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- Democrats Trying To Steal Pennsylvania Senate Seat
It will surprise no one who follows our coverage of how Democrats work to undermine election integrity that Pennsylvania’s defeated incumbent Democrat Senator Robert Casey has refused to concede the election and has instead attempted bring previously disqualified, and in some cases illegal, ballots into the count. Our friends at Blaze Media report that after the Wall Street Journal's editorial board claimed that Marc Elias, elections attorney for the Democratic Party, was "back and trying to steal a Senate seat for Bob Casey," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley warned that Democratic officials and lawyers "are trying to sow doubt in the democratic process." Marc Elias, a longtime Democratic election attorney and dirty trickster, is attempting to force the Pennsylvania Senate race into a recount, even though it was called for McCormick by the Associated Press on Thursday, with even the state’s most liberal news outlets echoing the call since. “Election Day has past [sic], but the fight for democracy continues. Here is some of what my firm has been up to: Thursday: Intervened against rightwing lawsuit in Pennsylvania,” Elias said in an X post Saturday. “The Pennsylvania Senate race is not over,” Elias warned in an X post Thursday. He also pointed to a statement from the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s office saying there were “at least 100,000 ballots remaining to be adjudicated.” Elias, who was at the heart of the bogus “Steele Dossier” conspiracy against President Trump, has also led efforts in multiple states challenging voter ID laws, expensive projects lavishly funded by Democratic megadonor George Soros, the Washington Post reported. Critics pointed to his hypocrisy, noting that following the 2020 election, Elias loudly condemned Trump’s legal efforts to recount votes in several swing states as “dangerous for democracy.” That danger is sure to grow now that the Pennsylvania is holding a recount, and Democrats are pushing to count illegal ballots. The Wall Street Journal editorial board indicated Sunday that a recount would afford Elias "a chance to try his legal shenanigans, which are likely to run the gamut from challenging votes for Mr. McCormick to searching for heretofore undiscovered ballots for Mr. Casey." "Mr. Elias helped to steal a Senate seat in Minnesota for Al Franken in 2008 by finding a judge to count previously rejected ballots and overturn the lead of Republican Norm Coleman," continued the Journal. "The Elias method is to look for friendly judges who will rule in his favor. Pennsylvania has a Republican secretary of state who supervises elections but an especially partisan elected Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court. So far Gov. Josh Shapiro and other officials aren’t commenting on Mr. Elias." Whatley clarified that Bucks County "is once again violating Pennsylvania law, this time by choosing to count undated and incorrectly dated ballots in a race that Dave McCormick has already won." The lawsuit filed by Senator-elect McCormick and the RNC against Bucks County states that the board's decision "is legally erroneous because undated or misdated mail ballots are invalid as a matter of law and cannot be counted in the 2024 General Election — as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has already made clear." LevittownNow.com reported that the Democrat-controlled Bucks County Board of Elections approved canvassing and counting for most of the nearly 4,500 provisional ballots it has received. The county election board is also counting hundreds of undated and incorrectly dated mail-in ballots even though the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled and reiterated that county election officials cannot count absentee ballots with incorrect or missing dates. State law requires mail-in ballots to be returned in two envelopes — an inner secrecy envelope and an outer envelope on which voters must pen their signatures and the current date. "The Board's baffling decision not to enforce the date requirement and to count noncompliant ballots thus directly contravenes binding Pennsylvania law," continues the complaint, according to reporting by Joseph MacKinnon. “Elias is part of Kamala Harris’ campaign’s legal apparatus,” said Tom Fitton, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Judicial Watch. “One of the big lies of the left is that they support democracy, but what they support is using the law to obtain and retain power for themselves and that’s what Marc Elias is about.” 2024 Election Marc Elias Pennsylvania senate seat Donald Trump Economy illegal immigration poll results exit polls likely voters survey public opinion abortion protecting democracy inflation voter categories
- Trump Carpet Bombs DC
President Donald Trump’s choice of outsiders to head major cabinet departments and hold senior White House positions has wreaked almost as much havoc on the Washington DC establishment as the British did when they burned down the city in 1814. In choosing Matt Gaetz to be his Attorney General, Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head HHS, Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence, Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security, Trump has chosen disruptors, rather than traditional movement conservatives, to manage key departments of the government. And he may announce even more disruptive personnel selections by the time this article is posted. Gone are industry insiders, retreads from establishment think tanks, the defense industry and the DC legal establishment, as Mr. Trump has chosen to look to his own MAGA Movement, rather than traditional pools of establishment political appointees. But this doesn’t mean that Trump’s choices, which may seem idiosyncratic to many conservatives (to put it mildly), are unqualified or “unfit” for the jobs. On the contrary, what qualifies them is their outsider status and their avowed commitment to make radical changes to the departments they’ve been chosen to run. As an example, yesterday President-elect Donald Trump said he is “thrilled to announce” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in a statement on social media. The Epoch Times reported that on Oct. 25, Kennedy wrote on X: “FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma. “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.” It sure doesn't sound like Kennedy plans to parlay his government service into a board seat on one of the companies he will regulate, does it? Democrats and DC establishment commentators will make much of the personal lives of Gaetz, Kennedy and Hegseth, who have already been smeared by opponents, but Trump didn’t hire them to be Sunday School teachers. They were chosen to shake-up politicized departments of government that have been deeply corrupted by the cultural Marxism of the Democratic Party, its racial spoils system and its systemic disregard for the constitutional rights of Americans who do not hew to the Democratic Party line. And Hegseth and Gaetz both have firsthand knowledge of how this deeply corrupted system works. In Pete Hegseth’s case he wrote a #1 bestselling book about how the Democrats’ racial spoils system and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies of wreaked havoc on our military readiness. Hegseth, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, who served tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay as an infantry officer, and received two Bronze Stars for his service, is the author of “ The War on Warriors ,” a best-selling book in which the Trump nominee blames the “woke military” for the recruiting crisis facing the nation’s armed services. “For the past three years – after President Barack Obama poured the social justice foundation – the Pentagon, across all branches, has embraced the social justice message of gender equality, racial diversity, climate stupidity, and the LGBTQA+ alphabet soup in their recruiting pushes” Hegseth wrote in his book, released in June. “Only one problem: There just aren’t enough lesbians from San Francisco who want to join the 82nd Airborne. Not only do the lesbians not join, but those very same ads turn off the young, patriotic, Christian men who have traditionally filled our ranks.” “You’ve got to fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and obviously, to bring in a new secretary of defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever that was involved in any of the DEI woke s–t has to go,” he said in the Nov. 7 episode of “The Shawn Ryan Show,” according to reporting by the New York Post. Matt Gaetz has an even more compelling reason to shake up the Department of Justice – after he became one of the Biden DOJ’s fiercest Capitol Hill critics, they tried to smear him and set him up. In a fiery 2023 House Judiciary Committee hearing Gaetz started questioning FBI Director Christopher Wray by reading a WhatsApp message from July 30, 2017, in which Hunter Biden demanded money from a Chinese business associate. “Sounds like a shakedown, doesn’t it, Director?” Gaetz asked. When Wray declined to opine, Gaetz lit into him. “You seem deeply uncurious about it, don’t you? Almost suspiciously uncurious. Are you protecting the Bidens?” the Republican asked in rapid-fire fashion. “Absolutely not,” Wray countered. “You won’t answer the question about whether or not that’s a shakedown, and everybody knows why you won’t answer it. Because to the millions of people who will see this, they know it is, and your inability to acknowledge that is deeply revealing about you,” Gaetz answered. Following the clash about Hunter Biden, Gaetz peppered Wray with questions about alleged abuses of the FISA surveillance system, particularly the number of violations. Gaetz then played a clip of Wray’s testimony before a Senate panel in which he told Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) that he didn’t believe FISA was part of the bureau’s Jan. 6 investigation. The congressman then read a court document suggesting FISA had been used and grilled Wray about whether he perjured himself. “I certainly didn’t perjure myself. At the time that I testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I didn’t have that piece of information,” Wray shot back. “The answer is, the FBI is broken so bad that people can go and engage in queries that when you come before the Congress to answer questions, you’re like blissfully ignorant. You’re blissfully ignorant as to the unlawful queries, you’re blissfully ignorant as to the Biden shakedown regime,” Gaetz chided, according to reporting by the New York Post. Why was Matt Gaetz, characterized by one Democrat lawmaker as “fiercely competent,” chosen by President Trump to be his Attorney General? Perhaps it is because, as Gaetz said in a social media post a few hours before his selection was announced, there needs to be a “full court press against this WEAPONIZED government.” He added, “And if that means ABOLISHING every one of the three letter agencies, from the FBI to the ATF, I’m ready to get going!” If confirmed as Attorney General, Matt Gaetz would oversee both the FBI and the ATF, formally known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and not only have the opportunity to get answers to his many questions of FBI Director Wray, but make good on that social media post as well. 2024 Election GOP senate majority Trump cabinet nominations Matt Gaetz Pete Hegseth Tulsi Gabbard Kristi Noem senate confirmation DEI recruiting Senate Majority Leader Senate Republican Conference President Donald Trump Christopher Wray FISA Court FBI ATF
- Transition to Trump 2.0: Donald Trump’s ‘Day One’ promises will take months to implement
What to expect when you’re expecting Donald J. Trump to honor his “Day One” promises immediately If you’re like me, you have probably dreaded starting a job at some point in time. Of course, most people are grateful for having a new situation and looking forward to putting excess financial resources away for the future, yet there’s something about beginning anew somewhere that produces apprehension. Not true of president-elect Donald J. Trump, however. The former president-turned new (almost) president has spent the better part of two years traveling the country, speaking to the media and outlining his plans and ideas for what he’d like to accomplish if he were to return to the Oval Office after the 2024 election. Well, Trump won the election and the time is rapidly approaching to put actions behind some of his headlining guarantees. All politicians make campaign promises. Some, mostly Democrats, do so half-heartedly, scheming to say anything to anyone to just get elected. Remember how then candidate Barack Obama was approached by common everyman “Joe the Plumber” in 2008 and proceeded to tell the citizen that he intended to “spread the wealth around” so everyone could benefit? Who knows whether Obama meant to fulfill the implementation of his “tax reform” plan – or anything else he promised people back then. The nation’s first black president was notorious for telling different audiences whatever he thought they’d wanted to hear, and his eight disastrous years in the White House left a near-irreparable mess for his successor, Trump, to repair. Senile Joe Biden and cackling Kamala Harris dug the hole much deeper in their four years, so much so that Americans hankered to return Trump to office to “Fix” the country. To that end, Trump sold his MAGA agenda to the voters. Mercifully, it’s almost time for him to make good on those vows. Where to start? In a detailed report titled, “What to Expect From Trump’s First Day in Office”, Janice Hisle reported at The Epoch Times . (The article outlines the areas Trump intends to touch from the get-go.) At least initially, Trump plans to sign a plethora of executive orders: Hisle wrote, “These orders, which have been used by almost every U.S. president, carry about the same weight as federal law. And they remain in effect unless Congress overrules them, a court overturns them, or a future president revokes them. These orders also signal what the new president’s priorities will be.” In no particular order: * Top Priority: Border Security and Immigration -- An order closing the border would be “done in the first hour of the first day” under his new administration, Trump said during an October campaign stop. “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program ... in the history of our country.” * Economy and Energy -- He has pledged to implement policies that encourage the production of fossil fuels, and, Trump did say he would sign an executive order “directing every federal agency to immediately remove every single burdensome regulation driving up the cost of goods.” * Taxes, Credit Card Rates -- “We will have no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security. ... And while working Americans catch up, we are going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates at 10 percent.” * Funds Halted for ‘Inappropriate’ Curricula -- cut federal funding for any school pushing Critical Race Theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.” * Order to End ‘Mutilation’ of Youths -- “I will support the creation of a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have unforgivably performed these procedures on minor children.” * Reversing the Electric Vehicle Mandate -- Trump has repeatedly pledged to immediately terminate Biden’s mandate on electric vehicles. * Protection of Free Speech -- "I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens." * Dismantling Bureaucracy -- Trump vowed to revive [his] 2020 order and “clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.” And, * Establish “a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” which would declassify and publish documents about “spying, censorship, and corruption.” * Trump also said he would form a Department of Government Efficiency These may be authentic “Day One” wishes, and it’s possible to perhaps get the ball rolling on some of them within the opening hours of Trump’s second term, but no one reasonably expects he’ll be able to plow through all of this just moments after repositioning himself behind the Resolute Desk. But Trump understands the opening hours of his new presidency will be crucial towards setting the tone for initial success. During the campaign, Trump was asked time and again by establishment media interviewers whether he intended to exact revenge for the way he was treated during his first presidency, the aftermath of the 2020 election, the January 6 commission, two impeachments, the people doubting his veracity and sincerity, etc. And of course, the lawfare campaign waged against him by the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors such as New York City’s Alvin Bragg and Fulton County’s Fani Willis. Not to mention the ridiculous Stormy Daniels trumped up charges, the constant smearing of his family name and businesses, his character and weak-minded scum dragging his family through the mud, too. “Success is going to be my revenge”, Trump would simply reply, a concept that didn’t require a great deal of elaboration. Trump’s “Day One” list is impressive in both its length and scope. There’s a lot to do, and, as the old saying goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Nor will America be great again with a few waves of Trump’s executive pen. Trump voters must realize he’s in it for the long haul; and so are we It’s tempting to raise expectations high after all that led up to the 2024 election. Senile Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and their hundreds of spokespeople made it nasty and personal. Cackling Kamala herself abandoned her original campaign focus on “Joy” and “Vibe” and soon returned to the nonsense about Trump being a “fascist”, a “dictator” on Day One, his “danger” to democracy and the like. Add the fact that Democrats made governing nearly impossible for Trump in his first term by pursuing the ridiculous “Russia! Russia! Russia!” farce and then by impeaching him, it’s understandable to be overly enthusiastic in pursuit of Trump’s “Day One” agenda. A lot of people apparently believe Trump can and will achieve everything he promised simply by willing it. But to correct the mistakes of recent years will take time and all the persuasion Trump and his team can muster. Starting with working with Congress, he’ll encounter more than the usual amount of resistance from Democrats and the establishment of his own party. Democrats will stonewall everything he proposes, because that’s just what they do. And it’ll be rough sledding for Trump to implement his foreign policy agenda. There’s still a powerful neoconservative contingent of senators who agree with Mitch McConnell that the war in Ukraine is the “most important issue” facing the United States today . As has been shown in the past, establishment Republican senators don’t care what the voters indicated they wanted. The haughty know-it-all, ruling class attitude among Republicans must be defeated along with other barriers facing the new president. It will take time and patience. 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- The Thune Dilemma
Senate Republicans have elected Senator John Thune of South Dakota as their new Majority Leader. According to our sources on Capitol Hill the first-round votes were, Thune: 23, John Cornyn of Texas: 15, conservative endorsed Senator Rick Scott of Florida: 13. In the next round with Scott out it was 29 for Thune and 24 for Cornyn, making Thune the new Republican Majority Leader. Let’s stipulate that in the wake of Donald Trump’s landslide reelection almost anyone would be better than Mitch McConnell, who made no secret of his contempt for Trump’s MAGA Movement supporters and his opposition to Trump’s plans for “draining the swamp.” But the operative words here are “almost anyone” and John Thune has his own record of opposition to President Trump. As David Sivak of the Washington Examiner noted, Thune has a rocky past with Trump dating back to the 2020 election and Trump's post-election day challenges to the vote based on credible claims of vote fraud. The criticism prompted Trump to seek, unsuccessfully, a primary challenger in Thune’s 2022 reelection campaign. Later, Thune would oppose Trump’s third run for president, endorsing Tim Scott’s primary run instead. And then there was this video making the rounds before the Senate GOP vote. However, Sen. Thune, unlike Sen. Mitch McConnell, appeared to offer an olive branch to President Trump and his supporters. As Mr. Trump locked up the presidential nomination, Thune endorsed him and fundraised on his behalf. In an opinion piece for FOX News Sen. Thune wrote, “we have a mandate to govern” and “…we must prepare the Senate to advance that agenda legislatively and ensure that the president-elect can hit the ground running with his appointees confirmed as soon as possible. The Senate Republican majority will work with President Trump to ensure the Senate calendar allows us to confirm his nominees and pass our shared agenda as quickly and as efficiently as possible.” This is a stark contrast to McConnell’s attitude after President Trump’s 2016 election, when the GOP-controlled Senate sat on many of Trump’s key nominees for months and left the subcabinet positions that implement policy in the hands of anti-Trump career bureaucrats. Senator Thune further wrote, “At the top of the list is cleaning up the mess left by the Biden-Harris-Schumer agenda, which was clearly repudiated by the American people. The Republican Congress must ensure President Trump has the necessary tools and support to enforce border security laws and to remove the violent criminals wreaking havoc in every state. The Biden-Harris administration caused the border crisis. We will end it. “Next, to make America prosperous again, we must take a hatchet to the regulatory apparatus choking our economy, starting with the 1,000 Biden-Harris regulations that have already cost Americans nearly $2 trillion. Streamlining the bureaucratic machine is long overdue.” Again, Sen. Thune’s conciliatory comments are in marked contrast to Mitch McConnell’s attitude toward the Trump agenda, when he went so far as to demand that Trump stop talking about “draining the swamp.” Perhaps our good friend Charlie Kirk best summed up conservative concerns in the aftermath of the Senate leadership election. 2024 Election GOP senate majority Mitch McConnell John Thune John Cornyn Rick Scott Senate GOP leadership election GOP establishment Club for Growth Senate Majority Leader Senate Republican Conference President Donald Trump Spending bills Elon Musk Rep. Byron Donalds Senator Marco Rubio Senator Rand Paul Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump endorsement
- Trump Backs Speaker Mike Johnson For Reelection
Yesterday, President-elect Trump threw his full support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to lead the House again during a closed-door meeting with GOP lawmakers. While Johnson was not facing any significant challenges, a group of conservative members have been threatening to slow the process down by demanding a recorded vote rather than unanimous consent for the election of the Speaker. Trump told Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., to "stick together" in the next congressional term, two sources said according to Yahoo News. Trump also promised the assembled Republican lawmakers he would "carry out the largest deportation operation in history," which earned cheers from House Republicans, sources said. However, Mr. Trump was not all business, he also joshed with lawmakers allegedly saying, "I suspect I won't be running again unless you do something else, unless you say he's so good we've got to figure something out," he joked. "We won it every way — all seven swing states by a lot … New Jersey is right, just a few points. It's got them very worried because they said, well, next time if we go up even a fraction of what we went up, you're going to win New York, you're going to win New Jersey, you're going to win places that weren't winnable. California, too," the President-elect said with characteristic optimism. And Speaker Johnson seemed much steadier in the job than he did before the election. However, President Trump’s endorsement may only temporarily paper over the real divisions in the House Republican Conference. House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris of Maryland did not rule out a challenge. “Last I looked, this is America and having two people in a race is kind of the norm,” Mr. Harris said. “We can do this Soviet-style, or we can do this American-style.” Although the Speaker has become close to President Trump, Alex Miller of the Washington Times reported some conservatives disagreed with Mr. Johnson throughout his speakership, taking issue with his decisions on Ukraine aid and government funding bills. If Johnson does garner a challenge, it will likely come from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia or Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Both launched a failed attempt to oust him from the speakership this year that garnered support from nearly a dozen conservatives. So far, no Republican lawmaker has publicly announced a challenge. It appears that, despite the simmering discontent among rank and file House conservatives, President Donald Trump’s endorsement is enough to save Mike Johnson’s position, at least for the moment. 2024 Election Donald Trump Economy illegal immigration poll results exit polls likely voters survey public opinion abortion protecting democracy inflation voter categories
- Transition to Trump 2.0: If personnel is policy, prepare yourself for no nonsense from Trump’s team
The choice of Tom Homan for “Border Czar” signifies Trump’s readiness to rock the boat and make change “Personnel is policy” is an old saying we used to hear quite a lot, at least in the days when American leaders were serious about accomplishing their agendas and getting stuff done – aided in large part by filling vacancies with individuals who could do the job rather than because of DEI or politically correct “diversity” justifications. Too many times in the past, Americans have been subjected to a type of eternal campaign where elections come and go yet the same old actors reign supreme no matter who wins or loses. This certainly includes Republicans as well as Democrats. President senile Joe Biden was happy as a hog in slop when he won the election in 2020 – or was declared the winner – but on closer examination, all he did upon assuming the office was bring in the same old retreads from Barack Obama’s eight years in power and therefore live out what most observers suggested was simply a third term for the former community organizer from Chicago. It may just as well have been a pseudo time extension for “The One”, only with Dr. Jill Biden’s arrogant airheaded-ness substituting for Michelle Obama’s smirks and condescending lectures. President-elect Donald J. Trump has signaled that those habitual patronage days are in the past, and some of his early personnel decisions are already raising eyebrows in liberal circles for the “message” they portend to send. In an article titled “ Trump’s new border czar puts sanctuary cities on notice: ‘Get the hell out of the way’ ”, Stephen Dinan reported at The Washington Times the other day : “In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Homan laid out an expansive effort to carry out Mr. Trump’s mass deportation promises. “He said the administration will start with illegal immigrants who have criminal records or threaten national security. The estimated 1.1 million illegal immigrants who have refused to comply with deportation orders also will be priority targets. Mr. Homan said sanctuary cities won’t be able to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. “’If sanctuary cities don’t want to help us, then get the hell out of the way. We’re coming,’ he said." For those who voted for Trump specifically because they saw him as a no-BS-type person who means what he says and says what he means, Homan is the poster child for such a government servant. According to Dinan’s report, “Mr. Homan started his career as a Border Patrol agent and served in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement before becoming acting director at the start of the first Trump administration. He was nominated to hold the position in full but met resistance in the Senate and never received a confirmation vote.” Yes, once again, the issue of Senate confirmation, the process whereby senators from the Washington DC “uni-party” get hour upon hour of free grandstanding to push questions written by their staffs so as to make the elected official look important and offer facial expressions as though they’re “concerned” or afraid the nominee is too “extreme” to serve in the capacity from which they were anointed by the president. Matt Gaetz will surely get more than his share of scrutiny to earn enough votes to be confirmed as Attorney General. But Trump’s borrowing senile Joe’s “Border Czar” term bypasses the unpleasantries – and boredom. Simply put, Tom Homan is a bad (bad in the good sense) dude. It doesn’t take but a few minutes of watching one of Homan’s interviews to ascertain that the guy is law enforcement to the core, a man who doesn’t give a squat what the establishment media or his political enemies (same thing?) think of him. Conservatives are ecstatic that a means-business kind of person will be working on the illegal immigration issue that took center stage in Trump’s successful 2024 campaign. Extending the logic, Homan will essentially be replacing cackling Kamala Harris as “Border Czar”. Who still thinks elections don’t have consequences and politicians don’t make a difference? Personnel is policy, part II Dinan’s article mentioned several other Trump choices to fill positions in the new MAGA 2.0 administration: Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 4 House Republican, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Stephen Miller as deputy White House chief of staff for policy; Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state and Rep. Michael Waltz for national security adviser, and, former Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Soon after the first round of announcements, term-limited South Dakota governor Kristi Noem was revealed to be Trump’s selection to take on the duties of current DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Democrats so incompetent at his job he was nearly impeached (saved from such a fate by RINOs, no less). Be prepared for the numerous social media “wouldn't have her for dog catcher” memes certain to crop up when Noem appears for her confirmation hearings after the new year. Democrats won’t want to talk about the horrific state of the border, FEMA’s incompetence or other matters assigned to the DHS Secretary, but they’ll sure want to dig up dirt regarding the pooch that Noem allegedly shot! Thus far, Trump has not shared his reasons for picking Noem to play such an important role, but here, like so many different areas, is a case where we’ll need to trust the president-elect’s instincts. It would make no sense for Trump to bring in Noem just because she’s a woman or has been a loyal supporter for a long time. It appears unlikely Kristi would be seen as too squishy and timid to succeed in the role. ( Note : Here’s a view suggesting she’s not courageous enough .) As is true with most cabinet positions, being good at the public relations game will be essential to doing well there. Trump must trust her. We’ll see. Whatever is said, Noem can’t be worse than Mayorkas proved to be at the job. The same is true for all of Trump’s would-be appointments. Rubio as Secretary of State? As would be expected, when it was reported that Florida Senator Marco Rubio was being considered for Trump’s Secretary of State, media talkers began squawking about how the Floridian would become the first Hispanic man to head up the diplomatic corps, as though Rubio’s heritage and DNA would make an impact on the decisions he’d make representing Trump’s foreign policy. Known as somewhat of a hawk, Rubio’s also renowned for his fierce defense of all things Israel and would probably continue his passionate advocacy on behalf of the Jewish State. Put it this way, I doubt Rashida Tlaib and the rest of the “Squad” members would be thrilled about having Rubio in the position. It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since Trump and Rubio tangled in the 2015-16 Republican primary campaign where the older man and outsider politician labeled Rubio “Little Marco” and conservatives distrusted the senator for his membership and leading promotional role in the disreputable “Gang of Eight” immigration group in Congress. Rubio appears to have mended fences since and also has ditched his reputation as a pre-programmed robotic politician and master of what Chris Christie once called the “25-second speech”. All of the issues that were brought up during the 2016 campaign are likely to resurface at Rubio’s confirmation, including his somewhat questionable personal financial dealings before taking office. But none of it should serve as a disqualifier to Rubio assuming the State job. And as a sitting U.S. Senator, he probably would get a number of Democrats’ votes, too. 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- Trump’s ‘Peace Through Strength’ National Security Team Takes Shape
In the days since his historic victory President Donald Trump has released a series of planned appointments and nominations to key national security roles in his next administration. FLASH: Hegseth to DoD, Ratcliffe to CIA. Pete Hegseth has been proposed as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton University and has a Graduate Degree from Harvard University. He is an Army Combat Veteran who did tours in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan. For his actions on the battlefield, he was decorated with two Bronze Stars, as well as a Combat Infantryman’s Badge. His book, “The War on Warriors,” spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list, including two weeks at NUMBER ONE. The book reveals the leftwing betrayal of our Warriors, and how we must return our Military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has been proposed as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). John Ratcliffe previously served as the sixth Director of National Intelligence (DNI). In that role, Director Ratcliffe served as the leader of the U.S. intelligence community and principal intelligence advisor to President Trump. Prior to his nomination and confirmation as DNI, Director Ratcliffe served in Congress for over five years as the U.S. Representative for the 4th Congressional District of Texas. As a Congressman he was a leading policy maker on national security issues as a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees and as Cybersecurity Chairman on the Homeland Security Committee. Although the names released thus far don’t shed a lot of light on how Mr. Trump will approach Russia, so far, the team appears to portend a tough line against our enemies, particularly Red China and the Islamic Republic of Iran. President Trump’s selection of Congressman and former Green Beret Mike Waltz as his national security advisor points toward a very tough line with the Communist Chinese and Iran’s jihadi regime. Rep. Waltz shares Trump’s “Do what you have to do” policy toward Israel’s existential war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. In naming Waltz, JTA.org reported Trump said, “Mike has been a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda, and will be a tremendous champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength!” Regarding reports that the United States had stopped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, Waltz who has been among Israel’s most robust backers in the U.S. House of Representatives, has also said Israel should not hesitate to hit Iran’s nuclear sites and oil fields. “So far…it’s important to note what hasn’t been hit in Iran,” Walz said in an Oct. 25 tweet, listing an Iranian oil facility and a nuclear facility. “This might be Israel’s last best chance to diminish Iran’s nuclear program and shut down their cash. Did Biden/Harris pressure Israel once again to do less than it should?” Waltz has been one of the most vocal China critics in Congress, wrote Rishi Iyengar in a report for Foreign Policy magazine. Waltz served on the China Task Force and sponsored legislation to restrict government funding from U.S. universities with ties to China. He also serves on the Armed Services Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee. While Waltz has broadly been supportive of U.S. aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, he has more recently criticized what he called the “blank check” approach and called on European countries to shoulder more of the burden, observed Mr. Iyengar. On the domestic security front President Trump’s designation of Tom Homan as “Border Czar” was greeted with universal enthusiasm among conservatives. Trump promoted Homan to acting ICE director in January 2017, then nominated him as director, however, the anti-Trump Senate never acted on his nomination. Homan has a reputation as a non-nonsense law enforcement official. Homan told Fox News over the weekend that the deportation campaign Trump plans is "going to be a well-targeted, planned operation conducted by the men of ICE. The men and women of ICE do this daily. They're good at it." Blaze Media reported Homan demonstrated the continued strength of his resolve in an interview last month with CBS News' "60 Minutes." When asked about the potential cost of deporting one million illegal aliens a year, Homan said, "What price do you put on national security?" While it is unclear what Mr. Homan’s chain of command authority would be as a White House staff Czar, as opposed to the proposed Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor Kristi Noem. Two of Trump’s planned ambassadorial nominations also portend a tough line against our enemies and squishy European “allies.” President Trump has proposed Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel. Both are seen as tough opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and particularly in the case of Rep. Stefanik, proven advocates of Trump’s America First foreign policy and opponents of the UN’s institutional anti-Semitism. One other important position that is rumored to be filled, although no official statement has been issued to back up the rumors, is that Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio will be nominated to be Secretary of State. Senator Rubio, like his Florida congressional colleague Rep. Mike Waltz, is a pro-Israel, anti-Red China hawk. Hailing from a family displaced by Cuba’s Communist revolution Sen. Rubio is a longtime opponent of Marxist regimes in the Americas, however, it remains to be seen if the rumors regarding Rubio’s move to the State Department will prove to be true. If President Trump does nominate Sen. Rubio to be Secretary of State his prompt confirmation appears to be assured as at least one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, has already said he vote to confirm his Republican colleague. 2024 Election Peace through strength national security Trump team National Security Advisor Russia Ukraine war Iran China Mike Waltz Israel Iran nuclear sites Iran nuclear program Tom Homan Border Czar Elise Stefanik Ambassador to UN DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
- What Should Trump’s Top Priority Be?
Despite concerns about the economy and other issues, illegal immigration topped the list of problems that voters want the new president to solve. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 32% of Likely U.S. Voters say illegal immigration is the most important issue for the next president to solve, while 27% said rising prices were most important. Twenty-four percent (24%) consider protecting our democracy the most important job for the next president, while 14% say abortion rights. The survey – taken just before Election Day – found a nearly 2-to-1 consensus on the question made famous by Ronald Reagan in 1980, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters said NO, compared to 33% who said yes. Similarly, when asked if today’s children will be better off than their parents, 52% answered NO, while just 20% said yes and 28% were not sure. The survey of 1,800 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on October 30-31 and November 3, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. While 52% of Democrats said they were better off than they were four years ago, that opinion was shared by just 14% of Republicans and 30% of voters unaffiliated with either major party. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans, 39% of Democrats and 59% of unaffiliated voters said they were not better off. Forty-nine percent (49%) of Republicans, 18% of Democrats and 31% of unaffiliated voters say illegal immigration is the most important issue for the next president to solve. Thirty percent (30%) of Republicans, 21% of Democrats and 31% of unaffiliated voters say rising prices are the most important issue for the next president. More than half of Democrats considered the most important issue for the next president to solve to be either protecting our democracy (33%) or abortion rights (25%). Majorities of both men and women voters named either illegal immigration or rising prices should be the next president’s most important issue to solve. However, women voters (18%) were significantly more likely than men (10%) to consider abortion rights the most important issue. Majorities of every racial category answered no to the question “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Black voters were most likely to believe today’s children will be better off than their parents. Voters under 40 were most likely to see rising prices as the most important issue for the next president to solve, while those 65 and older were most likely to consider illegal immigration the most important issue. Among voters who said they’re not better off than they were four years ago, 45% think the next president’s most important issue to solve is illegal immigration. Among those who said they are better off than they were four years ago, 48% believe protecting democracy is the most important issue for the next president. Breaking down the electorate by income categories, voters earning less than $50,000 a year were most likely to say they aren’t better off than they were four years ago. Those in the highest bracket – with annual incomes above $200,000 – were most likely to view the next president’s most important issue as protecting democracy. 2024 Election Donald Trump Economy illegal immigration poll results exit polls likely voters survey public opinion abortion protecting democracy inflation voter categories
- Transition to Trump 2.0: Trump’s insistence on loyalty from administrators is natural – and wise
The Trump transition’s first non-shock reveals a Nikki Haley/Mike Pompeo ban from Trump 2.0 Is it possible to say goodbye before a friend or colleague even arrives? Possible or not, president-elect Donald J. Trump accomplished the feat this past weekend when the future 47th president announced via social media that neither former Trump U.N. Ambassador and 2024 GOP primary antagonist Nikki Haley nor former Trump Secretary of State (in the first Trump administration) Mike Pompeo would receive invitations to serve in his reformulated White House. Both Haley and Pompeo had been prominently mentioned as high-profile possible additions/rehires to the new Trump transition, both being well-known and generally well regarded by the party establishment and establishment media as potential spokespeople for the next executive to hit the ground running by dropping names who Americans recognize. In a report titled “ Trump announces former WH officials Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo will not be in his next administration ”, Anna Young shared the story at the New York Post : “Haley, who has been both publicly supportive and critical of her former rival, publicly announced back in August that she had no interest in serving in Trump’s administration — stating the ‘campaign was never about a position.’ “Pompeo, who served as both secretary of state and CIA director in Trump’s first administration, has been widely criticized for remaining silent throughout the presidential race until just days before Election Day. “Republicans have also blasted him for supporting special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of Trump over the possession of alleged classified documents.” The last fact, if true, would certainly constitute a disqualifier. Throughout the campaign, Trump made no attempt to conceal his distaste with the senile Joe Biden/Kamala Harris/Merrick Garland-inspired lawfare criminal witch hunts of himself and many other members of the 45th president’s administration, and any hint, by anyone, of agreement with Smith’s investigation would raise red flags in the former president’s mind. Some things are forgivable; others aren’t. Disloyalty, especially when there’s no prompting for it, ranks among the biggest possible transgressions where Trump is concerned. There’s always been an uneasy tension between Trump and Haley, so him crossing off her name as a possible high-ranking lieutenant was surely expected, including by Nikki herself. Haley willfully joined the 2024 general election campaign late and offered to stump for the top guy, but this move was purely to preserve her future ability to run for the high office again. The two clearly didn’t like each other very much, and there’s no reason why Trump would keep the South Carolinian around this time and just look the other way as treachery was going on. You may recall how Vivek Ramaswamy held up a “NIKKI = CORRUPT” sign in one of the RNC’s primary debates, and the Ohioan’s sentiments weren’t all that far off. You also might remember that Pompeo was possibly being considered by Trump for his veep slot, the position that ultimately went to 40-year-old rising star J.D. Vance. It’s unknown just how serious the rumors were surrounding Trump and the Kansan regarding the post vacated by Mike Pence, but here’s thinking the president-elect didn’t come to his conclusion about Pompeo overnight. Or in the spur of the moment. At any rate, the preemptive “banning” of Haley and Pompeo had the aura of Trump wanting to get it over with promptly, most likely in hopes of squelching establishment media condemnation and rampant speculation about Trump’s treatment of former rivals. One thing is evidently clear: Trump decides what he wants quickly and doesn’t hesitate. Prepare for more such “He/She’s not invited” announcements soon. Since when is “independence” from your boss considered a political virtue? As it’s been barely a week since Donald Trump won his triumphant victory in the presidential election and his focus has now turned to assembling the gigantic “team” who will populate his new administration, there’s been much non-insider talk about the “type” of people he should be considering to work for/with him. Needless to say, commentators on the liberal end of the ideological spectrum are smearing Trump as a megalomaniac who first demands blind obedience and loyalty from his minions and therefore, they will, gulp, take his orders and fail to demonstrate “independence” or offer tacit resistance to Trump’s supposedly worser instincts, therefore permitting him to “dictate” his wishes and have them carried out to the letter regardless of what they are. To present such an “I say, You do” scenario is frightening to Trump’s nemeses, all of which, to put it mildly, do not trust him to so much as dress himself without a government appointed watchdog looking over his shoulder to ensure he’s not doing anything damaging or destructive to the government policies and mandates they believe in. Kamala Harris and senile Joe both said it a lot – that Trump purportedly purged the opposition voices from his inner circle and won’t have anyone to slow him down or tell him “no” when he proposes something like moving Israel’s capital to Jerusalem. Oh wait, he already did that! Or how about laying punitive tariffs on China or Mexico, not to raise money for the Treasury, necessarily, but to compel the rival nations to cooperate and play fair with important aspects of the MAGA agenda. Oh! The horrors! “Trump’s gonna be mean to the new president of Mexico and threaten her with 25% tariffs if our southern neighbor doesn’t get tough on illegal immigration!” Or, and this is one of my favorites, Trump plans to make changes in the way NATO does things, even going so far as threatening to pull the United States out of the alliance and compelling the longtime diplomatic and military partners to risk going it alone against fiendish Vladimir Putin if they don’t maintain their individual commitments to devote two percent of their GDP towards ensuring deterrence against hypothetical Russian aggression. Relax, people. Such a tack is basically a negotiation tactic. Does anyone truly believe Trump wants to take the U.S. out of the alliance and then dawdle as the European continent squirms while Putin stations Russian troops at their borders, readying for an invasion? After the three-year war in Ukraine, does Putin even have excess troops left to contemplate such a happenstance? And yes, as with all of these policy areas, the naysayers claim, Trump wants “Yes (people)” to carry out his instructions. But Trump was elected president, and a certain amount of power goes along with the office. Would a CEO of any company tolerate his directors’ outward defiance? What kind of company would that be? Besides, what’s wrong with the concept of top-down political offices? Is there a congressman or congresswoman in this country who would look the other way towards staff insubordination? Did Kamala Harris herself fail to get rid of staffers who didn’t do what she ordered them to do? Would senile Joe have been in better position if he’d allowed calm voices and gentle hands to suggest to him that maybe, just maybe, he shouldn’t have blown the doors off the treasury to rain checks down on his Democrat backers? The notion Trump no longer has anyone to stand up to him, like former Chief of Staff John Kelly, or former Attorney General William Barr, or Mike Pence after the 2020 election, or some schlep in a bureaucratic role in a federal executive department – is absurd. Trump has acquired a reputation for consulting advisors on important decisions, but ultimately trusts his instincts to choose between alternatives. Is there anything wrong with that? If you think it’s a bad thing, please provide an example of an effective leader who takes a vote among subordinates on crucial matters of policy. Anyone? Anyone? Joe Biden economy inflation Biden cognitive decline gas prices, Nancy Pelosi Biden senile Kamala Harris candidacy Donald Trump campaign Harris Trump debates J.D. Vance Kamala vice president Speaker Mike Johnson Donald Trump assassination Donald Trump 2024 presidential election Tim Walz
- Conservatives Demand Rick Scott For Senate Majority Leader
In the wake of President Trump’s historic return to the White House conservatives are demanding that the remaining establishment Republicans in the United States Senate elect a leader who will get behind the MAGA agenda or get out of the way. And with Senators John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas both tainted with past opposition to President Trump and our MAGA agenda only Senator Rick Scott of Florida meets our criteria for Republican Majority Leader. David McIntosh, President, of the Club for Growth told FOX News, “We are definitely supporting Sen. Rick Scott; he is the voice of change in the Senate, and he will be the most effective leader at implementing President Trump’s agenda because he believes it… He will stand up for the new Republicans that the American people sent to Washington and work with President Trump to get the changes that the American people want to see done right away. The great thing about Rick Scott is he knows both the Senate, he knows the Executive Branch as a former Governor, and he has been a solid conservative across the board.” The conservative leaders who participate in the Conservative Action Project have also endorsed Sen. Scott. In an open letter to Republican Senators and the conservative movement they wrote: On the heels of President Trump’s election to the presidency, conservatives are proud to stand with Sen. Rick Scott’s bid to lead the Senate Republican conference. President Trump needs a mission-aligned Majority Leader who will fight for his agenda. We believe Senator Scott is that person. The Senate is a powerful, but broken, institution. The rights of individual senators to debate, deliberate, and represent conservative interests are routinely subverted by a leadership that is too eager to cut deals with the left. “We often take votes that divide us and unite Democrats,” Sen. Scott pointed out when he announced his bid. We agree. The current leadership of the Republican conference is not one that prioritizes the ideas and talents of its individual members. Rather, it seems more focused on the interests of Washington, D.C. As Sen. Scott put it, “there have been far too many backroom deals cut in secret, rarely do things go through the committee process, and it’s accepted practice to not allow amendment votes to trillion-dollar spending bills.” In the next Congress, we expect to see new leadership promote change that unites the Republican conference toward supporting President Trump while allowing all senators to have their ideas heard and represented on the Senate floor. Committee process, amendment votes, leadership term limits, and an appropriations process which allows for more than a day or two of deliberation are all key conservative aims. Senate Republicans need bold leadership that will not be influenced by special interests inside and outside of the Senate. Sen. Scott is a new, strong, courageous leader who will bring change to the Senate and to our country. He will lead the charge to support the Trump agenda in the Senate. We urge all conservatives to support him. For the complete list of signers click here . Among other conservative leaders and MAGA Movement figures, Newsweek reported Elon Musk enthusiastically threw in his support for Scott on his social media platform and wrote on X," Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!." Newsweek further reported that Representative Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, "This week the Senate GOP must elect Senator Rick Scott to be the next Majority Leader. @ScottforFlorida will be effective in accomplishing the Trump agenda in the US Senate. Let's get to Work!!" Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, also took to X to state his support and wrote, "I will be voting for my Florida colleague @ScottforFlorida to be our next Senate GOP leader." Meanwhile, Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, showed his support and wrote on X, "I will be supporting Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader." Replying to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's post on X in which he calls Scott "the only candidate who agrees with Trump," former independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wrote that "without Rick Scott, the entire Trump reform agenda wobbly." Also replying to Carlson's remarks, Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, wrote: "President Trump needs Rick Scott as Majority Leader to shepherd his bold agenda through the U.S. Senate!" Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, has publicly backed Scott as an option and urged Trump to do the same. The Capitol Switchboard is (202-224-3121), we urge CHQ readers and friends to call their Senators TODAY to demand they vote for Senator Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader. 2024 Election GOP senate majority Mitch McConnell John Thune John Cornyn Rick Scott Senate GOP leadership election GOP establishment Club for Growth Senate Majority Leader Senate Republican Conference President Donald Trump Spending bills Elon Musk Rep. Byron Donalds Senator Marco Rubio Senator Rand Paul Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump endorsement
- Vindictive Feminists Plot Revenge Following Kamala Harris Defeat
Our friends at the Coalition to End Domestic Violence alerted us to their post-election research showing millions of feminists around the world are suffering from mental health disorders (1). In the United States, a stunning 56% of young liberal women have been told by a healthcare provider that they have a mental health problem (2). When emotionally unstable feminists learned that their “topple the patriarchy” fantasy had been upended by Donald Trump’s historic election victory, it’s no surprise that the Gender Warriors set out to plot their revenge. Within hours, arch-feminist Jill Filipovic inveighed darkly about men voting against “women’s most fundamental rights,” reciting the feminist clichés about “misogyny” and “male dominance” (3). Because in the feminist worldview, every setback to the feminist cause is deemed to be the fault of men. Filipovic conveniently ignored the fact that men are now lagging behind women on a broad range of social indicators (4). Last week’s election not only signaled the political defeat of Kamala Harris. It also foretold a global realignment against totalitarian and anti-free speech policies that many countries – especially Australia, Canada, and England -- embraced during the COVID epidemic (5). Feminists are not going gently into that good night: Massachusetts feminist Sarah Murray posted that she hopes Trump supporters choke on "a piece of sh*t covered in broken glass." (6) Ohio high school teacher Danielle Mann was placed on administrative leave after she filmed an unhinged video of herself ranting about the election, suggesting that men who voted for Trump are unsafe to be around (7). Saddest of all, feminists launched a so-called 4B Movement. 4B is shorthand for the Korean words bihon, bichulsan, biyeonae and bisekseu, which translate to No marriage, No childbirth, No dating, and No sex (8). Of course, childless single women – sometimes referred to as “cat ladies” – face a higher risk of loneliness and depression (9). The gender intifada targeted Republican women, as well. Physician assistant Nicole Hart posted, "To every woman that voted for Trump, I hope your daughter has an ectopic pregnancy." (10) Fortunately, not all feminists resorted to the “blame men” narrative. Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that Democrats “completely misread abortion politics in this country” and failed to ponder “why Democrats did not turn out for Kamala Harris.” (11) And Sirius XM radio host Megyn Kelly issued a poignant plea on behalf of men. She noted that Trump “will look out for our boys, to our forgotten boys and our forgotten men. Guys like you. Guys like these guys. Who got the calluses on their hands? Who work for a living with the beards and the tats. Who maybe have a beer after work and don't want to be judged by people like Oprah and Beyoncé.” (12) Feminists now face a stark choice: Work to regain a sense of rationality, fairness, and compassion. Or find their movement dismissed as an outdated, divisive, and hateful ideology. The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — consists of 171 member organizations from 37 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse polices are science-based, family-affirming, and gender-inclusive. http://endtodv.org/coalitions/davia/ Links: https://endtodv.org/pr/we-need-to-address-mental-health-crisis-among-young-feminist-women/ https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1637513378464661507 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/donald-trump-elected-men-vote-against-kamala-harris.html menandboys.net https://fiamengofile.substack.com/p/were-all-terrorists-now https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1855010985691505112 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854990223102353702 https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/4b-movement-trump-south-korea-wellness-cec/index.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25669856/ https://x.com/DavidLaBeouf/status/1854983633096130864 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/08/jen_psaki_over-listening_to_and_over-lifting_up_of_the_never-trump_republicans.html https://www.foxnews.com/media/megyn-kelly-rallies-trump-pittsburgh-claiming-he-protector-women
- Transition to Trump 2.0: Second chance at life leads to mandate for change for Donald J. Trump
Trump embodies the “Live like you were dying” credo Ever since surviving the first of (at least) two assassination attempts in early July, president- elect Donald J. Trump has often reflected on how he believed God spared him for a reason, so he could return to the presidency to implement his agenda, bring our country back from the brink and Make America Great Again. It’s as though the traditionally less-than-humble Trump’s been given a gift of faith few people ever receive, basically a second chance at life to complete the type of mission many of us set out to fulfill but inevitably come up short. It’s kind of like what country legend Tim McGraw sang about in his famous tune, “ Live Like You Were Dying ” -- “Like tomorrow was a gift and you've got eternity To think about what you do with it What could you do with it, what can I do with with it, what would I do with it” … Whether Trump’s miraculous comeback was divine inspiration or not, his agenda is now ripe for the taking. Unlike much of his first term, Trump will enjoy a solid majority in the senate and (probably) at least a small margin in the House, sufficient numbers to do what he set out to do, basically fulfill the wealth of promises he offered on the campaign trail to induce Americans to take another chance on him. And believe in him. In an article titled “ Trump returns: Voters give him historic mandate for second-term agenda ”, W. James Antle III wrote at the Washington Examiner : “It is possible with Vance and other new faces in the administration Trump will dig deeper into economic populism. He is already set to push ahead with higher tariffs to combat China and attempt to reshore U.S. jobs. Don’t rule out legislation that might pair mandatory e-Verify to crack down on illegal immigration with an increase in the federal minimum wage. “Most Republicans in Washington believe Trump will be far better prepared out of the gate than he was in 2017. He will need to be. Democrats will be eager to take back Congress in 2026, and he is constitutionally ineligible to seek reelection in 2028. ‘He’ll be a lame duck after six months,’ a GOP strategist said. “Time, therefore, is of the essence. Trump appears to have a sense of urgency.” Urgency might be too soft a word for the degree of exigency Trump and his circle feels right now. Though the campaign certainly required a great deal of focus and attention to, in “first things first” fashion, win the race and then start planning, as soon as it was evident he’d won a week ago, Trump wasn’t about to take time to celebrate. Ever since, there must’ve been innumerable meetings out of view and planning that is hard to describe. Trump’s familiarity with the White House and executive branch no doubt helps in the effort, but there’s an unwritten determination among the victors to ensure the mistakes made in the late days of 2016 and early period of 2017 aren’t repeated. At the same time, Trump and his mandate guarantees he won’t pay much attention to the sleaze and gossip his enemies are concocting at every opportunity as we speak. There’s a noticeable quiet, too, with the American populace seemingly sick to death of partisan rancor. The largescale anti-Trump demonstrations that sprung up after his first win have mostly not materialized. Could it be the left-wing freaks are simply lying undetected for the moment a leader signals to emerge from their hiding spots? Yesterday having been Veteran's Day, Perhaps it’s like the Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima who allowed the American forces to land and advance on the island before being given a prompt to resist and inflict mass casualties at close range? From "Flags of Our Fathers" It’s been an uneasy calm, that’s for sure. But Trump’s transition work would go on regardless. As Antle hinted in his piece, commentators have suggested Trump is much more prepared this time. Last week, his first transition appointment was elevating campaign manager Susie Wiles to become his second term’s chief of staff, something the establishment media appeared to pan despite the fact that the supposedly “afraid of strong women” Trump just tapped the first woman to ever serve in such a lofty capacity. And by choosing Wiles, Trump signaled that the president-elect is serious about bringing in outsiders to serve him and his agenda rather than adhere to reputations and Washington experience to guide his day-to-day operations. That has to be a positive sign, doesn’t it? Trump’s early moves also show his emphasis in personnel positions will be on loyalty and avoiding potential public relations pitfalls by bringing in saboteurs in disguise who cause trouble through leaks to the press or generally disregard his wishes to score personal points and engender invitations to appear on “ The View ” because he or she exhibits an “independent” streak. Trump remembers very well what happened last time when he brought in Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon to run his White House from the get-go, an arrangement that only lasted a couple months and immediately set a bad tone for his efforts to drain the DC swamp. There’s much more of a business-like look and feel to Trump 47’s administration. As Antle also mentioned, it’s very unlikely Trump will give extra emphasis to appointing Democrats or military generals to work for him, something that proved disastrous last time around. It also seems certain Trump will rely on serious campaign contributors and surrogates Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to take visible roles in his operation. There’s a border situation to deal with and energy production to facilitate. None of these moves can wait long. With at least 53 Republican senators in place just after the New Year, Trump will be primed to get folks in place quickly. And put them to work. Democrat infighting keeps anti-Trumpers at bay… for a time I’m not surprised, but even then, it’s been a little shocking to witness just how angry Democrats are – at each other – and the enthusiasm they’re putting in to their finger pointing. Many a commentator has suggested Barack Obama’s reign as Democrat kingmaker and Democrat “closer” has come to an end . It was a long time in coming, but hardly anyone still thinks Obama is steering the direction of the Democrats now that puppet senile Joe Biden has finally been knocked off his arrogant perch, or that protégé cackling Kamala Harris is being sent back to California to wallow in self-pity for a period of time. Will she run for governor out there? Time will tell. But Kamala’s reign as a national figure has come to an un-dramatic end. Her disgrace couldn’t happen to a more deserving character. The leaderless Democrats must now come up with a new figure to rally around, and because they have no concise opposition agenda to offer, they’ll take a while to figure out where they stand. It’s kind of like the Republicans after 2012, where they were searching for answers and tossing invective – at each other. The Republican Party’s struggles led to the emergence of Donald Trump in the national political scene. Trump recognized the time was right for a tough-talking populist to emerge. His unique blend of skills, connections, talent – and this year, a second chance from God – made all the difference. Joe Biden economy inflation Biden cognitive decline gas prices, Nancy Pelosi Biden senile Kamala Harris candidacy Donald Trump campaign Harris Trump debates J.D. Vance Kamala vice president Speaker Mike Johnson Donald Trump assassination Donald Trump 2024 presidential election Tim Walz