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by | April 4, 2025 · 11:42 pm

This week at DOGE

DOGE: The savings live tracker is a very welcome change from the anxiety-inducing Debt Clock!

MARCH 28, 2025: Over the last 3 days, agencies terminated 121 wasteful contracts saving We The Taxpayers $156 million. These included a $1.6 Million DEI contract for “strategies for implementing ‘social emotional’ learning” and a $143,000 DOT contract for “social media support services.”

MARCH 31, 2025: A 2023 IG report (title page above) pointed out that nearly $5 Billion in COVID era funds remained unused. Nobody did anything about it. DOGE recently recovered $1.4 Billion and it to the Treasury general account. The team is moving urgently to get the rest.

MARCH 31, 2025: Today, agencies canceled 109 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers $420 million. One of these was a $2.7 Million Commerce Department contract for “marketing consulting services outreach and engagement support services.”

EPA: CLICK https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1906776086412767560 [2:10] to hear how much money the Biden administration wasted on one extraordinarily stupid project. CLICK the Wikipedia link below to read about the man the museum lionized.

USIP: Each year, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) receives $55 Million in congressional (taxpayer) funds. According to DOGE, they would sweep millions of this money into a private endowment over which there was no congressional oversight). Trump vowed to dismantle the agency and sent DOGE in. A private accountant to whom USIP had paid $2,232,500 attempted to delete over 1 Terabyte of accounting data after DOGE entered the building. DOGE has recovered the data which allowed them to learn how much waste and fraud they wanted to hide. Among these was $13 Million spent on private events and travel.

SOCIAL SECURITY: DOGE has been cleaning out the data base. The graphic shows the people over 120 years who had been correctly marked as deceased as of March 31. Two million more to go.

APRIL 2, 2025: Today, agencies terminated 80 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers another $139.1 Million. One of these was $2.1 Million State Department management consulting contract for a “senior advisor” in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VETERAN AFFAIRS: Until recently, the VA was paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being performed by one internal VA software engineer who needs about ten hours per week to keep the website up-to-date.

APRIL 2, 2025: Today, agencies cancelled 47 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers another $30.2 million. One of these was a $3.4 million State Department management consulting contract for “aviation advisors” in Kenya.

LABOR DEPARTMENT: On April 3, Acting Secretary Sonderling announced the cancellation of wasteful DEI contracts that will save We the Taxpayers $15 million. Among these were:

  1. $6.7 Million for the California State Library to “enhance equitable library programs”;
  2. $1.5 Million for the Connecticut State Library system to “integrate social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion” into their daily work;
  3. $400,000 for the University of Tennessee to study “LGBTQ+ library users’ metadata”;
  4. $265,000 for Queens College in New York to research “why BIPOC teens” read Japanese comic books;
  5. $250, 000 to erect “LGBTQ+ historical markers” across Ohio;
  6. $140,000 for the University of South Carolina to create “safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals” in libraries; and,
  7. $105,000 to California Association of Museums to address “systemic racism” in museums.

APRIL 4, 2025: The DOGE IT team just saved We the Taxpayers $1 million per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent, modern digital records.

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by | April 4, 2025 · 11:11 pm

Tariffs

Trump’s tariffs are causing a temporary dip in the stock market. If tariffs are so bad, why aren’t they upset about all these nations that impose them on our products? In other news, Trump’s plan is already working as intended. Israel, India, the EU, Japan, Vietnam, and Cambodia all plan to drop tariffs if Trump agrees to do the same.

Liz Wheeler posted the following on X –

Maybe just maybe you’ve been propagandized about tariffs by the same uniparty elitists who imposed deadly open borders on you.

If your reaction to tariffs is “oh no, it’s basically a tax, stuff is gonna get more expensive” — then buckle up.

Here’s the truth about tariffs.

At the onset of “global free trade” we were told three things:

  1. Trading with China, NAFTA, & globalization would promote “democracy” around the world.
  2. Products would be cheaper.
  3. Life would be better.

Well, the first thing sure didn’t happen. The communist Chinese are as despotically authoritarian & inhumane as ever. And look at the EU crackdown on speech, or our own govt weaponized against us—sheesh.

Products did get cheaper—what at what cost?

We were promised that our qualify of life would be improved by cheap products— but did it? Nope. The opposite happened.

In fact, millions of Americans lost their jobs. To be specific, between 2000 and 2017, 5.5 million American manufacturing jobs left the country.

That means millions of Americans—mostly men—were suddenly out of work.

And what happened? What happens when the jobs are gone? When men want to provide for their families but can’t? When men lose the dignity of work?

As we soon found out, many of these men turned to drugs—drugs that are readily available in this country thanks to the “free trade” politicians who deliberately left our borders open & then turned a blind eye to the trafficking of deadly fentanyl across our border from the very countries—China, Mexico, Canada—we were supposed to benefit from trading with.

Between 1999 and 2021, more than 640,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose.

Why?

Because entire communities — places like where Vice President JD Vance is from — were hollowed out as their manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas. And then the same countries who stole our jobs sent fentanyl across our borders to kill us.

Tariffs not only stop impertinent countries from taking advantage of us—which is a big deal. Tariffs will stop the flow of fentanyl into our neighborhood—which is a moral imperative. If countries don’t stop sending drugs—they get slapped with crushing tariffs.

President Trump understands leverage and knows these tariffs will force such countries to crack down.

And let’s talk about cheap products. Is the trade—pun intended—worth it? Is a lead-poisoned purse from SHEIN for two bucks worth surrendering our supply chains to foreign nations that hate us? Do you want to rely on China for antibiotics? Do you think it’s smart to rely on Taiwan for semiconductors? Think of the empty shelves in grocery stores during Covid. Our supply chains are FRAGILE. It’s a national security threat to rely on foreign countries for things our families need. Tariffs help bring back manufacturing & reliance to our own country, our own states, our own communities.

Other countries will cave. They have to. They rely on the American economy too much to refuse Trump. And they can’t wait him out—he’s President for four years.

Trump is the perfect person to use tariffs as the means to an end—an actual better quality of life, security and prosperity for the American people that we were promised by the lying elitists that Trump is now reclaiming for you.

In summary, I love tariffs. Stop freaking out. This is gonna be awesome.

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by | March 1, 2025 · 7:42 am

Trump v Zelenskyy – FAFO

CLICK https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-trump-receives-zelenskyy-at-the-white-house-5817950 to see the full meeting.

As I understand it, Zelenskyy told Rubio he was ready to sign the mineral deal. Then, when he got to the Oval Office, he was disrespectful and demanding more, more, more. We gave him billion$ and he sneers and demands more? ::smh::

Speaking of disrespect … since when does a world leader show up at the Oval Office looking like it’s Casual Friday?! When one of my kids got the chance to meet Marine One on the South Lawn … a greet and grin that lasted less than ten minutes … she and her companions sweated bullets over getting their dress blues looking exactly right.

His dress was definitely an issue for others, too. When Zelenskyy arrived at the White House, Trump noted, “You’re all dressed up today. … He’s all dressed up today.” Later, a reporter asked, “Why don’t you wear a suit? Do you own a suit? You’re at the highest level in this country’s office and you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting this office.” Zelenskyy responded confidently, saying, “I will wear a costume when this war finishes. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.”

Apparently, Zelenskyy wears his “combat gear” everywhere, including to the re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral. Methinks that is the “costume.” After the reporter’s comments, the ever-gracious Trump both said that he thinks the reporter is a good guy and that Zelenskyy’s outfit was fine. But … that was before Zelenskyy made it clear he was not there to sign a mineral trade agreement, but to demand more money and even troops!

The body language in these photos is very interesting. Top: Biden is tense, angry, and protecting his privates. I can only imagine that the real message Zelenskyy was delivering was, “We gave your useless, crack-head son million$ and we have the receipts. Pay up or we make it all public.” Bottom: Zelenskyy is angry and protecting himself, while Trump and Vance let him know, in no uncertain terms, that he hasn’t got diddly squat on them (and they don’t give a toot if he shows the world his receipts on the Biden crime family).

And speaking of body language, CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1895536974892843162 to see Ukraine’s ambassador. Ouch.

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by | February 24, 2025 · 8:35 am

Bits & Bytes

The reading he references is Sirach 1:1-10.

AIR: Flying is getting safer. We’re just seeing more media coverage of mishaps. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EjMeIvE3X_Y to hear a pilot calmly inform his passengers that he just landed them safely after experiencing his first engine failure in over 3 decades of flying. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zS-KXv07GtU to hear a wonderful flight safety announcement.

BORDER: [16:13] – The Canadian border is an issue too.

DAN BONGINO: This news made my day!!

“Republicans against Trump” tweeted – “BREAKING: Donald Trump just named far-right MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino, a notorious conspiracy theorist who promoted the lie that the 2020 election was ‘stolen,’ to serve as Deputy Director of the FBI. God help us all.”

“GranTorino” responded – “Define far right… And list all the conspiracies that Bongino has reported on that haven’t come true. I’ll wait.”

::gigglesnort::

DOGE: The reason behind the email every federal worker got requiring them to submit a report on what they did during the week. Failure to reply will be considered a resignation. In other news, Musk reportedly has proposed that DOGE have an enforcement arm to be designated “FAFO” (Federal Agency for Financial Oversight). I suspect this may be a prank designed to get liberal heads exploding … kinda like that tweet where Trump called himself “The King.” But who knows for sure? I thought buying Greenland was a prank, yet it seems Trump is 100% serious about that one.

ELON: So glad he won’t get pink slipped for failing to respond to his own email.

UK: Apple has caved to the British government’s request to have access to private user data by removing its highest level security tool from its UK users. This in a nation that is jailing people for silently praying outside of abortion clinics.

GRAMMY’S NOTES: ::mind-boggled::

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WqZBn4bSWuA to learn something else I did not know before.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HORYeGUMmwU and listen to the very end! ROFLLL

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by | February 13, 2025 · 6:50 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please bless us all and help us to serve You more perfectly. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

AI: CLICK https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1889693652659687557 [1:12] to appreciate anew what a mortar shell we all dodged last November.

BORDER: Venezuela sent two planes to retrieve about 190 of its citizens who were here illegally.

CALIFORNICATION: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/560270753518856 to hear a father speak to the school board about a “coming out” exercise they inflicted on his daughter. Attorneys for the parents say the Vista Unified School District (VUSD) in San Diego presented the LGBT “unicorn” curriculum in non-health classes to try and bypass state parental notification laws.

CONFIRM: The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence.

DOGE: CLICK https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1889427687267086773 [1:02] to hear Musk talk about bureaucrats who make six figures a year somehow becoming millionaires after getting their porky snouts into the public spending trough. How about after his team finishes auditing government agencies, they start auditing said millionaires?

DOJ: [17:50] – Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday that the DOJ is suing New York Attorney General Letitia James, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Commissioner Mark Schroeder for violating federal immigration laws. She told other states they would be next if they don’t wise up.

EPA: In its last weeks, the Biden administration rushed to shovel as many taxpayer dollars into far-Left coffers as possible. Lee Zeldin has located $20 billion that the scumbags at the EPA transferred to an outside financial institution and is working to get it back.

HEALTH: A study entitled “Dental flossing may lower the risk for incident ischemic stroke, cardioembolic stroke subtype and AF” was recently published in AHA Journals. It reports on a 25-year study showing that flossing appears to reduce the risk of stroke.

MASSATWOSHITS: The Worcester city council held a raucous meeting to consider declaring itself a trans sanctuary city. Not the Bee has video clips of speakers, including one in a purple wig, pearl necklace and white gloves who said he needs the city to protect him, because he is “afraid of Trump.” Then, he warned the city that, if the resolution didn’t pass, they should “prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space.” Translation: “I will violently whup yo’ ass if you don’t pander to my neurotic delusion that I am a fragile female.”

MILITARY: The boards of visitors are typically split between presidential appointees and members appointed by Congress, usually lawmakers themselves. The Biden administration also removed top former Trump officials from the service academy boards in 2021.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/598117263039486 to see an old woke recruitment ad, then a new MAGA one.

WEAPONIZING: After New York City Mayor Eric Adams complained that Biden’s open border policy was destroying his city, Biden’s Justice Department indicted him on federal bribery charges. On Monday, Trump’s Justice Department dropped the case.

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by | February 10, 2025 · 9:34 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask you today for the graces we need to trust You totally. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

BORDER: Reinforcing our border wall makes illegal crossings more difficult.

DOGE: When Biden was killing off real jobs in the energy sector, Dems told coal miners to “learn to code.” Now that Trump is killing off cushy, overpaid “jobs” in government, Dems are treating it as a national emergency. I’m thinking if the IRS did a deep audit on each of the ones squealing the loudest, a bunch of those mission billions would turn up.

HATING GOD: It is what Nazism, Islam, and the Democratic Party all have in common.

OMB: DOGEism is catching on. Trump’s head of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, says he has scrutinized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) budget and determined it is not “reasonably necessary” to continue funding it. “This spigot, long contributing to CFPB’s unaccountability, is now being turned off.” The CFPB is yet another government agency that has been funneling our tax dollars to progressive causes.

PRIORITIES: Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) says he and his fellow Democrats are open to shutting down the government in March if Trump’s recent actions to slim down the federal government are not halted. So … what they’re saying is that it’s okay to shut down the government, but not to slim down the government. Okay. I guess. ::smh::

RACE: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BcdrjjMjnpA to hear one American who refuses to let black racists bully her. I love how calmly she sticks to her message.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A8TpI2aJHRI to hear Sen. Tim Scott lay a load of actual facts on The View. When he talks about the challenges America faces today, I thought, “People like Oprah and Sunny Hostin.”

SOT: I keep hearing TV anchors calling for us to watch SOT number something. I googled and found out that SOT stands for “sound on tape.” It refers to an audio-video recording.

TRUMP: While at the Super Bowl, Trump tweeted that he has decided to stop wasting money making pennies. It literally costs us two cents to manufacture every one cent coin!

WEAPONIZING GOVERNMENT: Next question is … did SHE pay back those loans on time and with interest like Trump did?

WOMEN’S SPORTS: Three former University of Pennsylvania women’s swimmers – Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist – filed suit on Tuesday, alleging they suffered emotional trauma by having transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as a teammate. They are calling for the Ivy League to expunge Thomas’ female swimming records.

“The UPenn administrators told the women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas’ participation on the UPenn Women’s team, they had psychological problems and needed to see a counselor. They also say school officials warned them not to speak out against Thomas, lest they be branded as “transphobic” and damage future job prospects.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HQOeWjHrqr0 to see “English” naming animals.

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by | February 8, 2025 · 12:36 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for the graces we need to fully commit to following You regardless of how hostile the culture may be. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: [18:31] – Tom Homan got to give a strong message to ABC viewers who can’t seem to understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VACkE29d-Qs to see Melania shut down MSNBC’s attempt to score a gotcha.

DOGE: People who are worried about Elon Musk having access to the Social Security numbers we have given to our banks, employers, car loan companies, mortgage holders, insurance providers, credit card companies, and the IRS. FYI, guys … Elon Musk doesn’t need your money.

JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS: On Thursday Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided she was the true elected leader of the United States and she blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing “any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service.”

Judge Kollar-Kotelly is the same vile leftist who sentence 75-year-old Paulette Harlow to two years in jail for her part in temporarily blockading the entrance to a late-term abortion clinic. When Paulette’s husband, John, begged the judge to reconsider, citing his wife’s health problems that made him fear that she might die in prison, the judge sneered and told him no because, according to her, 75-year-old Paulette’s protest had been “violent.” Harlow suffers from debilitating diabetes, Hashimoto’s disease, and severe back pain requiring the use of a wheelchair. To add insult to injury, Kollar-Kotelly forbade Harlow, a devout Catholic, from attending Mass while she was under house arrest awaiting trial.

Last week, other judicial activists told police to stand down and allowed hundreds of anti-ICE protesters to walk away scott free during and after they used their bodies to block traffic on a major LA freeway for hours.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1887892486003245297 [:48] to hear SecDef Pete promise to ensure that “at a bare minimum, by the end of four years, the Pentagon passes a clean audit.” S’funny how the Pentagon audience doesn’t seem too enthused this this idea.

PLASTIC STRAWS: Trump promised to end Biden’s ban on plastic straws in federal facilities.

POTUS: In 2021, Biden revoked Trump’s access to intelligence briefings, an entitlement that most former presidents enjoyed. Trump just returned the favor.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: The percentage of Americans who believe athletes should only play on teams that match their birth gender increased from 62% in 2021 to 69% in 2023 to 79% in 2025.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nOvU0v2zqvM to see a beautiful Becorn photo in the making.

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by | February 5, 2025 · 1:21 pm

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, we ask you today to help women to choose life for the unborn children you have entrusted to them. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

BORDER: The border issue just hit close to home. – Tompkins County Sheriff Derek Osborne, a Democrat, ignored a federal arrest warrant and released Jesus Romero-Hernandez (27) into the Ithaca community. Romero-Hernandez has been removed from the U.S. six times and was most recently in Osborne’s court pleading guilty to assault.

The Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office claims they notified ICE when the illegal was going to be released and, allegedly, “had every opportunity to come to the jail to obtain the individual in question without any need for a pursuit or other incident.” According to lawyers interviewed by Fox, the federal warrant obligated them to hold him until ICE arrived and took custody.

In other stupid news that affects me and mine … more than 100 anti-ICE protesters who blocked traffic on both sides of a major freeway in LA were released without consequences. No charges. No jail time.

CONFIRMATIONS: The Senate 54-46 to confirm former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted 9-8 to approve former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the next director of national intelligence. Gabbard’s nomination will now head to the Senate floor for a full vote.

Remember back in October when billionaire and Dem shill, Mark Cuban, appeared on The View and said, “You never see [Trump] around strong, intelligent women, ever. It’s very simple; they’re intimidating to him. … He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.” Bwahahaha!!!

FBI: [3:25] – For four years, Biden’s Weapon of Trump Destruction had 5,000 of its 13,000 agents working on the J6 investigation. How many real criminals were not apprehended because they were so busy tracking down peaceful protesters?

In other stupid news, The Women’s March has announced they will henceforth hold a moment of silence each week at 12:53pm on Wednesday “to reflect, meditate, or simply bear witness … the moment January 6th rioters first crossed the barricades.”

FEDERAL BLOAT: More than 20,000 federal workers have accepted President Donald Trump’s buyout offer so far, but the number is growing rapidly. They expect it to spike 24 to 48 hours before the Feb. 6 deadline.

To Lefties tempted to complain about unemployed federal workers … cry me a river! When FAUXTUS was destroying jobs, you told coal miners they should learn to code.

GITMO: Planes loaded with illegals are flying the Guantanamo Bay naval facility in Cuba.

HYPOCRISY: Remember when Ron DeSantis sent 50 illegals to the island? Remember how, after making a big show of feeding them and housing them for one night, they demanded and got the U.S. military to remove them all to someplace that wasn’t Martha’s Vineyard? Well, they’re back to virtue signaling.

The Martha’s Vineyard Times reports they stood out in the cold for two hours, holding anti-ICE signs. One of them told reporters, “We have to protect these people because they are part of the workforce of the Vineyard.” Translation: I’m too cheap to pay an American a decent wage to clean my toilets.

MIDDLE EAST: After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump said the United States could take over the Gaza Strip, relocate everybody, and use the land to build a Riviera style resort. N.b., Babylon Bee is reporting it as “will.” CLICK

https://x.com/Osint613/status/1884202978225324205 [:17] to see recent video footage of what Trump called a “demolition site.”

“We’ll own it, and will be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. We’ll level the site and get rid of all the destroyed buildings. Just level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. [You] just can’t go back [to how it was]. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for a hundred years,” Trump said.

CLICK https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/trump-and-netanyahu-hold-joint-news-conference-5804137 [1:46:44] if you want to see the Trump-Netanyahu press conference.

MILITARY: In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 YEARS. America’s youth want to serve under the strong, bold “America First” leadership of President Donald Trump.

SUPERHERO: [2:21] – On Friday, January 31, 2025, a plane crashed in Philadelphia. Andre “Trey” Howard III (10) threw his body over his four-year-old sister, successfully protecting her from flying debris. A piece of shrapnel hit him in the head, causing serious injuries. When he woke up from brain surgery, his first question was, “Daddy, did I save my sister?” Andre faces a long road back to health. The family’s GoFundMe goal (link below) was nearly met after just two days.

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by | February 4, 2025 · 11:27 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Fill us with Your spirit of truth so that we may discern rightly when to say, “Yes, Lord”, and when to say “Get behind me, Satan.” In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

CANADA: Trudeau’s temper tantrum cooled quickly. Like Mexico’s president, he has agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border in exchange for a one month pause in Trump’s tariffs. Canada has also agreed to appoint a “fentanyl czar,” invest $139 million (C$200 million) in intelligence operations targeting fentanyl, designate cartels as terrorist organizations, and establish a partnership with the U.S. Joint Strike Force to fight fentanyl trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering.

FAFO: CLICK https://x.com/injurypics/status/1886655992433156127 [1:50] to see a video shot yesterday outside the White House. It took less than a minute for cops to put this idiot on the ground.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Bobby has passed the first hurdle, with the Senate Finance Committee having voted 14-13 in favor of his confirmation. Now, he goes to the full Senate. I wonder if Bernie Sanders will bring up those onesies again …

LANDFILLHARMONIC: [3:31] – Wow!

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury and Commerce Departments to submit a plan for creating a sovereign wealth fund within 90 days. The plan should include recommendations on “funding mechanisms, investment strategies, fund structure, and a governance model.”

A sovereign wealth fund would allow the United States government to invest money in real financial assets to build wealth the same way you can in your own private investments. Multiple US States have similar plans, along with dozens of countries including China, Russia, UAE, Norway, Italy, and Mexico.

Commodore Vanderbilt at Not The Bee explains, “This is an enormous change in how tax money (especially tariffs) are spent in the United States. Right now, the government forces its own citizens, on penalty of jail, to pay a significant portion of their income so that the government can spend it. The government then spends the money on wild projects in foreign countries that enrich politicians … while driving up the national debt annually.

“This order shifts everything from that Sheriff-of-Nottingham model to one that gets money from imports and then invests that money so it can strategically fund projects in the national interest. Americans will still pay taxes in the form of higher prices at the store, but the federal government’s revenue will be based on trade and invested for future use.”

USAID: Elon Musk said DOGE focused on USAID, because it was the government agency most disobedient to Trump’s executive orders. USAID only exists because of an executive order.

CLICK https://rumble.com/v6gm7rs-trump-press-sec-walks-right-up-to-media-and-drops-a-bomb-on-usaid.html [:50] to hear Trump press secretary read some of the crap this agency has been spending our money on. Under President Joe Biden’s administration, the organization spent tens of millions to promote abortion in Africa.

SecState Marco Rubio is now acting head of USAID. He promises a program-by-program review of which projects make “America safer, stronger, or more prosperous.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Except for hugs!

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by | February 4, 2025 · 9:56 am

Trump’s Agenda

I saw this on Facebook; it went viral.

In the interest of pointing out misinformation: In Dec 2023 there was a decision by the World Court, that gave water above land shelves to those countries and ruled they were not international water. The renaming of the Gulf of America isn’t renaming the whole gulf. It is renaming the area above our land shelves as our territory. You can’t exactly put signs or border walls in the middle of the ocean. So for legal reasons, we need to identify these new changes on the map, so that new borders are made clear to maritime traffic. Those new maps will set the latitude and longitudes of where our border begins, or the Gulf of America. So all maritime traffic knows when they are leaving international waters. This is where knowing what is happening in the world, will help you filter out drama, and help you understand the legalities in your own country. This had nothing to do with Trump’s ego, he is strengthening our borders and making sure all maritime traffic understands the changes that happened in 2023. Putting legal protections in place to help us enforce any military actions or incursion in the future. Betting most of you never realized the US grew by thousands of miles.

Likewise some of this radical idea of buying Greenland and possibly Canada. has nothing to do with his ego. That has to do with the race for minerals in the Arctic Ocean, protecting our borders, and getting us the legal right to help Europe protect their borders from the Russian and Chinese fleets that have been doing damage to infrastructure. If Greenland is the territory of the US, but still their own country like Puerto Rico, then we have the legal right to have a base there and the legal right to protect the waters around Greenland. The whole premise right now, if we were to go help Europe it would trigger an act of war. We would have to wait for Nato action to do anything. If we have the legal right, to be there. Legal right to protect Greenland, then any response to defend our territory is not considered an act of war. It makes it easier to help our Allies. Also, like as not, Russia and China have been making plans to invade Greenland. I have been hearing they are trying to buy up land around harbors in several countries or eyeing what they can take by force.

So Trump is not crazy. Not being an egotistical dictator. He is trying to strengthen the U.S. and working to provide some checks and balances that strengthen our ability to help Allies and prevent another world war. A lot of countries are getting we are the lesser of the two evils. Media not so much, they have grown allergic to fact-checking, and understanding any complex issue and just become about stirring drama rather than reporting facts, all of the facts.

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