IT’S BEEN A BATTLE FOR FINAL SURVIVAL SINCE PROBABLY 2008…
I dunno if people are talking enough about this, but Trump and Elon have thrown down such a huge gauntlet that it's literally a battle for final survival.
Either the gov corruption is rooted out 100% or it's over for them. The put everything on the line to make things right.…
— Grummz (@Grummz) February 3, 2025
…it’s just that some — hopefully enough — Republicans finally caught on to it.
HE REALLY IS A CARICATURE AT THIS POINT: Father James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits.
HAHA: Frank “The End of History” Fukuyama is unhappy with how things are going.
In the year prior to November’s election, there were deep concerns among Donald Trump’s opponents concerning the agenda for attacking the “deep state” that was outlined in detail in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. These plans included resurrecting “Schedule F,” an executive order issued at the end of the first Trump administration that stripped virtually all bureaucrats of their civil service protections and placed them into an “at-will” category that would allow them to be fired without cause. . . .
Well, the new administration took office on January 20, and has now in effect revived Schedule F. What is remarkable is that the mainstream press has failed to pick up on this, or to inform the public of the likely consequences of this move.
Plus: “Consider what this may mean. If Trump hand-picks a new IRS chief, that individual can be pressured by the president to order audits of journalists, CEOs, NGOs and NGO leaders.” Har de har har. We had that throughout the Obama and Biden administrations.
Plus: “DOGE is now acting like a hired gun.” Well, yes. It’s basically there to advise the President on waste and fraud that it finds, which turn out to be copious and shameless. Naturally the establishment doesn’t like this. My take on all these complaints is: You don’t have to sell me, I already voted for him. Or maybe “don’t threaten me with a good time.”
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And there it is. https://t.co/XsJ68wjdw4
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 3, 2025
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Obama’s Fundamental Transformation Is Blowing Up.
LIGHTNING DEAL: ENGPOW 5200°F Fireproof Document Bag with Lock. #CommissionEarned
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THIS NEVER HAPPENED: Automatic voter registration let non-citizens in South Dakota, Oregon onto voter rolls, report says.
A report released by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) last week shows that both South Dakota and Oregon, which have automatic voter registration, found non-citizens on their respective voter rolls last year. The report explains that this occurs easily and warns states about using automatic voter registration.
In October, South Dakota found that 273 non-citizens were incorrectly on state voter rolls due to automatic voter registration through the state’s department for issuing driver’s licenses.
After South Dakota used the U.S. Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) to check the citizenship status of the 273 registered voters, the non-citizens were informed that the state had corrected the errors and that they would be removed from the voter rolls, according to the PILF report. The non-citizens were also notified about how to re-register to vote after becoming U.S. citizens.
South Dakota implemented automatic voter registration after a lawsuit filed in 2020 on behalf of Native American tribes regarding the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) was settled two years later, per the report.
Oregon was the first state to implement automatic voter registration in 2016, but still has issues with non-citizens registering to vote.
“Still?” As in, Oregon has made an effort to fix the problem?
PAST TENSE: USAID Lavished U.S. Cash on Hamas-Run Gaza.
NPR, PBS CHICKENS COMIN’ HOME TO ROOST: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is chairman of the DOGE subcommittee on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Boy did she ruffle some feathers Monday when she “invited” the CEOs of NPR and PBS to come for a hearing in March. Can you guess what the focus of that hearing will be?
MATT TAIBBI: America’s Smear Machine Put on Trial: A week of heated confirmation hearings served as a referendum on America’s Reputational Death Star. Of course, the dirty and dishonest nature of America’s confirmation process goes back to Advise and Consent. And Allen Drury mocked a press that was not as much better than today’s as you might think.
TRUMP’S TROOPS AT OPM RESPOND TO UNIONS, DEMS: The ink was barely dry on the memo to all federal workers about an extraordinary buyout offer authorized by President Donald Trump before the biggest federal employee union, AFGE, Democrats like Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and a host of others on the left was making multiple claims that proved to be wrong.
Yesterday, officials at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a significant rebuttal that is well-worth reading in its entirety. Note also at the end of my Epoch Times story this morning the Supreme Court cite that somehow got cut short in the editing process.
Here’s the full intended cite. Note the broad swath of direct managerial authority over the daily operations of the federal workforce the High Court recognizes the Constitution intended for the President to exercise:
“The President must be able to remove not just officers who disobey his commands but also those he finds ‘negligent and inefficient,’ Myers , 272 U.S. at 135, 47 S.Ct. 21, those who exercise their discretion in a way that is not ‘intelligen[t] or wis[e],’ ibid. , those who have ‘different views of policy,’ id., at 131, 47 S.Ct. 21, those who come ‘from a competing political party who is dead set against [the President’s] agenda,’ Seila Law , supra , at ––––, 140 S.Ct., at 2204 (emphasis deleted), and those in whom he has simply lost confidence, Myers , supra , at 124, 47 S.Ct. 21.”
INDEED HE IS.
You people doxxed a minor for awkwardly smiling. You told the entire world where he went to school. A Disney producer said he wanted to shove him and his friends into a wood chipper.
Trump isn't going to make the left "start to be cruel"
He's going to make you stop. https://t.co/kKfC9WfQwt pic.twitter.com/ul1QgAswJv
— Seamus (FreedomToons) (@seamus_coughlin) February 3, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, DEAR READERS:
Six young hyper geniuses now literally have their lives depending on Trump winning it all. Forever.
— Spider Miner (@Shamed_Vulture) February 4, 2025
And that question is, is this part of Elon’s plan? Personally, I think he explained the risks and the target they’d be wearing, and they agreed. It’s also likely, of course, that they were smart enough to know that already.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: A red moon: Will the next ‘Sputnik Moment’ be made in China?
THAT’S RIGHT.
Trump: let’s shrink the government, enforce our laws to protect our citizens, shrink the bureaucracy and guarantee free speech for all.
Communists: this is fascism! https://t.co/q9RlXNLON9
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) February 1, 2025
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The Doomsday Clock needs a pro-progress switch to the Genesis Clock.
Flashback: The Clock Ticks.
VINAY PRASAD: A review of the newly approved novel non-opioid pain reliever suzetrigine (Journavx). Seems only modestly effective.
WORST. NAZIS. EVER:
CHICANERY:
The thing that never happens happened again. https://t.co/PumeFyGy0G
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 3, 2025
I’M SURE IT’S ALL TRUMP’S FAULT SOMEHOW. As bird flu ravages poultry industry, the damage spreads.
On the other hand, one of my Facebook friends posted this as her answer to efforts to do so:
UPDATE: Actually, though, we just paid $3.99 for a dozen of “Eggland’s Best” eggs, Helen’s favorite.
ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments:
AI TEACHING INTELLIGENT DISAGREEMENT ON CAMPUS. And it seems to work. I for one welcome this particular set of AI overlords.
A LOT OF POCKETS WERE LINED, THOUGH. 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert.
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