Topic: POTUS 47 - Second Trump Term Thread

[patentlymn]

Acting Commissioner Michelle King, who was appointed last month, has been forced out after attempting to stonewall an investigation into massive fraud within the agency—an investigation spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

[Libertas]

Yeah, part of what is wrong with everything in the bureaucracy...

"Acting" leadership always comes around at the start of a new Administration as old leaders bail, get sacked or asked to resign...and typically need to name an acting from somebody already vetted, which means pulling somebody out of the existing ranks...which show's how deep the rot goes as we are finding out everywhere...

 

Gotta lot of crap to flush...

And there is going to have to be legislation holding all bureaucrats accountable to We the People and only We the People...but given priorities that will likely be a mid-term battle and a banner to run on for MAGA Republican's and a hammer to pound toxic-leftists resisting such necessary accountability.

[patentlymn]

This guy used to work in Russia now in Belgium.
1. Trump sent Kellogg around to spout the usual neocon warmonger stuff to placate our allies. Then he sends Rubio and Vance to deliver the hammer blows to EU,

2.  State dept then asks EU countries  to list the numbers and timing of troops to be used in possible peacekeeping duties.  They squabble, come up with nothing and cannot agree on anything. So the EU, not Trump, killed the peacekeepers for now.

3.  US asks Ze to sign over minerals as payment for past US expenditures. Ze refuses. So Ze is responsible for  future cut off in US aid.

4. The US, Obama(?) did a lot of petty stuff to RU embassies. US seized some properties, kicked out people. Turns out all bank accounts for RU embassies in US were shut down Also their is no RU ambassador in US until US approves, so negotiations are hard. That is likely the subject of current talks.


https://youtu.be/3K24bMgD5q0
Gilbert Doctorow: Trump OBLITERATES Zelensky with SHOCKING Comments

[patentlymn]

This guy says RU was prepared to discuss military trade offs at the recent Saudi meeting. The US was not. Just unprepared to talk about it.

https://youtu.be/F-uJhur0NUE
John Helmer: Trump’s Stunt in Riyadh – Rubio’s Sudden Exit STUNS Everyone!

[Libertas]

Other news...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/18/senate-cloture-vote-on-fbi-director-nominee-kash-patel-likely-tonight/

Cloture passed 48-45 apparently.

Time to remind any possible vacillator's on confirmation vote how desperately that outfit needs cleaning or closing!!!

https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/19/whistleblowers-fbi-weaponization-is-real-and-heres-proof/

And check out these sickening toxic-leftists...the gall to claim they are upholding the Constitution when everything they've done against Trump and countless others has rendered the Bill of Rights to low-grade toilet paper!  Like all toxic-leftists they turn everything upside down, claim victimhood and expect sympathy and blame those they persecuted for their current plight they all brought upon themselves by sh*tting on due process, urinating on the Constitution, leaking selective information to a complicit leftist media, raiding the law offices of political enemies, abusing FISA process and lying to FISA Judges and using USAID money to pay for foreign interlopers to take down a sitting President.  They have mocked and abused the very concept of "justice".  They are a malignant Evil that needs to be exorcised from government and should NEVER EVER hold any public office for the rest of their demonic lives!  And i hope there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing for many of them so the worst of the worst receive due process and just convictions and rot in prison for their crimes!

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/18/900-former-and-current-main-justice-lawfare-operatives-self-identify/

https://www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Open_Letter_to_Federal_Prosecutors__2-18-2025_.pdf

The gall of these demons!   

But I am glad they identified themselves for the malignant scum they are!

Just like those 51+ IC traitors who LIED to every American and every soul on this planet!

Judge not, lest ye be judged!  They all FA...time to FO!



H/T's-WRSA@GAB

[patentlymn]

No Kazakh oil  through the pipeline for now. 

https://t.me/myLordBebo/59679
🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇸🇰🇿 Putin has offered foreign shareholders of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which transports Kazakh oil, to supply equipment to repair the pipeline after yesterday's drone attack despite sanctions.

"If foreign investors are interested in restoring the CPC's operations, then let them, despite all the sanctions, organize the delivery of the necessary equipment"

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak said that a Ukrainian drone attacked the CPC facility is “Ukraine’s response to the negotiations between the Russian Federation and the United States.”

The shareholders of CPC are:
- PJSC Transneft (trust management) (24%)
- JSC NC KazMunayGas (19%)
- Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company (15%)
- Lukoil International GmbH (12.5%)
- Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company (7.5%)
- Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited (7.5%)
- LLC MC CPC Company (7%)
- BG Overseas Holdings Limited (2%)
- Eni International NANVSar.l. (2%)
- Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC (1.75%)
- Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC (1.75%)

This pipeline is the main route for exporting Kazakh oil to the world market.

[patentlymn]

https://t.me/ZradaXXII/39736
Crisis in Washington DC

The U.S. capital is facing tough times amid Trump's shock therapy. The average cost of housing in Washington, D.C., has plummeted by 20% since November 2024—from $700,000 to $560,000. At the same time, the number of vacant homes has sharply increased.

In suburban areas surrounding Washington, the number of homes being sold urgently has surged by 60-80%. Residents are fleeing the city to escape mass layoffs, with tens of thousands of government employees already laid off—a figure that could soon rise into the hundreds of thousands.

Unemployment in the District of Columbia is also rising rapidly, plunging the de facto U.S. capital into a deep recession. The crisis is also hitting neighboring states hard; Maryland, for instance, is experiencing worsening financial troubles, with local municipal bonds now trading at junk levels.

Counties adjacent to Washington, such as Fairfax—among the wealthiest in the U.S.—have long benefited from federal budget inflows. With Trump cutting off this flow, problems are emerging. As for Washington itself, the city is already overwhelmed by homelessness and migrants, with crime rates soaring.

Washington, D.C., is setting new records for car thefts. Recently, a Democrat congressman had his car stolen at gunpoint just five minutes from the Capitol. Many lawmakers now sleep in Congress buildings out of fear of venturing outside. If funding continues to dwindle, Washington risks becoming fully ghettoized, resembling Detroit.

[Libertas]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-live-senate-hold-key-vote-kash-patel/

Lutnick (Commerce) confirmed 51-45...and apparently Patel is up for his vote as early as tomorrow.

Crazy Louie out as PG...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/head-postal-service-step-down/

 

And this was an interesting revelation...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1892019355900121281

...keep it in mind as we move forward.  Hey, if the Pubbies screw Patel over...maybe the General would like a whack at cleaning that outfit up?!

 

And, something else to stuff in gaslighting demonazi faces!

...the media did not care who had access to that data during the Biden years.

One report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed that as of September 2023, there were as many as 919 individuals who had access to unmasked IRS data.

The unmasked data contains personally identifiable information and “requires executive level approval” to access.

Roughly 20 of those individuals were “researchers and student volunteers.”

In other words, the media and the Democrats had no reason to be concerned about novices and young people accessing information in our government until the Trump administration came into power — and until that power was used to threaten the bureaucracy they love so dearly.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/media-freaks-1-doge-employee-getting-irs-access/

As for these clowns...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/u-s-conference-catholic-bishops-file-lawsuit-against/

 

...you have no case, go away!

And this fool too...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-firing-cia-officers/

 

...bugger off!  You have no jurisdiction, your order is illegal.

This was pretty good...seeing these two interact and talk, like normal people like you and I...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-musk-expose-media-lies-bureaucratic-corruption-bidens/

 

And, isn't this just a fantastic idea?!

Posting on the X platform on Tuesday, Musk said he would “check with the president” about a proposal to send out $5,000 checks to every American using money saved by DOGE’s cost-cutting operations.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musk-endorses-doge-dividend-payments-would-send/

Makes perfect sense!  It is We the taxpayers who have been getting ripped off for years, likely decades!  Is $5k representative of each individuals shares of the overcharge extorted from us?  Probably not, some may be over-compensated, some may be fairly compensated...likely most of us materially under-compensated...but it would send a message that indicates the governments ability to recognize a wrong, make amends for a wrong and make a commitment to make sure wrongs do not occur again.

Git-R-Done!   

[Libertas]

...in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day….This gives birth to strong mass prejudices, to blindness, which is most dangerous in our dynamic era…. It will only be broken by the pitiless crowbar of events.-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Harvard University, 1978.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/usaid-soft-power-and-how-solzhenitsyn-predicted-crisis

Trump & DOGE, meet the pitiless crowbar!



 

 

DOGE to American victims of the IRS...

https://twitter.com/DOGE_IRS/status/1891521456179184079

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/19/the-irs-will-begin-with-6000-layoffs-this-week/

Hope 8k is just an endowment on 10, 20...30 times as many kicked to the curb!   

[Libertas]

Looks like Patel confirmation vote set for 1:45PM ET...



...call those Senator's y'all got that may be wavering!

[Libertas]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/shocking-doge-uncovers-4-million-government-credit-cards/

WTF?!   

What moron handed out credit cards to  corrupt bureaucrats?!   

Like giving gasoline and matches to a toddler!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/doge-discovers-biden-epa-awarded-2-billion-firm/

Claw that back, now!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-has-reportedly-warned-employees/

Good, how can you protect the homeland with treasonous crap undercutting lawful actions?

And all the toxic-leftist trash is lynching Patel before the confirmation vote...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/toxin-rino-susan-collins-is-no-kash-patel/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/democrat-senators-melt-down-ahead-kash-patel-confirmation/

...same corrupt filth that loved stunted slime like Comey and Wray!

Screams volumes about how in the pocket of the toxic-left-weaponized corruptocrats they are!

[ToddF]

Time to lawyer up, Washington DC, because KA$H is coming for you!

   

[Libertas]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-live-senate-votes-confirm-kash-patel-as/

51-49...the 2 succubi from Alaska & Maine voted against...even Glitch voted for...maybe he hit the wrong button though...

Anyway, it's done...

Let the flushing of toxic-leftist corruptocrats commence...and yeah, any lawbreakers anywhere in-house or anywhere best skip to one of these paradises (I see maybe only 2 hospitable ones, maybe 3, LOL)....

The United States does not have an extradition treaty with China, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vietnam, the GCC states, most African states, and most former Soviet states, among others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties

 

[Libertas]

Whoa!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-goal-abolish-irs-layoffs-loom-lutnick

If that actually happened I think pretty much most of the nation would erupt in spontaneous outbursts of absolute joy!!!

                               

[patentlymn]

Many of the changes made by trump are undoing changes made by Biden at the last minute.
One of these was a NYC congestion pricing tax recently undone by Trump.

https://youtu.be/3960yU9Ig8s
Trump Kills Hated NYC's $9 Toll: Governor Hochul Has Meltdown Over "Long Live the King" Tweet
🚗💰 Breaking News: Trump Administration Axes NYC's Controversial Congestion Pricing! 🗽

In a shocking turn of events, President Trump's DOT has pulled the plug on New York City's much-debated $9 congestion toll. This video breaks down the drama:

Why Gov. Hochul is furious and threatening legal action

How Trump's "Long Live the King" tweet set social media ablaze

The surprising support from NJ's Democratic Governor

What this means for NYC commuters and businesses

[patentlymn]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-sean-spicer-hilariously-explain-glenn-beck-why/

This story is absolutely hilarious.

We first heard about this back in December, but there were not as many details. Now, Sean Spicer has shared the entire saga with Glenn Beck.

In a nutshell, back in the fall of 2021, Spicer was serving on a couple of different boards. His term was set to end in November, but Biden fired him and some other conservatives in September, seemingly just to be a petty jerk.

Spicer then sued the Biden administration, for the sole purpose of losing and having a court of law affirm that Biden could fire whoever he wanted. It worked. Spicer lost the lawsuit. Then they went to an appeals court, which ALSO said that Biden, as president, had the power to fire anyone.

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Fast forward to now. Trump has just fired the entire board of the Kennedy Center and they can’t do a darn thing about it. Why? Because Spicer forced the Biden administration to defend Spicer’s firing, which is now being cited as the legal precedent. It’s an ultimate FAFO.

[Libertas]

Many of the changes made by trump are undoing changes made by Biden at the last minute.
One of these was a NYC congestion pricing tax recently undone by Trump.

https://youtu.be/3960yU9Ig8s
Trump Kills Hated NYC's $9 Toll: Governor Hochul Has Meltdown Over "Long Live the King" Tweet
🚗💰 Breaking News: Trump Administration Axes NYC's Controversial Congestion Pricing! 🗽

In a shocking turn of events, President Trump's DOT has pulled the plug on New York City's much-debated $9 congestion toll. This video breaks down the drama:

Why Gov. Hochul is furious and threatening legal action

How Trump's "Long Live the King" tweet set social media ablaze

The surprising support from NJ's Democratic Governor

What this means for NYC commuters and businesses

The corruptocrats are tyrants who love exercising what Frank Herbert in his Dune books calls "hydraulic despotism"...which he seems to have gotten from Karl August Wittfogel...is basically "access control" of water or literally, any essential commodity or service...

Corruptocrats like Hochul want "normal" access to New York via motorized vehicles restricted to primarily the wealthy elite, without saying so outright and blathering about the wonderful public transportation options available if you can tolerate crime and violence and being prosecuted for defending yourself against sundry criminal scum they tolerate...while the wealthy elite can drive their Beamers and Hummers or be shuttled about in fully-loaded limo's with less traffic to impede their time which is vastly more important than any mere serf about town...

And yeah, Trump lives rent-free in the heads of these corruptocrats because the latter are completely incapable of relating to every day Americans who just want to work, provide for their families, live in a decent home and live an unmolested life...

[Libertas]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-sean-spicer-hilariously-explain-glenn-beck-why/

This story is absolutely hilarious.

We first heard about this back in December, but there were not as many details. Now, Sean Spicer has shared the entire saga with Glenn Beck.

In a nutshell, back in the fall of 2021, Spicer was serving on a couple of different boards. His term was set to end in November, but Biden fired him and some other conservatives in September, seemingly just to be a petty jerk.

Spicer then sued the Biden administration, for the sole purpose of losing and having a court of law affirm that Biden could fire whoever he wanted. It worked. Spicer lost the lawsuit. Then they went to an appeals court, which ALSO said that Biden, as president, had the power to fire anyone.

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Fast forward to now. Trump has just fired the entire board of the Kennedy Center and they can’t do a darn thing about it. Why? Because Spicer forced the Biden administration to defend Spicer’s firing, which is now being cited as the legal precedent. It’s an ultimate FAFO.

President's have always had that authority...the difference is opposition parties only ever bitched about it at most and let it lie after that, it would be only a political point the opposition would try to raise when it suited them....  Then, the rise of the fully-weaponized corruptocrats took control of what the democrat party is now...

[Libertas]

Certainly is a new era...would not get this kind of transparency from FJB or The Kenyan...let alone any redirect from the non-lethal Marxist BS...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/21/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-discusses-dod-priorities-doge-budget-cuts-and-defense-spending-audit/

...and some are disappointed in military industrial base not being looked at for current budget...and there is a good reason for that...

...first is the pipeline impacts, which need to be looked at carefully, some cancellations may cost more in the end...

...more importantly - DOGE, on site and at work, this is an area they'll naturally focus on as they delve into outlays...there will be a lot more coming out on this...

...lastly, the next budget priorities will be all Trump priorities and in context with findings/changes driven by DOGE...

In short I like the start so far.

[Libertas]

One month celebration...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/20/hassett-miller-and-waltz-join-karoline-leavitt-during-white-house-press-briefing/

The breadth and scope of what has been accomplished so far is impressive...the in-play foreign relations and trade negotiations...the level of live unscripted interactions with the press and We the People...the stunning revelations of what DOGE has found and clawed back from oblivion...

We get traction on the legislative front with One Big Beautiful Bill...momentum will be massive...

PS - Leavitt is a bright savvy Honey Badger with a sunny personality, Miller is a Wolverine, Hasset is the wise Owl, Waltz may be akin to a changeling...he can be whatever is required given any moment and has the wits and spine to handle anything...a geopolitical maestro.

MOAR!!!