B-Man

"It's been very clear from the beginning that President Trump views this as a protracted stalemated conflict. And frankly, it's a proxy war..." "... between nuclear powers — the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia. And it needs to come to an end. And no one has any idea or plan to bring it to an end. The plan of the Ukrainians up to now — and their allies on Capitol Hill and people you talk to in other countries — is let's just keep giving them as much as they need for as long as it takes. That's not a strategy."

Meet the Sole Democrat Who Stood for Cancer Survivor DJ Daniel During Trump's Address to Congress By Becky Noble Gillen, a first-term Congresswoman, hails from Long Island, a red blip in a sea of New York blue, and quite possibly, the last existing rational Democrat. https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/03/05/meet-the-sole-democrat-who-stood-for-cancer-survivor-dj-daniel-during-trumps-address-to-congress-n2186305

Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious 'Vaccine Company' Run by His COVID Adviser and Based out of a Maryland PO Box by Andrew Kerr During the final months of the Biden administration, the National Institutes of Health awarded $28 million to a mysterious venture-backed company called Vaccine Company Inc., a biomedical firm founded in 2022 whose chief financial officer happens to be one of former president Joe Biden’s top COVID advisers. To Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), the September 2024 grant from the NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health doesn’t pass the smell test. Vaccine Company has left virtually no public footprint showing what it has done with the taxpayer funds, which the Biden administration doled out to a seemingly random post office box in Bethesda, Maryland. https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/biden-awarded-28-million-to-mysterious-vaccine-company-run-by-his-covid-adviser-and-based-out-of-a-maryland-po-box/ https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_AY2AX000054_7529 https://arpa-h.gov/news-and-events/arpa-h-announces-awards-develop-computational-platform-multi-virus-vaccine-design

Gee, Dad leaves office and suddenly Hunter is broke.

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Another week. FAA still existing.

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Trump bulldozes through joint address to Congress. By Roger Kimball The president presented a bracing tour d’horizon in his opening sally. He ordered federal workers back to work: “They will either show up for work, in person, or be removed from their job.” As I write, the Trump administration is ending “weaponized government,” restoring free speech, underwriting English as the official language of the United States and pursuing a policy of “drill, baby, drill” to exploit America’s energy resources. Trump also provided an inventory of some of the flagrant waste, fraud and abuse that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has identified: $22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens, $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma, $40 million to improve the “social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants,” $1.9 billion to a recently-created “decarbonization of homes” committee of Stacey Abrams — and on and on. But beyond the manifold particular achievements was something Trump hinted at often: the change in tone, in energy, in outlook that has washed over the country since 12:01 on January 20. In many ways, that is the most amazing thing; what has been called the “vibe shift,” the new current of directness, the new, self-confident, unapologetic embrace of distinctively American possibility — the “Golden Age of America.” One sign of this is the total disarray of the Democrats in attempting to respond to Trump. How else can you explain the fact that Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker issued video clips with identical texts just hours before Trump’s speech? How do you spell “pathetic?” Early in his speech Trump, predicted that Democrats in attendance would not stand, applaud or smile no matter what he said or did. “I could find a cure to the most devastating disease,” Trump said, “or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history, or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements… It’s very sad, and it just shouldn’t be this way. So Democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America?” https://thespectator.com/topic/donald-trump-bulldozes-through-joint-address-congress/ Good question.

This is stuff that would have been a no-brainer for both parties a few years ago.

RELIABLE Asked what was the “best moment” of Trump’s speech, 2 of the NYT’s 9 opinion writers said it was Al Green disrupting the session. https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/03/asked-what-was-best-moment-of-trumps.html Show me you’re out of touch, with one simple statement.

Sad news. Texas Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner dead at 70, hours after attending Trump address by Samuel Chamberlain Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) died late Tuesday after serving just two months and a day in Congress, party officials said Wednesday. He was 70. Turner’s death was confirmed by his successor as mayor of Houston, John Whitmire, and former Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison. https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/us-news/texas-democratic-rep-sylvester-turner-dead-at-70-hours-after-attending-trump-address/