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🇺🇸 Half-Korean-half-black. CA ➡️ NY ➡️ Japan ➡️ WA. If you must do something, do it well.

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@wil_da_beast630 She already was the first female president.

If the president undergoes a surgical procedure, power is transfered to the VP in case of complications.

Biden had a colonoscopy in 2021. Harris briefly was president because a man got his butt examined.

https://t.co/5WmxWEQ4R9

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@WarRoomArchives Didn't another female officer do this exact same thing?

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@MrAndyNgo His pronouns are was/were.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Makes sense

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@libsoftiktok Hey hey, for all we know, maybe her sexual assaulter did it because of Trump.

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@CNviolations You ever notice it's never whites, or Asians, or Hispanics doing this? It's always the same group.

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@AP Lots of words to say she was fired because her ratings were terrible.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Lisa 🌹💃🏻 @Lisahudsonchow7]

When did Donald Trump become a racist? 🔥🔥🔥🔥 He nailed it!

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This lovely & hilarious lady points out the irony & truth about DEl.

"If DEl is all that,...why is it when someone calls someone a DEl hire, they get offended? Like it's an abomination, like 'don't call me no DEl hire.' Even Kamala got mad …......because Trump called her a DEI hire. But I thought it was good. If it was good you would be like 'Yes, I'm a DEl hire. Yes I am!'"

"That shows you that DEl was only in place for those who could not do a good job. They had to elevate them because they were mediocre. Let's just keep it real."

Love this woman. She is 100% correct. If it was a great thing you would want to be celebrated as a DEl hire, right?🤔

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

Another reason why they hate him... He tells the truth.

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

The RNC has a chance to do some next level trolling in response to David Hogg's appointment to the DNC. Just think about having Rittenhouse in the RNC:

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

First they came for illegal alien criminals.

But I said nothing.

Then they came for the non-criminal illegal aliens.

But I said nothing.

Then they stopped coming for people because the problem was solved and everything got better.

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@clownworld 1. Not a single fatty in the group.
2. When they are "arrested" the police do not remove their hats or masks.
3. Not a single Antifa counter protestor in sight.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

This feels racist to share.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Don’t you hate it when climate change appoints a DEI hire to run the fire dept, gives away fire equipment to Ukraine, stops critical controlled burns, defunds the fire dept, refuses to build more water reservoirs and store water, cancels fire insurance, mismanages forests and brush, and fires firefighters for refusing an experimental vaccine?

[Brandon Craig @BrandonC204]

🇺🇸THESE ARE THE 158 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED AGAINST DEPORTING SEX OFFENDERS

Alabama:
-Terri Sewell

California:
-Pete Aguilar
-Ami Bera
-Julia Brownley
-Salud Carbajal
-Tony Cárdenas
-Judy Chu
-Jim Costa
-Mark DeSaulnier
-John Garamendi
-Robert Garcia
-Sylvia Garcia
-Jimmy Gomez
-Jared Huffman
-Ro Khanna
-Sydney Kamlager-Dove
-Barbara Lee
-Ted Lieu
-Zoe Lofgren
-Doris Matsui
-Kevin Mullin
-Grace Napolitano
-Nancy Pelosi
-Katie Porter
-Linda Sánchez
-Adam Schiff
-Brad Sherman
-Norma Torres
-Mike Thompson
-Maxine Waters

Colorado:
-Jason Crow
-Diana DeGette
-Brittany Pettersen
-Joe Neguse

Connecticut:
-Rosa DeLauro
-John Larson
-James Himes

Delaware:
-Lisa Blunt Rochester

Florida:
-Kathy Castor
-Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
-Lois Frankel
-Maxwell Frost
-Darren Soto
-Frederica Wilson
-Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Georgia:
-Sanford D. Bishop Jr.
-Lucy McBath
-Henry “Hank” Johnson
-Nikema Williams
-David Scott

Hawaii:
-Ed Case
-Jill Tokuda

Illinois:
-Sean Casten
-Danny Davis
-Jesús “Chuy” Garcia
-Jonathan Jackson
-Raja Krishnamoorthi
-Robin Kelly
-Delia Ramirez
-Janice Schakowsky
-Mike Quigley
-Bill Foster
-Brad Schneider
-Lauren Underwood

Indiana:
-André Carson

Kentucky:
-Morgan McGarvey

Louisiana:
-Troy Carter

Maine:
-Chellie Pingree

Maryland:
-Steny Hoyer
-Glenn Ivey
-Kweisi Mfume
-Jamie Raskin
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
-John Sarbanes
-David Trone

Massachusetts:
-Jake Auchincloss
-Katherine Clark
-Bill Keating
-Seth Moulton
-Ayanna Pressley
-Richard Neal
-Lori Trahan
-James McGovern

Michigan:
-Dan Kildee
-Debbie Dingell
-Rashida Tlaib
-Shri Thanedar
-Haley Stevens

Minnesota:
-Betty McCollum
-Ilhan Omar
-Dean Phillips

Mississippi:
-Bennie Thompson

Missouri:
-Cori Bush
-Emanuel Cleaver

New Hampshire:
-Ann Kuster

New Jersey:
-Andy Kim
-Rob Menendez
-Donald Norcross
-Bonnie Watson Coleman
-Frank Pallone

New Mexico:
-Melanie Stansbury
-Teresa Leger Fernandez

New York:
-Jamaal Bowman
-Adriano Espaillat
-Hakeem Jeffries
-Yvette Clarke
-Gregory Meeks
-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
-Jerrold Nadler
-Nydia Velázquez
-Paul Tonko
-Dan Goldman
-Ritchie Torres
-Grace Meng
-Joseph Morelle

North Carolina:
-Alma Adams
-Valerie Foushee
-Deborah Ross

Ohio:
-Shontel Brown
-Joyce Beatty
-Greg Landsman

Oregon:
-Earl Blumenauer
-Suzanne Bonamici
-Valerie Hoyle

Pennsylvania:
-Madeleine Dean
-Mary Scanlon
-Summer Lee

Rhode Island:
-Gabe Amo

South Carolina:
-James Clyburn

Tennessee:
-Steve Cohen

Texas:
-Greg Casar
-Veronica Escobar
-Joaquin Castro
-Sylvia Garcia
-Lloyd Doggett
-Lizzie Fletcher
-Al Green
-Jasmine Crockett
-Marc Veasey

Vermont:
-Becca Balint

Virginia:
-Donald Beyer
-Gerald Connolly
-Jennifer McClellan
-Bobby Scott

Washington:
-Suzan DelBene
-Derek Kilmer
-Rick Larsen
-Marilyn Strickland
-Pramila Jayapal

Wisconsin:
-Gwen Moore
-Mark Pocan

Source: Newsweek

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@ijbailey Then you're following the wrong accounts, and likely don't know how to use the search feature.

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@cafreiman How do I define where my property begins and ends, if not for a border? Why wouldn't I want my government to follow the same concepts?

[On the Merits @ghettoverit]

@merissahansen17 Daniel Penny's persecution and trial taught every New Yorker to never get involved when their fellow citizen is in danger.

This is merely reflective of New York's values.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

INSANE! Kamala campaign advisor Lindy Li quits the Democrat Party: I don’t want to be part of this tent anymore. I don’t want to be part of this craziness. I want to be part of the team that treats me with common decency.

Li says she’s been the target of a smear and cancel campaign because she dared to ask questions about Kamala’s mismanagement of donor money that Li helped her raise.