On the government employees getting fired...

But the problem is you've got several million coworkers spread across a few thousand departments, all with various levels of issues, and it sounds like on the bell curve of usefulness/productivity you are over on the right side of the curve. - Larry Correia 

• So I told him about the GS I knew who tried to put 250 people out of work and bankrupt a good company because she refused to admit she'd done some paperwork wrong... Afterwards she got PROMOTED.
• Or the federal agent I personally dealt with who knowingly perjured himself to a judge to get an illegal search warrant, even though there were a bunch of witnesses to confirm he'd already found the items he was claiming to be looking for. The judge was furious. But the agent didn't get fired or prosecuted. They just transferred him to a different office where he hadn't offended the local judges.

 Are there lots of awesome government employees who do good work. Yes. 

Are lots of good folks going to get caught up in these mass cutting of the necrotic flesh? Yep. Does that suck?  Yep. 

Same as all the mass lay offs the rest of us have gone through during our lives out in the regular world, that sure does hurt. 

But sadly our time for gentle careful cuts is past, the scalpel will no longer do, and it is axe and TQ time before the patient dies...

Amazing how cheaply one can buy democrat support... unless there's more?-----Career DOJ Prosecutor Dismissed Fraud Case Against Dem Megadonor As Trump Took Office

The $150 million fraud case against green-energy magnate Ibrahim AlHusseini was dropped before Trump could appoint a new U.S. Attorney. -  Luke Rosiak 

A career Department of Justice prosecutor on January 21 dismissed a criminal case against a major Democrat donor alleged to have engaged in a $150 million fraud involving a green-energy firm, The Daily Wire has learned. 

The dismissal came one day after President Donald Trump took office, but before he could install his own U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California.

• Ibrahim AlHusseini, who has fashioned himself an environmentalist star and Hollywood playboy, gave more than $300,000 to Democrats and was a lead investor in a “socially conscious” finance firm backed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio called Aspiration Inc. 
• The longtime CodePink board member had been heralded as proof that “reversing the climate crisis can be profitable.” 
• But the FBI said AlHusseini falsified financial documents to inflate their value by nearly $200 million...

Watch: The New Ultra-Manly US Army Ad That Will Begin Rebuilding Our Military

Watch: The New Ultra-Manly US Army Ad That Will Begin Rebuilding Our Military: 

Fast forward four years. Weights. Muscles. “Strong people are harder to kill.” Period. The military isn’t a medium for social change under MAGA. It’s there to kill our enemies and keep Americans safe.

I also have a hunch on which one will end up working better for us in the long run. TL;DR version, to quote from earlier: “AMERICA IS SO BACK.” Agreed.

Who Gets Winnings from Lotto Ticket Bought with Stolen Card?

A funny thing happened on the way to Net Zero - Climate Discussion Nexus

Strange how a man they deride as an idiot can make them so much smarter so fast, but they couldn’t do it themselves.

• After Donald Trump made various disagreeable noises about Canada, including threats of tariffs if we didn’t start taking border security seriously (and maybe even if we did), Canadian politicians who’d been running the place down as colonial, even genocidal, and invoking martial law against truckers and their horrible Canadian flags, suddenly wrapped themselves in the same flag. 

What’s more, they decided they loved the energy sector they’d been running into the ground, and nuclear power that they shunned.

For instance Chrystia Freeland, long Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s loyal Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister until she discovered loyalty was a one-way street for him, suddenly promised to:

“seize the opportunity to make Canada an energy superpower, from powering our grids with hydro to exporting liquefied natural gas to our allies.”

...Likewise, Canada’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, formerly Minister of Environment and Climate Change and a warming-dogmatist foe of oil and gas the whole way, stammered:

“We’re all aware now that perhaps there are some vulnerabilities we did not actually believe existed. We should be reflecting on the vulnerabilities and deciding collectively, including with our First Nation partners, whether there are some things we should do to address these vulnerabilities.”...

Lunch video-----California City Manager Salaries Are Out of Control – Here’s How We Fix It

Noon-toon

 

Europe's self-inflicted irrelevance * WorldNetDaily * by Andrew Latham, Real Clear Wire

Europe's self-inflicted irrelevance * WorldNetDaily * by Andrew Latham, Real Clear Wire: 

The only way for Europe to reclaim its place in global security decision-making is to fundamentally rethink its approach to defense. This means abandoning the illusion that the world can be shaped through international law and goodwill alone. It requires acknowledging that power still matters, and that military strength – not moral rhetoric – is what ultimately guarantees security. The European Union must transition from being a loose economic bloc with fragmented defense capabilities into a genuinely capable security actor. This will require a radical shift in priorities:

How much of our tax money went to buy media coverage that endlessly LIED about Trump??!!

 

And how much money was "returned" to their friends in state government??!!-----Michigan electric vehicle maker to close two locations after pocketing $900,000 subsidy Company returning production to South Carolina

Receiving $900,000 of taxpayer money won’t stop a Michigan electric vehicle maker from shuttering two locations and taking 188 jobs out of state. - Scott McClallen 

Auburn Hills-based automotive supplier BorgWarner will close two plants of its subsidiary Akasol Inc., in Hazel Park and Warren...

• In 2019, the Michigan Strategic Fund awarded the company $2.24 million in taxpayer money for its Hazel Park plant, with the expectation it would create 224 jobs. The money would be paid out over five years as the company met milestones for creating jobs.
• But the state and the company amended the deal in 2022. Instead of being promised $2.4 million over five years, the company received $900,000, according to a Michigan Strategic Fund annual report. The company created 66 jobs, according to the MSF report...

Ahhh, NGOs. AGAIN!

I've said it again, I'll say it again. Taxpayer-funded NGOs function as a parallel government.

Even worse, many sitting members of Congress are directly involved in them. - DataRepublican@DataRepublican 

• They see themselves as the real government, prioritizing debates with other bureaucrats on the global stage over serving the people they represent. 
• This is why critical issues like healthcare, education, and help for Helene victims are consistently neglected.

 Tom@BoreGuru - Replying to @DataRepublican and @BasedMikeLee

• Everything the Democrats would like to pass in Congress, but know they couldn't, just gets done by an NGO.

#1 This day 1968-----Paul Mauriat ~ Love is Blue (1968)

The end of ‘racist baby training’: How DOGE, Trump annihilated Ed Dept. leftwing ideological machine: op-ed

The cuts include “$600 million in grants to institutions and nonprofits that were using taxpayer funds to train teachers and education agencies on divisive ideologies” and “$350 million in woke spending,”
Under the newly minted Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education has announced nearly $1 billion in cuts to programs that fund critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and narratives...

Do you really want to go where they've taken our cities??!!

 

Americans warned: 'You could be arrested as soon as you step foot' in major Western country for your social media posts back home * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Americans warned: 'You could be arrested as soon as you step foot' in major Western country for your social media posts back home * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

"The UK has declared that it will charge and prosecute Americans for their social media posts, written while still in America, if they travel to its borders. The ACLJ has prepared a legal memo detailing the specific laws at play and the danger for Americans. Specifically, it details how your speech on the internet could violate the UK's broad 'hate speech' laws and how you could be arrested as soon as you step foot in the UK for your posts back home," the ACLJ reports.

Understanding the Impending Reciprocal Tariffs in Trade | The Epoch Times

Charts provide the context behind the president’s demand for fairness and order to restore steel tariffs by removing exclusions. -  Terri Wu
President Donald Trump is using tariffs—essentially taxes paid by foreign companies to access the U.S. market—as a primary tool to achieve his America First agenda. 

And it has delivered results for him so far.

• Canada and Mexico both struck deals with the president after he vowed to impose 25 percent tariffs on the two countries unless they drastically reduce the flow of illegal immigrants and fentanyl into the United States. The tariffs have since been paused for a month. 
• Amid a dispute about repatriation flights of illegal immigrants to Colombia, Trump threatened tariffs on the country, after which the latter agreed to accept all of its nationals deported from the United States.
• And on Feb. 13, Trump unveiled a plan for reciprocal tariffs and other arrangements to balance its trade with all countries...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for February 25

History for February 25 - On-This-Day.com 

Bobby Riggs 1918 - Tennis player

• 1836 - Samuel Colt received U.S. Patent No. 138 (later 9430X) for a "revolving-cylinder pistol." It was his first patent.
• 1837 - Thomas Davenport patented the first commercial electrical motor. There was no practical electrical distribution system available and Davenport went bankrupt.
• 1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.
• 1919 - The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
• 1972 - Germany gave a $5 million ransom to Arab terrorists who had hijacked a jumbo jet.

Homan: Reassigned Acting ICE Director Will Now Focus on Interior Alone, Arrests Will Go Up

Homan: Reassigned Acting ICE Director Will Now Focus on Interior Alone, Arrests Will Go Up: 

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Border Czar Tom Homan stated that Caleb Vitello’s reassignment from his position as acting ICE Director is to a position that is at a lower level, but where he’ll be solely focused on interior enforcement and that while he is happy with the current immigration arrest numbers, they need to increase and they will

The way we were-----President Obama Fires IRS Commissioner

Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Reason People Hate Donald Trump

Orban warfare - Don Surber

Hungary's leader wants that DOGE in the window. Arf, arf 

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, tweeted, 

“Our fears have come true: the globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network is fleeing to Brussels, after President Trump dealt a huge blow to their activities in the US. 

Now 63 of them are asking Brussels for money, under the guise of various human rights projects. Not going to happen! 

We will not let them find safe haven in Europe! The USAID-files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network. We will not take the bait again!”

If they are non-government organizations, why do they receive government funding?...
AP—which has raked in $37.5 million from taxpayers in the last few years—attacked the duly elected leader of Hungary.
It reported, “Hungary’s Orbán says he will do away with pro-democracy and rights groups receiving U.S. aid.”

• But AP lied. 
• Orbán never called these groups pro-democracy. 
• In fact, he said the opposite, warning that these faux charities called NGOs want to topple his government...

Kash Drops First Huge Bomb on FBI, Looks Like DC Elites Are Packing Bags for Alabama - Report

Kash Drops First Huge Bomb on FBI, Looks Like DC Elites Are Packing Bags for Alabama - Report: 

“My priority is to support and drive even more impactful investigations. The work that the men and women of the FBI are doing to combat violent crime, terrorism, and other threats has never been more important. Enhancing the field resources and bolstering our operational capabilities are the most effective ways to protect the American people.” he said.

He ended by telling agents a proposal for how to execute this plan is coming soon.