Trump Wants to Make American Buildings
Beautiful Again
Posted By: Judy W., 2/1/2025 10:41:46 AM
One of the most interesting executive orders from Donald Trump’s first day back in office was one titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” That order begins: I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the heads of departments and agencies of the United States where necessary, to submit to me within 60 days recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.
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This Will Be A Long War - DOGE Looks Under
The Hood To Find Out Where Your Money
Is Going 16 replies
The Hood To Find Out Where Your Money
Is Going 16 replies
All over America supporters of Donald Trump are riding high. (Snip) This is a long war, and the guys on the other side have no intention of simply packing up and going home. David A. Lebryk was until yesterday the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was a “non-political” civil servant who controlled the computerized payment system the government uses to pay out $6 trillion a year. He was the guy who actually controlled all the money the federal government spent, where it went, and to whom. Donald Trump directed Lebryk to give the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk access to the payment system.
One of the most interesting executive orders from Donald Trump’s first day back in office was one titled “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” That order begins:
I hereby direct the Administrator of the General Services Administration, in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and the heads of departments and agencies of the United States where necessary, to submit to me within 60 days recommendations to advance the policy that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces and ennoble the United States and our system of self-government.
Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday.
(Snip) The caps read “Make America Healthy Again,” a slogan coined by Kennedy Jr. that has quickly become a rallying cry for a wildly diverse and unlikely political coalition.
“I was a former vegan,” Moms For America’s Christine McPherson told the Daily Caller.
Moms For America, a Trump-backing non-profit with their own political action committee (PAC), was among an astoundingly varied coalition of MAHA hopefuls who made the pilgrimage to see Kennedy Jr.
From Republicans to Democrats, Libertarians to Green Party stalwarts, Kennedy’s fan section ran the gamut of political persuasion.
It was a great ride while it lasted, hey, lefties? But it’s over now. You have been left in the screech forward of history. That stink? It’s the burning wreckage of your “ideas”. All you weasely little people like the slender tight-mouthed beta-males at the Biden White House, or the cross-dressing central banker Mark Carney who is laughably trying to be Prime Minister of Canada after bankrupting not one but TWO countries, are history. Like Rory Stewart, the regime apologist in the U.K., who says things like “there’s something really dark and nasty behind the right”.
Trump Abolishes DEI for the Feds
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Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order abolishing the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucracy in the federal government.
The move marks a stunning reversal of fortune from just four years ago, when Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, and DEI seemed unstoppable. Following the death of George Floyd, left-wing race activists made a blitz through America’s institutions, rewriting school curricula, altering government policy, and establishing DEI offices in major universities, big-city school districts, and Fortune 100 companies. The Biden administration immediately followed suit, mandating a “whole-of-government equity agenda” that entrenched DEI in the federal government.
No more. President Trump has rescinded the Biden executive order
Biden’s So-Called ‘Oligarchs’
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In his last address, Joe Biden offered a Parthian shot at “oligarchs” and the dangers these “billionaires” pose to the republic.
(Snip) Third, quite unlike Biden, Trump is leveraging support from “billionaires,” many of whom have not donated to his campaign and were not previously his political supporters. His appeal to them is not, as alleged, to further the Trump one-term presidency in political terms.
Rather, Trump, in his brief four years, has enlisted “billionaires” like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, David Sachs, and Mark Andresen in the way that Franklin Roosevelt, in 1941-1942, reached out to his other party’s millionaire captains of industry to fuel a Depression-era-recovering economy
President-elect Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day—a massive, first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.
A senior administration official who is familiar with the executive actions and authorized to brief Fox News Digital said Trump on day one will end "Catch and Release;" pause all offshore wind leases; terminate the electric vehicle mandate; abolish the Green New Deal; withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord; and take several major steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy.
A lot of us Catholics have been weirded out by President Trump's closeness to Catholic culture. We couldn't figure out where it came from. Last year, he wished the Virgin Mary a happy birthday. He tweeted an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He issued praise for All Saints Day. (Snip) It all began a few years ago when Father Mann was walking through a Queens cemetery and came upon the gravesite of Trump’s parents and grandparents.
“It was slightly overgrown,” Father Mann recalled. “I thought this shouldn’t be. This is a historic site. So, I went and bought a weed whacker and some decorations and fixed up the plot.
Best farewell speech in my life
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The old president gave one of his finest speeches days before handing over the reins to a new president. The incumbent began:
(Snip) Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
The president obviously was not FJB but a far greater man—Eisenhower. When he said he served the nation for 50 years, he really did as he served in both world wars.
Eisenhower stayed in the military in between the wars when America’s military was at its lowest. He spent 16 years as a major.
The Heritage Foundation on Monday launched an advertisement campaign supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to direct the Department of Health and Human Services.
The ad, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, touts Kennedy as “fearless,” and promotes his policy agenda to make America healthier and combat the chronic disease crisis. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and former Democratic presidential candidate with deep party roots, launched an independent presidential bid in 2023 before bowing out of the race to endorse now-President-elect Donald Trump in August 2024.
“One word to describe Bobby Kennedy: fearless,” the video’s narrator says. “He was when he took on big corporations and big government.
Zuckerberg goes full Musk
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The first week of January laid a thick layer of ice and snow across Poca, West Virginia, and much of the rest of the eastern United States, as the weather returned to normal. (Snip) After Trump’s second re-election, the world is returning to normal, not that I care much about the rest of the world.
President Trump’s anticipated return to power is only half the reason the world has changed for the better. The other half is the end of the FJB presidency, which showed the true goal of the American left is destruction.
The Ghosts of Charlie Hebdo
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Just for a change, our regular and increasingly obnoxious feature of "As I said twenty years ago..." is being pre-empted by the marginally less obnoxious feature of "As I said ten years ago..."
Exactly a decade ago - January 7th 2015 - two Muslim fanatics burst into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed a dozen people, including the bulk of the senior editorial staff and some of France's best known cartoonists.
(Snip) Throughout the very bad ten years for free speech that followed, I have thought often of Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo and a great cartoonist in the French style.
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On Saturday the US Army released the name of the pilot of the US Army Blackhawk helicopter that flew into a passenger jet landing at Reagan National Airport.
The crash was on Wednesday. The third pilot’s name, Rebecca Lobach, was finally released on Saturday, three days later.
All 64 passengers in the jet were killed.
The three pilots in the Blackhawk helicopter also died in the explosive crash.
Kristinn Taylor at The Gateway Pundit reported:
After withholding at the request of the family the name of the female pilot killed in the mid-air collision Wednesday night between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a PSA/American Airlines passenger plane on final approach to Reagan National Airport
They actually did it. Democrats have just elected David Hogg as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Ken Martin of Minnesota won the race for Chair. The diversity obsessed Democrats just elected two white guys to lead their party. (X Video)
This is the new ‘youth’ voice of the Democratic party. (X Video) The Post Millennial reports:
BREAKING: Anti-gun influencer David Hogg elected Vice-Chair of DNC
Left-wing social media influencer David Hogg has been elected vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), making history as the first member of Generation Z to assume the position.
Former President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and former Chief of Staff, Kelly Magsamen, have sparked controversy by launching a personal attack on Pete Hegseth after a fatal plane crash involving a military helicopter and an American Airlines aircraft. In a sharp rebuke, the former defense official, who helped Austin cover up his absence from the Pentagon during a health crisis in January 2024, attacked Hegseth for his comments about DEI and falsely accused him of blaming the female co-pilot, Capt. Rebecca Lobach, for the incident.
James Carville Throws Kamala Harris Under
the Bus: ‘Couldn’t Put Together a
Sentence’ (Video) 26 replies
the Bus: ‘Couldn’t Put Together a
Sentence’ (Video) 26 replies
James Carville has been complaining about his party for months and now he is telling everyone what he really thought of Kamala Harris as a candidate. It’s not good.
He threw Harris under the bus as a ‘seventh string’ quarterback who ‘couldn’t put together a sentence.’
Carville made the remarks during a live event for Firing Line.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:JAMES CARVILLE: We ran a presidential election. If we were playing a Super Bowl, we started our 7th-string quarterback. That’s what happened.
You can’t address a problem unless you’re honest about a problem. And none of this was inevitable. Now, if you were to put the staggering talent that exists
The administration of now-former President Joe Biden tried to bankroll the use of electric school buses at government schools across the country.
But as the electric buses continue to have massive reliability issues, some schools regret taking the federal handouts and now want help from the Environmental Protection Agency to get themselves out of the program.
Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin wrote a letter to the agency voicing concerns with the program, asking for waived penalties for not using buses provided by manufacturer Lion Electric, according to a Monday report from WGME-TV in Portland, Maine.
“Specifically, we urge the agency to pursue legal remedies,
Senator Chuck Schumer is a lawyer, so presumably he is familiar with the provisions of 18 U.S. Code § 115. In case he has forgotten—after all, there are a lot of statutes to keep track of—Edward R. Martin, Jr., the Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney, is in the process of reminding him. Among other things, that statute holds that anyone who threatens a federal government official or their family with the “intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance
Acting FBI Director Refuses to Give Names
of Officials Involved in Jan 6 Cases,
Trump Investigations 18 replies
of Officials Involved in Jan 6 Cases,
Trump Investigations 18 replies
Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll is reportedly refusing to give the names of the officials involved in January 6 cases and Trump investigations.
Brian Driscoll is currently serving as Acting FBI Director as Trump nominee Kash Patel awaits confirmation.
CNN reported that “At least six FBI leaders” have been removed or told to resign by Monday.
President Trump fired the head of the FBI Washington Field Office, David Sundberg, canned 20 other heads of offices. As many as 88 FBI officials were marched out of their offices on Friday.
Can We Rebuild Los Angeles?
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The Southern California wildfires, still burning, already rank among the most destructive in the state’s fire-laden history. They have destroyed entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles, including those in the beautiful and affluent Pacific Palisades community nestled along the Pacific Ocean between Malibu and Santa Monica. The scale of the destruction and the human suffering the fires have inflicted are massive. Firefighters are continuing to battle blazes across some 62 square miles, an area larger than all of San Francisco. The latest death toll has reached 29, which would put the fires third in the state’s history for fatalities, behind only the 1933 Griffith Park fire that killed 29
Robert Santos decides to resign as US
Census Bureau director midway through
a 5-year term 18 replies
Census Bureau director midway through
a 5-year term 18 replies
Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusivity and outreach to overlooked communities, has decided to resign as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, midway through his five-year term and in the midst of planning for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding nationwide for another decade.
Santos, who was appointed by former Democratic President Joe Biden, said in a letter Thursday evening that he made the decision “after deep reflection.” Santos was sworn in as the bureau’s 26th director, and its first Hispanic leader, in 2022.
The Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was alerted to the plane’s presence by air control twice, the first time at least two minutes before the deadly crash, according to a Washington Post report.
Aviation experts reviewed Wednesday night’s radio transmissions, obtained by The Washington Post, and said that a soldier on the Black Hawk requested “visual separation” so that the helicopter crew could maintain a safe distance from the plane, which it could see. Both times, the request was approved by air traffic control.
At 8:48 p.m., about 12 seconds after the second air traffic control tower alert, the helicopter and passenger plane collided.
This Will Be A Long War - DOGE Looks Under
The Hood To Find Out Where Your Money
Is Going 16 replies
The Hood To Find Out Where Your Money
Is Going 16 replies
All over America supporters of Donald Trump are riding high. (Snip) This is a long war, and the guys on the other side have no intention of simply packing up and going home. David A. Lebryk was until yesterday the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was a “non-political” civil servant who controlled the computerized payment system the government uses to pay out $6 trillion a year. He was the guy who actually controlled all the money the federal government spent, where it went, and to whom. Donald Trump directed Lebryk to give the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk access to the payment system.
Pal of doomed chopper pilot in midair
DC crash shares emotional tribute: ‘Brilliant
and fearless’ 15 replies
DC crash shares emotional tribute: ‘Brilliant
and fearless’ 15 replies
A grieving pal of US Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach, who was on the doomed military chopper that crashed into a passenger jet in DC, remembered her as “brilliant and fearless” in a moving tribute Saturday. Army vet and USA Today reporter Davis Winkie credited the killed pilot as instrumental in helping him navigate the “hardest periods” of his personal life during their time together in the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Army ROTC. “Rebecca was brilliant and fearless, a talented pilot and a PT stud,” Winkie wrote on X, noting both he and Lobach bonded over being “latecomers” to the ROTC program, joining midway through their third year.
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I would love Trump for this even if he did nothing else.