What are the movie critics trying to hide? They never tell us how good the popcorn is.

Trump Reverses Biden's Ban and Opens 625 Million Acres for Oil Drilling!
February 15, 2025

□ [“Over $151 Million Intended for Soldiers’ Meals at 11 Major Army Bases Spent Elsewhere"]

And that's just the Army and that's just what's found so far.  But this is a direct impact on food and they are "government property."  If the NGOs can do that here, who else can they pull this on?  At some point, we'll realize that the only ones who aren't outraged, just by the info that's already come out in the last three weeks, are the ones looting our money.

This isn't a new idea, people are noticing that Bill Clinton and Al Gore promoted exactly this sort of purge of government expenses back in 1993.  CSPAN footage of Bill talking about this, National Archives listing their successes, Al Gore's "From Red Tape to Results:  Creating a government that works better & costs less - Report of the National Performance Review."  I'm sure Bill and Al wouldn't stand by any of that now, but at least they had to pretend in order to get Democrats in power.

Of course even as they reduced the number of government employees, they increased the number of contractors.  Bill also fired a lot of the top level employees to replace them with his own people.  I don't think this was how the "deep state" was created, it probably existed as long as the country has, but it was reinforced by leftists to infiltrate everything else.  I'm pretty sure that's what Clinton intended and Obama followed up on.  About the only question is if they knew they were doing this or just following orders, and if so, whose?

Pope Francis Hospitalized, ‘Struggling to Speak’
February 15, 2025

□ [“15,000 IRS Employees Have Been Identified for Potential Termination as Early as Next Week"]

A nice promotion for tax season.  It has around 90,000 employees, presumably these are not part of that.  I think these are probationary, as in new employees who haven't been assigned to a specific job yet.  But that would be 1/7 of the total number, a good start.  A couple hundred thousand probationaries are up for being fired, nice to hear.

One thing to worry about is how many people will use the (supposed) weakness of the IRS to get away with fraud.  Decent people won't, but face it, a lot of people will try, then Trump and co. will get the blame for letting it happen.  Someone's always going to blame them for anything and we can see those on the internet, but this is an place where that would genuinely appear legitimate.

But that's probably the case everywhere else.  Some chick in Congress is now ranting that we have to boil our water because of the purge at the EPA.  As always, they're showing off their own delusions and proving more evidence of why Trump is doing the right thing.  I do wonder if he and his people are giving attention to what policies need to be changed so that the required tasks can still be performed.  I'm sure there will be some that can't be eliminated, maybe even some that are helpful.

Much as we'd like to believe otherwise, there will still be more government than needed when Trump leaves office.  Even if there was, it'll grow back sooner or later.  That's what leftist totalitarianism does and four years of Trump isn't remotely enough to cut that out.  Not criticizing him, we've barely started four years and we're already amazed beyond belief, just that this is much deeper than any human can change.  Good start though.

Transgender Illegal Alien Arrested in New York For Raping Child in Public Bathroom
February 15, 2025

□ [“David Hogg Already Using His Position as Vice Chair of the DNC to Enrich Himself"]

Is he trying to set a textbook example of how leftists need victims to prey off of?  He's the same age as the DOGE technicians leftists are complaining about, but somehow is exempt from being too young.  He's using access to connecting Democrats to send them ads for donating to his own political action committee, which already pays him a higher salary that most Americans get.

He just got this job and has yet to actually do anything, but this is where he goes first.  He'd never had a real job before anyway, so it's not like he has any record to defend himself with.  Typical Democrat.  He obviously isn't interested in the older people, except to fund him.  Pretty sure Trump looked for DOGE workers who didn't have social lives, they like doing computer stuff as much as possible, so they made ideal employees.  But here Democrats have to put up with someone just like the rest of them.  Not a good sign.

Yet another sign of what bad shape the party is in.  I'm not one of those people that thinks the Democratic Party is over.  If nothing else, Republicans have way too many chances to screw up, including Trump.  But this is still more evidence that people will look at and ask how they got to this point.  It's also a natural part of the conflict between youth and age, he's just like they were but younger.  They know better and he refuses to listen.  Being a 25 year old male, he's probably also getting into, er, whatever gender he self-identifies as being attracted to.  More ways things can go wrong.

Some Democrats Already Admit David Hogg Was a Horrible Choice for DNC Vice Chair
February 4, 2025

Trump DOJ Fires 20 Immigration Judges
February 15, 2025

□ [“Obama Judge Considers Forbidding Trump From Accessing Federal Data or Firing People"]

Do it!  Show that the executive branch has to listen to you and obey, and by extension so do the majority of voters who wanted Trump to do this.  Let's see how that works out for you.  If I had to make a guess, I'd say she'll give in, realizing that this will not work out well for her, but it is possible that she'll push on with the delusion just to prove something to herself.  That was how the legal cases against Trump operated, realizing this was a bad idea and looking for someone else dumb enough to go through with it.

She was obviously picked for DEI so she might not be the one making the final decision.  Whoever she's calling or texting this weekend might be the one to point out that nobody's going to defend her from what happens next.  That's why I suspect she'll quit to save herself.  She couldn't get another job and what else would she do if she pushes this and it fails like it's supposed to?  Apply to USAID for a donation?  Helpful friends and family?

Not sure how likely it is, but how many judges will side with her?  The judicial branch gets the least attention for a reason, so we don't know how many others are appointed like her, for DEI or any other version of leftism.  This is something leftists have infused the system with for over half a century at minimum, and probably a lot longer.  I don't see an easy solution and I'm not even sure there's a good solution to be found.  But at least this will bring the problem to a head and if she doesn't, someone else will soon.

Greek Member of EU Parliament Delivers Epic Indictment of Socialist Policies:  “You Have Failed”
February 15, 2025