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Let’s look at DOGE. And who started firing employees. Clinton, Gore, Obama.

They started it. Left to right: Former US Vice President Al Gore and former US President William Jefferson Clinton arrive on Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland for the National Prayer and Reconciliation Service at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.

Let’s look at DOGE. And who started firing employees. Clinton, Gore, Obama.

Remember that Trump didn’t start the cutting out of deadwood employees and government waste. Also DOGE was already in place.

Let’s look at what happened under Clinton/Gore.

  • Reduced the size of federal civilian workforce by 426,200 positions between January 1993 and September 2000.1   Thirteen of 14 departments reduced in size. Closed nearly 2,000 obsolete field offices and eliminated 250 programs.
  • Cut government by eliminating what wasn’t needed bloated headquarters, layers of managers, outdated field offices, obsolete red tape and rules. For example, cut 78,000 managers governmentwide.
  • And who created DOGE?
  • Trump didn’t create a new Cabinet-level department with DOGE, but rather renamed the previously existing United States Digital Service, which was created under former President Barack Obama.That office launched in 2014 to improve the federal government’s digital capabilities following the rocky rollout of the HealthCare.gov website.

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Why Conservatives and the majority of Americans are on the 80% of all issues.

Government working with a hate group.

Why Conservatives and the majority of Americans are on the 80% of all issues.

This morning I heard the perfect breakdown of what’s called 80 20. Take all the issues of today and what’s President Trump is doing is supported by the 80.

Democrat politicians supporting Illegals, Transgender, Wasteful Spending, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and finally old men and women being guided by the 20 and 30 something crowd.

The 2024 elections gave President Trump a mandate. He was open about what he was going to do and he was also open about Musk. The President said a sledge hammer would be used to fix things. Promises made, Promises kept.

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How we get around the 60 vote. Reconciliation.

December 11, 2024 Anne Dwyer, Kelly Whitener

How we get around the 60 vote. Reconciliation.

Just as they have done in the past, the Democrats in the Senate are already claiming that they will derail the Trump train. Many bills take a 60 vote to pass. How to respond?

Reconciliation. Reconciliation allows some tax and spending bills to pass with a simple majority vote. Republicans plan to use this process to increase spending on border security and cut taxes, and are currently deciding whether to handle them separately or roll them into one gigantic package.

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This shouldn’t have happened in the first place. US Colleges Dismantling DEI Initiatives.

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This shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

U.S. colleges are dismantling their diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, less than a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, according to Axios.

US Colleges Dismantling DEI Initiatives. DEI is a fancy way of saying affirmative action. Unions have been using it ever since the courts said affirmative action promoted those who had no skills or very little common sense.

University of Michigan is joining schools in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, plus add University of Kentucky, Northern Kentucky University, the University of Alabama, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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If only true. Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Would Be ‘Honored’ to Be Trump’s Education Secretary.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump dances with Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during an event at the group's annual convention in Washington, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024.

If only true. Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Would Be ‘Honored’ to Be Trump’s Education Secretary. But she does admit that the long term goal is to eliminate the department all together. Works for me.

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice has been frequently floated as a potential pick for President-elect Donald Trump’s education secretary, but the same agency she could lead is also one she says should be abolished.

“Parents are the number one driver of student success. Parents were put in the back seat when it came to their kids’ education. We need to put them in the driver’s seat, and I know that President Trump believes that, too,” Justice said Monday on “Fox & Friends First.”

“Ultimately, I believe the Department of Education should be shut down. Since it was created, we have only seen plummeting achievement scores, teachers unions having more influence on our kids’ education and more global interference in our kids’ education. It’s no coincidence that kids in Kenya are learning the same type of comprehensive sex education curriculum that they are in New Jersey, so we absolutely need to stop the waste at the federal Department of Education and put parents back in the driver’s seat.”

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One law, one page. No state law will be stricter than Federal Law. Part 18.

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One law, one page. No state law will be stricter than Federal Law. Part 18.

Where there is a State law that’s similar to Federal law, the state law cannot be stricter than the federal law. Example. If the Federal EPA says gas milage for all cars is 25mpg., no state can have a higher mpg.

There are no exceptions. States like California need to be reigned in. This extends the Supremacy Clause.

The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the “supreme Law of the Land”, and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws.[1] It provides that state courts are bound by, and state constitutions subordinate to, the supreme law.

 

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Brown University rejects calls from Hamas and Hezbollah suporters to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

Pro-Hate group students at Brown University are seen above in April. The school rejected their demands to divest from Israel. AFP via Getty Images

Brown University rejects calls from Hamas and Hezbollah suporters to divest from companies doing business with Israel.

Hate groups that support the terrorist that are attacking Israel.This from one of the hate group leaders.

Arman Deendar of the student group Brown Divest Coalition told NPR it was “a moral and ethical failure of unimaginable magnitude, compounded by the untransparent, undemocratic, and frankly disgraceful manner in which the Corporation voted in secret.” He also said it was “an egregious erasure of the insurmountable violence enacted by the Israeli regime in Gaza and now Lebanon.” Below is the response.

In a letter announcing the decision, Brown President Christina Paxson and Chancellor Brian Moynihan said that “Brown’s mission doesn’t encompass resolving or adjudicating global conflict,” adding, “Brown University will not divest from the 10 companies described in a student-led divestment proposal.

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Winning. Conservatives look to end — or replace — Miami teachers union.

United Teachers of Dade, led by President Karla Hernández-Mats (center), is facing an unprecedented challenge in a new upstart union seeking to represent 24,000 educators in Florida's largest county. | Lynne Sladky/A

Winning. Conservatives look to end — or replace — Miami teachers union. They just had an important vote on doing one of three things in Miami Dade County.

About 24,000 teachers in the state’s most populous county had three options in a recent unprecedented election: if they’ll be represented by United Teachers of Dade, as they have been for the nearly 50 years; the emerging Miami-Dade Education Coalition linked to the conservative Freedom Foundation; or no union at all.Votes are still being counted.

54 unions representing more than 63,000 workers have been terminated since it was enacted. Led by a group of public school teachers and backed by the Freedom Foundation, the Miami-Dade Education Coalition is pledging to make drastic changes to union operations by slashing member dues in half, reducing leadership salaries and eliminating spending to outside organizations like national unions.

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Trump Outlines ‘9 Steps’ He’ll Use to ‘Drain the Swamp.’

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Trump Outlines ‘9 Steps’ He’ll Use to ‘Drain the Swamp.’

Former President Donald Trump, speaking at a rally at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee, Wisconsin, railed against Vice President Kamala Harris while outlining his “nine steps” to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C.

First, Trump said he will end what he calls the weaponization of government and the abuse of law enforcement against political opponents.

Second, Trump said that he will bring back free speech in America.

“Fake news is a threat to this country,” Trump said. “Some are good, but most of them are absolutely terrible human beings. They are the police force for bad. They are very dishonest. When you’re a politician and happen to be a Republican, they write just the opposite of what the facts are.”

The third step will to “expel the warmongers” and to “carry out a much-needed cleanup of the military-industrial complex,” said Trump.

The fourth step, he said, will be to curtail the power of federal bureaucrats.

Trump promised as his fifth step, his administration will “drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth.” This includes eliminating the federal Department of Education and sending control of schools back to the states.

For the sixth step, Trump said his administration will not tolerate equity policies “that punish Americans based on race or gender.”

As the seventh step, Trump said his administration will work with former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on corruption at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, “and other institutions that are dominated by corporate power and China.”

The eighth step will be to ask Congress to pass sweeping reforms preventing foreign influence-peddling “like we have seen with the Biden crime family.”

And as the ninth and final step, Trump said he will support modifying the 25th Amendment “to make clear that if a vice president lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States, it is grounds for impeachment and removal from office,” said Trump.

The complete nine steps can be found here at Newsmax. 

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What it means when a school district bans patriotism because of how it looks.

Edmond North High School senior Caleb Horst said school officials told him he could not fly the US flag from his truck. (istock)

What it means when a school district bans patriotism because of how it looks.

Recently we have been seeing where schools are banning or disciplining students because they’re proud to be an American. The latest case being in Oklahoma involving the American flag.

Be it a flag or apparel, the excuses are the same. It may offend someone or it may cause violent reactions. What that tells me is that the school has students who are a threat to Democracy and they’re the ones who the schools should be going after.