Does President Trump have to come over there to Los Angeles, again?

 Monica Showalter  

"Seems it's one miss after another in the City of Angels. The litany of bad decisions is growing long now, and the clowns in charge are making Trump come over there. They really, really, shouldn't make Trump come over there."

"In this first week of office, President Trump flew to Los Angeles to knock heads on rebuilding fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades and Altadena.

"He put on an amazing demonstration as an advocate for the residents in the face of official indifference to their plight -- insisting on speeding up resident access to burned out homes, speeding up permits, speeding up rubble removal and other important things. He also demanded that water be released to rebuild the city's firefighting reservoirs.

"He took no prisoners and left the clowns running Los Angeles flopped out on the pavement with no choice but to improve their act.

"For awhile there, they straightened up.

"But now it looks like they are back to their old ways.

"A few days ago, she announced this:

All credit goes to @LauraLoomer @LoomerUnleashed
EXPOSED: Karen Bass’ Woke DEI Agenda Hijacks LA Rebuild with Radical Firm
FACT CHECK CONFIRMED: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has indeed hired Hagerty Consulting—a far-left, Illinois-based firm with a history of… pic.twitter.com/HzmbyvZCaK

— Rafael Santiago (@RaphySantiag) February 8, 2025

. . . FACT CHECK CONFIRMED: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) has indeed hired Hagerty Consulting—a far-left, Illinois-based firm with a history of pushing racial reparations, BLM-aligned policies, and Soros-funded activism—to oversee the post-fire rebuild of the Palisades and Los Angeles. This isn’t about recovery; it’s about radical social engineering on taxpayers’ dime.

What Democrats should do; Opposing Trump on everything will not take back the White House

Don Surber   

"Four years later, [in 1876] Democrats nominated Sam Tilden and got a majority of the votes but not the presidency. A backroom deal was cooked to end Reconstruction in exchange for the presidency, which meant Democrats got what they wanted: a segregated South to control for the next century-plus." 

Maxine the bomb-thrower

. . . "And the Democrat playbook not only doesn’t work, it backfires. Let us review.

"Raiding his home and sifting through his wife’s underwear drawer only made him and her more determined to win.

"Dragging up that ugly kook E. Jean Carroll to accuse him of rape was a joke.

"Suing him for taking out a loan and paying the money back with interest was disgustingly unjust.

"Indicting him was angering.

"And the mugshot blew up in their face like an Acme bomb explodes on Wile E. Coyote.

Joe The demagogue

"Shooting him just made him look immortal. The whole world saw what Democrats did. The also know the price of failed regicide—in this case, prezicide—is death, although I mean that figuratively.

"Democrats have run out of ideas. They are an easily moved object facing an irresistible force. They cannot stop him.

"A panicked Mark Halperin summed it up best: “I’m very reluctant to use sports metaphors but I think it’s the right one. This is Travis Kelce catching the ball on his own 40 and looking around and seeing there’s no one near him. And he’s just barreling downfield.

“ 'The Democrats are nowhere on the field. The press is nowhere on the field. The liberal interest groups are nowhere on the field. The reasons for their being so ill prepared, I think, will be studied eventually. I have never seen anything like, not just the activity but the inability, of his opponents to forget stopping him. They’re barely, with a few exceptions, even slowing him down.”

Schiff the Shameless

"Democrats are on the field. They have 12 men on the field in fact.

"The analogy is wrong because Kelce had a bad game. The Elgses (as the mayor spells them) won the Super Bowl. Trump is Philadelphia’s Cooper DeJean whose Pick Six (an interception that the defender takes in for a touchdown) sealed the game in the second quarter." . . .

. . ."So let these dumb bunnies hop on every little thing Trump does because it makes them look like the out-of-touch losers they have become. The last thing we want is another Democrat president." . . .     Full article here...

Victor Davis Hanson: Sorry Liberals. DOGE is 100% Legal. American people voted for it and no matter how much you scream , cry , stomp your feet…

 Victor Davis Hanson

   "We can financially break them. Their coffers are already drying up. And even if they get a short bump among their devoted Dems, that number is dwindling. Peace."

• Love it, VeBee, Victor Davis Hanson always tells it like it is The American people have spoken and they won’t be silenced by liberal elites trying to undermine our democracy Time for liberals to accept the will of the people and stop trying to use the courts to push their socialist agenda – Stop Socialist Tyranny
• During Bill Clinton’s presidency (1993–2001), the federal government reduced its workforce by approximately 380,000 jobs, primarily through the Reinventing Government Initiative led by Vice President Al Gore. This initiative aimed to streamline government operations and make them more efficient. The majority of the reductions came from the Department of Defense due to post-Cold War military downsizing. By the end of Clinton’s second term, the federal civilian workforce was at its lowest level since the 1960s. – And the CLinton’s robbed America of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
• And those Federal workers who choose not to accept the buyout offered but listen instead to the rantings of Senators Kaine and Warner telling them to remain because the buyout is illegal, I say this: Never EVER bet against Donald Trump. You will be one of those summarily fired.
• You should refer to DOGE as USDS or “United States DOGE Service because that is what it actually is and that is the acronym for it. USDS or United States Digital Service was started by Barrack Obama in 2014. Trump and Musk kept the funding, kept the acronym but refocused it’s mission from IT activity to find the receipts activity (it is fully funded and tied into every major agency already) Congress appropriated funds for it in the annual budget and it is bullet proof for legal. Congress can’t stop it without having to re-write dozens of laws. By the time they did it the temporary deadline would expire and Musk would be done so they are trapped by their own creation.
• Great framing of the structure and sunset of the program! Unlike senators, congress and career bureaucrat gatekeepers, the need calls it’s own end date! When candidates for office do the same, my respect and trust will follow. Until then, to COIN a phrase: DOGE on!

Democrat Insiders Knew Joe Biden Was Getting Doped Up Before Public Events

PJ Media  

"As the curtain closes on the Biden administration, former Democratic donor turned MAGA supporter Lindy Li has become a veritable whistleblower on the dysfunction and corruption that plagued her former party during the 2024 election. 

"In her recent appearance on "The Shawn Ryan Show," Li didn’t hold back. We previously reported how she claimed that after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last June, Hunter Biden had “commandeered the White House,” influencing crucial decisions from the inside. 

"But it gets even juicier than that. We’ve all suspected that Joe Biden was getting doped up before public events. But, according to Li, it was definitely happening.

“ 'I do know that he likely took something before the State of the Union,” she said. “I was wondering because I was there for that, and he seemed sharp at the beginning, and then kind of went downhill towards the end.”

"We all noticed that.

“Were there any rumors of him getting doped up? Adderall?” Shawn Ryan asked.

“ 'Oh, there are plenty of rumors, but I'm here to give you the facts,” she said. “Like, everything I've said to you so far has been proven, or I've seen it with my own two eyes. I've never seen him get doped up, but there were plenty of rumors that he would get doped up before every major event.”

"Li continued, “For example, after the debate, he went to North Carolina. It was basically a life-or-death moment for his campaign. He had to prove that he was still ready to continue his race. The rumor was that he took something. The night after the debate, he basically self-destructed before the eyes of the whole world. So the next day, he had to prove that he could still keep going, and that’s what we were told—that he got some sort of injection or whatever before he went on stage in North Carolina. But I wasn’t there to see that, and I can’t say for sure.”

"The transformation that followed left observers baffled. She captured this bizarre enigma well, stating Biden behaved “like PeeWee Herman in one moment and then be like Mahatma Gandhi the next.” A fitting metaphor for a presidency that swung wildly between incoherence and misplaced gravitas.

"Li further suggested that former President Barack Obama was effectively calling the shots through a network of Biden’s old associates, taking control of the administration while it floundered. If that’s not a shadow presidency, what is? Li pointedly said, “It was for sure Obama’s third term,” showing just how intertwined the two legacies had become." . . .

SpaceX and X headquarters move from California to Texas; Now another major company moves its HQ from California to Texas

This news is significant on its own, but TD has posted it for the reader comments

UK Daily Mail    

"A real estate giant has joined the growing list of companies abandoning California and heading to Texas. 

"Realtor.com, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, announced it is relocating its headquarters from Santa Clara to Austin.

The real estate listing site's move comes after companies such as SpaceX, Chevron and Oracle have all made the move from the Golden State. 

Texas has waged a charm offensive on companies touting its low taxes and limited regulation.

The Lone Star State has also established new business courts to tackle corporate disputes, a factor that many companies find attractive about incorporating in Delaware. 

Realtor.com CEO Damian Eales said he was also attracted by Texas' expanding housing stock, low cost of living and growing talent pool off workers.

A few of the comments to this news:

Texas is full. Wish these companies (and people) would stay in their own state and work to change their state’s leadership
.

"This needs to be a major wake up call to blue states that their high levels of regulations, taxes, cost of living, homelessness and crime isn’t working and that people and businesses have choices and...See more

"Fine but Don’t bring your California voting ways to texas.

2,400 New JFK Assassination Files Unearthed Shortly After Trump Orders Full Evidence Release

 RTM  

"The administration has given intelligence chiefs a 45-day deadline to develop a comprehensive plan for releasing additional archives related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., suggesting a broader commitment to historical transparency."

"Nearly 2,400 new documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination have surfaced following Donald Trump’s executive order demanding complete transparency. 

"The FBI’s discovery of approximately 14,000 pages of previously undisclosed materials has sent shockwaves through both political circles and the historical research community.

"Trump’s recent executive order, signed upon his return to the White House in late January, mandated the immediate release of all remaining classified documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination. 

"The FBI’s revelation of these additional materials on Friday has ignited a firestorm of speculation and controversy among Kennedy scholars, apparent conspiracy theorists and Trump administration officials alike.

"Jefferson Morley, a leading expert on the Kennedy assassination, emphasized the significance of this development in his statement to Axios: “This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously.”

Trumping the media; Deep state can no longer use tax money to pay off media

 Don Surber/ Substack 

 "Musk has not ended the media bias but he stamped an expiration date on it. The media will obey the marching orders from the deep state until publishers realize the Trump Train is here and the gravy train ain’t coming back."

"Thanks to DOGE, I learned the media’s coverage of Trump’s two presidencies was not based on talking points but on marching orders from the deep state. Musk traded in his Tesla for a DOGE Ram and we all found out the federal government gives millions to media outlets.

"The old saw holds that he who pays the piper calls the tune.

"That tune sure ain’t the Star-Spangled Banner.

"The deep state sold Russiagate and all sorts of other crackpot conspiracy theories to the American people through state-paid media outlets such as NYT, AP and BBC. Politico alone received $8.2 million from the government last year through special subscriptions that begin at $10,000 each.

"Last Tuesday, Trump stopped the payments and a few hours later, Politico failed to meet its payroll. The news outlet denied, denied and denied that there was a connection. It was an implausible denial. In politics, there are no such things as coincidences.

"The Guardian tried to call the truth a conspiracy theory but failed to convince me:

"The subscription payments to Politico were not the only ones under fire. Social media accounts also shared screenshots of payments to the Associated Press and the New York Times. Musk called the New York Times “government-funded media” after reposting screenshots of subscriptions the government bought from the outlet.

"BBC Media Action, an international charity that supports and trains local journalists and outlets around the world, received funds from USAID that totaled about 8% of the charity’s income in 2023-24. The charity is “completely separate from BBC News,” it has said, and does not produce news itself." . . .

Trump’s Plan for Gaza Could Actually Work. And the First Step Is the Easiest.

 PJ Media  

"We’re not “exiling” anyone; we’re making dreams come true for impoverished families. It’s an act of love and friendship. We’re giving them what they want."

  

White liberals LOVE the Palestinian people. Whenever anything about Israel or the Middle East pops up in the news, white liberals say the exact same thing as Mrs. Lovejoy, only replacing “children” with “Palestinians”:

"For Trump’s plan to work, the Palestinians would need to be physically relocated from Gaza. Which can certainly be done: History is rife with examples of populations being moved. Some of the darkest, ugliest pages in our history books are replete with examples.

"And that’s the problem: The PR fallout would be devastating.

"The optics of forcibly displacing civilians from their ancestral homeland, stripping them of their possessions, and marching men, women, and children at gunpoint would have highly unpredictable outcomes, especially in an Age of TikTok. Worst case scenario, it could trigger an explosion of radical Islamic opposition that topples regimes, ends peace agreements, and leads to global terrorism.

"Nobody is entirely sure how the fabled “Arab Street” would react, but clearly, the consequences of misreading it would be devastating. As a risk-reward proposition, it could be a very dangerous wager.

"But if it’s mainly a PR problem, then there ought to be a PR solution. 

"Here’s our challenge: How do we change the Mid East narrative away from forcibly exiling the poor Palestinians civilians to one of hopeful, excited Palestinian families grinning from ear-to-ear, eagerly awaiting a wonderful future because they GET to leave?

"And it’s simple: Have a lotto.

"To get the ball rolling, we need 5 thousand new apartments built along the beach or in a city somewhere in Jordan, Egypt, or elsewhere. The apartments should be lovely; we’d want beautiful “artistic renderings” of happy families living together in paradise.

"Build ‘em ASAP.

"Then offer these beautiful new apartments to the Palestinian people. Give ‘em away for free (or at a ridiculous discount). And put the sign-up sheet in the middle of town at noon under some kind of lotto system… and GO!" . . .

Watchtower Society PR would work wonders in this effort; it's ubiquitous in their literature.

religious kitsch

Chuck Schumer Gets Mercilessly Mocked for Post on Whistleblowers

 

Rebecca Downs; Townhall   "Democrats have been beclowning themselves like nobody's business in the past few weeks, especially when it comes to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). . . .

. . ."The replies and quoted reposts are chock full of those sharing that they have submitted their own whistleblower complaints, against Democrats, to spam the system. Others reminded how Schumer himself has threatened conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices, as he did with Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh in 2020, if they did not vote the way he wanted to on an abortion-related case. The Department of Justice (DOJ) for the second Trump term has since opened an investigation into Schumer for such comments."

Mollie Hemingway and others went into overdrive with Schumer's opening:

Double Down, Dudes: Dems Willing to Shut Gov Down to Save Fraud and Abuse From Trump

Trump’s DOJ to toss NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ historic bribery case, agrees with Dem that charges were politically motivated by Biden admin

 NY Daily News  

“The facts of the case are clear: The mayor never used his official position for personal benefit. Nor did he have any role in violating campaign finance laws. Despite a lot of fanfare and sensational claims, ultimately there was no evidence presented that he broke any laws, ever. The witnesses that were promised never materialized. The additional charges that were threatened never came. Now, thankfully, the mayor and New York can put this unfortunate and misguided prosecution behind them.” 

"But the calls went unheeded and put Adams, who once called himself the
 “Biden of Brooklyn,” forever out of the former president’s good graces." 

"The Justice Department ordered Manhattan prosecutors Monday to dismiss the historic bribery case against Mayor Eric Adams — siding with Hizzoner that the charges under the Biden administration were politically motivated and hampered his ability to combat the migrant crisis in New York City, The Post has confirmed.

""The new DOJ under President Trump instructed the Southern District of New York to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning charges could be refiled in the future, sources said.

" 'You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges” against Adams, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove wrote in a letter obtained by The Post.

"The letter notes “independent reasons” as to why Adams’ case was being tossed — including that the case was retribution for him speaking out against the Biden administration for its handling of the migrant crisis.

“ 'It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the prior Administration’s immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former US Attorney’s public actions created appearances of impropriety…” . . .

Mistreatment of Hostages and Prisoners Fracture the Ceasefire

 The American Spectator

"The horrific state of released Israeli hostages conjures up images of concentration camp survivors while Hamas accuses Israel of ceasefire violations."

On US campuses, guess which of these three is the enemy. TD

 

"If President Donald Trump needed more reason to pursue his “take over” Gaza pipedream, Hamas pulled through again over the weekend. On Saturday, Feb. 8, Israeli hostages Eli Sharabi (52), Or Levy (34), and Ohad Ben Ami (56) were released as part of the ceasefire agreement with Israel showing visible signs of physical and mental abuse and evidence of starvation in clear violation of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners. Their empty stares and frail bodies looked as if they were straight from the 1945 Nazi concentration camp liberations.

"Following the same publicity stunt from the hostage release on Jan. 25, Sharabi, Levy, and Ben Ami — the first males released in “phase one” of the current agreement — were handed over to the Red Cross after publicly exhibited on a curated stage in the central Gazan city Deir al-Balah.

But whereas the last hostages released exuded confidence and poise, shaming Hamas and turning what should have been their humiliation into a victory, the three men on Saturday were hard to watch. They looked grossly malnourished with haggard faces, crushed spirits, and visibly unstable on their feet, shuffling their steps and needing help getting in and out of the SUVs. (RELATED: Israeli Hostages Turn Humiliation into Victory)

"Sharabi and Ben Ami mounted the stage dressed in brown prison uniforms that seemed to swallow their skeletal frames. Levy, barely recognizable, and while not serving in the IDF, was dressed in military olive drab as Hamas considers any Israeli under the age of 50 a soldier. They were made to speak into microphones before the crowd about how well they were treated in captivity and stressed the urgent need for more hostage-prisoner exchanges. Many Israeli news outlets refused to air the speeches, knowing full well it was scripted propaganda.
The depressing scene sparked immediate outrage across Israel. “He looks terrible,” Ben Ami’s mother said. “He is 57, but he looks ten years older …. he looked like a skeleton.” . . .

Columbia's anti-Israel protesters audaciously sued the school

When it comes to Israel….what a difference an election makes

Barenakedislam   

"In the past year, many Jews were considering fleeing Belgium because of virulent anti-Semitism, coming from the rapidly growing Muslim migrant population."

  

Israel Hayom "After nearly eight months of political deadlock and exhausting negotiations, Belgium is finally on the verge of forming a new government. The new coalition, composed of five parties, leans toward the right. When it comes to Israel, this marks a real transformation.

The previous government was one of the most hostile to Israel in Europe, but the new coalition agreement effectively sets a more pro-Israel stance. Now there there will be no unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, and Hezbollah will be designated as a terrorist organization."

. . ."Another significant move, which will likely be welcomed in Jerusalem, is Belgium’s decision to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, banning all ties with the group, including its political wing. The coalition agreement also affirms Belgium’s firm opposition to Iran’s nuclear program.

"In recent years, Belgium has become a hotbed for pro-Palestinian movements, some of which have openly supported Hamas. Under the previous government, there was a sense that Brussels had neither the will nor the ability to curb anti-Israel incitement in public spaces."

It certainly seems the schoolyard bullies of the world want to steal the Jews' lunch money and lock them in their lockers. TD