The Daily Reid: What's the point of power ...if you're not willing to use it?

In other words, they will do EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW, except with the imprimatur of a bipartisan bill, thanks to Chuck Schumer and the six Democrats he convinces to go along with him.

I suspect that no display of political weakness has ever been so utterly pathetic.

Oz will fit right in to the Trump regime

"Shit people" “Shit people.”

Trump and Vance conducted themselves almost precisely as Hitler did when he accosted Schuschnigg and demanded that Austria be surrendered and annexed to the Nazi Reich. Think about that.

'It's a fraud': CNN host bluntly calls out conservative proposing a 'DOGE dividend' Normally mild-mannered CNN host Michael Smeroconish shut down an investment firm CEO who has been pitching what he calls a "DOGE dividend" where government savings would be refunded to taxpayers.Simpl...

This did not go well for the investment firm CEO. Not one little bit.

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

'Black Americans for Trump' member turns on president after friend loses federal job A prominent member of "Black Americans for Trump" organization parted ways with the president on CNN Saturday morning over the slash-and-burn methods of Elon Musk's DOGE that is devastating the famil...

"... finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he's laid off now. So his kid, his wife, all of that promise, it's totally gone."

Pentagon announces it plans to fire 5-8% of civilian workforce | CNN Politics The Pentagon announced Friday it plans to ultimately fire five to eight percent of the military’s approximately 950,000 civilian employees, with an initial tranche of 5,400 probationary workers who do...

The DoD has never passed an audit and no doubt its spending should be reviewed. But Sec Hegseth knows little about how DoD works, and less about national security. It would be a good idea to bring in some expertise rather than just throwing the axes. 
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02/21/2025 - Weekly Wrap Up Watch now | In this Weekly Wrap Up, Eddie discusses the overwhelming nature of current news, focusing on significant political events, global conflicts, and the humanitarian crises arising from them. ...

It's a reflection, I think, of a calloused heart. So let's keep our eyes on that, keep our eyes on the fact that this oligarch, Elon Musk, is gaslighting the country. We know he's moving in a self-interested way, reporting all over, showing that he's trying to end investigations of his companies.

It’s Official: Trump is a MF'in’ Russia Agent Trump Was Always Putin’s Witting Asset. Now I Believe He Literally Works for Moscow.

He will end by proudly announcing that America was joining Russia and China in forming a global economic alliance of dictators in order to “get America’s share” of Third World technology money.

I experienced Russian corruption firsthand — and Trump is importing KGB thuggery Before I became a trial lawyer, I was corporate. Studying legal systems abroad morphed into drafting foreign license agreements, and in the late 90s, I negotiated across the table from Russian oligarc...

OPINION:

What's in a name? Newspeak comes for Google Maps; Mitch McConnell breaks it, we buy it; American diplomacy enters its supervillain era

If you’re looking to find your way around the southerly parts of North America this week, you’ve probably noticed that Google Maps has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to suit President Trump’s tastes.

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

David Super, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and an expert on administrative law, told Popular Information that the Trump administration was "in contempt of court" and the continued funding freeze at NIH was "completely unlawful."

Scenes from A Humiliation A picture really does speak louder than words, and yesterday’s Oval Office briefing by President Elon Musk proved it in spades.

Meanwhile, a slumped Donald Trump sat nearby, wearing the bored, empty stare of a man who wants nothing more than his afternoon pudding. You don’t need a body-language guru to see he’s thoroughly checked out: drooping shoulders, slack jaw, glazed eyes.

A post which says: Rep Earl Carter (R-GA) introduces legislation “authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland”

We deserve the meteor.

"A ragged book with a dusty cover may just need a bit of spit polish of kindness and a new set of eyes upon it to see it's true brilliance within. Appearances are just what the eye catches at first sight. But, if one is lucky, he or she will look again and see the person within." - A.H. Scott2/11/12

A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team have had access to the US Treasury Department’s payment systems for over a week. On Thursday, the threat intelligence team at one of the department's agencies recommended that DOGE members be monitored as an “insider threat.”

Make no mistake.

We are in the midst of a complete and total Constitutional crisis.

'He gets to make the decisions!' Jim Jordan argues Trump can ignore judges Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued on CNN Sunday that the Constitution gives President Trump the power to make the decisions he feels are best for the country, checks and balances from Congress and the cou...

"This is a fundamental difference we have with the left."

It's Okay to Hate Him Will Rogers was famously quoted as once saying, "I never met a man I didn't like."

Will Rogers was famously quoted as once saying, "I never met a man I didn't like."

Now, Mr. Rogers died well before Donald Trump was even born, so I believe he fully meant his credo at the time. Had he lived a little longer, though, I wonder if he'd make the same blanket declaration.

THIS IS PERFECT.

Every day these people show us who they are