Watch this, please!!! Dark gothic maga: How Tech Billionaires plan to destroy America

This video lays out exactly what Musk, Theil, Andreeson, Vance. et al are after. I seldom post videos, much less recommend them, but this unravels their plans brilliantly! Not just that, but Trump is supporting it. Please watch it.

Musk Is Likely to Get a West Wing Office for His Cost-Cutting Project

Source: New York Times

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is likely to be given office space in the West Wing, putting him close to President Trump as Mr. Musk steers a project that aims to cut as much as $2 trillion in government spending, two people with knowledge of the planning said on Monday.

Mr. Musk had been expected to be situated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is in the White House complex but not in the West Wing proper. But he has for many days been asking about his level of access, signaling a desire for proximity to Mr. Trump, according to the people.

Mr. Trump had wanted Mr. Musk to have the space, one of the people said. Mr. Musk has been given a badge for the White House complex and was said to be working there on Monday. He has filled out paperwork to be brought onboard for the role and already has a government email address.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/elon-musk-office-west-wing.html

Trump Sued Over Musk Cost-Cutting Effort by US Government Worker Union

Source: Bloomberg

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The lawsuit from the American Federation of Government Employees and government watchdog groups Public Citizen and State Democracy Defenders Fund was one of three cases filed as Trump was being sworn in on Monday challenging the “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE. The AFGE case claims that the initiative violates a 1972 US law requiring checks on conflicts of interest, ideological balance and transparency for groups with a direct line to the White House.

The federal employees union wrote in its case that the Federal Advisory Committee Act features “guardrails” to stop groups “from turning into vehicles for advancing private interests in the federal decision-making process and secretly influencing federal officials’ exercise of policymaking discretion.”


The cases mark the beginning of an expected barrage of legal action against Trump’s agenda, which includes efforts to shrink the size and reach of federal agencies.

Two other cases were also filed in federal court in Washington. One was filed by Democracy Forward and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of groups representing teachers, veterans and public health and car safety advocates. The third case was brought by the law firm National Security Counselors.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-20/trump-sued-over-musk-doge-effort-by-us-government-worker-union?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_alert&utm_term=250120&utm_campaign=author_22946324&leadSource=uverify%20wall&embedded-checkout=true

Trump to withdraw from Paris climate agreement

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, according to a White House document released on Monday.



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/trump-withdraw-paris-climate-agreement-2025-01-20/

Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship

Source: Washington Post

The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.

The incoming official did not provide details on how the administration planned to implement a change that scholars say would be illegal. Trump’s order would reinterpret the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil, and redefine the phrase to exclude babies born to parents illegally in the country.

Trump will issue other executive orders that will ramp up deportations, restart border wall construction and send U.S. troops to patrol the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico, said the incoming official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the incoming administration for a call with reporters.

After Trump is inaugurated, he plans to declare a national emergency at the southern border. Trump will then issue orders to restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term, designate drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations and suspend refugee resettlement in the United States for at least four months, officials said, reading a list of Inauguration Day actions and orders.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/20/trump-immigration-executive-orders/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Let's say t really does want to take over Greenland and Canada and Panama ...

That's the way thugocracies roll, after all. And let's suppose they all say "no way." Next step: he orders sequential or (more likely, given his personality) concurrent invasions of G, C, and P. This will stretch the military w-a-a-a-a-y too thin, so SecDef Hegseth (or his replacement) calls in Warfighters Inc, but this is a three (four, five?) front war by now, so it's time to bring back the draft. The High School kids are basically going to have to pre-qualify for military slots (per Project 2025 iirc), so they can be drafted and placed in the proper training area in one fell swoop.

When will the majority of Americans protest Will it ever happen or will most be all in on the Great Trumpistanian War?

Trump announces he intends to replace current FBI director with loyalist Kash Patel

Source: CNN

Updated 7:45 PM EST, Sat November 30, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he intends to nominate Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, in an extraordinary announcement that once in office Trump would move to replace the current director, Christopher Wray, before his term expires.

“I am proud to announce that Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday evening.

“Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI,” Trump added.

Wray has three years remaining in his 10-year term and would have to resign or be fired to create a vacancy. Trump nominated Wray in 2017 after firing James Comey, but he began to sour on Wray before he left office in 2021. Trump’s view of the FBI only worsened after his Mar-a-Lago resort was searched in August 2022, and Trump was later indicted for allegedly retaining classified documents.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/30/politics/kash-patel-fbi-director-trump/index.html

The fat lady has sung.

The grand old man!!! Joe! Joe! Joe!!!!!

I just realized that I've watched 19 DNCs in my lifetime.

Yeah, I'm old, but I was only seven years old when I became a convention junkie, and compared to the Republicans, the DNC was the only game in town! The color, the excitement, the life of the Democratic Party spilled through our 14" black and white tv and into our living room. We didn't get to see the smoke filled rooms, but the hours long demonstrations for the different presidential contenders (still undecided or just semi-secret? I didn't know. I was just seven, after all) impressed the heck out of me. They played the conventions all day and long into the night. A lot must have been past my bedtime, but I still remember watching both Stevenson and Eisenhower's speeches. I doubt I understood much of what they said, but I was hooked and I've watched long through the night ever since.

I remember most vividly when John F Kennedy was introduced to the nation with his brilliant keynote speech at the DNC in 1956. I was 11 and so excited I jumped up and down on our poor couch for much of it. (I was 5'2" and 110 pounds and the couch was far from new.)
He was instantly a leading candidate for the Vice Presidency because Stevenson had left the nomination open for the convention to fill. Talk about breathless excitement! It felt like I was counting the votes right along with Bobby.

And then it was 1960, which was by far the most exciting of my life. I was 15 and could stuff envelopes in my local party office, which meant I actually got to see my idol in person from the third or fourth balcony of the old Chicago Stadium, just a few days before the election.

I've watched every one of the DNCs since then, cheering on our nominees (though I couldn't get excited about Hubert Humphrey after Bobby's assassination). I'm over the moon about Kamala, and I will always adore Obama, but nothing will ever top the 1960 convention -- not for me, at least.

Here's to the DNC!
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