FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, A MAGA DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER on race discrimination in education.
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February 18, 2025
LIGHTNING DEAL: Vansky UV Flashlight Black Light. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Is So Powerful That He’s Now In Charge of Every Plane in the Sky. “Once more, with feeling: NBC News is the most corrupt and biased of all the corrupt and biased American news organizations. It’s a part of the media behemoth that’s writing paychecks to Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid.”
THEY’RE FLAILING:
NBC’s Tom Costello ties Donald Trump, @ElonMusk, and @DOGE to the Delta Airlines crash in Toronto, Canada: “[T]his is going yet again raised a concern about FAA staffing — air traffic control staffing. Now, this is a Canadian air traffic control tower and this is under Canadian… pic.twitter.com/KOecnP1A0n
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2025
Is there anything Trump can’t do? Aside from land a plane in Toronto, that is.
JOURNALISM:
Media last week: The AP not being given rides on Air Force One is a blatant attack on free speech
Media this week: What makes Germany great is that they imprison people for posting memes
— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 17, 2025
OF COURSE THEY DO. THE CRITICS ARE ON THE GOVERNMENT TEAT. THE PUBLIC, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS SUPPLYING THE TEAT.
Musk brings the receipts as polling shows Trump and DOGE have public backing despite critics https://t.co/DqXYloIAoS
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) February 18, 2025
Related: More CNN #Sadz: Frank Luntz Says Clinton Voters Who Flipped to Trump ‘Lovin’ It’.
#JOURNALISM: Associated Press Now Making S**t Up Because They Are Big Mad at Trump. “The Associated Press claims to be the gold standard of journalism, but their reporters are about what you would expect: entitled midwits who are emotionally incontinent and who weaponize their hatred for their own ends.”
More fake news from the @AP
1. DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page
2. No air traffic controllers nor any professionals who perform safety critical functions were terminated https://t.co/vhrusRu3NS
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 17, 2025
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What the Hell Is Wrong With CBS News?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
I knew it! https://t.co/d8d8N1EO5r
— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) February 18, 2025
CDR SALAMANDER: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Got Bumped Ugly. “No one was killed, no flooding, no injuries. We got lucky.”
Plus:
If, as initially reported, after TRUMAN gets patched up in Souda Bay and can complete her deployment, well, that is a great thing for the other CVN’s in our fleet. They won’t have to cover her unexpected absence.
Let this be another reminder that we do not have enough aircraft carriers and airwings, and because of decisions made in the last half decade, the problem will get worse. We simply do not have enough CVN authorized to replace the ones that will decommission. Our airwings are short on aircraft, and the aircraft they have are limited in range due to both design and the myopic removal of organic tanking assets (buddy tanking does not count).
Our navy isn’t up to its mission. Of all the armed forces, its mission is the least likely to change drastically in the next few years.
OLIVER WISEMAN: The ‘Everything Is Broken’ Administration.
That term, coined by Tablet editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse a few years ago, has been bouncing around my head ever since Trump returned to power last month. In fact, I’m increasingly convinced it’s the key to understanding this administration. Allow me to explain.
In January 2021, Newhouse wrote an essay addressing what she would later describe as “the growing sense, made more glaring during the first year of the pandemic, that whole parts of America were breaking down before our eyes.” She argued that major institutions of American life—from the media to medicine—no longer worked. “Everything Is Broken,” was Newhouse’s unsparing conclusion—and the essay’s memorable headline.
Almost two years later, Newhouse wrote a follow-up, titled “Brokenism,” which translated the ideas of her first essay into a new political rubric. The most important divide in our politics, she argued, wasn’t between left and right, but between “brokenists” and “status-quoists.” Brokenists can be on the left or the right, or in the middle, but they agree that “what used to work is not working for enough people anymore.” Status-quoists, by contrast, “are invested in the established institutions of American life, even as they acknowledge that this or that problem around the margins should of course be tackled.” Bernie Sanders? Brokenist. Liz Cheney? Status-Quoist. Or—to pick further examples Newhouse doesn’t name in her piece—Joe Rogan? Brokenist. Matthew Yglesias? Status-quoist. (Presciently, Newhouse identified Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk as two tech world brokenists—two years before they would come out for Trump.)
Newhouse’s argument struck me as obviously true and important back in 2022. It explained how tech, Trump’s first term, Covid, wokeness, and so much else had combined to scramble our politics. After almost a month of Trump’s second term, “brokenism” looks like a more important idea than ever—the thread that connects so much of the revolution underway in Washington, D.C.
Read the whole thing.
ALEX BERENSON: Flu is out of control in the United States: Could a long-term immunosuppressive effect of repeated mRNA Covid shots be part of the reason? Don’t expect the media to ask. I have no idea if that’s the case, but I have a pretty good idea of whether the media will ask.
IN A NUTSHELL:
This is the entire Democratic Party platform: rich people pretending to be good people calling working class people racist and stupid for refusing to vote to make rich liberals even richer. https://t.co/nb0kQcMTGN
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) February 17, 2025
SARAH ANDERSON: A Tale of Two Parties: Kids Edition. “I don’t need to explain to you that the entire Democrat platform, especially over the last four or five years, has largely centered around experimenting on children, whether they’re injecting them with hormones, teaching them racism, or preventing them from even being born at all.”
AN INDEPENDENT DOJ IS ONLY IMPORTANT WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS REPUBLICAN. DUH.
""I’m still enjoying what I’m doing, there’s still work to be done. I’m still the President’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy." – AG Eric Holder.
Ah yes. The famously independent DOJ of Barack Obama. pic.twitter.com/Mx3Rq2IG8z
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 17, 2025
CRINGE-WORTHY DOESN’T DO THOSE REMARKS JUSTICE. THEY’RE THE CRINGIEST CRINGE IN THE LONG HISTORY OF CRINGE. I’M IN PERMANENT CRINGE MODE SINCE I READ THEM HOURS AGO: Kamala Harris Is Still Giving Cringeworthy Remarks.
Someone really needs to tell her to stop washing down the Valium with scotch. It’s a dangerous road.
HE SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN MOONLIGHTING. HE ESPECIALLY SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN MOONLIGHTING FOR THE La Linea CARTEL: You Won’t Believe Why This Border Agent Was Just Arrested.
TO QUOTE HILLARY CLINTON: I DON’T FEEL NO WAYS TIRED: Did You Catch What the Latest Polls Also Revealed About the Trump Agenda?
BE CAREFUL OF THAT DOOR ON YOUR WAY OUT: Acting head of Social Security Administration resigns after dispute with Elon Musk’s DOGE: report.
LAZARUS LONG, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Social Security Fraud: Nearly 1.5 Million Americans Listed as Over 150 Years Old, 1,041 Over 220 Years Old.
GERMANY IS BACK TO 1939: CBS joined German police to conduct a raid on a citizen for posting a meme online.
THEY’LL CONTROL NO ONE. AND THEY’LL BE UNHAPPY: This is what the WEF has in store for you.
TL:DR: What is this post trying to do. A friend asked me to post in case someone in the administration reads this and can do something. Fine, I’m doing it. but that’s not what this post and others “breaking” the story are trying to do. They have no expectation of anyone reading them having an in with the administration. And even for this blog, it’s a stretch. So, why are posts like this everywhere at once? What do they hope to achieve? The only thing I can think, reinforced by a bunch of the commenters is “Abandon Trump now.” Or even better “Turn on him.” … ask yourself what good that does. Right now. At this time.
Now, if you’re prepared to read more — and aren’t a Trump administration insider. If you are, skip to the last two graphs — read on:
First, the accounts echoing this are all fairly suspect (how suspect? they’re peddling the “Trump was a buddy of Epstein” lie.) Second the whole “Trump is pressuring Romania on the Tates” is …. poorly sourced. There is only one source in Financial Times which is not the most reliable of sources, and it quotes “unnamed” sources. Third, everything I read about it is written in precisely this bombastic way “Wake the fuck up” like, you know, the people who preferred Trump to Kamala because they’re mildly allergic to communism are somehow going to fix everything by “waking up.” This is quintessential leftist wording and ideas. Fourth it relies on guilt by association “Three different cabinet members in Trump’s orbit support Tate.” Cool beans. Guilt by association is it? Well, don’t drink water. I have it on good authority that Hitler and Stalin both drank water. This too is a patented leftist trade mark thought process. Fifth “we’re going to take a big hit.” Que? I’m extremely online and have been for decades. I had to ask people to fill me in on Tate. Joe and Jane six pack couldn’t care less about Tate. (And are iffy on Epstein, for that matter. We care, yes, but we’re extremely online and political addicts.) They care about the economy being fixed. They care about there being jobs. They care about their neighborhoods not being terrorized by Venezuelan gangs. They care about their meds not coming from China.
So, take a deep breath, stop hyperventilating, and stop listening to “urgent, you must act noooowwww.” Unless, of course, you are with the Trump administration, in which case you might want to look into this and see if we’re helping the Tates beyond “they’re US citizens and we don’t abandon our people.” Are they traffickers and pedophiles? I don’t know.
I’m totally willing to believe they’re bad hombres but, most of all, what I hear about them tells me that they are idiots. And if we need idiots, we can hire leftists.
So, if you are in the Trump administration or close to someone who is look into this. And at least do a statement to clarify it or whatever. If you’re not… Well, everything I read on it reads super-manipulative. And I don’t feel like hyperventilating today.
THE STATUS QUO IS COMING APART: Grab Your Mallet.
THE LEFT IS TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE ABOUT THE SAVE ACT. NONE OF IT IS TRUE: Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act, H.R. 22)
and Federal Voter Registration Policy and Law.
Think about it, if we clean the elections, they are done. So, don’t be taken in.