HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW? You Suffer, We Get the Credit.
February 13, 2025
THEY KEEP ON COMING: Further Tales from Vaccine Hell.
You know what, we need Trump to do an EO making it illegal to discriminate on Covid “vaccine” status. We know it’s not effective. We know it didn’t help anything. But there are still hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people all through society being denied work, or transplants, or admission, due to not having been “vaccinated.” If I had any line into Trump that’s what I’d tell him. Anyone in health care, etc. is still being affected by this stupid requirement.
DOING LOOP-DE-LOOPS: Inside their OODA loop.
CONSIDERING HOW IT WAS CREATED, THE CORRUPTION WAS INEVITABLE: From The Get Go.
MADAME GUILLOTINE IS ALWAYS HUNGRY: The Lesson of Robespierre.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Trump 2.0 – The Judicial Front.
February 12, 2025
THIS IS WHY TRUMP DID IT, OF COURSE:
So the people who made us rename everything from military bases to football teams to pancake syrup are very upset about this Gulf of America thing aren’t they
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 13, 2025
PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO DO THIS BECAUSE OF THE ACTION THAT WILL BE REQUIRED:
How soon before we begin reviewing logistics service provider contracts, routing, handling, documentation, and IT security policies?
How much of our defense and dual use article supply chains are managed by foreign freight forwarders?
Are these foreign-held freight forwarders -… https://t.co/VKSUiNPL9W
— HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 (@maphumanintent) February 12, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
HAHA:
https://t.co/nx4ue7Jfdd pic.twitter.com/jzgdWYXvnq
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2025
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Generation Bland: the inevitable rise of ‘Palentine’s Day.’
As we approach with anticipation or dread 14 February, the day we traditionally celebrate love and all things amorous, a certain demographic will instead be observing a rather less passionate and altogether more bland occasion: ‘Palentine’s Day’. Commemorated on 13 February, this is apparently the date upon which to honour platonic friendships instead of romantic engagements – and it’s proving increasingly popular among Generation Z.
It all started with ‘Galentine’s Day’, a celebration of female friendship invented by the character Leslie Knope in American political satire mockumentary Parks and Recreation in 2010. As the concept moved from comedy to real life it morphed into the gender-neutral ‘Palentine’s’ – lest anyone should feel left out. Now universities across the country are putting on events for the occasion, and card companies have reported a surge in the popularity of merchandise commemorating it. Sales of Palentine’s cards at online greetings company Thortful have increased from a few dozen in 2016 to tens of thousands today.
According to relationship expert Tautvydas Sutkus, many younger people take a dim view of Valentine’s Day on account of its ‘traditional, often exclusionary, focus on romantic relationships’. This alternative ‘allows them to celebrate their friends and the emotional bonds they share’. This development shouldn’t surprise us. ‘Palentine’s Day’ is fitting for a generation that is inclined to be puritanical and moralistic. It’s also an age group that’s seemingly resigned to settle for a safe, insipid and risk-free existence: Generation Z has become Generation Bland.
Could be far worse — it could be Palantine’s Day:
Incidentally, remember in 1981, when John Hinkley was considered institutionally insane for thinking that Travis was the good guy in Taxi Driver? How far the left has “progressed:” Luigi Mangione frenzy: It’s time for a national conversation on left-wing violence.
UPDATE:
LISTEN: Rep. Robert Garcia (D) says Americans want Dems to bring “actual weapons” against Elon Musk.
"What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight." pic.twitter.com/ZyAqByKzB5
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) February 13, 2025
THE OFFICIAL DOGE WEBSITE IS ALIVE AT DOGE.GOV.
FLASHBACK: Elon, Unbound. Nailed it, in a way, but wound up undershooting the actuality.
METAPHOR ALERT: Blind director of watchdog group funded by George Soros testifies that he does not see widespread evidence of government waste.
Note this is from Not the Babylon Bee, which exists to remind us that real life is often far crazier than what its parent Website, America’s Newspaper of Record can hope to predict.
THIS IS CNN: CNN Guest Is Cool With Nullifying Elections If He Believes Winner (Trump) Doesn’t ‘Know Anything.’
This is one of the most mask-off moments to occur since the election.
Scott Jennings gets CNN to say the quiet part out loud: That they believe their proclamations of qualification should override elections.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 12, 2025
[Nick] Ackerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, weighed in on DOGE and the agencies that had been targeted for audits, saying, “That stuff is sacrosanct, and you’ve got people going in there who don’t know anything about —”
Bakari Sellers attempted to help Ackerman out, arguing that what the judges were issuing were “just restraining orders,” but Jennings was not convinced.
Going back to Ackerman’s point, he said, “What you just said is so profound. You said, ‘These people don’t know anything and they don’t know what they’re doing.’”
“That’s right,” Ackerman agreed.
“But they are appointees of the duly elected president, so your view, you’re here as our legal expert, but your view is because you don’t personally believe that they know enough, that the duly elected president — who appointed a Treasury Secretary and who appoints special appointees like Elon Musk — shouldn’t be able to act as the president because you don’t personally believe they know enough?”
“Well, they certainly —” Ackerman sputtered.
“Is that how it works?” Jennings asked. “Or do elections mean anything to you!”
“It’s got nothing to do with elections,” Ackerman shot back, prompting a visual reaction from Jennings: “Whoa! Truth was told tonight. The truth was told.
Flashbacks:
—The Hill, December 30th, 2017.
—Business Insider, December 27, 2018.
● Former Watergate prosecutor [Akerman] says ‘Trump is toast’ in NY fraud trial.
—The Hill, November 8th, 2023.
● Watergate Prosecutor [Akerman] Predicts Donald Trump Headed to the ‘Big House.’
—Newsweek, January 14th, 2024.
As Glenn likes to say, recent events have made me view Watergate quite differently.
DON’T IMMANENTIZE THE ESCHATON: George Soros: The ‘God’ Who Carries Around Some Dangerous Demons.
His motto, “If I spend enough, I will make it right,” is the essence of his articulated ideas about changing society.
It seems that Soros believes he was anointed by God. “I fancied myself as some kind of god …” he once wrote. “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.”
When asked by Britain’s Independent newspaper to elaborate on that passage, Soros said, “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”
Since I began to live it out. Those unfamiliar with Soros would probably dismiss the statement out of hand. But for those who have followed his career and sociopolitical endeavors, it cannot be taken quite so lightly.
Soros has proved that with the vast resources of money at his command he has the ability to make the once unthinkable acceptable. His work as a self-professed “amoral” financial speculator has left millions in poverty when their national currencies were devaluated, and he pumped so much cash into shaping former Soviet republics to his liking that he has bragged that the former Soviet empire is now the “Soros Empire.”
As Tom Cotton wrote in 2021: Recall, Remove and Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HIGHEST APPROVAL RATINGS SO FAR:
Trump is currently enjoying his highest approval ratings ever and these people still think suggesting America regrets its decision is a brilliant talking point. https://t.co/1U7cSNorYC
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 12, 2025
HOUSE HAS DOGE HEARING BUT IGS NOWHERE IN SIGHT: House Subcommittee of Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE – see what they did there?) convened its first-ever hearing on the Trump DOGE blitzkreig against waste and fraud. Special emphasis was placed by Republicans on the $200+ billion lost annually to improper payments, which is a huge part of the overall waste, fraud and abuse problem.
But what is quite possibly the biggest chunk of opportunity for making huge and permanent progress in cleaning up the national disaster that is the federal bureaucracy. What might that be?
The nearly 14,000 cost-cutting and efficiency open recommendations by Inspectors-General (IG) and 300 similar Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations being ignored by departments and agencies. As I report in The Epoch Times, nary a word was said by GOPers or Democrats. What’s up with that?
OLD AND BUSTED: What is a Woman?
The New Hotness? Who is a Masculine Democrat?
PARTY OF DISASTER:
Democrats were responsible for the Federal Reserve, IRS, Jim Crow laws and segregation in the federal bureaucracy, not to mention Prohibition. And opposed Women’s suffrage. But other than that they are totally committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. https://t.co/MwhZVKNH7E
— Sen. Frank Niceley (@SenFrankNiceley) February 11, 2025
OH MY:
BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi announces the DOJ has filed charges against the State of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and Mark Schroeder:
“New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops — it stops today.”pic.twitter.com/CwWaQTjCxL
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) February 12, 2025
Developing…
CNN DROPS THE MASK:
This is one of the most mask-off moments to occur since the election.
Scott Jennings gets CNN to say the quiet part out loud: That they believe their proclamations of qualification should override elections.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 12, 2025
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE, WHILE INTERNAL COMBUSTION GETS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE: Stellantis Suggests V8 Return While Promising Revised Business Strategy.
You don’t want to buy an EV and later find yourself thinking “wow, I could’ve had a V8!”
