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by | February 7, 2025 · 11:00 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for the graces we need to discern which battles are from You and which are not. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BONDI: Immediately after being sworn in, our new Attorney General froze all DOJ funds going to sanctuary cities and launched investigations aimed at prosecuting the offenders. On Thursday, she filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and Cook County, saying their sanctuary city laws obstruct President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

Trump has also put Bondi in charge of a task force which will include the heads of at least 15 federal entities, including the departments of State, Treasury, Defense, Labor, and Health and Human Services.

“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ—which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI, terrible—and other agencies,” Trump said. He said that the group will “work to fully prosecute” violence and vandalism against Christians and “move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

BORDER: Border czar Tom Homan says they have found the individual responsible for wasting his agents’ time in Colorado this week. A raid on those apartment buildings that Tren de Aragua (TDA) was leaked the previous week, so was postponed to this week, but when they got there, TDA was gone. Homan says there will be consequences.

BUH BYE: USAID programs we’re turning the page on …

Taxpayer moneys being spent on senseless mutilation of animals. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said, “The Biden-Harris administration spent $2.5 million … to study the fertility of transgender mice.”

Taxpayer moneys being spent on killing babies. USAID spent $607 million promoting, funding, or conducting abortions in foreign countries.

Taxpayer moneys being spent promoting LGBTQ and DEI. I can’t help wondering how far the $70,000 they spent on producing a DEI musical in Ireland could have gone to help hurricane victims who are still living in tents.

BUY OUT: A federal judge extended Trump’s offer deadline until Monday, so federal workers unaccustomed to actually getting out of bed and doing something will have another weekend to decide if they want to take advantage of six more months of getting paid to do nothing. At last count, more than 40,000 workers had accepted the generous resignation package.

DEMOCRATS: David Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department, tried to obstruct an executive order from his boss. It didn’t go well. He’s out of a job now. DOGE exposed the man as having allowed more than $1 billion in federal payments to fraudulent entities. One wonders how long before our new AG brings charges. The Trump administration has made it clear: there will be no tolerance for insubordination, corruption, or rogue officials who undermine the law.

DEI: If this doesn’t show you what a grift this has been, I don’t know what would. For those worried about what these people will do now, I hear there are soon to be numerous openings in agriculture and estate maintenance.

DISNEY: In the first quarter of its FY2025 earnings report, Disney streaming reported having lost 700,000 subscribers.

DOGE: CLICK https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887871388528107917 [16:25] to hear one of my favorite politicians ever talk about how absurd Musk’s critics are. “Spending porn.” “What the hell happened to all the money.” Let us also not forget that the people who are screaming about DOGE auditing them are the same people who hired and armed 87,000 IRS agents to audit us.

PEACE through STRENGTH: The Trump Doctrine.

S&G: I skimmed the article linked below … can’t even ::smh::

TRUMP: [5:49] – He’s a sweet guy. And, isn’t it refreshing to see a POTUS interact with young girls without committing inappropriate personal contact?

USAID: President Donald Trump’s administration has transferred control over all USAID programs to the State Department. After evaluating what the more than 10,000 USAID employees have been doing with U.S. taxpayers’ money, they’ve reportedly decided they only need 294 of these people. The rest are getting canned in what may be the largest layoff in history. If they’re smart, they’ll sign up quick for the six months severance package before they get their pink slips.

GRAMMY NOTES: I fixed my parents’ annoying cricket-in-the-house problem by changing the battery in their smoke detector.

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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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