English Major

Trump wants everyone to speak English:

Trump’s order would also rescind former President Bill Clinton’s August 2000 directive requiring agencies and other recipients of federal funds to provide services for those with limited English proficiency, according to a fact sheet shared with CNBC. Trump’s designation will allow federal agencies to maintain their current policies and continue to provide documents and services in other languages. But it “encourages new Americans to adopt a national language that opens doors to greater opportunities,” according to the fact sheet. The Wall Street Journal first reported the order earlier Friday morning. Trump’s schedule for Friday does not currently include any time for signing executive orders. A White House source did not immediately tell CNBC when Trump was expected to sign the order.

Time to learn the language:

Green And Green

They liked spreading the green around:

The Biden EPA chose the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) as an awardee of $5 billion in taxpayer funds through the administration's massive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program in April 2024. Reed Hundt, the CGC's former CEO and chairman, has personally donated nearly $60,000 to Democratic candidates and aligned political organizations going back to 2013, while Richard Kauffman — the group's CEO who replaced Hundt in January — has personally donated more than $600,000 to help Democrats since 2020, according to FEC data. In 2024 the EPA awarded the Coalition for Green Capital a $5 BILLION grant to create an NGO "Green Bank" outside congressional control. Reed Hundt, the group's CEO, has some *interesting* tweets for a guy leading a "non-partisan" group with $5 billion of taxpayer money… pic.twitter.com/tB1UxqVm8q — Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) December 31, 2024 Hundt made donations of $10,000 to the Harris Victory Fund and Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2024, and he also cut a $10,000 check to the Democratic State Central Committee of Maryland in 2016, FEC records show. Kauffman, meanwhile, gave $150,000 to the DNC in 2020 before giving another $20,900 to the DNC in 2024, the same year in which he made a $50,000 contribution to the Harris Victory Fund, government records show.

It's always nice to have green friends...

Space Cases

Katy Perry is going where no singer has gone before:

The trio will be on board Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space flight with film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, according to a press release shared Thursday. The flight will launch this spring. "This mission will be the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history," Blue Origin stated. "To date, the program has flown 52 people above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. This is the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963." King reacted to the news on Thursday's episode of "CBS Mornings." "I have to tell you, I'm so afraid," King emotionally told her co-hosts. "I am, I'm so afraid, but I'm also so excited about it."

I'm more afraid that they'll come back...

White Stuff

Revisiting the case of the lost cocaine:

BD: So… who actually left the cocaine in the White House? DJT: Well, either Joe or Hunter. Could be Joe, too. OK, so that was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with… they’re not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints. And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right? BD: See? Well, because, I mean, I was briefly a Bush speechwriter. And so I knew exactly what they were talking about. And I was like, “those things are filthy.” They’re filthy. DJT: And there were fingerprints. I mean, if you went to one, maybe we’re cleaner, but if you went to one at any time, you would see hundreds. Everybody in there would leave a fingerprint when they went in and that thing was wiped out with, with the strongest form of alcohol. BD: That’s hilarious, you know. Well, not hilarious. Sad. DJT: By the way, and I have to tell you, I think I’m going to look into that because it was… bad stuff happened there.

Hunter Biden would like his prints removed, please...

Money Walks

Don't spend any money,or something:

To show America's extreme displeasure with Donald Trump's policies and the unheard-of evolution of America into a place where the rich get richer, Mr. Schwartz wants all Americans to meditate for 24 hours. Failing that, Schwartz wants Americans to refuse to spend any money for a day. He's calling the protest action an "economic blackout." “They’re dismantling so many things in this country,” Schwarz said. “If people are going to step in and make a change that benefits the people, it’s now.” Schwartz can't make the connection between oversized government and damaging the lives of individual Americans. “We’re all exhausted. We’re all tired. Enough is enough,” Schwarz said. “We can’t sit back and watch these people boast about their wealth … and then we’re all sitting at home in anxiety and fear, not knowing how we’re going to make it till the end of the month.”

That's why they make and spend money...

Times Slime

Is he kidding?

Speech Slam

The verbal smackdowns continue:

Forgotten History

Apparently she doesn't remember the last four years:

Green Diet

The UK wants people to eat less meat:

Despite the UK accounting for less than one per cent of global emissions, official advice to the government from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), a quango established under the previous Labour government in 2008, argued that British citizens will need to eat at least 260 grams less meat per week in order to meet planned emissions reductions. The independent non-departmental public body said in its “seventh carbon budget” this week that this would equate to around two large doner kebabs, two 6oz steaks, or two cooked breakfasts. “We are absolutely not saying everyone needs to be vegan. But we do expect to see a shift in dietary habits,” Emily Nurse, head of net zero at the Climate Change Committee, said per The Guardian.

In other words, people should go vegan...

Budget Breaker

Make them balance the budget:

“I would love to see a balanced budget. And I would honestly love to see a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution. Many states have it. My home state of Georgia has it. You know, legislation would never be allowed to come to the House floor if it didn’t have an offset and wasn’t fully paid for,” he said, explaining how this would work at the federal level. “That’s the way our state government in Georgia works, and that’s the way the federal government should work,” he contended, noting that it is something that they have been working on. Clyde added that a balanced budget amendment coming to the floor and getting a vote was part of the requirements during former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) battle for the gavel, but he has since been replaced with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “That never happened,” he said. “And so, you know, we know that McCarthy was replaced. But this particular bill [the budget resolution passed Tuesday evening] instructs multiple committees to cut spending. You know, there’s a number of them, Ways and Means is going to be doing the tax cut part of it, but Energy and Commerce is primarily focused on the mandatory spending, and it’s the mandatory spending side of the federal government that has been increasing so radically.”

Unfortunately it probably makes too much common sense for Washington...

Suburban Savior

President Trump looks to save the suburbs:

The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule had conditioned millions of dollars’ worth of community development block grants from HUD on the completion of lengthy demographic analyses. To get the money, localities had to certify that there were no disparities — either by race, religion, sex, nationality or disability — in access to parks, transportation hubs, schools, and business districts, among other stipulations. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner speaks as President Donald Trump and Tiger Woods listen during a reception for Black History Month in the East Room of the White House Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. 3 HUD Secretary Scott Turner is going to announce the elimination of a costly Obama- and Biden-era federal zoning rule on Wednesday that President Trump warned would “destroy” suburban neighborhoods nationwide. AP “Local and state governments understand the needs of their communities much better than bureaucrats in Washington, DC,” Turner said in a statement first shared with The Post. “Terminating this rule restores trust in local communities and property owners, while protecting America’s suburbs and neighborhood integrity.” Pastor, whose wife killed herself, allegedly raped girl, used church as 'sexual playground': lawsuit A HUD official told reporters on a conference call Wednesday that a new rule put forward by the department will still prohibit discrimination under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, without the need for the analyses. “By terminating the AFFH rule, localities will no longer be required to complete onerous paperwork and drain their budgets to comply with the extreme and restrictive demands made up by the federal government,” Turner added.

Liberals will have to find some other way to get money for their ratholes...

Dirty Book Ban

No more dirty books in Oklahoma:

Senate Bill 2307 passed through North Dakota’s Senate on a second reading with a 27 – 20 vote on Feb. 20. The bill is sponsored by Republican State Sen. Keith Boehm, and requires specific safety policies to be in place to protect minors from sexually explicit materials. The bill would also require North Dakota’s Attorney General to conduct a review of public libraries, school districts, and other state agencies to ensure compliance with the statues to protect children from sexual content. Complaints made against libraries alleging access of sexual materials to children will be investigated, and all funds to those institutions will be halted until the situation is rectified. Pro-Family Laws Are On The Rise Pro-family laws that protect children are on the rise across the country, and many are aimed at academic institutions. One key example is Texas Senate Bill 2, a pro-school choice legislation that is currently dividing Conservatives throughout the state, according to Politico. While many support the concept of school choice, there are concerns over a lack of accountability within the programs, particularly in relation to the allocation of funding and metrics used to rate overall success.

Parents still want their own choices...

Cutting Corners

The Republicans ened to do their jobs:

What the GOP has shown time and again is a complete disinterest in disrupting the status quo spending in Washington. Even while inflation was wreaking havoc on American households during the Biden administration, many congressional Republicans were perfectly willing to add to the problem by supporting major spending bills that further increased the country’s growing national debt. With trifecta control of the federal government and Trump and DOGE enjoying net-positive approval from the American public, there is no better opportunity for Republicans to shrink the bureaucracy and slash wasteful spending. Whether it’s eliminating USAID and the Education Department or repealing Biden’s wrongly named “Inflation Reduction Act,” the possibilities for substantial cuts are too numerous to be ignored.

Unfortunately the GOP seems to be doing that...

Liberty Losers

Apparently the now former editor of the Washinton Post doesn't like the new format:

Bezos made the announcement to the Post staff on Tuesday. “We’ll cover other topics too of course,” he added, “but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.” “I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical,” Bezos continued. “And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.” He stressed that “Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.” Of Shipley, Bezos said, “I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t ‘hell yes,’ then it had to be ‘no.’” “After careful consideration, David decided to step away.”

Darn that whole freedom thing...

The Survivor

At least one person at MSNBC still has a show:

Sharpton’s weekend show, PoliticsNation, remains untouched, raising questions about how the anti-Semitic activist survived the bloodbath. President Donald Trump raised the issue on Sunday, asking whether Sharpton has leverage over Brian Roberts, the president of Comcast, which controls MSNBC. "Then there’s, of course, the LOW IQ Con Man, Al Sharpton, who has, perhaps, the lowest TV ratings in the history of television," said Trump. "What is he doing to Brian Roberts to stay on the air?" MSNBC has long faced scrutiny for employing Sharpton, because of his controversial history and concerns that he uses threats of boycotts to pressure companies to give him money. In 2015, black media mogul Byron Allen sued Comcast and Sharpton in 2015, alleging that Comcast paid $3.8 million to Sharpton’s charity, the National Action Network, to endorse the company’s purchase of NBCUniversal. Months after he publicly championed the deal, MSNBC hired Sharpton to host PoliticsNation.

The con goes on...

Bad Beans

First it was the eggs:

Last month, "Arabica coffee prices hit an eye-watering new high on the Intercontinental Exchange at $3.48 a pound," Food and Wine reported. "This means the price is up more than 40% over the last three months and 79% year-over-year — and it's set to trickle down to the consumer level soon." This month, things are worse. "The world benchmark for the global price of Arabica coffee has more than doubled what it was a year ago, as of Friday," KIRO 7 News reported Monday. The biggest culprit is drought, which hit coffee producers Brazil and Vietnam particularly hard. "Brazil, which exports the lion's share of the industry's preferred arabica beans, was beginning its growing season as the country's worst drought on record stretched into a second year," Meg Duff wrote today for Business Insider. "Two decades ago, US Department of Agriculture economists looked at how commodity coffee price swings affected grocery shelves," Duff continued. "They found that every $0.10 increase in futures led to an immediate $0.02 increase in prices for canisters of ground coffee. When commodity prices stayed high, the rest of the increase was passed on over the course of a year."

Breakfast is getting more expensive by the minute...

Apple Bites

Apple tries to turn Trump into a racist:

Apple iPhone owners are recording videos of themselves using Apple’s voice-to-text feature, demonstrating that the smartphone briefly flashes “Trump” before switching back to the correct word they they say the word “racist” into the microphone. This is widespread and confirmed on multiple personal devices by Breitbart News. While the smartphone did not display “Trump” every time “racist” was said using the device’s voice-to-text feature in the above sample video, it did show the 45th and 47th president’s surname three out of five times the iPhone user said the word “racist.”

Trump definitely isn't the Apple of their eye...

Town Hall Hikacks

Goess who was funding town hall protests:

The Beacon named the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CBS News as outlets who pointed to McCormick’s town hall and claimed it shows growing bipartisan backlash against DOGE. The article said CBS featured a quote from an organizer of the protest, describing her only as one of the congressman’s constituents. The Beacon detailed further information pertaining to the organizer, identified as Maggie Goldman, saying she does live in McCormick’s district, but adding more of her background:

A self-described “Democrat & Political Activist,” Goldman, who did not respond to a request for comment, coordinated volunteers for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, according to her LinkedIn. Shortly thereafter, she ran for her local county commission as a Democrat seeking to enact a “more inclusive policy agenda.” Goldman has donated exclusively to Democrats and sent Kamala Harris’s campaign more than $1,500 last year, according to campaign finance records.

The Beacon report also said similar protests have happened at other House GOP town halls and district offices, noting, “The demonstrations drove mainstream media coverage of brewing backlash against the Trump administration as the lower chamber left Washington, D.C., for a week-long recess. Well-funded liberal organizations organized many of them.”

Rent a protest is big business...

Medifraud

Why Medicaid has become medical waste:

Based on data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), it appears that less than 3 percent of the estimated total of fraudulent payments are proven by a judicial verdict. Some suspected cases are resolved by out-of-court settlements, but much fraud appears to go undetected. Beyond fraud, Medicaid loses billions through improper payments each year. In 2024, Medicaid made improper payments totaling more than $31 billion dollars, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported. Most of those payments resulted from clerical errors. However improper payments include all types of erroneous payments, including fraud, abusive billing, and waste. The Epoch Times examined data on fraud and improper payments in the Medicaid program and interviewed several current and former staff members including the heads of Medicaid Fraud Control Units across the country.

It's errors all around...

Blogging In The Years: 2011

Trump visits the View:

Blue Bail

Democratic donors are fed up:

The Hill reports the once-reliable supporters are still angry about the election results, the amount of money spent for such a slim return, and uninspired by anything their side has put forward since. “I’ll be blunt here: The Democratic Party is f‑‑‑ing terrible. Plain and simple,” one major Democratic donor told the outlet. “In fact, it doesn’t get much worse.” A second donor was equally unabashed in their criticism. “They want us to spend money and for what? For no message, no organization, no forward thinking,” the donor said. “The thing that’s clear to a lot of us is that the party never really learned its lesson in 2016. They worked off the same playbook and the same ineffective strategies and to what end?” Democratic strategist Steve Schale, who served as the director of the pro-Biden super PAC ‘Unite the Country,’ attributed some of the donor reluctance to fatigue, which he said happens after every election. But, Schale acknowledged to The Hill, “There is genuine frustration.”

Constantly losing tends to do that...

Gold Man

President Trump is looking for the gold:

“We’re actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because maybe somebody stole the gold,” Trump said. “Tons of gold.” Trump’s remarks follow mounting speculation on the status of the gold stored at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk has continued to bring light to the issue. The speculation mounted, particularly, after Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) publicly stated that he was denied entry into Fort Knox without explanation. .... “Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox?” Musk asked after Lee’s revelation. “Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not.” “That gold is owned by the American public! We want to know if it’s still there,” he continued.

They love only gold...

No Crisis

CBS is desperately seeking a crisis:

The lead of @CBSSunday: Robert @CostaReports on President Trump creating “a Constitutional crisis.” pic.twitter.com/YxloSaKZcI

— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) February 23, 2025

Woke Games

Because apparently the Olympics aren't woke enough:

Riley Gaines gets trans activist to say he believes we should let Olympic athletes compete in the Paralympics pic.twitter.com/9OTsh9Aghz

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 21, 2025

Government Fugitives

They can't hide anymore:

Egg Enablers

Enter the egg smugglers:

“Travelers need to be aware that raw egg imports from Mexico are prohibited,” the CBP said in a Feb. 21 statement, citing concerns about diseases such as bird flu—formally known as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)—and the Virulent Newcastle disease. In addition to raw eggs, the import of raw chicken, unprocessed avian products, and live birds is strictly prohibited. “Travelers are encouraged to declare all agriculture products to CBP officers and agriculture specialists, failure to declare may lead to potential fines and penalties,” the CBP stated. Texas is not alone in observing the recent rise of cross-border egg smuggling. In January, CBP’s San Diego office issued a similar warning, stating that travelers caught bringing raw eggs into California from Mexico without proper disclosure could face fines of up to $10,000.

The indredible, illegal egg...

Beard Ball

the Yankees will now allow beards:

The Yankees’ facial hair policy was first implemented by George Steinbrenner, the former Yankees owner and father of Hal Steinbrenner, in the 1970s. The policy banned any facial hair other than mustaches, with exceptions for religious reasons, and scalp hair below the collar for players, coaches and male executives. George Steinbrenner, who died in 2010, justified the rule as a way of instilling discipline in the team, reportedly telling The New York Times in 1978 that he wanted to “to develop pride in the players as Yankees.” Since then, all players have abided by the policy, though not without some resistance. Famously, Yankees captain Don Mattingly was benched in 1991 for refusing to get a haircut, an incident mocked on a 1992 episode of “The Simpsons.” Former Yankee Andrew McCutchen said in 2020 that it would have been difficult for him to join the team when he still had dreadlocks, which he wore during the early years of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and called on the franchise to change the rule.

Don't fear the beards...

Park Space

Probationary isn't permanent:

The first thing you need to know is that the employees being summarily let go are "probationary" employees--meaning that they have worked for the federal government for less than a year. If the safety and stability of the entire federal government depends on employees who were just hired, you have to wonder what the rest of the employees have been doing. These employees are being let go not because they are especially bad, but because firing people who are no longer probationary is nearly impossible. That is a bug, not a feature. In an idea world, you could reduce headcount by separating the wheat from the chaff, but our civil service laws prohibit doing anything rational, so the choice becomes ever-expanding government employment regardless of productivity or suboptimal personnel decisions. That isn't Trump's fault; it is the poor design of our civil service. In this particular case, we are supposed to believe that Yosemite Park's tourists are dependent on one employee--1200 square miles of particularly dangerous national park territory, and only one person who has worked there for 48 weeks has a key to open doors or gun safes. Uh, yeah, either that is a total lie, or everybody in charge should be summarily dismissed and checked for mental deficiencies.

Time to find another park...

Earning It

Elon Musk wants federal workers to actually earn their pay:

on Saturday evening, all federal workers received an email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to list five tasks they had accomplished last week. The email requested that employees “cc” their responses to their managers and set a compliance deadline for Monday at 11:59 p.m. EST. In the subject line of the email, federal employees were asked, “What did you do last week?” Next, they were instructed to “reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” Civil servants across the government are getting hit with an email this evening asking them to justify their jobs Subject: What did you do last week? “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.” pic.twitter.com/wI2r2c19Gl — Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) February 22, 2025 [Note: Pew Research Center estimates that as of November 2024, there were more than 3 million federal employees.]

Now they have to prove their worth...

Money Crazy

They're literally nuts:

The Memo

The Democrats really are out of touch:

The DNC memo, titled “Democrats Will Fight Against Trump’s War on Working People,” lays out a plan to regain political ground by promoting unionization efforts and criticizing the Trump administration’s policies. According to Powerline’s John Hinderaker, the strategy appears outdated. “The memo reads like a time capsule from the 1930s. It is all about unions and alleged union-busting by the Trump administration. This might appeal to the Democrats’ core constituency, overpaid government workers. But currently, fewer than 6% of private sector employees in the U.S. are unionized, an all-time low,” Hinderaker noted.

Failure is in the details...

Railroad Job

The train to nowhere is still going nowhere:

It’s 2025 and the budget has shot up to $128 billion. Nothing has been built (except mansions for the well-connected) and there’s no sign that’s about to change. California’s multibillion-dollar high-speed rail project is behind schedule on obtaining the land it needs to complete its construction plans, according to a state inspector general report published Friday. Friday’s report comes on the heels of another one earlier this month that found construction on the initial 171-mile Central Valley line is unlikely to be completed by the High-Speed Rail Authority’s 2033 timeline. 2020, 2033, 3033, who’s counting anyway?

They might as well wait...

No Joy

There is no Joy in MSNBC-Ville:

The final ranty Reidout will be sometime this week. Reid's show will be replaced with a weeknight version of The Weekend, hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia "Gold Bars" Menendez, and Michael Steele. Variety reports Kutler helped create that show for early Saturday and Sunday mornings. In its first year on air, the program has seen audience for its time slot improve noticeably. MSNBC is projected to shed approximately 10.5% of its subscribers between the end of 2023 and the end of 2025, according to estimates from Kagan, a market-research firm. Kutler wants to create a separate "news" division for when it separates from NBC News. The New York Times adds that a front-runner for the Maddow slot is former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, a favorite of the MSNBC brass. MSNBC is also considering on-air host positions for Eugene Daniels of Politico and Melissa Murray, a professor at the New York University School of Law. The network hasn't yet announced a replacement show for Andrea Mitchell Reports.

They can't get enough viewers to care...

Jungle Bond

Amazon now owns Bond:

The James Bond film franchise, a British institution, is now creatively “under threat of woke Amazon executives with zero Hollywood experience”, according to an insider. Yesterday, Hollywood was struck with the bombshell news that EON Productions made a new deal where their creative control of the James Bond film franchise now goes to Amazon MGM Studios. For over 60 years, the British-American Broccoli family has maintained a non-compromising oversight over the much-cherished 007 movies, which they treated like a luxury brand. Following rumours of internal clashes over the future of the next Bond, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are getting out. However, they will still receive credit and a cut of 007 going forward. The casting, script, director, and everything else for the reboot are now in the hands of Jeff Bezos’s mammoth company, which purchased MGM Studios for $8.5 billion a couple of years ago.

No more deals, Mr. Bond...

Speech Saviors

Free speech is winning:

Evelyn Beatrice Hall was the first to coin the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Let’s learn to disagree without being quite so disagreeable, but let’s never let verbal attacks silence us. We have been blessed to live in a country where we have the right to disagree. Exercise and defend that right. The appropriate response to hate speech is more speech, not forced silence. In his book, The Case for Democracy, Natan Sharansky writes: “If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. We cannot rest until every person living in a ‘fear society’ has finally won their freedom.” Allowing the free flow of ideas and criticism is a cherished gift of liberty. America still passes the “Public Square Test.” A citizen can criticize a President, Christians, gay marriage, abortion, Sharia Law, and op-ed columnists and not be put to death by tyrannical authorities. May it always be so.

In spite of the Left's spite...

Rotten Funding

No more gravy train:

Mother Miss

What a mother:

The Evers administration's budget recommendation for the 2025-2027 fiscal period advises several other gendered terms be changed, as well. References to "wife" or "husband" are changed to "spouse" in the proposal. In other places, the word "father" is changed to "parent," and "mother" is swapped out for the phrase "parent who gave birth to the child." The budget was introduced by the state Senate's Joint Committe on Finance on Tuesday. Wisconsin radio host Dan O’Donnell noted the language change in a post on X, calling it "beyond parody." Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, commented on the post, writing simply "red flag!"

Sounds like somebody really needs a talking to by their birth parent...

Blue Stew

No more for them:

Fire Sale

Don't mention the failures:

Crowley’s blunt assessment pointed the finger at staffing shortages, a problem she had repeatedly warned about for years. The chief noted that these shortages severely impacted the fire department’s ability to respond effectively when wildfires began ripping through the city. “Any budget cut is going to impact our ability to provide service. That is a ground truth in regard to our ability. If there’s a budget cut, we had to pull from somewhere else. What does that mean? That doesn’t get done or that there are delays.” Crowley had even sent multiple memos detailing the fire department’s dire needs, but apparently, those warnings fell on deaf ears. When the fires came, Los Angeles residents saw firsthand the consequences of an underfunded and understaffed fire department. Rather than take responsibility, Bass opted for the classic Democrat strategy—scapegoating. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks at a press conference on Nov. 14, 2023, after a fire under Interstate 10 severely damaged the overpass in an industrial zone near downtown Los Angeles, Saturday on Nov. 11, 2023. The large blaze burned trailers, cars and other things in storage lots beneath a major highway near downtown Los Angeles, forcing the temporary closure of the roadway. It was announced at the press conference that repairs would take 3-5 weeks. In a statement attempting to justify her decision, Bass claimed: “Acting in the best interests of Los Angeles’ public safety, and for the operations of the Los Angeles Fire Department, I have removed Kristin Crowley as Fire Chief.” Bass further alleged that 1,000 firefighters who could have been on duty when the fires erupted were instead sent home under Crowley’s leadership. If that’s the case, it begs the question—who set up the policies that made such staffing decisions inevitable?

Her Honor can't answer right now...

Ice Creamed

Where the Covid money went:

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk to purge wasteful government spending, revealed on Thursday that schools have spent nearly $200 billion in COVID-relief funds "with little oversight or impact on students." Granite Public Schools in Utah spent their COVID-relief funds on $86,000 in hotel rooms at Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas casino, while Santa Ana Unified in California spent $393,000 to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium, according to a report by Parents Defending Education and shared by DOGE. The cost-cutting department also revealed that schools spent $60,000 of COVID-relief funds on swimming pool passes, while a California district used its funds to purchase an ice cream truck.

They had to keep cool...

Road Rage

Governor Hochul isn't happy:

"I don't care if you love congestion pricing or hate it. This is an attack on our sovereign identity, our independence from Washington. And we are a nation of states," Hochul exclaimed. "This is what we fought for. This is what people like Alexander Hamilton and others fought for: to set up a system where we are not subservient to a king or anyone else out of Washington." Hochul's histrionics continued: "In the streets of this city, where battles were fought; we stood up to a king. And we won then. And in case you don't know New Yorkers, when we're in a fight, we do not back down. Not now, not ever. Because, who are we fighting for here? We're fighting for our residents, our commuters, our riders, our drivers, our emergency personnel." "I'm here to say New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years," she seethed. "We sure as hell are not gonna start now." As she spoke, Hochul held up a copy of Time magazine with a rather flattering image of Trump wearing a crown emblazoned on the cover. Without the toll, traffic will spike in the area once again, she warned. "The next time you're stuck in traffic, you’ll know who to blame." For now, Hochul claimed that the "cameras would stay on."

Drivers beware...

Blue Bust

Democrats get caught:

The three Democrats, all of Bangladeshi origin, used an online voter registration portal to artificially inflate voter rolls in an effort to win borough council seats during a 2021 local primary election. However, Hasan and Islam were unsuccessful, suffering defeat in their primary races. Subsequently, Hasan went on to win a council seat during the 2023 election. The indictment highlights growing concerns about election security. “This is a blatant violation of the fundamental principles of democracy,” said a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “Ensuring free and fair elections is essential to maintaining public trust in our electoral system.” Republican leaders responded to the news by calling for election reform, with some advocating for enhanced voter ID laws.

Fake votes, real fraud...

Internal Removal Service

Its time has come and gone:

DEI Defense

CBS tries defending DEI:

Presidential Plea

The Democrats are calling on the ex-Presidents for help:

As The Hill reported: “No one knows more about the importance of our presidents respecting separation of powers and showing restraint than former presidents,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. “Given Trump’s ongoing power grab, those voices and perspectives of our ex-presidents would be critical to the public discourse at this moment.” “I don’t know what they’re waiting for,” said one former senior aide to Obama. “The time isn’t when Trump ignores court rulings. The time is now.” Trump’s first month in office has been a whirlwind of activity in which he has sought to dramatically reduce the federal workforce while giving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, access to sensitive government payment systems. He has also sought to change birthright citizenship and dramatically curb federal spending. Clinton, Biden and Obama repeatedly warned of the risks to the nation if Trump was reelected.

The risk that people would stop listening to them...

Dead Dispute

Don't name the dead:

According to the bill, if a deceased person's chosen gender has been documented, it must be recorded on the death certificate along with any changes to the deceased's legal name. If there is no official record, whoever is in charge of managing the dearly departed's affairs can change the gender and name before everything is finalized. Those who “knowingly and willfully" fail to comply could face a $750 fine and/or a 120-day stretch in the local clink. The Pulse reported: Critics argue this measure compels speech, with Dr. Travis Morrell, a Colorado physician affiliated with the conservative coalition Do No Harm, describing it as an unprecedented action against scientific truth. Morrell plans to testify at the bill’s hearing, expressing concerns over the inclusion of a misdemeanor penalty. My guess is that this is a "message bill" aimed squarely at the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and anyone who dares to go against the will of the cultural overlords.

They get more voters that way...

Bidenomics Bust

Bidenomics didn't work after all:

The springboard for Victoria Guida's report was a lengthy article published last week in Foreign Affairs, written by Jason Furman, chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers during his second term. Guida interviewed Furman about his piece titled "The Post-Neoliberal Delusion And the Tragedy of Bidenomics." “On infrastructure, [Biden's] program has basically been a failure,” Furman told Guida. “A huge amount of money flooded into it. In some ways, it made it even harder to build with the number of requirements put on programs.” “All of this drove up costs so much that the money that got spent was basically swallowed up by the higher costs, and then a lot of the money hasn’t even been spent.” It isn't clear whether Furman was referencing Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law — the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — a $1.2 trillion beast that spread around enough pork to lure 19 GOP representatives and 13 GOP senators into voting for it. Shame on them, by the way. Or maybe Furman meant Biden's misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act, another trillion-dollar boondoggle that was A) inflationary and B) the Green New Deal Lite in drag. Even Biden admitted as much to the latter, if belatedly.

It never worked as advertised...

Plane Crazies

The women weren't ready:

The crash occurred at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Video footage captured a Bombardier CRJ-900 regional jet flipping upside down during its landing attempt, which led to 21 people being injured with no fatalities. Several injured parties remained hospitalized as of Tuesday. Videos featuring female Endeavor Air crew members have been circulating on social media since the crash. One video is set to lines from the Disney movie “The Incredibles” (2004) and features a voiceover saying, “Girls, come on? Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don’t think so. I don’t think so,” as a female pilot mouths the words and wags her finger. Another video features female employees getting ready for an “unmanned” flight, while other clips show instances of women working for Endeavor flying planes and attending what appears to be a trade show, all set to upbeat music with girl-power-themed lyrics.

Girl power doesn't keep planes from crashing...

Toll Takeaway

No more driving tax in NYC:

In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he’d be pulling federal approval of the deeply unpopular program, which he called “a slap in the face to working-class Americans and small business owners.” “Every American should be able to access New York City regardless of their economic means. It shouldn’t be reserved for an elite few,” Duffy wrote. The Federal Highway Administration will work with the New York State Department of Transportation on an “orderly termination” of the program, which charges drivers $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which administers the toll, filed suit almost immediately to preserve the new tax — which upon implementation in January made the Big Apple the most expensive city in the US to drive in.

You can drive your car...

Trans Talk

Biology isn't real, or something:

At issue is a Jan. 27 executive order signed by President Donald Trump requiring the Defense Department to update its guidance regarding "trans-identifying medical standards for military service" and to "rescind guidance inconsistent with military readiness." U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes harshly questioned the Trump administration at length over the order, demanding to know whether it was a "transgender ban" and if the government's position is that being transgender is an "ideology." Civil rights groups this month sued to block the order on behalf of six transgender U.S. service members, arguing that the order is discriminatory and unconstitutional. They alleged it threatens U.S. national security as well as years of training and financial investments by the Department of Defense.

Defend the pronouns, troops...

Dancing Fools

It's come to this:

No Sucking

No sucking allowed:

DEI Diss

No DEI for them:

Black business owners are now saying that they have not benefited much from diversity efforts intended to help them, and are largely unfazed by the Trump administration rolling back DEI programs nationwide, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The report comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to crack down on DEI initiatives in the U.S., including in universities and across the federal government. “DEI isn’t for us,” one black business owner, Casey Cooper, told Reuters. “It looks good on paper, but that money doesn’t go to us anyway.” President of the National Association of Minority Contractors Wendell Stemley told Reuters that there was a false narrative surrounding the effectiveness of DEI efforts aimed at helping minority contractors. (RELATED: FCC Launches Probe Into DEI Policies At One Of Corporate Media’s Largest Strongholds) “People want you to believe that, oh, the government got this big minority business program to give Blacks these multitude of contracts,” Stemley told the outlet. “That’s just not the way it works.”

Real life seldom does...

Bad Money

How dare he challenge the narrative:

Trend Breakers

America has way of making things better:

Our political and media culture often seems to thrive on negative trends. But one measure of the strength of any society is what happens when things are going in the wrong direction. It requires clear ideas, people unwilling to accept decline with a shrug, and leaders who seek change rather than scoring populist points by blaming others for problems. Wealth helps a lot too. The fact that so few Americans—about 11 percent, according to the Census Bureau—live in poverty means more resources are available for solving other problems, and more people have more time to spend thinking up solutions. .... Disappointments and failures will always remain. Scarcity and death are still with us. But as America enters the second quarter of the 21st century, it is a resilient place where people—and bees—are living better lives.

We're tougher than we're led to believe...

Dead Debt

Student loan forgiveness is dead:

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey originally sued the Biden administration over its nearly $500 billion effort to wipe away student loans, known as the SAVE plan. The court's Tuesday ruling found that Biden's secretary of education had "gone well beyond this authority by designing a plan where loans are largely forgiven rather than repaid." Bailey noted in a statement that the ruling has no active impact beyond blocking future presidents from attempting Biden's maneuver. "Though Joe Biden is out of office, this precedent is imperative to ensuring a President cannot force working Americans to foot the bill for someone else's Ivy League debt," Bailey said in a statement.

Pay your own bills, kids...

Blue Questions

Democrats still don't know how to deal with real issues:

Associated Losers

The media are mad:

The media elites’ outrage comes as the White House has remained disciplined and ideologically consistent in the wake of the Associated Press’ refusal to recognize the “Gulf of America” as the official name, which precipitated the White House barring the outlet from White House events. “Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the president of the United States questions,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday. “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable.” “This isn’t just about the Gulf of America,” White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich told Axios on Monday. “This is about AP weaponizing language through their stylebook to push a partisan worldview in contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world.” ... Many media elites, reacting to the AP’s feud, are calling for a national boycott of Trump. “News outlets then must rally to the cause, by offering supportive statements to the court hearing the case, writing op-Ed’s backing the AP, and, if necessary, refusing to cover presidential movements in solidarity, until Trump backs down,” Jim Acosta, a former CNN anchor, wrote on his Substack.

Good luck with that...

Training Days

No more ideology:

The grants had been awarded to teacher preparation programs that trained future educators in what the department said were “inappropriate and unnecessary topics,” such as critical race theory, which promotes the fundamental framework view that racism is embedded in all institutions and aspects of society; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and social justice activism. Some of the defunded programs also included race-based teacher recruitment and staffing strategies, according to the department. The department provided examples of the defunded training programs, including those that required educators to acknowledge “systemic inequities” like racism and “critically reassess” their own teaching practices. Others offered professional development workshops on “Building Cultural Competence,” “Dismantling Racial Bias,” and “Centering Equity in the Classroom.” Some initiatives guided teachers to “interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students.” There were also programs promoting an “abolitionist pedagogy” which, according to Bettina L. Love, the professor who coined the term, applies a “critical race lens” to classrooms and encourages teachers to organize marches and boycotts against their colleagues perceived as “racist, homophobic, or Islamophobic.” The decision to cut these grants aligns with the broader cost-cutting measures led by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory body led by Elon Musk, and with President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to dismantle DEI initiatives across the federal government.

Time to get back to actual education...

Old Folks

Some people apparently live longer than normal:

Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, discovered the data while reviewing SSA records for potential waste or fraud. “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to false!” Musk wrote on social media platform X, which he owns, on Feb. 17, sharing a chart of the various age brackets. The chart shows that there are more than 17 million centenarians who are marked as alive and eligible for benefits in the SSA system, of whom more than 12 million are allegedly older than 120. More than 1,000 individuals are listed as being between the ages of 220 and 229. Another person is purportedly in the 240 to 249 age bracket, and the oldest person in the system is listed as older than the United States itself at more than 360 years old.

Methuselah has some competition...

Scared Censors

Opposing censorship is fascism, or something:

Home Rules

Homeschooling works:

The CES report that studied adults between adults 24 to 39 years old analyzed economic, mental health, civic, spiritual, and family formation among homeschooled and non-homeschooled individuals. It categorized the subjects into short-term homeschoolers (1-2 years of homeschooling), medium-term homeschoolers (3-7 years), and long-term homeschoolers (over 8 years). The individuals attended traditional public schools, Catholic schools, Protestant schools, nonreligious independent schools, or were homeschooled. One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.

Staying home keeps you sane...

Baby Bigots

Babies were racist, or something:

The program, funded by the Department of Education, was just one of many “antiracism” training programs used for teachers following the rise of Black Lives Matter after the death of George Floyd. One slide, titled “Did You Know? Racial Awareness in the Early Years,” asserted that infants become racist before turning one year old if they are not exposed to diversity. The slide argues that infants can begin to categorize faces based on race and even develop preferences for faces they see most often, which usually corresponds to their own race.

Beware of those racist infants...

No Speech

Not free speech:

Spending Stoppers

Republicans want to bring back the President's power to save money:

Known as impoundment, the practice of declining to spend funds provided by Congress dates back to President Thomas Jefferson. Since 1974, however, it has been tempered by the Impoundment Control Act (ICA). Republicans in the House and Senate now want to repeal the ICA. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) introduced Senate and House versions of their bill striking down the Watergate-era act. The February legislation comes after House Appropriations Committee Democrats said that some of Trump’s executive orders violate the ICA by calling to delay funding to programs Congress enacted under President Joe Biden.

He can't cut off their grift without their permission...

Library Lunacy

Obama's library has become another Blue boondoggle:

In the lawsuit, McGee claims that Thornton Tomasetti changed standards and imposed new rules around rebar spacing and tolerance requirements that differed from the American Concrete Institute standards. The suit claims these changes resulted in his firm running up massive overruns in excess of $40 million, which put it on the verge of bankruptcy. McGee's lawsuit stems from a memorandum Thornton Tomasetti wrote to the project’s leading construction partners about a year ago claiming that II in One — and the contracting firm it teamed up with on the project — were responsible for numerous challenges during the project. The memorandum contained images of cracked slabs and exposed rebar to support its claims. Thornton Tomasetti said it spent hundreds of hours reviewing, analyzing, re-designing, and responding to corrective work and that subcontractors caused "a multitude of problems in the field." "The construction issues were all unequivocally driven by the underperformance and inexperience of the concrete subcontractor," the memorandum states. .... The project has faced problems in the past. Construction was initially anticipated to begin in 2018, but it was delayed until 2021. It is scheduled to open sometime in 2026. Some community activists claim the new center will cause prices for homes and rent to increase and may price out many of those who live in the area. Environmental activists have also been critical of the project, arguing that it would remove too many trees and destroy some bird habitats. Activists threatened to sue to block developments, but the plan to build the center was approved shortly after a lawsuit was filed, according to Newsweek. The Supreme Court denied the request to hear the case in 2021.

They may have actually had a case here...

Man Worries

Men are being ignored:

Ryan said, “I think all of this women stuff, which, of [course], pro-choice, I’m pro-women, all that stuff, just set that aside. What are we going to do with our young men and our boys that are struggling so much with depression, with all kinds of health issues, with suicide? We need a national agenda for our boys too. … The best thing you can do — one of the best things you can do for women is make sure we have real men in our society, that are emotionally mature and know how to be in a relationship and know how to handle themselves. And I think that’s really missing here.” He continued, “And I think the Democrats and I think a lot of the liberals have been asleep at the switch on this and that’s why you get the toxic masculinity and you get these boys gravitating towards Trump and I don’t even know some of these guys on social media. … There’s no alternative to them. … Where are the coaches who teach discipline and focus and how to understand what you’re in control of and some of these basic principles that we need boys to have?”

The coaches have quit...

Cash Flow

How did this happen:

“$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process,” DOGE revealed on X, posting screenshots of the receipts. “These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. @SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds which are now available for other use by the Treasury,” DOGE added.

Just a billion here and there...

Truth Teller

Ouch:

Et Tu, IRS

The IRS will get a taste of its own medicine:

“The Internal Revenue Service will be looked at like everybody else,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington. He said that just about every federal agency will be examined by DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk. “They’re doing a hell of a job. It’s an amazing job they’re doing,” Trump said. “I call it the force of super-geniuses, but it’s building, and you know they go up, and they talk to some of the people about certain deals, and they get all tongue-tied because these people get it. They’re very smart people. We need smart people.” The IRS declined to comment on the remarks.

What's good for the golden goose...

Final Broadcasts

There's a new sheriff in town at the FCC:

“I am writing to inform you that I have asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to open an investigation into Comcast and NBCUniversal,” Carr wrote in his letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, which was obtained by Newsmax. “In particular, I want to ensure that your companies are not promoting invidious forms of discrimination in violation of FCC regulations and civil rights laws.” After President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies government wide, Carr launched his agency-wide effort to ensure that every company the FCC regulates complies with civil rights protection by barring discrimination in the form of promoting DEI. “I am starting this broader effort with Comcast and NBCUniversal for two reasons. First, as noted above, there is substantial evidence that your companies are still engaging in the promotion of DEI,” Carr explained.

DEI is still dead...

Crisis Crash

There is no crisis:

"Many outlets in this room have been fearmongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House," Leavitt said. "But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority. We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law." "This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump," she continued.

It's only a crisis for Democrats...

Bars None

Lee Zeldin finds Biden's bars:

An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago, featuring a Biden EPA political appointee, talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titantic. Rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before inauguration day. The "gold bars" were tax dollars, and tossing them off the Titantic meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it. Following this revelation, during my meetings with members of Congress, I made a very important commitment to them and to the American people, which I reiterated at my confirmation hearing. That if confirmed, I would immediately get a full accounting. Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight. Even further, this pot of 20 billion dollars was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion with far less transparency. Just under 7 billion dollars was sent to one entity, called "The Climate United Fund."

No more bars for them...

Prize Patrol

Trump wins again:

Artau notes that numerous entities had squashed the Russia collusion narrative. But the Pulitzer Prize Board, in defiantly issuing a statement refusing to rescind the awards for reporting based more on fantasy than reality, further pushed the assertion of collusion. "As noted in the President’s complaint, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General William Barr, the House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the United States Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence all concluded ‘there was no evidence of collusion between President Trump, the Trump Campaign, and Russia,'" he wrote in a filing obtained by Fox News Digital. "In other words, as the President asserts, ‘[t]he Russia Collusion Hoax was dead, at least until Defendants [as members of the Pulitzer Prize board] attempted to resurrect it’ by conspiring to publish a defamatory statement falsely implying that the President colluded with the Russians." In their motion to dismiss, the Board had asserted that their statement defending the awards was purely opinion and not actionable. Artau, however, points out that they injected claims of fact. "The board members vouched for the truth of reporting that had been debunked by all credible sources charged with investigating the false claim that the President colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election," he wrote. Artau states that President Trump met the burden of establishing jurisdiction for the trial court and can therefore "proceed with his asserted claims that the non-resident defendants acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for the truth."

Truth wins in the end...

Woke Medicine

It might be the wokest hospital in America:

The campaign, dubbed "Cleveland Clinic Exposed," asks the public whether the clinic is "the wokest hospital in America" and will involve an ad titled "Exposed," which will run in Ohio during the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Toronto Raptors game on Wednesday. "Is Cleveland Clinic the wokest hospital in America?" the 30-second ad asks. "They prioritize care based on skin color. Perform child sex changes. Push transgender propaganda on vulnerable kids. Insert DEI into everything they do. "And spend millions on climate activism. The CEO admits it: Healthcare is only a part of their mission. Cleveland Clinic. Focused on a political agenda. Not what’s best for patients."

The medicine comes next...

Blue Vs Blue

A Blue civil war is brewing:

Axios reported last week that groups such as MoveOn and Indivisible are harassing lawmakers with tens of thousands of phone calls demanding more from their leaders. The left-leaning outlet revealed that over a dozen Democrat lawmakers had "received historically high call volumes," insisting they "do more" to stop Trump. Hilariously, those congressmen and women have had to remind these groups that their hands are a bit tied because they got shelled in the elections and currently hold no majorities. They suggested the groups start calling Republicans instead. "You are literally calling the wrong people," one House Democrat explained. The DNC Is Scattered, Demoralized, and Leaderless Karoline Leavitt Chides Clueless Dems for Inciting Violence: ‘They Should Be Held Accountable’ Axios has followed up on that report by noting that the calls seem to have continued unabated. MoveOn and Indivisible are making the Democrat Party very ... divisible. House Democrats had a closed-door meeting in which they lashed out at these liberal groups for siccing their unhinged masses on them and tying up the phone lines. One source who attended the meeting indicated House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is "very frustrated" with the progressive groups for taking their anger out on the party that best represents their interests.

You reap what you sow...

Gas Loop

Another car company discovers the power of gas:

Inside EVs reports that as the automotive industry grapples with the challenges of transitioning to electric vehicles, BMW’s strategic decision to invest in flexible platforms is proving to be a wise move. Unlike some of its rivals, such as Mercedes and Audi, who have focused heavily on dedicated EV platforms, BMW has taken a more measured approach by developing architectures that can support multiple powertrains, including internal-combustion engines (ICE), hybrids, and full electric systems. This flexibility has allowed BMW to adjust its product mix more easily in response to market demands. Models like the i4, i5, and i7 share platforms with their gas-powered counterparts, enabling the company to maintain a balanced portfolio as consumer preferences evolve. In contrast, other manufacturers who have invested heavily in EV-specific platforms may find it more difficult to pivot if the market doesn’t develop as quickly as anticipated. Jochen Goller, a BMW board member, recently acknowledged the uncertainties surrounding the shift to electrification, stating, “I think it would be naive to believe that the move towards electrification is a one-way road. It will be a rollercoaster ride.” This sentiment underscores the importance of BMW’s diversified approach, which includes continued investment in modern combustion engines and plug-in hybrids alongside the rollout of new electric models.

Many are now getting off the EV ride...

Spending Stoppers

Democrats are really scared:

The Democrats’ tactic puts them into a precarious position of supporting waste, fraud, and abuse, three items DOGE is tasked with cutting. “I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And for us to be able to support government funding in that way only for them to turn it around, to dismantle the government. That is not something that should be allowed.” Democrats are particularly upset DOGE gained access to the federal payment system at the Treasury Department to monitor outflows of taxpayer funds. They are also angered about President Donald Trump’s decision to essentially defund many agencies, such as USAID, and layoff staffers. “I’ve worked in government. I’ve worked through multiple government shutdowns. I would be the last person who would want to get to that stage, but we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis,” Kim said.

In other words, they could do Musk's job for him...

Blue Cheaters

Cheaters never prosper:

Union Fear

Why Democrats fear the Union:

Common national identity and purpose forestall Democrats’ Marxist impulse to cultivate grievance and conflict. That’s why, in recent decades, they have explicitly rejected any virtuous connotation of America’s historic “melting pot” and embraced pluralistic societies living inside and among each other. What they champion as “multiculturalism” and “diversity” is really a malicious compulsion to turn constituent groups against one another. Perceived victimhood cannot flourish in societies that value national unity. Victimhood requires a steady supply of unfounded outrage and fake oppression. This unhealthy addiction is the source of preposterous Democrat claims that racial minorities in the United States are today treated worse than antebellum slaves. Why is the Democrat party so hostile to President Trump and his “Make America Great Again” agenda? The simplest answer is right there in his famous political slogan. He is interested in lifting all of America — and not just some constituent part of it.

America approves this message...

Church Fight

He wants a war:

“In this nation, I’m worried that we are on the verge of bloodshed. This is an attempt to take us back to a day that we do not want to go, and we will not go. Therefore, there will be conflict. I pray that the peace of God will win out and overcome the madness that is attempting to take over this nation.” “And I will say to you, beloved: no one likes violence, but sometimes violence is necessary. When Elon Musk forces his way into the United States Treasury, and threatens to steal your personal information and your social security check, there is a possibility of violence. Sometimes the devil will act so ugly, that there is no other choice but to get violent and fight!”

Another peaceful leftist...

California Stealing

Thieves are now in control:

Walter Melnick, who had been hired as a contractor for Evanston, Illinois-based Hagerty Consulting firm, was accused in 2022 of having claimed lodging reimbursements to which he was not entitled, and of making false statements to investigators. Melnick was described in a press release by another firm as having “managed New York City’s post-Sandy $15 billion recovery program” while at Hagerty. He has since evidently retired from the industry. Another then-Hagerty consultant, Mark O’Mara, was accused of claiming more than $250,000 in reimbursements to which he was not entitled, and of trying to destroy evidence. Both pleaded guilty after reaching plea agreements.

From one con game to another...

Indian Faker

Canada finally realizes she's a fake:

Sainte-Marie, who won an Academy Award in 1982 for co-writing the soundtrack song Up Where We Belong, had received the Canadian honor in 1997. But over the weekend, the Canadian government rescinded the award in a curt notice published on the Canada Gazette. In his message, Secretary General of the Order of Canada Ken MacKillop wrote, “Notice is hereby given that the appointment of Buffy Sainte-Marie to the Order of Canada was terminated by Ordinance signed by the Governor General [Mary Simon] on January 3, 2025.” Sainte-Marie has made a 60-year career out of claims of Native heritage even as evidence continued to suggest she was born to a white family in the US. An extensive 2023 expose of her false claims stirred the controversy to a high pitch by following all the evidence that seemed to prove she has been peddling false claims for decades. The Universal Soldier and Now That the Buffalo’s Gone singer has made a string of claims over the years of being related to several different native tribes, but mostly claims her mother was a Cree Indian. Despite the Cree claim, she has also claimed at various times to have Algonquin and Mi’kmaq tribal heritage.

Now she's just another cultural appropriator...

Big Black Eye

CBS may finally be broken:

In the past two weeks, FCC Chair Brendan Carr launched investigations into three news outlets and reinstated complaints against three others, including NBC and ABC. The complaint against ABC received a “news distortion” complaint over its fact-checking by the moderators in the presidential debate between Harris and Trump that heavily favored Harris. Meanwhile, the complaint against NBC claimed that Harris’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” which aired just weeks before the election, violated “equal time” rules governing political programming. Former FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, dismissed any probe into the interview, saying the complaints “seek to weaponize the licensing authority of the FCC in a way that is fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment.” However, Carr said he doesn’t “see how the FCC can reasonably adjudicate this claim of news distortion without seeing what was actually said.” Carr's investigation could pave the way for potential revocation of broadcasting licenses for the networks. If the FCC probe uncovers any violations, the agency can impose fines or revoke a station's broadcast license entirely.

No more time on their dime...

Editor In Chief

Bring in the man:

Paul is a well-known critic of the Federal Reserve and has long advocated for increased transparency. His potential involvement with DOGE could deal a significant blow to the Federal Reserve and aligns with the Trump administration’s mission to enhance governmental efficiency and reduce waste. Furthermore, this move could spark a major shift in the oversight of the nation’s central banking system. Unsurprisingly, a federal judge in New York temporarily blocked DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems last week, as establishment elites fight tooth and nail to conceal their fraud. Musk’s consideration of Ron Paul highlights his commitment to reforming federal operations and could bring renewed scrutiny to the Federal Reserve’s controversial practices. Auditing the Federal Reserve is something Paul has been pushing for decades.

The Fed fears what he might find...

Doctors Are In

Blue therapy is booming:

Axios, a left-leaning digital news outlet, spoke with several therapists about the impact of Trump's "shock and awe" strategy in implementing his agenda. For a party that prides itself on fighting the "resistance" fight, they have sought out the therapist's couch in a hurry. "Some will find a way of adjusting their brains to the drama and unpredictability while others will try to tune out," they write. So what's got Democrat voters mentally in disarray? An end to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, for one. A move to target "transgender rights," which, by the way, is a wholly fabricated concern since there are zero rights that don't apply to every American. And climate change, another manufactured crisis. It's almost like living in a world of make-believe has its consequences when a realist like Trump enters the White House.

The dream is over...

Dissing DOGE

They really don't want to lose their gravy train:

Do Or Don't

Democrats have become the new old men:

As often as not, American greatness has happened in an attempt to prove the “you can’t do thats” wrong. Rebellion is our founding myth, after all! We carved a nation out of a continent because we believed we could and were bold and young and inventive enough to try, not because we trusted the experts. Chuck Yeager was 24 years old when he broke the sound barrier. He did so with two broken ribs and closed his aircraft’s hatch with a broom handle because his injury wouldn’t let him reach the hatch. It’s a good thing OSHA wasn’t there to tell him that wasn’t safe! The youngest man who explored the Louisiana Territory in the Corps of Discovery was 17; at 33, William Clark was one of the old men of the group. The Wright brothers were in their 30s when their flyer lifted off at Kill Devil Hills. So save me the hand-wringing if some young men are here to help drain the swamp — the rest of America is happy to see them. Joe Biden was right about one thing: There is a battle for the soul of America. It’s the caffeinated real estate mogul and his millennial veep versus The Experts who have been running things into the ground and getting pensions for it. It’s the kids with new ideas versus the Chuck Schumer types, who are literally shaking their canes. It’s the people who believe in ordering their loves around their families and communities before the rest of the world, versus the people who care more about starting foreign wars than keeping your streets safe. The former kind of people built America — the people who were young and reckless enough not to realize they were doing things once deemed impossible. The latter category would have grounded Yeager’s plane for not being up to code and told Lewis and Clark their band of explorers didn’t have enough biracial lesbians in it. It’s not like statue-toppling, self-flagellating Democrats have made a secret of hating America. But their derision for American history has given way to derision for the American spirit, and it’s playing out with a candor that’s kind of amazing. The party that catapulted Barack Obama on the slogan “Yes We Can” has become the party of “No You Can’t.”

In spite of this, many Americans will still say "Yes we will..."

Blue Pause

New York Democrats really don't like to lose:

What profound reason are the New York Democrats giving to get Hochul to delay the special election? Elections are too expensive, and New York needs to save money. “Right now, New Yorkers are facing unprecedented challenges including the strain on our democracy and our high cost of living,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in a statement. "At a time when people need our government to work more efficiently, this legislation is a common-sense approach that saves taxpayer dollars while maximizing voter turnout. In this moment of national uncertainty, we must protect democratic participation while ensuring the government remains fiscally responsible. This legislation achieves both.” ROFLMAO. Meanwhile, New York Republicans expressed their displeasure in a strongly worded statement by Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt. It's not much, but it's all they got. “The radical Democrats in Albany just dropped a corrupt, backroom disastrous bill on a Friday night because that’s what power-hungry politicians do when they’re trying to silence the people and rig the system in their favor,” Ortt said. “This disgraceful move will deny over 750,000 New Yorkers their voice for months, all because Democrats are terrified of losing power and will do anything to stop President Trump from putting America first."

So much for "defending deomcracy..."

Penny Poacher

No more pennies:

The decision was unveiled through a post on social media, where Trump highlighted the financial inefficiency associated with penny production as the primary motivation for his proposal. The cost implications he referred to revolve around the expense of manufacturing a single penny, which currently exceeds two cents. These production costs have been a point of concern, evidenced by last year’s U.S. Mint report, which indicated that the process of making and distributing each penny amounts to more than three and a half cents. This move by the President touches on broader discussions regarding currency production and the economic feasibility of maintaining small denominations in circulation. The debate over the penny has been longstanding, with arguments focusing on economic logic and sentimentality attached to the coin. As of now, the Treasury Department has not issued a detailed response to Trump’s announcement. The proposal raises questions about potential changes in cash transactions and the handling of pricing strategies that rely on penny increments. This decision aligns with Trump’s previously stated initiatives to streamline government operations and reduce wasteful spending.

The penny is dead, long live nickles and dimes...

Space Case

The case for cheaper space:

SLS isn't just a boring and stupid name for an impressively sized rocket; it's underpowered and too expensive for its intended mission. SLS can't put enough mass into lunar orbit to account for the Orion space capsule it carries and its four-person crew and their supplies. It doesn't even carry the landing vehicle. To make up for SLS's shortcomings, we're going to build Lunar Gateway — an international space station in orbit around the moon. The plan is that Orion and its crew will dock at the Gateway and transfer to a SpaceX Human Landing System (HLS, and another boring name) for transit to the lunar surface, where they'll conduct their mission, and then back to the Gateway for transfer back to Orion for the voyage back to Earth. HLS gets to Lunar Gateway courtesy of a SpaceX Starship. Did you get all that? There will be a quiz later. The complexity is only necessary because SLS can't produce enough lift. Starship, once completed, can produce enough lift, making the Lunar Gateway and all that going back and forth unnecessary. The Lunar Gateway is expected to cost $5.3 billion just for initial construction (and we both know what happens to those initial estimates; they go nowhere but up) and another billion dollars each year to operate and maintain. Maybe there's a case to be made for Artemis to include an orbital substation, but it isn't Lunar Gateway. A modified Starship could — not just in theory — do the same job the Lunar Gateway is supposed to do. Starship Gateway, or whatever you want to call it, could reach lunar orbit with a single launch and go to work immediately, no painstaking and dangerous orbital assembly required. Starship Gateway would have up to ten times (!!!) more habitable space than Lunar Gateway, and at a price measured in tens of millions instead of billions.

Bigger isn't always better...

Going With Gas

Porsche drops its EVs:

The decision to potentially reintroduce an ICE-powered Macan has been influenced by the recent slump in sales of the Porsche Taycan, the automaker’s flagship EV. Once a highlight in Porsche’s EV portfolio, the Taycan experienced a sharp 49 percent decline in sales in 2024, moving just 20,836 units compared to the previous year. While Porsche attributed the drop to the introduction of the Taycan’s facelifted version, the decline has raised broader concerns about the long-term sustainability of EV demand. A Porsche insider told Autocar, “The reception to the new Macan EV has been positive, but we are yet to see its long-term performance given uncertain market conditions. The downturn in Taycan sales highlights new market dynamics. We cannot rely solely on traditional assumptions about consumer behavior.”

They want cars that will actually run...

Desk Jockeys

They want their desks back:

“The Pentagon Press Association is shocked and deeply disappointed by the Defense Department’s decision to double the number of news organizations it is removing in two weeks from their dedicated workspaces in the Pentagon from four to eight,” the statement said, adding: Instead of reconsidering its approach after good faith outreach this week from more than 20 news organizations, the Defense Department appears to be doubling down on an unreasonable policy toward news outlets that have covered the U.S. military for decades. The orders do not prevent any outlets from continuing to access or cover the building, but rather, just gives their coveted workspaces inside the building to other outlets that also cover the building. The uproar from the legacy press contrasts with the muted response after the Biden White House canceled year-long press passes to the building for over 400 journalists and restricted press from certain events featuring the president. In 2023, the Biden White House tightened eligibility for a White House press pass, which led to the loss of at least 442 journalist’s so-called “hard passes,” which allowed them daily access to the White House press briefing room and certain areas on the White House grounds for one year.

How soon they forget...

Fool To Believe

A Congresswoman clowns herself:

Beyond the Biden-Harris administration being marred by high inflation rates and low approval for the president on the economy, there's a major problem. The numbers released on Friday were for the end of the previous administration. Trump didn't take office until January 20. Further, the Forbes article the congresswoman was sharing says not one thing about DEI hiring practices. In fact, black Americans had by far the highest unemployment among demographics, at 6.2 percent. Perhaps Crockett should be focused more on how to productively do something about that, rather than engage in unrelated rants about DEI and mix up which president the job numbers apply to. For her troubles, Crockett's post was ratioed to the tune of 24,000 replies. She was also hit with context from Community Notes. "The Job Growth data from U.S. Bureau of Labor that is referenced, is from a time period ending before President Donald J. Trump took his place in office as the 47 President of the United States of America," the added context reminded, also pointing to how the "Reference period" comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

Just one little detail...

Losing Streaks

Why the losers keep doing it:

The Democratic Party just can’t help itself. For its own psychological reasons, it can’t move beyond the “denial” stage of grief. Doing so would jeopardize the party’s sense of purpose, identity, and ego. Right now, the “patient” cannot heal itself because it won’t accept the diagnosis. Instead, it rejects it: Trump is Hitler! Musk is Hitler! MAGA is Hitler! I’m the only one defending democracy! A sane, rational actor would take a step back and consider his own role in losing three branches of government, a majority of statehouses, and two-thirds of the Supreme Court. And then they’d develop a better product. Fortunately for the GOP, they’re just not ready for that level of introspection. Not yet. (And probably not until it’s forced upon them.)

The denial river runs deep...

Seeing The Light

Once you go right, you don't go back: