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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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:
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