Bliss in This Dawn

At this point, I don’t doubt that President Trump does intend to shut down the IRS. And if I was a federal employee offered the buyout, I’d take it, because it’s pretty clear that whoever doesn’t is going to get fired anyhow.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly extended a buyout offer to its entire workforce.

This follows President Trump’s proposal to encourage millions of federal workers to resign by February 6 in exchange for pay and benefits lasting until September 30.

Trump is offering the buyouts to make sure all federal workers are “on board with the new administration’s plan to have federal employees in office,” CNBC reported.

Only 6% of all federal workers actually work full-time in the office!

Trump’s offer does not include postal workers, military, immigration officials or people in national security roles.

A senior administration official disclosed that over 20,000 federal workers have accepted Trump’s buyout, a figure representing about one percent of the federal workforce and falling short of the White House’s target of five to ten percent.

“We expect more to come,” the administration official explained. “If you see what’s happening at USAID, it’s just one piece of the puzzle.”

Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!

For mighty was the President who now stands

Upon our side, we who were strong for Trump.

Bliss is it in this dawn to be alive,

And great to be American!

Col. MacGregor’s report may explain the implacable nature of the rapid reckoning: BREAKING: Reports emerging that USAID and the CIA have ties to Trump’s impeachment.

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The End of USAid

It very much appears that one of the financial pipelines to the Globalist agencies around the world is being shut down hard.

All overseas missions for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, have been ordered to shut down and all staff will be recalled by Friday, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News.

The newly appointed deputy administrator for the agency, Pete Marocco, met with State Department leadership on Tuesday and instructed them to get every USAID employee out of their respective countries worldwide by Friday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Marocco said that if the State Department did not, the staff would be evacuated by the U.S. military, the sources said.

The agency provides humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries, including disaster relief, health and medical aid, and emergency food programs.

When asked Tuesday whether he would wind down USAID, Trump told reporters, “It sounds like it.”

Very nice. Impressive! Now do the IRS…

In the meantime, those who are ignorantly crying that the President can’t shut down executive branch organizations, which he obviously can since it’s the branch for which he is responsible, also don’t know that USAid was created by Executive Order 10973, and can therefore be shut down by another executive order.

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Did No One Take Econ 101?

The Danish Prime Minister stupidly threatens to hit back at the coming US tariffs on the European Union. What we’re seeing here is the fundamental retardery and complete lack of a most basic education possessed by the mediocrities purportedly running Clown World.

The EU will be forced into a“robust response” if the US imposes tariffs on the bloc’s exports, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned on Monday.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on the EU unless the bloc reduces its trade deficit with the US by significantly increasing purchases of American oil and gas. On Friday, Trump reiterated his threat, saying he “absolutely” plans to levy tariffs on the EU and claiming that the bloc “has treated [the US] terribly” with its trade practices. He has not yet provided specific details regarding the targeted goods or the exact tariff rates, however.

Speaking to reporters ahead of an informal meeting of EU leaders in Brussels, Frederiksen warned that Trump’s insistence on placing levies on the bloc’s goods could trigger a trade war.

“I am not in favor of a trade war. I am actually in favor of the opposite, that we trade with each other… but it is clear that if there is very strong American pressure on the European market, we simply cannot do anything but respond harshly,” she stated.

Again, a trade war is MATERIALLY BENEFICIAL to any country with a negative balance of trade. So what the Danish Prime Minister is threatening the USA with is the net BENEFIT of transferring EUR 4.7 billion to the USA.

Now, most people don’t know anything about economics, particularly journalists and politicians. They know even less about economic history, which is why you’re going to see a few people attempting to look knowledgeable by referencing the Smoot-Hawley tariff, on which the stupid and the uninformed blame the Great Depression. Of course, I addressed this in my 2009 book on The Return of the Great Depression:

For many years, it was supposed that the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 played a major role in the economic contraction of the Great Depression. As more economists are gradually coming to realize, this was unlikely the case for several reasons. First, the 15.5 percent annual decline in exports from 1929 to 1933 was less precipitous than the pre-tariff 18.3 percent decline from 1920 to 1922. Second, because the amount of imports also fell, the net effect of the $328 million reduction in the balance of trade on the economy amounted to only 0.3 percent of 1929 GDP. Third, the balance of trade turned negative and by 1940 had increased to nearly ten times the size of the 1929 positive balance while the economy was growing.

The Pomp Letter has begun educating himself on tariffs and economic history, and has concluded that the mainstream hysteria is based on a foundation of ignorance.

Trump implemented a 25% tariff on steel imports in March 2018. His reasoning was related to national security, along with a desire to get US steel mills operating at 80% capacity or higher.

Naturally, the critics of tariffs would argue that steel prices should have increased by 25% or more post-tariff, but as you can see in this chart — steel prices increased through the summer (steel prices had already been skyrocketing pre-tariff too) and then began falling substantially. US steel prices eventually fell to price levels much lower than pre-tariff prices.

Why did the price of US steel decrease? Domestic manufacturing of steel increased by nearly 10% for the 2 years post-tariffs.

“The USGS data show that Trump’s tariffs may have helped goose domestic steel production in the first few years after they were implemented. Production rose to 86.6 million metric tons in 2018 and 87.8 million metric tons in 2019, before cratering in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Production bounced back in 2021, as American steel mills produced 85.8 million metric tons of raw steel that year.”

This means the 2018 tariffs worked — US manufacturing of steel increased and US steel prices dropped lower.

Obviously, the pandemic created significant issues for manufacturing and industrial companies, but US steel prices still sit right now at nearly the same level as they were pre-tariff. Most importantly, steel prices have not kept up with consumer inflation since 2018.

So now you have three concrete examples from the 2018 tariffs that show the critics were wrong. The tariffs led to lower prices, increased American manufacturing, more government revenue, and the creation of American jobs. Also, US inflation (CPI) fell from 2.1% in January 2018 to 1.6% in January 2019, so the tariffs didn’t lead to higher inflation either.

The USA will win any tariff war because it has been losing the free trade war for decades. America has literally nothing to lose in this regard.

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37-Zip

A dialogue at Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

Senator Kennedy: My colleague and friend Senator Durbin called you a conspiracy theorist. Do you remember that?

Kash Patel: I do senator.

You were instrumental in revealing that the Trump-Russia election collusion hoax was a hoax, weren’t you?

Yes sir, I was the lead investigator.

Sounds to me like we need to get some new conspiracy theories because all the old ones turned out to be true. Conspiracy theorists are up something like 37-0.

The correct response to anyone calling you “a conspiracy theorist” is “why, thank you!” Because at this point, it’s tantamount to describing you as a modern prophet or the Kwisatz Haderach. And it’s probably a good idea to ask your accuser why they believe being a complicity theorist is preferable to being aware of acknowledging the various conspiracies that obviously exist and are actively conspiring today.

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The Deep State Purge

The purge of the Deep State appears to have begun :

President Donald Trump has removed all the White House National Security Council (NSC) detailees and ordered a full review of new incoming staff. Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has fired 160 NSC staffers and is conducting a full review of new staff in a bid to retain those aligned with President Trump’s agenda. “National Security Advisor Mike Waltz promised and authorized a full review of NSC personnel,” NSC spokesman Brian Hughes said a statement to the Associated Press.

This also comes after President Trump on Tuesday pulled the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who penned a letter in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election falsely claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”

The so-called intelligence agencies are one obvious manifestation of the enemy, so it’s good that the President is focusing on them. Personally, I think he’d do well to simply shut them down and begin again from scratch, as whatever institutional knowledge and expertise they possess is irretrievably corrupted. And other than the Department of Defense and the Department of the Treasury, there isn’t a single government department that is absolutely necessary for the functioning of the Federal government.

In related news, it’s fascinating to see the international media openly reporting on Operation Northwoods, the Pentagon-approved plan to stage a false flag involving shooting down passenger planes and blowing up a US Navy ship in order to garner support for a war on Cuba which JFK rejected in 1962.

Chilling Pentagon documents may reveal why the ‘Deep State’ has always feared the release of the John F. Kennedy assassination files.

A 12-page report, signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in 1962, details a secret plan to commit heinous acts against American citizens to justify war with Cuba in the 1960s.

Code-named Operation Northwoods, this top-secret plot proposed enacting terrorism on US cities in a what is known as a ‘false flag operation’, before blaming Cuba in order to fool the Americans into supporting war efforts to oust communist Fidel Castro.

‘We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,’ the document states, among dozens of other violent ideas of how to incite American hostility against the island nation.

US officials even proposed killing their own soldiers, writing: ‘We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,’ and, ‘casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.’

JFK rejected Operation Northwoods when it came across his desk and was shot. A conspiracy theory surrounding JFK’s assassination claims he was killed by Israel which allegedly controls the US ‘Deep State.’

I wonder when the media is going to stop calling the factual reporting of documented events “conspiracy theory”. At this point, it’s not conspiracy theory, it’s the historical Law of Conspiracy.

LAW OF CONSPIRACY: When there is a contradiction between the official story reported by the mainstream media that exculpates government officials, large corporations, and public figures and an alternative explanation for the same event, the alternative explanation is always and inevitably closer to the truth.

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The End of Foreign Aid

President Trump has ended US foreign aid. Most foreign aid, anyhow. One guess as to the exception…

The US State Department has issued a halt to nearly all existing foreign assistance and paused new aid, according to an internal memo sent to officials and US embassies abroad.

The leaked notice follows President Trump’s executive order issued on Monday for a 90-day pause in foreign development assistance pending a review of efficiencies and consistency with his foreign policy.

The United States is the world’s biggest international aid donor spending $68bn in 2023 according to government figures. The State Department notice appears to affect everything from development assistance to military aid.

It makes exceptions only for emergency food aid and for military funding for Israel and Egypt. The leaked memo’s contents have been confirmed by the BBC.

“No new funds shall be obligated for new awards or extensions of existing awards until each proposed new award or extension has been reviewed and approved,” says the memo to staff.

It adds that US officials “shall immediately issue stop-work orders, consistent with the terms of the relevant award, until such time as the secretary shall determine, following a review.”

It also orders a wide scale review of all foreign assistance to be completed within 85 days to ensure the aid adheres to President Trump’s foreign policy goals.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio – the US’s top diplomat – has previously stated that all US spending abroad should take place only if it makes America “stronger”, “safer” or “more prosperous”.

This is a good start, but it all needs to be shut down. Permanently. There is absolutely no justification for a single penny to be sent to any nation or state outside the United States, especially given the precarious financial state of the federal government. It was a serious oversight by the Founding Fathers not to ban any and all foreign aid, especially given their opinion of the deleterious nature of foreign entanglements.

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How to Solve the Housing Crisis

When the population can be reduced by nearly 10 percent simply by sending the illegals home, you don’t have a housing crisis, you have a foreign invasion crisis:

As many as one in 12 people in London is an illegal immigrant, a shock report has claimed. The previously confidential study commissioned by Thames Water found that the ‘irregular’ population of the capital could be more than half a million.

Researchers at Edge Analytics used academic estimates of illegal migrants nationally as well as National Insurance registrations for non-EU foreign nationals over a nine-year period to estimate the numbers in each London borough. The study produced a range of figures from 390,355 at the lowest to 585,533 at the highest with a median figure of 487,944.

It suggested most illegal migrants arrived in the UK on work, study or visitor visas then overstayed. Many illegal migrants arrive in the UK on work, study or visitor visas and then overstay the limit.

What we have witnessed in our lifetimes is the complete failure of so-called representative democracy. The American Founding Fathers were right to be suspicious of what they called “mob rule” but as it turns out, the limited form of democracy that purports to be “representative” is even worse.

All systems fail in time, but the system of constitutional democracy has observably failed already. Its one theoretical justification was that it better represented the will of the people, which it very clearly doesn’t. And no amount of complaining about “authoritarianism” or any other perceived pejoratives is going to change that.

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It’s not just DIE

It’s not just Diversity Inclusion Equality. The Second Incarnation of President Trump is going after affirmative action as well. He’s releasing so many executive orders that even the official White House site can’t keep up.

  • Trump targets OFCCP in new anti-DEI executive order. Eliminates 1965 order that laid out agency’s work. President Donald Trump revoked the executive order underpinning the Labor Department office responsible for ensuring government contractors comply with anti-discrimination law and maintain affirmative action programs. In a late Tuesday executive order, Trump said the OFCCP must immediately stop promoting diversity and affirmative action, and cease “allowing or encouraging” contractors and subcontractors to engage in “workforce balancing” based on race, sex, color, religion, national origin…
  • President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Tuesday night challenging diversity, equity, and inclusion programming at colleges and universities in the U.S. in the latest blow to Harvard’s administration. Trump’s order, which comes one day after his inauguration, requires all executive agencies and federally funded educational institutions — including Harvard — to terminate any race or gender-based diversity programs that could be in violation of federal civil rights laws. “Institutions of higher education have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’” Trump wrote in the order.
  • “Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content,” the order states. Any State Department employee who violates the new policy will “face disciplinary action, including termination of employment or contract, or reassignment to their home agency.” The only other flags that will be permitted to fly are the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) emblem and the Wrongful Detainees Flag.

No more satanic rainbow flags or Negro supremacy flags. And the America First order is clear and unambiguous.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. From this day forward, the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.

Sec. 2. Policy. As soon as practicable, the Secretary of State shall issue guidance bringing the Department of State’s policies, programs, personnel, and operations in line with an America First foreign policy, which puts America and its interests first.

No nonsense about any foreign country, any foreign tribe, or even the United States per se. The American nation comes first, and its core interests. AIPAC and civic nationalists hardest hit.

The more one looks at the details, the more there is to like.

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It Was a Nazi Salute

Elon Musk’s intentional and very public Nazi salute is no different than Richard Spencer’s “Hail Victory, Hail Trump” performance after the 2016 inauguration. It was an attempt to damage Trump through the negative visual rhetoric of a fake supporter. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Elon Musk is an actor who plays the role of “the world’s richest man” as well as “elite PC gamer” and “corporate CEO”. All three roles are fake and the midwits who scripted his role never took into account that their conceptual model for the part, Tony Stark, spends most of his time in the lab, not playing corporate front man. He’s not on our side, or President Trump’s side, anymore than Richard Spencer, Ben Shapiro, Neil Gaiman, or Jordan Peterson are.

They’re not controlled opposition, they are fake opposition. And his assignment to attempt to undermine President Trump’s second term is the reason Musk isn’t hanging out in Hollywood trying to seduce yet another actress or singer.

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