Posted on 02/04/2025 4:21:07 PM PST by Twotone
I never quite bought into that Churchill line about how nothing in life is as exhilarating as being shot at without result. But Trump is living it, day after day after day. Are you, like legions of NPR and Washington Post reporters, still trying to peel what's left of USAid from off the asphalt? Ha! The Administration has already moved on to its next target:
Trump order to dismantle the education department in the works, sources say
Good. The US Department of Education was set up by Jimmy Carter in 1979, and the official position of the GOP ever since has been to abolish it. But, as with so much else they're supposedly committed to, Republicans have done not a thing about it - because Frank Luntz ran a "Words that Work" focus group showing that when a GOP squishpants so much as mentions this malign boondoggle swing-state independents hear it as an attack on "teachers" and recoil in terror. After forty years, American public education is worse than ever, and taxpayers pay more per pupil than anywhere else but Luxembourg - and Luxembourg at least has something to show for it. If that line sounds familiar, it's because I first used it in the Nineties.
It's almost as if, over the same four decades, Conservative Inc has just been a giant self-enrichment racket.
~Speaking of which, there is a lot of truth in this:
I always assumed that most of the foreign aid went to African warlords and Hamas, who would take their cut before a starving child was fed.
I'm actually more offended to find out that the money instead went to all of the worst people in DC. — Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 3, 2025
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Word on the street is that Musk’s team have entered the FBI building.
HERE WE GO: Musk’s DOGE Workers Spotted at FBI Headquarters
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/here-we-go-musks-doge-workers-spotted-fbi/
Elon said that WIRED BROKE THE LAW!! Is this TRUE???
“I never quite bought into that Churchill line about how nothing in life is as exhilarating as being shot at without result.”
Well, you wouldn’t know would you?
Gawd, what has happened to the UK?!
“ It’s almost as if, over the same four decades, Conservative Inc has just been a giant self-enrichment racket.”
It was. Trump ripped that mask off right quick.
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“Elon said that WIRED BROKE THE LAW!! Is this TRUE???”
I’m not sure if they did or not with their exposure of the personal information of DOGE’s team members. There are doxxing laws in several states I believe so it is possible they did so. I guess the answer is “it depends”.
That quote was published in a newspaper, and when King George III read it (this was before the American Revolution) he was said to have remarked wryly: "He would not have been so charmed had the bullets been closer."
(I don't know the exact words from King George III, but they were something like that)
At the risk of sounding ill-informed, who or what is wired??
Polyester, Disco, and the Department of Education. Quite a legacy for that decade.
Reading or listening to Mark Steyn increases your IQ a few points
It used to be a magazine publication put out that was mostly about computer related stuff. Like everything else from the last couple of decades it went Progressive and become unreadable
Oh ok. Thank you.
I hope this roto-rootering of government agencies is followed up with some arrests. It sure looks like some serious stealing has been going on.
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