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Thursday, February 13. 2025Thursday morning links Trump Slashing The Cancerous “The Science” Bloat: Cut Cut Cut! World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban - And user-friendly toilets, dishwashers, and showers are coming back soon, too! Bravo. Morning in America. Grocery Chains Ration Eggs After Mass Chicken Slaughter For Bird Flu “TRUMP VOWED TO BRING DOWN EGG PRICES, EGGS NOW AT RECORD HIGH.” A Kindergarten Teacher in California Breaks Her Silence on DEI A High Schooler Graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He Can’t Read His Diploma. Plus. . . FLASHBACK: In 2009 Chuck Schumer Defended ‘Porky’ Government Spending, Saying ‘The American People Really Don’t Care’ The USAID Scandal Continues to Unfold: It Gave Internews, A Climate Cult Enabler, $472 Million Vatican wades into U.S. politics prescribing USAID policy positions for President Trump VDH: How To Commit Democratic Party Suicide Trump’s Envoy Lets Loose on the Panama Canal and ‘Imminent’ Change in Cuba. Maurico Claver-Carone on the administration’s hemisphere-wide shakeup. Trump Speaks to Putin, Zelensky to Start Negotiations to End War - Trump assigned VP JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to lead the negotiating delegation. Microsoft Drops USAID-Funded NewsGuard After Ted Cruz Starts Digging How USAID Funded Hamas - Government dollars flowed to the infamous terror group, watchdogs found. Washington Monthly: Trump and Musk want to destroy government careers Kill the Federal Department of Education. We could decentralize education, improve outcomes, and help reduce the size of the federal Leviathan. Why Does the Dept of Ed Need to Spend Almost $1B on “Research” ? Education is not a science, it's a practice. Trump’s ‘Revolution Of Common Sense’ Brings Out The Worst In Democrats The Trump Revolution: DC Will Never Be the Same. The magnitude of the president’s disruptive reform is hard to fathom Trackbacks
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Everything you see opposing USAID and DOGE's actions in general is absolute proof that Trump and Musk are right. All of the hysteria and tantrums are nothing more than the grifters angry that Trump is ending the grift. Every well know person, leaders, politicians, NGO organizers, etc.; all of them were the grifters profiting either directly or indirectly from USAID and other government departments. The entire DC cartel is corrupt and all the sturm and drang is an attempt to restore the endless flow of tax payer money into thousands of politicians pockets and even anti-American groups.
A deeper audit is needed. How much of this money was used to pay for the 25 million fake Democrat votes in 2020? How many of the thousands of SS recipients over age 120 voted for Biden? The corruption runs deep and we need to expose it all. re World Becomes Brighter as Trump Reverses Biden’s Incandescent Light Bulb Ban
I'll believe it when the products hit the shelves. re The Trump Revolution: DC Will Never Be the Same.
It has only been 3 weeks. I have yet to see any permanent damage inflicted on the Deep State. Me thinks the writers of pieces like this are living in a state of euphoria. While the news has been good so far, it's way too early to be euphoric. Agreed. But the first step in solving a problem is to recognize that you have a problem.
I rather enjoyed Samantha Powers being publicly stripped of the USAID grift and questioned on how her personal financial condition dramatically improved during the Biden admin.
Also enjoyed Lindsay Graham telling Samantha to "quit testing me". It gets better on a daily basis. I do appreciate all the articles on education. It is rotted to its core. Quit funding the institutions... fund the student. And the college/universities should be treated like common hookers. Pay for performance... not for overpriced pimps. When you think about the phrase "Saturday Night Massacre" being used to describe a series of two resignations and one firing in the Nixon Administration, hoo-boy, what words are left to describe (by comparison) but a single day so far of T47, much less all of them? Even granted that "SNM" was ridiculous hyperbole. The hits just keep comin'!
There was a 10 year study of what worked the best to educate children called Project Follow Through. They already know what works but the Education mafia doesn't want to follow it because teachers don't want to do it because they complain it's boring.
It also means they have to properly teach the subjects and ensuring their pupils are learning same instead of the "feel good" graft they're spewing out now.
BD and crew, Thank you for all the wonderful Trump and TDS stories. If we are lucky Z's USAID funding has been cut off and he'll go away.
Another government department that needs to be fixed is the ATF. Awhile back their name was changed to include "explosives". So they are really the ATFE. But I think it has always been a mistake to have a federal agency controlling firearms. Congress can make laws regarding firearms just as they can make laws regarding any of our civil rights. But why the ATF??? So rename them the ATE (Alcohol, Tobacco and Explosives) and get them out of the business of political meddling in our civil rights. Please, Mr. President Trump, fix the ATF.
It should be a convenience store and not a government agency. Cash and carry for our convenience.
Eight Inspectors General Sue Administration After Being Fired, Trump Will Lose in Court
QUOTE: The suit cites federal laws that say presidents must give a 30-day notification to Congress and provide specific reasons for terminations of an inspector general. “I’d like further explanation from President Trump. Regardless, the 30-day detailed notice of removal that the law demands wasn’t provided to Congress,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee . . . Trump did not give notice nor explain the actions. Rather than go about this legally, Trump went about this illegally. That jeopardizes even a legitimate case for dismissal. Trump will lose in court, and then perhaps a second time because of the way he went about this. https://mishtalk.com/economics/eight-inspectors-general-sue-administration-after-being-fired-trump-will-lose-in-court/ Unless that is specified in the Constitution, it is likely an infringement on the executive branch of government.
Trump is not the first president to fire an IG right after taking office.
The Canadian government owned news media is spreading misinformation in an attempt to scare Canadians. A lot of Canadians only get their news from the Government news so they are believing it. It's funny but serious at the same time. The 51st state thing was a joke Trump played on Trudeau. The tariffs were two different types part of the tariffs on Canada was to force them to control their borders and enforce their own laws about drug labs. Not an unreasonable demand and easy for Canada to do so those tariffs can be removed.
The other tariffs are reciprocal tariffs. Interestingly these are the ones that Canada is fighting. The "reciprocal" means simply that Canada has tariffs and restrictions on American goods so Trump is reciprocating with tariffs on Canadian goods to force them to agree to fair trade. The problem is Canada is hurting. Inflation, uncontrolled housing costs, fewer jobs, social problems like drug use and homelessness, and of course their socialized healthcare are all costing the taxpayers more and more every year. Canadians are so overtaxed there just isn't room for high taxes but without higher taxes Canada is in trouble. So the left does what the left does and devolved to using their government run media to spread propaganda against the USA. It's almost as though the word reciprocal is not taught in Canadian schools. Canadians seem unaware that they have rather high tariffs on American goods and their media isn't going to help them learn this. So Trumps reciprocal tariffs are being touted almost as an act of war. "Reciprocal" not punishment. The Canadian government owned media is even scaring the "snowbirds", those retired Canadians who go South for the Winter. They are being told that America might close the border or worse. I can only assume the Canadian government media will continue doing this but to what end? what is the long term strategy in creating this anger and hate? Maybe when Trudeau is gone adults will be in charge. One can only hope. The high schools are now graduating illiterates' nationwide. I thought Baltimore was the only school system that did that. Apparently, all the teachers are now fighting to keep the kid's illiterate. Its so much easier than teaching them reading, writing and arithametic.
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