Fox News passes this one on;
CHOPPING BLOCK: The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, an 18-story tower that was recently named after the former speaker, sits in an area of San Francisco that has been for years plagued by open-air drug dealing, illegal markets reselling stolen goods and other crime. And now, the Trump administration could sell it off.
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Sarah Hoyt has a long form of today that is definitely worth your time to read. Here:
And yes, I do get that almost all of us either have a job in the periphery of the government or have someone close to us who does and whose jobs are now in jeopardy, and people need to live, feed the kids, pay mortgage, and no matter how much they want to cut government, a lot of people are panicking.
The extent of the upheaval, how far cutting government affects everything? That’s the problem. Right there. The government has been swallowing the nation. And the government doesn’t generate wealth, regardless of what the left thinks. It only consumes it.
We HAVE to cut government, because otherwise the nation is going to collapse.
True.
Any change is going to make us wonder if we’re going down the right path. Second guessing ourselves and our situations is how we survive in large part.
And yes, there’s a large amount of change going on. But she’s right, scary as it is, it’s got to be done.
But I responded in the comment section over there…
And that’s one of the reasons why the left is essentially losing its
$#!+ over Trump. That’s why even some of his supporters are looking
agape at the situation.
Some would call it shock and awe.I’ve said for years… And taken as something of an axiom… that one of the
worst things you can do to a politician…(And face it gang if you’re actually reading this you’re probably heavily involved in politics to begin with)… is actually solve a problem because the moment you do that they lose the ability to demagogue the situation.In reality that’s only half the story. To varying degrees, we, all of us, tend toward the
status quo, the calm harbor, the quiet secret places. That is precisely
why they get away with the demagoguery. Actual change instead of simply
talking about it can be nerve-racking by comparison.
And this editorial cartoon explains it rather well…
The tactic of shock and awe, is exactly the way to proceed here. I think Trump’s got that one right. Keep the left on their back foot and unable to substantively respond… Unable to stop the movement. That’s where we find ourselves now.
Oh, you will see I’m sure the number of people on social media going absolutely nuts at volume 11… Breathless, fake outrage. Otherwise known as butthurt.
In reality it’s all they’ve got.
So, to put it in the same vein as Sarah does, relax for a while. Certainly continue to respond to what you see but understand we’re in a lot better shape as a movement and as a country then we’ve been in a long, long time.
* How oddly amusing to see the protests condemning ‘billionaires’ being involved in politics when they didn’t have any problem with billionaires like Soros, Zuckerberg, Oprah, Swift, Bill Gates, and all the rest piling their money and influence into leftist politics, or for that matter acting as a quasi government. Those people get a pass and Musk doesn’t?
* Imagine a group of people so corrupt that they try to use the power of government to convince you that accountability is illegal.
* I can remember a time in my life when we had so much in the way of eggs and toilet paper, that every Halloween we used to throw them at neighbor’s houses.
*Somebody obviously put some butter on the top of that plane that overturned at Pearson. Everybody knows that things will land on the floor butter side down. Maybe we could put cats underneath the plane. They always land on their feet, after all.
*And did you see the footage of that landing? Did you notice the Democrats screaming that Trump was responsible for the crash because of insufficient ATC First of all, and regardless of what else occurred, ATC didn’t have anything to do with it and anyone who’s seen that footage will tell you that.
In case you haven’t,. Here you are…
Secondly, Pearson international is in Canada. They aren’t the 51st state yet.
*Can anybody point out to me another nation that taxes it’s citizens upwards of 65% when all levels of government are considered, (including what businesses pay and pass on to the consumer as a cost of doing business), and then takes all that money and ships it all to other countries?
* The number of 150 year olds still receiving social security checks, (and a goodly number of them are still being cashed, by the way), is a serious problem. But would it be out of line for me to wonder whether or not they’re still voting?
*Speaking of 150-year-olds, I see where Mitch McConnell is announced that he’s not going to be running for re-election. It’s no secret that Cocaine Mitch is getting a little long in the tooth at 83. And being an establishment critter makes him about as popular as chlamydia at a swingers club. So no secret why he’s now planning to retire. I can’t help but wonder if his health problems which of course everybody has at that age will overcome him before he gets to the end of his term.
Found elsewhere:
Checkmate.
A lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump’s DOGE Executive Order and, expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out Trump and Musk didn’t create anything. Obama did.
Obama created United States Digital Service (USDS) in 2014. It was meant as a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown.
Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it DOGE (United States DOGE Service). Keeps the acronym, keeps the funding, but gives it a whole new mission: Find the Receipts
Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities. DOGE teams get embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, HR rep, a zoomer nerd, and an investigator. They report to DOGE, not the agency they’re embedded in.
But wait, there’s more! Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cybersecurity oversight. Since USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, that’s right. All of them.
His executive order is written to block legal challenges. Includes language that overrides conflicting executive orders. Orders every agency to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority.
Congress can’t defund it because it’s not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can’t sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because DOGE operates within existing frameworks.
Obama literally built the perfect Administrative (read: Deep State) IT backdoor.
Trump and Musk just hacked the system and took the admin controls. Musk now has legal oversight of every major agency’s internal systems. The Administrative State can’t stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws.
They legally outplayed the system and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Obama created DOGE.
Checkmate.
Watch this video right away and you’ll thank me later on https://buff.ly/3SwWX4d
You know maybe we ought to be paying attention to this
Well said:
“If the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people. Then we live in a bureaucracy, not a democracy.” -Musk
And here’s the thing, that’s exactly what we’ve got going on right now. The bureaucracy, the deep state if you will, is scrambling, desperately trying to maintain its power, in spite of the will of the people, so clearly expressed in the most recent election.
There is a point at which this ridiculous defense of the indefensible becomes evil to say the least and certainly criminal.
That line has been crossed.
If a so-called non-government organization or NGO shuts down, Simply because it cannot survive without government funding, it never was a non-government organization… Rather, it is simply one operating outside public view and the legal restrictions normally placed on governmental organizations. The better name perhaps would be AstroTurf.
* The entire purpose of government education is to keep people uneducated. Think I’m kidding? When Jimmy Carter created the Federal department of education we were first in education around the world. We are now 25th.
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* Those of you still thinking that Trump is a Nazi dictator, when’s the last time you heard of a Nazi or a dictator of any kind for that matter who wanted to reduce the power of government, and then went about doing it? For the slow people in the back row, that means reducing the power of government does not make you a fascist.
* If you want proof that the whole electric car scene was nothing more than political correctness writ large, witness the number of people who are dumping the Teslas that just a short while they were so proud of, because Elon Musk is helping to reduce the power of government. Obviously, political power is more important than the electric car ploy.
* Hey, federal workers ….I wouldn’t be too worried about being unemployed. There’s large numbers of jobs opening up that until recently were occupied by people who have since been deported. Or maybe you could learn to code. There’s all kinds of possibilities out here in the real world.
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*Name for me one Democrat who has cheered for the elimination of fraud in the federal budget. For that matter, name for me one Democrat who has successfully laid the claim that there is no fraud in the federal budget. Nobody has claimed that musk and his team are lying.
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If you don’t pay attention and just believe the MSM, you might actually think Trump started this “trade war”. You would be very very wrong…
Here are just a few of the tariffs Canada has on the U.S. long before Trump 45 or 47
Dairy Products:
Milk: 270%
Cheese: 245%
Butter: 298%
Other Agricultural Products:
Chicken: 238%
Sausages: 69.9%
Barley seed: 57-57.8%
Industrial Goods:
Copper: 48%
Aluminum: 45%
Steel: 25%
Consumer Goods:
Cars: 45%
TVs: 45%
Eggs: 163%
Wheat: 94%
Bovine/Meat: 26.5%
Source : Global Affairs Canada
If there really is an ally in a so called trade war, Canada started it. Most Canadian businesses are taxed heavily by the government and couldn’t survive without imposing tariffs on the USA. This is the price of socio-communism.
Just a few thoughts as I passed through the day.
* The proper description for sugar-free vegan brownies is “compost”.
* You know, if I’d spent the last number of years getting kickbacks through various government organizations and NGOs, I probably wouldn’t like audits happening either.
*One of the reasons I might not like that happening is because for all of the screaming about Donald Trump supposedly being a felon, guess what, gang? A lot of the people that have been taking these kickbacks and ripping off the American taxpayer for generations now are also going to be felons.
Meanwhile public approval is widening. Rasmussen is reporting:
55% of American voters approve of Elon Musk running DOGE, 45% disapprove… a net approval of +10 –
Let’s hope that the Democrats with their hands in the cookie jar are actually charged with felonies. Simply exposing the crime doesn’t matter without punishment to back it up.
* Whatever happened to the people that prior to the election we’re telling us that Trump would never share the limelight with anybody? He’d never bring in people like Kennedy for example cuz he wanted to be the standalone star? There isn’t a president in my lifetime who has done a better job of distributing responsibility and credit.
I see even a large number of the left raising this question. That alone tells me that what Elon Musk and his team are doing is a fabulous thing. Even the most militant of the limit the government people are shocked at just how bad it’s got
But there’s a basic idea that the hard-boiled left will never allow itself to understand, and here it is:
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.
The sharper among you will know where that quote comes from, without having to search engine the thing.
This is precisely why the founders believed, and rightly, that government should be limited. It was Thomas Jefferson that observed that the natural state of government is growth. That’s something that he strenuously advised against, saying that the federal government should be limited both in scope and in power.
I firmly believe that Jefferson would have been horrified and yet not surprised just how far outside the constitutional box our federal government has gotten and how much abuse draft and waste has been baked into the cake these last many years. Horrified, but perhaps not surprised.
The socialist left has been saying for generations now that we could solve all of our problems as a nation by forcing the rich to pay more in taxes.
Well, I guess that we are supposed to forget that they already pay more than anybody else. I have been responding for many years by pointing out that we don’t have a problem of not collecting enough taxes, we have a problem of too much spending. Way too much.
I must say that I take a certain level of satisfaction these days adding that the stuff that Elon Musk and his team at dug up even just what they’ve dug up so far more than bears that statement out.
I would further suggest that the reason that the left is so annoyed with Elon Musk listening the fraud and abuse that’s been going on for generations now is because they and their policies are the fraud and abuse that he’s pointing out.
I’ll even go a step further than that. One of the complaints the left has been leveling is that he’s using computer geeks as opposed to accountants. I have a couple responses to this.
Given the number of things that they’ve already dug up which the left is now forced to defend, thus forcing them into the position of defending the indefensible, do they really think that actual accountants will come up with results that are more favorable for the left? I think we both know better than that.
Another thing about the supposed youth have been experience of his team. These people know computers inside outside and backwards. I’ve got an extensive history and the it divisions of a major Bank. I can tell you that I know a very few 7 year olds that can’t out operate their parents on today’s technology.
Put these lame arguments in the end are product of the left desperation. Then again I guess if I had a seemingly unlimited amount of funding to do with it whatever I felt like doing, whatever I felt I could get away with, I guess I’d be pretty desperate too if that funding suddenly got cut off, particularly if there were criminal connotations to obtaining that funding… As it turns out there is.
In case you’re having trouble keeping up, here’s a summary . . .
Trump: I am cutting wasteful spending by our Government.
Democrats: IMPEACH HIM! We told you that Trump would be a dictator on day 1!!
Elon: We are $36 Trillion in debt, let’s find ways to cut Government spending.
Democrats: NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON MUSK!
RFK Jr.: I want to make America Healthy Again!
Democrats: WHAT!?! Noooo!!! You can’t do that!!
Trump: I will be putting a 25% Tariff on Mexico and Canada for refusing to work with America to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs coming into our Country.
Democrats: WTF!! Americans will now have to pay higher prices for Avocados and Coronas.
Tulsi: We should discuss the U.S. DoD funded bio labs in Ukraine.
Democrats: OH!! HELL NO! Tulsi is Putin’s puppet!!
Trump: I am deporting criminals who are in our Country illegally.
Democrats: Ummm?!?! Who will pick our crops????
RFK Jr.: I want to put an end to the rise of Chronic Diseases in children.
Democrats: Hey, dummy…that is literally Big Pharma’s job!!
Trump: We should look into ending all Incomes taxes on tips, overtime and social security.
Democrats: WTF!! What about egg prices?!?
Elon: We should investigate how members of Congress making low end 6-figure salaries become multi-millionaires.
Democrats: PANIC!! Billionaire Musk will have access to your home address and social security number!
Hegseth: We shouldn’t spend billions protecting foreign borders, while completely ignoring our own.
Democrats: WHAT ABOUT EGG PRICES?!?
RFK Jr.: We need to ban toxic dyes and bring awareness to the negative impacts on Fluoride in our water.
Democrats: SOMEONE, STOP HIM!! He is a crazy conspiracy theorist!!!
Trump: I am protecting women’s sports by signing an Executive Order to ban biological males from biological female’s sports.
Democrats: HORRIBLE!!! Only evil people would do such awful things to transgender women!!!
Elon: Should we audit the IRS next?
Democrats: The Rocket Scientist is, like, the dumbest billionaire, like, ever!
When you are defending the indefensible, nonsense is what comes out of your mouth. Clearly that’s what’s happening here.
