‘Wiped Out’: Trump Reacts (?) to Hamas Horribles’ Propaganda Parade of Hostages and Coffins

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See how much of this you can stomach. I managed to get through a full minute before shutting in down in disgust, but this Hamas rally using hostages and hostage bodies must be seen to be believed:

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Here’s a briefer look at the coffins:

Trump may have seen enough, too. Reportedly, he told his advisors that the US and Israel need to take off the gloves:

So far, there hasn’t been any confirmation of those remarks, so take this report with a grain of salt for now. It’s not too difficult to believe, though, that Trump said that in response to this flagrant defiance from Hamas and the humiliation of the hostages and their remains. Israel has warned Hamas before about the consequences of forcing hostages to participate in grotesque ceremonies. They still haven’t stopped doing it, since the previous warning came with no consequences:

Hamas has been condemned for parading the coffins of hostages in Gaza, with the United Nations rights chief saying the ‘abhorrent’ treatment of the October 7 attack victims ‘flies in the face of international law.’

Israelis are mourning the youngest hostages – baby Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel – as well as their mother Shiri and elderly captive Oded Lifshitz, whose bodies are believed to have been inside the caskets.

The four coffins were displayed to crowds in front of disturbing propaganda posters before being handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by armed Hamas fighters. …

Alongside the coffins, Hamas displayed mock munitions labelled ‘They were killed by USA bombs’ and a poster depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire – all part of Hamas’ message that Israel was to blame for the hostages’ deaths. 

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The UN, which spent the last 20 years supporting Hamas and even helping them hide weapons in UNRWA facilities, wagged its finger today about “international law”:

Condemning the horrific scenes, UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement that ‘under international law, any handover of the remains of deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, ensuring respect for the dignity of the deceased and their families.’

Turk’s a decade late and $50 billion or so short. The UN knew what Hamas was and is when it decided to partner with them in Gaza. They provided the funding and the cover for Hamas to turn Gaza into a human-shield militarized zone and allowed Hamas endless violations of “international law” without uttering a peep. Had the UN taken international law seriously, Gaza wouldn’t be in ruins, and the lives of these hostages would have been uninterrupted.

And yet the same people wagging their fingers at Hamas today insist that the only solution to the conflict is to create a state in which Hamas will inevitably seize power if left to rebuild. In fact, the same voices at the United Nations insist that UNRWA return as the international body to direct that effort, despite its complete corruption by Hamas. They want a return to the status quo ante that produced the October 7 massacres and the mass rape and kidnapping that resulted in this ghastly, despicable show today in Gaza. 

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Israel is again making it clear that they will not allow Hamas to control Gaza under any circumstances, and this grotesquerie shows why:

Israel’s main priority remains preventing the reemergence of an armed Palestinian force in Gaza, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar emphasized in an interview with Jewish Insider’s Lahav Harkov. Addressing former US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gaza’s Palestinian population, Sa’ar did not explicitly endorse the plan but acknowledged its potential feasibility.

“If someone wants to emigrate and another country is willing to accept them, that is a legitimate, moral solution,” he said. However, he stressed that Israel’s main priority remains preventing the reemergence of an armed Palestinian force in Gaza.

He added that Israel will not accept a ceasefire deal that allows Hamas to maintain control of Gaza or dictates the country’s security terms. …

“The fundamental issue is Gaza’s future—who will control it and how it will be disarmed,” he said. “Hamas is trying to replicate Hezbollah’s model in Lebanon, maintaining military dominance while outsourcing governance. That is unacceptable to us.”

It should be unacceptable to everyone. As long as Hamas remains in Gaza, a state of war will exist, no matter what Hamas promises in the short term. Hamas has broken ten cease-fire agreements with Israel and publicly proclaims its intention to annihilate it and the Jews entirely. Granting Gaza sovereignty while leaving Hamas in place is setting a fire underneath a pile of TNT.

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Sa’ar went on to prescribe a “root canal” for both Gaza and the West Bank after this display:

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar says that the “horrific and repulsive spectacle of twisted and monstrous minds” that Hamas put on during the transfer of slain hostages in Gaza this morning is evidence that all of Palestinian society must be deradicalized from “a deep sickness.”

“It is clear that the systematic poisoning of the younger generation in Palestinian society (in Gaza just as in Judea and Samaria) is eliminating any chance for peace,” he writes on X, using the West Bank’s biblical name. “A root canal treatment is required. The Palestinian terrorist armies must be eradicated and defeated. Gaza must be completely demilitarized.”

And just in case anyone doubts this wisdom and/or the nature of Hamas, look who came to the parade:

A Palestinian terrorist responsible for killing dozens of Israelis who was released from prison just days ago was seen in media footage at the Hamas handover of bodies of four slain hostages Thursday.

Mohammed Abu Warda, a former commander in Hamas’s armed wing, was serving 48 life sentences in Israel for masterminding multiple terror attacks that killed 45 people, including a 1996 bombing on a Jerusalem bus that left 24 dead.

He was released by Israel on February 8 along with other terror convicts as part of the ongoing hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group.

This calls the entire strategy into question — as should have happened after October 7. The Israelis set a high store on getting hostages back, and they pay a high price to do so. All that does is incentivize hostage-taking, and now the Israelis are paying for it with these spectacles intended to humiliate them. At some point, the Israelis have to make the price for hostaging the permanent and total defeat of Gaza and the destruction of its infrastructure until capitulation. That is the only way to end wars when one side insists on fighting for annihilation. 

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I Have Questions: $2B of the EPA Stash Zeldin Found at Citibank Was Going to Stacey Abrams

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That’s billions with a “B” designated for an organization ‘linked to’ the election-denying real Georgia governor and former President of Earth, Stacey Abrams.

Not that I don’t have anything against the woman’s perpetual hustles – girls gotta make a living, I guess. But why does it always seem to be taxpayers getting fleeced whenever that name comes up?

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Now, she hasn’t kept a low profile since the Trump takeover. She’s been busy doing her duty as a loyal drone to insinuate dark deeds afoot and sinister motives to every move that the president and his housecleaning sidekick make, even when she has to lie to do it.

For instance – I’d be happy if they could cite a single court order that’s been ‘defied’ as they claim. Every TRO attempt has been answered by a Trump legal response or challenge and settled accordingly.

It’s simply easier for the progressive foot soldiers to spew than attempt a reasoned argument with a fact or two thrown in for legitimacy.

So, only a week ago, brand new EPA head Lee Zeldin and his team had their own ‘Look what we found!‘ moment.

…Zeldin has referred the matter to the Inspector General & Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rushed job with reduced oversight. Even further. This pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion, with far less transparency. Just under $7 billion was sent to one entity called the Climate United Fund.”

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So what more about these entities has Zeldin and the DOGE team discovered once they started digging into the $20B slush fund?

One of them is tied to something called Power Forward Communities – sounds snazzy, huh? The questions start when one realizes this nonprofit, which was awarded two BILLION dollars of taxpayer money, was basically a start-up and only had a hundred bucks in the bank.

‘SCUSE ME?

DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.

The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant’s dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.

Power Forward Communities’ grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government’s oversight of the program.

The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin’s team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration’s green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris.

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How did Biden’s EPA even know who they were, less mind that they were worthy of a couple of billion of federal largesse aka Green grift?

One can only assume it was because the President of Earth was connected to the enterprise.

…Power Forward Communities was established in October 2023 as a coalition of groups led by Rewiring America, a left-wing group that advocates for electrification policies and a transition away from fossil fuel dependence. Abrams, who serves as Rewiring America’s senior counsel, said at the time that she was “thrilled” to be part of the Power Forward Communities coalition. “This is how we expand access to clean energy—by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” she wrote in an X post.

…In its only press release to date, Power Forward Communities said that, in addition to induction stoves, it would use the $2 billion received from the EPA to help install heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, solar panels, home battery systems, EV chargers, and weatherization upgrades.

“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out and out fraud,” Daniel Turner, the executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future, alleged in an interview with the Free Beacon.

Power Forward Communities lists a large number of partners on its website that it works with to implement its mission. Among its partners are the Southern Economic Advancement Project and Fair Count, two left-wing nonprofits founded by Abrams in the wake of her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election defeat.

(Abrams was never defeated – the election was stolen. Brian Kemp is a pretender.)

Stacey Abrams is also connected to a couple of the now multi-billion-dollar fledgling enterprise’s partners because Stacey Abrams *checks notes* founded two of those non-profit organizations.

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WELL…HUH

I’m sure it’s all above board. And right now, anyone questioning it on X or throwing shade at the rather obvious hinkiness of the entire pyramid scheme runs a good chance of being accused of both being a ‘stupid sheep’ and shamefully ‘dragging a black woman.’

Reading through all this, I have to admit I thought the Abrams angle sounded vaguely familiar and, by George, I had done something on her Rewiring America green grift two years ago that gives you some great background for this current situation. Old girl’s been working the climate cult government money for years now under the motto:

STACEY ABRAMS REWIRES AND INSPIRES

…Abrams is thrilled – thrilled, I tell you – to be a part of such important work. Bringing the message of climate change, renewables, and electrification to ignorant sods in communities all over the country, who didn’t know how unhappy they were with the appliances they own.

…“Rewiring America anchors our work in how the decisions we make around the kitchen table about the machines we use can save us money, make our homes and communities healthier, and reduce climate-harming emissions,” Rewiring America co-founder and CEO Ari Matusiak said in the release. “Stacey Abrams’ career of public service has hit all these themes and more. She’s a brilliant and visionary organizer who will accelerate our work and expand the audience for the benefits of electrification — the most equity-centered climate strategy we have.”

Abrams will work to assist the organization in connecting Americans and communities to “machines, installers, Inflation Reduction Act incentives, and jobs in the clean energy transition,” according to the release.

“I’m excited to join Rewiring America to share the benefits of electrification and ensure families get their fair share. I look forward to working together as we build the tools that will transform everyday Americans from energy consumers to energy moguls in their own communities,” Abrams said in the release.

You’ll notice the mention of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives there. She’s pushing spending our money to make us miserable, cold, and unhappy. Not to mention she’s “connecting” you to the people who’ll do the installing, etc., so she’s basically the annoying solar salesman who bangs every third day on your door already, only she’s salaried. What a peach.

And I’m not kidding about soaking the taxpayer – it’s what this whole Ponzi scheme is feeding off of.

…Co-founder and CEO Ari Matusiak attributed Abrams’ hire to her dedication to public service and said she is a “visionary organizer who will accelerate our work and expand the audience for the benefits of electrification — the most equity-centered climate strategy we have.”

Matusiak founded Rewiring America with Alex Laskey and Saul Griffith, who have all netted millions in buyouts or received significant federal funding for their environmental ventures, while they also simultaneously advocated for policies that would benefit those ventures through the nonprofit, according to Fox News….

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The climate scam and Green Grift were and still is ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.

Period.

That two billion bucks of ours that POTATUS toadies just handed to Stacey Abrams had to be the biggest score ever.

It’s beyond blatant and utterly disgusting.

Now, our cynical side would say this was surely a payout to a progressive buddy vice legitimate advocate group, and Zeldin is going to have his hands full trying to claw any of those funds back. Even though the bulk of the money is still unspent and lying there at Citibank, the way the Biden administration tied up the transfer is, apparently, going to make squashing the deals extremely difficult.

…Shortly before leaving office, Biden’s EPA parked the $20 billion located by Zeldin’s team and DOGE officials in an account at Citibank. While the eight recipients of the funding—which, in addition to Power Forward Communities, includes groups like Climate United Fund, the Coalition for Green Capital, Inclusiv, and Justice Climate Fund—have only tapped into a small slice of the funding so far, the arrangement restricts the Trump administration’s ability to claw the funds back, though Zeldin has made retrieving the funds a priority.

The Biden EPA is turning out to have been one big slush fund. Billions upon billions were handed out willy-nilly not to save the planet but to fund and reward Democratic and progressive functionaries under the guise of a climate change EMERGENCY.

It’s so funny how the only organizations that were equipped to handle climate change were ones that met certain Democratic and progressive parameters.

The senior Biden administration official tasked with directing former President Joe Biden’s $27 billion climate grant program oversaw a $5 billion grant from the program to his former employer, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Jahi Wise joined the Environmental Protection Agency in December 2022 as the founding director of the newly created Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or GGRF, according to his LinkedIn profile. In April 2024, while Wise served in that role, the EPA announced that it would award GGRF grants totaling $20 billion to just eight nonprofits, including the Coalition for Green Capital, a Washington, D.C.-based group that received $5 billion as part of the announcement and where Wise previously worked as the director of policy. There is no indication that Wise recused himself from that process.

…The revelation that Wise was involved in doling out a massive grant benefiting both his former employer and former White House colleague raises serious ethics and conflict-of-interest questions, experts told the Washington Free Beacon. Federal ethics laws place strict limits on officials’ involvement in matters involving past employers.

It also provides fresh fodder for Trump administration officials who have set the GGRF program and its massive grants in their sights. On Tuesday, Denise Cheung, the top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney’s Office, was forced to resign after she declined to open a grand jury investigation into the EPA’s GGRF program funding, CNN first reported.

“The story of the Biden EPA’s gold bars never stops,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin told the Free Beacon. “The waste and abuse was so deeply interwoven in the last administration that not only did the leaders who oversaw this not bat an eye at billions of your taxpayer dollars going towards partisan pet projects, but serious conflicts of interest were ignored. That should have raised red flags.”

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It’s the old Mafia saying in action – one hand washes the other. 

Only the Biden admin has been washing Green money with dirty, dirty hands.

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Draining the Biden Swamp: 6000 IRS Probies to Get Laid Off

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But it’s taaaaaaaaaax season, laments CNN. Indeed it is, and it’s time that the government stops being so taxing to its citizenry. 

Thanks to civil service rules, Donald Trump can’t summarily lay off the entire federal bureaucracy. He can, however, direct agencies to cut loose any bureaucrats still in their probationary periods, and that especially includes the IRS, where Joe Biden attempted to add 87,000 new employees to wring more cash out of taxpayers. Six thousand probies will hit the bricks today, according to CNN:

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The Internal Revenue Service is expected to fire about 6,000 workers Thursday, according to a source familiar with the agency’s plans.

The government workers who will lose their jobs were more recently hired and therefore have probationary status, making them easier to cut loose, the source said.

The IRS workers who will be fired are described as largely auditors and support workers involved in compliance work, many of whom were hired during the last months of the Biden administration.

Emphasis mine. If they are probationary, then they all would have been hired in the past year of the Biden administration. And for a specific purpose, too. 

As one will recall, Biden got the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents as part of his falsely named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which was in actuality a watered-down Green New Deal. How would adding 87,000 new IRS agents to drill down into taxpayer returns help fight inflation, after all? The purpose of those agents was to bully taxpayers into conceding disputed claims and rake in more money for Biden’s pet Green New Deal projects that the IRA funded, making the bill as close to revenue-neutral as then-Senator Joe Manchin required for his vote. 

In other words, this won’t do anything to the IRS except return it to the status quo ante 2023 — if that. It’s not clear how many of those 87,000 positions got filled early enough to lock in civil-service protections for Biden’s horde of auditors. And since we can expect Biden’s pet projects to get shut down soon through the DOGE-enabled spending cut-offs, we won’t need that extra revenue after all, either. 

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It’s worth pointing out too that the Protection Racket Media and Democrats (pardon the redundancy) have been shrieking over a few hundred DOGE workers gaining access to taxpayer records at the IRS, as well as at Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Those workers have to follow the same privacy-protection rules that apply throughout the federal government, of course. However, none of these same voices bothered to even question Biden’s plan to grant the same access to 87,000 people off the street in order to gin up funding for Biden’s pet Green New Deal projects. 

Now the most recent six thousand of that horde will get their walking papers today. That’s a good start at reversing the weaponization of government against the electorate, but it’s only a start.

Can this go too far, too fast? Sure, and we should be watchful for that, especially in the medical-assistance fields. At least at the moment, the layoffs have been confined to the probies, which means the impacts should be minimal in general, but could have deleterious effects in specific cases. Hopefully, Cabinet officials will remain vigilant to ensure that legitimate services remain unaffected while the swamp gets drained of the deadwood and worse. But it’s also worth remembering that Trump tried doing this through normal channels in his first term, and was rewarded with obstruction, insubordination, and the bureaucracy’s version of La Résistance. This time, Trump won’t wait around for that reaction to accomplish what he set out to do. 

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WaPo: The Science™ Says Trump Is Wrong on Sex Binary

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We have entered the “if Trump says it, it must be false” stage of discourse yet again. 

(Anti-)Scientific American has done the “Science™ says that sex is a spectrum” pieces, and now The Washington Post has thrown out its version of gender spectrum nonsense. 

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Mark Johnson, the Post’s “Pulitzer Prizewinning Science Journalist™,” proudly drops his anti-Trump screed in which he explains that Trump’s executive order that defines sex as binary is anti-scientific nonsense. 

He trots out the same tired arguments that we have been subjected to for years, none of which bear repeating because they all come down to handwaving in the service of alphabet ideology. There is nothing “scientific” about the arguments. 

Don’t trust me on this; here is the most celebrated biologist in the world to tell you so:

Johnson’s piece is just one in a long line of postmodernist-inspired redefinitions of reality to make it accord with the ideological desires of the cultural and political elites. These efforts have been going on for nearly a century in one form or another as an outgrowth of “critical theory,” and until recently, the efforts have been extraordinarily successful. 

DEI is the apotheosis of this movement–the direct effort to reorder society along leftist-preferred lines, transferring wealth and power from one group to another, and alphabet ideology is the apotheosis of DEI. 

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The problem, though, is that the closer “critical theorists” get to easily discerned reality–there are boys and girls, not a spectrum–the less persuasive it is. The ideas get so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. 

Johnson rests his argument–backed up by all the usual suspects–on the uncontroversial fact that there are genetic defects that occur leading to what is loosely referred to as “intersex” characteristics. 

Well, duh. Some people are born with only one arm or leg, or one kidney, or malformed body parts. That doesn’t change the fact that human beings have two arms, two legs, or one head. That there are exceptions to the rule doesn’t mean the rule doesn’t exist. 

And, of course, all of this is beside the actual point: Johnson and his ilk are arguing that literal boys with testicles, penises, and all the biological benefits of being born male should compete in women’s sports. 

All the rest is handwaving. The “well actually…” is a total distraction from a very basic issue: should be force women to get beaten up by men and be ogled by them in locker rooms?

All these people remind me of the sociologist I was talking to in graduate school who seriously explained to me that gravity was a “Western” scientific concept and didn’t really exist. 

I asked her: “If you walked out that window over there, would you fall to the ground?”

Her response: “Yes, but only because I was raised in Western culture and can’t shake the belief in science.”

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Reality either exists or doesn’t. You can’t change it by changing the definition of words. 

Americans are waking up to the fact that the people making these arguments are doing so in bad faith–that this is about power, not science or fairness. A smaller and smaller fraction of Americans is willing to listen to this nonsense. 

But the left can’t let it go, at least not yet. Using critical theory, they have taken the commanding heights of cultural and economic power. DEI grants fund them. DEI policies help them put their acolytes in positions of wealth and power. DEI helps them control the schools, academia, and corporations. 

DEI, NetZero, alphabet ideology, USAID, $2 billion grants to Stacey Abrams, the Clinton Foundation grift, the World Economic Forum, ESG–they are all of a part. 

So “Pulitizer-prizewinning Science Journalists™” have to pretend that sex is not binary. If they don’t the whole structure might come tumbling down. 

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Gayle King Crashes in Interview with Delta CEO

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Rule 1 in both cross-examination and in news interviews: Never ask a question for which you don’t know the answer. In fact, after watching Gayle King crash and burn in this attempt to blame Donald Trump for a Delta crash-landing in Toronto (!), perhaps the first rule should be: Don’t ask the questions at all if you don’t understand Rule 1.

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The CBS news anchor apparently hoped that Ed Bastian would be motivated to shift the blame for the accident, which miraculously resulted in no deaths. Instead, Bastian refuted the entire idea that the new Trump administration was cutting safety corners at the FAA — let alone the fact that the FAA has nothing to do with landing decisions in Canada:

The Delta flight involved a landing in another country under adverse wind and ground conditions, in which landing gear collapsed on impact with the runway. That has very little to do with the relatively small number of FAA personnel who have left their jobs in the US, none of which worked in air traffic control. In fact, Delta has been rather remarkable in taking responsibility thus far; they offered each of the Toronto passengers $30,000 to compensate for the experience with no strings attached. They can still accept the money and sue Delta, although they’re clearly hoping that the generous gesture will convince them otherwise.

As a number of people have pointed out on Twttter/X, the entire premise of the question is based on a lie. The number of air accidents has not risen over the historic norm since Trump’s inauguration. In fact, thus far they are somewhat lower than the past few years, as the NTSB data show, although the number of fatalities is up after the mid-air collision outside of Reagan International (via Twitchy):

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The difference between the numbers is likely statistically insignificant. Still, the last two months have seen a lower accident rate than the same months in the past several years, contradicting King’s suggestion that air safety is being put at risk. 

So why would King suggest the opposite of what the actual data shows on a news program? Perhaps CBS News doesn’t know how to access the NTSB data, although it’s certainly public and (fairly) easy to find. It took me all of five minutes this morning to navigate their website and find the Monthly Aviation Dashboard, where this official data set gets published and updated daily. I wouldn’t call it the most intuitive portal in the world, but it’s hardly the worst. 

If I can do that research on my own, why can’t the vaunted news division at CBS? 

The reason is that they don’t want to find the actual data, nor report the truth. They want to air propaganda that might damage L’Homme Orange Mal and don’t much care who else it might damage — like Bastian’s airline and all the other airlines that provide an extraordinarily safe method of mass transportation to Americans. CBS News was so anxious to push that narrative that they didn’t even bother to check with Bastian first before putting him on the air to advance it, which demonstrates that King and her team are as incompetent as they are biased.

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Newsweek actually did a better job of putting the data in context, although it took them a while. They also did a decent job of getting to the source of the hysteria, but didn’t connect the final dots:

Throughout the year [2024 — Ed], 1,415 aviation accidents were reported, including 257 fatal incidents. Of the 179 fatal incidents that Newsweek obtained records of, there were 306 reported deaths. The deadliest incident was a Pilatus aircraft crash in Recluse, Wyoming, which killed six of the seven people on board, including the pilot.

The increased number of reported crashes involving larger aircraft likely contributes to the perception that there are more accidents this year.

Additionally, videos and photos of crashes and collisions circulating on social media might be amplifying these concerns.

That’s part of it, and the DC crash was the first in a decade to involve as many deaths. However, the real driver of the “perception” that there are more accidents is the mainstream media attempting to push that narrative to punish Trump. Democrats in Congress are part of that hysteria as well, hoping to leverage that hysteria to cover the fact that they are intellectually bankrupt and rudderless. L’Homme Orange Mal was their only message in 2023 and 2024, and so far it’s their only message in 2025.

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They have no shame, and they have no credibility. And they wonder why the American public trusts used-car salesmen more than they trust the Protection Racket Media.

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Yikes! Democrats Hit Lowest Approval EVER

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If I didn’t think that the Democratic Party was an organized crime operation determined to pillage the country and enslave most people, I would feel sorry for them. 

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But they are, so I don’t feel a bit sorry for them. I am thrilled to see that nearly 8 out of 10 Americans think that Congressional Democrats are worthless putzes, or worse. 

This news comes from Quinnipiac University’s latest poll, which is hardly right-leaning to begin with. According to the RealClearPolitics Pollster scorecard, Quinnipiac tends to make fairly large errors that lean toward the Democrats almost all the time. Over the past decade, Quinnipiac leans about 7 points leftward. 

The poll shows the country as divided as ever on most issues, with few people having anything but strong opinions on any issue. Nobody is wishy-washy right now. You love Trump or hate him. You love Elon or you hate him. 

The on thing that seems to unite everybody, though, is that Congressional Democrats suck. 

Twenty-one percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, which is an all-time low, while 68 percent of voters disapprove and 11 percent did not offer an opinion. The Quinnipiac University Poll first asked this question of registered voters in March 2009.

In today’s poll, 40 percent of Democrats approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 49 percent disapprove and 11 percent did not offer an opinion.

Forty percent of voters approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job, which is a record high, while 52 percent disapprove and 8 percent did not offer an opinion. The Quinnipiac University Poll first asked this question of registered voters in March 2009.

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It’s not like Quinnipiac has produced a pro-Trump poll, either. Their approval numbers for Trump are lower than most pollsters, showing him underwater on all the major issues and in overall approval. They have Trump underwater on immigration, the economy, foreign affairs, DOGE, and on all his appointments.

But STILL, their sample shows that everybody hates the Democrats even more. 

That’s just remarkable. The more you think about it, the more remarkable it is. A left-leaning poll that shows an approval rating spread for Trump almost 7 points lower than the RealClearPolitics average, and the Democrats still come out as the most hated people on the planet. 

Quinnipiac’s polling analyst put the results this way:

“It’s a sobering slap down of historic proportions for the Democrats in Congress. Their Republican counterparts take a victory lap as the Democrats try to get their footing,”

Could it get any worse for the Democrats?

Yes, yes it can. DOGE is coming for their illicit funding streams, and the outside Democratic Party donors are looking at the current crew in power and thinking they are losers. 

It can get much, much worse for the Democrats. If Trump really does cut off the Democrats from their licit and illicit sources of funding, the party could face a historic collapse. 

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Of course, don’t get cocky. Cornered rats are unpredictable and dangerous, but at least we have them cornered. 

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Wednesday’s Final Word

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Closing the dancing tabs …

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Ed: THIS IS IT! This is the devastating blow that the Left has been looking to land! I’m not sure one could put the concept of impotence into interpretive dance better than this. 

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Trump’s overall positive approval is thanks to Republican numbers being majorly boosted in recent years, [CNN’s Harry] Enten went on, especially among young voters.

“Look at what’s happened in February of 2025. Look at this: Republicans, there are more Republicans in the electorate than there are Democrats. Republican plus two,” he said. “So Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate. They’ve turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans. New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican leaning.”

Ed: Well … the Left will always have the interpretive-dance demo, anyway. I may do more wth this tomorrow, though.

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Ed: They’d do better with interpretive dance, frankly. If these studies are worthwhile, let Congress debate and vote on them. 

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A common critique of DOGE is: “Why does this matter? The spending data was already available on USASpending.gov! Why didn’t anyone pay attention before?” Prominent figures like Mark Cuban have echoed this criticism.

This criticism reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how databases and data indexing work. The raw data has always existed, but accessibility is what transforms information into insight. That’s why I built award search and name search on DataRepublican.com—to make the data searchable, useful, and actionable.

Ed: This is a key point that people who don’t deal much with data sets will miss. The data existed, but not in a comprehensive relational-database form that would allow for full analysis. That’s what DOGE built and why we can now trace all of this spending and all of the connections within it. Be sure to read all of the explanation.

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DOGE-led mass firings of federal employees are tearing at the promise of job security that’s come with government work for more than a century.

Why it matters: Millions of federal workers are now feeling the same kind of job anxiety more familiar to those in corporate America, including the tech sector, where Elon Musk’s firing playbook is far more common.

What they’re saying: “This is not the same government it was a month ago,” a longtime federal employee told Axios, requesting anonymity because they’ve accepted the administration’s “deferred resignation” offer and don’t want to jeopardize it.

Ed: So? Why should public-sector employees have any more job security than those in the private sector? That may have made sense in an environment where compensation was lower than in the private sector, but that hasn’t been true for decades. Taxpayers are not required to fund the bureaucratic state as if it were an entitlement program.

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Ed: Er … does Buttigieg really think that Democrats’ radical-woke agenda will play with tradwives? Has he ever experienced the tradwives communications? This sounds like someone mentioned “tradwives” to him and Buttigieg wants to sound hip with it. But he might have better luck with this next group …

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When Nicole Daedone co-founded OneTaste in 2004, she presented it as a facilitator of female pleasure and power. OneTaste emphasized “orgasmic meditation,” or OMing—a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking practice meant to foster focus, connection, and mindful sexuality. OMing can help people “discover richer relationships, an embodied sense of self and the uncompromised feeling of wholeness,” the OneTaste website advertised in 2009. To OM, “one person strokes another person’s clitoris for 15 minutes with no goal other than to feel the sensation,” it said in 2018.

There was no mention of snakes. Or magic. Or sex trafficking.

Ed: But do they use interpretive dance to achieve their desired state of bliss? Maybe even the tradwives might be interested in the answer!

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Is the US Position on Taiwan Changing?

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Even as the Trump administration is trying to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine (and saying some things in the process that aren’t remotely fair), the administration also seems to be hinting it is changing the US’s long-held position on Taiwan. The change to a State Department fact sheet was small but significant.

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The fact sheet, produced by the department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, previously stated that the U.S. opposes “any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.”

However, in the updated version published on Feb. 13, the line stating that the U.S. does not support Taiwan’s independence had been removed.

The updated paragraph now reads: “We oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side. We expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means, free from coercion, in a manner acceptable to the people on both sides of the Strait.”

That wasn’t the only change on the State Department site.

The State Department website has also been changed to add a reference to Taiwan’s cooperation with a Pentagon technology and semiconductor development project and to say the U.S. will continue to support Taiwan’s participation in international organizations, “including membership where applicable.”

China has consistently opposed Taiwan’s membership in international bodies such as the World Health Organization.

The website changes were praised by Taiwan, whose foreign minister, Lin Chia-lung, said in a statement Sunday that his ministry welcomed “the support and positive stance on U.S.-Taiwan relations” that they demonstrated.

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This may not sound like much but China is prone to freak out over the least divergence from its preferred narrative on this topic. They treated it as a very big deal.

The United States has “gravely backpedaled” on its position on Taiwan and sent the wrong message to “separatist forces” on the island, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said…

“We urge the U.S. to … stop emboldening and supporting Taiwan independence and avoid further damaging China-U.S. relations and the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait,” Guo said when asked about the revision at a daily media briefing.

This certainly seems like a move in Taiwan’s direction but some observers have argued that Trump’s position on other foreign policy issues including Ukraine and Greenland are undermining the case for keeping China out of Taiwan.

“Trump’s rhetoric is doing China’s work for it in Taiwan,” said Ryan Hass, a China and Taiwan expert at the Brookings Institution and a former national security official in the Obama administration.

“With each statement by Trump that degrades the principle that territorial boundaries must not be redrawn by force or coercion, propagandists in Beijing likely are giving each other high-fives,” Hass said…

This is fueling fears in Taiwan that Xi might try to launch a military invasion of the island — using the same justification that Trump uses when talking about Greenland, for example — and making it more difficult for Washington to credibly object.

If the United States is threatening other nations with its military might, said Wei-Ting Yen, a political scientist at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s national academy, “then what’s the moral ground on which we can say China cannot invade Taiwan?”

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These seem like reasonable points but, again, the moves by the State Department seem to be pushing in the other direction, letting China know that they cannot assume the US will stand by if it launches an invasion. Trump has frequently said of Ukraine that the war would never have started if he had been president. So maybe he hopes to make sure that’s true of Taiwan for the next four years. But you also have to appreciate the tight spot Xi Jinping is currently in. 

China’s president, Xi Jinping, had hoped to win international hearts and minds through the Belt and Road Initiative, its global trade plan to build an international network of countries receiving Chinese investment. But as China’s own economy is weakened by a real estate crisis that started in 2021, the aim of showing Xi’s success through economic means is not working out as hoped.

The other avenue for Xi to enhance his reputation as leader is to bring Taiwan back into the Chinese fold. Since the Chinese Communist party came to power in 1949, various Chinese leaders have made reunification with Taiwan a long-term goal. So, if Xi could return Taiwan to China, he could be hailed domestically as one of the greatest leaders the country has ever seen.

If China’s plan to reunify with Taiwan was already a major challenge, Washington’s altered stance on Taiwan independence and overt opposition towards coercion or the use of force makes this task even more difficult for Beijing. This could weaken Xi’s image and undermine his rule further (and may of course be part of Trump’s agenda).

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I’m all for weakening Beijing and Xi, but the old warning about cornered animals may apply here. We’re applying tariffs which will hurt the already struggling Chinese economy and we’re warning them about action against Taiwan. Will China decide it’s best not to start a fight it can’t win or will Xi lash out in a bid to boost his legacy as a powerful leader? I’m not sure we know the answer to that one at this moment.

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Canadians Talking Tough About ‘Not Kissing the Ring of the Gangster From ‘Mar-A-Lago’

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Looks like Trump’s really got Canadian poutine in a pother.

The North country has gone…um…savage.

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GACK

Tough guys.

This is all in response to two things – Trump’s retaliatory tariffs on Canadian goods and his masterful trolling of their weak-kneed, flibberty-jibberty prime minister, Justin Trudeau…who is still inexplicably prime minister even though he promised to resign in a tearful press conference some time ago.

I guess it’s hard to quit a good gig when it’s hockey season.

But as far as the tariff war goes, the Canadians, for all their umbrage at the thought of Trump dissing Fidelito and adding our own, are way ahead of us in that department.

And I do mean ‘way ahead.’ I had this in the headlines earlier as a little primer on what Canadians have been charging Americans to import our goods to Canada.

Feast your eyes on how our dear neighbors – the ones now crying ‘foul’ and whining about gangsters – have been soaking us for decades.

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…Dairy Products: Milk: 270% 

Cheese: 245% 

Butter: 298% 

Other Agricultural Products: 

Chicken: 238% 

Sausages: 69.9% 

Barley seed: 57-57.8% 

Industrial Goods: 

Copper: 48% 

Aluminum: 45% 

Steel: 25% 

Consumer Goods: 

Cars: 45% 

TVs: 45% 

Eggs: 163% 

Wheat: 94% 

Bovine/Meat: 26.5% 

Source : Global Affairs Canada 

We started the trade war. Most Canadian businesses are taxed heavily by the government and couldn’t survive without imposing tariffs on the USA. This is the price of socio-communism.

Governor Trudeau wasn’t kidding when he told Trump the Canadian economy would collapse if Trump dropped tariffs on their goods. No kidding! Probably a quarter of their GDP – if not more – is raised off of tariffs on US farmers and manufacturing.

Makes poor little Honduras living off of remittances from illegals working here look pretty good by comparison.

OH, HELLO

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So if Trump follows through with his threats because Fidelito doesn’t have the strength of character to cut down on the border crossings or the fentanyl doing the same, maybe it’s just as well Canadians were making so much virtue-signaling noise about staying home.

The threats aren’t really being treated with much respect here in my neck of the woods. Plus, our governor is waaay more studly than yours.

We’re already surrounded by Canadian plates and those accents. Schmaybe these folks didn’t get the message about staying in the frozen north and we won’t miss the virtue-signalers a lick.

Granted, there are places sweating a Canadian travel boycott. I guess they count on that money because they have shifty, miserable governance and need the foreigners.

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Like Michigan. 

The state put out a public relations piece in an online travel industry magazine that pleads so nakedly for Trump to back off and, I guess, for Canadians to forgive Michigan – ‘We didn’t do it!’ – that it’s downright embarrassing.

Grow a pair, people.

 US Tariffs Spark Devastating Canadian Travel Boycott Threatening Michigan’s Tourism Industry

US tariffs have triggered a devastating Canadian travel boycott, putting Michigan’s tourism industry at risk with potential revenue losses and economic turmoil.

The recent announcement of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods has ignited a strong backlash among Canadian travelers, leading to widespread cancellations of vacations to the United States. Michigan, a state that relies heavily on Canadian tourists, stands to lose millions in revenue as a result of this growing boycott. With Canada serving as the top international source of U.S. visitors, a decline in Canadian tourism could severely impact Michigan’s tourism sector, which contributes significantly to the state’s economy.

…Michigan’s proximity to Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, makes it a favored destination for Canadian travelers. Over one million Canadian tourists visit Michigan annually, contributing to the state’s $26 billion tourism sector. From border towns like Sault Ste. Marie and Port Huron to major cities such as Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan’s economy depends on these visitors for retail, hospitality, and tourism revenue.

However, the ripple effects of a Canadian travel boycott are already being felt:

  • Mackinac Island: Tourism officials fear the cancellation of Canadian vacations could devastate local businesses, including hotels and restaurants still recovering from the pandemic.
  • Port Huron and Sault Ste. Marie: Retailers in these border towns rely heavily on Canadian shoppers, who routinely cross the border for goods and services. Many businesses now expect sales to plummet.
  • Detroit Casinos: A significant portion of Detroit’s casino clientele comes from Canadian tourists. With the boycott in full swing, casino revenues are anticipated to drop sharply.

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The 4 Nations hockey tournament this weekend didn’t hurt US self-esteem either. 

Boo our national anthem, will you, you rude, maple syrup-chugging posers?

Gloves off.

As for boycotts, we still have the best medical facilities here – as in ‘not-socialized’ so you can see your US doctor when you need to aka sometime this year, and he won’t even encourage you to kill yourself to save the government money. You’re still coming.

Boycott, schmoycott.

Come to think of it, Canadians come to the US for hockey, too, even when the gloves stay on.Canadians Talking Tough About 'Not Kissing the Ring of the Gangster From 'Mar-A-Lago' 18

Good luck with the boycott.

By the by, didja know the 4 Nations championship hockey game is tomorrow night.

Guess who the teams are.

SCHWEET

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Schools Scramble in Response to Letter Calling on Them to Do Away with DEI

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Last week the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent out a letter to all 50 states telling them they had two weeks to rid their schools of DEI initiatives or face investigations and potentially cuts to their federal funding. Here’s a sample of what the letter said:

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The Department will no longer tolerate the overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this Nation’s educational institutions. The law is clear: treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal under controlling Supreme Court precedent.

As you would expect, states are still responding to the letter, partly because blue states don’t want to go along with this and partly because two weeks is not much time for educations bureaucrats to do anything at all. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, gave an interview to NPR in which she rejected the fundamental premise of the letter.

Fadel: Is structural and systemic racism that minority communities face in the United States, particularly Black Americans, a false premise as this letter states?

Jackson-Hammond: If the premises were false, then there would be no need to have these kinds of support systems for all students. We have to go back and look historically at what America has done to alienate or to keep students of certain race or certain culture from the educational experience. If it were never identified as such, then the need for diversity, equity and inclusion would not have been needed.

Fadel: Describe to me some of the diversity, equity and inclusion programs, what they do and what their goal is. If they’re not around, what happens?

Jackson-Hammond: Too often we focus just on diversity. And the second part of diversity, equity and inclusion is equity, which means fairness. How do you present policies, practices and procedures that are fair to everyone, including faculty, staff and students?

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It sounds to me like education bureaucrats plan to fight the contents of the letter. Indeed, some states are already suggesting they plan to drag their heels. For instance, in Michigan:

Michigan isn’t planning to abandon diversity, equity and inclusion programs in K-12 public schools just yet, despite a Trump administration order to get rid of them by the end of the month or risk losing federal funding…

State Superintendent Michael Rice said the Michigan Department of Education “continues to support diversity in literature, comprehensive history instruction, and broad recruitment to Grow Your Own programs for students and support staff to become teachers.” He said reviewing the letter “will take time.” 

The same report makes clear that DEI material is already rampant in Michigan public schools.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District “is looking into our practices and lessons to make sure they are anti-racist, include students’ voices, and relate to their experiences, history, and lives”, according to the district’s website. 

Ann Arbor Public Schools has an “equity plan” that centers dignity, belonging and well-being.

A professor at USC says schools across the country are scrambling to find ways to continue DEI efforts without losing their federal funding.

Shaun Harper, a professor of education and public policy at University of Southern California, said the decision has been highly stressful for education officials. 

“It has required them to scramble to determine ways to maintain their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion without losing their federal funding. So right now, all across America, including here in California, millions of educators are literally scrambling to figure out how to balance those two things,” Harper said…

“The next two weeks ahead will be chaos in our nation’s schools and on college campuses, as many educational leaders, out of fear, will go and scrub their websites and attempt to rename programs and services,” he said 

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I think he’s probably right that what will happen in the short term is a lot of rebranding and scrubbing of websites. The DEI efforts won’t disappear but public mention of them will. This is what we’ve seen universities do in response to laws passed by states limiting DEI initiatives. If the Trump administration really wants to rid public schools of DEI it is probably going to have to follow up the DOE letter with investigations.

Here’s a local news report about Portland State University whose director of Global Diversity and Inclusion claims the school is already in compliance. Uh-huh, I bet it is.

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