ARE REPUBLICANS FINALLY FIGURING OUT HOW TO FIGHT BACK? CNN Host Loses It When a GOP Rep Presses Her About Military Families and Remote Work.
February 7, 2025
THE FINANCIAL & SOCIAL INCENTIVES HAVE ALL BEEN FOR REPORTING THE OTHER WAY: Why the legacy media fail to tell the full story of pregnancy help centers.
WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY: Supreme Court could recognize public schooling as unconstitutional.
IT’S LONG OVERDUE (IF A BIT INSULTING WHEN YOU LOOK AT SLEEPY JOE’S LAST AWARDEES): Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams Deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
TRUMP WAS, AS USUAL, RIGHT, WHEN HE BLAMED OBAMA AND DEI: The Full Story of the FAA’s Hiring Scandal.
TBF EUROPE PROBABLY GOT THIS CRAZY BECAUSE OF USAID PROPAGANDA: Europe is screwing itself, and some want the US to do the same.
WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY ARE LIBERALS: Liberal Reactions to Trump Presidency are UNHINGED. (It’s a video.)
HE’S NOT WRONG: Thoughts And A Warning.
THE RIGHT NO LONGER MINDS BEING CALLED NAMES: Setting Boundaries is Bitchy.
BARELY: Keeping up?
SOMEWHERE THERE IS A RESERVE OF THE ENGLAND WE ALL READ ABOUT. I HOPE IT COMES FORWARD: Ah, Britain, you elites and most of their minions suck.
I KEEP EXPECTING TO WAKE UP AND FIND OUT I’VE BEEN DREAMING: Surreal.
MORE LIKE AFTER WE ALL SAW WHAT THEY WERE UP TO: Fed agencies ending $8M Politico contracts after Elon Musk calls them ‘wasteful’ use of taxpayer money.
Now do the NYT, Reuters and the AP!
February 6, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Did anything happen today?
TO BE FAIR, MOST OF THESE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU SPACEX WOULD NEVER MAKE IT 20 YEARS AGO: Don’t compete with or emulate SpaceX, investors urge. This, however, seems right: “Nobody’s going to be competitive with SpaceX anyway.”
Also this: “If you are going for full vertical integration, you are basically consolidating all of the problems of the industry in your own house.” Though as SpaceX has demonstrated, you’re also giving yourself an opportunity to fix those problems.
AR-PHARAZON THE GOLDEN SMILES: ‘Lost City’ Deep Under The Ocean Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen Before on Earth.
CHANGE:
By a vote of 53-47, Russ Vought has been confirmed as Donald Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 7, 2025
GREATEST REVENGE ARC IN SPORTS HISTORY:
This is the greatest revenge arc in sports history https://t.co/vGia7mVr9j
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 6, 2025
UPDATE: Not a sport, but a great revenge arc.
Google owes Damore an apology. pic.twitter.com/QszvLTahSw
— Gurwinder (@G_S_Bhogal) February 6, 2025
Plus, from the comments, compare and contrast:
THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL! Mitochondria’s Secret Power Unleashed in the Battle Against Inflammation.
SHOT AND CHASER:
Dude literally caught a rocket https://t.co/V5W9TYfm0m
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 6, 2025
NEO: Trump’s second term so far: I guess this is what “draining the swamp” looks like.
There’s so much going on that I can’t cover everything in depth. What I’ve been doing, and what I plan to keep doing, is concentrating on the efforts I find most interesting or important, and also providing overviews such as this one. And of course links such as these:
From Ace, “USAID and the CIA Funded Trump’s First Impeachment.”
At Legal Insurrection, “US State Department Recalls All USAID Staffers from Foreign Assignments.”
From The Federalist, “The Constitution Vindicates Trump’s Firing Of 17 Inspectors General.”
From The Federalist, “If Presidents Can’t Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake.”
There’s much, much more.
It’s also one thing to make light of the reaction of the left, such as “heads are exploding.” But there’s really nothing light about this. The press and the left are labeling it a coup, a dictatorship, an illegal takeover. The grounds for believing that – even on the part of relatively moderate Democrats – have been prepared for many many years. This is an extremely volatile situation.
Interesting times.
Indeed. And note the formulation the left is making by calling Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy a “coup:”
If it’s a coup, who is Trump taking power from? https://t.co/pTbSQNjlNU
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 6, 2025
For once in his life, Reich is actually right about something. A “coup d’etat” is a brief and bloodless revolution. In America, we have those every four or eight years — they’re called elections.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Reader John Steakley writes: “Anyone shocked at why Trump did far better than expected with sub-30 voters need only look at videos like this of a balding, unshaven, eye-bagged, multi-sweatered Robert Reich ranting hyperbolically about Trump. To the sub-30 voter, if Grandpa Reich and Grandma Pelosi are against something, then it’s probably something new and cool that the sub-30 voter should check out. Just because Reich is ranting from home nowadays doesn’t mean he can’t shave, comb his hair, and don a collared shirt. Instead, he looks like he’s sitting in the corner of a nursing home waiting for his mid-afternoon pudding delivery. That’s not how you win over the sub-30 voters.”
Or anyone else.
WE NEED TO DECIDE IF WE ACTUALLY WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO BE THAT MUCH MORE EFFICIENT AT WHAT IT DOES:
Exactly https://t.co/ldLI6bBefF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2025
I mean, you know, given what it does.
YOU DO NOT HATE THE MEDIA ENOUGH: USAID set to be hacked from 14,000 workers to just 294 as Trump team shreds humanitarian agency.
First, great job on all those cuts. Second, how was that humanitarianism going?
Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other" pic.twitter.com/5CzzZT0i2H
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) February 5, 2025
USAID was a slush fund for the well-connected and their enablers in the media.