Happy day!
Be sure to take some time to call your Liberal friends! They will be feeling very down…so, I suggest a bit of pointing and laughing.
With love!
Can you feel the hope? Not the manufactured “hope” of Obama…because we didn’t need hope then like we do now. Remember what the Left was bitching about in 2008…a center-left GOPer who pretty much gave them everything they wanted. To them, Obama was going to “save” them from that. Everyone seems a bit buoyant. Little bit of a spring in the step. Guys, I’ve never felt so good about the country. It’ll work out. I’ll get what I need. We all will. The times they are a-changing!
A veritable avalanche of Trump Executive Orders are pending – he’s said some, hinted at others…but from what I’ve heard, there are a couple hundred that will be done right away. I’m pretty sure they’ve been prepping this at least since September.
Of course the J6’ers are going to get pardoned – only question is if it will be all or if some who may have actually broken a law get left out. I’m fairly confident that no J6’er will remain long in jail. At worst, these people should have a got a fine…in the most egregious cases, maybe a fortnight in jail. All of that is long-since paid.
Trump will revoke the security clearances of the 51 intel officials who signed the letter saying the Hunter laptop was Russian. That, to me, is just a start – like with so many over the past 10 years, I figure they conspired to deny civil rights. Lots of people should go to jail.
Tom Homan has noted – as I did some while back – that it is a violation of federal law to in any way harbor an illegal or impede federal law enforcement in detecting and removing illegals. This is a direct shot at the Democrat mayors and governors who say they are “Trump-proofing” their jurisdictions. Can’t do that, guys. Nullification was settled when Lee surrendered to Grant…you can’t on the State or local level nullify federal laws. If you believe a federal law or action is unconstitutional, take it to court or apply to Congress for a change…but you can’t just set aside the law. I really do hope he makes a few very prominent examples…a governor and/or mayor in cuffs and brought before a federal court for arraignment on harboring illegal immigrants will get the message across: don’t do that. This doesn’t mean they have to actively pursue illegals, but they can’t stop the feds from doing it…and this includes actions like ignoring ICE detainers. If you know you have a bank robber in custody but let him go before the feds arrive, you just committed a crime…so, too, with illegals.
Hegseth is going to turn our military back into a military. No more fudging standards just so a careerist officer can get a “first”…”first woman Ranger!”, “first woman submariner!”…heck with that. Look, if the girls can meet the necessary standards, fine…but no more making it up as we go along so that we can have a “diverse” force. We need a lethal force…I don’t care what color or gender it is. Can it kill the enemy? That has to be the only standard. And for goodness sake, scrape the rust off our ships…its a darned disgrace.
And as we saw yesterday with The Village People singing, it is going to be fun. No more morose fussing over the lunatic obsessions of people with daddy issues or still angry the cheerleader wouldn’t date them in high school. The world will once again be for the normies…the people who work, pay the bills, pay the taxes, serve in the military and make society work. It is time for us to Make America Great Again!
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Biden commenting on issuing pardons to Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, members of the January 6th Committee, and several DC Metro police officers who testified (lied) before the committee:
ROFL – ridiculous.
A great response to this came in a Facebook post:
I would extend this to any member of Congress who supported the J6 show trial. Now that the leaders have essentially been outed as people likely to be prosecuted for criminal acts, anyone who aided and abetted their efforts should lose his or her clearances.
Biden’s pardons were more of a CMA (Cover My Ass) nature than an effort to provide cover for the Deep State, though there is certainly a lot of that. But there are other ways to get things done and impose accountability, and the removal of security clearances is one.
That’s good – but I’d also call them before committee, swear them in and then ask them to reveal what they did which deserved a pardon…and, of course, if they can’t take the Fifth but they also can’t lie or risk prosecution on that.
and now every last member of the Biden crime syndicate pardoned.
For the past ten years!
That puts an end to the whole ridiculous “our precious norms” thing. It is a horrible precedent what Biden did…it opens the door for each President, staff and family, to routinely break the law and then get a pardon as they walk out the door. Nixon, after all, could have just pardoned the burglars and brought a swift end to the whole Watergate scandal. He didn’t because such a thing as just unimaginable at the time…now it is stark reality.
Trump looks really good. He’s aged more gracefully than any President in my lifetime. I’m extremely optimistic about the future.
I’ve noticed that. He’s lost some weight, which looks good on him, and I think a lot of his appearance is due to his more relaxed attitude. He looked pretty rocky in some of the photos taken during his show trials, but once he got out from under all that BS he seemed elevated and by the election, and certainly afterward, he has been having fun.
Historic Presidential inauguration address. Trump didn’t use a hammer her used a nail gun and drove each hit right on mark.
As mentioned by some observers, Justice Roberts screwed up by not having the bible for swear in.
JD Vance’s wife look genuine in her appreciation of the honor to be there.
After the last scumbag pardons issued by Bidum, it will be interesting to see for who and how soon Trump starts issuing his own, along with his EO’s. I think I read Trump is expected to signature over 1,000 documents on his first day. Talk about hand cramp.
As for Bidum’s pardons, they can no longer refuse to testify or use the 5th amendment. Will be interesting to see if the new justice department uses it power to compel testimony to go after those so criminally involved in sleepy Joe’s administration.
I’d have Justice start investigating Joe and Jill…and all the pardoned people cannot refuse to testify; they are immune and so the Fifth isn’t relevant. But if they lie under oath…that’s a crime which happens after 1/20/2025. So, they either have to expose the whole, rotten mess (which probably implicates lots of people who weren’t pardoned) or they go to jail for perjury.
Given the unprecedented nature of the pardons for crimes not convicted of or even charged with, I imagine it will be put before the Supreme Court to determine their constitutionality. To be able to pre-pardon anyone would by its very nature create a protected mafia with no little recourse to prevent weaponization of governments or other institutions.
The recent pardons only apply to federal crimes. Given that Gen. Milley reportedly told his Chinese counterpart that he would provide advance notice in the event of any sort of military strike against the top international adversary, I wonder if he can still be convicted of military crimes?
Pretty confident any case would fail – the pardon power is plenary except in cases of impeachment. And I think it should be – of course, we’re supposed to have a system where lies aren’t “protected speech” and so never have an executive quite as lousy and dishonest as Biden was.
There is the question of the legality of a preemptive pardon, for possible future indictments.
Someone pointed out that Biden issued more than 8,000 pardons – you know, twenty times Reagan’s total and he was in for eight years.
How could he have signed that many?
I would like some forensic audits of these. Not sure of the legality of a pardon if signed by a machine. That sort of stuff is fine for letters but a pardon is an official document of the United States government. And this is before we get into whether he was mentally competent to sign.
First, I would like a breakdown of the time frame of those pardons. I suppose that over the term of four years it might be possible to evaluate, consider, approve and sign more than 8000 pardons, though that is still an average of 2000 a year, or more than five a day if you count all 365 days in a year. Given the few days Biden “worked” that number would have to be revised, probably up to ten a day or more for every day he was at his desk. That would mean he spent almost as much time on pardons as he did on his job. And if, for example, 7500 of them were in the past few months, or even weeks, that would raise the question of whether or not they were officially signed. I am thinking of that very official-looking document stating that there is a 28th Amendment. If staffers can generate fake documents in his name they can certainly run an autopen and just tell Joe what he “signed”—-if that is even necessary.
If you don’t count time off for holidays, etc. and just figure five working days a week for 52 weeks, that comes out to 260 working days a year… 4 = 1040 working days, no days off, five days a week 52 weeks a year, for four years. He was absent 532 days, by most counts (though his staff claimed he was working from home, or making appearances, etc. The same staff that covered for his dementia, BTW.) But using that number, not factoring in weeks off during holidays, etc. that would give a rough estimate of him working 508 days over four years. Divide the 8000 pardons by that and you get more than 15 pardons a day. You are right—those pardons, every one of them, should be investigated. For example, how many pardons did he ‘sign” while in meetings overseas?
Some are omnibus orders, combining several elements in one, which out to reduce the number of signatures.
I used to give my husband a hard time for his scribbled signature but after he died and I had to sign all the checks, etc. I went to my banks and changed my signature cards and now I sign everything with scrawled intials.
Given the President’s comment on removing wokeness from the military and offering all military personnel the option to return to their job “with full back pay”, I wonder how many will actually take him up on that?
With Trump’s declaration to take back the Panama Canal, I wonder how that will be played out given that the Panama government has already stated they will not willingly relinquish its control.
Its an opening gambit – but it also shows that Trump is serious.
The bottom line is that we must have “most favored nation” status in use of the Canal and no nation hostile to the USA – especially nations outside our hemisphere – should gain even so much as a toe-hold in running the Canal.
It is our Canal. We built it without the slightest aid of the people of Panama (even the unskilled labor for it was imported from Caribbean islands because the Panamanians simply wouldn’t take the jobs offered). Panama only exists as an independent nation because we engineered their secession from Columbia. They were lavishly paid for becoming independent as well for the rights to build the Canal and control of the Canal Zone. It was simply the acme of “decolonization” drivel to hand it over to Panama…it wasn’t a colony and the independent nation of Panama never exercised sovereign authority over the Zone. But because it was the 70’s and it was Carter, off it went. And, fine. Whatever. But they better get their minds right regarding our use of it – and our need to keep hostiles out – or, yeah, I do want us to take it back.
Any bets / guesses on how long it will take for the war with Ukraine / Russia to end? Or the war between Israel / Hamas? The leader of Ukraine knows future funding from the USA will cease, but who know how much he stockpiled from the billions given by the previous administration.
Don’t forget, his personal stockpile is reduced by the amount of his kickbacks to the Big Guy.
Speaker Johnson Rejects Blank Check Aid for Corrupt California After Wildfires
Johnson elaborated further, “Listen, there are natural disasters—I’m from Louisiana, we’re prone to that. We understand how these things work. But then there’s also human error. When the state and local officials make foolish policy decisions that make the disaster exponentially worse, we need to factor that in.”
Any federal aid provided could be directly tied to a number of concerns including; federal budget considerations, cooperation with the removal illegal immigrants, mandates in preventative future CA fires, mandates on how that aid will be dispersed, and a variety of other options.
https://headlineusa.com/speaker-johnson-rejects-blank-check-aid-for-corrupt-california-after-wildfires/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP2000&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
It is time to play hardball…and not just on this issue. A huge amount of money flows out of DC for boutique Leftwing issues…some should be cancelled, of course, but those that might have a genuine political constituency should come with a price…your lesbian poetry foundation in return for removal on restricts on new home construction…so on and so forth.
boutique Leftwing issues
Can we start by ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood and PBS? I don’t see why would even need to bargain to get rid of NGOs that are actively political–that just gives them legitimacy. Just cut the money off, period. At the top of the list would be any group that has aided, abetted or enabled illegal immigration, though the heads of these groups should probably also be indicted for violation of federal law.
I can’t see how such NGO’s aren’t violating the law – and this include groups like Catholic Charities. To be fair, my bet is that groups like Catholic Charities are more suckers than malevolent…but there’s an even money chance that actively wicked people have gotten into the organizations and they knew exactly what they were doing.
Oh, I don’t doubt that a lot of the NGOs truly believe they are acting as forces of good, but then you get into definitions of “good” (like the conviction of so many that aiding abortion is a good and virtuous thing) and/or actions which might not be, in and of themselves, evil but which require breaking rules (laws) to achieve. You know, that infamous Leftist doctrine of “the ends justify the means”. I think the latter category is probably where groups like Catholic Charities belong.
The thing about some of these groups, like Catholic Charities, is that the “ends” they justify means they have to break their own internal laws, like the absolute Catholic prohibition of abortion, before they move on to breaking civil laws.
These groups have a 1st Amendment right to exist, but they should not receive a penny of government money, or tax breaks. They have to stand or fall on their own merits and the support of their adherents.
I would change the tax exempt law to hold that only funds actually transferred to poor citizens and legal residents are tax free. Like this: you give $100 in food to a family. Tax free! But the money that comes in and is used for salaries, lobbying or on non-citizens/legal residents: taxable income. So, NGO’s, decide: just how much taxes do you want to pay? I don’t want to harm actual charity work – but the tenth highest paid “non-profit” CEO (New York Presbyterian) raked in 8.9 million dollars in 2022. They’ve got a 13 billion dollar investment portfolio. 2,600 beds. That’s 5 million per bed. This is something that needs to be tax free? I mean, sure: the bed…and actual medical services. But the money they fork out in executive salaries? I realize the CEO pays taxes on his income…but shouldn’t a charity hospital be…I dunno…frugal in expenses? Using most of their money for charity activities? Isn’t there any good person who could run that show for, say, two million a year?
This is just how screwed up our whole system is. It is being massively abused and people are raking in huge bucks off something that was supposed to help the poor…not help a CEO pay for his house in the Hamptons.
“America the Beautiful” is my favorite American hymn, and I got even bigger goose bumps watching and hearing Carrie Underwood sing it, a capella after a technical glitch, at the inauguration.
(It was also kind of fun to see Kamala Harris barely even trying to pretend to sing along, though to be fair I doubt that she knows the words, but the former president* and vp and their spouses were so clearly miserable and making sure everyone could see what sore losers they are that it was an interesting contrast to the uplifting and optimistic tone of the rest of the inauguration.)
Remember Trump’s first term when almost all of the celebrities refused to perform at any of the functions, I’m guessing in large part out of fear of vengeance from the left? Now, what a world of difference.
There are people rightfully questioning the apparent change of heart from people like Zuckerberg & Bezos. Many think they are simply appealing to the current winning side. Others hear of Zuckerberg’s claim to being highly pressured to censure anything contradictory to the lefts demands. We know Musk used to be a significant donor to the left but has been burned by them enough to understand what the left represents.
There is even talk about certain Democrat members of congress who are starting to question the demand to blindly follow the left’s continued march into absurdity, no questions asked. Manchin was typically in this group, but with RFK and Gabbard’s recent change along with several state level legislators changing either to Republican or Independent, I can see the potential for several more hedging away from the left at the federal level.
re: Dems moving away from the party: I think we need to start asking them all a simple question—-that is, “Why are you a Democrat?”
Followup questions: Why do you think the country is better governed by consolidating power in the hands of a few elites, instead of the Constitutional model of keeping most authority in the states or with the people?
Response would be all about ISSUES. So “Why do you think these issues should be addressed at the federal level, when the Constitution says they are not in federal authority but left up to the states or the people?” “Why create a massively powerful Central Authority when we have a Constitution that tells us we not only can but must leave decisions up to the states?”
And so on. No one is going to admit to being FOR the consolidation of power in the hands of elites, but denying it would easily lead to the observation that this is exactly what the Democrat Party has come to represent. And none of them are going to be comfortable when it is pointed out that every one of their pet ISSUES not only can be addressed at the state level, but that is where they are supposed to be addressed.
I’m not talking about long-winded harangues and lectures, but bits and pieces, slipped into discourse or even just tossed out as part of commentaries. We need to start educating the public about the reality of the Democrat Party, which is that it is only superficially about ISSUES but really about a specific form of government. If the time seems right for a little more verbiage, mention that we fought a Revolution against a Central Authority form of government, and now we have a lot of people in this country trying to create another one.
Don’t even think of using the word “socialist”. It has not only been sanitized by the Left, it’s been totally transformed. So stick to other words, like “collective’ and “consolidation of power”. And then start challenging Dems, including the newly reformed Dems, with that simple question: Why are you (were you) a Democrat?
Speaking of dissent among the ranks. (and from CNN of all places)
I’m getting the sense that many rank-and-file Democrats want the lesson to be learned – but as we watch elected Democrats and senior members of the Left Mafia they clearly aren’t learning the lesson. Clearly don’t want to learn the lesson. That’s why the MSM was trying to cook up a story that Musk gave a Nazi salute at Trump’s inaugural. It is plain and simple ridiculous but they ran with it. Over on Bluesky the Liberal “thought” leaders are running with it.
But nobody wants to hear about that. No more than we want to see the weepy-eyed stories about people at the borders who had their asylum hearing cancelled (looks like the Biden people set up literal thousands of such hearings for today and this week). We’re over it. We voted for change. Not the same old/same old. But, here comes the Left…a broken record.
This is why, early on, I’m thinking that 2026 will not go as normal – we should expect to lose the House. The Senate looks more solid for us as the only Blue State GOPer up is Collins in Maine and she seems to have that State in the palm of her hand. Meanwhile, Dems have to defend Senate seats in Georgia and Michigan, which went Trump, as well as in New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and Virginia, all of which trended right in 2024. But, still: mid-terms always go badly for the Party in power. But if the Democrats make no adjustments at all and merely run on 2024-redux, we could find some surprising results…especially if Trump has some success.
Meanwhile, everyone seems happy – I mean, outside the Left. What I’m really saying is that the broad majority realizes what Trump has to contend with at home and abroad and are going to give him his chance. Obviously, if we have a major economic meltdown then that will just be what it is – might as well try to contend with a tidal wave at that point. All you can do is grin and bear such a thing. But absent that, if things are just moving along smoothly and we’re no longer fussing over bizarre Leftwing policy demands, then in 2026 we might have the perfect storm of depressed Democrat turnout and solid or even better-than-usual GOP turnout.
This sounds good, but I have a feeling the dissent is based on frustration about the party not winning, a lot more than about defects in the political philosophy of governance the party represents. “major changes or a complete transformation” are much more likely to mean more appealing candidates and better run campaigns than assessment of the party’s severe lurch to the Left—that is, to collectivism and authoritarian governance.
Got that right! I’ve seen plenty of Dem voices whining that Harris lost because she went too far Right! These sorts just want to go further Left because they’re convinced that it where the majority lies.
I’m OK with letting them continue to think that.
Exactly. Keep pushing the narrative that if she had only been MORE Leftist she would have won in a landslide. Yeah, that’s the ticket—the people wanted more authoritarian government, more mandates on how to run their lives handed down from the Oval Office, more race-based hiring, more DEI, more inflation, more child mutilation, more porn in elementary schools, more drag queen parties in libraries and on military bases, even more rainbow crosswalks. Glad they have this figured out and I hope it forms the basis of their ongoing efforts.
The Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as U.S. Secretary of State
When is the last time the Senate approved ANYTHING unanimously? It could be a harbinger of Senate acceptance of the reality that Trump is going to get his cabinet one way or another so it makes sense to look gracious about it, or it could be a gimme to Trump to set up vicious fights over other nominees.
In any case, I’m glad to see that accomplished. It’s good to start a term with a Secretary of State. Of course, it’s good to start a term with a Secretary of Defense as well.
Coffee & Covid has an excellent recap of Trump’s first day.
He’s rapidly advancing on all fronts…and the orders are written in a way which lets you know a lot of thought went into them, including on the inevitable legal challenges. Trump 2.0 is vastly more prepared…its not a Revenge Tour (though it might seem like that to the Deep State) but the This Time I’m Ready Tour.
The look on their faces is priceless. Time to make Church great again and get rid of all woke lesbian pastors
https://x.com/zaleskiluke/status/1881773181591294426?s=61
Its just so insulting…we’re not coming after anyone because of who they are or how they live.