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Got buried in all the Roundy back and forth. I will repost for the board's adults.

The farther that we get away from his time in office, the worse that his presidency will be viewed. He had every chance to help the country and chose to divide us instead. I don't know if there will be an official divorce, but they certainly will live separately from now on. .

TRUMP EFFECT.

For those too lazy to open. .

THE AIR FORCE SEEMS TO HAVE DECIDED TO USE MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE TO FIGHT TRUMP’S DEI ORDER: This is not new behavior by the military services. Everyone thinks Harry S. Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948. He didn’t. The Army responded to desegregating infantry regiments by putting Black soldiers and officers in the regiment’s third battalions. Black officers assigned below the Mason-Dixon Line found they could not use the Officer’s Club and other off-duty facilities. It took a retired five-star general getting elected president to end this whack-a-mole. He knew the institutions of the military and how they were resisting Truman’s executive order. Integration was not achieved until 1953. This tactic is commonly known as “malicious obedience.” You’re told to do something, and you do it in a way that will cause the most disruption to business processes and create maximum embarrassment for whoever directed it, all the while claiming you were loyally following orders. Unless the parties involved in this stunt were totally brain-dead and oblivious to the political climate, there is no possible reason to pull those videos and then ensure the word gets out. Fortunately, there is an easy solution to this: You need to fire people. The only reason this happened was that people were trying to sabotage Trump’s DEI order or were too stupid to realize the stink their actions would raise. In either scenario, you don’t need people like that working for you. The result helps the resisters get their minds right and teaches the remaining idiots to be more careful. https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/01/26/the-air-force-seems-to-have-decided-to-use-malicious-compliance-to-fight-trumps-dei-order-n2184822 Admiral Byng to the white courtesy phone, please.

TRUTH. . . . . . . . . and the lemmings here will swallow the spin.

What was the name of the US official who said this? What specific document did the US official site that ordered the lesson plan about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Air Force Service pilots to be removed from the US Air Force curriculum? What specific USAF curriculum was this, including the school and the course? Did you see this document? Can you show us this document? If not, why not? In your opinion, journalist, does a reasonable reading of this alleged document – if you have, in fact, seen it, and are not merely taking the hearsay of an grieved government official as fact – set forth an order to do this act? If you cannot give me a specific answer to all of these questions, why did you run this story? Further: Do you feel good about yourself being manipulated like this? Were you manipulated, or were you complicit in this propaganda? We played this game in Trump 1.0. We’re not playing it again.

What was the name of the US official who said this? What specific document did the US official site that ordered the lesson plan about the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Air Force Service pilots to be removed from the US Air Force curriculum? What specific USAF curriculum was this, including the school and the course? Did you see this document? Can you show us this document? If not, why not? In your opinion, journalist, does a reasonable reading of this alleged document – if you have, in fact, seen it, and are not merely taking the hearsay of an grieved government official as fact – set forth an order to do this act? If you cannot give me a specific answer to all of these questions, why did you run this story? Further: Do you feel good about yourself being manipulated like this? Were you manipulated, or were you complicit in this propaganda? We played this game in Trump 1.0. We’re not playing it again.

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Back to the Trump thread. (Your Sunday Clarice) A Breathtaking First Week American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman In his first term in office, President Trump apparently thought he could operate as if the federal government were a corporation he headed as Chief Executive and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. He assumed those beneath him would give him honest counsel, would perform their assigned duties, and follow his directives. He learned otherwise. All the steps he took the first week after beginning his astonishing second term are those a wise CEO and commander in chief must take to do the job he promised and was elected to do. The scope and speed of his actions are nothing short of breathtaking: Pardoning and commuting over 1000 January 6th prisoners, issuing a slew of executive orders (go to Whitehouse.gov for the current listing), personnel shakeups, and demonstrating real leadership in North Carolina and California to help the victims of flood and fire, ill served by state and federal officials. The domestic performance is matched by his steps on international matters. {snip} In the meantime, deportations continue. By Saturday morning six planeloads of illegals were filled and landed in Mexico and Guatemala, and local law enforcement agencies were authorized to assist in the cleanup. The roads to Mexico were jammed with cars full of self-deporting illegals. As predicted, the President’s order respecting termination of birthright citizenship has been enjoined by a district court judge, but I think the arguments in support of his reading of the Constitution and law will ultimately prevail. I haven’t a clue about what the President will do next week. Even less do I understand how he can maintain this high energy for so long. I’m exhausted just watching him in action. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/a_breathtaking_first_week.html

Senate Confirms Kristi Noem as Next DHS Secretary in Weekend Vote by David Zimmerman Kristi Noem successfully passed 50 votes in the GOP-controlled Senate to become the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday, placing the Republican governor in charge of President Donald Trump’s plans to curtail illegal immigration. The upper chamber voted 59–34 to confirm Noem midday Saturday, followed by a vote to advance Trump’s Treasury secretary nominee, Scott Bessent. The vote comes after all Republican senators, joined by eight Democrats https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-confirms-kristi-noem-as-next-dhs-secretary-in-weekend-vote/

MORE: CIA now says Covid DID come from Chinese lab in stunning reversal after years of denial under Biden by Joe Hutchison The CIA has today revealed its belief that COVID-19 was likely leaked from a Chinese lab after years of denial under the Biden administration. A spokesperson for the agency said on Saturday that they now favor the lab theory. Officials said that there is no new evidence behind their shift in opinion - it is based on the same evidence they have been mulling over for months. 'CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14325309/cia-covid-chinese-lab-reversal-denial.html

Yes. They continue to try this failing tactic. Sidenote: You notice that none of the PPP left posted about last week's school shooting. Now why was that ? .

Thumping my chest and throwing my arm in the air to show I am talking to all of them. As I was saying “I just want to say thank you for making it happen” “My heart goes out to you” Hell yes I could. You know why ? Because I am an grown man and not a cowardly lib. .

THE GREAT NAZI MORAL PANIC: “Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant,” read a particularly Orwellian proclamation by the Orlando Sentinel. Oh, please. We’ve seen this movie before. Musk is as guilty of throwing out the Sieg Heil as the Conservative Political Action Conference is of sneaking a Nazi rune into its stage design. Remember that? In 2021, the events design company that created the stage for that year’s CPAC conference in Orlando, Florida, was compelled to respond to allegations that it intentionally designed the set to resemble an obscure rune embraced by the Nazis. “We had no idea that the design resembled any symbol, nor was there any intention to create something that did,” Design Foundry told Insider. What the set designers failed to understand was that they were simply the latest targets in a very stupid and deliberately dishonest moral panic. Before the Nazi rune dustup, you had groups such as the New York Times warning about milk’s supposed ties to white supremacy (“Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk [and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed]”). You had entire news cycles dedicated to the allegedly dark meaning behind the “OK” hand sign, which began as an online in-joke aimed at the press’s notorious gullibility. You had reporters applying the white supremacy label to everything from the Betsy Ross flag to obscure tattoos to Hawaiian shirts to the House Mace to the “SPQR” acronym for the “Senate and People of Rome.” Donald Trump found himself compared to Benito Mussolini merely for waving from a White House balcony. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito was accused of harboring white supremacy allegiances for flying the George Washington–commissioned Appeal to Heaven or Pine Tree flag outside his beach house in New Jersey. Natalism, working out and performing at Madison Square Garden are also Nazi-coded, according to American news media. Perhaps the most insane moment in this long-running moral panic occurred in 2019 after the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio on August 3. In the aftermath of the tragic events, Trump ordered flags to be flown at half-staff until August 8. This was a victory for the Nazis, former FBI official and MSNBC regular Frank Figliuzzi warned at the time. “The president said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8. That is 8-8,” Figliuzzi said during an appearance on MSNBC. He added, “The numbers 8-8 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movements. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet and to them, the numbers 8-8 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ We’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk at 8-8. No one is thinking about this.” There’s more. These are just a few brief examples from the past seven years. The point is this: we’re clearly in the throes of a moral panic. There’s a devil under every doily, as they say. https://thespectator.com/topic/great-nazi-moral-panic-elon-musk/ Because this has been going for so long (much longer than seven years), Jonathan Turley dubs it: Nazispolozza: The Left’s Third Reich Mania Collapses into Comedy. One of the least successful efforts of the left and many in the media this election was to paint Republican voters as “Nazis” hellbent on destroying democracy. While once verboten as a political comparison, liberal politicians and pundits have developed something of a Nazi fetish, where every statement and gesture is declared a return of the Third Reich. It seems like each news event presents a Rorschach test where every inkblot looks like a Nazi. That mania reached absurd, even comedic, levels with the attack on Elon Musk over an awkward gesture during the inauguration celebration. An exuberant Musk told the crowd, “My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured.” As he gave those words, he placed his right hand on his chest and stretched his arm outward, his palm facing the floor. He then repeated the gesture before putting his hand on his chest again. It was all done in a matter of seconds, but it was enough for the usual mob to erupt in faux outrage. https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/23/nazispolozza-the-lefts-third-reich-mania-collapses-into-comedy/