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Stephen Miller Pulls No Punches |
Watching the Trump administration hold the media accountable for its lies is one of the most satisfying things about America’s leadership change. The press deserves to be called out to its face.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller did just that on Thursday, lambasting the propagandists who spent years ignoring the rise of Washington’s unchecked bureaucracy for now pretending to be outraged by Elon Musk and Donald Trump implementing the agenda that Americans actually voted for.
“So I’m glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson," he said during yesterday’s briefing. "A president is elected by the whole American people. He’s the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation… What President Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people."
Miller also adopted one of the fake news’ favorite terms, describing the unelected lifetime bureaucracy that Trump and Musk are tearing down as "the threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy.” That is certainly true.
Read more and watch Miller eviscerate the press here.
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Mitch McConnell Is Finally Going Into His Shell |
At long last, longtime Republican Senator and “very bitter guy” Mitch McConnell is ready to relinquish power.
The sometimes-upright lawmaker disclosed on Thursday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, handing the Make America Great Again movement a major victory and the outdated establishment GOP a crushing setback.
McConnell began his announcement with an awkward attention-seeking flex that yesterday was his birthday before talking about the “unfinished business” of increasing America’s foreign intervention he hopes to attend to during his final years in office.
“The work of strengthening America’s hard power was well underway when I arrived in the Senate, but since then, we’ve allowed that power to atrophy,” he said. “And today, a dangerous world threatens to outpace the work of rebuilding it. So lest any of our colleagues still doubt my intentions for the remainder of my term, I have some unfinished business to attend to in our work.”
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Mitch.
Read more here and watch McConnell’s retirement announcement here.
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HE’S IN: Senate Confirms Kash Patel |
Kash Patel, the man Wikipedia hilariously labels a “conspiracy theorist,” will officially be America’s next FBI director.
The Senate confirmed Patel in a 51-49 vote on Thursday, making him the 19th approved Trump cabinet nominee and continuing this administration’s record-breaking pace of confirmations. Every Democrat voted against Patel, and all but two Republicans voted in favor. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the lone GOP dissenters.
The designate director’s confirmation was no guarantee. Unlike nominees like Elise Stefanik, who the Washington war machine thinks could be a vessel for subverting the America First agenda from within, Patel’s beliefs unapologetically and genuinely align with the president’s. He knows the Deep State is real, and he plans to put an end to it.
It is worth noting that despite what apparently racist Democrats like James Carville think, Kash Patel and Tucker Carlson Network CEO Neil Patel are not the same person. Read more.
| Better Late Than Never? Rand Paul Endorses Trump |
Interesting timing, but ok…
Rand Paul endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday, admitting he was wrong for not supporting the president during the 2024 campaign.
"A few people may have noticed that I resisted an enthusiastic endorsement of Donald Trump during the election,” the Kentucky senator wrote on X. “... [But] I love his message to the Ukrainian warmongers, and [that] along with his DOGE initiative shows I was wrong to withhold my endorsement. So today, admittedly a little tardy, I give Donald Trump my enthusiastic endorsement!” “Go @realDonaldTrump Go!” he added.
Although Paul did not throw his weight behind Trump in November, he did issue an anti-endorsement of Nikki Haley ahead of last year’s Iowa caucuses. Bless him for that. Read more.
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GAY COUNTRY: America Has Never Been More LGBTQ |
America has never been more gay.
According to a new survey, 9.3% of U.S. adults now identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or one of the apparently dozens of options other than straight. 9.3% is an all-time high.
Survey administrator Jeff Jones attributes the spike, up from 7.6% in 2023, to Generation Z’s entrance into adulthood. According to Gallup, nearly one-quarter of Gen Z identifies as on the gay spectrum. That number is significantly higher than any other age demographic. More specifically, 59% of LGBTQ Gen Zs are “bisexual,” meaning they’re happy to give it to or take it from anybody.
What is causing this? Could it have something to do with Alex Jones’s gay frogs? We may never know for sure, but one thing is certain: this year’s Pride Month, International Day Against Homophobia, International Pronouns Day, and National Coming Out Day are going to be wild. Get ready to party. Read more. |
This Democrat Doesn’t Want You To Get $5,000 |
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is totally and completely against the Trump administration sending DOGE savings back to the American people. Just not for a reason you’d likely expect.
Is it because she doesn’t think the proposed $5,000 payments would be lucrative enough? Or perhaps she’d prefer using the funds for something else that could help the country, like improving education or serving veterans? Not exactly. Crockett doesn’t want you to get a big beautiful check because, according to her, Washington is “not in the business of giving out money.”
Is that so? According to government data, D.C. politicians appropriated over $180 billion to Ukraine from 2022 through 2024. Crockett supported giving out that money every step of the way and has repeatedly favored sending billions more to all kinds of random countries most Americans probably couldn’t find on a map. But no $5,000 for you. Read more.
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Vance: “We’re on the Cusp of Peace” |
The Left’s outrage over Donald Trump correctly labeling Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” ignores the fact that Europe is the closest to peace it has been in three years. Unlike frothing Democrats, JD Vance is keeping his eye on the ball.
“I really believe that we’re on the cusp of peace in Europe for the first time in three years, because we have leadership from the Oval Office, and we haven’t had it in four years in this country,” the vice president said at CPAC on Thursday while highlighting the new administration’s common-sense strategy to ending the region’s bloodshed. “How are you going to end the war unless you’re talking to Russia? You’ve got to talk to everybody involved in the fighting if you actually want to bring the [carnage to a] close.”
Vance also posted a detailed statement on X explaining why criticizing Republicans for rejecting their party’s old hawkish agenda is “moralistic garbage.” It is worth reading.
Watch Vance’s CPAC statement here and read his X post here.
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Germany Cannot Defend Itself |
Germany may need to bring back the draft.
According to German newspaper Taggespiegel, restarting conscription will likely be a priority for the country’s next government regardless of which party triumphs in Sunday’s election. The perceived need for such a policy is glaring because of how woefully underfunded and undermanned Germany’s armed forces are.
This kind of thing is a direct result of European countries and American leadership allowing NATO to turn into a completely U.S.-dependent alliance. Western Europe has spent decades sitting on its hands and allowing American taxpayers to foot a disproportionate amount of NATO’s defense bills, making itself unable to fight on its own if there was ever a need. Read more. |
MADE IN AMERICA: Hyundai and Kia to Ramp Up U.S. Manufacturing |
Donald Trump has repeatedly called “tariff” one of the most beautiful words in the English language. Thousands of American workers are soon likely to agree.
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia are reportedly aiming to increase their domestic vehicle production by a whopping 70% with the goal of “localizing production to minimize the influence of the tariff threat.” Both automakers plan to make full use of their new plant in Georgia, which will open next month.
The president’s car tariff plan is hardly complex. Earlier this week, he said that the tariff rates on auto imports will be “in the neighborhood of 25 percent,” but that there is a straightforward way for companies to reduce that figure to zero.
“If they have a plant and factory here, there will be no tariff,” he stated. No ambiguity there. Read more. |
A Tribute to Sound Leadership |
Tomorrow is George Washington’s birthday.
Everyone knows the great general served as America’s first president, but seldom do we ponder what that really means. As the original occupant of what became the world’s most powerful office, Washington had the extraordinary opportunity to morph the presidency into whatever he wanted. There was no precedent for him to adhere to. He got to make the rules.
If the first commander-in-chief had wanted the position to resemble that of a king, it would have been so. Had he sought to rule forever, 18th-century Americans would have let him. And if he craved even more power than what his new nation could provide, he could have thrust the United States into a myriad of global conflicts to show off his manhood like so many leaders from his generation and today’s doubtlessly would have. Real opportunities to do all three arrived on Washington’s plate throughout his presidency, but he repeatedly passed them up.
Recall the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania. When the government faced its first true violent uprising, Washington could have quickly deployed his troops, had the rebels executed, and gone along with his day. He wouldn’t have gotten as much resistance as you may expect. Every action he took was the first of its kind, meaning the “right” and “wrong” ways for a president to behave were yet to be established. He had a blank canvas. He painted on it with care.
“I want no blood spilled,” the president plainly ordered before launching his disciplined initiative to quash the rebellion. And none was. Washington met violence with restraint, the insurgency quickly crumbled, and the precedent that the government does not kill its people became set. Who knows what our country would look like today had he acted differently. We’d rather not imagine.
The opportunity for Washington to become a conqueror also emerged during America’s early days. The French and British fought one of their many wars during his administration, and members of the president’s own cabinet pushed him to send U.S. troops into the fray. Their thinking was similar to that of modern neocons, and they richly slandered Washington, the leader of the revolution, as pro-British when he resisted their pleas. But he held firm.
Would America have survived if he’d bent to their will? It is seriously possible that it wouldn’t have.
Lastly, perhaps no decision better encapsulates the consequences of the first president’s every move than his insistence on leaving office. The original Constitution did not establish term limits. He could have ruled for as long as he wanted. Washington’s choice to give up power, a move few would have made, established that the American people, not one man, rule this country. The choice of who wields power belongs to them and them alone. There are no kings. The government must fear the people, not the other way around.
It’s easy to take those principles for granted, but they likely would not exist without Washington’s leadership. America owes him its eternal gratitude.
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February 21, 1972: Richard Nixon becomes the first American president to visit China. The summit ended 25 years of isolation between the two nations and resulted in the establishment of diplomatic relations nine years later. Nixon shook hands with Mao Zedong during the trip. You can listen to him discuss the historic affair here. |
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