Quick Hits

Now that Trump has actual allies in the government, he's much more eager to share the spotlight with them.

It's long been conventional wisdom that there is only one star of the Donald Trump Show and the only rule in his freewheeling political world is "don't upstage the boss." Yet the constant complaints that Musk is the shadow president or the unelected power behind the throne have not created a rift with Trump.

In the sequel to his first term, Trump has been perfectly willing to share the spotlight. Musk is a unique case. The richest man in the world and recent convert to conservatism -- Musk is fond of posting videos of Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate economist who was many a young conservative and libertarian's entry point to the free-market gospel -- was especially helpful to Trump in last year's presidential election. Musk and conservative activist Charlie Kirk were up against an experienced Democratic field operation and, based on the results in all seven battleground states, at least held their own.

But it isn't just Musk. Vice President JD Vance has kept up a brisk pace of interviews since taking office. At one point during the campaign, he made more than seven times as many such appearances as both members of the Democratic ticket combined. On the night they were elected, Trump singled out Vance to praise for his performance on cable networks Republicans generally deem hostile.

Trump's Cabinet is stocked with proven television communicators, from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Attorney General Pam Bondi to newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. When Gabbard was sworn in, Trump asked the group of reporters if they had any questions. As they shouted them out, Trump said, "You know what, I'd like to have Tulsi say a few words first, and then we could answer a couple of questions."

People have long said that Trump was particularly blessed to have the enemies that he did -- stupid, nasty, incompetent people that discredited themselves.

He's now almost as blessed in his allies. He's attracted/courted a seriously impressive team.

State reps in Ohio and Mississippi aim to make it a crime to ejaculate without intention to create a baby.

No, this isn't the right going crazy. This is the left going crazy.

Is spilling semen outside a woman's vagina a sin?

Legislators in Ohio and Mississippi want to fine men up to around $10,000 if they're caught doing so.

A bill was released in Ohio this week, seeking to make ejaculation without the intent of conceiving a baby a felony offense.

Its advocates say the intent is to stir up public debate over reproductive rights and the interpretation -- and application -- of Biblical law.

If United States' governments are willing to use interpretations of theological law to regulate women, why not men?

Ohio State Representatives Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, the authors of the "Conception Begins at Erection Act," say it's a tongue-in-cheek means of highlighting the hypocrisy behind moves to regulate women's bodies.

"You don't get pregnant on your own," observes Representative Somani (Democrat for Dublin).

"If you're going to penalize someone for an unwanted pregnancy, why not penalize the person who is also responsible for the pregnancy?"

Gavin Newsom brought word salads to a historic mandate fight. He will veto a bill which would forbid California prisons and police from cooperating with ICE, while insisting he still supports the state "sanctuary" policies.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he plans to veto a bill in California that would limit state prison officials' cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Newsom said California's "sanctuary" law is the right course of action to balance the state building trust with immigrant communities while giving the federal government the room to deport undocumented criminals in prison, according to a Politico report. His action comes as Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice was suing Illinois and New York for their sanctuary laws.

A Newsom spokesperson confirmed that he plans to reject Assembly Bill 15 if it passes. Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year.

Leftwing rag Vulture reports that people working on the new Marvel piece-of-crap knew they were making a piece of crap all along.

According to a technical crew member on Captain America: Brave New World who was present on set and has knowledge of the film's postproduction process, Disney is all too aware of its potential liabilities -- on the heels of disastrous test screenings last year that necessitated a lengthy 22 days of reshoots, the 11th-hour addition of a new supervillain played by Giancarlo Esposito, major sequences being cut, and the film's release date being punted from February last year. In particular, Harrison Ford's Red Hulk/Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross character created uncomfortable political resonances. A demagogic military leader who transforms into a rampaging, orange-skinned superhuman, the character shares certain unmistakable traits with Donald Trump. To be sure, the reshoots took place last summer, long before the 45th president was certain of becoming POTUS 47. But in recognition of what one insider calls an increasingly "politicized" environment, Disney changed the sequel's original title from Captain America: New World Order to the comparatively anodyne Brave New World. (Indeed, in July, the studio pulled a theatrical trailer featuring footage of an assassination attempt on the Ross character out of sensitivity around a deadly attempt on Trump's life earlier the same month.)

Moreover, this source (who has worked on several Marvel television and film projects and spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to comment publicly) described a high degree of difficulty on the reshoots and action set pieces that ran up the budget. Compounding matters, Ford (now 82) lived up to his reputation as a legendary curmudgeon on set, according to the source, making matters more difficult for Onah -- an acclaimed independent filmmaker but one, like so many hired by Marvel, with zero experience directing within the trappings of a nine-figure budget.

To fulfill DEI quotas, Marvel has been hiring "directors" with very little experience. Usually stuff like zero-budget independent movies or documentaries.

Marvel and Onah declined to comment; a representative for Ford did not respond to Vulture's request for comment. A source close to the production said there is "no truth" to allegations that Ford's behavior was unusually challenging.

I worked on the reshoots. I think everyone on the crew knew this is probably not going to be a good film. Some of the action sequences were not believable. We had a lot of frustrations on set. After principal photography was finished, it was like, "Oh, we're going to introduce the leader of the Serpent Society." It was on, then it was off, then it was on again. That's very expensive to do. My co-workers who spent more time on Brave New World than I did said, "Yeah, this has been a really rough production."

When the studio had its test in front of an audience, it didn't respond. Maybe they don't want to see anything political in an election year? Maybe they were divided on who they were voting for? General Ross reads as an allusion to Trump. He's this very powerful general who becomes kind of a fascist and turns into a raging Red Hulk. This is my opinion, but I think Disney was realizing, Hey, we've been bleeding for a while. Let's try not to piss off our core base any more than we have been over the last couple of years. They know you're going to lose a lot of your audience that way.

The article talks more about what a huge entitled elderly baby asshole Harrison Ford is.

Trump: I want to shut down the Department of Education "immediately;" it's a "big con job."

President Donald Trump suggested the Education Department will not exist for much longer, saying he wants to close it "immediately" and calling it a "big con job."

"So they ranked the top 40 countries in the world," Trump told reporters on Wednesday afternoon. "We're ranked number 40th, but we're ranked No. 1 in department costs per pupil, so we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world, but we're ranked No. 40."

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Literally Threatened By Transgender Lunatics, the Worcester City Council Declares That Pissant Massachusetts Hellhole a "Sanctuary City for LGBTQ+ People"
A Corrupt Federal Judge Blocks Trump's EO Stopping Funding for Transgender Surgeries for Child

NBC Fake News:

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aiming to restrict transgender health care for anyone under 19.

Judge Brendan Hurson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland was skeptical of the government's argument that the order is not a nationwide ban on care, but rather a "general policy directive" and that the plaintiffs -- who are trans teens and young adults whose care has been affected by the order -- must wait to sue.

"In this situation, it is clear that these plaintiffs have received phone calls stopping their care, stopping their appointments, stopping their everything," Hurson said during the hearing Thursday, adding that hospitals stopped care because of the order, which also seeks to prohibit federal funding of transition-related care for minors.

"I don't know how you can credibly argue that this is not demanding the cessation of funding for gender affirming care," he said.

Isn't it terribly weird that the Transgender Left claims that puberty blockers are completely temporary and puberty can be turned on and off without harm, and yet if you interrupt a "trans" child's puberty blockers for a month it results in "irreparable harm" (as required for the granting of an emergency injunction)?

Why can't puberty blockers be turned off and then back on with no harm?

Their real position is that puberty blockers are always good and natural puberty is always bad.

Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP
Here's how a few major news orgs reported the story of a federal judge blocking Trump's executive order on transgender medical procedures on minors:

AP: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.

Retuers: A federal judge on Thursday blocked U.S. health agencies from enforcing President Donald Trump's order ending all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids gender transitions for people younger than 19.

NY Times: A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to keep federal funding in place for hospitals that offer gender-transition treatments for people under the age of 19.

CBS News: A federal judge in Maryland agreed Thursday to temporarily halt President Trump's executive action that restricts access to gender-affirming care for people under the age of 19, according to the groups challenging the move, delivering a setback to the Trump administration efforts targeting what it calls "gender ideology" while the legal proceedings move forward.

Meanwhile: We see in Worcester the extreme mental illness this evil cult, um, cultivates.

I think these people face a struggle. The struggle is not with conservatives or even Drumpf!!! The struggle is with reality.

They are clearly insane.

And violent, and willing to use terrorist violence to achieve their deranged ends. By their own brazen admissions.

The Worcester City Council in Massachusetts voted 9-2 on Tuesday to designate the city as a sanctuary for "Transgender and Gender Diverse People," a move that sparked controversy over the behavior of activists present at the meeting.

The resolution prohibits the use of city resources for "detaining persons for solely seeking or providing gender-affirming care." The measure also means that the city will refuse to cooperate with any state or federal policies that are "aimed to harm transgender or gender diverse people."

Approximately 200 LGBT activists attended the five-hour meeting to support the measure, according to the Washington Examiner. Some speakers made inflammatory remarks, with one self-proclaimed drag queen stating, "I need this city to protect me because the federal government won't."

"If you say that you're afraid of Trump and that's why you don't want the city to be a safe space for trans people, you better be prepared for trans people to make this a very unsafe space," the individual threatened.

"Can you look at me and tell me how many of my friends have to die before you do anything?" said another activist to the council. "Look at me! F*cking pathetic!"

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Trump Press Conference: Shut Up, Stupid Woman; Knocks Mitch McConnell as Senile

I noted in the sidebar that Trump shut up rude witchface c**t Kaitlin Collins: "Excuse me, we haven't asked you to speak yet," he said as she whorishly began shouting her stupid "questions" while he was signing and showing off an executive order.

Trump then pummeled a female CNN reporter -- I'm not 100% sure, but the witch sounds like Barbra-Streisand-nosed Kaitlin Collins.

Her "question" -- her declaration thinly disguised as a question -- is that Russia could just withdraw its troops from Ukraine, so why do we need peace negotiations? Well, Genius, because armies that are winning do not just walk away without getting the losing army to give them something. It's so f***ing stupid. I think they're all autistic.

Speaking of autism: At RFKJr.'s swearing in, Trump dared to ask why autism is now pandemic in our country (and few others).

Trump: "Not long ago 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Now it's 1 in 36. Who can believe that? There's something wrong. And I think it's something that can be found out."

STOP ASKING REASONABLE AND IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, YOU FASCIST MIND-CONTROLLER!!!

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Key takeaways from Trump's press conference:

- Will be looking at the IRS
- Car tariffs are coming soon
- Would love to have Russia back in G7
- Elon Musk's DOGE is doing a great job
- Deadline to ban TikTok could be extended
- Taiwan took our chip business--we want it back
- Not concerned about countries shifting business to China
- Wants talks on military spending cuts with Russia & China
- No need for producing or stockpiling new nuclear weapons
- BRICS [Brazil Russia India China and others] nations playing with the dollar could face 100%+ tariffs

The Trump Revolution makes the Reagan Revolution look like weak sauce.

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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin Is Clawing Back $20 Billion in "Gold Bars" "Pushed Off the Titanic" in the Last Days of the Biden Usurpation

You may remember that James O'Keefe caught a Deep State Operative openly bragging that he and his palz were just throwing taxpayer money to Biden's cronies as the Usurpation came to a close. He was frank in admitting that they weren't checking to see if these were meritorious transfers -- they just wanted to give away taxpayer money to whoever so that Trump could not exercise any judgment about it.

He called it an "insurance policy" against Trump winning.

Hmmm, where have I heard that exact language before?

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Afghan "Refugee" With Long Criminal History Drives His Car Into Throng of People, Invokes Allah

"We may never know the motive," EU Members of Parliament vowed.

The world's "news" services immediately identified the culprit responsible: the car, of course.

Early reports say that "at least 28 people" were "injured." Based on previous run-down terrorist attacks, I expect their to be a lot of deaths, sadly.

The terrorist plowed into a leftwing demonstration.

Martin Sellner
@Martin_Sellner

Munich: an Agfhan has just driven a Car into a left wing demonstration.
Those people rally of open borders and nonstop replacement migration & his "rights".
He drove a car into their demo.

"It's my nature," said the scorpion to the braindead German whose child it just murdered.

Fox notes that this latest terrorist attack by an oppressed refugee occurs one day before Vance and Rubio arrive in Munich for the peace negotiations.

At least 28 people, including children, were injured on Thursday when a car driver drove into a crowd in Munich, Germany, police say. Initial reports indicate that some of those hit were critically injured.

Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder says the crash is being treated as a "suspected attack." Police identified the suspect as a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, BBC reported, adding that he was known to police for previous offenses.

Fox News' Trey Yingst, who was on the scene, said he saw someone limping away from the scene with the help of paramedics.

Munich police are asking witnesses to come forward with footage of the incident and information.

This incident occurred just about a mile away from where world leaders are expected to gather for the Munich Security Conference (MSC) on Friday, Reuters reported. Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are among the expected conference attendees.

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RFKJr. Confirmed as Secretary of MAHA, 52-48

Happy Thursday! I have always considered Thursday to be the Thanksgiving of the week.

Once again, the brain-glitching invalid Mitch McConnell joined his corrupt Democrat allies to oppose Trump.

What makes this even sweeter is that the usual sell-outs and traitors all desperately wanted to sink this nomination (and most of the others). Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Thune, and the whole gang of RINOs all intended to vote together against Trump's nominees.

But we pressured them. We knuckled them under. We made them bow.

There's a Wall Street Journal article about Tillis' scheming to get Pete Hegseth's brother's ex-wife to trash him in public so that Tillis would have a pretext to vote against him. But then the forces of MAGA made it clear to him that if he voted "No" his career was over.

And he bent the knee.

I'd almost prefer making these vain, useless, corrupt monsters do the right thing through bullying and political menace than if they were actually good people choosing to do the right thing.

Now we just need Kash Patel and we've run the table. Apart from the early bobble with Matt Gaetz.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

I trust Elon Musk and his merry band of savants far more than I trust the rank-and-file government employees who have been wasting and stealing and misappropriating our money for generations.

The preposterous idea that Elon Musk has some grand and nefarious plan to fleece the American taxpayers by using the data that he gathers from his and his teams' examination of the books of the various agencies is risable. Much of our private data have been hacked from our own government already, or in the case of Donald Trump, leaked by a malevolent IRS.

And those government functionaries who are crying to the heavens that they and only they are the appropriate custodians of the people's information are the very same hacks who act contrary to both the spirit and the letter of the law with respect to spending our money.

Each government department has vast herds of auditors and compliance "experts" and supposedly ironclad systems to prevent fraud, misuse, and abuse, Yet even the most rabidly pro-government politician would admit to significant issues with government overspending. So what are these people doing? Why have they not uncovered over the many years they have been in existence the waste that Elon Musk's teams have found in only three weeks?

The answers are damning. Either they are pathetically, hilariously bad at what they are paid to do, or they are complicit in the waste and are criminals.

Either one is an acceptable answer, but there is only one result that is appropriate: termination of employment.

I'll take a pimply-faced, big-balled 20-something with a work ethic and superb skills any day over a fat, useless government employee counting the days until his pension kicks in!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Conversion of Mary Magdalene
Paolo Veronese

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The Morning Report — 2/13 /25

Good morning kids. As from a scan of the links will indicate, the winning continues as President Trump sets the DOGEs loose on the beast that is the Leviathan, and for sure that has caused typical reactions from the latter.

So in that light, for dramatic effect and to underscore the points well as to not turn your stomachs from the get-go, let's put a big old smile on your face:

President Donald Trump expressed that he wants the Department of Education to be “closed immediately,” describing it as a “big con job.” When asked by a reporter how soon Trump wanted the Department of Education to be closed, Trump criticized how the United States education system was ranked 40th compared to other countries but ranked number one in terms of “costs per pupil.”... Trump has previously stated he wants to close the Department of Education and move education back into the hands of the states.

There are many states, and of course cities where students are about as proficient in the 3 R's as a used toothbrush. Which makes for the most loyal of leftist voters, growing into useless individuals dependent upon the government for their sustenance. Considering the awakening of local parents to wokeism and the brainwashing of their children into perversion and self-loathing as was amply demonstrated with the election of Glenn Youngkin a few years back and thank goodness seems to be trending nationally. To underscore that statement as well as President Trump's call to abolish the DoE, get set to grab your barf bags, And if this s happening where you live, your pitchforks and torches (metaphorically speaking of course *wink*wink).

On Tuesday evening, school board members representing Penfield Central School District in Rochester, New York, walked out on a packed house of parents who were upset about an inappropriate book on display at the elementary school library called “The Rainbow Parade,” authored by Emily Neilson. The book in question is about a young girl attending a pride parade with her lesbian parents. The illustrations show men in sexual BDSM gear holding hands, drag queens, and naked people. Instead of taking on comments from concerned parents, the board’s president called a motion to adjourn and ended the meeting abruptly. Kimberly DeRosa, who attended the meeting, told The Daily Wire that it ended after “more than an hour of presentations celebrating Black History Month and the superintendent detailing the process of submitting objections to books in the school. As noted by DeRosa, the board told parents that they should submit their complaints, which apparently negated their right to speak out at the meeting.

“We are here at our board meeting, conducting our business,” one board member told parents, who began booing. One parent responded, “It’s our board meeting,” and others yelled, “cowards!””

Only a scant four years or so ago, Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants sicked his DoJ goons on the parents and had them officially designated as potential if not actual terrorists for objecting to the mind-rape if not physical rape of their children via transexual madness of boys in girls rooms and showers. Insert (bad word!)Ashely Biden reference here.

Beyond the bureaucracies, both Federal and State, the Teachers' Unions which are nothing but money-laundering operations for Democrat political campaigns must be abolished and more than that, the curricula must be scrupulously purged of the poisonous rot such as outlined above and anyone who pushes it openly or otherwise must not be allowed within a thousand light years of any school. God bless Trump but it is up to all of us to be on the school boards, or if we are or wish to be teachers must resist this with every ounce of our strength. This stops when future generations are properly taught and the brainwashing machinery is smashed to bits.

And speaking oof public sector unions,

US District Judge George A. O’Toole ruled that the union groups suing to block the so-called “Deferred Resignation” program lacked standing and that his Massachusetts-based court lacked the jurisdiction to proceed with the lawsuit.  O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead with the program earlier this week, after unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers charged that that the buyout offers were unlawful.  

Trump should take an axe to government employee unions. Even FDR recognized the conflict of interest they presented. Trump can call it the Franklin Roosevelt Freedom Act! That should make Lefty heads explode.

Elsewhere, Pam Bondi and Discipline! wasted no time in cracking the whip against Hochul and Letitia James for their over abrogation of their oaths for refusal to uphold immigration laws in the (evil-)Empire state of New York. Of course the usual suspects will howl that Trump is using this as retribution against James for her leading the kangaroo court prosecutions against him, which is of course groundless since the charges against these two filthy trots are well founded. And here's hoping she and Homan go after every other Democrat Pol who flaunts our laws and openly harbors illegals and interferes with ICE's duty to round up the invaders and ship them the hell out. I'd say prosecute the hell out of them but considering the corruption that is the judiciary (which is why a Clinton-appointed judge ruled in favor of Trump's employee buyouts is rather surprising) I fully expect Hochul and James to have charges dismissed or else found not guilty.

At the risk of reepeating myself, how in hell can Trump rely on the courts to uphold the COnstitution when for so long they have been a part of the problem - the abrogation/negation/destruction of that document.

Can Trump as I have asked just tell the Courts to go to Hell and what risk does that pose down the road if inevitably we wind up with another Bush in the White House - and I mean a CORI BUSH, Dear God forbid. And in the near term rioting in the streets.

And the notion of impeaching obdurate tyrannical judges may be a nonstarter given the resistance from Dems and RINOs.

At the very least, I think the political winds are at Trump's back especially as he, Musk and team expose the breadth and depth of the waste and cancerous poison if not death that tax dollars have bought is exposed. And USAID is just the tippy tip tip of the iceberg.

People shouldn’t just be enraged by USAID’s wasteful spending. They should also focus on what that spending supported—particularly when it promoted terror or aligned with Hamas’s interests.

Rather than being used to provide humanitarian aid and stabilize conflict-ridden regions—in accordance with USAID’s stated goal—American funds have often been funneled into corrupt, Hamas-tied institutions, with minimal oversight. A new multiyear study of USAID by the Middle East Forum identified $164 million in grants to radical organizations, including $122 million to those “aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters.” The MEF also found that “millions of federal dollars have been handed by USAID to organizations directly in Gaza controlled by Hamas, with government officials even visiting Gaza terror proxies’ offices and launching joint programs.”

The money has kept flowing, as the U.S. has distributed $2.1 billion in Gaza since Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostages on October 7, 2023. But the warning signs predate October 7. The USAID’s Inspector General—now raising the alarm about Trump’s shutdown of the agency—has consistently voiced concern over lax vetting mechanisms and inadvertent terror funding in the region.

The watchdog community has echoed these concerns. In December 2024, the group NGO Monitor highlighted USAID’s lack of transparency, reporting that it allocated $200 million to “miscellaneous foreign awardees” operating in the West Bank and Gaza. USAID identified neither the recipients of these funds nor their local partners. In 2021, NGO Monitor warned that alterations to USAID’s anti-terror vetting practices made the group “vulnerable to engagement with grantees and/or partners linked to terrorist organizations, or with groups that support, glorify, or excuse violence.”

And lookie-here what Daniel Greenfield is reporting:

In 2022, the DA Afghanistan Bank showed off photos of $40 million in stacks of hundred dollar bills sitting on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport. The Taliban controlled central bank described this as one of three shipments of “humanitarian aid” amounting to over $100 million.

DAB, Afghanistan’s central bank, was headed by Noor Ahmad Agha, a “specially designated terrorist” who had been named as the “financier of bomb-making”, including the IEDs which had killed over 1,000 American soldiers, and sending money to a sanctioned figure was illegal. Despite that someone had sent a massive fortune in U.S. cash to the Taliban’s terror bank.

While no international organization was willing to admit to the cash-smuggling operation, the ultimate responsibility lay with USAID. The $40 million on the tarmac was part of a much larger scheme under which USAID and the State Department provided over $1.7 billion in funding to the UN which then shipped $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan. . .

. . . When the State Department and USAID claimed that they “do not provide assistance to or through the Taliban” but work “with trusted international partners with extensive experience working in challenging environments like Afghanistan”, it was a half-truth at best. The “trusted international partners” included the UN. USAID funded the UN which used an intermediary to purchase the hundred dollar bills from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Afghanistan’s wealth, claimed by the Taliban, was being held, then contracted with a company, quite possiblyOsama bin Laden’s old airline, to fly it to Afghanistan, deposit it in banks, allocate it to NGOs and then use DAB to convert the dollars into local Afghan currency.

LEst we forget the I don't know how many billions in greenbacks the Jug-eared dog-eating purple-lipped Commie literal-bastard Obama palletized and flew over to Iran without even the fig leaf of USAID such as it is/was.

JUST The TIP, my friends. Not enough pitchforks, torches and rope/lampposts, metaphorically speaking again *wink*wink.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Mark J. F. Schroeder, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), has also been charged. The charges center on the Democrats’ alleged failure to enforce immigration laws in the state, resulting in American citizens being victimized by illegal aliens.
  AG Bondi Files Charges Against New York Gov Hochul, New York AG James.

• The Trump administration's counterrevolution against the “treason of the agency clerks.”
  The Spawn of Leviathan
  
• describing it as a “big con job.”
  Trump Calls for Department of Education to Be ‘Closed Immediately’

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Daily Tech News 13 February 2025

Top Story

• Oracle chairman Larry Ellison says governments should unify all their data into a single feed for training AI. (MSN)

  Fragmented sets of data about a population's health, agriculture, infrastructure, procurement and borders should be unified into a single, secure database that can be accessed by AI models.

  This is not unreasonable for already-public broad-scale data. Getting it all into a standard format so that AI - and non-AI computer tools - can analyse it could be valuable. If all of USAID's funding had been out there so that anyone could plug it into a spreadsheet and look for fraud...
  
  Actually, people have been doing that for years and hardly anyone cared.
  
  Anyway. He also wants your DNA. (The Register)
  
  So that's a no.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 12, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

[Photo:USS George H.W. Bush en route to Norfolk. Credit US Navy (for both the photo and the ship)]

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Slumpday Cafe

Venice

The streets of Europe are just gorgeous. Just look at those cobblestones!

Bring your dog to work day. Or bring your cat.

Antifa horse.

Parrot and cat have beef.

Moose crossing at a city intersection.

Dogs with theirfavorite stuffed animals. And an even bigger favorite animal.

Happy Birthday Boy.

Sometimes you just say, Fuck it, let the dog drive the truck.

Feral dog thanks human for food.

Puppy feeding time.

Wednesdays am i rite But it's all downhill from here.

Mirror Man.

Lion purrs like a Harley.

Misbehaving baby elephant is scolded and goes running back to mama.

Beautiful cloud formation: I see a dog looking covetously at a bush he can pee on.

The sun, photographed for a year and a half as it traces a symbol across the sky.

FAFO -- But who found out?!

Inman:

Duck hunt more like duh, c*nt am i rite

Gym bully brought his fists to a throat-punch fight.

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Quick Hits

Dylan Mulvaney, the man in a dress who just joined Congress,
and Chuck Schumer
The Democrats are doubling down on transgenderism.

And so it begins.

Posted by: Guy who always thinks things are beginning

And so it begins:

Newly sworn-in Attorney General Pam Bondi held her first U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press briefing Wednesday where she announced federal charges filed against the state of New York, specifically Gov. Kathy Hochul, the state's AG Letitia James, and Commissioner Mark Schroeder of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

"New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops today," Bondi said.

Bondi's department has already sued the city of Chicago, the state of Illinois, and Cook County over their so-called "sanctuary" laws that shield illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement.

"New York didn't listen, so now you're next," Bondi said.

"This is a new DOJ," declared Bondi, "and we are taking steps to protect Americans."

Some earlier reports said that Alvin Bragg was being charged. He isn't.

Not yet.

Update: It's also not "charges." It's a civil suit. I think it's to compel action. If she succeeds, and they continue to resist, I think then she could seek charges for violating a court order.

Lt. Bearclaw:

Alexander S. Vindman
@AVindman

Quietly, Hegseth announces a major policy change, ruling out Ukraine joining NATO. This is a complete capitulation to Putin, justifying his wars of aggression starting with Georgia in 2008. This will embolden Putin and undermine the interests of peace in Ukraine and Europe. A major blow to U.S. national security.

Can't wait until we find a papertrail of USAID funding to him.

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

This is always what DC does with its failed wars.

Those who start them always blame those who finally have to end them.

Everyone knew Ukraine was losing and NATO's "victory goals" were impossible. Since only Trump admitted it, they'll blame him for losing their failed war.

The DOJ has dropped the corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. The DOJ accused Biden of having manufactured a case against Adams due to Adams' complaints about flooding his city with illegal aliens.

The Justice Department under President Trump has dismissed the bribery case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, citing political motivations behind the prosecution under the Biden administration. The decision follows Adams' claims that the charges were retaliation for his criticism of Biden's handling of the migrant crisis.

Key Details:

The Trump DOJ instructed the Southern District of New York to dismiss the charges without prejudice, allowing for potential future prosecution.

DOJ officials cited concerns that the case was politically motivated and interfered with Adams' reelection campaign.

Adams has shifted his stance on immigration and attended Trump's inauguration, signaling a potential political realignment.

I'm "meh" on this. Yes, Biden probably ordered the Code Red but they wound up finding a lot of donations from Turkish construction companies going to Adams.

There's talk that Adams may change his party registration to Republican. He is polling badly in the Democrat Primary-- but could probably win the GOP primary, if he changed a few positions and actually promised to govern as the tough-on-crime mayor he claimed he'd be.

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Amazon Releases Trailer for Its New Woke Piece of Crap

Everything at Amazon under Jennifer Salke is about making movies and shows for woke women only. Sure, every once in a while they get the order to do something for male subscribers and green-light a Terminal List or Reacher, but all the rest of it is girl-power nonsense like Rangz of Power or Wheel of Time.

Men like action movies. Women do not. Every man can attest to this. We try to get our ladies to watch action movies -- they don't like them.

But leftwing feminist ideologues like Jennifer Salke want to condition men to see women as strong and powerful, so they take genres that appeal to men only and fill them with female girlboss characters. This is not done for entertainment or for profit; this is done strictly to achieve the feminist goal of making men comfortable with submitting to Stronk Empowered Women.

This is so annoying to me. Men do not attempt to interfere when, say, Hollywood remakes Little Women for the tenth time. We do not demand that men be given more prominent roles. We do not demand that the movie be filled with Diversity Casting to better Appeal to the Modern Audience.

We leave women alone to make what they want, and enjoy what they want.

But leftwing women will absolutely not leave men alone, ever. Our tastes and habits and even trivial entertainment preferences must always be shaped and molded to twisted to the contours demanded by ballbusting, controlling women.

Who is going to watch this? Seriously? Who is the audience for this?

All the fans of Viola Davis who were just champing at the bit to see her in another knockoff White House Down shoot-'em-up?

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Kristi Noem: We've Now Clawed Back the Illegal Payment of $59 Million to a Pakistan-Owned Hotel to House the Poor and Oppressed of Tren de Aragua

The media's new talking point is that Trump and Musk are presenting claims of fraud "without evidence."

No evidence at all!

Not only were we paying double the usual occupancy rates, but this hotel is literally owned by the government of Pakistan.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has successfully clawed back $59 million dollars in payments that were inappropriately sent to house illegal aliens at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City last week. The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan.

"Secretary Noem has clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels. FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley's killer. There will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people," DHS released in a statement Wednesday.

The FEMA employees who made the payments have been fired.

"Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants. Firings include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist," DHS released in a statement Tuesday. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people."

The media keeps demanding "evidence" that the Biden Remnant is spending money fraudulently. The Administration provides them with evidence, and they pretend they didn't see it.

I mean that literally. The Democrats brought a blind man connected with an "NGO" who says he doesn't see any fraud, none at all.

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Pete Hegseth Announces That Manliness Is Permissible Again in the US Armed Forces

Pete Hegseth got up at 5am yesterday to do a little PT with the troops under his command.

Sean Spicer noted that Hegseth and Trump maybe want to draw a comparison between Hegseth and the "last two Secretaries of Defense" who "could not pass a physical."

Indeed:

In addition to the great policy, the Trump Administration is pitch-perfect on imagery, stagecraft, and messaging. Trump is also pushing a much more positive message than I've seen from him. Yes, absolutely, he continues to savagely criticize the corrupt left. But the balancing message about what we affirmatively believe in is much stronger than in his first term or the campaign.

Doing calisthenics and deadlifts with the troops might not be a policy statement per se, but it certainly sends a strong message about what the military's priorities are now.

Personnel is policy. They're advertising to bring in the right people, who will bring in their own warrior-culture policies with them.

One might even say, without irony, "America is back, baby."

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Trump: I Spoke With Putin and We Agreed to Begin Peace Negotiations Immediately

Pete Hegseth announced some of the parameters for a treaty. The US would agree that Ukraine will never join NATO, and the idea of Ukraine getting all of its former territory back is unrealistic. I don't think that even the Ukrainian Vassals in the Biden Administration ever claimed they'd fight to restore all of the former Ukrainian territory, so that part isn't exactly new. It's just recognizing reality.

More of Hegseth's speech:

Lord Bebo
@MyLordBebo

FULL SPEECH: The US secretary of defense Hegseth says:

- The Bloodbath Must End

- Returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic goal and pursuing this false goal will only increase suffering

- The US does not believe that Ukraine's membership in NATO is a realistic outcome of the upcoming negotiations

- If there are any peacekeepers in Ukraine, it will not be under the auspices of NATO and not in accordance with Article 5 of the Charter

- US troops will not go to Ukraine, US military presence cannot be part of security guarantees

- It is Europe that should provide Ukraine with more military aid

- 2% is not enough, Trump calls on Europe to increase military spending to 5% of GDP

- The US is facing threats to its own borders and will focus on protecting them

- Communist China is a threat to US borders and US prioritizes such threats

- The US will no longer tolerate NATO's unequal defense policies that create dependency

Update:

Got willowed, but here it is - this Friday in Munich JD Vance and Rubio will lead a conference to end war in ukraine.

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Cygnus Poll: Trump Has 42% Approval... From Black Men

The headline says this "dooms" the Democrats, which seems accurate.

President Donald Trump has Democrats on the ropes with his surging support from African Americans, prompting a poll to declare that "black men love Trump."

In a new Cygnal survey shared with Secrets, Trump has a shocking 42% approval rating from black men, a massive edge over any past Republican president.

Brock McCleary, Cygnal vice president of polling, told Secrets, "Forty-two percent of black men approving of Trump's job so far is no small thing. Unlike Democrats' approach previously, this isn't about placation or offering new attractive policies with no follow-through. His popularity and approval surges because he does the things he says he'll do -- and that's a breath of fresh air for everyone."

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In his elections, he has picked up slightly more black voter support than other Republicans, but since 2020, his support has soared as Democrats have turned uber-liberal on social issues.

That led the Cygnal analysis of its monthly survey to declare, "Black Men Love Trump. The political realignment from November appears to be accelerating as Trump continues to make inroads with historically Dem-leaning constituencies. 42% of black men approve of the job Trump's doing, and 4-in-10 have a favorable opinion of him."

The results match other recent polls, including a John Zogby Strategies survey featured in Secrets that showed the so-called Obama coalition swinging behind Trump.

That isn't the only core group of the Democrat coalition that's abandoning the Marxist party. The CBS poll showing Trump with 53% job approval also showed young voters swinging to Trump.

Voters 18-29 approve of Trump by ten full points, 55% to 45%. This is Trump's second-best age cohort, after only (buffs nails) Gen X, which supports Trump 56% to 44%. Even the Millennials support Trump 52% to 48%.

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Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence

Great news!

One down, two to go!

It was a vote of 52-48 -- Mitch McConnell was the only "Republican" to cross over and join with his allies the Democrats.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

How much, and where?

Big news yesterday about cuts to the Department of Education amounting to around $880 million, with around $100 million of that specifically being cut from DEI-type programs. No matter who you are, that is a lot of money and I am glad to see it get sliced out. It does make me wonder, however, just how much money it actually is. With numbers this large, it is usually easier to understand it by looking at it in its own context.

So how much is $880 million, to the Department of Education? It should be a lot, because Ed shouldn't exist at all, but is it? Per the Department's FY2025 budget proposal as put forward by the Biden administration, I guess the answer is, "kinda." We don't do "budgets" anymore, of course, but we do at least pretend to track spending and per the linked document, the 2024 appropriations amounted to $79.6 billion, with Biden asking for $2.9 billion more for this fiscal year. Yesterday's cuts represent 1.1% of the 2024 appropriation.

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