"Kids over 13 have the right to make their own decisions about their mental health care. Parents don't have the right to have notice, they don't have the right to have consent about that" - Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen (D) pic.twitter.com/TzW6KH3BHG
#3
If they are letting 13 boys make decisions about their environment, the school lunch folks will end up dressed like it’s a Hooters and that’s not going to be any good for anybody.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 8:47 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Well maybe for those 13yo guys, Mr Hose.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
02/08/2025 9:37 Comments ||
Top||
#5
What if you are 19 and you think the government response to covid was harmful, and should be dismantled?
#7
I can hear the heads exploding already: Trump has decided to make the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into a retail store and lower the age of majority to 13 nationwide.
Q: Is it just me or does Video Guy give off a creepy subsonic vibe?
[Townhall] Lindy Li, a Democrat-turned-MAGA supporter, continues her media tour, spilling her former party’s behind-the-scenes drama, which kicked off reports that top donors are furious that they collectively shelled out $2 billion and got the brakes beaten off them by Donald Trump and the Republicans. She also offered insight into the delusional world Democrats wallowed in before Election Day, where some thought Iowa was within their reach.
Now, she revealed that Hunter Biden ‘commandeered’ the White House after Joe Biden got pummeled by Donald Trump in the June debate on CNN, which eventually became an election-killing event for Democrats. It gets even more insane: Hunter Biden took over the White House. That’s what Li alleges—it wasn’t Lady McBiden, aka Jill, it was Hunter. The former Democrat donor shared these details with Shawn Ryan.
“After the [CNN] debate, Hunter basically commandeered the White House. He sat in on all of the White House top level meetings. We had a former cocaine addict sitting in on the most sensitive meetings of the most consequential and most important government in world history. Does that sit right with you?" said Li to Ryan.
“Without security clearance mind you, Li added. “That's who was basically running the show. So, Hunter basically batten down the hatches after the debate to make sure his father would only receive intel he pre-approved,” she added.
Li goes more into the Democratic Party drama surrounding the 2024 election, some of which you already know or could guess. Still, Hunter running the White House—no wonder why things went to absolute crap.
President Trump stripped Joe Biden of his security clearance yesterday.
Lindy Li: "Despite her repeated denials, Beyonce was paid."
Shawn Ryan: "Who was she paid by?"
Lindy Li: "And Kamala Harris thought all these people came out to Texas to hear her speak. Yeah, right. Kamala Harris got booed. She got drowned in boos."
60 Minutes Bill Whitaker pressed Harris on how the number of border crossings had "quadrupled" in the first three years of the Biden administration. Harris provided another "word salad answer," Trump's attorneys argued.
"There are a variety of factors that relate to what we have seen globally, and what we are not immune from at our own border in terms of what we have seen in terms of the surge of immigration and irregular migration," Harris told Whitaker. "And there are solutions at hand, but we’ve got to have leaders who are solution-oriented, which we've been and are, and I am going forward, instead of leaders who want to make it a problem they can run on."
#3
He's been pardoned, so haul him before a Congressional committee to tell us if it was him or who that put the papers in front of the puppet to sign. If he lies, its 2025 and not covered by the pardon. If he identifies himself or others who put the papers before the puppet, we can start nullification of those papers.
#10
Hunter got the Pardon. Donilon's not so much. Deflection
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/08/2025 16:02 Comments ||
Top||
#11
Hunter is family. Nobody fks with the Bidens. There was a big group of former Obama and Biden advisors who would have been running the show. It makes me laugh to think it was Hunter except for superficially after Biden was tossed aside.
[Breitbart] A coalition of Republican attorneys general are seeking to bypass President Joe Biden’s last-minute preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci to investigate him on a state level for his role in the COVID-19 pandemic response.
The attorneys general, led by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday asking to be kept in the loop about “any further findings or direct evidence that suggests there may have been any violation of state laws” so that “we may evaluate state-level courses of action.”
“Certainly, one potential tool at our disposal is the referral of any pertinent findings to state officials. As you are aware, a pardon by former President Biden does not extend to preclude state-level investigations or legal proceedings,” they wrote. “As state Attorneys General, we possess the authority to address violations of state law or breaches of public trust. We are fully committed to investigating any malfeasance that may have occurred to the fullest extent of our authority and are prepared to collaborate with you in further efforts.”
The attorneys general specifically referenced a report released by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in December 2024, which details widespread failures and potential misconduct by high-ranking government officials, including Fauci. Some of the report’s findings include:
Evidence suggesting Fauci worked to discredit the “lab leak” theory, despite evidence supporting it.
Accusations that Fauci allegedly provided false testimony to Congress about the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Evidence NIH allegedly mismanaged taxpayer funds by failing to properly oversee grants to EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled funding to the Wuhan lab.
Evidence that prominent scientists who raised concerns about vaccine risks were allegedly silenced, ultimately limiting debate and public awareness.
Despite the report’s findings, Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci with just hours left in his administration, effective from January 2014 to the day of the pardon, and lauded Fauci for “sav[ing] countless lives by managing the government’s response to pressing health crises, including HIV/AIDS, as well as the Ebola and Zika viruses.”
“During his tenure as my Chief Medical Advisor, he helped the country tackle a once-in-a-century pandemic. The United States is safer and healthier because of him,” Biden said.
The attorneys general noted that pardon “purports to apply to any offenses arising from his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.”
“To say we are troubled by the scope and timing of the pardon—on the heels of the Subcommittee’s Final Report—would be a gross understatement. To ensure that former President Biden’s shameful pardon does not frustrate accountability, we urge Congress to consider using all available tools at its disposal,” they wrote.
#2
It will depend on what DOGE finds. All the evidence will be public. I didn’t like getting COVID. Can’t imagine a sympathetic jury outside of DC folks or Epstein Island tourists.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 9:13 Comments ||
Top||
[Breitbart] Katherine Long, a Wall Street Journal reporter who apparently took down a 25-year-old member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with an article on his offensive past comments, previously worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) — which the Trump administration has slashed considerably, angering elites in Washington, D.C.
"The USAID got hit hard and fast, and now their proxies are striking back at the Trump White House," a source familiar with DOGE told Breitbart News. "It’s time to cut the head off the snake. We need separation of media and state." That's not a forehead. That's a fivehead. Peyton Manning said: OMG!
Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the controversy Friday morning, suggesting "stupid social media activity" should not "ruin a kid’s life."
"The WSJ Editorial Board gets everything wrong about Trump," a person close to the Trump transition, who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of retribution, told Breitbart News. "Now, the WSJ is employing FEDS who worked for USAID to report on USAID. Conflict much?"
"We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back," Vance wrote on X. "If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that."
President Donald Trump agreed with Vance’s assessment when asked several hours later. "I’m with the Vice President," he told Fox’s Peter Doocy.
DOGE is currently purging USAID for waste, fraud, and abuse —freezing foreign aid and reportedly slashing its staff from over 10,000 employees to under 300. Its financial audit found the agency spent millions of taxpayer funds on frivolous and fringe projects, including $1.5 million to "advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities,"$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam, $2 million for sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala, and $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt.
Long, who displays "she/her" pronouns on a LinkedIn profile, targeted DOGE after it began the audit of USAID. According to that LinkedIn profile, she previously worked for USAID as an intern in 2016 after a similar stint at the State Department. In a recent interview with the PR firm Fearey, Long said her job at USAID was "managing USAID projects in Central Asia."
"I came to the Seattle Times straight out of Columbia Journalism School’s investigative reporting master’s program," she said. "Before matriculating at Columbia, I’d been working for the federal government, managing USAID projects in Central Asia."
In Afghanistan, USAID spent hundreds of millions of dollars to fund "irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan," benefiting the Taliban, Breitbart News previously reported.
[X]
The old lib media tactic to search/destroy an individual must no longer work. We don’t give care what they think. And we shouldn’t, ever again. Cry more, libs. https://t.co/PjBfcT4MM1
#2
Modern Western Societies have a huge "educated" class that's purely parasitic. Moreover, these are destructive parasites who severely harm the host.
#7
It is very satisfying to me to watch liberal news anchors have to say Big Balls repeatedly. I guess, emotionally speaking, I remain 10 years old.
They think its some own, but its just hilarious. And when video games even from yesterday have tea bagging built into the celebration, it makes them look like old marvel women.
[FoxNews] Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the $50 million special legislative "Trump-proofing" package which he proposed for Democrats to pass following President Donald Trump's election.
Newsom said the bill will "bolster funding for legal services programs that are vital to safeguarding the civil rights of California's most vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities, youth who are homeless, victims of human trafficking and wage theft, people facing unlawful evictions, immigrants and more.
"None of the funding in this bill is intended to be used for immigration-related legal services for noncitizens convicted of serious or violent felonies," he added in a signing statement.
The package, which was passed by the state Senate and Assembly, allocates $25 million to the California Department of Justice to support legal battles against Trump's federal policies, including environmental regulations and illegal immigration. An additional $25 million is designated for legal aid groups to assist illegal immigrants facing potential deportation.
Newsom lobbed hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration during Trump's first term.
While Newsom is gearing up for potential showdowns with the Trump administration, he has also been working with Trump to secure federal disaster relief for the Los Angeles wildfires. Trump visited California in late January to meet with Newsom, and Newsom traveled to Washington, D.C., in early February for another round of discussions with the president.
"We’re working across the aisle, as we always have, to ensure survivors have the resources and support they need," Newsom said in a statement on Wednesday. "Thank you President Trump for coming to our communities to see this first hand, and meeting with me today to continue our joint efforts to support people impacted."
Trump hit back at Newsom after he announced the special legislative session in November, saying on his Truth Social account, "He is using the term 'Trump-Proof' as a way of stopping all of the GREAT things that can be done to 'Make California Great Again,' but I just overwhelmingly won the Election."
#2
[Checks lucky 8 ball] I don't see a California bailout package coming in the near future.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 9:22 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Guy who is going to be tugging at the federal teat to get his state rebuilt and he puts up a "FU Donald" sign in the front yard? Not what one would call politically astute.
Speculation: Gavin's presidential hopes have gone up in flames, so the Dems have decided to offer him up as a human sacrifice in their War on Trump. It might work. It does clear the field for Big Gretch with no nasty party infighting. The downside is Trump might accomplish what he sets out to do and the People like it.
#4
Newsom can do with his state and state fund whatever he wants. They are sovereign just like all states. However, count out future federal funds that all states are absolutely dependent on California. Thought your highways were shit now? Just wait 4 years.
#9
A huge percentage of CA electricity comes from outside the state. Conventional power generation has been extinguished there.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 14:51 Comments ||
Top||
#10
^ It's only dirty FF Energy if it's generated here in CA. If it happens elsewhere on the grid, it's all good.
/Virtue Signalling Hypocrites
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/08/2025 14:58 Comments ||
Top||
#11
When we left the NorCal foothills outside of Sacramento in 2019, our sane liberal friends and a number of fellow conservatives asked why were taking such an aggressive act in our later years. Both of us said we just knew it was going to get worse in every metric of the quality of life and safety. We got the sideways looks and a fair bit of tsk, tsk-ing.
Dast Forwar 6 years. Almost every one of the conservatives has left or is leaving, and asked advice, the bay area friends say the housing market is softer than any can remember, and even several libs have seen the light. Newsome has little chance of scoring significant funding beyond mandated expenditures. And the illegals infesting the SouthState are no longer getting the NGO/government funds that kept them from being restless and demanding. Ugly things are on the cusp I fear for the Golden State...
[FoxNews] For example, in one of the exchanges highlighted from the unedited transcript, "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker pressed Kamala Harris on how the number of border crossings had "quadrupled" in the first three years of the Biden administration. Harris provided another "word salad answer," Trump's attorneys argued.
"There are a variety of factors that relate to what we have seen globally, and what we are not immune from at our own border in terms of what we have seen in terms of the surge of immigration and irregular migration," Harris told Whitaker. "And there are solutions at hand, but we’ve got to have leaders who are solution-oriented, which we've been and are, and I am going forward, instead of leaders who want to make it a problem they can run on."
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump announced on Friday he decided to immediately fire multiple Kennedy Center board members, including the chairman, and fill that role himself.
Trump claimed he and current chair David Rubenstein "do not share [the same] Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture," according to the announcement on Truth Social.
He said a new board would be announced soon, adding the new chairman, naming himself, is "amazing."
"Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP," Trump wrote in the post.
The Kennedy Center in October hosted a Dancing Queens Drag Brunch at its Roof Terrace Restaurant in October, featuring Washington, D.C.'s "most fabulous drag performers," according to its website. The October event featured 2024 Capital Pride Honoree, Tula, and other drag performers "representing the diversity of D.C.’s queer community," according to the site. Tickets were sold for nearly $100 each, with reservations required, and included bottomless mimosas.
Following Trump's announcement, the Kennedy Center's website limited users, citing "high traffic." Hundreds of visitors had to queue in an online Grindr waiting room to view the site.
#2
He should just let Melania run that. She has class. He can’t do everything. Maybe he will give oversight to Hulk Hogan. His role has yet to defined. The Hulkster remains a wild card like Gen Flynn.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 9:09 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Maxine Waters is the prototype of a "fundamentally non-serious" choice.
The moment a candidate for ANY office (whether public or private) checks TWO boxes on the current preferences chart, they are no longer held accountable and thus will be absolutely *terrible* at whatever they were allegedly hired to do.
[FoxNews] Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk’s efforts to clean up waste and fraud in the federal government will soon shift its focus to the Social Security Administration (SSA) in a move likely to create a firestorm with Democrats.
Why? It has long been reported that the SSA is terrible about fraudulent payments, fraudulent identities for illegal aliens, and otherwise poor controls.
The SSA, created by the Social Security Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 and tasked with establishing a federal benefits system for older Americans, will soon become a focus of DOGE, according to a report from Semafor that was not denied by the White House when contacted by Fox News Digital.
While several Democrats — including Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., in a post on X — have been quick to accuse this move as being aimed at slashing Social Security benefits for the elderly, several areas with potential waste exist in the agency that don’t involve cutting current benefits.
Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, previously reported that the agency disbursed roughly $2 billion in fraudulent or improper payments in 2022, which it calculated was enough "to pay 89,947 retired workers the average annual old-age benefit of $21,924 for 2023."
#1
I would have prioritized the IRS. Seems like there ought to be a limit to what that small team can do. Eventually, they will have to take a break and play some WOW or they will crack.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 8:51 Comments ||
Top||
#2
You think this isn't the funnest game ever, Supe? You wouldn't be able to pry these guys away from their computers with all the Ubisoft cheat codes.
#5
Do the GSA (general services administration) next! I must have been in their San Francisco a hundred times when I was a bike messenger. It's filled with fat people doing nothing while sitting under Che Guevara posters. Cut it by 90% and spend the savings buying them all standing desks!
#6
While several Democrats — including Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., in a post on X — have been quick to accuse this move as being aimed at slashing Social Security benefits for the elderly....
I'm not sure I understand why society decided we should "evolve" to point where shitbirds like Goldman are allowed to just OUTRIGHT LIE to the faces of their constituents with ZERO fear that there may be consequences for such bullshit.
[X] This seems an ineffective tactic. But if posturing for the rubes keeps her from doing something more effective, I’m all for it.
BREAKING🚨: NY Attorney General Letitia James Sues Over Trump’s Alleged Role in Elon Musk, DOGE Accessing Americans’ Private Data pic.twitter.com/kZSAP0kuti
#3
and this fat racist attention whore has Standing?
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/08/2025 6:12 Comments ||
Top||
#4
A sensible person would have shut up. There is plenty of evidence in the news that the game fundamentally changed on Jan 20. I think Harmeet will lock in on James with the 55 radar at some point soon.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 8:44 Comments ||
Top||
[X] Given the consensus that our honourable ex-president has been suffering from increasingly severe dementia, that’s due diligence — nothing to do with personal animus.
Trump said that he was revoking former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s security clearances, and made clear that he was doing so because Biden had rescinded his privileges four years ago pic.twitter.com/RzYcmq8o98
Posted by: Fred ||
02/08/2025 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11138 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I hope he's gone way further: there's not a reason in the world that ANY member of the Clinton, Bush, or Obama regimes have security clearances. Every single one of them should be facing tough questions right about now concerning how they clearly didn't give a damn about the people they governed.
#7
I think that’s safest. He could get trapped in a SCIF and be in there for days.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/08/2025 8:38 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Maybe this will keep Hunter from selling even more secrets than he already has.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/08/2025 12:55 Comments ||
Top||
#9
The proof exists inside the video files of the US Secret Service. The question is what can be seen,, by whom and what can be acted upon without damage to the essential privacy promise the USSS needs to do it's job. The issue of a "President" who was literally a clueless, non-compos-mentis puppet signing whatever his son or wife put in front of him, that is beyond any precedent.
#11
^Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and attorneys Andrew Weissmann, Mark Zaid and Norm Eisen, also had their clearances revoked.
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/08/2025 19:50 Comments ||
Top||
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Katherine Long, a Wall Street Journal reporter who apparently took down a 25-year-old member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with an article on his offensive past comments, previously worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) — which the Trump administration has slashed considerably, angering elites in Washington, D.C.
