The worst DOGE story so far
Of all the shocking waste and abuse that DOGE has turned up, this might be the worst so far...
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22
The worst DOGE story so far
Of all the shocking waste and abuse that DOGE has turned up, this might be the worst so far: Despite the Biden White House’s denials that any FEMA funds went to illegal immigrants, Elon Musk said Monday that FEMA illegally sent $59 million LAST WEEK to New York hotels to pay for housing illegal aliens. This while we were being told there’s not enough money to help American hurricane or wildfire victims.
Apologists made the typical DC argument that the money didn’t come out of the disaster relief budget but from some other corner of the agency, which is like telling the cops that you didn’t buy cocaine because the money came out of your pants pocket instead of your coat pocket.
Tuesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that "four employees are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/4-fema-employees-fired-over-egregious-payments-migrants-dhs-says
To help you catch up, here is a list of just some of the shocking spending DOGE has uncovered, including things you might not have heard about yet, like $45 million for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma and $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become “climate leaders.”
Meanwhile, the few remaining sane Democrat advisors are tearing their hair out (James Carville excepted) over Democratic politicians hysterically trying to block the exposure of waste, fraud and corruption. One called it suicidal.
Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media has a suggestion for Republicans: Demand publicly that their Democrat colleagues explain what they’re afraid DOGE will find and why they’re so passionate about protecting rip-offs of US taxpayers.
We think the answer to that is obvious: Like Hollywood and publishing that we mentioned yesterday, the government has become a giant secret slush fund for both leftist causes and “nonprofits” that enrich out-of-power Democrats and their relatives and cronies. To them, the waste, fraud and corruption aren’t a bug, they’re a feature. And it doesn’t offend their principles because they have only one core principle: They should be in power at all times, no matter what the voters want. Once you realize that, the hysterics all make sense.
Least Surprising News of the Day:
It appears that everything we suspected about the Biden Administration (and were told it was wild, rightwing conspiracy theories) was true.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/02/11/lindy-li-biden-was-doped-up-n2651975
DOJ is looking into the leak
Border czar Tom Homan says that the DOJ opened a criminal investigation into the leaking of plans for an ICE raid in Los Angeles that tipped off the targets, and initial leads are pointing to the FBI as the source. He said they also think they’ve identified the person who leaked the Aurora, Colorado, raid and helped dozens of suspected Tren de Aragua gang members evade arrest. He said whoever did this will lose their job, pension and go to jail.
MUST-READ:
More from author and attorney Kurt Schlichter on what’s going on behind the scenes with these activist judges trying to prevent Trump from exercising his Presidential powers and why we need to have patience; it’s going to work out in the long run.
https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1889129565319987628
Amazing
Monday marked three weeks since President Trump was inaugurated, and new Homeland Security head Kristie Noem announced that FEMA has resolved about 80% of the summer hurricane cases in Western North Carolina. It's amazing how fast things can happen when you have a President.
https://conservativebrief.com/noem-carolina-89341/
The Discombobulated Democrats
Congressional Democrats are so discombobulated over Elon Musk exposing government waste, fraud and corruption that they’ve taken to showing up at government offices as a mob and trying to bully their way in to block the elected President’s orders (well, so much for “democracy!”) Maxine Waters even tried to intimidate and dox a security guard who was just doing his job by not letting them into the Department of Education. One commenter said it was interesting that she demanded to see his ID when Democrats think you shouldn’t even have to show an ID to vote.
RELATED: Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos explains why the Department of Education is useless and counterproductive and needs to go.
The Dems keep screaming that “nobody elected Elon Musk,” but Trump made it clear that he was going to appoint Musk to do exactly what he’s doing, and a majority of Americans voted for it. In fact, Trump and Vance are the only elected members of the executive branch, not the bureaucrats that the Dems think should be running everything. As one commenter on X put it, the richest man in the world is sleeping on an office floor because he’s working to save taxpayers from fraud, waste and corruption, so maybe the people attacking him should just sit down and shut up.
Or if they’re really so upset about an “unelected” person having any power, why did they say nothing when the most unqualified, unelected person imaginable was, as it’s now been revealed, actually acting as President over the past couple of years? Brace yourself before reading this:
RELATED: Hey, wait! We thought from years of hearing Democrats say it that the worst thing that could possibly happen is a government shutdown. Why, if you shut down the government, people will DIE!!! (Actually, necessary functions like Social Security and Medicare continue, but that detail ruins the story.)
Yet now, the Democrats themselves are threatening to shut down the government over Elon Musk and his DOGE team exposing widespread government waste, fraud and corruption.
There’s only one logical conclusion to be drawn from this level of panic: Shutting down the government won’t really kill anyone, but shutting down government waste, fraud and corruption could kill the Democratic Party.
Least Surprising News of the Day Part II:
Meta (Facebook & Instagram) reportedly hired former CIA, USAID and other intelligence officials to be in charge of their “election integrity” monitoring which placed warning labels on over 150 million election-related social media posts.
https://instapundit.com/701761/
“It’s worth the money if we can change the culture”:
USAID gender sensitivity materials found in the garbage after the Taliban took Afghanistan back. Bonus points: This was predicted four years ago by the Babylon Bee.
https://instapundit.com/700270/
The Trump Effect:
First, President Trump banned males in girls’ sports, then the NCAA quickly followed suit. Now, a leading candidate to head the Olympic Committee is running on a platform of banning trans athletes from Olympic women’s sports. She makes the reasonable observation that if there’s no difference in ability between men and women, then why is nobody talking about protecting men by banning women from men’s sports?
Of course, not everyone is capable of reading the biological reality on the wall. So the same ilk of California leftists who prioritized protecting an unendangered fish over people’s homes voted to defy Trump’s order and continue letting delusional men beat up girls and steal their trophies and athletic scholarships.
Unfortunately, neither Trump nor lawsuits might be able to save these girls in California because their legislators passed an insane law in 2014 allowing students to engage in sports based on their claimed gender identity, “irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records."
So it’s possible that Californians’ only option if they want to restore sanity would be to vote every last one of these lunatics out of office and refuse to vote for anyone with a (D) after their name until sanity is restored. Of course, that would solve a LOT of California’s problems, from rampant crime and homelessness to the need for “poop maps.”
Stupid Is As Stupid Does!
Even though the UK is heavily dependent on natural gas, it shut down fracking in 2019 and is importing the gas from other nations. Now, to appease green radicals, the government plans to fill its last remaining fracking wells with cement. Note that the wells aren’t being used, but this will ensure that if there’s ever an emergency, they won’t be able to be used. This gives us a new concrete definition of stupidity.
A little fatherly wisdom
We know many of our readers are fans of “The Andy Griffith Show,” so you’ll enjoy this clip from a 1961 episode. Andy dispenses a little fatherly wisdom that not only blows away the basis of the “trans” movement but the entire insane leftist notion of letting children make their own life-altering decisions.
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-andy-griffith-destroys-trans-movement-just-60-seconds/
Proof we were right about Hollywood and the Democrats
Last week, it was reported that the powerful Hollywood talent agency CAA had signed Joe Biden, and many people were asking the obvious question: “Why?” Is he planning to star in a remake of “Cocoon?” Word is that they will represent him for book deals and speaking engagements, but that seems almost as ludicrous. His memory has more holes than a Swiss cheese festival, so who would write the books? And he couldn’t even speak at small private fundraisers without a teleprompter. They should just send the teleprompter on tour.
This is just further proof that both Hollywood and the publishing industry have become slush funds for supporting out-of-power Democrats. Why else would it be rumored that Kamala Harris is going to sign the biggest book contract of any Vice President in history? Can you imagine her writing a book? It would be longer than “War And Peace” and say absolutely nothing. You could toss a dictionary in a Cuisinart and get a more coherent book. But it will be one of those “as told to” books, and whoever she talks to will have to shape it into something readable. That’s the person who deserves the most lucrative book contract in history.
President Trump floods the zone
President Trump is keeping up his “Flood the zone” offense, throwing out so many initiatives and executive orders that the Democrats don’t have time to gin up fake outrage over one before he’s on to 20 others. He’s following what one analyst called the “80-20” strategy. Knowing that Democrats will reflexively oppose anything he says out of sheer Trump Derangement Syndrome, all he has to do is pick an issue with 80% public support (or at least a large majority), and Democrats will automatically take the deeply unpopular side. Doing that has driven their Party’s approval ratings down to the mid-30 percent level.
On Monday, he did it again, signing an executive order banning paper drinking straws from government buildings and ordering plastic straws returned. He also ordered the development of a "National Strategy" to end the use of paper straws within 45 days and "alleviate the forced use of paper straws nationwide." He said paper straws have unhealthy chemicals, they don’t work, and he declared, "The irrational campaign against plastic straws has forced Americans to use nonfunctional paper straws…This ends under President Trump."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-ending-forced-use-paper-straws
He also rather hilariously spoke for millions of Americans by saying that paper straws "break, they explode. If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds, it's a ridiculous situation." Naturally, liberals immediately mocked the idea that paper straws “explode” – which he probably knew they would, since it forces them to defend something that virtually everyone hates.
Besides, we all know what he means: they soak up fluids and fall apart. Liberals’ heads explode.
(Remember: The whole war on plastic straws started due to unverified numbers from a nine-year-old's science project.)
Trump also gave leftists another shiny object to chase by dismissing 18 board members and the board chairman of the Kennedy Center in New York, leaving only the 17 members he appointed. To kick the beehive even more, he suggested that he might make himself chairman before naming Ric Grennell as the new interim executive director. Trump tweeted, “Ric shares my Vision for a GOLDEN AGE of American Arts and Culture…NO MORE DRAG SHOWS, OR OTHER ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA — ONLY THE BEST…RIC, WELCOME TO SHOW BUSINESS!"
While the leftist elites will no doubt clutch their pearls and get the vapors over the idea of this philistine invading their house of culture, the fact is that Trump was the #1 star on NBC for years and likely knows more about what audiences want to see than the former Kennedy Center board, which was already blatantly politicized. The Biden-appointed members included his press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Democrat political strategist Mike Donilon. And the fare the Kennedy Center has presented lately has included such hot tickets as “Dragtastic Dress-up,” a show targeted toward “LGBTQ+ youth under 18.”
We can’t help wondering what Democrat John F. Kennedy would have said about that running in a theater named after him.
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