The Pillars of Democrat Power Are Trump's Target
Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/3/2025 12:07:40 PM
I never thought that I would see a Republican figure out the real pillars of Democratic Party power and attack them. Republicans have been too stupid, too scared, and too entwined in the grift to defund the nexus of political power that has led to so many of our problems. Trump is doing precisely that, and if he succeeds, the Democratic Party in its current form will be dead. There will be a Democratic Party of some kind, but it will look nothing like the one that exists today. There are plenty of ordinary Democrat voters who support the party because they believe that it represents their values.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's advisers are mulling executive actions to dismantle the Education Department as part of a campaign by billionaire Elon Musk and his allies to reduce the size of the government's workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
U.S. officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the Education Department that are not written explicitly into statute or move certain functions to other departments, the report said, citing sources.
The planned order would call for developing a legislative proposal to abolish the department, the newspaper reported, adding Trump advisers were still debating the specifics and the timing of such an order.
The war on DOGE has intensified.
As Elon Musk and crew start tearing down the Deep State, the Deep State is striking back by calling for DOGE employees to be literally hunted by leftist activists. Bluesky is the "nice" and "moderated" social media platform where all the "best people" avoid the nastiness and Nazi-like behavior on X, and they are so concerned about the Nazification of the US by people who are shrinking the grifting Deep State that they are calling for the death of DOGE employees.
As government employees try to lock out DOGE investigators, outside agitators are ramping up the outside war on government accountability.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he is acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development, confirming the de-facto takeover of the humanitarian agency by the State Department.
The news came hours after Elon Musk, the world’s richest man charged with overhauling the federal government, said President Donald Trump had signed off on shutting the agency down.
Rubio said that the “functions of USAID” must align with US foreign policy and that it is “a completely unresponsive agency.”
I never thought that I would see a Republican figure out the real pillars of Democratic Party power and attack them. Republicans have been too stupid, too scared, and too entwined in the grift to defund the nexus of political power that has led to so many of our problems.
Trump is doing precisely that, and if he succeeds, the Democratic Party in its current form will be dead. There will be a Democratic Party of some kind, but it will look nothing like the one that exists today.
There are plenty of ordinary Democrat voters who support the party because they believe that it represents their values.
Just Like That: USAID Is (Mostly) Dead
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USAID is mostly dead. I say "mostly" dead because Miracle Max may still find a way to use a bellow to revive it, but as far as I remember, the process required true love, and the only true love USAID had was for cold hard cash. USAID has been one of the key centers of resistance, with deep ties to the Intelligence Community, NGOs, foreign governments, consulting firms, and, of course, the State Department. It disperses tens of billions of dollars, a tiny percentage of which gets to actual aid recipients, and believe it or not helped fund the Wuhan lab and, therefore, the creation of COVID.
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail in 2008. Up until that moment, Obama had carefully couched his red diaper radicalism in the language of moderation, of healing, of "one America."
It's impossible to say for sure whether Obama accidentally let slip the real foundation of his candidacy or if he was feeling so cocky that close to election day that he felt he could get away with anything. But I've always felt it was the latter.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have largely fallen in line with Donald Trump’s move to impose tariffs on the US’s biggest trading partners, with the notable exception of the former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who called it a “bad idea”.
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President Donald Trump on Monday said that he will pause for one month his new 25% tariff on goods entering the United States from Mexico after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to her country's northern border to prevent drug trafficking.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term.
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I haven't seen Chuck Schumer so happy in months. There he was Wednesday, practically ready to burst into song while celebrating the Trump administration's withdrawal of a memo ordering a federal spending freeze.
"Americans made their voices heard," Schumer crowed. "Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order."
Schumer was too giddy to tell the full story. On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed federal agencies to stop spending money, with exceptions for entitlements, defense, and direct support for individuals, until grants-in-aid programs were aligned with the president's agenda.
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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.
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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
During Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he was still at odds with President Donald Trump despite his election victory last November.
The Kentucky Republican said he still harbored ill-will for what he had alleged was Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Partial transcript as follows:
STAHL: How would you describe your relationship with President Trump?
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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:
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SOS Homophobie, a transgender activist group,
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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.
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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
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Despite the alleged critical nature of this aid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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With even Trump admitting that the tariffs – 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on China – might cause “some pain”, there was mostly strong support from the president’s loyalists. Jason Smith, chair of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, said the tariffs would “send a powerful message that the United States will no longer stand by
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy openly admitted that he and his wife, First Lady Tammy Murphy, are personally harboring an illegal immigrant in their own home—practically daring federal authorities to step in.
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Dozens of Democrat leaders are reportedly struggling to find a “coherent message” to fight President Donald Trump.
The New York Times reported Sunday that, at private meetings and public events, Democrats “appear leaderless, rudderless, and divided.”
Democrats have elected Ken Martin to be their next Democrat National Committee (DNC) chair, who will conduct a post-election review largely based on tactics and messaging.
Now, the Times said after more than 50 interviews with Democrat leaders they cannot figure out what the party should stand for, what issues they should focus on, and how to confront Trump.
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