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January 26, 2025, 09:01 PM
2BobTanner
It’ll be interesting to see what happens at the Pentagon on Monday.
Maybe the SecDef would have a big meeting with the all the JCS, thank them for their years of service, and then say hope you enjoy your retirements.
Clean house of every 3- & 4-star and all the service academy superintendents; every last one of them.
--------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!!
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken
January 26, 2025, 09:11 PM
sigmonkey
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Originally posted by tatortodd: Long Tweet, but worth clicking and reading...
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
January 26, 2025, 09:16 PM
Sig2340
quote:
Originally posted by 2BobTanner: It’ll be interesting to see what happens at the Pentagon on Monday.
Maybe the SecDef would have a big meeting with the all the JCS, thank them for their years of service, and then say hope you enjoy your retirements.
Clean house of every 3- & 4-star and all the service academy superintendents; every last one of them.
I’d replace every flag officer.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
January 26, 2025, 09:27 PM
parabellum
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"...the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitations or delay."
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
January 26, 2025, 09:47 PM
bcereuss
That’s a leader.
January 26, 2025, 10:55 PM
darthfuster
See? He doesn’t have to impose sanctions. He just has to be willing and anxious to.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
January 27, 2025, 02:08 AM
Mustang-PaPa
Just like the weeks and months before he was sworn in all the world leaders showing up at MarLargo. They know Trump isn't BSing when he speaks. They know he means business and will do what he says.
It really is amazing what he has done in just one week. Think what he could really do if the damn dems would let him do what we voted him to do.
These ass backwards politician's better get with the program. They are just looking like the fools they are.
January 27, 2025, 03:19 AM
12131
Got to love these sophomoric crybabies. Too much access (translation, too many truth bombs) to the President has overwhelmed them. As I said before, has there ever been any time in history where a President engaged the press, even mostly hostile, as much as Trump has done, and is doing? This aging Energizer Bunny thrives on going toe to toe with these commie assholes. Lol.
By Lindsay Kornick | Fox News Published January 26, 2025 6:00pm EST
Politico's White House reporters wrote on Saturday about the stark contrast between the "invisible" and "shielded" former President Biden and the "omnipresent" President Donald Trump.
Since Trump’s inauguration last week, White House correspondent Eli Stokols and White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns reported how Trump has given multiple speeches, made several policy announcements and has spoken to reporters at length.
Trump’s huge media presence is a change compared to the more muted Biden years.
"Yes, Trump was eager to sign all those executive orders reversing Biden’s policies," they wrote. "But the bigger flex for Trump, 78, was to contrast his accessibility, aptitude and activity with his predecessor, who was so often shielded from public view by aides wary of showcasing the 82-year-old’s growing limitations."
"As fast as the movers changed out the White House furniture, the country went from an invisible president, unable to command the spotlight, to an omnipresent one who wants the public’s attention at all times," they continued.
One reporter referred to Trump’s pressers as a "free-for-all" for journalists after "four years of begging for access to the more cloistered Biden."
"Although Biden did take questions from reporters here and there, his more informal exchanges with the press were sporadic and rarely lasted more than a few minutes. More often than not, he was out of view," Politico reported.
One downside the article considered, however, was whether constant access to Trump and his thoughts would almost be "too much for the media and public to absorb."
"Within the press corps, there is some ambivalence about Trump’s firehose on blast," they wrote. "The excitement about being able to ask the president about why he pardoned people convicted of vandalism, trespassing and violently attacking police officers, not to mention questions about everything from tariffs to TikTok, is tempered by the awareness that it is all, once again, too much. Too much to process and capture in real-time. Too much for the country to digest."
On Sunday, Trump held a 20-minute gaggle with reporters on Air Force One where he discussed a variety of topics like TikTok, and Greenland. He also took a dig at his predecessor by telling reporters they have "a little bit more access" than they did with Biden by like "5,000%."
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January 27, 2025, 04:45 AM
downtownv
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Originally posted by PASig: Did the Left get some kind of memo about eggs? They’re obsessed with it now. Look at social media and the news, it’s all they can talk about are the price of eggs.
I don't listen to any of the legacy media but they are saying the high cost of eggs is because Trump hasn't done anything about eggs? Have they mentioned bird flue? Or the fact chickens don't lay as many in cold weather? When I picked up a dozen last week Kroger's coolers of eggs were mostly empty, there were none of the good eggs, Happy Eggs, free range, etc., only a section of cheap eggs with little flavor, light yellow yokes, and paper thin shells, for $3.00 a dozen. Bought them anyway because they're better than no eggs.
The Left/Democrats had been too busy during the election trying to whip up fears about another pandemic to actually do anything about the effect this particular strain of bird influenza is having on poultry stocks.
Democrats believed that Trump’ response to COVID was a weak point they could exploit if they could make the public believe that a new pandemic as imminent and only Kamala could save them with further lockdowns.
By Alex Nitzberg , Peter Doocy | Fox News Published January 27, 2025 6:02am EST
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military who declined to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House.
"The Executive Order directs the Secretary of Defense to reinstate all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine and who request to be reinstated," according to the White House fact sheet.
Those reinstated will be restored to their prior rank, and will be provided back pay and benefits, according to the fact sheet.
"From 2021 to 2023, the Biden Administration and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discharged over 8,000 troops solely due to their COVID-19 vaccination status," the fact sheet notes. "After the vaccine mandate was repealed in 2023, only 43 of the more than the 8,000 troops dismissed elected to return to service under the Biden Administration and Secretary Austin."
During his inauguration speech, Trump had pledged to make the move, though he had indicated he would do it last week.
"This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate, with full back pay," the president said during his remarks on Jan. 20.
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January 27, 2025, 06:37 AM
Silent
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Originally posted by tatortodd: Long Tweet, but worth clicking and reading
+1 Sorry for the drift, but the traditional approach is what I experienced during a career in public education.
Silent
January 27, 2025, 06:48 AM
TigerDore
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Originally posted by Pavilion: The altars are different now than in Jezebel’s day. Sacrifices once held in public now take place behind the closed doors of abortion clinics. Then, as now, the government protects the altars where the killing takes place.
Finally. Someone is publicly framing this correctly.
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January 27, 2025, 06:54 AM
VBVAGUY
Not even 2 weeks into office and Trump is getting result. Western North Carolina residents who have been sitting in FEMA hotels for months, are now being moved rapidly into long-term, fully furnished apartments. THE TRUMP EFFECT IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless !!! https://www.tiktok.com/@nowher.../7462948652093279519
"Always legally conceal carry. At the right place and time, one person can make a positive difference."
January 27, 2025, 06:54 AM
downtownv
Trump Says He ‘Immediately Halted’ Hiring of New IRS Agents
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has halted any new hires of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents.
“They hired—were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border,” Trump remarked at a speech in Nevada, while also saying, “On day one, I immediately halted the hiring of any new IRS agents.
“I think we’re going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they’re so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border,” he said.
He was repeating a claim made in 2022 by Republicans that some of the IRS agents who would be hired would be able to carry firearms, although the bill did not designate money specifically for a large number of armed IRS employees. At the time, the IRS said it would also obligate about $8.64 billion of the new funding during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, and that 7,239 of the new hires during those years will be enforcement staff.
In his administration, President Joe Biden approved plans to direct $80 billion to the IRS under the largely Democrat-passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. House Republicans later clawed back billions of dollars from the legislation, most recently in the attempt to avert a government shutdown in December.
The original 87,000 or 88,000 IRS agents figure appears to have come from a U.S. Treasury Department estimate in 2021 to determine the level of hiring of agents to maintain the agency’s efficiency in collecting taxes.
Last year, the IRS said it was going to hire nearly 20,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service.
Soon after taking office, Trump signed an executive order to freeze the hiring of federal civilian employees across the government, stating that “no Federal civilian position that is vacant at noon on January 20, 2025, may be filled, and no new position may be created except as otherwise provided for in this memorandum or other applicable law.” “Except as provided below, this freeze applies to all executive departments and agencies regardless of their sources of operational and programmatic funding,” it adds.
Aside from the hiring freeze, the president suspended Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act funding disbursements in what his office said was “terminating the green new deal,” including pausing funds “supporting programs, projects, or activities that may be implicated by the policy established in Section 2 of the order.” Section 2 of the executive order mainly focuses on how to direct agency actions including protecting U.S. national and economic security and removing a federal electric vehicle mandate.
Trump also has said he wants to set up an External Revenue Service to collect “tariffs, duties, and other foreign trade-related revenues,” while Trump has proposed imposing a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico over border security.
During his Nevada speech, the president also suggested that he would like to end federal income tax and funding the government solely through tariffs. “How about just no taxes, period? We could do that,” he said.
Right before Trump took office, former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel stepped down from his position. Trump has named former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) to head the agency, pending Senate confirmation.
And as the Trump Train keeps getting longer and louder, whistle stopping everywhere.
If the "Black Bloc Pajama Party" (Antifa) with their Umbrella Army take to the streets and try their shenanigans like they did in Kenosha, Portland, St. Louis et al., I think they are gonna find out what the "1967 Detroit Summer of Love" was all about.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
January 27, 2025, 11:13 AM
TMats
Short and Sa-weet!
_______________________________________________________ despite them
January 27, 2025, 11:38 AM
sigmonkey
Presidential EO to withhold and and all Federal moneys to states/cities with "sanctuary" policies until the states/cities rescind the policies.
Flip every fruit basket and the money changer's tables over.
Let's Roll...
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
