Probably* the most important cabinet position this time around and the one the deep state worked hard to stop.
*perhaps Hegseth at defense is slightly ahead in importance. Perhaps.
Update:
Update Dos:
FBI Director Patel Orders 1,500 Agents and Staff OUT OF THE BUILDING
Update Trois:
Big news IMO, Dan Bongino is the new Deputy Director of the FBI
Those that know Bongino know that he is a no holds barred American. Trump is a serious man.
Kash Patel Wingman – Dan Bongino
Talk about draining the Swamp, another thing Trump appears to have learned is that there’s more than one way to skin that particular cat.
With President Trump and his DOGE team slashing government waste, and with massive layoffs and firings of government workers, a glut of real estate is coming to market in the DC metro area.
If you’ve ever been house hunting, there is a good chance you’ve been to realtor.com to take a look at listings. The “Map” button at top right will show the listings on a map of the area you are searching. You will typically see three types of listings:
1) Existing listings, which have the price in a white bubble. These generally constitute most of the listings.
2) “New” listings, which have the price listed in a bubble, along with a blue header that states “New.”
3) “Coming Soon” listings, which also have the price in a bubble, and also a green header that states “Coming Soon.” These usually make up a very small percentage of the listings.
Based on all the “New” and “Coming Soon” listings for the DC Metro area right now, there is a mass exodus taking shape.
Throckmorton has screen grabs of said listings, which are sure to warm the cockles of every MAGA heart. Bonus points to anyone who can enlighten us in the comments section as to exactly WTAF a “cockle” is. As many times as we’ve all used the phrase over the years, can’t honestly say I’ve ever known for sure myself, nor cared enough to look it up.
I must say I was kinda surprised to read Steyn’s take on all this. It wasn’t quite what I would’ve expected from him, although perhaps I should’ve.
I rejoice in the confirmation of RFK Jr as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (no thanks to longtime Chinese asset Mitch McConnell). “Make America Healthy Again” is the indispensable component of “Make America Great Again” – because the most obvious sign of what’s gone wrong in the country is to take a walk down any main street. No one would bet the future on a country that has debauched its human capital the way the United States has.
As Bobby Kennedy pointed out on The Mark Steyn Show, Americans are the most medicated people on the planet and are the unhealthiest in the developed world; in particular, as RFK also noted on our show, our children are the world’s most medicated children, and have accelerating rates of childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, childhood heart disease. A grade-school diagnosis of diabetes can take up to two decades off your lifespan.
So what’s the answer? Further enriching Blue Cross-Blue Shield? Americans pay more for health care than anybody else, and have lousier outcomes, starting with the most basic indicator of all – life expectancy: According to the UN, from the Swiss to the Australians, the list of peoples that enjoy an extra half-decade of life over Americans lengthens year on year. In the 2023 UN rankings, the United States comes in at Number Fifty-Five on the life-expectancy Hit Parade; for purposes of comparison, Albania – where the men smoke seventy a day and accessing the health-care system requires swimming to Italy – is at Fifty-Three. By 2022 America’s annual spending on health care was twelve-and-a-half grand per capita; Albania’s was under five hundred bucks – which is less than your co-pay on a Covid anal swab; the word “co-pay” does not exist in Albanian.
Four years ago, we first had RFK Jr on the show mainly because no one else wants to talk about this. If you’re wondering why, it’s because his late friend Roger Ailes, of Fox News, told him that in non-election years three-quarters of Fox’s ad revenue comes from Big Pharma.
Five years ago, the state and the pharmaceutical companies joined forces for an unprecedented experiment on you – to damage almost every aspect of daily life, including even more damage to a generation of children. There has yet to be an accounting for that.
And THAT’s what really stings about this, at least for me. Although admittedly, the only way We The Peepul will ever get an accounting is to r’are up on our hind legs at long, long last and demand one. Not “request” one; not ask politely for one; not hold a referendum and vote on whether or not we’d like to have one at some later, unspecified date; but straight-up remind our “public servants” of their proper place in the grand scheme of things, get ‘em skeered and keep the skeer on ‘em, and inform them in no uncertain terms that there is by God going to be one, or we’re gonna damned well know the reason why not. T’was ever thus, ain’t nothing whatsoever new.
More, and even worserer:
I was also glad to see, in the above clip, RFK trash USAid, which was after all founded by his uncle. As noted earlier this week, it’s now a near parodic example of the racket that the federal government has made of everything it touches. According to the above-mentioned Daily Telegraph, Trump has only been in office for three weeks but he’s already killing grannies:
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital.
This story is by Sarah Newey, the Telegraph’s “Global Health Security Correspondent” in Bangkok. In my day, the Telegraph didn’t have a “Global Health Security Correspondent” in Bangkok or anywhere else. It’s not funded by USAid, is it?
Oxygen isn’t really that expensive. A member of the Steyn team required it at an event in Colorado a couple of years back. It certainly isn’t that expensive if you’re the “International Rescue Committee” and have revenues of over a billion dollars per annum. Of course, like everyone else on the take from USAid, the International Rescue Committee pisses away a lot of its dough. It pays its president, David Milliband, over a million bucks a year. No, not Ed Milliband, the talentless prat who serves as His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Net Zero. This is his brother, David, the talentless prat who was British Foreign Secretary back in the Gordon Brown era and parlayed that into a seven-figure salary with this IRC racket. As I always say, the “non-profits” are where the big bucks are.
The racket goes on. Uniparty warmonger Victoria Nuland was last heard of on The Mark Steyn Show warning that the zillions of US-funded biolabs in Ukraine could easily fall into Russian hands. Why are American taxpayers outsourcing gain-of-function to Kharkiv and Odessa? Well, they’re world-renowned experts in developing a new strain of monkeypox with fewer homophobic overtones…
The good news is that the all-war-all-the-time queen, who’s even more bloodsoaked than David Milliband, has just been appointed to the board of the “National Endowment for Democracy”. Ms Nuland is an expert in democracy, having ended it in Ukraine. “NED” was founded back in the Eighties, at taxpayer expense, to “export the American way of governance” – so that every nation may enjoy the blessings of paying former foreign parliamentarians a seven-figure salary to kill l’il ol’ ladies.
That’s the point. Whether you’re a Thai gran’ma, a Ukrainian infantryman or a New Hampshire grade-schooler, Nuland-Milliband-Big Pharma government is killing you. I wish RFK and the other Trump 47-iconoclasts all the best.
As should we all, whether we find Trump’s personal swashbuckling, over the top style grating or not.
It’s Glorious! Mexico already blinking and promising to put 10,000 soldiers on the border… USAID being shut down, dismantled… The US Treasury has been taken over by MAGA… Office of Personnel Management has sofa beds installed so MAGA people can control it around the clock… It’s hard to keep up! President Trump spent his first term learning how bad it really was, who the bad and good people are, where the bodies lie and where new ones need to be placed. The 2nd Term is the chainsaw as the MAGA team is dismantling the deep state piece by marxist piece in a short period of time. President Trump is treating the enemies of America ruthlessly.
Hat Tip – you should be reading
Update:
It is my belief that the President’s men have uncovered all the evidence implicating certain republicans in illegal activities, and they now have the upper hand in controlling the corrupt bastards.
President Trump is Winning – CNN
2News from today, the marxist left is on its heels, and all we need is for the republican party to work with Trump instead of against Trump. Do that and we set the commies back 20-50 years.
It’s a glorious day every day!
Trump orders all federal employee’s to delete their pronouns from email:
Abortion related DOD travel expenses nixed:
Members of Wray’s FBI told to “retire, resign, or face termination by Monday ” https://thelibertydaily.com/members-christopher-wrays-fbi-leadership-posse-told-retire/
Team Trump treating the press as Propagandist’s:
Trump threatens 100% tariffs on “BRICS” countries: https://www.wnd.com/2025/01/trump-threatens-100-percent-tariffs-on-brics-counties/
Trump replaces DIE hiring with merit based hiring at the FAA:
Trump to fire tons of FBI agents by end of the day: https://therightscoop.com/breaking-president-trump-to-fire-tons-of-fbi-agents-by-the-end-of-the-day/
Trump will absolutely impose tariffs on the EU: https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/01/31/breaking-trump-says-he-will-absolutely-impose-tariffs-on-european-union/
Do not misunderstand the depth of the real enemy. The GOPe stood in the way of the Trump American agenda in the first term. The GOPe were part and parcel to the covid scam to STOP TRUMP. The GOPe outright enabled the election theft that took place in 2020, the coup that occurred. Americans supported Trump in 2024 and helped the Trump wing to take over the party functions and stop the steal in 2024.
The battle was won, but the war continues. Every republican supporter must tell the GOP – support the president across the board or you will be replaced. No donations from small or large supporters until you fully support the American agenda of President Trump.
Never forget, the same people that refuse to support Trump nominations approved of the dress wearing transvestites serving the biden cabal. A price must be paid by those opposing the president.
Republican Sabotage Of Trump’s Bold Cabinet Picks Subverts The Will Of Those Who Voted For Him
This is a
. Trillions of dollars of your money is wasted on programs that are nothing more than communist enabling wealth transfers from your pocket to the pockets of others with very little of the wealth even benefitting the supposed recipients of such aid. What it actually does is enslave the supposed recipients to government funding, make real Americans poorer as a result of the government theft, and enrich the supporters of communist government policy.
Trump administration freezes federal aid outside of Social Security and Medicare
Hat Tip: Liberty Daily
The first headline was about Trump striking back against the marxist president of Colombia for refusing the planeloads of illegals being deported. Two hours later the marxist president of Colombia is offering to send his plane to pick them up.
UPDATE:
The marxist president of Colombia is obviously insane –
Wacky Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro Issues an Incredibly Bizarre Response to President Trump While Threatening Retaliation
You Must Kill Him.
The deep state tried to kill Trump, THAT is CLEAR. They failed because they wanted it to look like some mental case did it. Of course we know it was their mental case.
This is this weeks list of deeps state purges being carried out by President Trump. If you read nothing else read this, and then thank Americans for never giving up on Trump and Trump on not giving up on America.
BOOM! How President Trump is exploiting a loop-hole to enact IMMEDIATE purge of deep state at DOJ
After reading that, start paying attention to those that have told you Trump was part of the deep state, that told you Trump couldn’t win the election, that told you Trump made too many mistakes, that told you Trump didn’t live up to his promises, that Trump was really a democrat… Remember them well, because they are your enemy, they are traitors.
Jan 22:
Trump Ends the 1965 Executive Order From Lyndon Johnson That Began Affirmative Action in the Government
Trump Revokes Biden-Era Order That Allows Trannies to Serve in the Military
Good Bye White House Gun Control Office: We’ll Never Miss Ya!
State Department Implements “One Flag Policy,” Meaning No More Pervert Pride or BLM Flags Flown at U.S. Facilities
One of America’s Largest Automakers Announces New Investments After Meeting With Trump
President Trump Orders Closure of All DIE Offices by End of Day
On Day 2 of Trump Administration, Homeland Security Reinstates Remain in Mexico Policy
Trump’s Moratorium on Offshore Wind Development Gives Wind Industry’s Opponents in Blue States Hope
Trump Announces “Project Stargate”, a $500 Billion A.I. Infrastructure Investment With OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank
President Trump Grants a Full Pardon to Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
Trump Halts Refugee Influx for at Least Four Months
Trump to Visit North Carolina: NC Has Been ‘Abandoned by the Democrats’
HAT TIP: https://thelibertydaily.com/
President Trump Orders a Hiring Freeze on the IRS
Bye Bye DIE: Elon Musk and DOGE Begin Cuts, Starting With the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council
Trump Stops Foreign Aid for 90 Days Pending Review
Trump Administration Removes Coast Guard Commandant
On the Fly, Trump Orders Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to Get to the Bottom of the Mystery Drones
Trump to Reinstate All Service Members Who Were “Unjustly Expelled” for Refusing Covid “Vaccines” With “Full Back Pay”
Sick of Oppressive and Ugly Architecture, Trump Starts the Ball Rolling On Beautifying Federal Buildings
The Gulf of Mexico Wasn’t the Only Landmark President Trump Renamed on Day One
Trump Pardons or Commutes Sentences for ALL J6 Political Prisoners
Trump Warns of Possible Military Action Against Cartels in Mexico
Trump Withdrawing U.S. From Globalist World Health Organization
The Purge of the Top Brass in the Military Has Begun
Trump Set to Invoke ‘Alien Enemies Act’ to Deal With Border Invasion, Drug Cartels
Links here:
The Liberty Daily
The long national nightmare is over for the political prisoners in the DC Gulag.
Day 1, within a few hours of swearing in, President Trump pardons almost every one and commutes the sentences of 14 pending further investigation that may result in full pardons.
It has been a full day’s work and tomorrow I expect the world will be a much better place.
And it appears to have risen. California burns, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas lead the way:
Southern states dominate top business rankings
And today, at noon, the rest of the country will get a leader to help them catch up.
I’m with John Ringo.
Unpopular take:
I really don’t give a shit how many people lose homes or die in CA wildfires.
90% voted for it.
I’ll care when they start prioritizing competence and not all the rest of the commie shit.
Until then, I don’t care.
Eat of it.
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508)
Eat of it indeed. Via Ragin’ Dave, who adds:
Just for the record, I agree with this 100%. I do not care how many people lose homes in Los Angeles. Especially in Pacific Palisades, or Malibu, or Santa Monica. Because I’ve lived in LA, I’ve been to those areas, and I know without a single doubt that damn near every single person living there, with a few exceptions here and there, voted for Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. They voted for the people who defunded the fire department. They voted for the people who fired the firefighters who refused to get the jab. They voted for the governor and his cronies who refused to fill the reservoirs. They voted for DEI instead of competence, they voted for Marxism instead of something that actually works, they voted for all of this. They voted for the regulations that prevented the fire base from being cut back. They voted for the empty fire hydrants.
They voted for everything that is now afflicting them.
Yep, that’s about the size of it. Read the rest. I say again: some of us live and learn. Others just live, and never learn.
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3Perhaps. Then again, perhaps not.
Lest any of us get to feeling smug from the cozy “couldn’t happen here” cope, may I remind you that, for the last five-six decades at least, the FUSA has tended to lag no more than five to ten years behind the Mother Country in such matters. As Bracken says, this is but the force-assembly phase of a thousand-year campaign of civilizational conquest and subjugation the decadent West can’t be arsed to concern itself about nowadays, much less prevent, still less reverse.
In the course of re-skimming through some of my favorite speculative-fiction works over lo, the past year or thereabouts—Peter Hamilton in particular, although there are others—I’ve noticed a thing that amuses me greatly. Namely, the unfounded assumption that Once-Great Britain will somehow project the cultural dominance it enjoyed several hundred years ago across the spacefaring worlds of the 30th-31st-32nd Century and beyond. Offhand references to obscure London neighborhoods, linguistic tics, architectural styles, even such prosaic artifacts as steak and kidney pie, bangers & mash, and baked beans for breakfast (?!?) get tossed around liberally, betraying the quaint, vanity-inspired notion that anybody in the far-distant future will even know what those things are…or, y’know, were.
For the matter of it, many of them are barely even remembered in present-day Londonistan, let alone Proxima Centauri in 3426; already, they are no longer traditions to be cherished and preserved, but irrelevant antiquities to be discarded. Will cookies still be known far and wide as “biscuits”? Will a yobbo still be a yobbo, a wog still a wog, a Frenchman still a Frog?
More to the point: will a Moslem-overrun England be capable of engineering and developing a wormhole drive, FTL communications, colony arkships, artificial-gravity generators? Will the Abdul-Abdel-Abdullahs, Saddiqs, and Achmeds in charge of the New British Caliphate be at all interested in undertaking such ambitious, multi-generational projects?
Not bloody likely, mate.
Not to beat up too much on Hamilton and his confreres, mind. Hey, nobody gets everything right every time; foresighted as he was, even Heinlein never saw touch screens coming, and his futuristic computer gizmos printed their output on actual paper, ferchrissakes—a long, laborious process which usually took not just hours but days. Also, Heinlein’s transtellar-flight helmsmen operated their ships’ version of “warp drive” via clunky levers, knobs, and pushbuttons; his navigators (astrogators?) plotted their course not with a holographic projection or main-viewscreen star chart, but boring old No 2 pencil and paper.
No energy weapons; no personal force-fields; no magnetized grav-boots for use in micro-gee environments or EVA. No antimatter propulsion; no mass-to-energy converters; no inertial dampeners; no starships capable of atmospheric flight and/or landing. No malmetal, glassteel, or plascrete. Heinlein and his fellow visionaries came up with lots of cool stuff in their day, sure, but their vision didn’t extend quite that far.
Rule of thumb which ought to be remembered but is too often forgotten: just because even our finest minds can’t see it on the horizon doesn’t mean it ain’t coming all the same.
(Via WRSA)
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