^^ ^^

Needs to be bigger...Maybe even YUUUUGE!

This will help them in the Mid-terms....

Sen. Kim: Dems Ready to Shut Down Government Over Trump Actions

Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Democrats are considering not helping the Trump administration fund the government.
Kim said, “In a few weeks, the Republicans are going to try to figure out how they move forward, and they have, for the last two years, needed Democratic votes for every single continuing resolution, and they should not count on that this time.”
Host Kristen Welker said, “Are you prepared to shut down the government?”
Kim said, “You have to look at what the Trump administration is doing right now. They are trying to dismantle the government. So yes ”
He added, “I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions. And for us to be able to support government funding in that way only for them to turn it around, to dismantle the government. That is not something that should be allowed.”
Welker said, “Just to be clear, Senator, you are open to voting yes to shut down the government?”
Kim said, “This is on them. This is about whether they can get the votes. They are the majority. If they cannot govern, that is for the American people to see. I’ve worked in government. I’ve worked through multiple government shutdowns. I would be the last person who would want to get to that stage, but we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis. Seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clip...-over-trump-actions/

I can see President Trump replying "Close the government? Make my day."

One in five Democrats say Trump is doing a good job as his whirlwind start in office attracts new fans

By ROB CRILLY, CHIEF U.S. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
PUBLISHED: 16:15 EST, 10 February 2025 | UPDATED: 18:39 EST, 10 February 2025

President Donald Trump's approval rating is at a historic high three weeks after taking office and even one in five Democrats think he is doing a good job.

That is the extraordinary finding of a new J.L. Partners/DailyMail.com poll.

To be sure, his numbers are still poor for a newly inaugurated commander in chief, but his whirlwind start -cutting a swath through government agencies, deporting migrants and threatening trade wars with countries from Colombia to Canada - has not proved as divisive as it might have been.

To test his job rating, J.L. Partners polled 1,000 registered voters across the country on Sunday.

It found that 53 percent of respondents approved of the president's performance so far.

That includes groups that he has struggled to attract in the past.

Almost half of women approved of his performance and 41 percent of black voters agreed (compared with 16 to 20 percent of black Americans who voted for Trump in November.)

James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, said Trump had long had a reputation for dividing the country.



'But Trump’s popularity has this week reached new heights, at 53 percent, including winning over one in five Democrats,' he said.

'That comes after policies of this first few weeks, which again we’ve been led to assume are divisive: from deportations and DEI, to tariffs.

'It’s not always that a cheer from a crowd matches the reality, but this time around the public looks a lot like the Super Bowl audience that cheered the president last night.'

When Trump strode out on to the field in New Orleans on Sunday night, he was met by a generally positive response, although there was a smattering of boos and jeers.

The whole game was a reminder of how Trump in 2024 cuts a different figure to the start of his first term.

Athletes use his dance moves to celebrate scoring and the NFL has dropped its 'End Racism' logo from end zones.

Tech titans, such as Mark Zuckerberg, who opposed him in 2017, are now visitors to the president's Mar-a-Lago home and have wound down factchecking operations, for example.

The poll shows he now has support across almost all age groups. Only voters over the age of 65 give him an overall negative rating.

And a string of other polls shows a similar honeymoon.

A rolling average maintained by Real Clear Politics put Trump on 49 percent approval compared with 45.3 who disapproved of his performance.

That gives him a net positive score of 3.7 points, the highest it has ever been since Trump entered politics in 2015.

A CBS poll mirrored the DailyMail.com results, finding that 53 percent of voters approved and 47 percent disapproved.

Respondents used words such as 'tough,' 'energetic,' 'focused' and 'effective' when asked to explain their views.

When J.L. Partners asked respondents last month why their view had become more positive they used terms that suggested voters were ready to rally around a new leader.

They used words such as 'country' and 'president.

Trump nominee Tulsi Gabbard clears last hurdle, heads for final confirmation vote
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's choice as Director of National Intelligence, was voted out of committee last week

By Julia Johnson | Fox News
Published February 10, 2025 6:33pm EST

President Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, cleared her last procedural hurdle on Monday evening, paving the way for a final confirmation vote later this week.

The motion passed by a vote of 52-46, along party lines.

At one time considered perhaps the most vulnerable of Trump's picks, the former Democratic congresswoman got past another key vote, defeating the legislative filibuster's threshold on nominations.

The Monday vote's outcome was much more certain than that of her Senate Select Committee on Intelligence vote last week, which depended on a handful of senators who had potentially lingering concerns.

But Republicans signaled confidence in her confirmation in the full Senate, evidenced by their slating it while Vice President JD Vance is in Europe representing the U.S. at events and meetings, and is not around to break a tie in the upper chamber. Vance notably had to break a tie to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The vote teed up a final confirmation vote on Wednesday, as Democrats are expected to use all 30 hours of post-cloture time to debate, rather than reaching a time agreement with Republicans to expedite it.

Gabbard advanced out of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, snagging the support of crucial GOP Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Todd Young, R-Ind.

In a final vote, Gabbard can only lose 3 Republican votes, assuming she does not get any Democratic support, as was the case in the committee vote.

Gabbard already has an advantage over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as Collins supports her. The senator was notably one of three votes against Hegseth.

Trump’s FAA Puts ‘Men’ Back in NOTAMs

Move reverses a Biden-era change in name meant to be ‘inclusive of all aviators and missions.’

Meg Godlewski
Updated Feb 10, 2025 5:06 PM EST

Aviators who have struggled with the term "Notice to Air Missions" as a rebrand of "Notice to Airmen," are now in luck: Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) has returned.

NOTAM, which went from Notice to Airmen to Notice to Air Mission in December 2021, has returned to Notice to Airmen, according to FAA notice 7930.114.

The move reverses a 176-page rule from the Biden administration-era FAA that adopted the "Notice to Air Missions" name change in order to comply with the Federal Women’s Program (FWP) suggestions, as the term Notice to Air Missions is “inclusive of all aviators and missions.” In addition, Notice to Air Missions also addressed the flight of unmanned aircraft such as drones and free balloons, neither of which have a human onboard...

Complete article:

https://www.flyingmag.com/trum...-men-back-in-notams/

Shut the government down ? Don’t tease me with a good time.

We all know they won’t shut down the military or fed LEO or TSA and anybody furloughed will get all the back pay like always.

The need to chop deep and permanently.

We can go back to only 2020 and have a bloated budget of 5T. Anybody else get a 40% increase in pan in last 4% years ? Anyone ?

We could cut back to a budget of 4T and freeze for a few years, have some major cuts to fraud and waste. And pay down 1t of debt since we are collecting 5T in revenues.

Victor Davis Hanson: Sorry Liberals. DOGE is 100% Legal. Here’s Why

Great post from Kurt, please read the whole thing.

https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/s.../1889129565319987628

Trump's Approval Rating SURGES to a RECORD HIGH!

[R. Lee Ermey] Well, no shit. [/R. Lee Ermey]

GOP Senator Susan Collins, Key ‘Swing Vote,’ Will Vote to Confirm RFK Jr.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Great post from Kurt, please read the whole thing.

https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/s.../1889129565319987628

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Cut and paste. As easy as apple pie.

"Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…

OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions.
Stop. Panicking.
First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come.
Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter - only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid.
Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.
CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it.
So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly"

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

I came here to share that lol. So nice.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
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Cut and paste. As easy as apple pie.

"Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…
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Thanks much for the clear, simple text version. Very heartening.

what if we made this sort of thing once a week mandatory for secdef?
https://x.com/SecDef/status/1889212701785673922

Trump Admin Urges Judge to Dissolve Order Blocking DOGE From Treasury
A federal judge over the weekend prevented many Trump administration officials from accessing sensitive records.

The order from District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer bars access to the payment records for all personnel apart from civil servants “with a need for access to perform their job duties.”
Government lawyers filed an emergency motion to the court.
“On its face, the Order could be read to cover all political leadership within Treasury—including even Secretary Bessent,” they wrote, referring to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “This is a remarkable intrusion on the Executive Branch that is in direct conflict with Article II of the Constitution, and the unitary structure it provides.”
Article II grants the president the power to appoint the heads of executive agencies and to seek their opinions on any subject relating to their duties.
“Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the President,” the government lawyers said on Feb. 9. “A federal court, consistent with the separation of powers, cannot insulate any portion of that work from the specter of political accountability.

“No court can issue an injunction that directly severs the clear line of supervision Article II requires. Because the Order on its face draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction, it should be dissolved immediately.”
If the order is not dissolved, the court should clarify or modify the order to make clear it does not cover top Treasury Department officials, according to the motion, and if the court is unwilling to grant relief, it should stay the order pending the outcome of an appeal.
District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas, who is overseeing the case, after receiving the motion ordered the parties to meet and confer regarding the motion “to determine if the parties can reach agreement on a stipulation that either resolves or narrows the issues presented in the Motion.”
If the parties cannot reach an agreement, the plaintiffs are ordered to file a reply by 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 10, with a response to the reply due from government lawyers six hours later.
The case was brought by the state of New York and 18 other states against President Donald Trump and Bessent. The states said that the government giving access to payment records to DOGE, which is headed by Elon Musk, posed cybersecurity risks and imperiled the privacy of state residents whose financial information and other personal data were stored in the files.
The states asked for an order blocking the access and received the order early Feb. 8.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/...eyMeAHspy%2BR6sGI%3D

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Originally posted by Bytes:
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Beyond that, how the fuck did the database table not have the PaymentCategory column with a required restraint on it. I don't see how that could be anything but intentional. When I go to bed tonight I am going to thank my Maker for the election of Donald Trump. Stand by, there is a bunch more of this shit coming our way. Thank you President Trump.

I spent most of my working life as a database programmer. I wouldn't dream of building one without making sure certain fields are properly populated, and that certainly seems like one that would be required!

Regarding the ability to have duplicate SSNs in the database mentioned above, that is a cardinal sin for a database programmer. Most every data table has a "key" field which should never allow duplicates, and a SSN data field is a very obvious one!

As you said "Bytes", I don't see how these errors could be anything else other than intentional!

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Originally posted by Bytes:
<<snip>> When I go to bed tonight I am going to thank my Maker for the election of Donald Trump. Stand by, there is a bunch more of this shit coming our way. Thank you President Trump.

I couldn't possibly agree with you more! He truly is a gift from God at this point in history, and after seeing the way things are changing rapidly around us, I couldn't be any happier that he is finally back in office!

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Originally posted by oddball:
My wife sent me this a couple of hours ago, and it is getting some attention elsewhere, including Conservative Treehouse, etc.
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Please, do yourself a favor and read this piece by one of the kids doing the work. One of the best things I have read regarding Musk and his people going after corruption. I won't copy and paste, here is the X link to the author's post.

https://x.com/EkoLovesYou/status/1887301698814988567

That was one of the best, and most encouraging things I've read in many years! Thanks for posting it!!!