Trump Looking to Kill Biden’s Absurd Electric Vehicle Tax Credit

Warner Todd Huston; The Lid 

"This is good news. Screw your electric car. You want one? Great. Pay the full freight."

"Look for the EV industry to practically disappear next year as Donald Trump has already signaled that he is looking to put an end to Joe Biden’s idiotic Electric Vehicle tax credit, which is nothing but a subsidy for EV manufacturers.

"Electric vehicles are universally garbage, it is true. But if you want one, there is no reason at al you should not go out and get one. However, there is no reason whatever that I should help you buy one and help manufacturers make them with MY tax dollars.

"You want to waste your money on one of these boondoggles, knock yourself out. But keep your hands out of the federal treasury while you do it.

"And, at long last, we are going to have a president that understands what is right and what is wrong.

"If EVs are going to thrive, they must do so on their own standing. Not because billions of my tax dollars are being thrown at them." . . .

“The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin.”

 Legal Insurrection; Israel Reportedly Destroyed Iranian Nuclear Weapons Site in Recent Strike  

"The new revelation comes as President-elect Donald Trump is bringing together the team for his second term. President Joe Biden’s abandonment of the Trump-era policy of “Maximum Pressure” on Iran and granting sanctions relief emboldened the regime to ramp up its rogue nuclear weapons program."

 "Israel destroyed a secret Iranian nuclear weapons site in its recent airstrike, Israeli journalist Barak Ravid reported Friday in the Axios news website. “The Israeli attack on Iran in late October destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility in Parchin,” the news website reported, quoting U.S. officials.

"The Israeli airstrike, conducted on October 26, successfully “destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it,” the Axios article added.

"The airstrike, named “Days of Repentance,” was in response to an Iranian aerial attack in which around 180 missiles were fired at Israel in early October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not disclose hitting any rogue nuclear targets, but the Israeli media reported that around 20 Iranian targets linked to the regime’s air defense systems and missile production sites were hit during the strike." . . .

"Satellite images provided to me by a source reveal that the Parchin military base, east of Tehran, was targeted overnight by the IAF. The image on the left depicts the site prior to the strike, while the post-strike image on the right indicates two areas affected by an attack." pic.twitter.com/Um2WbPh0Y6

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 26, 2024

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Fmr Trump Education Secretary DeVos Supports Plan to End DOE

 NewsMax

DeVos did not rule out returning to the Department of Education, Daily Mail reported, but said she would only return if Trump was serious about shuttering the department.

"Betsy DeVos, former secretary of education during Donald Trump's first term as president, praised his efforts to end the Department of Education, the Daily Mail reported.

" 'We're going to end education coming out of Washington, D.C.," Trump said in a message to supporters. "We're going to close it up — all those buildings all over the place — and you have people in many cases who hate our children. We're going to send it all back to the states."

"DeVos, who resigned her Cabinet position following the Jan. 6 incident at the U.S. Capitol, voiced support for Trump and is optimistic he will make education reform a priority.

" 'There are many ways to de-power the Department of Education, and I am very optimistic that President Trump in his second term is going to put the muscle behind seeing that happen," DeVos told the Daily Mail.

"DeVos proposed that Trump first pass federal tax credits to help parents pay for school choice, fueling education freedom across the country. She further suggested the federal government begin offering block funding grants to the states. 

"DeVos, who faced fierce opposition from teachers unions during her time as secretary of education, said the unions will try to fight Trump every step of the way.

" 'The status quo is not going to back down at all, and they're not going to get quieter," DeVos told Daily Mail. "Whomever is there is going to, if they are standing up to the status quo, they're going to get all the protests and all the stuff the same way because they are fighting for power and control." . . .

It Wasn't the Revenge of the Working Class Voter in 2024. It Was Something Much Worse for Dems.

"The evidence of MAGA being the majority is everywhere. Democrats need to understand it to win again. Let’s hope they don’t because these voters are definitionally the swinging type. Liberal America is too awash with snobs, bigots, and all-around morons to turn this around right now."  Matt Vespa

It’s No Mystery

Matt Vespa  "In 2016, it was the revenge of the white working-class voter and the forgotten American. Hillary Clinton also failed to realize she was bleeding with a crucial voter group until it was too late. Yet, Trump lost the popular vote, which gave woke leftists and far-left loons a crutch to make their case that identitarian politics, transanity, and other whacko action items should remain front and center of Democrats’ messaging to voters. The 2022 midterms brought the red mirage, where pollsters oversampled Republicans, leading to an epic underperformance by Republicans in what was supposed to be a tsunami cycle. When polls showed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in trouble, or at the very least not where they should be against a man liberals view as Satan incarnate, they leaned on the midterms. 

"Any political analyst knows a midterm election and a presidential contest are two different beasts, which led to adding another layer of density to this liberal academic bubble where reality and facts don’t exist. Liberals thought Florida was in play, and Kamala would win it. Yet, it’s the Trump supporter who is ignorant. No, it’s the American liberal who is the true mental invalid, too stupid to differentiate what is a bad idea and too condescending and self-righteous to admit total and complete defeat. For these liberals, they needn’t look far regarding where Trump made his most significant gains. It’s right in their wealthy enclaves." . . .

Catfight: As Biden and Trump smile cordially, Jill Biden cuts Kamala Harris dead

Monica Showalter

By the time the election was over, the press was publishing leaks from Democrats that Joe was responsible for Kamala's loss because he pulled out too late, and all the lionizing they did of him for his 'unselfishness' was pure baloney, given that he was muscled out. Jill didn't take kindly to that, and now she's not even trying to hide it at public events.

"Around the time President Trump and Joe Biden held the most cordial of presidential transition meetings at the White House, something different was going on over at a Veterans Day event between Jill Biden and Kamala Harris.

"According to Fox News:

Social media erupted following what many characterized as first lady Jill Biden’s icy reception for Vice President Kamala Harris as the now-former Democratic presidential nominee took an adjacent seat at Arlington Cemetery on Tuesday.

Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff approached their row of seats from the first lady’s right as the vice president greeted and shook hands with those around her — except Biden.

"It’s safe to say that Jill Biden hates Kamala Harris’ guts," conservative commentator Steve Cortes said while sharing a video snippet of the non-interaction.

As Harris took her seat, Biden appeared to look straight ahead through dark sunglasses.

"They're mean, and Jill doesn't mind if it's right out there for the public to see.

"Now, we've known for years that Jill Biden couldn't stand Kamala Harris, ever since Kamala painted Joe as a racist in the 2019 Democrat primary debate, but it's never been so obvious now that the election's over.

"For Jill Biden there's no longer any need to keep appearances.

"What got out after the 2020 debate, though, was really quite spectacular -- and whole books were written to feature it.

"I noted here in 2022:

According to Fox News:

First lady Jill Biden expressed frustration that Kamala Harris was the top choice for vice president, according to an upcoming book from two New York Times reporters.

An excerpt provided to Fox News from Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns' forthcoming book, "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future," describes the vice presidential nomination process during Joe Biden's 2020 campaign.

Jill made this raging comment that ended up in the book:  "'There are millions of people in the United States,' she began. ‘Why,’ she asked, ‘do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe,'" the authors wrote of a conversation Jill Biden had after she learned Harris became a leading candidate to serve as Biden's running mate. . . .

More Democrats fear the party's image isn't just damaged – it's broken

  POLITICO Everyone agrees they lost the working class, but they’re deeply divided on where to place the blame — and what to do about it.

"Other Democrats, too, argue that where Trump has tapped into the frustrations of the working class in a way that feels organic, Democrats have come across as too erudite, to the point that working-class voters feel like they’re being talked down to."

"Democrats are having a full-blown identity crisis.

"Days after Kamala Harris’ defeat, the extent of their party’s failure is becoming increasingly clear. It’s bad enough that Democrats are still losing working-class whites, as they have in recent elections. Now, exit polls show blue-collar Latinos and some Black men, long a core part of the Democratic base, are abandoning the party, too, fueling electoral shellackings. Republicans flipped the Senate and are padding their majority. Democrats’ path to a majority in the House is narrowing. And Donald Trump won in what could only be described as a landslide in the modern era.

“ 'The Democratic Party needs to be rebuilt,” said Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “We have become a party of elites, whether we abandoned working-class people, whether they abandoned us, whether it’s some combination of all of the above.”

"In interviews with 16 elected officials, party leaders and strategists, Democrats from both wings of the party agreed they have stopped knowing how to talk to the working class, once the very core of their identity. But they were deeply divided on where to place the blame — and what to do about it. Just like Donald Trump’s victory did in 2016 — and in 2020, when he lost by a smaller margin than expected — his return to the White House is fueling a raging debate between the party’s progressive and moderate wings about where to go from here." ...

No Trump bump: MSNBC hemorrhaging viewers since Election Day, sheds more than half of primetime audience

 MSN

"MSNBC exhausted every resource at their disposal to stop Donald Trump from achieving victory, eventually stooping to a plot to depict him as the second coming of Adolf Hitler, the most ruthless dictator in modern world history. It didn't work. The lies, the hysteria, and the besmirchment only made Trump more popular," Burack wrote. 

. . .""While MSNBC thought they may have struck gold with the election night ratings, they should have realized by now that Americans only tuned in so they could see the meltdowns, not that they viewed it as consistently and intellectually stimulating television," Houck told Fox News Digital. 

" 'During CNN's tumbles in past years, they were falling behind reruns of ‘Golden Girls’ and ‘Peppa Pig,’ so it's probably best if MSNBC doesn't look at their ratings anytime soon if they want to stay anywhere close to their happy place," Houck added. "Liberal viewers have to be emotionally, psychologically, and metaphorically distraught. They're beyond forlorn."

"Houck doesn’t believe finger pointing and MSNBC hosts continuing to push far-left talking points will bring back progressive viewers anytime soon. 

" 'The somber excuses blaming everyone from working-class women to Hispanic men to conservative media seem to be serving as only temporary balms to the scorching results. Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner have a brand to commit to where the only change the left will have to do is go even further left, so it's a stale product no one will want to listen to going forward," Houck said. 

"MSNBC has seen viewers jump ship on the heels of news they didn’t like in the past. In 2019, Rachel Maddow’s viewership took a dive when Special Counsel Robert Mueller declared there was no collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia despite the far-left host spending years pushing the Russian collusion narrative." . . . 

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow famously pushed since-debunked theories tying former President Trump to Russia. Fox News

The New Senate Majority Leader Must Muzzle Adam Schiff

"Schiff has disqualified himself from defense-related committee assignments in the U.S. Senate.But California loved him enough to reelect him." TD

 American Greatness 

yle="font-family: arial;">"With the GOP’s regained Senate majority, the freshly-branded Majority Leader John Thune has a mountain of work ahead of him once he takes the gavel. He must confirm President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees, pass legislation securing the border, and extend the expiring 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act benefiting more than 80% of individual taxpayers.

"But before any legislating can happen, the Senate must choose the membership of its committees. Thune must use his authority as Majority Leader to limit the committee assignments of one newly elected Senator: Democrat Adam Schiff of California.

"Schiff must be denied a position on any of the body’s committees centered around national security, intelligence, or foreign affairs, and any subcommittees that intersect with these areas. Schiff’s conduct on such a committee in the House of Representatives disqualifies him from any significant decision- or policy-making roles related to the defense and global standing of the United States.

"Schiff knowingly peddled lies accusing Donald Trump’s campaign of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, using his position on the House Intelligence Committee and access to classified information to affirm its veracity. This includes his time as its chairman. Schiff claimed “more than circumstantial evidence” of the plot even as the committee interviewed numerous Obama Administration officials who admitted there was no direct evidence of Trump or his staff working with Russians. Only weeks before the Mueller report concluded Russian collusion was nonexistent, Schiff continued to insist, “You can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion, pretty compelling evidence.” It was obvious then and even more obvious in hindsight that Schiff’s motive was to discredit and weaken President Trump, all at the expense of the United States’ international standing and an already fractured American public following a contentious election.

"When Republicans reclaimed control of the House two years ago, they took appropriate action against Schiff. Speaker Kevin McCarthy refused to reinstate Schiff’s membership on the Intelligence Committee, citing his “misuse of [the] panel,” undermining its role in national security and related oversight. Furthermore, the House censured Schiff for his lies, although he was anything but chastened.Politics doesn’t stop at the water’s edge for Adam Schiff, and the Senate must respond. It is within the Senate’s authority to reject committee memberships—Rule XXIV of the Rules of the Senate allows any Senator to demand a vote on the appointment of committee members. New Senate Majority Leader Thune must make use of this rule to firmly repudiate Schiff to strengthen the security of the United States.