twenty eight seconds with trump saying it wasn't russia in this x video;
Thursday, January 30, 2025
trump vs the swamp this week in one area, money sent overseas;
The Donald Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety day freeze on foreign aid disbursements. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) howled on Twitter that “Trump decimating USAID’s leadership without cause is all harm & no benefit for our national security.” But the sordid record of failed aid programs doesn’t support his caterwauling.
Foreign aid has long been the incarnation of American benevolence—at least according to the Washington elite. But presidents have sporadically conceded otherwise for more than sixty years. President John F. Kennedy promised “a dramatic turning point in the troubled history of foreign aid” in 1961. Didn’t happen. Twenty years later, President Ronald Reagan declared, “Unless a nation puts its own financial and economic house in order, no amount of aid will produce progress.” I bashed Reagan’s failed policies in a 1986 New York Times piece that labeled foreign aid “the opiate of the Third World.” In 1989, an USAID report conceded that foreign aid had been a dismal failure and urged a “radical reshaping” of U.S. assistance. No such luck...........more...........
the la fires have created many problems and this will be a big one especially with trump telling the mayor to let people back on their grounds now.
Specialists with the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were leading the large-scale cleanup of the batteries Tuesday.
The Palisades Fire burned more than 36 square miles and tore through neighborhoods full of electric vehicles and solar panels after years of state-sponsored green-energy policies.
The size of the Palisades fire and number of lithium-ion batteries left behind make it one of the largest hazardous-materials cleanups that local first responders have seen, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Adam VanGerpen.
“We’ve never seen it on this scale,” VanGerpen told The Epoch Times. “We are talking a very large scale.”
Lithium-ion batteries are used in cellphones, tablets, laptops, wireless headphones, electric cars, and solar panel storage.
Many of the batteries and electric vehicles melted after they were abandoned by fleeing residents starting Jan. 7, VanGerpen said.
“We have to remove the entire vehicle,” he added.
Actor and Pacific Palisades homeowner James Woods said in a post on social media platform X Monday that the melted electric cars were “creating a real problem for safe debris removal.”
“While I am grateful to have President Trump in charge of the federal assistance so desperately needed, we can’t ignore that the electric cars have literally melted into the earth where they stood,” Woods wrote.
LAFD hazmat crews have surveyed the fire zone, searching through 6,837 destroyed homes and buildings, and 12,317 others that were damaged, according to numbers issued Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).
The teams used software to locate and flag the zone’s lithium-ion batteries, according to VanGerpen..........more........
a veritable raft of rfk jr x videos from the confirmation hearings so good i may go back and delete the ones i posted earlier;
Update (1355 ET): Democrats were completely unhinged over the prospect of RFK Jr.'s ascent to the head of HHS during his confirmation hearing today - with Senator Liz Warren (D-MA) throwing tomahawks like a Super Mario Brothers Hammer Bro............more.........
i suspect we're on the verge of hand to hand combat in the senate;
The path to making America great again has several aspects that are not negotiable. Elon Musk has built his empire on the principle of meritocracy. This is a key component for any successful venture, business or government. As the whole country now knows, the Biden administration was the complete antithesis of a meritocracy.
Although the above Tweet states that it has CONFIRMATION, no one would publicly admit that the Senate (or House) would jeopardize our nation’s leadership for the sake of a “win”. Have we succumbed in one week to compromising with evil once again? If you are thinking that this is politics as usual, I disagree. This is a prime example of the pettiness, greed, power and incompetence that destroyed our nation.
I am not counting on Donald Trump to save the nation. I am hopeful that he will put together a path forward for people to follow with a team that is qualified to do the responsibilities of their positions. In other words, he will rebuild the country through a meritocracy.
In the example listed above, all three are extremely qualified and will not only work to save the country but will work to save the people. This is what public servants are supposed to do. Now consider what the Senate is trying to do.
I am also considering what the win would be for the Senate. It is not like they are saying that we will “allow” you to have Gabbard and Patel but not Kennedy. They are saying that Trump has to sacrifice one in order to give them a win. A win for the Senate? A win for their lobbyist masters? A bargaining chip with Democrats for the future? I cannot see a positive “good” in these questions. I do see the “evil” that permeated our country to the point of its destruction.
Hopefully, if one is “sacrificed” on the altar for political posturing, Trump will use the opportunity of a recess appointment to correct this injustice. We cannot rebuild America if we once again accept evil in any form.
David DeGerolamo.........more...........
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