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Today's News, February 18-20, 2025
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IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Probably the biggest news of the day, though not very sexy, is that President Trump dropped an Executive Order giving the White House direct control over so called "independent" agencies, such as the SEC, FCC, and so on. This is ENTIRELY CORRECT. No agency in government should be outside the direct control of the executive, unless expressly placed under the DIRECT CONTROL of Congress. You cannot have rogue agencies. "The next president will just cancel this." Really? You think ANY president would willingly give up control over agencies? Now, if Trump uses this power to drastically curtail the activities of these agencies, that action will likely never be undone. What about "Must be codified." Not sure. See Larry's Commentary over on the Wild World of Politics "Insider" for a discussion of that. (www.wildworldofpolitics.com)
2) I'd say that this is shocking, surprising, etc. But anymore, none of this surprises me. DOGE found that the U.S. Treasury was shelling out $4.7 TRILLION (1/8 of the national debt) without any markers or identifiers as to where it was being spent. Begin with Botoxic and Yertle's accounts. Some of it is there.
3) President Trump has hit his all time national high in approval of 55% in a new poll.
4) Trump wipes their face with it: he reads off a list of people on Social Security: "From 200 to 209 years old, 879 people [on Social Security]. 210 to 219 years, 866 people. From 220 years old to 229 years old, 1,039. Then, you have 2 people from 240 to 249 years old. 1 person that is 360 years old." Sigh
5) In a major blow to DemoKKKrat lawfare, Judge Chutkin refused to impose a temporary stay on DOGE and allowed it to continue all its work, contra the request by the DemoKKKrat AGs. Thinking is that she feared a slapdown buy Justice Johnny at the USSC. Then she denied another emergency filing. Not saying she won't cave, but she's held out longer than I expected.
6) Despite fear mongering from the left, the maternal mortality rate did not rise after the Dobbs decision.
7) The Senate has advanced Kash Patel's nomination for FBI director and he should be confirmed today. Speaking of Congress, they haven't done a thing but their approval has gone up 4% entirely due to Trump.
8) The IRS is laying off 6,000. Great start. And DOGE has found 4 million gubment credit cards with $40 billion spent.
9) Idiot Rutabaga's January 17 act that attempted to preserve bureaucratic "agency" power in an effort to protect his marxist bureacracy was in fact a time bomb against the Deep State. First, DOGE and Trump are just firing them. Second, Congress can now withdraw any "guidance" power they had and they can't get it back without an act of Congress.
10) Just as Rutabaga did with Trump's federal attorneys, so Trump has done: he fired all Rutabaga's attorneys.
11) Yertle announced his retirement.
12) Speaking of Congress, the House Oversight Committee found over $241 million spent on transoid surgeries for animals.
13) This is truly staggering. Scott Pressler ("the Persistence") has posted the latest numbers from Pennsylvania, where the DemoKKKrats' lead is down to 89,000. To appreciate how shocking this is, in 2016, Trump won the state when it had a 1.16 million DemoKKKrat advantage. PA will be red by 2026.
14) Young people are dying at a rate 70% higher than expected. Drugs, "heart problems," and "social factors." Blame Dr. Fallacy for the second, unsupervised and near-constant use of the internet/phones for the second.
15) The black box from the Blackhawk helicopter involved in the D.C. crash showed that the altimeter was badly off and that the helo "missed calls" from the tower.
16) You know how I hate these mush reports but here it is: "Judge APPEARS ON TRACK" to dismiss charges against Eric the Red Adams. Course, the judge could "appear" one way and rule the other.
17) Stacey M1 Abrams, the human planet, appears to have "misplaced" a paltry $2 billion in funds at an "outside bank" unrelated to the non-profit that supposedly received them. Minor accounting error, I'm sure.
18) Kash Patel hasn't even been confirmed yet and the FBI is finally doing its job again, thwarting a school shooting in Houston.
19) Energy Secretary Chris Wright (I love this guy) says green by 2050 is a "sinister goal" and correctly notes that 85% of the globe runs on coal, oil, or natural gas.
20) This is awesome. The TSA has terminated hundreds of employees. Terminate them all. They haven't made flying one bit safer.
21) New Jersey legislators are preparing a state version of DOGE. Now do Arizona and the corrupt cartel-controlled Hobbit and El Pollo Gallego.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
22) A migrant facility that received $7 million from FEMA has no idea what to do with the money because there are no migrants there now. GIVE. IT. BACK.
23) Processing centers are "nearly empty" as illegal criminal invaders are stopped.
24) The Department of Justice ended its lawsuit against Virginia for removing illegals from voter rolls---yet another reason that Virginia will be a tossup state in 2028.
25) The Trump administration ordered lawyers helping children facing deportation (i.e., trying to sneak them in) to stop all work.
IN CULTURAL NEWS
26) Approval for same sex marriage peaked, and now is falling.
27) The University of Pennsylvania became the sixth Ivy League school to reinstate admittance tests.
IN TRANSOID NEWS
28) Republicans in Kansas have overridden the governor's veto of a bill that blocked mutilation of minors and puberty blockers. Why do so many red states have DemoKKKrat governors?
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
29) Typical virtue-signaling electric bus story: a school district buys four busses. They break down. But they can't even get one broken one back to the manufacturer---Lion Electric---because it has filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, another EV maker, Nicola, declares bankruptcy.
30) Dale Coparanis says there is more gold in Fort Knox than thought. I agree, only I'd add a factor he didn't consider: The CIA has been stashing its payments from some countries/dictators in gold off the books there.
31) Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has left its old Kentucky home for Texas.
33) Diamondback Energy is scooping up all the oil wells in the Permian Basin.
34) A real estate exec of a ChiCom-based company was arrested on a $30 million fraud scheme.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
35) NIssan's CEO is already having to rethink making cars in Me-hee-co due to the tariffs. Psst. Try making them in the US.
36) Speaking of Me-hee-co, the CIA has been flying covert drone missions there.
37) Mediocre Britain now is embracing nukes cuz, you know, "green" resulted in higher prices. Well, a) that's good news, but b) nuke plants even on a crash basis will take years to build. Oh, and c) Starmer still wants "decarbonization."
38) Want an insane headline? Newsweak is concerned that Green Screen Zelensky may be voted out of office if the Ukes are actually allowed to vote.
39) This is going to be the sticking point, not the territory: a Uke peace deal must include free elections. Ukes are still under martial law.
40) Well, I'm sorry, but you can't fix stupid. A Brazilian boy injected himself with the crushed parts of a butterfly mixed with water. Turns out, there were deadly toxins in the insect and he died a slow, horrible death over the next seven days. Up there with the idiots who do selfies on the top of incredibly slippery and dangerous cliffs.
41) Chy-na's Mag Lev "flying train" capable of 600 miles per hour edges closer to reality. Wouldn't teleportation be quicker? "Freeper" Red Badger says the Koreans are working on one too. The Seoul Train.
42) DeepSeek shared info with Tik Tok's parent company.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
43) Tom Brady, doing a good Elon Musk impression, is taking the axe to the Las Vegas Raiders front office.
44) Cackles just signed with a talent agency. I thought you had to have talent to do that.
45) How Greg Guttfeld toppled Fallon and the other chowderdippers.
IN CHINA VIRUS NEWS
46) President Trump has ordered the withholding of any federal funds from any school, college, or university still mandating students and/or faculty take the vaccine.
47) Trump's DOJ will investigate $100 billion in Covid fraud.
48) China Virus vaxxes: the gift that keeps on giving. Now mRNA vaxxes are linked to kidney failures.
49) Deborah Birx, the idiot Scarf Queen who supported Dr. Fallacy in killing millions of people, admitted that the vaxxes were pushed on the wrong people---the young. Yeah, Scarfie, I think they were pushed on the wrong people. Everyone!.
50) The USDA spent an astounding $1.25 billion on a mass culling for bird flu---with disastrous consequences. How are those egg prices?
51) Shocked, I tell ya: mainstream journals refuse to publish a study that shows serious vax injuries. But the injuries are real, nonetheless.
52) Franklin County, Washington becomes the first county to ban mRNA vaxxes.
AND FINALLY . . .
53) More than 50,000 pounds of trash was removed from the Arctic in 2023. Odd, I didn't know the DemoKKKrats had an office there.
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