Taking America back, one step at a time
As Stephen says: it’s official, America is great again.
Carl’s Jr. Super Bowl ad brings back bikini-clad burger models after yearslong clampdown https://t.co/O85LRstFhY pic.twitter.com/37y3haRBLC
— New York Post (@nypost)
The absolute best fast-food burgers in the business, Hi-C orange, plus TITTIES! I ask you, what’s not to like here?
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/
He speaks nothing but the plain and simple truth, time after time after time, and it drives The Enemy into raging, frothy-mouthed frenzy. Predictable as the sunrise, sure, but it’s still just funny as all git-out.
Mere days into the job, Pete Hegseth has already impressed me as Secretary of Defense.
Under the Biden administration, wokeness was prioritized over military readiness, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s remarks concerning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) signal a refreshing shift back to meritocracy, unity, and lethality in our military. During his appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” he was asked about the changes being made in the Department of Defense.
“What’s happening with DEI?” asked Watters. “How’s that going at the Defense Department?”
Hegseth was unapologetic: “DEI is not going well at the Defense Department because it’s dead.”
Boom! After years of DEI initiatives weakening our military, the current administration has finally taken decisive action to shut it down, refocusing the armed forces on their core mission: strength, readiness, and defense.
Perhaps one of the most striking elements of Hegseth’s statement, however, was his sharp critique of a popular axiom.
“Jesse, one of the dumbest phrases in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength,’” Hegseth said. “Our diversity is not our strength. Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength.”
Hegseth’s declaration is not just a departure from recent policies; it’s a clarion call for soldiers to rally around their common mission: defending the United States. In an organization built on trust and teamwork, focusing on shared goals is undoubtedly more effective than exacerbating divisions based on identity.
Great job so far, Pete. Keep right on slapping those empty heads and making ‘em ring like Quasimodo’s bells. It’s a joy and a wonder to behold, and it’s time and well past time that somebody r’ared up on their hind legs and did it.
31Rather than separate citations of and/or excerpted passages reporting each of these most edifying developments from Trump Admin v2.0 the last few days, I’ll just quote Ace’s capsule summary and point y’all that-a-way, wherein he includes all those encouraging stories and links in one tidy package, and call it a job well and efficiently done.
Remember the media claiming that Trump and Musk were on the outs, and Trump wanted to bannish Musk from Mar-a-Lago?
Well, thanks to @ComradeArthur/@ArthurKimes, the Daily Mail reports that Trump has offered Musk a bedroom at the White House, because he was camping out at DOGE.
RFKJr. pointed out that Champagne Socialist Bernie Sanders receives huge donations from Big Pharma. Sanders claimed that he doesn’t take donation from CEOs or PACs, and that all of the millions he’s taken from Big Phama came from “the workers.” Sure, “the workers” maxxing out donations to Senator because they’re so concerned about Sanders promoting the corporation they work for.
Senator Liz Warpath has taken $5.2 million from Big Pharma, and she earned every penny of that bribe when she demanded that RFKJr. agree to never again sue Big Pharma, after he returns to private life after serving as SecHealth.
Kash Patel promised Marsha Blackburn that he, unlike Christopher Wray, would deliver over all the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Patel confirmed that he and Trump attempted to deploy the National Guard on January 6th but Nancy Pelosi blocked the move.
Patel’s best moment came when literal goon — I mean a literal goon; she comes from the race of Goons as seen in Popeye cartoons — Amy Klobuchar said she wanted five hours to question him. “You have two minutes,” Patel said.
Unfortunately Maizie Hirono persists. I wouldn’t trust this developmentally-disabled obese woman to buff my toenails.
Senator John Kennedy to Patel: “Sounds to me we’ve got to get some new conspiracy theories because all the old ones turned out to be true. Conspiracy theorists are up something like 37 to nothin’.”
Tulsi Gabbard explains why she said that paying terrorist groups to overthrow Syria’s Assad would result in a terrorist taking power in that country. The reason she feels justified in predicting this is that this is exactly what happened — a terrorist is now in charge of Syria.
But apart from that, why did you say that, Tulsi?
Heh. Indeed. Oh, and one more excellent quote, this one from Veep (and with any luck the next President) JD Vance.
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: the problem with Rory and people like him is that he has an IQ of 110 and thinks he has an IQ of 130. This false arrogance drives so much elite failure over the last 40 years.
— JD Vance (@JDVance)
110 IQ? You’re being way too kind to this asshat, JD; I’d’ve said an IQ of no better than 85 or so myself.
Over-entitled much, bitch?
Former top DOJ immigration official says she was removed with no explanation
Uh-huh. Those of us stuck in the real word know that bizarre phenomenon not as some kind of miscarriage of justice or egregious violation of one’s God given right to gainful employment, but simply as “getting canned.”
A former top Justice Department immigration official who was removed from her position by new DOJ leadership this week told ABC News that she did not receive any explanation for her removal.
Lauren Alder Reid was one of four top officials from the agency that operates the U.S. immigration courts who was removed from her post. She had been with the agency for more than 14 years.
“They did not give me any reason, other than not citing the 16 years of outstanding performance evaluation for lack of any discipline, administrative leave or reassignment in my entire career,” Reid told ABC News.
When asked if she’s considering legal action, Reid, who was the assistant director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s office of policy, said that she and the others are considering all options available to them.
Brace yourself for the best bit of all, bold courtesy of moi.
“It’s pretty hard to sit back and imagine that this could begin to happen, at will, to any employee throughout the government, especially when we’re talking about public servants who have dedicated their careers to try to make our country the best,” she said.
Oh, I’m sure that’s what you’ve been doing right along in your comfy, overcompensated FederalGovCo sinecure, you piece of dead-weight shit. There’s a reason why Trump is now your boss—well, EX-boss, I should say—and you and your ilk’s inflated sense of your own importance is a YUUGE part of it.
Clue to the clueless: You are owed NOTHING. Not a job, not an explanation for being sacked, not an apology, not a single fucking thing. I’m not, she’s not, he’s not, we’re not, they’re not, and happily enough, neither are you. Snivel to your heart’s content about how “unfair” it all is, then, when you’re done, go hunt down the fool who told you life itself is fair and punch him or her right in the fucking mouth for telling all those lies.
As I always say, there’s a reason this sort of thing isn’t taught in the government schools anymore.
There cannot be a “hostile takeover of the civil service.” The civil service is not a check on the Executive Branch- it IS the Executive Branch. If a Department, Office, Bureau, program, or individual is doing something counter to the will of the Executive, it’s well within the… https://t.co/9UsT93H9Q6
— Where are we? Nowhere (@nowhere_nh)
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There cannot be a “hostile takeover of the civil service.” The civil service is not a check on the Executive Branch- it IS the Executive Branch. If a Department, Office, Bureau, program, or individual is doing something counter to the will of the Executive, it’s well within the Executive’s right to nip such behavior in the bud. Because the Executive was elected by the will of the people. The bureaucracy was not.
“Prevent the civil service from becoming the President’s henchmen.” What absolute drivel.
Left-wing ideals have been left to fester and seep into every aspect of the so-called civil service, to the point it feels emboldened to act as an unelected, unvetted check on the President. Nonsense. There are three branches of gov’t that are intended to check and balance each other: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. There is no fourth branch called “The Bureuacracy” that has the right to check or balance the other three.
The bureaucracy in DC is as entrenched as a tumor grown in the bone, sucking the life force out of this country. It will take a lot of surgery – some of it messy – to fix all that damage.
Messy indeed—with the majority of said “mess” consisting of spilled blood, buckets and buckets of it.
(Via Stephen Green)
Glenn helpfully explains where the wrecking ball comes into the picture.
Trump is following through with unprecedented and swift action to begin his presidency – which has reset the national mood
Soon after November’s election, I suggested that if Donald Trump were smart, he’d come in like a wrecking ball: Move fast, break things and precipitate change across many fronts all at once, subjecting the Democrats, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) to shock and awe.Boy, has he ever done that, unleashing unprecedented change in just his first 100 hours.
He banned DEI throughout the federal government, closed the borders to illegal immigrants (according to Customs and Border Protection, illegal crossings dropped 97% by Trump’s second day in office), halted government censorship efforts, refocused the Defense Department from social issues to warfighting, and started a massive cleanup at the corrupt Department of Justice.
Follows, a most edifying litany of Trump moves, directives, and initiatives, culminating with:
A week or two ago, all these things seemed too hard to accomplish.
Now they’re simply being done.
Oh, there’s resistance: The Air Force announced that as part of Trump’s DEI ban it would stop teaching cadets about the Tuskeegee Airmen scandal, an act of obvious bad faith designed to grab headlines.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who knows whereof he speaks, rightly called this “political theatrics” and “passive-aggressive performative nonsense . . . It’s all an act.”
It is an act, and the actors should be sacked.
Indeed they should, in fact, MUST—every man Jack of them, lest this nascent movement in all the right directions be kilt a-borning.
But that they’re trying this sort of idiocy is proof that they’re flailing and desperate. Trump has the momentum.
One reason for this, of course, is that things like the DEI ban and immigration enforcement are wildly popular.
The American public has never supported affirmative action or open borders.
Those are policy preferences of the elites, who bullied opponents by calling them racist.
That doesn’t work anymore.
Nor should it. May it ever be thus.
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.
Like Ed says, there’s so much tasty stuff here it’s tough to decide what to excerpt, or how much. In the way of our esteemed colleague John Wilder, to excerpt it is to ruin it. Or, as Salieri said of Mozart’s music in Amadeus: Displace one note and there would be diminishment, displace one phrase and the structure would fall.
The dawn of the anti-woke era
Having rejected the Democrats’ progressivist dogma, the American electorate is undergoing a social and demographic revolution.In late November, a California judge rejected a demand by several women’s volleyball teams to disqualify a transgender player for San Jose State before this year’s tournament. Six opponents have forfeited games against the team this year rather than collude in what they see as cheating. The larger question of transgender athletes in college sports will be decided later, but the judge is defending a lost cause. Fewer than a quarter of Americans (23 per cent) support allowing transgender athletes to play on women’s teams. Teams that do field trans athletes are sometimes booed off the pitch. Such feelings go a long way towards explaining Donald Trump’s resounding win in November’s presidential elections.
Washingtonians are often asked what it feels like to watch the second age of Trump dawn. Oddly, it does not feel much like his first arrival in 2016. It feels more like Barack Obama’s in 2008 or Bill Clinton’s in 1992 – less a political than a social revolution, in which philosophical habits will be broken along with political hierarchies. This particular social revolution owes most of its energy to a revulsion against woke. That is the source of the new era’s promise and danger.
Trump left office only four years ago. Washington rejected him – somatically, as in a botched organ transplant. Having squeaked into power on an anti-establishment platform, he arrived in the capital to find the establishment bloodied but unbowed. Hostile neighbours on Tennyson Street hung rainbow flags in front of the house where his vice-president Mike Pence was staying during the transition. By the CVS drugstore at Connecticut Avenue and McKinley, activists waved signs at honking motorists throughout December. The day after the inauguration in 2017, over 200,000 women, decked out in “pussyhats” and led by establishment celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Emma Watson, descended on the Mall. It shook the city: it was the largest collection of protest marchers since the Vietnam War, and drew a considerably larger crowd than the inauguration ceremony. The mood was defiant.
There’s none of that now. The mood in Washington’s progressive neighbourhoods is more one of muttered commiseration. (And they are all progressive neighbourhoods: in the capital city, Harris defeated Trump 93 per cent to 7 per cent.)
The result was revolutionary, and not in the way Democrats intended: anyone with a sense of fair play would be tempted to vote for a fellow who had been, as the playwright David Mamet put it, “raided, indicted, convicted, sued, slandered and shot”. But at this point, to do so would be to declare the judicial system corrupt. In the end, half the country did just that: suburbanites wore T-shirts with Trump’s mug shot on them. Grannies danced giddily on TikTok: “Here’s how it feels to vote for a convicted felon!”
The country is floating free of its laws. That is what gives the present its feeling of open-ended promise and peril. If Trump decides to investigate the Biden administration’s connection to these cases, will it be sauce for the gander, or a sign of authoritarian tendencies? Hard to say. Every elected official poses some risk of turning authoritarian. Mostly, we assume it’s one in 100, or one in 1,000. But the more discontented an electorate is, the higher a risk it may run.
There, that ought to be sufficient motivation for y’all to click on over and read the whole thing. Of course, Caldwell throws in some of the usual “Trump lost in 2020 fair and square” bushwa which has become de rigeur for Old Media essayists these days, along with the now-obligatory “baseless” codswallop I railed about last night. All in all, though, it’s a good piece; his brief rundown deriding Trump’s “34 felonies” is especially pungent, and the rest is well-written and quite insightful at the very least.
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