J.D. Vance
European elites are still reeling and trying to figure out how to respond to the woodshedding he gave them last week for their hostility to free speech...
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Daily Bible Verse
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:6
Here we go again:
A Biden-appointed judge ordered the Trump Administration to immediately lift its freeze on all foreign aid spending. Because unelected liberal judges are the last bastion of defense against the cancellation of vital trans operas in Peru. There are more details on this case at the link, but rather than chronicle every out-of-control judge with a God complex, we’ll just note that the Supreme Court will have the final word on this, and we hope that it will be that appointed judges in inferior courts don’t get to tell elected Presidents how to run the executive branch.
Fear and hysteria
The Democrats are still flailing around for a response to Trump’s fast-moving, transformational and highly-popular actions. It appears that the latest is a familiar tactic: Try to gin up fear and hysteria.
Even though Joe Biden himself admitted that there’s hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and waste in the federal budget, as soon as anyone seriously tries cutting it, suddenly, every government worker becomes absolutely essential and every penny is the difference between life and death. According to Dems like Rep. Jasmine Crockett, because of DOGE, rural hospitals will close and Social Security and Medicare will be cut off.
“Sixty Minutes” aired a sympathetic interview about the trauma facing two laid-off USAID employees, and didn’t even bother to find out if they actually were USAID employees (spoiler alert: they weren’t.) Did they heavily edit the interview to make them appear coherent, since we hear that’s also a thing they do?
And of course, planes are crashing all around us because Trump fired all the FAA workers who keep airlines safe. Except that he didn’t, and the small number of firings of provisional workers in non-safety positions has nothing to do with the plane crashes. Don’t believe us? Ask the CEO of Delta Airlines.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters sent a reporter to an anti-DOGE protest, where he had a hard time finding anyone who could explain how any of DOGE’s budget cuts affected them. Some seemed dumbfounded to learn that their tax dollars were being spent on things like sex change operations in Guatemala, yet they'd been so brainwashed, they were out in the cold, shouting and waving signs supporting it.
Our writer Pat Reeder has an anecdote that helps explain why some people are so misinformed:
“On Thursday, I was waiting for some tires to be mounted on my car. In the waiting room was a TV tuned to a CBS ‘News’ digital channel. As a captive audience (it was too cold outside to leave the waiting room, although I considered it), I actually had to be exposed to CBS. For over an hour, they aired NOTHING but anti-Trump stories. Everything Trump did was described in the most negative terms possible. Finally, they did a non-Trump-bashing story. It was about climate change and the ice melting and the polar bears are all going to die. Then on to attacking J.D. Vance for defending free speech. And finally, back to Trump bashing.
It was so slanted, they actually referred to someone who’d been a Trump supporter ‘since the insurrection,’ assuming we all knew what that meant. If I didn’t read, vet and write about actual news for a living, I might have swallowed some of this endless buffet of horse manure; but knowing the facts, I just kept muttering and swearing at the TV, which got me some strange looks from the other tire customers. I did come out of the horrible experience understanding how some people get so deluded that they actually vote for AOC.”
Okay, so the Dems lie and the ever-more-irrelevant legacy media repeat their lies. Most people are realizing it, so is it really that harmful? Well, have you heard the story of the 11-year-old girl in Gainesville, Texas, who was bullied by her classmates who kept telling her that Trump was going to deport her family until she committed suicide? Gee, we wonder where the students got that idea?
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Ukraine update
Here’s why we’re not even trying to keep up with reporting all the back and forth about Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy. By the time we finish writing about the back, it’s reverted to the forth.
But if you want to know what’s really behind some of the animosity, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has an explanation you probably haven’t heard…
DOGE Savings
President Trump said he likes a suggestion that 20% of the money saved by DOGE spending cuts should be returned to the taxpayers. If DOGE meets its goal of $2 trillion in savings, that would mean about a $5,000 rebate to every taxpaying household.
The idea has sparked controversy. Some love it, but others question the wisdom of it. Since DOGE is making these cuts because deficits and spending are out of control, some say the savings should be used to pay down the national debt. Others say it’s the taxpayers’ own money, and they deserve it more than leftist political cronies running scam NGOs.
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News admitted he’s on the fence: He said the government needs to stop being seen as a piggy bank, and this is just giving money to one group instead of another. On the other hand, getting something back might make the benefits of budget cutting tangible, and keep support for DOGE and fiscal restraint from waning over time.
We can see his point, and while it would be nice to get some of our tax money back, we have to start reducing the debt or it’s going to swallow the whole country. Our concern is that it might not be our money: if the cuts only offset the massive deficit spending, then we’d just be giving ourselves money borrowed from our grandkids. And that’s what the Democrats do.
J.D. Vance
President Trump has done so much so fast that the media can’t keep up. One downside of that is that Americans might not have noticed that J.D. Vance is quickly becoming one of the most impressive and consequential Vice Presidents in US history.
European elites are still reeling and trying to figure out how to respond to the woodshedding he gave them last week for their hostility to free speech (Here’s a suggestion: Stop jailing people for free speech and even silent prayer...)
Now, Vance has launched two long-overdue truth carpet-bombings within 24 hours.
Vance delivered a blistering response to critics of Trump’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, complete with some blunt history, facts and reality that the globalists who want to fund this deadly conflict forever prefer to ignore. This is a MUST-READ if you want to know what’s actually happening there and why it can’t go on the way it has been for the past few years.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/20/jd-vance-post-on-ukraine-n2185793
And at CPAC. Vance spoke directly to young men, who’ve been browbeaten in recent years into believing that they’re bad and the source of all evil just because they’re male or tell jokes or are competitive. He urged them to resist this ‘broken culture” that “wants to turn everybody into — whether male or female — into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.”
He added, “We actually think God made male and female for a purpose. And we want you guys to thrive as young men, and as young women, and we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
FYI: If anyone in the media expresses shock and outrage at the idea of there being “androgynous idiots,” it might be because they deliberately refuse to report on them. So they claim not even to know about the androgynous idiots the rest of us have been talking about for years. For instance, this CNN interviewer apparently wouldn’t know an androgynous idiot if he stole her luggage and wore her own gown in front of her.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/18/tim-burchett-lights-up-cnn-host-n2185733
Virtue signaling at the Kennedy Center
A number of liberal performers are doing the virtue signal dance by canceling their shows at the Kennedy Center, after President Trump fired the board members he didn’t appoint and said there would be no more liberal propaganda, like drag shows. There was even a bomb threat Thursday that forced an evacuation, but that apparently was unconnected. It was a threat against Shen-Yun, the great traditional Chinese dance troupe that openly opposes the Chinese communist party and its oppression of religious freedom.
We seriously doubt that with so many theater companies desperate for performance spaces that the Kennedy Center will be lacking for shows for long. But until then, Steve Bannon has an idea for a show that will definitely cause liberal elites to rend their designer garments: a concert by the J6 Choir, a chorus of men who were imprisoned for protesting at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Deal with this
New Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins has a lot on his plate, First Liberty Institute is urging him to deal with the oppression of military chaplains like their client, an Army Reserve chaplain accused of “inappropriate conduct” for preaching from a “very charged and divisive text.” He preached a sermon based on the first chapter of Romans. He was investigated for months, threatened with a reprimand, and finally reinstated but told that all his sermons had to be preapproved.
https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/va-chaplain-removed-from-duty-over-offensive-sermon/
It’s bad enough that unelected judges think they should be acting as President, but unelected VA bureaucrats have no right to censor the word of God. Collins needs to put the fear of God back into them ASAP.
MUST-SEE VIDEO:
Watch White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller get tired of hearing about Elon Musk not being elected and give the liberal boys and girls of the Press Corps a desperately-needed lesson in Civics 101.
New Sheriff In Town:
The Democrats might have to find a new rhetorical device now that it’s apparently illegal again to threaten violence against elected officials.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/02/20/musk-threatening-congressman-and-the-doj-n2185820
The “chainsaw of bureaucracy”
Get your weekend off to a roaring start with this video clip from CPAC of Elon Musk jumping around with the “chainsaw of bureaucracy.” (Legal Disclaimer: Do NOT jump around while using an actual chainsaw!)
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/21/milei-gives-musk-a-special-gift-at-cpac-n2185824
Mind-blowing
For those of you who have to scratch your Saturday night “Huckabee” itch, revisit this interview and mind-blowing performance of “Cross the Line” by bluegrass supergroup Woodbox Heroes…
Bee Time
It’s Saturday, so time to take a break from covering this week’s firehose of news and see how the Babylon Bee covered it…
https://babylonbee.com/news/jobs-report-shows-skyrocketing-unemployment-among-lizard-people
https://babylonbee.com/news/audit-reveals-all-fort-knox-gold-replaced-with-ious
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-signals-us-ready-to-forgive-ukraine-for-invading-russia
https://babylonbee.com/news/zelensky-allowed-into-peace-talks-but-must-sit-at-kiddie-table
https://babylonbee.com/news/vance-speech-denouncing-eu-censorship-censored-by-eu
https://babylonbee.com/news/europe-vows-to-stick-it-to-trump-by-finally-paying-their-own-bills
https://babylonbee.com/news/von-trapp-family-crosses-the-alps-into-switzerland-to-escape-free-speech
https://babylonbee.com/news/canadian-hockey-fans-boo-their-future-national-anthem
https://babylonbee.com/news/snl-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-last-time-it-was-funny
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Vance! a future president??? I would vote for him in the blink of an eye! I thought that is what he is being groomed for. Did I get that wrong? He's young and sensible, well educated, and well, he's acting like a VP and learning the ropes of becoming president. Shouldn't he rewarded with the job? He's a better VP than Pence turned out to be. No question he's blown away the last VP who, BTW, was only a "figure head" and nothing else. The woman probably didn't even know her left shoe from her right shoe.
Personally, I would prefer we apply any DOGE savings to reduce down our immoral debt. This debt is so large, it really has borrowed from future generations. The problem with our current tax system is it would likely consider a return of $5,000 as current income and not return of principal. Then wham! the IRS will penalize anyone who doesn't report the $5,000 as income. Better to reduce the debt and leave a legacy to our future generations! A country to start with but a country with no debt would be quite a legacy!