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This is a leader.

Why do leftys suck so bad at recognizing and supporting leaders? They think king stampy feet a great leader.

As President Trump said when asked about this today, Fauci has plenty of money to hire his own detail if he feels the need, but he is out of government and has been for some time, and at some point, government security ends for all ex-officials except for those who have served as CIC.

President Trump added that if Fauci needs, he can provide him with the phone numbers of some excellent security people.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1882835867242475965

It’s obscene anyone except former presidents get any taxpayer funded personal security after they leave .gov payroll. Hell, even VP only gets Secret service for 6 months post vacating the seat.

Trump on the ground in NC letting the residents speak, absolutely fantastic, having a POTUS that stands there listening to the people...

Live on Fox

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Para, I apologize. My post seems to have disappeared and I may have accidentally deleted it.

You mean the one about Andrews Air Force Base?

That’s the one. I had Andrews AFB when I first posted it, but changed it when I saw the other name on the map. I wouldn’t purposely delete a post when doing so might cause confusion with subsequent posts. I’m assuming this: means I didn’t do that.

Of course not.

And I know they changed the name, but...

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Here in Texas, the highways heading into Mexico are jammed with trucks and cars, packed for a long trip. People walking too.

https://x.com/hartgoat/status/...inistration-day-5%2F
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I had been wondering about all the vehicles bought here by invaders, going across into Mexico which are not paid off. Looks like they get them for free.

CBDCs Banned

https://reason.com/2025/01/24/cbdcs-banned/

Strong repudiation of CBDCs: In an executive order released yesterday (called "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology"), Trump gave those who care about financial privacy a very clear win.

The Trump administration, through this executive order, commits to "providing regulatory clarity and certainty built on technology-neutral regulations, frameworks that account for emerging technologies, transparent decision making, and well-defined jurisdictional regulatory boundaries, all of which are essential to supporting a vibrant and inclusive digital economy and innovation in digital assets, permissionless blockchains, and distributed ledger technologies." No more constant persecution of the industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Crucially, it also says it will "protect Americans from the risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), which threaten the stability of the financial system, individual privacy, and the sovereignty of the United States, including by prohibiting the establishment, issuance, circulation, and use of a CBDC within the jurisdiction of the United States." Yep, you heard him right: CBDCs are banned now.

Governments around the world—China, Russia, India, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates—have either introduced CBDCs or recently toyed with doing so. In the U.S., too, central bankers have perennially signaled interest: "'The Federal Reserve's initial analysis,' the central bank insisted in a January 2022 report, 'suggests that a potential U.S. CBDC, if one were created, would best serve the needs of the United States by being privacy-protected, intermediated, widely transferable, and identity-verified,'" wrote Reason's Brian Doherty in a January 2023 feature. "That last point is the danger zone. To use cash, you merely have to convince your counterparty that the cash is cash; you do not have to convince them you are you. In a digital system whose capacities to surveil and control are nearly unlimited, identity verification looks frightening indeed."

Consider in which ways central planners might try to control your behavior if a CBDC were widely adopted. "Authorities could bake in faddish, top-down social goals that you—the sucker who merely wants to spend your money to meet your needs and desires—want nothing to do with," continues Doherty. "These could concern the environment (do you really need to buy that much carbon-generating stuff in a month?), safety (guns and gun accessories not FedCoin-compatible at this time) or 'equity' (let's make sure the right percentage of your spending goes to counterparties with the approved racial or gender mix)."

Meanwhile in the Senate: A new first-of-its-kind Senate Banking subcommittee has been created, focusing specifically on digital assets and chaired by longtime crypto advocate Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R–Wyo.).

"Digital assets are the future, and if the United States wants to remain a global leader in financial innovation, Congress needs to urgently pass bipartisan legislation establishing a comprehensive legal framework for digital assets and that strengthens the U.S. dollar with a strategic bitcoin reserve," said Lummis in a statement following her appointment.



More at link

To the dismay of Michael Bloomberg/Everytown, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is gone, no longer. If you go to their website, you get this:



https://bearingarms.com/tomkni...7437#google_vignette

There's no such thing as gun violence; there's only violence.

Not intending to be blasphemous, but the second coming of Trump is wayyyyyy more exciting than the first!

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Not intending to be blasphemous, but the second coming of Trump is wayyyyyy more exciting than the first!

Both thrilled me! About equally. But Jeff Sessions hosed Trump 2016. President Trump won’t let anything like Sessions happen again.

Awesomeness.

The GDCs having their "Post Pearl Harbor" reality check.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

-Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Tora! Tora! Tora!

I have got to sit down and catch my breath!! I am trying to take everything in as fast as my old brain will allow, but it just keeps coming and at an unbelievable speed!! I will be o.k. in a little bit, and then check on what I just missed. I have smiled so much my face hurts!!

I think it’s slowly starting to sink in with the Democrats just how badly they screwed up in putting in that feeble POS puppet Biden and letting a shadow government run the country into the ground.

The next four years are going to be absolutely GLORIOUS

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Not intending to be blasphemous, but the second coming of Trump is wayyyyyy more exciting than the first!

I think in his first round, he underestimated the hostility of the enemy. He understands that he was too nice. He got stuck in the mud, under constant attack from every direction. This time he has gathered a much better army of support. He started his new term (figuratively) with mortar bombardments and airstrikes to fuck their shit up. Now he is riding the lead tank straight into their jungle, bringing the fight to them. Oh they scared now!

He's not burdened by what has been. He's emboldened by it! It's pretty clear so far that the people he picked to help this time are on board, engaged and emboldened as well. I barely make it an hour without hearing new news that smile and say Damn!