doesn’t sound right, but I will say that Kari is a bad campaigner. She allowed the Democrats to define her positions without a single push back from her which frustrated me. And now this from WI … which is the same strategy Democrats used in PA in the 2020 presidential election.
However, by 4:00 AM, a staggering 108,000 absentee ballots were dumped from Milwaukee, with Senator Tammy Baldwin receiving nearly 90% of those votes.
At least we have the right people in charge now who will hopefully restore accuracy and credibility to our election process.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/republican-wisconsin-senate-candidate-eric-hovde-breaks-silence/
Trump was too big to rig in WI but Hovde ran a bit behind Trump – and I do want a forensic audit of Milwaukee.
I thought we were going to stick to ending these middle-of-the-night ballot dumps. Once a suspiciously late, suspiciously large, ballot dump comes in with 90% of the votes going for one candidate (the dem, naturally) the whole thing has to be thrown out. At the very least those late ballots should have been marked as being in that ballot dump, so they could be removed if necessary. It’s the fungibility of votes that lets the Dems win —-once they get those ballots out of the envelopes and into the stream of legitimate votes, where they can’t be identified.
Hovde may have run a bit behind Trump but was still comfortably ahead, till that magical predawn ballot dump appeared.
Yep – that needs investigation.
And AG Gaetz would investigate it…
John Thune as Senate Majority Leader. What will it take to get a strong majority leader who can be counted on to support conservatives?
I’m surprised Scott came in third. I hope the senate doesn’t become a problem
Yeah, I see this as a problem. I am also seeing Trump appoint people who have been fiercely loyal and scrappy, but not to my mind particularly qualified—Noem and Goetz in particular. Fine in their limited lanes, but without the scope of experience necessary in those crucial positions.
Thune was nobody’s first choice – but he’s better than Cormyn.
It ultimately depends on how smart Thune is – his agreeing to recess appointments if necessary indicates he knows which way the wind is blowing. That makes it nearly impossible to actually stop a Trump appointee – its going to happen no matter what, so one or two wets will be allowed to record symbolic votes against as they all sail through.
Matt Gaetz as AG!! Jeff Sessions did not have the will to fight the left and we ended up with the Russia Collusion hoax. Barr was also a deep state player but not Gaetz. This is a shot across the bow of the deep state and puts them on warning. Trump is not playing around this time. I hope the Senate confirms him.
I never even considered Matt Goetz as AG. Not even on my bingo card. In the bottom 20 of people I might have considered in the running. Mike Lee, yes. Ted Cruz, yes. Matt Goetz? He likes to fight, but as a legal scholar? No way. Scrappy isn’t enough.
This comment about Gaetz in a an online comment section sums up my first impression: I want to be wrong, but……
Aside from his penchant for self-aggrandizement, Gaetz has virtually no prosecutorial or litigation experience.
With the deep bench of state attorneys general and solicitor generals in the GOP ranks, and the DOJ cesspool that needs to be cleaned up, we needed a workhorse not a show horse.
It was a surprise – ultimately, I’m going to trust the instincts of the man who brought us our biggest victory since 1988.
So, now we think about it – the DoJ is, by far, the most corrupt organization in the federal government. It needs a nuclear explosion.
Well, here we go…
I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the Get Gaetz campaign in the House, just being aware that the Left is doing what the Left does, which is trying to personally destroy anyone seen by them as a danger. But reading the accusations against him and the timing of his resignation from the House (two days before his hearing, effectively shutting the whole thing down) and the concerns on the Right that there is some fire behind all that smoke, I have further concerns about his appointment—not just to a top Cabinet position but as head of the nation’s law enforcement.
If it turns out he is just being railroaded, then the experience of false accusations and lawfare, House-style, would add to his expertise in dealing with a corrupt DOJ. But if there is compelling evidence, not just of the sex-related charges but the other claims, then his appointment would seem to be a big mistake. (there are allegations that Gaetz was part of a scheme that led to the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. In June, the committee said it was investigating whether Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.)
There is the typical “highly suspicious” claim from “multiple sources familiar with the investigation” that a “highly damaging” report was going to be released this week if the House Ethics Committee voted to do so, making sure that the sliming would occur even with Gaetz no longer in the House and therefore no longer under its authority. What a surprise!
The Left has been freaking out about Florida’s new ascension to national politics, with Ron DeSantis, Rick Scott, Matt Gaetz and Doctor Lapado all achieving national recognition, and Gaetz in particular has been not just a thorn in their side but a very vocal and visible opponent. So the accusations against him come with a lot of suspicion about their origins and intent.
I just can’t imagine that Trump didn’t check this – if he didn’t then that would be an egregious fail. But given how tight his ship was for 2024 and how clearly competent his Chief of Staff is, I figure that Trump knows all about the House ethics complaint and believes it is survivable. We’ll see how that goes – but if it is just another round of uncorroborated accusations like Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, then even the RINO’s will ignore it. They’d better have some stand-up-in-court proof or its a damp squib.
Further to this: DeSantis is already out today saying he’s working on getting the special elections in Florida up and running ASAP…and he’s congratulated Gaetz. DeSantis also runs a tight ship and he also likely knows all about the ethics complaint…and he’s at least acting like it doesn’t matter.
So, confirming a suspicion, I learn that no actual evidence had been presented to indict Gaetz on any of the alleged charges—“alleged” because none were ever filed, just referred to by spurious anonymous “sources”. This whole invention was dutifully pumped up by the Complicit Agenda Media and the laughably named House Ethics Committee (while it studiously ignored the suborning of perjury and other legal and ethical misdeeds of the J6 Committee) until the committee was supposedly going to vote on whether to publish its “report”. And just to make sure this got the attention they needed, another anonymous “source” helpfully explained that wow, this report was going to be like, you know, like rilly rilly serious and stuff.
And here, laid out as if on a big graph on a whiteboard (or maybe a Venn diagram) we have the structure of yet another Leftist smear campaign in its manual of Politics of Personal Destruction. Invent a really nasty but vague and essentially unproven claim based on anonymous sources, develop it through the helpful media, go through another House show trial kind of theater, posture that this is being done under the aegis of the ETHICS Committee to give it a little gravitas, let it marinate for a year or so just stirring the pot every now and then to keep the smell noticeable, and then have other anonymous “sources” leak hints that gee, this report sure would have been a barn-burner if it had ever been released.
I wonder if one reason for the appointment is to give Gaetz a chance to defend himself, a chance denied to him by the sneaky and underhanded ways these accusations were handled. A full Senate hearing in which the Usual Suspects line up to reach back into their tighty whities for “stuff” to throw at Gaetz with chimp-like chittering will let him address the lies in public, and show the Lying Left for what it is. Again.
Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry
Anonymous passive voice murmuring that something sinister might happen is turned into another fake Leftist “scandal”.
Just spitballin’ here, but I’d bet that Gaetz will be a recess appointment, limited to 2 years without Senate confirmation, during which time he will CLEAN HOUSE. During that 2 years Trump will have time to vet a REALLY GOOD prosecutor to go after those in the Deep State who have egregiously broken the law.
My bet is that he does get confirmed – there is the House ethics committee complaint to be got through (his resignation from the House technically means its a dead letter but you know its already been leaked to the WaPo) but unless it really has some stand-up-in-court proof it won’t stop things from rolling – and in the hearing, Gaetz is going to come off looking good…because the primary mark of those complaining about MAGA is that they’re stupid and think the MSM bubble is the real world…like the old post about Trump that goes like this:
“I’d like to see Donnie Trump wriggle out of this one!”
(((Trump proceeds to easily wriggle out of it)))
“Nevertheless…”
The bottom line is that this is Trump’s cabinet: the American people did not vote for interminable political trench warfare and even though many Senate GOPers aren’t going to like some of the picks, Thune is smart enough to know this isn’t the time for a fight against Trump. Collins and Murk will mostly vote “no” on the controversial picks and it’ll be utterly meaningless.
But, yep: if they do manage to stop a vote on Gaetz, I definitely see a recess appointment. Trump is getting what he wants.
In a year and a half he can start running for Governor of Florida
I caught a glimpse of a tv commentator who basically said; “I think Trump is smart enough to know the Senate will never confirm Gaetz.”
First, I know there are a number of people in both the house and senate who do not particularly care for Gaetz. But it seems from this comment the dislike could be strong enough to go against Trump in this nomination. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, whether Trump is able to push through his nominations or if there will more resistance than expected. Even in a landslide win, with a slim majority Trump still has to work with both houses to get his agendas moving forward.
Second, the US AG is a really big position that requires a person with very specific skills to be highly effective from the get-go. Gaetz has shown himself to be a fighter but I think the position requires a great deal more.
Third, the lead in both the Senate and House are marginal where each person is critical. Even in places where the there will likely be another republican / conservative to take their place in special elections, it is not a given. Even with a majority there is often enough inter party squabble on certain issues where every vote becomes crucial.
This is NOT the time to put people in positions that demand a learning curve of 6-24 months or longer. But… I am not Trump and do not know what he knows. So far, even with his picks deemed “less than stellar”, they appear quite a bit in front of his first administration and sends a rather clear message the direction he intends to take.
My view is that all of Trump’s nominees will be confirmed: the people voted for Trump. Trump’s victory carried the GOP to Congressional victory. Nobody on the GOP side – even the most RINO – has any appetite to make the first battle of 2025 Trump vs GOP. There will be shouts and shrieks and rumors and MSM lies…and at the end of the day, Trump will get his cabinet.
Not sure how I feel about Gabbard for Intelligence Director either. On the surface it may be a good fit. She has been a strong advocate for Trump during his campaigning which puts her at great odds against the left (a good thing). She seems very smart and capable, but I wonder about this in the same way I wonder about Gaetz as USAG. The position requires a LOT, and now is not the time to learn the position.
I guess the same could be said about Noem for DHS too – huge position, relatively little experience.
First, by what metrics do you declare Gaetz a terrible human being?
Second, I didn’t say conservatives wouldn’t try to implement the 10 commandments anywhere, I said they would be called out on it if they did. By your own confirmation they were.
You have a notable reading comprehension problem (no surprise), twisting things to fit a false narrative. My exact words;
Imagine for a moment a teacher in a public classroom putting up a flag that represented a religious viewpoint, like the 10 commandments. If a lawsuit were presented to remove this flag, I’m guessing many if not most judges would require its removal.
Nowhere was it stated or implied that someone wouldn’t attempt to put the 10 commandments in a classroom or any other government institution, only the likely resulting action. AND, as you have shown, a federal judge moved against such an attempt. You’ve proved my original statement and then tried to make it look like I said or implied something else. Thanks for playing.
The Left does manage to get its panties in a wad about the Ten Commandments, though, doesn’t it? (Don’t they??) The shrill objections to anything religious tie in with the shrill objections to anything moral, such as keeping pornography away from young children.
For one thing, there is no Constitutional issue regarding the “separation of Church and State”. The ONLY concern the Founders had regarding religion was that it never be allowed to become a condition of citizenship, and that the nation never establish a national religion or elevate any one religion above any other. On the contrary, they made many references to the need for religion as an element of a just and moral society and necessary for the preservation of the nation they created.
They merely insisted that there be absolute freedom to worship as people choose.
For another, the Ten Commandments have a firm place in history, as a signpost of a cultural and historical shift in the belief systems and behaviors of populations. Having a copy of the Ten Commandments does nothing to advocate any one religion over any other, not even that of Christianity, but merely stands as an example of a belief system that changed the civilized world.
The inherent tyrannical impulses of Leftists (leading to a chicken-and-egg conundrum that is a topic for another day) is obvious in their determination to force their narrow-minded restrictions on belief onto everyone. They first falsely claim there is a Constitutional restriction demanding the “separation of church and state” and then that the mere presence of a cultural and religions artifact like the Ten Commandments is therefore not just unconstitutional but somehow, in some way, forces a belief system on all who see them.
On the upside, the picks of JD Vance for VP and Musk / Ramaswamy for DOGE seem to be stellar. There will be of great deal of interest to see these people in full swing. It’s so difficult to even guess just how much slashing Musk & Ramaswamy can so and what it will ultimately look like.
Musk announced all actions of DOGE will be posted publicly only for full transparency. He said the agency will keep a leaderboard of the “most insanely dumb” wastes of taxpayer dollars as it reforms the government. This will be both extremely tragic and entertaining.“
Hope my hesitance to the other people named above proves wrong, but what I see is, they must rely on other people to help navigate the waters of their nominated position as they learn their way around. Choosing the wrong people will be catastrophic. It will not only put a black mark on Trump, but the damage could be wide spread affecting the whole US. Very challenging times.
The Pete Hegseth pick for SECDEF has really triggered the DEI crowd. GOOD!
Now we get to see just how deep the tentacles have gone in such a short time. The military was an area where many thought would be difficult to infiltrate with the toxic DEI crap. Near every inch of every institution needs to be scrubbed clean of this “fundamentally transforming” that actually began way before Obummer even made the scene.
Yeah. Meritocracy is such a white male thing. You have to wonder if they even hear themselves, as they howl that (to them) a reference to a monkey is a reference to black people, or (to them) only white males can succeed based on skill and merit while colored folk just can’t cut it without a condescending helping hand and lowered standards.
Zero Hedge is really on a roll this morning, and one of the stories echoes this lack of self awareness. Some grifter DC cop has been making bank on a book and a tour about how evil-bad-dangerous-insurrectionny January 6 was. Michael Fanone is part of a quartet of celebrity cops juicing every second of their involvement in the four-hour disturbance nearly two years ago, earning lucrative book deals, congressional awards, and cable news gigs in the process. Now he is freaking out about the Trump election and fantasizing that Trump is going to send storm troopers after him (because he’s so important and consequential, no doubt) and posturing about how he will F-ing die in his F-ing house if those F-ing Trumpers come after him. “Fanone said he’d rather be killed in a shootout than be imprisoned by Trump.”
The lack of self awareness is in his statement that he is “just someone who understands how law enforcement can be weaponized against people” Really, who would know better that someone who was a part of law enforcement being weaponized against people?
More from this morning’s Zero Hedge: “They Just Got Handed Fraudulent Books” – Ed Dowd Confirms Our Warning That Trump Is ‘Inheriting A Turd Of An Economy’
Dowd warns: His emphasis
He then goes on to discuss another time bomb waiting to go off, one I have been warning about for years now:
Trump HAS to admit that though the idea of a vaccine was a good one, and the work he did to fast-track development was amazing, the whole thing should have been halted as soon as damages started to appear, and say he would have done this if allowed to return to the White House.
“Those who have been presenting themselves as the saviors of the Republican Party were willing to let a village idiot Democrat become the most powerful woman on Earth simply because their feelings were hurt. They have no more control over their emotions than the mentally unwell lunatics who are shaving their heads because Trump won the election.”
Yep – and someone pointed out on X earlier that the RINOs complaining most loudly about Gaetz were ok with Garland’s appointment…sure, Garland doesn’t have the drama of Gaetz but, honestly, how can anyone consider Garland to be intelligent or honest? We were all told he was this super honest, super brainy guy who, even though Democrat, was committed to the Rule of Law…and then he proceeded to totally gut the Rule of Law for partisan political purposes.
In other words: the complaints about Gaetz on morals and intellect are garbage…as imperfect as he may be, the immoral person is the guy currently in the AG slot.
We might finally have some articulate voices on the Right who can explain the smear tactics of the Left with their “anonymous sources” who make salacious unfounded claims that only impress the stupid and the gullible (a reference that needs to be made many many times) as they get their slurs pumped up by the now-identified Complicit Agenda Media.
Call it the “Put up or Shut Up” reaction, with lots of snickering at people who actually fall for this tired old scheme.
Properly played the Gaetz hearings could make an important contribution to the further erosion of the Left propaganda machine and the Agenda Media.
I wonder if the smear against Gaetz is not just from democrats (who will gladly do whatever they can to destroy anyone on the opposite side of the isle) but possibly those who were not happy with McCarthy getting the boot, in part due to Gaetz’s efforts. Politics can be bone deep ugly, especially for those seeking payback/retribution, which happens more often than not.
I’ve no evidence of the above, just wondering as we’ve seen nothing but anonymous hit pieces that can originate from anywhere. You can bet, during senate hearings the left will push every button possible, facts be dammed, just to rock the boat. We’ll see how Thune handles business and what we can expect from him in the years to come. I don’t think he’s as protected as McConnell was so even hedging left could cost him.
Then there’s this…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded to a question about whether he thinks Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) would be confirmed by the Senate by pointing to “recess appointments.”
“Do you think he’ll get confirmed by the Senate?” a reporter asked Massie, to which Massie could be heard responding, “recess appointments.”
“He’s the Attorney General,” Massie added. “Suck it up!”
That is pretty much it – it seems clear to me that Trump coordinated this with both House and Senate GOP…his opponents keep thinking he’s just a dummy flying off the handle.
He has defeated every opponent and triumphed over every adversity. He’s the most consequential American political figure since FDR.
He’s going to get his cabinet.
Speaking of the word “consequential”—Trump used that word in his Rogan interview. In talking about his assassination attempts he said he thought Biden was safe because only consequential presidents are killed. It was a small comment that kind of slipped past Rogan but I caught it and thought he was completely correct. Not snarky, just right. Snark would have been to point out that Kamala was Joe’s best insurance policy—just as Joe was Obama’s.
My understanding is that Trump can do a recess appointment for Gaetz, which gives him two years before Senate confirmation. I think that’s all the time Trump and Gaetz will need to clean house and i think that’s the plan. I hope that happens. Gaetz is the bulldozer the DOJ needs
In other news, RFK for HHS. I like that too. Let’s clean up our food supply
This is really turning into an interesting Cabinet. We know that Trump is not afraid to fire people, so we can sit back and see what happens and if someone doesn’t work out someone else will. A local talk show posited the idea that while Gaetz doesn’t have any real law experience, he is a good communicator and will hopefully fill associate positions with the legal powerhouses necessary to get the job done while he is the point man and the explainer and the executioner. There are no tired old warhorses dragging their pasts, and their failures, behind them, and two former Democrat/Independents to mix things up. I’m hoping for Devin Nunes to show up somewhere.
And I love the new vibe: “suck it up!” We have finally—-FINALLY !—learned that we can’t appease the Left, we can’t play nice with them, so why bother. Schumer, et al, are such bullies but a lot of that is because no one has ever gotten back in their faces and faced them down. I want to see that.
We saw Harriet shred Waddler, and it was a thing of beauty— I know her well enough to know that she was a little nervous, her first time in the Big Show, and she still tore him a new one and did well enough to have others give her their minutes, which is high praise. We won’t have Elise any more, but we still have Jim Jordan. The House bench is deep, and tough, and will probably take no prisoners, because they know they have a year and a half to make their case to the public to add to the House majority and only 100 days to solidify the Trump Doctrine.
Think about this….this is a Congress that can impeach and make it count, with the Senate behind a House vote. Though I guess that is just for anyone who is left after the housecleaning.
I’m really liking the Lee Zeldin and John Ratcliffe appointments. So far the only one I really don’t agree with is Kristi Noem. She showed terrible judgment in a lengthy string of bad decisions ending in her trying to spin them as having the courage to make hard decisions, and that whole thing marked her in my eyes as a loose cannon who, in this new job, is totally lacking in qualifications and experience.
Rolling Stone hit the snark button but educates us technoweenies and social media dinosaurs with its explanation of Elon Musk’s relationship with the word “DOGE”.
Elon Musk’s Dumb History With the ‘Doge’ Meme His Govt. Office Is Named After
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.jcmDmRxwhdGOoU1Zvvjc8wHaEK&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=176&h=98
They just can’t stand it that we can have fun while doing serious stuff. I am sure the surly folks at Rolling Stone were deeply offended by Musk’s decision to make his rockets “pointy”.
This morning’s Coffee & Covid is an absolute must read!
Read the whole thing.
Yesterday I heard a radio spot from the CDC about “protecting” children from the flu. It was to encourage virtual play dates instead of personal time with other children, and having a six foot space between children when they are allowed to play together.
In other words, the government is still trying to isolate children and control their lives.
We badly need RFK in office NOW.
I’m thankful that a person like RFK even exists. He’s well aware of many problems related to people’s health, the causes and of the bureaucratic state that is actively working against the very people they’re supposed to be working for, and… he’s willing to fight in spite of the potential (likely) blowback. Thank goodness RFK saw the writing on the wall, dropped out of the election and teamed up with Trump. Thank goodness Trump is filling his cabinet positions with people like RFK, knowing full well of the necessary impact that needs to bring back us form our disastrous run towards the cliff. Thank God for sparing Trump from the assignation attempts. Thank God that we have both houses of congress going into Trump’s new term. I pray God watches over and guides all those who are tasked with these monumental tasks.
And you are right, or at least the article is. As “insurrection” is accurately defined as overthrowing the government and assuming its powers: a stolen election has overthrown the properly elected government and the usurpers have assumed its powers.
I’d love to see this as the basis of prosecution of someone if we find absolute incontrovertible PROOF of specific election frauds and those responsible. But even accurately identifying the 2020 election as the real insurrection might help defuse the J6 hysteria.
We’ll call it the P’Nut Principle – they’ve been insane and now we want them punished.
Heh!
OORAH!!