I love it and particularly because I can still do it at my advanced age. And I love that athletes are finally able to express their actual feelings instead of the ridiculous Kapernick bs. No one believed that. And btw back in the day I was a very good dancer as one of you could attest to because people threw money at us once when we danced. In fact I once won a Dirty Dancing contest.
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FOLLOW ON
One more thing about‘vaccines’.
RFK JR AND VACCINES
As I’m sure you know the left has trashed him for his opinion that vaccines can cause autism. I considered it a conspiracy theory myself but never really thought about it because it didn’t really affect me. Now with the Covid shots being proven as not only not effective but actually dangerous and my recent revelation about diabetes and big pharma, I have a different opinion and came across this very disturbing article today.
First I had no idea that the government actually defended vaccine manufacturers in a special federal court for vaccine lawsuits. I also didn’t know that they have paid out millions for proven vaccines injuries and even fired their chief expert witness when he changed his position but continue to use his prior testimony without telling the jury that he had repudiated it.
https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/the-bulk-of-credible-science-finds
PENNSYLVANIA
I’m sure you all are aware of the attempted steal of a senate seat taking place in Pennsylvania. Bob Casey is refusing to concede which is rich because back in 2020 he denounced Trump for questioning the outcome of the presidential election. But my point today is about the nutcase woman in I think Bucks County who said that we all know that precedent doesn’t mean anything anymore or so we should count votes that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional. My take is that she was voicing her angst at Roe being overturned. Problem is that the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court didn’t overturn precedent and today they affirmed that they meant it! Casey if he had the least bit of integrity would concede and end the farce,
RFK JR AND OTHER THINGS
As you know Trump nominated RFK JR today to be secretary of HHS. I think it is a great nomination because I now understand the rationale behind all of Trump’s nominations. He wants people who will destroy the swamp. I would be concerned about his lack of shall we say medical credentials, but he has the best credential possible. He’s not part of the medical pharmaceutical cabal. And that’s important. He obviously knows a great deal about the issues that will be under his purview and knows that a lot of the bs that the cabal puts out has nothing to do with health but is driven by profit not science.
And just to let you know from my personal perspective, last week I found out that I’m diabetic. I’m not really as I will explain but in a discussion my doctor told me I was. I said I was never diagnosed as diabetic and the closest was about ten years ago when during a routine office visit he decided to do blood work. Now this was around 2pm and I had had a large lunch before. Anyway my A1c came out as 6.5 and he told me that made me pre-diabetic and I said it wasn’t valid because it wasn’t a fasting test and he said they could adjust for that and that’s bullshit because I’ve been through this nonsense twice before but for other issues. One time my doctor in Maryland took a blood test in the afternoon after I had just had cherry cheesecake and determined I had high triglycerides. No duh.
Anyway getting back to the present situation back then my doctor told me that he would test me again in two months and if it didn’t change I would have to go on diabetic medication. I did absolutely nothing different except do a twelve hour fast before the next test and guess what it came down to 6.0. Quelle surprise. And it’s now 5.8 or lower. So what’s the point? When he told me I was diabetic, I said I have never been diagnosed as such and he agreed but told me they have lowered the threshold and made it retroactive. So I’m now considered diabetic based on the 6.5 and he has to put in my records that I’m diabetic but under control by diet and exercise. Apparently not enough people were forced to buy diabetic drugs so they lowered the threshold. That was an eye opener for me and hopefully RFK JR can get to the bottom of this kind of anti scientific nonsense and gut the cabal.
I don’t have to tell you how many times the supposed science on Covid was total bullshit. Hopefully he can get us back to actual science and not whatever makes big pharma richer.
Now that brings me to Gaetz. I said I didn’t think he was qualified for AG and I still think that’s true. However Trump has nominated a Deputy AG and a Solicitor General who are eminently qualified and can guide him through any rough spots. Trump didn’t nominate him to be a great AG. He nominated him to kick ass and take names and that’s exactly what he will do. I heard today that the reason Trump nominated him was that when all the potential candidates were interviewed they all talked about their experience except Gaetz who said he would cut off heads and that is what they wanted to hear.
The intelligence community is coming after Tulsi because they are afraid they will be exposed as the partisan hacks they are and several should face criminal prosecution. The first thing she should do is revoke or have Trump revoke all their clearances and then raid their homes and offices for classified information. I have a feeling that they all could be prosecuted!
I could cover a lot of other things but you get the gist. Trump is nominating people who aren’t part of the swamp but who will drain it!
CHUCKLE
I wonder if Tulsi will be taken off the increased scrutiny fly list when she’s DNI? It won’t matter because she’s not going to be flying commercial!
RECESS APPOINTMENTS
Now let me explain to you who may not know that recess appointments are actually in the constitution. What is a recess appointment? It’s a presidential appointment made while the house and the senate were in recess for ten or more straight days and allows a president to appoint someone who would normally require confirmation from the Senate without such confirmation. Such an appointee serves until the next Congress unless he is confirmed by the Senate in the interim.
Why was this in the constitution, because as I think I’ve talked about before, the Congress was never envisioned as a full time job. The original Congress, btw that’s the house and the Senate together, met a couple times a year and then went back to their farms or plantations or businesses. It was never envisioned that we would have a permanent political class. And under that scenario, it would happen quite often that the Congress would not be in session when a necessary vacancy came up and they didn’t want to handicap the president.
And just for your information, recess appointments were common up until I think one of the Bushes when suddenly the Congress decided to never recess although they did but did some nonsense to pretend that they weren’t. And the Supremes agreed with them blocking Obama appointments and now they can prevent recess appointments without agreement from both the Senate and the House. Now we have both and if they recognize the mandate of the election, they will have a recess quickly after January 20 and let Trump appoint his cabinet and then proceed to go through the normal confirmation process to determine if they can stay. It’s important because it will allow Trump and his people to hit the ground running. If they didn’t, it could take months or years to get his people in place.
Hell with a recess, Gaetz can get in and clean house at DOJ.
MATT GAETZ
I think Trump blew this one. I appreciate that Gaetz is a loyal dedicated defender of Trump, but when I first heard about his nomination to be Attorney General I thought that it was a mistake because he carries a lot of baggage that could keep him from being confirmed. And then I thought it made sense because Gaetz is certainly a person who will clean house at DOJ.
And then I looked up his legal background because I never remember him mentioning it. And suffice it to say that he doesn’t really have one. He spent a couple years at a law firm in Fort Walton Beach, and then went into politics. I could never vote to confirm someone for AG that has no prosecutorial experience. The position is for the head prosecutor for the country and I don’t believe that you are qualified if you’ve never prosecuted a single criminal case. Apparently they disagree with me in California or at least did back in SK’s time.
But I think Trump made a big mistake here. There are plenty of qualified people who he could have selected. Maybe there will be a big enough outrage that he’ll reconsider. I hope so.
FOLLOW ON FOR THE PENTAGON
I was thinking about doing this and then I got a text from one of you which I will discuss later on. So I looked up the equivalency between my senior executive service grade and what would be my military rank and it was a two star general. Now let’s compare the benefits the military equivalency gets. I had a decent office and two secretaries who were not my personal secretaries but for the entire division. I didn’t have an aide or a public affairs officer or a paid mansion paid for by taxpayers with gardeners and landscapers and housekeepers and free meals at the officer’s mess and free air travel on private military planes. Get your own coffee and wipe your own ass and use your salary to pay for your own house and expenses. This is just one example of how bloated the pentagon budget is.
Now the text I received from one follower who I actually worked with in my agency and still lives in the DC area was concerned with the depression in the DC area that could result from getting rid of all the unnecessary bureaucrats. And I saw that in a few places today. My answer is that you have no right to have us pay you for a make work job. The federal government is not supposed to be a national welfare agency. And if Trump carries through on his promise to move all the agencies out of DC and to more appropriate places in the country where they will be surrounded by the people they are supposed to serve, the same thing will happen. Hell you could hire them to help build the wall like with the CCC in the thirties.
Now one of her concerns, and btw she is retired and would only be affected by the reduction in the inflated real estate prices in the area, is that there would be a lot of people out of work and where would they get jobs. Well to start with Trump is going to deport a lot of people which would free up a lot of jobs, and there are a few million skilled jobs that are unfilled at this time. Learn a skill that is worthwhile and you’ll be fine.
Another benefit is that it would get all the federal rats out of northern Virginia and make that state red again. It would probably have a large effect on Maryland also. Anyway I’m not concerned about people who are getting paid by my tax dollars to do essentially nothing.
THE CABINET
Hats off to Trump for demonstrating that he is a quick learner and knows what’s needed this time around to get his agenda through. The only real question I have is whether the senators can elect Scott instead of Thune, who would be a RINO disaster. If Scott gets the majority leader position, it will be all systems go.
As I have said many times, Trump made several bad personnel choices in his first term. He’s learned and is assembling a terrific cabinet. Homan has put the fear of the lord in all the illegals and their Dem supporters.
I literally yelled out loud when he nominated Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. It was a total shock but an outstanding choice. When you couple that with Trump putting Musk and Ramaswamy in charge of the Department of government efficiency, you have an opportunity to build up our defense without increasing the budget. As I have said many times, you could fire 50% of the people in the Pentagon and not lose anything. When you carry that out throughout DOD, there are billions of dollars available to beef up our actual defense. Government contracts could also be greatly reduced. These two guys can do it and Hegseth will support it.
Mike Huckabee is a great choice for ambassador to Israel. God knows we’ve all seen enough commercials for the IFCJ to know his bona fides.
I have a little concern with his appointment on Rubio for State because he’s been a throw money at Ukraine advocate, but I think he will follow his orders from Trump. And he is a smart guy.
All of his appointments have been people who actually are qualified for their appointments, as opposed to Magoo basing everything on DEI idiots who couldn’t even spell the name of their departments much less know anything about what they actually do. They were focused on woke bs and not their actual jobs.
There are still several important nominations to go and one I am particularly interested in is the Attorney General. Hegseth’s appointment gives me hope that my nominee Pam Bondi will get the nod. She’s qualified and is a big Trump supporter and will clean house at DOJ.