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Tuesday night, Sean Hannity of Fox News had an exclusive interview with President Trump and Elon Musk, where they brushed off attempts by Democrats to divide and conquer them.
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Friends
Tuesday night, Sean Hannity of Fox News had an exclusive interview with President Trump and Elon Musk, where they brushed off attempts by Democrats to divide and conquer them. They came across as two friends who admire each other and share a common mission of eliminating government fraud and waste and returning federal power to the people. You can watch it here, and we suggest you do. It’s an entertaining and informative interview that obliterates the left’s dark narratives about their relationship and motives.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369030618112
One of Greg Gutfeld’s guests had a great line about the interview: “All Presidents have Vice Presidents, but Trump is the first to have a sidekick.” Of course, that’s not exactly true: many Presidents have had friends or associates who acted as close personal advisers. But Musk is the rare case of one with a formal title, even if Trump invented it himself.
It’s not surprising that the Democrats’ reflex response to Elon Musk’s work with DOGE is to try to play on Trump’s alleged “egomania” by calling Elon “President Musk” and attempting to drive a wedge between them. It combines two of their most common traits: a complete misreading of Trump and the idea that they can only obtain power by dividing people.
Fortunately, it’s not working. Trump likes success, and Elon is not only mindbogglingly successful in his own right, but he’s being just as successful at imposing Trump’s anti-waste agenda. Why would Trump not like that? And polls show that most Americans, including racial minorities and even former Biden voters, like what Trump and Musk are doing.
It’s a heartening trend to see people whom the Dems have worked so hard to divide and put at each other’s throats come together and say they like seeing changes in DC that benefit all Americans and not just political elites or their own identity groups. Let’s hope that divisiveness, like wokeness, is now an outdated remnant of a bygone political strategy.
Heads explode
Tuesday, President Trump released three more executive orders that are going to have his critics’ heads exploding like watermelons at a Gallagher show.
The first order aims to make in-vitro fertilization more affordable. This was another campaign promise he’s making good on, despite Democrats’ claims that he would ban in-vitro fertilization because his pro-life supporters have serious objections. You can read more here about the order and the objections:
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-fulfills-campaign-promise-ivf-executive-order-better-didnt/
The other two orders are Hulk-like blows to the Deep State. One imposes “radical transparency” on all government agencies and departments, requiring them to “disclose details about terminated programs, cancelled contracts, and discontinued grants to the fullest extent allowed by law.” Trump said the American people have a right to know how Washington is spending (or wasting) their tax money.
But the third order is the biggest bombshell. It wipes out 90 years of bad precedent and fundamentally changes the executive branch by ending all the “so-called independent” boards, commissions and agencies that have been making decisions and regulations with the force of law despite having no input from elected officials. The only exempted agency is the Federal Reserve.
The heads of these agencies will have to establish a liaison with the White House, which will provide interpretations of the law, so that “rogue agencies” like the EPA can’t “interpret” laws to mean whatever they want that furthers their staffers’ personal political agendas.
Democrats and the media (but we repeat ourselves) will no doubt scream that this is an unconstitutional power grab by the President. But in fact, it’s a return of power to the people.
We can’t think of anything more appalling to the Framers of the Constitution than the idea of a bunch of federal plutocrats, unelected and unaccountable to the voters, making regulations with the force of law without the consent of any elected representatives of the people. That’s not democracy, it’s monarchy. They literally fought a war to rid us of that system.
Trump’s EO doesn’t just reestablish the Constitutional limits on government power, it also reaffirms our side’s win in the American Revolution.
Confirmed
The Senate has confirmed investment fund CEO Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce by 51-45. Lutnick is not only a highly experienced businessman and expert on trade, he’s also strongly on board with Trump’s idea of eliminating the IRS.
Ukraine progress is made
The first round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks has ended, reportedly with both sides satisfied that progress has been made. However, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy isn’t thrilled that President Trump suggested that Ukraine hold its long-delayed presidential elections to prove that Zelenskyy is the person the Ukrainian people back to speak for them. Trump said Ukraine is under martial law and Zelenskyy has a four percent approval rating. However, Zelenskyy said he believes Trump has been given disinformation, and that he has high support in the polls.
As for how a country can be too bombed out to hold elections but still have accurate polls, we have no idea.
Heads explode, Part II
In an appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” former White House Coronavirus Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx caused an epidemic of dropped jaws by admitting that “we’ve done wrong in public health,” and some of her critics who were accused of being conspiracy theorists and spreaders of disinformation were actually correct.
Birx admitted that the COVID vaccine was not designed to stop infection, and it was developed for people “at severe risk.” She said, “The science and the data said people primarily over 65 or people with significant co-morbidities were at risk for severe disease. Those are the individuals that should have been immunized first. And we should have put our science behind our immunization schedule and protected those most at risk,” like the elderly, instead of forcing it onto healthy young people and children.
She went on, “So I am all for following the science and the data, but it shouldn’t just be a statement. It should be a reality. And when we don’t match what we do in public health to the science and the data, that is when we get into trouble.”
Problem is, none of the people who knowingly lied to us, shut down our economy, cost people their jobs and businesses, irreparably harmed our kids and slandered doctors who raised legitimate objections ever “got into trouble.” Some we could name even got rich and were rewarded with blanket pardons by President Biden.
And for those who blamed the mishandling of the pandemic on Trump and voted for Biden, note that Birx has also admitted that the people under Trump routinely ignored his orders or altered them to do what they thought was best – which we now know by her own admission included lying to us.
Another lawsuit
Another lawsuit has been filed against President Trump over his shut-off of the USAID money spigot, and this one you have to see to believe. Apparently, taxpayers are now legally required to pay allegedly independent religious organizations millions of dollars to facilitate illegal immigration…
So good
MUST-READ article by author/columnist/journalist Austin Bay on how Trump and DOGE aren’t just fighting to lower spending and make government more efficient. They’re fighting against a serious enemy that threatens America’s security: our staggering national debt. Bay traces the history of this threat, how it was caused by vote-buying politicians and unaccountable partisan bureaucrats, and how it now threatens everything from America’s economic health to our military readiness.
https://creators.com/read/austin-bay
Reminder: DOGE just reported that the Treasury Department has made a total of $4.7 TRILLION in payments that are almost impossible to trace because nobody entered the account ID codes that are supposed to accompany them. Do the Democrats really expect Americans to take to the streets to demand that this continue?
A final salute to a four-legged Huck’s Hero:
The Secret Service’s Special Ops Canine, Hurricane, has died at 16. In 2014, an intruder entered the White House when President Obama’s family was there. Despite being badly beaten, Hurricane took the trespasser down,
Hurricane earned the USSS Award for Merit, the DHS Award for Valor, the PDSA Order of Merit, AMC Top Dog and was the first dog to receive the Animals in War and Peace Distinguished Service Medal. He earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most decorated dog in US history.
Excellent compilation
The idiotic suggestion by CBS’ Margaret Brennan that free speech was to blame for the rise of the Nazis in Germany sparked this excellent compilation of stories and commentary on Instapundit. It has some great historical information on how 1920s German authorities actually tried to censor the Nazis, and it only made Hitler more popular. Also, how the same liberal do-gooders who opposed free speech in Germany imposed gun control laws that ensured the Jews would be unarmed when the Nazis came for them. They have quite a track record of success, don’t they?
https://instapundit.com/703495/
No words
Leave it to Hollywood to look at the seismic shift in our culture away from wokeness and decide that this was the perfect time to cast a black, female, gay leftwing activist as Jesus in a production of "Jesus Christ Superstar."
Sen. Rand Paul has an unusual request of Elon Musk and DOGE:
He wants them to audit Fort Knox and make sure all our gold is still there.
It seems bizarre, but Paul says there hasn’t been an audit of Fort Knox since 1974, and they’re extremely secretive about their operations. It’s sparked a number of questions, like, “Could former Sen. Bob Menendez have sneaked gold bars out in his suit pockets?” Okay, we made that one up. Still, all the secrecy has raised questions and suspicions, along with a lot of “Goldfinger” jokes.
We’ll take that as a golden opportunity to share “Huckabee” writer and recording artist Laura Ainsworth’s award-winning video of her sultry jazz reinvention of the theme to “Goldfinger.” We call it "Music To Audit Fort Knox By"…
TRUMP & MUSK GOING FOR BROKE!
By Kenneth Allard
Watching our national dialogue over the last month reminds me of serving in West Germany at the height of the Cold War. U.S. Army Europe was then an institution beset with racism, indiscipline, and chronic shortages of everything except drugs and alcohol. During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, our most critical munitions were airlifted to Israel as emergency reinforcements; meanwhile we faced our Russian counterparts across a zone of confrontation that increasingly approximated wartime. Somehow that crisis passed without overt hostilities: But as an impressionable junior officer, I often wondered when, how or even if these matters would ever be set right.
For different reasons, I wonder those same things today, listening to alleged national leaders - who really should know better - opining about Elon Musk as an unelected strongman intent on monopolizing power to enrich himself and his billionaire friends. Since an appalling number of these folks are Democratic senators and congressmen, one wonders if they recall their high-school civics classes about the basic structure of our government. Remember those quaint half-forgotten lessons about electing a President through the Electoral College and then allowing his closest advisors to be chosen with the Advice and Consent of the Senate? Well, then please explain the sheer idiocy of demonstrators taking to the streets and charging Donald Trump with new illegalities and even plane crashes! Haven’t we heard these same absurdities before, entered during various pleadings before the Superior Democratic Courts of Lawfare and Civil Injustice?
The irony is that Messrs. Trump & Musk are merely conducting a long overdue audit of such books, documents, archives and other records by which your government ensures the bottom-line integrity of the vast sums spent on behalf of We the People. One can almost hear sundry Democrats frantically raising points of order to insist that such responsibilities are limited solely to the oversight committees of Congress. Wanna bet? In fact, both the Executive and Legislative branches routinely empanel blue-ribbon panels, like the special commission on defense procurement headed by David Packard in the 1980’s. Since Elon Musk as head of DOGE is similarly appointed under the direct authority of President Trump, what’s the big deal?
It is part of the Washington mystique that special bodies like the Packard Commission and DOGE seldom succeed on their first attempt at solving intractable governmental problems. Not many years after the Packard Commission adjourned, I found myself dragooned into serving as staff director for a Congressionally-appointed panel charged with reforming the nation’s defense procurement laws. Our first task proved especially daunting: Exactly how many laws affected defense procurement? Shockingly, it turned out that the Section of Law appointing our panel and the number of laws under our jurisdiction both equaled 800! Pity those poor procurement creatures trying to do their best but having to contend with 800 laws? How could they finish the day without violating several statues – and God only knew how many “implementing regulations” (on average, at least 3 regs for each one of our 800 laws).
Our completed report took over two years, several squads of lawyers and the incisive leadership of the experts heading our panel (e.g., Whit Peters, senior partner at Williams and Connolly and later 17th Secretary of the Air Force). But one of my main tasks was illustrating the need for reform; specifically, why this large body of laws had been passed individually but without ever being assessed for their overall strategic value as integral components of the nation’s defenses. Our best case emerged in the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm, when the Air Force needed to procure commercial radio receivers. Although the manufacturer of that unit was Motorola, the only branch of Motorola allowed to sell to the government (with its 800 laws and countless regs) was Motorola Government Systems. Naturally, both elements of the corporation were carefully walled off from one another – thus creating an impasse as war drew nearer each day.
Some suggested seeking waiver authority from Congress, at best a long and difficult process. At the last possible moment, a USAF Lieutenant Colonel came up with the inspired solution that was quickly seized upon by his profoundly relieved superiors. The Japanese Government was persuaded to purchase the Motorola commercial radio receivers, to donate them to the Air Force and then to write-off the cost as part of Japan’s contribution to the Desert Storm war effort!
Bottom Lines:
· ***When allies are required to act as rescuers from your self-imposed procurement nightmares, then wider reforms are essential.
· **** Donald & Elon: Go for broke, you guys!
COL (Ret.) Kenneth Allard is a former draftee who became a West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News military analyst.
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