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The Cabinet Checks In
This compilation of Tweets details what the Cabinet members announced today. Said the tweet author, “One by one, Cabinet members reported directly to the people. Here is a recap by department and I’m not joking when I say the best are towards the end.”
With the exception of Rubio’s remarks on Iran, I don’t think there’s a single thing uttered that would have been spoken by a Cabinet member under a Harris administration. In fact, you’d probably get an inversion of every initiative. Instead of pruning and policing great blobby government programs, there would be “investment.” Instead of new energy production, there would be expensive initiatives to invest in “green” energy. Instead of efforts to improve the integrity of the voting process, there would be reports about new plans to expand vote-by-mail or loosen documentation requirements that may have a disparate impact.
There’s a lot going on besides the tariff perturbations.
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Thank you, @jameslileks for posting this. Since little or none of this will be covered in the MSM, I appreciate having it here on Ricochet.
Withholding $8 billion of taxpayers’ money from Harvard, a private university. Yeah, why don’t we let them spend their own money pile for a long while?
Edit: This topic reminds me that Biden had a Cabinet Meeting on Oct. 2, 2023 and the next one he had was on Sep 20, 2024, almost a whole year later!
Interesting that the above was in Mike Waltz’s report and not Pete Hegseth’s. Regardless of whose job this is, I hope they understand that streamlining any process for spending government money usually results in greater corruption in the not-so-long term. In the short term, e..g during a war, it’s usually necessary anyway. After the war is won there can be commissions to audit what happened, say nasty things about the wrongdoing, and put back the anti-corruption protections (aka red tape and bureaucracy).
Interesting that the above was in Pete Hegseth’s report and not Mario Rubio’s. I had just been reading somewhere (on NR, perhaps) that the deals previously made about taking control of the ports on either end of the canal from China and putting them in the hands of U.S. companies were slowly turning into nitrogen-rich compost for the garden and were not going through as envisioned. I hope he took time out from all the victory dancing to address that.
It is a lot easier for this grumpy old conservative to fall asleep at night, and to get up in the morning.
There will be mistakes, probably plenty of them. If 50 % of the agenda succeeds I will be at peace. Most important are election integrity, the borders and energy. I think we can keep the country going if we get wins in those categories.
The Stalinist fawning and grovelling might not have raised eyebrows here, but they did not escape the attention of the world’s press. Here’s The Independent, for example:
The Grauniad is more Stalinist than The Independent. The Independent is closer to the Mensheviks.
The compilation of tweets is amusing:
If true, the country is making approximately 2 billion dollars a day from other Americans. I expect they’re grateful, though.
“Negotiating” in this case meaning that his boss has announced to the world that the leaders of foreign nations are “kissing my ass.” Charming, and no doubt a great help to our diplomatic efforts.
A laudable aim, but Trump opposes ending the Jones Act which has locked the US into high-priced ships (five times the cost of those from foreign competitors) and shipping since 1920.
See above.
We saw how much tariffs helped farmers and ranchers the last time the OI was in charge when we paid around $30 billion in aid to help them recover from the business they lost. See I’m a Soybean Farmer Who Voted for Trump. I’m Begging the President to End the Trade War for more.
False, they’re up: US egg prices increase to record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter.
Not a federal function at all. The states are responsible for prosecuting local crimes.
It’s quite possible for children to receive government benefits, for example if their parents have died or are disabled.
A claim for which documentation is lacking.
A fabrication. See Measles Outbreak Update: Infections Surge by Triple Digits
Prediction: The cause will be vaccines!
Somebody should ask Rubio what it was like to be Secretary of State for a few days in early 2025, as nobody’s heard from him since and others appear to have taken over his nominal responsibilities.
If he has a schedule for finding the answer, we can be sure it isn’t science that he is using to find it.
I guess you didn’t notice that he was at that meeting.
I did, and quoted his so-called contribution as described by the tweeter, but let’s face it, he’s been sidelined.
You’re also unaware of his activities in getting American citizens out of countries where they were being held without FJB et al even mentioning it?
What he is unaware of encompasses almost the entire world
I think we should be happy when government officials aren’t on TV a lot, and instead people being held in foreign countries return without the media knowing about it in advance…
Ding ding ding! And, yet, many self described conservatives and/or Republicans voted for Harris because Orange Man Bad.
On behalf of myself and everyone who voted Trump so our fellow citizens would not have to suffer under the outrages sure to have been perpetuated under a Harris administration, you’re welcome.
The first step was to get Biden/Harris out of office and repudiate their agenda. But we can’t stop there. Now we need to get Trump out of office and restore Constitutional government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Don’t leave the job half done.
I have visited over 30 countries and lived in four of them. My knowledge of the world is unparalleled and celebrated by all intelligent beings.
But no matter what, you were always there as yourself, not as a native-born resident of that country. It makes a difference.