In about 30 minutes President Trump is going to sit down in front of about 20,000 people and is going to start signing Executive Orders in front of them while on television, and I assume he will talk about each one.
This ought to be real interesting! I think he has about 200 EO’s to sign, although I don’t know if he is going to sign them all today. But maybe he will. He’s not the kind of guy who puts things off for too long.
One of Trump’s EO’s is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
In 2020, there were rumors that Trump was going to issue blanket pardons to those who were associated with him.
When asked about this, then president elect Biden declared that such blanket pardons were unconscionable and would make the US a laughingstock amongst the nations. He also pledged that he would never do such a thing.
Unknown territory there – the only precedent for blanket preemptive pardons is Nixon, and nobody really cared enough to challenge that one. If there is a desire to pursue anything with these people, the concept will certainly face a SCOTUS review. If it’s NOT pursued, the flip side is that they can’t take the 5th, and any perjury arising from their testimony is a new crime not covered by the pardon.
Yeah, two or maybe three of the death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted said they didn’t want that. It made proving their “innocence” easier if they were on death row, apparently.
“NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
Trump said the WHO had failed to act independently from the “inappropriate political influence of WHO member states” and required “unfairly onerous payments” from the U.S. that were disproportionate to the sums provided by other, larger countries, such as China.
World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said at the signing of an executive order on the withdrawal, shortly after his inauguration to a second term.”
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Don’t stop at the WHO. Pull us out of the World Meteorological Organization as well.
Trump said China has 1.4 billion people and pays the WHO about $39 million per year, while the US has about 350 million people and pays the WHO $500 million per year. Trump doesn’t think that is fair, and he doesn’t like the fact that the WHO carries the Chicom’s water.
$500 million sounds like a lot of money for the WHO to lose. I’m wondering if the other member states will make up for the loss of U.S. funding. Can’t find how much we pay the WMO in annual dues. Like I said however, pull us out of it.
J Boles
January 20, 2025 9:56 am
Drill baby! yes, need more fossil fuels, more fairness, more freedom, and push back on leftist oppression. I hope the USA and the world have learned a lesson from the last 4 years, and do better going forward.
This should be considered one of the happiest days for America. As of today, the Green New Deal and the EV mandate are history (although not yet the Paris Agreement).
IIRC, which is diffy, the Paris thing and all like these anr progressively non-binding and mostly non-saying-a-thing and I’m-not-signing-that. But then, after looking at these, they all went into the trash can for me – they’d take too much space in the paper bin.
The climate scam-renewable wind and solar spending in the Inflation Reduction Act will need to be rescinded by the GOP-run Congress in a reconciliation bill sent to President Trump before the waste of GND will be undone.
Patience, Grasshopper! Congress can’t move as fast as a President on his inauguration day.
First things first, which is to confirm all of Trump’s senior level appointments. Majority Leader Thune said he’s doing just that. It is believed that first up will be Marco Rubio at State, which is considered the senior most cabinet position. The other cabinet appointees have already gone through committee hearings and can be expected to get Senate confirmation in the first few days.
In the meantime Senate and House leaders have been working on reconciliation bills that will accomplish much of what is needed legislatively.
However, I am still of the opinion that the Senate filibuster must be reformed to allow a simple majority vote after substantial Senate debate, which is what the Senate did for most of its history until perverted into requiring a 60 vote margin for any significant legislation. Can the Dems come back and use that against us? Sure … but the best means of keeping Dems out of control of the Senate and House is to accomplish what Trump promised to do this year. If that happens, it will be a very long time before Dems are in a position again to abuse the American voting public.
Not quite yet. The $7,500 is a tax credit and thus part of the tax code, it’ll require an act of congress to eliminate. California’s waiver that enables them to set the “ Zero Emissions Vehicles regulations” however, is on the chopping block thanks to Trumps EOs. His EOs also put a halt to the spending of money for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure programs while agencies conduct a review of their policies.
Musk is fine with it. As Musk said when Trump first proposed the idea “A surprising number of people think that Tesla survives on subsidies. That is true of our competitors, but not of Tesla”. Musk has also said “I think we should get rid of all credits” when asked about eliminating the Federal Tax Credit. (note: in 2018 enough Tesla’s were sold to trigger the elimination of that Credit for Tesla, and in 2020, while Tesla’s were no longer eligible for the Credit, Tesla posted its first fully profitable year.)
TL/DR: Musk, by all accounts, is onboard with the elimination of the “EV mandate”.
“Liberation Day” !
Let’s take heart, skeptics of climate alarm. It’s time now to stop conceding the core claim that “warming” should be expected down here from incremental CO2, CH4, N2O and other radiatively active non-condensing gases. There was never a good scientific reason all along to suppose so – most certainly not to any significant or harmful extent.
Now, that’s something he said in his speech. He said something about legislation outlawing the suppression of free speech. The thought struck me, could scientists use that against publishers etc. who block publications and sack scientists for presenting valid papers/views contrary to the climate scam narrative?
As long as she remains a Constitutionalist, I’ve no problem with her.
While most things the Left has tried to is Unconstitutional, some thing the Right tries is also.
Judging by the Law of The Land will help get us back to governing by The Law of the Land.
Constitution does not grant the President the power of assigning immunity.
Due process declares presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Pardon is for persons who committed an offense (crime) against the federal government.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
“and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States”
So those pardons are Constitutionally invalid, much as the back to 2014 for Hunter.
Reprieves are commutation of punishments currently served. Changing a death penalty to life is a reprieve.
The Supreme Court has to get involved in this. He could’ve pardoned anyone who votes democrat. If he had a mind, that thought might have crossed it.
…. and, BTW, Just because I dislike him intensely, I’m not making light of the man’s illness. I think it became more exposed because of the antics of his senior-abusing wife.
No, not really. They will still investigate the people and those pardoned have to still testify without 5th amendment rights. If they refuse to testify they can be arrested for obstruction and if they lie, for perjury. Plus all those involved and not under a pardon will get convicted and go to the big house as well as rat on everyone under a pardon.
All it does is keep them out of jail, but not protected from other things.
I’ve heard conflicting reports from legal analysts on Liz Cheney and her alleged witness tampering. Anyone know any more? Doesn’t being pardoned mean that Joe’s handlers knew she was guilty of something?
“Doesn’t being pardoned mean that Joe’s handlers knew she was guilty of something?”
That’s the way it looks to me.
I think the Republicans are probably going to investigate the January 6 investigation.
We may not be able to put ole Liz in jail now, but we can sure humiliate her by making her underhanded actions public.
The Biden administration corruption should be the subject of investigations. People need to know what was really going on behind the curtain, so they don’t ever vote for radical Democrats again.
I don’t remember which one, but I was just reading a statement yesterday from one of them who said exactly that. He also said that he wouldn’t accept one for exactly that reason. (spoiler: he accepted it)
“These pre-emptive pardons are a huge black marks against the people receiving them.”
That’s what Trump said, too. He said he could have pardoned his family and even himself, but if he had done so, it would make all look guilty of something, and Trump said he didn’t think he would be the 47th president, had he done so.
From Legal.com (I I didn’t copy the whole thing.) pardon
1) v. to use the executive power of a Governor or President to forgive a person convicted of a crime, thus removing any remaining penalties or punishments and preventing any new prosecution of the person for the crime for which the pardon was given. A pardon strikes the conviction from the books as if it had never occurred, and the convicted person is treated as innocent. Sometimes pardons are given to an older rehabilitated person long after the sentence has been served to clear his/her record.
governmental immunity
n. the doctrine from English common law that no governmental body can be sued unless it gives permission. This protection resulted in terrible injustices, since public hospitals, government drivers and other employees could be negligent with impunity (free) from judgment. The Federal Tort Claims Act and state waivers of immunity (with specific claims systems) have negated this rule, which stemmed from the days when kings set prerogatives.
immunity
n. exemption from penalties, payments or legal requirements, granted by authorities or statutes. Generally there are three types of immunity at law: a) a promise not to prosecute for a crime in exchange for information or testimony in a criminal matter, granted by the prosecutors, a judge, a grand jury or an investigating legislative committee; b) public officials’ protection from liability for their decisions (like a city manager or member of a public hospital board); c) governmental (or sovereign) immunity, which protects government agencies from lawsuits unless the government agreed to be sued; d) diplomatic immunity which excuses foreign ambassadors from most U.S. criminal laws.
Biden didn’t issue “immunities”. He issued pardons.
The Constitution does not give the President the power is issue immunity from prosecution.
There is no mechanism to overturn a presidential pardon. The supreme court has ruled that the president’s pardon power is unlimited. The only thing a pardon doesn’t cover is future crimes.
If I’m not mistaken, it made him immune from other prosecutions for any other crimes he’s committed going back 10 years.
(Maybe now we’ll find out who’s cocaine it was that was found in the White House?)
Did he? I just did a search and no family members were included in the list of these latest pardons. I was specifically looking for whether Joe had pardoned his brother or other relatives but didn’t see any reference. Some reporter a little while ago mentioned family pardons but I’m not sure what he was referring to..
Biden “pardoned” people today who haven’t even been charged with a crime. I don’t see how that’s legal. How can you be pardoned for a non-existent crime?
If Joe Biden didn’t pardon his brother and wife and other relatives, then he made a big mistake, because his brother is hip-deep in influence-selling corruption, just like Hunter.
“Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden announced a set of sweeping pre-emptive pardons to members of his family, including his two brothers and his sister, after some on the right suggested the they should face prosecution.”
Exactly everyone saw this coming after Trump’s first term established that most limits on executive power are just gentleman’s handshake agreements. This is now the new norm and it’s a cat that can’t be put bag in the bag.
My characterization of Trump as someone who broke presidential norms has little to do with the number of executive orders he issued. He used the office in ways that other presidents have dared not (not because they weren’t tempted, but because they understood the consequences). Trump made little secret of his disdain for norms and his view of them as shackles to be broken and cast aside rather than vital checks against executive overreach. This behavior is a big part of his appeal to his supporters.
I think I know what you mean. Trump didn’t start or escalate wars. No blow was found lying around in his Whitehouse and as far as we know, he didn’t engage in oral sex in the Oval office.
Trump pardoned 144 people in his first term. Biden pardoned over 8000.
“Past presidents were impeached and made history by violating some norms of the office but Trump does it so casually and incessantly that I can’t even remember specifics” may not be the strong argument you think it is.
But you have to turn it into a supposed comparison with me. How very droll of you.
Oh, and how do you know me so well?
That you know how much stamina I have.
Get a life and calm down.
Instead of making such a bald statement of fact into a personal comparison, that you cannot have any idea of.
Not big or clever as we say here.
Translation, I can’t actually name anything Trump has done wrong, but the party assures me that Trump is evil, therefore he must have done something bad.
Of course. It is surprising that you do not, since you seem to support him and these are things his base cites as positive qualities. Trump flouted presidential norms around conflicts of interest and public disclosure, attempted to use political pressure to persecute the families of his political opponents, attempted to diminish the independence of the justice department to use it as a political weapon and to personally intervene in investigatory cases, attempted to undermine the American election system in a bid to cling to power, including directing his vice president to commit illegal acts, and on and on. He tries to directly profit from his presidency by merchandising and brand deals (he created a cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme in the days leading up to inauguration). He also leveraged the presidential pardon power to an extent never before seen (but soon to always-be-seen) in the presidency, by offering pardons as quid pro quo.
The attempt to normalize by the right Trump’s behavior as “typical president stuff” is extremely troubling. He is an autocratic demagogue with fascist beliefs, this is not normal stuff.
Never mentioned the pee tape. It’s you that has it on your brain. I just pointed out that many of Trumps team had “unhealthy” “unpatriotic” “sneaky” dealings with the Russians. Shall I list them?
Yes please. I heard people implying DT was doing something with the Russian continuously for more than 10 years without ever hearing anyone say specifically what he did.
“What did Trump do with the Russians?”
“Collude.”
“Collude to do what?”
I don’t know what he did.
Sure…. There is loads. So much it beggers belief that it has all just been washed away.
“Paul Manafort either admitted guilt or was convicted of: illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians (Manafort had, in fact, been working illegally as an unregistered agent for pro-Russian interests since 2006), money laundering, tax fraud, lying to investigators, and lying under oath before a grand jury concerning his contact with a Russian associate during the 2016 campaign.
Rick Gates pled guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States, as well as one count of making false statements to the FBI and to the Special Counsel about his status as a foreign agent for Ukraine (he was working together with Manafort on behalf of pro-Russian politicians).”
“George Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to investigators about his contacts with two Russian nationals and a professor connected to Russia. Papadopoulos lied about having discussions with them regarding the dirt the Russians claimed to have on Hillary Clinton, as well as about Papadopoulos’s attempts to plan a Trump campaign trip to Russia.”
I don’t know all the details of this particular pardon, but Trump said he wasn’t going to pardon anyone involved in violence at the Capitol Building.
Trump is pardoning people who the Biden administration railroaded into jail just because they were present on that day. For those people, I’m am thoroughly on board with Trump’s pardon.
Casting the rioters as “patriots” and “hostages,” Trump has claimed they were unfairly treated by the Justice Department, which also charged him with federal crimes in two cases he contends were politically motivated. Trump said the pardons will end “a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years” and begin “a process of national reconciliation.”
Hunter Biden was actually convicted of crimes.
As unethical and self serving as his pardon (for just those convictions) was, he could do it.
But the immunity stuff for him, his family and many others needs to go SCOTUS.
Biden pardoned Biden, Inc., with 10% for the Big Guy, capping 12 years or more of grifting and grafting.
This means any President and his family and friends can be “on the take”, for four or eight years and get rich, and at the last minute, the President gives all a pardon.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
This smells like pardon overreach to me.
This will create a new category of criminality by the political in-crowd that is above the law, that “gets a free pass”
THIS MUST NOT STAND.
This is beyond crazy
I am sure this will be challenged in court.
They would have had to invoke the 25th Amendment. If they had succeeded, no prizes for guessing who would have cackled her way, toasted into the Oval Office. Think of that as a bullet that missed us all.
Keep going until you undo what Woodrow Wilson did (FED, income tax)
Josualdo
January 20, 2025 10:30 am
Congratulations!
John Hultquist
January 20, 2025 10:32 am
Slàinte Mhaith to the Nation, him, his, and All Y’all 🤠
MR166
January 20, 2025 10:47 am
As an senior senior citizen I have listened to quite a few presidential speeches. This was by far and away the best that I have ever heard. Ronald Regan was great but the country was in much better shape when he was elected. President Trump will determine if the US remains a viable country or not. Our enemies are deeply entrenched in the system.
The sane, not woke, not DEI, not green Democrats are finally flocking to Trump.
Trump will be like an FDR for private enterprise to MAGA.
The Panama Canal clique must be shaking, because Trump will be taking away their cash cow.
Idiot Carter gave our Panama Canal away and patriot Trump is taking it back
Things have changed a lot since the WW days Henry.
Subversive strategies by ideologues can now render nations to the level of mendicant states.
The enemies of enlightened, productive, prosperous, FREE societies are now the likes of the WEF, the UN, “Progressive” political parties, and of course the beholden mainstream media.
Their “long march through the institutions” will take quite a bit of coordinated effort around the world to undo.
Unfortunately, people are all to anxious to declare the end of war as a form of international policy. WW One was named “The War to End All Wars” … and didn’t. WW Two resulted in creating the United Nations as the supposed secret to ending all wars … and the second half of the 20th century and first quarter of the 21st century proved the lie to that assumption.
I truly believe that President Trump will seek to avoid wars … but he has no control over the PRC, or Russia, or Iran, or DPRK. He can dissuade them, certainly, but sometimes insanity prevails on the other side.
Putin and Xi currently have no interest in provoking Trump.
They are both certainly in a Wait and See approach now.
Except for going full nuclear option where no one wins, neither China nor Russia has the conventional military forces necessary to seriously challenge the US and not get their asses whacked badly.
Iran is badly damaged and exposed now from Israeli strikes on its air defense systems. SAM Systems that Russia can’t afford to send replacements because of its own Ukraine war losses. and China won’t help them do to fear of sanctions.
That leaves Crazy Kim-boy. And he’s watching his best troops get slaughtered by Ukraine in Kursk region.
Putin and Xi have plenty of interest in destroying the United States of America as a significant competitor to their pretensions at dominating the world. Don’t kid yourself for a moment. Either dictator can come to a point when they don’t care if they provoke nuclear annihilation and economic destruction, when they are on the verge of failing. The old saying goes that a bear is most dangerous when he’s wounded.
What we have to do is build a stronger more capable military force, use our economic strength to prevail, and if necessary, be prepared to win a war.
The KGB excelled at funding terrorist/rebel groups to undermine and eventually overthrow those who oppose them.
Putin was the last leader of the KGB before it was allegedly disbanded.
Relax, Henry. Trump has it all under control. There won’t be a World War III, while Trump is in office.
Putin needs a ceasefire. China is not so eager to go to bat for Russia now. Iran is a Paper Tiger that may be experiencing Regime Change in the near future. Don’t think the Iranian People are not paying attention. All they need is a strong signal from Trump that he has the back of the Iranian resistance, and these people will come out into the streets. They are fed up with the Mad Mullah dictators.
North Korea is not a threat. They are sending troops to fight in Ukraine but that’s just because Putin is paying them to do so ($2000 per month, per soldier, is what I heard). The North Korean troops are not doing very well in Ukraine.
North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine just shows the weakness of Putin. He has to bring in outside forces to bolster Russian troops.
Putin wants a ceasefire. He needs one to regroup and rebuild, and he will sit tight and see how things work out after Trump leaves office. Maybe another Joe Biden will get elected (please, God NO!) and then Putin can resume his attempted conquest of Ukraine. And then again, Putin might die in the meantime, and it might be a whole new ballgame for Russia. Putin’s successor may not want to pursue a horrendous war.
Anyway, I think we are safe for at least four years.
Seems like everyone wants a ceasefire except Zelenskyy and the nitwits in charge of the UK. No NATO in Ukraine, and Putin is close to having everything he wants in Ukraine and we’ll see where Odessa goes, I guess.
The Military Summary, a daily look at the front lines on YouTube is a good place to see how that’s going.
Trump said about five minutes ago that Zelenskyy wanted to make a deal.
Trump said he wasn’t sure Putin wanted to make a deal, but he should make a deal, because the Ukraine war was destroying Russia. Trump said he has not talked to Putin about it yet.
I only just got to the speech. I’m not surprised Zelenskyy wants to make a deal now. Trump probably told him what his alternatives are. Putin has always said that he wanted to negotiate but he’s had to conquer all the territory he has now at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives. No NATO in Ukraine is where the line is, I think. I’m not sure about Odessa. I know a lot about the Dombas, on the ground, because my best friend’s wife is from the border. What a tragedy.
Trump said last night that the Russians have had about one million troops killed since the beginning of the war, and Ukraine has had about 750,000 Ukrainian troops killed.
Just think about this horrendous cost. A million Russian mothers and families, and 750,000 Ukraine mothers and families crying for their lost child.
It is a tragedy for all concerned.
It’s time for the killing to stop.
Putin, in making a deal, is going to have to appear to the Russian people to be dealing from a position of strength, so Trump will have to make a deal that satisfies Putin’s desire not to be seen as the loser in the war.
Putin will have to put up objections at first, to show his “strength”, and then he will make a deal, imo.
After the Kiev Coup in 2014, the Ukraine Armed Forces, UAF, attacked the Dombass and other east Ukraine areas, and killed and seriously wounded tens of thousands of Russian-speaking people from 2014 to 2022, who did not want to be ruled by the Russia-hating, AZOV clique installed in Kiev.
Russia aided the “separatists” to prevent them from being overrun and slaughtered.
UN observers wrote monthly reports, but they were filed away in Geneva.
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Major things have changed since the Kursk incursion on Aug 6, 2024, not in Ukraine’s favor, including its severe lack of available fighters for its already depleted armed services, which is losing about 1200 to 1600 killed and seriously wounded every day, plus 250 to 400 in Kursk every day, leading to a Kursk total of 53,000, as of Jan 19, 2025, and counting.
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Russia, has been gaining more and more Ukraine territory every day, and is slowly rolling back the nonsensical incursions in the Kursk, Bryansk and Balgorod Regions.
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Russia has liberated about 63% of the territory in the Kursk Region temporarily occupied by the Ukraine’s military.
This equates to 801 sq. km retaken out of the 1,268 sq. km seized by Kiev’s forces after its August 2024 incursion.
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This in addition to
1) the destruction of defensible fortifications and
2) the destructive of NATO-provided equipment and ammunition, and
3) Ukraine losing many thousands of sq. km. of territory.
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Ukraine population under Kiev rule has shrunk to about 25 million, of which 10.7 million are pensioned.
. Where would fighting-age people come from? No wonder Zelensky wants a deal https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/about-half-of-ukraine-population-left-their-country
Biden was not president and did not call the shots. He was senile from day one and was controlled by the few. They just proved over and over again that if you want to know what the left is doing just listen to what they accuse the Right of doing.
He was inept precisely because he wasn’t calling the shots. He was just signing whatever his unaccountable staff put in front of him with the full authority of his office, then reading about it from a teleprompter before being shuffled off to his nap.
And No one could take those most important car keys away from the senile President until noon today.
I do think the Afghanistan debacle was solely Joe Biden’s call. Even Biden’s own people were objecting to the way he wanted to do it, but Joe wanted out as soon as possible and damn the consequences. Just the way he mistreated South Vietnam. He threw them to the wolves without a second thought.
Joe Biden is an appeaser of Dictators when it comes right down to it. He’s been doing it all his life. He could do it in his sleep. It’s a knee-jerk, cut-and-run attitude, that all appeasers have.
Biden told Speaker Johnson, almost all of the EOs were not signed by him.
They were issued in his name.
Biden is so senile, he does not even know how much he got screwed by his Deep State handlers.
At least Carter can rest in peace knowing that he outlived being the worst president ever thanks to Biden getting into office.
ethical voter
January 20, 2025 11:39 am
47 is a massive shift to the right but much farther to go. Also a massive blow to the insane, leftish climate fantasy. Again, much more to do but a great beginning.
rbabcock
January 20, 2025 12:25 pm
Popcorn time as soon as the DOJ people get confirmed. Trump’s trip to California will be especially entertaining. They will make Federal aid dependent on California changing their water policies and clean up the forests. Plus he won’t mince words about how bad Newsom is.
At the very least, for states and cities that pour money into supporting and protecting illegal immigrants in violation of the immigration laws (“Sanctuary” places), that amount of money should be subtracted from any Fed dollars they would have gotten.
I think a few Republican congresscritters were advocating for withholding funds from California until California cleans up its act, but I don’t think Trump is going to go down that road. Putting pressure on Newsom this way would just hurt the people in California, and I don’t think Trump wants to appear as Scrooge to the people of California. Trump will fund the rebuilding. And, of course, he will have a lot to say about how we got here and who is responsible.
Trump should insist pretty-boy Newscum, a family relation of Pelosi, and the vacationing Mayor resign, before getting any federal money.
Then set up a monitoring group to make sure the money actually goes to victims, without skimming and grifting and grafting, as is usually the case.
Both are unfit for duty and millions of Californians would rejoice to be finally getting rid of them, and may show enough backbone to get rid of some other incompetents as well
It does seem that the international climate and alternative energy movement, such as it is, must now be holed below the waterline. It always has been largely driven by the English speaking countries, and with flat out repudiation by the US of just about the whole agenda its hard to see anyone else taking up that role.
The next COPs are supposed to have 50,000 attendees. We’ll see. If China and the US don’t attend, and India uses its attendance as a way of blocking everything, can the show really go on much longer? Five years from now we may be looking back, shaking our heads, and, like Canadians every spring looking back at winter, wondering did that really happen? Did we really go through that?
It has just been reported on Fox News that President Trump will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement again.
Bigus Macus
January 20, 2025 1:13 pm
“From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.” LOTR
There are a lot of boomers retiring. Many don’t need to be replaced. Also, I’m seeing federal employees coming into the office about 1 day per week now. Some I’ve only seen at our Christmas party and summer picnic.
Take away remote work and many will quit. Then don’t replace them all.
Insubordination is not protected under the contract. If an order is issued with a deadline and not executed, that is a firing offense. If the union rep gets too boisterous, a field office in Barrow Alaska can be his next stop. He can get lots of company there too.
“Insubordination is not protected under the contract.”
Trump says Musk is going to have about 20 employees whose sole job will be to go to the various federal agencies covered by Trump’s Executive Orders, and make sure that the bureaucrats there implement Trump’s EO’s immediately.
Trump says he has to do that because sometimes bureaucrats, left to their own devices, take way too much time in implementing changes. So Trump is going to send someone to look over the bureaucrats’ shoulders. 🙂
Planning is one step, doing it is quite another, especially with:
1) a hiring freeze,
2) no more screwing around unsupervised at home collecting a paycheck,
3) DOGE cost cutting and firing regime all over the bloated federal bureaucracy.
4) With mandates gone, and subsidies cut, and windmills gone, tens of thousands of federal and state employees not needed
One of the things DJT must have signed today….a very interesting and positive choice.
bobpjones
January 20, 2025 1:30 pm
Us Brits, stood on the other side of the pond, and watched your newest president rip apart all that has been going wrong for the last ten years or so (if not longer).
To smack down the woke, and climate crisis aficionados in his acceptance speech was courageous, and so uplifting, what a spirit!
So, as we turn round and shuffle back to our lives. With the glow of US prosperity shining over our shoulders, highlighting the dark times we have ahead, under an unimaginative, incompetent and far left Labour Party.
Hoping we don’t fall into the abyss of abject poverty we wish the US well, looks like you’ve got some exciting, and hopefully prosperous times ahead.
Thank you for your beautiful and gracious words. Long live the Anglo-American special relationship! May our blessings inspire liberty throughout the world.
I think Trump and Nigel will be getting together soon. 🙂
Trump is already voicing concerns over the future ambassador to the U.S. He thinks the current candidate is a Chinese stooge, and Trump doesn’t want him representing the UK.
So, that means Trump and UK’s leadership are at odds, and I think they will be the losers if they start up an argument with Trump.
Trump will make them look silly, and make Nigel look like a better choice.
“Us Brits, stood on the other side of the pond, and watched your newest president rip apart all that has been going wrong for the last ten years or so (if not longer).”
As did we all, including Joe Biden who was sitting right behind Trump while Trump excoriated Biden’s leadership over the last four years. Trump didn’t say Biden’s name, but we all knew who he was talking about.
Biden should have been humiliated. I don’t know if he is capable of that, though..
This must rank as one of the peak moments of the insanity of the Biden era: an obviously male transvestite fetishist in a senior role in the Government.
I think Schiff is described as “pencil neck” by some people.
I describe Schiff as the biggest liar in Congress. And that’s saying something!
California voters decided it was a good idea to elect this liar to the U.S. Senate. That just goes to show what political propaganda can do: It can turn a bald-faced liar into a good guy in some people’s minds.
We’ll see. I don’t put that much stock in politicians.
It sounds like Trump II doesn’t plan to build a wall (actually, it was always a fence), doesn’t plan to deport every illegal alien and they aren’t going to protect our jobs from H1-B visas.
The Border Czar, Homan, said if you are here illegally, you are on his radar. Homan says the criminals and lunatics will be the first to be deported, but if you are just here illegally, you shouldn’t get too comfortable.
As for H1-B visas, anything can be abused. These visas are a positive for businesses, but they should be restricted to bringing in expertise that is not available in the United States. If the expertise is available in the U.S., then that’s where you go to hire.
Trump favors these visas but says they will make sure that Americans are not hurt by them. So, time will tell.
TR M
January 20, 2025 4:03 pm
“Lock her up” … One month later … “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons. They’re good people”
Will something get done this time? I don’t like to allow myself “hope” as it’s a sucker’s bet but I like the group he has nominated. We’ll see shortly.
Yeahhhhhh!!!
Yabbababbadoooo!!!!
Now it is time to clean up the damage while the
seditiondemocrat party slinks away in their treasonous actions while the repairs are underway.Rebuild the Middle Class, the Oil drilling, the mining and a new Industrial base.
Bring back part of the offshore economy to home in America.
In about 30 minutes President Trump is going to sit down in front of about 20,000 people and is going to start signing Executive Orders in front of them while on television, and I assume he will talk about each one.
This ought to be real interesting! I think he has about 200 EO’s to sign, although I don’t know if he is going to sign them all today. But maybe he will. He’s not the kind of guy who puts things off for too long.
One of Trump’s EO’s is going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
I’m calling it the Gulf of America from now on. 🙂
Gulf of the Americas? Let’s not be greedy.
Gulf of the Americas (plural)?
OK … but I don’t think it’s necessary.
That’s the only EO I know of that I wonder about.
Geographically, the Gulf of Mexico is entirely within North America. The Caribbean sea extends down into South America.
By golly you are correct. Okay, Gulf of North America Demarcated.
But that’s long so let’s just go by the acronym “GONAD” LOL
It’s almost as if I was waiting for the straight line.
That would make Florida the …
There is already a Gulf of California. So, if the GOM is renamed, it should be called the Gulf of Texas!!
Gulf of Amerigo! Amerigo Vespucci, named after a man, not America a woman. Naming continents is sexist.
Trump has been delayed. He is just now arriving at the arena where he will sign his Executive Orders.
“Gulf of La Merica” 😉
In 2020, there were rumors that Trump was going to issue blanket pardons to those who were associated with him.
When asked about this, then president elect Biden declared that such blanket pardons were unconscionable and would make the US a laughingstock amongst the nations. He also pledged that he would never do such a thing.
Trump didn’t, Biden just did.
Unknown territory there – the only precedent for blanket preemptive pardons is Nixon, and nobody really cared enough to challenge that one. If there is a desire to pursue anything with these people, the concept will certainly face a SCOTUS review. If it’s NOT pursued, the flip side is that they can’t take the 5th, and any perjury arising from their testimony is a new crime not covered by the pardon.
Yeah, two or maybe three of the death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted said they didn’t want that. It made proving their “innocence” easier if they were on death row, apparently.
That is the socialist way, attribute their anti-(fit your choice of descriptor) to smear their opposition and then do as they please.
Story tip:
Trump just withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
Trump orders US exit from the World Health Organization | Reuters
“NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.
Trump said the WHO had failed to act independently from the “inappropriate political influence of WHO member states” and required “unfairly onerous payments” from the U.S. that were disproportionate to the sums provided by other, larger countries, such as China.
World Health ripped us off, everybody rips off the United States. It’s not going to happen anymore,” Trump said at the signing of an executive order on the withdrawal, shortly after his inauguration to a second term.”
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Don’t stop at the WHO. Pull us out of the World Meteorological Organization as well.
Trump said China has 1.4 billion people and pays the WHO about $39 million per year, while the US has about 350 million people and pays the WHO $500 million per year. Trump doesn’t think that is fair, and he doesn’t like the fact that the WHO carries the Chicom’s water.
$500 million sounds like a lot of money for the WHO to lose. I’m wondering if the other member states will make up for the loss of U.S. funding. Can’t find how much we pay the WMO in annual dues. Like I said however, pull us out of it.
Drill baby! yes, need more fossil fuels, more fairness, more freedom, and push back on leftist oppression. I hope the USA and the world have learned a lesson from the last 4 years, and do better going forward.
Trump signed an Executive Order declaring a National Energy Crisis a little while ago.
And , CPB1 is off . Poor illegals reported to be crying .
Boo-hoo, I hope they can begin reforming the problems that make them so sad.
This should be considered one of the happiest days for America. As of today, the Green New Deal and the EV mandate are history (although not yet the Paris Agreement).
IIRC, which is diffy, the Paris thing and all like these anr progressively non-binding and mostly non-saying-a-thing and I’m-not-signing-that. But then, after looking at these, they all went into the trash can for me – they’d take too much space in the paper bin.
Not really, sadly. Trump can’t do it alone.
The climate scam-renewable wind and solar spending in the Inflation Reduction Act will need to be rescinded by the GOP-run Congress in a reconciliation bill sent to President Trump before the waste of GND will be undone.
Patience, Grasshopper! Congress can’t move as fast as a President on his inauguration day.
First things first, which is to confirm all of Trump’s senior level appointments. Majority Leader Thune said he’s doing just that. It is believed that first up will be Marco Rubio at State, which is considered the senior most cabinet position. The other cabinet appointees have already gone through committee hearings and can be expected to get Senate confirmation in the first few days.
In the meantime Senate and House leaders have been working on reconciliation bills that will accomplish much of what is needed legislatively.
However, I am still of the opinion that the Senate filibuster must be reformed to allow a simple majority vote after substantial Senate debate, which is what the Senate did for most of its history until perverted into requiring a 60 vote margin for any significant legislation. Can the Dems come back and use that against us? Sure … but the best means of keeping Dems out of control of the Senate and House is to accomplish what Trump promised to do this year. If that happens, it will be a very long time before Dems are in a position again to abuse the American voting public.
There are plenty of signs the Congress doesn’t plan to go along. I think Trump is better tuned to how things work than he was in 2017.
“(although not yet the Paris Agreement).”
It was reported a few minutes ago that Trump is going to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement.
EV mandate scrapped ! 🙂
People can buy what the want to buy. 🙂
Rivian can still make its EV using Biden’s loan/grift… but very few will buy it.
There’s quite a few Rivians on the streets here in Fort Lauderdale, parts of which are a deep blue enclave within deep red Florida.
“EV mandate scrapped ! “
Now, do you think Musky will allow him to do that ?
Musk doesn’t need a mandate for Teslas.
He also believes in a free and open market.
Its been done.. Executive order signed.
It’s done. Musk had no objection as far as I can tell. It doesn’t matter anyway because it’s done.
So, now, when you buy an electric car, the government won’t be handing you a $7,500 check.
I suspect this will result in even fewer EV’s being sold.
Not quite yet. The $7,500 is a tax credit and thus part of the tax code, it’ll require an act of congress to eliminate. California’s waiver that enables them to set the “ Zero Emissions Vehicles regulations” however, is on the chopping block thanks to Trumps EOs. His EOs also put a halt to the spending of money for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure programs while agencies conduct a review of their policies.
Musk is fine with it. As Musk said when Trump first proposed the idea “A surprising number of people think that Tesla survives on subsidies. That is true of our competitors, but not of Tesla”. Musk has also said “I think we should get rid of all credits” when asked about eliminating the Federal Tax Credit. (note: in 2018 enough Tesla’s were sold to trigger the elimination of that Credit for Tesla, and in 2020, while Tesla’s were no longer eligible for the Credit, Tesla posted its first fully profitable year.)
TL/DR: Musk, by all accounts, is onboard with the elimination of the “EV mandate”.
The Dog Days are Over!
(Described as: the bittersweet release from adversity, and the anxious liberation that follows)
“Liberation Day” !
Let’s take heart, skeptics of climate alarm. It’s time now to stop conceding the core claim that “warming” should be expected down here from incremental CO2, CH4, N2O and other radiatively active non-condensing gases. There was never a good scientific reason all along to suppose so – most certainly not to any significant or harmful extent.
“stop conceding the core claim”
Absolutely! The Climate Alarmists have not even established the feedback basics for connecting CO2 to Earth’s temperatures or weather.
They have a long way to go, and we shouldn’t let them think otherwise.
I stop conceding the core claim several years ago.
Now, that’s something he said in his speech. He said something about legislation outlawing the suppression of free speech. The thought struck me, could scientists use that against publishers etc. who block publications and sack scientists for presenting valid papers/views contrary to the climate scam narrative?
“legislation outlawing the suppression of free speech.”
Sounds important. Maybe we should add a free speech amendment to the US constitution.
Warming, it’s what comes after an ice age.
The best Trump has ever done was to prevent Hillary and Kamala from becoming president.
That was good, yes, but the best thing he did was put Constitutionalist (rather than biased left or right judges) on SCOTUS.
Screwed up with Amy & Roberts
GW Bush nominated Roberts.
I’ve problem with Amy Coney Barrett.
Dang!
Should be, “I’ve NO problem with Amy Coney Barrett.”
Roberts was GW’s screw-up.
While Amy isn’t 100% on the right side of things, she’s there enough of the time that I don’t have any particular problem with her.
As long as she remains a Constitutionalist, I’ve no problem with her.
While most things the Left has tried to is Unconstitutional, some thing the Right tries is also.
Judging by the Law of The Land will help get us back to governing by The Law of the Land.
He deserves medals for that, perhaps his face on Mt. Rushmore. Now let’s see him follow up on those campaign promises.
Plus Project 2025. Let’s do that, too.
Finally some sanity. Geez Biden even pardoned his family…I wonder what they were involved in.
in politics his entire life and is a multimillionaire many times over. Government pays!
Is granting immunity a pardon?
Constitution does not grant the President the power of assigning immunity.
Due process declares presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Pardon is for persons who committed an offense (crime) against the federal government.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
“and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States”
So those pardons are Constitutionally invalid, much as the back to 2014 for Hunter.
Reprieves are commutation of punishments currently served. Changing a death penalty to life is a reprieve.
Pardon??
Image from a few days ago, not sure how much extra to add…
Seems Biden was mates with a lot of criminals. 😉
It is a slippery slope step. If those pardons are not overturned USA is on the way to become lawless country.
Pardon me!
Pardon all of us
The Supreme Court has to get involved in this. He could’ve pardoned anyone who votes democrat. If he had a mind, that thought might have crossed it.
…. and, BTW, Just because I dislike him intensely, I’m not making light of the man’s illness. I think it became more exposed because of the antics of his senior-abusing wife.
You beat me to the concept of pre-emptively pardoning all Democrats.
you weren’t pardoned?
No, not really. They will still investigate the people and those pardoned have to still testify without 5th amendment rights. If they refuse to testify they can be arrested for obstruction and if they lie, for perjury. Plus all those involved and not under a pardon will get convicted and go to the big house as well as rat on everyone under a pardon.
All it does is keep them out of jail, but not protected from other things.
Presidential pardons don’t cover state crimes or protect from civil actions.
I’ve heard conflicting reports from legal analysts on Liz Cheney and her alleged witness tampering. Anyone know any more? Doesn’t being pardoned mean that Joe’s handlers knew she was guilty of something?
“Doesn’t being pardoned mean that Joe’s handlers knew she was guilty of something?”
That’s the way it looks to me.
I think the Republicans are probably going to investigate the January 6 investigation.
We may not be able to put ole Liz in jail now, but we can sure humiliate her by making her underhanded actions public.
The Biden administration corruption should be the subject of investigations. People need to know what was really going on behind the curtain, so they don’t ever vote for radical Democrats again.
In 1915 SCOTUS declared that accepting a pardon is a imputation of guilt, but a few recent lower court writing have questioned it.
These pre-emptive pardons are a huge black marks against the people receiving them.
They are sort of being told that Biden knows they are guilty.. (which is probably true)
I find it bizarre that pre-emptive pardons can even be allowed.
The problem with dis-allowing pre-emptive pardons, is that all the DA has to do is wait till the president is out of office before charging them.
If Hunter, Liz Cheney, Fauci and the others are truly innocent, why do they even need pardons? Is this not an admission of their guilt?
Is this not an admission of their guilt?
I don’t remember which one, but I was just reading a statement yesterday from one of them who said exactly that. He also said that he wouldn’t accept one for exactly that reason. (spoiler: he accepted it)
The excuse offered by Biden is to make them immune from lawfare.
“These pre-emptive pardons are a huge black marks against the people receiving them.”
That’s what Trump said, too. He said he could have pardoned his family and even himself, but if he had done so, it would make all look guilty of something, and Trump said he didn’t think he would be the 47th president, had he done so.
From Legal.com (I I didn’t copy the whole thing.)
pardon
1) v. to use the executive power of a Governor or President to forgive a person convicted of a crime, thus removing any remaining penalties or punishments and preventing any new prosecution of the person for the crime for which the pardon was given. A pardon strikes the conviction from the books as if it had never occurred, and the convicted person is treated as innocent. Sometimes pardons are given to an older rehabilitated person long after the sentence has been served to clear his/her record.
governmental immunity
n. the doctrine from English common law that no governmental body can be sued unless it gives permission. This protection resulted in terrible injustices, since public hospitals, government drivers and other employees could be negligent with impunity (free) from judgment. The Federal Tort Claims Act and state waivers of immunity (with specific claims systems) have negated this rule, which stemmed from the days when kings set prerogatives.
immunity
n. exemption from penalties, payments or legal requirements, granted by authorities or statutes. Generally there are three types of immunity at law: a) a promise not to prosecute for a crime in exchange for information or testimony in a criminal matter, granted by the prosecutors, a judge, a grand jury or an investigating legislative committee; b) public officials’ protection from liability for their decisions (like a city manager or member of a public hospital board); c) governmental (or sovereign) immunity, which protects government agencies from lawsuits unless the government agreed to be sued; d) diplomatic immunity which excuses foreign ambassadors from most U.S. criminal laws.
Biden didn’t issue “immunities”. He issued pardons.
The Constitution does not give the President the power is issue immunity from prosecution.
To clarify what I meant, Biden did issue immunities but they were disguised as pardons.
Spot on.
There is no mechanism to overturn a presidential pardon. The supreme court has ruled that the president’s pardon power is unlimited. The only thing a pardon doesn’t cover is future crimes.
Did they rule that the President can issue Immunity?
Issue pardons, yes. But Biden issued Immunities disguised as pardons.
Didn’t Hunter’s pardon extend into the future from the date pardon was written?
No, it only extended to the day the pardon was signed.
If I’m not mistaken, it made him immune from other prosecutions for any other crimes he’s committed going back 10 years.
(Maybe now we’ll find out who’s cocaine it was that was found in the White House?)
“Geez Biden even pardoned his family”
Did he? I just did a search and no family members were included in the list of these latest pardons. I was specifically looking for whether Joe had pardoned his brother or other relatives but didn’t see any reference. Some reporter a little while ago mentioned family pardons but I’m not sure what he was referring to..
Biden “pardoned” people today who haven’t even been charged with a crime. I don’t see how that’s legal. How can you be pardoned for a non-existent crime?
If Joe Biden didn’t pardon his brother and wife and other relatives, then he made a big mistake, because his brother is hip-deep in influence-selling corruption, just like Hunter.
“Just minutes before leaving office, Joe Biden announced a set of sweeping pre-emptive pardons to members of his family, including his two brothers and his sister, after some on the right suggested the they should face prosecution.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-issues-pre-emptive-pardons-members-family-one-final-acts-preside-rcna188409
Exactly everyone saw this coming after Trump’s first term established that most limits on executive power are just gentleman’s handshake agreements. This is now the new norm and it’s a cat that can’t be put bag in the bag.
FDR issued 307 EOs/year to Trump’s 55. In terms of this metric, Trump is #14 or 15 (so far).
My characterization of Trump as someone who broke presidential norms has little to do with the number of executive orders he issued. He used the office in ways that other presidents have dared not (not because they weren’t tempted, but because they understood the consequences). Trump made little secret of his disdain for norms and his view of them as shackles to be broken and cast aside rather than vital checks against executive overreach. This behavior is a big part of his appeal to his supporters.
I think I know what you mean. Trump didn’t start or escalate wars. No blow was found lying around in his Whitehouse and as far as we know, he didn’t engage in oral sex in the Oval office.
Trump pardoned 144 people in his first term. Biden pardoned over 8000.
“Past presidents were impeached and made history by violating some norms of the office but Trump does it so casually and incessantly that I can’t even remember specifics” may not be the strong argument you think it is.
Put down the crack pipe. You thought Biden didn’t have dementia…lol
I thought Biden was too old to be president and I think Trump is too old to be president.
Discrimination against old people based solely on age is called ageism. By admission, you are an ageist.
Was George Burns too old to tell jokes? If not, why not? He was older than dirt and still was funny.
True, but then why is it OK to be used against Biden ?
Fair point. What I mean is: Trump’s age and health should be as concerning as Biden’s.
Does Trump have dementia?
Seem unlikely based on behavior.
At 78 years and seven months, Donald Trump is the oldest president in US history on inauguration day.
Trump is also one of the cognitively active Presidents.. evah !!
The total opposite of the previous puppet.
He doesn’t have dementia like Joe. How long were you ignoring Joe’s 😉
So?
I bet you couldn’t keep up with Trump if you tried.
Trump went all day with one engagement after another in to the late night.
This morning, the White House reporter said the light in Trump’s residence was on when the reporter arrived at the White House at 5am.
Trump would run you ragged.
This is all these two lamers can muster against POTUS #47.
“So?”
Just what I said.
A plain and simple fact.
But you have to turn it into a supposed comparison with me.
How very droll of you.
Oh, and how do you know me so well?
That you know how much stamina I have.
Get a life and calm down.
Instead of making such a bald statement of fact into a personal comparison, that you cannot have any idea of.
Not big or clever as we say here.
You can’t see the difference between the two men?
He has dementia…you ignored it for 4 years.
Translation, I can’t actually name anything Trump has done wrong, but the party assures me that Trump is evil, therefore he must have done something bad.
Specifics? We don’t need no stinkin specifics.
“He [Trump] used the office in ways that other presidents have dared not”
Got any examples of this behavior?
Of course. It is surprising that you do not, since you seem to support him and these are things his base cites as positive qualities. Trump flouted presidential norms around conflicts of interest and public disclosure, attempted to use political pressure to persecute the families of his political opponents, attempted to diminish the independence of the justice department to use it as a political weapon and to personally intervene in investigatory cases, attempted to undermine the American election system in a bid to cling to power, including directing his vice president to commit illegal acts, and on and on. He tries to directly profit from his presidency by merchandising and brand deals (he created a cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme in the days leading up to inauguration). He also leveraged the presidential pardon power to an extent never before seen (but soon to always-be-seen) in the presidency, by offering pardons as quid pro quo.
The usual Marx Stream Media bullshit from LiarJ.
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TrumpBIDEN flouted presidential norms around conflicts of interest and public disclosure, his whole presidency was build on corruption.Biden used political pressure to persecute his political opponents,
Biden, and family used “pay to interview” to massively increase their personal wealth,
Biden totally destroyed the independence of the justice department to use it as a political weapon against his enemies.
Biden undermined the American election system using fake postal votes,
Biden couldn’t get his vice president to anything except make word-salad gibberish…
A list of possible bad things, but contains no actual examples of who-what-where-when or why.
“He used the office in ways that other presidents have dared not” requires one example for clarity
Trump demanded that his vice president unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election. There is a concrete example for you to mull over.
Fascinating how whatever Trump does is evil, regardless of how many times DemonRats have done the same thing in the past.
The attempt to normalize by the right Trump’s behavior as “typical president stuff” is extremely troubling. He is an autocratic demagogue with fascist beliefs, this is not normal stuff.
Do they pay you to write this tripe?
Someone really needs to get used to the fact that ..
TRUMP won every facet of the 2024 election 🙂
And no, Trump is not an autocrat or a fascists… ie.. he is not a Democrat.
Mr. J: Whether “everyone” (a lie) saw it coming is not relevant. We do understand your need to deflect from the horror show your boy Joe brought.
If “everyone saw it coming”, that means “everyone” knew Biden was lying when he said he wouldn’t do it (re: preemptive pardons).
LiarJ is up to his usual trix.
Thanks for that Info.
Joe Biden is a real snake. No morals, no ethics. Criminally Selfish, to the detriment of all of us.
A total sleaze bag, comes to mind
I’ll be curious to know Tom what you think of Trump pardoning the Jan 6 criminals, including the proud boys and some who assaulted police?
Still waiting for you to acknowledge you were bamboozled over collusion. Noe run along and find that pee per tape.
Boring sad man.
Hey you are the one lying…cuck indeed
Never mentioned the pee tape. It’s you that has it on your brain. I just pointed out that many of Trumps team had “unhealthy” “unpatriotic” “sneaky” dealings with the Russians. Shall I list them?
Yes please. I heard people implying DT was doing something with the Russian continuously for more than 10 years without ever hearing anyone say specifically what he did.
“What did Trump do with the Russians?”
“Collude.”
“Collude to do what?”
I don’t know what he did.
Sure…. There is loads. So much it beggers belief that it has all just been washed away.
“Paul Manafort either admitted guilt or was convicted of: illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians (Manafort had, in fact, been working illegally as an unregistered agent for pro-Russian interests since 2006), money laundering, tax fraud, lying to investigators, and lying under oath before a grand jury concerning his contact with a Russian associate during the 2016 campaign.
Rick Gates pled guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States, as well as one count of making false statements to the FBI and to the Special Counsel about his status as a foreign agent for Ukraine (he was working together with Manafort on behalf of pro-Russian politicians).”
“George Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to investigators about his contacts with two Russian nationals and a professor connected to Russia. Papadopoulos lied about having discussions with them regarding the dirt the Russians claimed to have on Hillary Clinton, as well as about Papadopoulos’s attempts to plan a Trump campaign trip to Russia.”
And there is so much more…..
You seem to have gone quiet. Did you want a list of the other traitors working with Trump and details of how they betrayed their country?
You mean the total FIT-UP that was the Jan 6 scam ?
Where they were led through the corridors but guards ?
Who defended themselves against police brutality ?
In a normal, unbiased trial, they would not be criminals.
Why did Biden “pardon” the people on the far-left Jan 6 committee…
Did he know they had committed a grave injustice. ?
I don’t know all the details of this particular pardon, but Trump said he wasn’t going to pardon anyone involved in violence at the Capitol Building.
Trump is pardoning people who the Biden administration railroaded into jail just because they were present on that day. For those people, I’m am thoroughly on board with Trump’s pardon.
It seems he did pardon those who attacked police…
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-jan-6-pardons-trump-justice-department-8ce8b2a8f8cb602d5eaf85ac7b969606
I just don’t get how he can say he is for law and order, then set these people free.
Expect this to be thoroughly ignored.
Not ignored.
I’ll quote from it directly
Yet Biden lets murderers, rapists and all sorts of other scumbags free. 8064 of them…
Jan 6 destroyed nothing, all they did was question a very dubious election result. they are purely political prisoners, not criminals.
The real criminals are those of the Jan 6 committee, that is why Biden had to issue a pre-emptive pardon.
It should have been BIDEN that pardoned the Jan 6 protestors.
Hunter Biden was actually convicted of crimes.
As unethical and self serving as his pardon (for just those convictions) was, he could do it.
But the immunity stuff for him, his family and many others needs to go SCOTUS.
Biden pardoned Biden, Inc., with 10% for the Big Guy, capping 12 years or more of grifting and grafting.
This means any President and his family and friends can be “on the take”, for four or eight years and get rich, and at the last minute, the President gives all a pardon.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
This smells like pardon overreach to me.
This will create a new category of criminality by the political in-crowd that is above the law, that “gets a free pass”
THIS MUST NOT STAND.
This is beyond crazy
I am sure this will be challenged in court.
It’s definitely pardon overreach.
I don’t know what can be done about it legally, though.
Americans should stop electing corrupt Democrats to political office. That would be a good start.
Do you think Trump over-reached with pardons in his first term?
Trump: 200 pardons.. vs
Biden: 8064 pardons…
Now who do you think has “over -reached” ! 😉
Pardoning people that have not been charged or convicted of any crime is disingenuous.
Worse, it shows that Biden was aware that criminal activity was taking place, otherwise why would he do it?
Undoing Biden and his Green New Deal lite first, then go back and undo much of what Carter, LBJ, and Nixon did. Then start thinking about FDR.
I’m looking for fraud vitiating everything he did.
Biden is mentally unfit to serve. How is his signature legally valid for anything?
They would have had to invoke the 25th Amendment. If they had succeeded, no prizes for guessing who would have cackled her way, toasted into the Oval Office. Think of that as a bullet that missed us all.
Keep going until you undo what Woodrow Wilson did (FED, income tax)
Congratulations!
Slàinte Mhaith to the Nation, him, his, and All Y’all 🤠
As an senior senior citizen I have listened to quite a few presidential speeches. This was by far and away the best that I have ever heard. Ronald Regan was great but the country was in much better shape when he was elected. President Trump will determine if the US remains a viable country or not. Our enemies are deeply entrenched in the system.
The sane, not woke, not DEI, not green Democrats are finally flocking to Trump.
Trump will be like an FDR for private enterprise to MAGA.
The Panama Canal clique must be shaking, because Trump will be taking away their cash cow.
Idiot Carter gave our Panama Canal away and patriot Trump is taking it back
Trump is going to revive the Monroe Doctrine. And not a moment too soon.
I like him. But I am afraid that there are powers beyond his control which will force us into WW3.
Things have changed a lot since the WW days Henry.
Subversive strategies by ideologues can now render nations to the level of mendicant states.
The enemies of enlightened, productive, prosperous, FREE societies are now the likes of the WEF, the UN, “Progressive” political parties, and of course the beholden mainstream media.
Their “long march through the institutions” will take quite a bit of coordinated effort around the world to undo.
Yeah. I’m with you on that. You have to pry their fingers off the levers of power one by one.
Unfortunately, people are all to anxious to declare the end of war as a form of international policy. WW One was named “The War to End All Wars” … and didn’t. WW Two resulted in creating the United Nations as the supposed secret to ending all wars … and the second half of the 20th century and first quarter of the 21st century proved the lie to that assumption.
I truly believe that President Trump will seek to avoid wars … but he has no control over the PRC, or Russia, or Iran, or DPRK. He can dissuade them, certainly, but sometimes insanity prevails on the other side.
Let’s hope it doesn’t.
The best deterent to war is great strength. I think Trump understands this. I am hopeful.
That and unpredictability, which Trump has a lot of.
Putin and Xi currently have no interest in provoking Trump.
They are both certainly in a Wait and See approach now.
Except for going full nuclear option where no one wins, neither China nor Russia has the conventional military forces necessary to seriously challenge the US and not get their asses whacked badly.
Iran is badly damaged and exposed now from Israeli strikes on its air defense systems. SAM Systems that Russia can’t afford to send replacements because of its own Ukraine war losses. and China won’t help them do to fear of sanctions.
That leaves Crazy Kim-boy. And he’s watching his best troops get slaughtered by Ukraine in Kursk region.
Putin and Xi have plenty of interest in destroying the United States of America as a significant competitor to their pretensions at dominating the world. Don’t kid yourself for a moment. Either dictator can come to a point when they don’t care if they provoke nuclear annihilation and economic destruction, when they are on the verge of failing. The old saying goes that a bear is most dangerous when he’s wounded.
What we have to do is build a stronger more capable military force, use our economic strength to prevail, and if necessary, be prepared to win a war.
Desire to achieve something and the rational recognition of (in)ability to do so through conventional military force means are two different things.
Why both Putin and Xi have been leveraging asymmetric, hidden warfare for years on the US.
I believe both Putin and Xi are both rational actors acting in what they perceive as their own best interests.
The KGB excelled at funding terrorist/rebel groups to undermine and eventually overthrow those who oppose them.
Putin was the last leader of the KGB before it was allegedly disbanded.
Europe is a weak state, not a useful ally for the US
Russia is a strong state, a very useful ally for China
Their intentions have not changed. They will just wait until another Democrat gets elected. They play the long game.
Relax, Henry. Trump has it all under control. There won’t be a World War III, while Trump is in office.
Putin needs a ceasefire. China is not so eager to go to bat for Russia now. Iran is a Paper Tiger that may be experiencing Regime Change in the near future. Don’t think the Iranian People are not paying attention. All they need is a strong signal from Trump that he has the back of the Iranian resistance, and these people will come out into the streets. They are fed up with the Mad Mullah dictators.
North Korea is not a threat. They are sending troops to fight in Ukraine but that’s just because Putin is paying them to do so ($2000 per month, per soldier, is what I heard). The North Korean troops are not doing very well in Ukraine.
North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine just shows the weakness of Putin. He has to bring in outside forces to bolster Russian troops.
Putin wants a ceasefire. He needs one to regroup and rebuild, and he will sit tight and see how things work out after Trump leaves office. Maybe another Joe Biden will get elected (please, God NO!) and then Putin can resume his attempted conquest of Ukraine. And then again, Putin might die in the meantime, and it might be a whole new ballgame for Russia. Putin’s successor may not want to pursue a horrendous war.
Anyway, I think we are safe for at least four years.
Seems like everyone wants a ceasefire except Zelenskyy and the nitwits in charge of the UK. No NATO in Ukraine, and Putin is close to having everything he wants in Ukraine and we’ll see where Odessa goes, I guess.
The Military Summary, a daily look at the front lines on YouTube is a good place to see how that’s going.
Trump said about five minutes ago that Zelenskyy wanted to make a deal.
Trump said he wasn’t sure Putin wanted to make a deal, but he should make a deal, because the Ukraine war was destroying Russia. Trump said he has not talked to Putin about it yet.
I only just got to the speech. I’m not surprised Zelenskyy wants to make a deal now. Trump probably told him what his alternatives are. Putin has always said that he wanted to negotiate but he’s had to conquer all the territory he has now at the expense of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives. No NATO in Ukraine is where the line is, I think. I’m not sure about Odessa. I know a lot about the Dombas, on the ground, because my best friend’s wife is from the border. What a tragedy.
Trump said last night that the Russians have had about one million troops killed since the beginning of the war, and Ukraine has had about 750,000 Ukrainian troops killed.
Just think about this horrendous cost. A million Russian mothers and families, and 750,000 Ukraine mothers and families crying for their lost child.
It is a tragedy for all concerned.
It’s time for the killing to stop.
Putin, in making a deal, is going to have to appear to the Russian people to be dealing from a position of strength, so Trump will have to make a deal that satisfies Putin’s desire not to be seen as the loser in the war.
Putin will have to put up objections at first, to show his “strength”, and then he will make a deal, imo.
After the Kiev Coup in 2014, the Ukraine Armed Forces, UAF, attacked the Dombass and other east Ukraine areas, and killed and seriously wounded tens of thousands of Russian-speaking people from 2014 to 2022, who did not want to be ruled by the Russia-hating, AZOV clique installed in Kiev.
Russia aided the “separatists” to prevent them from being overrun and slaughtered.
UN observers wrote monthly reports, but they were filed away in Geneva.
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Major things have changed since the Kursk incursion on Aug 6, 2024, not in Ukraine’s favor, including its severe lack of available fighters for its already depleted armed services, which is losing about 1200 to 1600 killed and seriously wounded every day, plus 250 to 400 in Kursk every day, leading to a Kursk total of 53,000, as of Jan 19, 2025, and counting.
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Russia, has been gaining more and more Ukraine territory every day, and is slowly rolling back the nonsensical incursions in the Kursk, Bryansk and Balgorod Regions.
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Russia has liberated about 63% of the territory in the Kursk Region temporarily occupied by the Ukraine’s military.
This equates to 801 sq. km retaken out of the 1,268 sq. km seized by Kiev’s forces after its August 2024 incursion.
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This in addition to
1) the destruction of defensible fortifications and
2) the destructive of NATO-provided equipment and ammunition, and
3) Ukraine losing many thousands of sq. km. of territory.
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Ukraine population under Kiev rule has shrunk to about 25 million, of which 10.7 million are pensioned.
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Where would fighting-age people come from?
No wonder Zelensky wants a deal
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/about-half-of-ukraine-population-left-their-country
Zelensky knows the gravy train isn’t going to deliver anymore ca$h.
Or is a new national nightmare of an entirely different character just beginning?
As empty as a politicians promise….
Guys. I hope it goes as you hope it will…
It can’t get any worse. Biden was the most inept President ever.
Biden was not president and did not call the shots. He was senile from day one and was controlled by the few. They just proved over and over again that if you want to know what the left is doing just listen to what they accuse the Right of doing.
He was inept precisely because he wasn’t calling the shots. He was just signing whatever his unaccountable staff put in front of him with the full authority of his office, then reading about it from a teleprompter before being shuffled off to his nap.
And No one could take those most important car keys away from the senile President until noon today.
I do think the Afghanistan debacle was solely Joe Biden’s call. Even Biden’s own people were objecting to the way he wanted to do it, but Joe wanted out as soon as possible and damn the consequences. Just the way he mistreated South Vietnam. He threw them to the wolves without a second thought.
Joe Biden is an appeaser of Dictators when it comes right down to it. He’s been doing it all his life. He could do it in his sleep. It’s a knee-jerk, cut-and-run attitude, that all appeasers have.
Reminds me of the Star Trek episode “Patterns of Force”! Look it up!
Biden => PINO !!
As much as he tried to move in, Biden couldn’t sniff Carrie Underwood’s hair today.
Biden told Speaker Johnson, almost all of the EOs were not signed by him.
They were issued in his name.
Biden is so senile, he does not even know how much he got screwed by his Deep State handlers.
Those evil doers did not want to invoke article 25, because they had a useful idiot for signatures.
Remember, Biden just wandering away from a G-7 group picture, and then the whole group moving to where Biden stood.
I wonder how many insiders knew about his mental feebleness.
It must have been hundreds.
No one who saw Biden’s confusion and empty gaze during the debate with Trump could ever dispute his cognitive decline.
Woodrow Wilson (FED, income tax) was much worse. Biden is a close second.
That would be a good discussion. Who’s worse, Wilson or Biden?
At least Carter can rest in peace knowing that he outlived being the worst president ever thanks to Biden getting into office.
47 is a massive shift to the right but much farther to go. Also a massive blow to the insane, leftish climate fantasy. Again, much more to do but a great beginning.
Popcorn time as soon as the DOJ people get confirmed. Trump’s trip to California will be especially entertaining. They will make Federal aid dependent on California changing their water policies and clean up the forests. Plus he won’t mince words about how bad Newsom is.
You misspelled “Newscum.”
That’s the Trump spelling. 🙂
Mine too
At the very least, for states and cities that pour money into supporting and protecting illegal immigrants in violation of the immigration laws (“Sanctuary” places), that amount of money should be subtracted from any Fed dollars they would have gotten.
I think a few Republican congresscritters were advocating for withholding funds from California until California cleans up its act, but I don’t think Trump is going to go down that road. Putting pressure on Newsom this way would just hurt the people in California, and I don’t think Trump wants to appear as Scrooge to the people of California. Trump will fund the rebuilding. And, of course, he will have a lot to say about how we got here and who is responsible.
Trump should insist pretty-boy Newscum, a family relation of Pelosi, and the vacationing Mayor resign, before getting any federal money.
Then set up a monitoring group to make sure the money actually goes to victims, without skimming and grifting and grafting, as is usually the case.
Both are unfit for duty and millions of Californians would rejoice to be finally getting rid of them, and may show enough backbone to get rid of some other incompetents as well
A California U-turn would be nice
It does seem that the international climate and alternative energy movement, such as it is, must now be holed below the waterline. It always has been largely driven by the English speaking countries, and with flat out repudiation by the US of just about the whole agenda its hard to see anyone else taking up that role.
The next COPs are supposed to have 50,000 attendees. We’ll see. If China and the US don’t attend, and India uses its attendance as a way of blocking everything, can the show really go on much longer? Five years from now we may be looking back, shaking our heads, and, like Canadians every spring looking back at winter, wondering did that really happen? Did we really go through that?
It’s going to be easier to get a hotel room in Belém.
Story tip:
It has just been reported on Fox News that President Trump will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement again.
“From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.” LOTR
DEEP STATE GEARING UP: Nearly Half of Federal Employees in the Swamp Plan to Resist Trump, Poll Finds
The unemployment rate will increase
The president doesn’t have the authority to fire most federal employees. The government unions will also fight tooth and nail to prevent any firings.
There are a lot of boomers retiring. Many don’t need to be replaced. Also, I’m seeing federal employees coming into the office about 1 day per week now. Some I’ve only seen at our Christmas party and summer picnic.
Take away remote work and many will quit. Then don’t replace them all.
Musk has a track record of pruning dead wood.
80% of dead wood was trimmed at Tweeter
X is now much bigger, plus runs on only 20% of the (upgraded) staff
Insubordination is not protected under the contract. If an order is issued with a deadline and not executed, that is a firing offense. If the union rep gets too boisterous, a field office in Barrow Alaska can be his next stop. He can get lots of company there too.
“Insubordination is not protected under the contract.”
Trump says Musk is going to have about 20 employees whose sole job will be to go to the various federal agencies covered by Trump’s Executive Orders, and make sure that the bureaucrats there implement Trump’s EO’s immediately.
Trump says he has to do that because sometimes bureaucrats, left to their own devices, take way too much time in implementing changes. So Trump is going to send someone to look over the bureaucrats’ shoulders. 🙂
He will invoke a national emergency related to the Democrat deficit spending, the US going broke
DOGE em !
Fire them all!
Reagan did to PATCO and that solved the problem.
Planning is one step, doing it is quite another, especially with:
1) a hiring freeze,
2) no more screwing around unsupervised at home collecting a paycheck,
3) DOGE cost cutting and firing regime all over the bloated federal bureaucracy.
4) With mandates gone, and subsidies cut, and windmills gone, tens of thousands of federal and state employees not needed
Time to get to work.
https://x.com/ChristieFERC/status/1881440195213660358
One of the things DJT must have signed today….a very interesting and positive choice.
Us Brits, stood on the other side of the pond, and watched your newest president rip apart all that has been going wrong for the last ten years or so (if not longer).
To smack down the woke, and climate crisis aficionados in his acceptance speech was courageous, and so uplifting, what a spirit!
So, as we turn round and shuffle back to our lives. With the glow of US prosperity shining over our shoulders, highlighting the dark times we have ahead, under an unimaginative, incompetent and far left Labour Party.
Hoping we don’t fall into the abyss of abject poverty we wish the US well, looks like you’ve got some exciting, and hopefully prosperous times ahead.
Well done.
Thank you for your beautiful and gracious words. Long live the Anglo-American special relationship! May our blessings inspire liberty throughout the world.
Best of luck Bob. Sir Stalin seems to be well beyond hated by many. Maybe it won’t be long now, and Musk seems to have a way of making things happen.
I think Trump and Nigel will be getting together soon. 🙂
Trump is already voicing concerns over the future ambassador to the U.S. He thinks the current candidate is a Chinese stooge, and Trump doesn’t want him representing the UK.
So, that means Trump and UK’s leadership are at odds, and I think they will be the losers if they start up an argument with Trump.
Trump will make them look silly, and make Nigel look like a better choice.
“Us Brits, stood on the other side of the pond, and watched your newest president rip apart all that has been going wrong for the last ten years or so (if not longer).”
As did we all, including Joe Biden who was sitting right behind Trump while Trump excoriated Biden’s leadership over the last four years. Trump didn’t say Biden’s name, but we all knew who he was talking about.
Biden should have been humiliated. I don’t know if he is capable of that, though..
He probably can’t remember being president.
Paris is gone!!
Will anyone miss this?
This must rank as one of the peak moments of the insanity of the Biden era: an obviously male transvestite fetishist in a senior role in the Government.
I genuinely don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
I just shake my head.
Has anyone seen any condemnation of the guillotine protestors brought today?
Those people are such nitwits, they did it in Malcolm X Park. Malcolm X made a famous and accurate quote “Beware of white liberals”.
Test it on Adam Schiff. If it doesn’t work on him, then it wouldn’t work on anyone.
I think Schiff is described as “pencil neck” by some people.
I describe Schiff as the biggest liar in Congress. And that’s saying something!
California voters decided it was a good idea to elect this liar to the U.S. Senate. That just goes to show what political propaganda can do: It can turn a bald-faced liar into a good guy in some people’s minds.
We’ll see. I don’t put that much stock in politicians.
It sounds like Trump II doesn’t plan to build a wall (actually, it was always a fence), doesn’t plan to deport every illegal alien and they aren’t going to protect our jobs from H1-B visas.
That’s funny: it seems the wall is currently under construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9Zyv-Tws0
The Border Czar, Homan, said if you are here illegally, you are on his radar. Homan says the criminals and lunatics will be the first to be deported, but if you are just here illegally, you shouldn’t get too comfortable.
As for H1-B visas, anything can be abused. These visas are a positive for businesses, but they should be restricted to bringing in expertise that is not available in the United States. If the expertise is available in the U.S., then that’s where you go to hire.
Trump favors these visas but says they will make sure that Americans are not hurt by them. So, time will tell.
“Lock her up” … One month later … “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons. They’re good people”
Will something get done this time? I don’t like to allow myself “hope” as it’s a sucker’s bet but I like the group he has nominated. We’ll see shortly.