5 Feb, 2025 14:11

EU states ‘fed up’ with von der Leyen – Politico

Members are increasingly dissatisfied with the European Commission chief’s failure to consult them on foreign policy decisions, according to the outlet

EU member states are growing frustrated with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over her unilateral approach to foreign policy, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing diplomats.The latest criticism reportedly comes after von der Leyen announced a partnership agreement with Jordan.

The deal was inked last week following talks between von der Leyen and King Abdullah II. It aims to assist Jordan in facing the socio-economic impact of the Syrian crisis and broaden avenues for investments and business opportunities in the Arab country. The deal will be complemented by €3 billion ($3.1 billion) in financial resources, comprising grants, investments, and macro-financial assistance.

However, according to two sources who spoke to Politico,von der Leyen made the decision to allocate the funds to Jordan without consulting EU member nations.

“We were confronted with a fait accompli while we’re the ones footing the bill,” an EU diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity told the news outlet.

“It’s not the first time von der Leyen pulls a stunt like this because she wants to make nice with world leaders. [Member countries] are increasingly fed up with it,” he added. The source did not mention other instances when the commission chief had failed to discuss her decisions with EU members.

According to the report, there has been much discontent over von der Leyen’s power-grabbing tactics, especially in foreign policy– an area traditionally managed by the European Council and the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs.

“Ursula von der Leyen has been grabbing the [smallest] crumb of foreign power on every occasion,” MEP Nacho Sanchez Amor told the news outlet. He argued that the growing concentration of foreign policy decisions within the European Commission runs counter to the bloc’s foundational treaties, according to which foreign policy should remain under the purview of member states.

“We have assumed uncritically that foreign policy is bending towards the commission, and this is not the treaties’ framework,” he said, calling for a formal debate on the issue.

Von der Leyen’s centralized approach has reportedly been a point of contention since her first term, resulting in strained relationships with former European Council President Charles Michel and the bloc’s former top diplomat, Josep Borrell. Prior to von der Leyen’s reelection for the top job last year, there were also reports that manyEU states were dissatisfied with her excessive focus on climate and the weakening economy, along with nepotism and non-transparency of her policies. Von der Leyen has changed her agenda since being reelected in June, placing more emphasis on the bloc’s competitiveness and defense.

https://www.rt.com/news/612226-von-der-leyen-eu-criticism/

“We Don’t Let Them Get in Our Way”: GS-14 DHS Official Admits Department Will Defy Trump Appointed Secretary Kristi Noem’s “Marching Orders,” Reveals Tactics to ‘Interpret Priorities We Don’t Agree With’

By OMG Team February 3, 2025

Brandon Wright, a GS-14 Platform Services Manager for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), admitted that career officials within the department actively resist directives from political appointees, including newly appointed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

“The truth is, we don’t let them [secretaries] get in our way,”Wright disclosed to an undercover O’Keefe Media journalist.He went on to explain the deeply entrenched bureaucratic resistance within DHS, likening it to a multi-layered septic system that filters out directives it does not align with. “There’s a lot of layers, like [in] government…

By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”

This admission exposes a deliberate effort within the departmentto manipulate the interpretation of policy decisions based on personal and ideological preferences, rather than faithfully executing the agendaset by elected and appointed officials. “If we don’t agree with those priorities,” Wright stated, confirming that DHS officials often redefine priorities they oppose to make them more palatable to their own perspectives: “There’s a lot of room for interpretation.”

Wright didn’t mince words about his view of Kristi Noem’s ability to lead the department, declaring: “Kristi Noem doesn’t know… She doesn’t know her ass.” He went even further, casting doubt on her competency: “The Department of Homeland Security could fall on her f*cking head, and she wouldn’t recognize what it is.”

His disdain for Noem’s leadership was clear, as he admitted: “To say that I am not excited about this would be the most epic understatement.”

The Department of Homeland Security provided the following statement to O’Keefe Media Group:

“Secretary Noem has not seen the video in its entirety. This type of behavior will not be tolerated. This person has been placed on leave and is under investigation…The senior official says the termination of the official is imminent.”

https://okeefemediagroup.com/we-dont-let-them-get-in-our-way-gs-14-dhs-official-admits-department-will-defy-trump-appointed-secretary-kristi-noems-marching-orders-reveals-ta/

Youtube video

https://youtu.be/74UVFZcCXxI

Private payrolls expanded by 183,000 in January, topping expectations, ADP says

WED, FEB 5 2025. Jeff Cox

KEY POINTS

• ADP said companies created a net 183,000 jobs on the month, slightly more than the 176,000 in December.

• Pay for workers who stayed in their jobs grew at a 4.7% annual rate, or 0.1 percentage point more than in December.

• All of the job creation came from service providers, who added 190,000 positions while goods producers lost 6,000.

Private sector companies added more jobs than expected in January, furthering the case for a stable labor market that allows the Federal Reserve time as it contemplates its next policy move, ADP reported Wednesday.

The payrolls processing firm said companies created a net 183,000 jobs on the month, slightly more than the 176,000 in December, a number that was revised sharply upward from the initial figure of 122,000. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a gain of 150,000.

Pay for workers who stayed in their jobs grew at a 4.7% annual rate, or 0.1 percentage point more than in December.

Though the headline ADP number topped expectations, the internals showed an unbalanced picture.

All of the job creation came from service providers, who added 190,000 positions while goods producers lost 6,000. (The numbers don’t add up to the 183,000 due to rounding.)

“We had a strong start to 2025 but it masked a dichotomy in the labor market,” APD’s chief economist, Nela Richardson, said. “Consumer-facing industries drove hiring, while job growth was weaker in business services and production.”

Trade, transportation and utilities topped sectors with 56,000 new jobs, with leisure and hospitality close behind at 54,000 and education and health services adding 20,000. However, manufacturing lost 13,000 positions.

Job creation was spread fairly evenly across business size, with companies that employ workers leading with 92,000.

Fed officials are watching the jobs picture closely as they consider whether to continue lowering interest rates. The Fed last year cut 1 percentage point off its key borrowing rate in an effort to support a labor market that had showed signs of slowing. Recently, policymakers have stressed the importance of staying patient as they watch the tariff battle in Washington as well as the impact from the rate reductions.

The ADP report serves as a run-up to the more closely watched nonfarm payrolls report, due Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which unlike ADP includes government workers. The consensus view for the BLS report is a gain of 169,000 in payrolls in January, with the unemployment rate holding at 4.1%.

The two reports sometimes differ significantly. However, ADP said it continues to expand its sample size for the pay measure portion, which is now at 14.8 million compared with nearly 10 million when it launched.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/05/private-payrolls-expanded-by-183000-in-january-topping-expectations-adp-says.html

And this was just a partial work month.

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

PLAYING ICE ICE BABY AS YOU PASS BY DEPORTATION

PROTESTS.==

This video is from Biloxi, Mississippi.

From Sarah Sansoni

8:38 AM · Feb 5, 2025

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https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1887133711683965374

USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave

The agency said all direct hires, “with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions,” would be placed on administrative leave.

Updated Feb. 4, 2025, 11:29 PM EST

The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Tuesday night thatalmost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week.

The move was announced on the organization’s website after days of attacks by the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself.

The announcement says that beginning at 11:59 p.m. Friday, “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”

Those expected to keep working will be notified by 3 p.m.Thursday, the announcement said, adding that the government is working on a plan to return workers who are not in the country back to the United States if contracts are “not determined to be essential.”

It ends with: “Thank you for your service.”

USAID “direct hires” are civil and foreign service workers, according to the Congressional Research Service, known as CRS. There are other mechanisms by which people work with USAID.

The number of workers affected by Tuesday night's notice is in the thousands.

USAID’s workforce totals more than 10,000 direct hires and a type of contractor known as personal services contractors, the research service said in a January report. Around two-thirds of staff work overseas.

The American Foreign Service Association, which represents around 1,800 foreign service officers — mostly at more than80 USAID missions overseas — has denounced what it characterized as a decision to “dismantle” USAID.

On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid funding for at least 90 days. The agency's headquarters were abruptly closed Monday, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was taking over the agency and then appointed State Department official Pete Marocco to run it.

Many Democratic lawmakers have expressed outrage, calling it illegal and saying USAID was established under a law passed by Congress. Some Republicans have voiced criticism, as well.

USAID delivers billions of dollars in humanitarian aid overseas, funding thatadvocates say provides a critical lifeline to more than 100 countriesat only a small fraction of the overall federal budget.

President John F. Kennedy signed USAID into being through an executive order in 1961 after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act. The law required the creation of an agency to administer foreign assistance.

WhenBill Clinton was president, Congress passed and Clinton signed the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998,which established USAID as an independent entity outside of the State Department.

A report by the Congressional Research Service this month says that Trump does not have the authority to abolish USAID and that congressional action would be required for any such move. (Oh Really Challenge Him in Court)

In fiscal year 2023, USAID managed more than $40 billion in combined appropriations to about 130 countries=, the Congressional Research Service said. Some of the top recipients were Ukraine, which is fighting a devastating war after having been invaded by Russia, Somalia, Ethiopia, Jordan and Congo.==(what BS only Russia invaded)

The Trump administration promised sweeping cuts to foreign assistance and radical changes to the government. Elon Musk, who a White House employee said is serving in the administration as a “special government employee,” said early Monday on X that he and Trump were "shutting down USAID." He added in a post that, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”

Experts interviewed by NBCthis week warned that the elimination of USAID would weaken U.S. in South America and Africa, and allow Russia and China to expert more influence on other nations.KEKok

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/usaid-nearly-direct-hires-placed-administrative-leave-rcna190736

Politico receives $8 million from USAID — This smells like criminal fraud.

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887136820544049218

Trump withdraws the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council

UPDATED FEBRUARY 4, 20256:33

Deepa Shivaram

President Trump has signed an executive order pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

"I've always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential. It's not living up to that potential right now," he said Tuesday afternoon at a White House signing ceremony.

During his first term as president, Trump also cut ties with the UNHRC, an organization that U.S. leaders from both parties have long said has a bias against Israel.

The order also cut future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians. The Biden administration paused funding to UNRWA while the war between Israel and Hamas was ongoing, after accusations from Israel that some staffers from the agency had ties to Hamas. But an independent review found that there was no evidence to back that up. UNRWA is the main agency providing relief to Palestinians in Gaza. (UN steals our money and used it for illegals in US)

The new executive order comes the same day that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House, marking Trump's first meeting with a foreign leader since being sworn in last month.

Of Course NPR

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285696/trump-un-human-rights-council-withdrawal

Meet the Blue-Collar Voters Making Germany’s AfD Mainstream. 1/3

Far-right party walks in the steps of the MAGA movement by courting support in depressed, diverse industrial towns once dominated by the left

Bertrand Benoit for WSJ Feb. 4, 2025 5:30 am ET GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany—For 20 years, Stefan Diete, a lab chemist at an oil refinery in this western Germany town, was a member of a far-left party with Communist roots. In next month’s election, he said he would vote for the far-right AfD.

“There are places here, it’s not Germany any more. It’s not even Europe. It’s the Middle East or Africa,” said the athletic, heavily tattooed 58-year old. “I haven’t read the AfD’s economic program and I don’t care. I’ll still vote for them, because of immigration.”

Polls show the AfD, short for Alternative for Germany, could more than double its score at the coming election and deliver its best national performance since its creation 12 years ago, driven by frustration about Germany’s economic slump, immigration and crime.

A few pollsters think it could even win the election, but even if it finishes second, its rise will be felt as an earthquake in a country that has so far kept the far right out of government. Behind this ascendance is a broadening in the AfD’s support base.

Recent voting and survey data show it is rapidly gaining ground among blue-collar workers and even some migrant communities in Germany’s struggling industrial hinterland—places that were long seen as fortresses of the left. People like Diete could help the AfD expand from its traditional strongholds in the former East Germany, home to just a fifth of German voters.

Mirroring the rise of the MAGA movement that helped Donald Trump win the popular vote last year, this shift could determine whether the anti-immigration group can become a truly national force with a claim to governing Germany.

Located in the northern Ruhr region, Germany’s equivalent of the U.S. Rust Belt, Gelsenkirchen is among the most economically depressed cities in Germany.

As a mining town, it grew rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th century. In World War II, more than half of all homes and a third of its industrial capacity were destroyed by Allied bombardments.

Heavy industry and textiles helped it rebound after the war, but it declined rapidly following the oil shocks of the 1970s and a failed conversion into a solar-energy hub.

At 12.7%, Gelsenkirchen’s unemployment rate was double the national average last December and the highest of any German city of its size, according to the Federal Labor Agency. Of Germany’s 400 municipalities, it had the second-lowest purchasing power and the second-worst economic performance, according to studies published last year by the German Economic Institute, a business-funded think tank.

On a recent morning, its high street was tidy but drab, lined with boarded-up kebab shops, discount drugstores and a vast but closed branch of the Irish Primark budget-fashion chain.

At last year’s European election, the most recent nationwide ballot, the AfD scored 21.7% of the votes here, one of its best showings in western Germany and well above its national average. The city and its surrounding region would be a major prize. With its web of midsize towns, the Ruhr is Germany’s densest urban area, and the European Union’s fifth largest.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Gelsenkirchen is located, is home to 18.2 million people, more than the entire east including Berlin, and almost a quarter of all German voters. Of the various nationalist, antiestablishment parties now ascendant in Europe, the AfD is among the more radical. It wants Germany to leave the EU and lift sanctions on Russia.

https://archive.is/ZZVtC

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It has criticized the country’s culture of Holocaust remembrance and some of its regional chapters are classified as far-right extremist organizations by the German domestic-intelligence agency. Its rise has drawn particular attention in Germany because the country’s constitution was designed to avoid the instability and extremism of the Weimar years, which led to Hitler’s takeover of power.

The fact that lawmakers from the AfD and the center-right Christian Democratic Union voted jointly for the first time to adopt a symbolic anti-immigration motion last week prompted hundreds of thousands to protest. Despite this, the party is expanding its voter base, as evidenced on a recent windy morning in Buer, a district north of the city center.

On a busy pedestrian street there, Friedhelm Rikowski, the party’s local candidate for parliament, and his team had set up bar tables clad in AfD-blue and were handing out lighters, beer openers, brochures and fake deutsche marks—the former German currency that the party wants to reintroduce to replace the euro. Jolanthe Zylka, a cheerful 63-year-old former nurse, moved with her ethnically German parents from Poland to Gelsenkirchen 41 years ago and once supported the Animal Protection Party, a single-issue group.

Now, she said she is “attracted to the AfD because they say what I think. What’s going on here is no longer normal. I don’t let my house wide open for everyone to come in.”

The AfD is benefiting from rising unemployment, immigration and crime in parts of west Germany, said Stefan Marschall, professor of political science at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, an hour’s drive south of Gelsenkirchen. But he cautions that it will struggle to match its support in the east because traditional parties are far more deeply anchored in the west, whose many affluent regions haven’t warmed to the AfD’s populist message.

Still, the party has been gaining support among all socio-economic and age groups over time, said Roland Abold, head of pollster Infratest dimap, and particularly among young and blue-collar voters. At last year’s European election, 33% of voters who describe themselves as blue-collar supported the AfD, more than any other party, according to the pollster.

Western towns where the AfD has made recent breakthroughs include places such as Salzgitter, a former steelmaking center; Pforzheim, an old watchmaking town in the south; and Pirmasens, once a leather-industry hub. While not all as economically depressed as Gelsenkirchen, they are all old industrial towns, said Matthias Moehl, a data analyst at Election.de, an electoral analysis website.

“These are the Ohios and the West-Virginias of Germany,” said Moehl. “These are where the good jobs used to be and no longer necessarily are.” They also tend to be medium-size and relatively isolated from the bigger, more politically centrist urban centers. Unlike the east and some rural districts where the party has been strong for a while, they have big migrant communities.

When industry began shedding jobs in Gelsenkirchen 25 years ago, people started to leave. Rents fell, which in turn drew refugees and Eastern-European migrants, said Udo Gerlach, a local politican for the center-left Social Democratic Party.

Migrants now make up almost 40% of the city’s population. Immigration, he said, was the main reason his party has been losing support after dominating local politics for decades. “We get a lot of abuse sometimes when we’re out campaigning,” said Gerlach, who worked at the refinery for 35 years and saw colleagues gradually abandon their SPD memberships.

https://archive.is/ZZVtC

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“The people who gravitate toward the AfD, they’re not Nazis. They’re just dissatisfied.” Enxhi Seli-Zacharias, who leads the AfD in the city, said her party is even gaining support among the city’s oldest migrant communities, including German Turks, whose parents and grandparents came in the 1960s, who are often assimilated and don’t always look kindly to more recent arrivals from Arab countries and the Balkans.

“I had to integrate in this culture,” said Seli-Zacharias, who was born in Tirana, Albania, and moved to Germany with her parents at age 7. “I know what I had to do to get my passport and it drives me crazy to see how these are being handed out to people with no cultural connection to Germany whatsoever.”

Back at the AfD information stand in Buer, Ali Bahadir, a 51-year-old German of Turkish descent who is setting up an old-age nursing business, stopped by for a chat and a brochure. “I’m curious about the AfD. My kids don’t like them, but I want to read what they have to say,” he said.

“I can’t just rely on the media. It’s not independent. It criticizes the AfD but never Israel or the Jews.” Minutes earlier, a young Turkish-German man had approached Jan-Hendrik Preuss, a teacher who chairs the AfD group in the town council. The man had a question: Like his brother, he was considering supporting the party butwanted to know whether it would stop Muslims from going to the mosque and ban halal food.

“Not at all,” said Preuss. “You don’t need to worry about that.”

https://archive.is/ZZVtC

Germany have tried to ban them, jail them, kill their leaders, destroy their party, and call them terrorists, it didn't work, Scholz and IC Agencies are pissed

Michael Goodwin: Dems wallow in denial and do the dumbest stuff – proving they haven’t learned a thing from Trump’s win

By Michael Goodwin

It’s been four months since Donald Trump and Republicans swept the 2024 elections — and Democrats haven’t learned a thing.

Here are three snapshots of a party wallowing in denial: =When the eight candidates running to head the Democratic National Committee were asked who among them believed that “racism and misogyny” were factors in Kamala Harris’ defeat, all eight raised their hands.==

When congressional Dems gathered outside the headquarters of the rogue USAID agency that Trump plans to shrink or close,one of their lead speakers was the antisemitic terror defender and America-hater Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Saturday he was hiding an illegal immigrant in his houseand challenged ICE, saying “good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.”

I've long believed Trump has a gift for driving his opponents over the edge.

Sputtering mad over his style and success, they say and do the dumbest things, which reveals them to be the real crazies.

Murphy plays the fool

Take Murphy:His office quickly backtracked, saying there is no illegal immigrant living in his houseand that he was referring to a legal immigrant who is a friend.

Huh?

So why did he feel the need to lie and make himself out to be a deportation resister?

And why in the same speech did he go back to the Hitler, Hitler, Hitler nonsense that failed during the campaign?

“Germans in the ’20s and ’30s got tired. They got sick of fighting and look at the price we paid,” Murphy said.

Trump’s success is driving him nuts, so Murphy retaliates by making a fool of himself!

Such is the case with much of Washington as Dems and their media mouthpieces rage over the president’s first two weeks in office. In their rush to paint Trump as an extremist, they are saying and doing extreme things.

They’re also showing their ignorance.

Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly foolishly tried to summon the ghost of Winston Churchill’s famous World War II pledgethat “We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender.”

Connolly’s embarrassing imitation came outside the closed USAID building when he said: “We are going to fight in every way we can in the courts, in public opinion, with the bully pulpit, in the halls of Congress, and here at USAID itself. We are not going to let this injustice happen.”

Churchill he’s not, nor is the slashing of unaccountable spending the equivalent of World War II.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/opinion/michael-goodwin-dems-continue-to-wallow-in-denial-and-do-the-dumbest-things-its-clear-they-havent-learned-a-thing/

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Resistance is passe

Huff and puff as they might, the resistance movement doesn’t have nearly the same appeal it did when Trump took office in 2017.

Then streets in big blue cities were filled with protesters as pink pussy hats became a symbol of defiance.

The zeal persisted and led to the effort to drive him from office, starting with the despicable Russia hoax that was a fabrication of the FBI and Hillary Clinton.

It failed, only to be repeated following the 2020 election by a series of prosecutions designed to lock him up and keep him off the ballot, scandalous moves urged by Joe Biden and carried out by Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI.

None of it worked — in fact, the weaponization of the FBI and the courts backfired and helped lift Trump to victory.

So did the assassination attempts, which I believe were inspired by claims he was a threat to democracy.

Yet most top Dem officials are still trying to stoke the old anger, as if it’s the only playbook they know.

What they should do instead is an honest, no-sacred-cows-spared assessment of why he’s in the Oval Office and Kamala Harris is grocery shopping in California.

Such an examination would begin with the admission that the party has lost touch with the majority of voters. Trump won all seven battleground states and was the first Republican to win the national popular vote in 20 years.

The broad result indicates something far larger than a “messaging problem,” which is the only mistake the dead-enders will concede.

In fact, voters understood exactly who the Dems are and what they stand for.

That’s why Trump pulled in record numbers of black, Latino, Asian and young people as he transformed the GOP into a middle- and working-class party.

The country wanted big changes, and Harris promised more of the same.

Even now, her party still misses the point when it goes after Trump for staffing his administration with people outside the usual government boxes and for launching tariff wars.

Did they really think he was going to have a conventional administration?

One of thesilliest arguments the New York Times makes is a near-daily accusation that Trump’s efforts amount to “revenge.”

The implication is that the only acceptable administration is one that pursues Biden’s policies and allows the permanent government to continue to control everything.

And while it’s true there are a few questionable players on Trump’s team — RFK Jr. for one —the larger truth is that his administration already is a huge upgrade over Biden’s team of losers.

Most important, Trump is doing exactly what he promised — and what the public voted for.

Isn’t that democracy?

Get these numbers: Some 87% of adults favor deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records in one of the Times’ own polls, while 74% of registered voters support it in a Wall Street Journal poll.

The Times also found that 55% support deporting all illegal immigrants.

Trump’s finger on pulse

Other surveys found huge backing for other Trump policies.

One found 57% support for his decision to send the military to secure the southern border, 56% support for his demand that federal employees return to the office full-time and 54% support for his blocking the use of federal funds to promote gender ideology.

Those are big numbers in a polarized nation and if Dems continue to oppose such popular, common-sense corrections, they’ll be spending a lot more time in the wilderness.

In fact, it’s impossible to say what they stand for that most Americans want.

All we know is that they remain committed to opposing everything Trump says and does.

The new head of the DNC, Ken Martin, a party lifer from Minnesota,struck a sour notein his victory speech.

“I’ve always viewed my role’s as a chair of the Democratic Party to take the low road so my candidates and elected officials can take the high road,” Martin said.

“So Donald Trump, Republican Party: This is a new DNC. We are not going to sit back and not take you on when you fail the American people.”

If it really were a new DNC, Dems would have a fighting chance of winning back public trust.

Instead, they are living examples of the maxim that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/opinion/michael-goodwin-dems-continue-to-wallow-in-denial-and-do-the-dumbest-things-its-clear-they-havent-learned-a-thing/

Craig Caplan

@CraigCaplan

Senate Commerce Committee favorably reported out President Trump's nomination of Howard Lutnick to be Commerce Secretary on a near party line 16-12 vote to the full Senate. Senator John Fetterman (PA) was the only Democrat to vote Yes with all Republicans.

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Howard Lutnick opening statement at his confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Commerce.

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https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1887161466106577316

That was fast

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Wow What a hard life he had, and overcame it all

‘CLEAR WARNING’: Ex-CIA official reacts to Trump’s actions toward Iran

Fox News contributor Dan Hoffman shares his takeaways from President Donald Trump's joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 'The Ingraham Angle

He says the plans for Trump to get there is not in the near term, so no one has to worry about it.

2:35

https://youtu.be/xPts5YJgkiw

'WE'RE AT WAR!': Hosts react to Dems' meltdown over Elon Musk's DOGE operation(Dems are delusional)

Fox & Friends' co-hosts discuss the backlash to Elon Musk's cuts to the government. (Lot of opinions out there that the Dems have no practical strategy)

14:22

https://youtu.be/4CV3ynw1Q3Y