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Opening Salvo

In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson fired half of all federal employees, ridding the young government of President John Adam’s Federalists. So, I ask the following question: If President Thomas Jefferson can fire “half the employees” of the federal government, why can’t President Donald Trump do the same? Does the law, or for that matter, the Constitution treat one Chief Executive different than another?

The Washington Policy Center published a scathing article on September 18th, 2024, detailing the miserable failure of a key provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The act was passes in 2021 and included a provision to bring internet access to rural and underserved areas. Last I checked no one, as in ZERO have been connected to high-speed internet. None, nada, zip. The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program was headed by Vice President Kamala Harris. The program, more aptly called Biden’s Internet for None, is yet another example of the inept leadership of Harris, who along with her Border Czar duties, has been a complete disaster. It is mind boggling to me that 74,999,166 Americans cast their vote for this profoundly unfit politician.

Normalizing Political Violence AND Murder

I often read media reports with a grain of salt. This time, I need a front loader to believe what I was reading on a Newsmax website. On April 7th, 2025, Journalist Charlie McCarthy reported that Rutgers University Social Perception Lab (whatever that is) and The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) released results of their survey designed to assess support for political violence. The results supported the idea that political violence targeting President Trump and Elon Musk are “becoming increasingly normalized.” And in a spectacular display of the insanity of the self-identified leftists, they indicated that it would be at least somewhat justified to murder President Trump. In fact, 55% of those surveyed said murder would be justified, and 48% said murdering Musk would be justified as well.

Rutgers and NCRI suggested that “a broader assassination culture appears to be emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left.”

That any Americans would condone and even support murder of elected official is beyond insanity. My wish is that respondents to the survey were videoed as they provided their answers, and we gather them all up and ship them to El Salvador’s mega prison for life.

Best we as a nation be rid of them before some of them pick up a Glock or AK47.

Hats off to our Secretary of Defense

Did you feel the ground shake as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a long overdue and monumental change to the admissions process for our nation’s military academies? In a grand reversal of Biden-Harris policy, his recent announcement detailed that the admissions process would no longer consider gender, sexuality, non-binary-ism, religion, minority status and other woke credentials. He stressed that the admission process will be revamped to accomplish two objectives – merit and lethality. Only the best and the brightest need apply, which means no one identifying as gender-queer, no bearded men in cocktail dresses, pumps and lipstick at West Point, the Naval Academy or the Air Force Academy. To state the obvious, this change is monumental and long overdue.

Likewise, all drag shows are prohibited on any US military property anywhere in the world.

Why Can’t Democrats Truthfully Answer this Question?

We have all read about the hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud, waste and abuse uncovered by President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, commonly referred to as DOGE. Spearheaded by Elon Musk, his team has uncovered shocking government expenditures that goes way beyond anything rational.

As you review the short list I provided below, ask yourself this question: How do these expenditures provide a benefit to the American people?

Daily, Americans are presented with DOGE uncovered expenditures such as:

$43,300,000 (USAID) – Supporting programs to build an inclusive and capable workforce, with a special emphasis on public health and climate change sectors in Egypt

$17,300,000 (USAID) – Providing the Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program to students in Burma

$10,300,000 (USAID) – Supporting male circumcision programs in Mozambique

$2,000,000 (USAID) – Supporting gender-affirming healthcare and LGBTQ+ advocacy in Guatemala

$600,000 (USDA) – Supporting a study on the menstrual cycles in transgender men

$25,000 (DOS) – Funding a transgender opera in Colombia

$68,000 (DOS) – Funding dance class workshops in China

Yet I have read of no Congressional Democrats, not even one, who agrees that there has been massive waste of American taxpayer dollars. I could not find a single article in support of rooting out waste, fraud or abuse. I’ve concluded that the Democratic leadership, the ones who authorized these expenditures in the first place, are saddened and spitting mad that their plans have been discovered and stopped cold. Why can’t one member of senior DEMOCRAT leadership defend DOGE and their record of finding and stopping absurd expenditures?

Newsome is Hoping to Step into JFK’s Shoes

Admittedly, he is a good-looking guy, even though he is related to Nancy Pelosi and is a complete jackass. He is adept at kissing babies while kicking hard working parents in the teeth through never ending tax increases and burdensome regulations. When shining his pearly whites, he fits the bill for a charismatic leader, though he lacks a moral compass and true understanding of what it means to be a good leader.

Under his leadership, residents of California have the highest taxes in the nation, the highest price of gasoline and a homeless population that increases each year. Add to that, MediCal, the state welfare program keeps shoveling taxpayer funds to illegals. Business regulations have strangled thousands of businesses that owners have chosen to migrate OUT OF THE STATE to greener pastures in lower taxed, lower regulated states.

Newsome is a national political liability that needs to be put out to pasture. He has done enough damage to California to last three lifetimes AND it might never recover.

Funny how deep blue states have the highest taxes, the most debt and the most regulations choking off businesses as small as the corner shoe store and as large as multi-billion-dollar corporations.

This Time – I Will be the One Leaving 

Media reports that the incompetent Illinois Governor – J.B. Pritzker and Congresswoman AOC are front runners in the Democratic party. Oh LORD, spare us the pain! Should the unthinkable occur- and they reach the White House in 2028 – I AM OUTTA HERE!

Where do I begin? The State of Illinois is a financial basket case. To say they have ongoing budget challenges and significant debt is like saying a skid row bum, strung out on heroin and cheap whisky has a problem. Point in fact; the Governor has consistently failed to take responsibility for Illinois’s budget deficit. Instead of working to improve the lives of his constituents, he spends billions on illegals and calls for war against everything that President Trump is trying to accomplish, bellowing that he will fight the President at every turn, and we must take to the streets to defeat the President’s agenda. This man is an obstructionist and has little skills to properly govern and keep to a budget.

State Representative Dave Severin (R-Benton) summed up Pritzker’s leadership this way: “Governor Pritzker has been the head honcho of illegal immigration since taking office, supporting sanctuary state policies, and spending billions of taxpayer dollars on illegal migrant services. Instead of acknowledging that these policies have significantly contributed to our state’s financial decline, the governor used his Budget Address to blame President Trump for Illinois’ financial woes. That is not how an executive demonstrates ownership over significant financial problems facing our state. What happened to, “The Buck Stops Here?”

State Representative Dave Severin went on to say: “It’s been record spending budgets and tax hikes year after year,” Severin said. “Socialism doesn’t work. It’s been tried. No matter who is trying it, you eventually run out of other people’s money. We are seeing citizens and businesses leaving the state, taking their families and jobs with them. There is a direct relationship between our high-tax, high-spending government policies, and the outmigration of our citizens. Today’s proposed budget fails to consider that our citizens are tapped out, and tired of the same failed policies.”

Pritzker would do well to enroll at the University of Chicago and take the following courses:

• What every politician should know about budgets
• Taxpayers resent their tax dollars being wasted on illegal aliens
• When you raise taxes on businesses and citizens – they leave your state
• Incompetent politicians guide to government reform

As for AOC, I remember my grandpa telling me that even a broken clock, with no hope of ever being fixed, is right twice a day. To put that in perspective, there are 1,440 minutes in each day, and AOC is right during two of those minutes. Should you dare to take a walk down Roosevelt Ave in Queens N.Y.- epicenter of her Congressional District, you will find Homeland Security, ICE and SWAT teams on the hunt for imported terrorists, drug dealers, gun runners and prostitutes. I’d walk Times Square at midnight before I would stroll down portions of her district. As for her legislative acumen, AOC is one of the least productive members of Congress yet has a large social media following. It appears that she does a better job being a progressive socialist influencer than being a prudent and thoughtful representative of her constituents.

Americans are Furious at Democrats Priorities

Whether blue collar or white collar – Americans who work hard earning money for their families are furious at the cavalier attitudes, sheer incompetence and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars under the Biden-Harris Administration.

Whether an oil rigger in North Dakota, a farmer in Indiana or a tech executive in Silicon Valley, Americans work to put food on the table, dollars in the bank and improve the lives of those they love. When they learn that the Biden/Harris priorities were to export DEI, CRT and transsexualism to foreign nations, in the forms of grants to NGO’s they are angry beyond measure that their federal tax dollars are used to export ideologies they don’t support.

Americans expected the Democratic Party to protect America, use taxpayer money wisely, rein in wasteful spending, protect our borders and create economic growth. Instead, they learned that Democrats favor giving sanctuary to criminal illegals, dismantling our borders, placing porn in public schools, social security benefits to illegals and trans shows for grade school children. Meanwhile, our roads are crumbling, bridges and tunnels are in disrepair and our airports unsafe.

Our military was ordered to be gender affirming, inclusive and tolerant of non-binaries and transexuals among their ranks. Democratic leaders forgot that the mission of the military is to be lethal and ready to defend America’s interests. Additionally, the scale of fraud, waste and financial abuse uncovered by Musk and the DOGE team is beyond stunning.

Never did I dream that Biden and Harris were this deeply corrupt and capable of such despicable actions and total disregard for American taxpayers’ money. I am disgusted at the behavior of democratic leadership believe it’s time for many of them to be indicted.

And don’t get me started on the caravan of Progressive Democratic members of Congress making the trek to El Salvador to get a terrorist released.

Oil Companies Learn how to Improve Their Bottom Line in California

How does a company fight extreme regulations and a hostile regulatory climate? Most folks would not expect giant oil companies to improve their bottom lines by closing shop. Yet that’s exactly what Chevron, Valero and Phillips 66 are doing in California. Valero (170,000 barrels per day) will take a $1.1 billion charge against earnings to shut down their Benicia refinery in April 2026.

Phillips 66 (139,000 barrels per day) is ceasing operations at its Wilmington plant. The announcement by Phillips came serval days after Governor Newsome announced additional regulations on oil refineries. Make no mistake, a 309,000 barrel per day reduction in crude oil refining capacity is beyond significant. It is alarming the politicians in Sacramento who are scrambling to reassure oil companies that California does not actually hate them and want to put them out of business.

Phillips has already closed its Los Angeles refinery. Chevon announced it is relocating its headquarters from San Ramon California to Houston Texas, given the ever-increasing regulatory burdens created by Californias one-party Democratic rule. Additionally, 600 high paying California jobs disappear to Texas.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, California consumes approximately 1.85 million barrels of crude oil per day. Media sources indicate that in the 1970’s California had between 40 to 50 oil refineries. Today the number of large refineries in seven, with 4-5 smaller refineries holding on.

The state’s onerous climate policies have every oil company with operations in California rethinking their strategies and question whether they can continue to profitable operate in the state. California has created a hostile and aggressive regulatory environment for oil and gas companies and these companies are voting with their feet, shuttering operations and moving out of the state. In plain English, California has done their best to discourage investment in a sector where citizens have few choices. The state’s electrical grid is at risk, I see no windmills on cars and the price of energy is the highest in the nation. When Californians realize that half of their refineries are set to close and their gas prices skyrocket again, they will look to their politicians who blame only the greedy oil companies and wonder if it’s the insanity of their elected representatives that has screwed them once again.

It Never Occurred to him that he could be Wealthy 

A short while ago I was reminded why relatively few Americans attain wealth. I gifted a copy of my book; 18 Wealth lessons to a someone I often saw at my gym. In fact, he works their full time. He laid the book down on a corner table and thanked me. The next week, I happen to notice the book was still sitting there, untouched. The next week, still untouched. It was at that point that I took back the book to see if he would even notice it was gone. He didn’t. Meanwhile, he works, week in and week out making a survivable wage and never thinking to pick up a book and learn how to improve his financial situation. My mentor Dan Kennedy noted that very few people will ever pick up a book, much less actually read it, if it has the word wealth in the title. Maybe that’s one reason why relatively so few people are wealthy?

Facts are OBJECTIVE – Truth is whatever Democrats Say It Is  

To listen to Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ocasio Cortez on their Oligarchy Tour must seem like listening to The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour while enjoying LSD. They rail against capitalism. The old Socialist and the attractive young fireball are a spectacle to behold when they take to the stage and spew their dogma to a rabid audience that Donald Trump is acting unconstitutionally by deporting terrorist gang members without lengthy court processes, or that he has no authority to make deep personnel cuts in the executive branch departments. They preach lawfare yet speak with forked tongues. Cortez’s Congressional district is a cesspool of crime and prostitution, with illegals roaming the streets, terrorizing hard working legal Americans. HEY AOC, why is it a radical idea to deport illegal migrant criminals? Would you rather they stay in YOUR DISTRICT and vote for you?

Ask yourself if Democratic members of Congress are supporting most Americans who want safer communities, boys out of girl’s locker rooms, secure borders and honest elections, or are they just supporting the Democratic Party?

Actor James Woods purportedly calls AOC not only an idiot, but an arrogant idiot. I think he’s on to something! Understand that despite the venom and verbal vomit spewed by this Socialist pair, they do not represent mainstream America.

Make no mistake, the pair will attract a following, mostly those who expect the government to care from them for decades while they work from home, getting DoorDash to deliver their meals because they never learned to cook or venture outside where most Americans congregate. You can’t assume they will have little impact – so it best to prepare for the worst – that stupid Americans might vote this pair more power.

They will make the tour of today’s Marxist indoctrination camps – colleges and universities mostly in blue states. There will be lengthy news clips of them standing on soapboxes, waving their arms to cheering throngs of college kids, whose mommy’s and daddies sent them to college to be brainwashed and graduate with no useful skills, except government work. Why otherwise sane parents would throw $80,000 to $100,000 per year for their children to be indoctrinating by leftist woke professors is a mystery.

Should reality smack them in the head, they may realize that the very buildings they riot in or attend class, were built and donated by the very rich- those successful men and woman who chose to give back and use their wealth for the betterment of mankind. The science buildings. The libraries, the student unions, all built with donated money from past alumni.

Shackled to an Outdated Concept

I grew up in a Democratic household. My mom and dad voted Democrat as long as I can remember. After some internet digging, I found the policy platforms of the Democratic Party in 1960. The Democrat Party stood for these ideals:

National Defense: Deterrent military power such that the Soviet and Chinese leaders will have no doubt that an attack on the United States would surely be followed by their own destruction. 

Intelligent Tax Policy: The new Democratic Administration will plan for an orderly shift of our expenditures. Long-delayed reductions in excise, corporation, and individual income taxes will then be possible. We can also step up the pace in meeting our backlog of public needs and in pursuing the promise of atomic and space science in a peaceful age. (“1960 Democratic Party Platform – The American Presidency Project”)

Foreign Trade(tariffs): Our Government should press for reduction of foreign barriers to the sale of the products of American industry and agriculture. These are particularly severe in the case of fruit products. The present balance-of-payments situation provides a favorable opportunity for such action. (“1960 Democratic Party Platform – The American Presidency Project”)

Wow. Some of these platform ideas are like my dad’s old fat and skinny ties. If you keep them in the closet long enough, they will again come back into style! Today’s Democratic party is losing their minds over tariff policy, taxing the rich so they pay their fair share and lowering the defense budget.

A Little of This and a Little of That 

Just to be clear: If you are a citizen of El Salvador, and you are locked up in El Salvador, you are home.

Another one bites the dust. Skype, owned by Microsoft, has now gone the way of the answering machine, carbon paper, cassette recorders and telephone booths. Microsoft has migrated all octogenarian users over to Teams.

I heard that Congressional Democrats in El Salvador says they won’t come home until Garcia is released from prison. That’s a GOOD THING!

Democrats, with moral certainty, cling to the ideal that every illegal alien should receive a court hearing before being deported. If we increased the size of the judiciary by 10,000%, we could never hope to give 14,000,000 illegals their day in court in the next 150 years.

I have a question: If DOGE has uncovered all this mind-boggling abuse and fraud at government agencies, why have I not read about any indictments and folks receiving prison sentences?

They walked all over Biden, now Putin and XI are licking their chops at the notion of AOC becoming America’s President.

Hey AOC, do you think the Founding Fathers would be proud of the cesspool your constituents call home? You focus on everything except improving their lives and the safety of their families. Your constituents don’t need you jetting off with Comrade Bernie Sanders on an Oligarchy Tour.

Darn it! When a Democrat Hollywood blowhard leaves the U.S. for good, I expect them not to come back- ever! Seems Richard Gere and family’s move to Spain at the end of 2024 was not as permanent as he said it was. Media reports tell us he is coming back. I really wish these liberal asshats would stay true to their word and leave and NOT come back.

White Trash and deceitful U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is spewing theories that the Trump Administration is responsible for the Mexican navy tall ship collision with the Brooklyn Bridge. He stated that it was partly to blame due to DOGE cuts to the US Coast Guard. This political piece of trash will never stop blaming everything on our President. I am amazed that the idiotic New York voters continue to re-elect him. The United States Coast Guard rejected the Senator’s claim.

The Path to America’s Bankruptcy

In case you missed it, Senator Bernie Sanders re-introduced the Medicare for all act that has failed in Congress again and again. This time, it is co-sponsored by House squad member Primala Jayapal (D-WA) and representative Debbie Dingell(D-MI). While the propaganda surrounding the bill says that “Every American has the right to healthcare– period – The press release from Representative Dingell states that “The Medicare for all act builds upon and expands Medicare to provide comprehensive benefits to every person in the United States. Notice, it does not say every American citizen, it says every person, who I assume includes every illegal migrant that has not been dispatched to their native country yet. Media reports indicate the approximate cost of these benefits would be $32- 34 trillion over the next decade. This is yet another example of left-wing socialists attempting to bankrupt America through uncontrolled spending. Our nation’s debt is at a tipping point right now – $34-$36 trillion – imagine if you doubled that over the next decade. The result? Bankrupt America.

Biden Could Have Done All This – He Didn’t 

Biden and Harris insisted they needed Congress to act to secure the border; Trump did it in 100 days without Congressional action. Illegal border crossing ae down more than 90% year over year. How do you explain that Mr. Biden? How do you explain that Ms. Harris?

President Trump secured the release of the last American hostage being held by Hamas. The Biden Administration could have done it, why didn’t they?

The Biden Administration could have created their own version of DOGE and rooted out hundreds of billions of dollars of government fraud and waste. Why didn’t they?

Do the Math

I suspect that north of 20 million illegals gained entry to America over the four years of the Biden Presidency. It will take a Herculean effort to get them out. Here are some numbers to contemplate if we set the goal of removing about 14.5 million illegals during the Trump Presidency:

40 planes packed with 250 illegals per day flying out of the U.S. This is 10,000 per day, or 300,000 per month.

Times 12 months equal 3.6 million illegals expelled from the U.S annually. Times four years equal 14.5 million illegals removed from the U.S.

By The Way: It’s been reported by the media that President Obama deported some 5.3 million illegals during his two terms in office. Clinton, another 3 million. Yet the Dems were not setting their hair on fire over that. Why not? President Trump has deported less than 200,000 illegals at the time I write this, and the Dems are losing their minds. Anyone care to explain this to me?

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How many times have you seen Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, Ayanna Pressley, and other deranged politicians get on their soap boxes and wail about the destruction of America and the end of democracy? 

To hear Congresswoman Maxine Waters scream at folks that Elon Musk is stealing their grandmothers’ Social Security checks and using the money to build rockets is downright hilarious and about as likely as me having a romantic dinner with Taylor Swift.

What they all have in common is an unhinged belief that theirs is the only path forward and that Republicans carry the sign of the devil in their hearts. To be clear, here is what these pathetic, wretched members of Congress think will save democracy:

• If we can just end the Electoral College
• If we can just put an end to DOGE and Elon Musk
• If we can just censor free speech
• If we can just do away with parts of the Constitution that we disagree with
• If we can just ban voter ID
• If we can just allow all illegal aliens to become voting citizens of the United States
• If we can just jail President Trump
• If we can just make sure the federal government pays for all abortions and transgender surgeries
• If we can just outlaw gas-powered vehicles
• If we can just add nine more justices to the Supreme Court
• If we can just make Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, the 51st and 52nd states

Their goal is disgustingly simple—a single-party socialist state with them in charge.

That is how they want to save democracy. Now I ask you, do you have friends, colleagues, or family members who believe as they do? Is there a reason these folks are still in your life and that you even speak to them? So I’ll be blunt and ask this. What does it say about you and your beliefs that you tolerate people who hold these beliefs?

You Do What’s Best for the Country – Not Your Party

This is a lesson that many in the Democratic Party refuse to learn. Simply put, American taxpayer dollars are not theirs to spend without consequence. I’ve come to the conclusion that many Democratic members of Congress support the looting of the American taxpayer. Why else would they be up in arms as DOGE ferrets out waste, fraud, and abuse among over a thousand NGOs? Don’t they want America to spend its money prudently? Aren’t they in favor of rooting out abuse, fraud, and waste? Don’t they want to send lawbreakers to jail for stealing taxpayer funds? Why are they so offended when the media reports that $90 million in stolen government funds was discovered and clawed back, and that the Attorney General is on the case to put the perpetrators behind bars? How can you convince me that they are serving the American people and not their own party’s interests?

If You Can’t Sell your Trucks, Hire a Dragon

Honestly, I haven’t a clue what truck brand was being advertised on a TV commercial I saw. But I watched it twice, for no other reason than it included a fire-breathing dragon. Yes, America’s truck manufacturers have taken to employing mythical creatures to sell their pickups. Here is the scene. Some muscle-bound, blond-haired hunk is driving through the desert in his EV pickup.

Suddenly, a flying dragon sets the air on fire with its dragon breath. Miraculously, the hunk defeats the dragon with a light saber electric sword. While the hunk is still steering the truck, the scene cuts to the truck towing a super large barbecue with a dragon’s head and tail sticking out of the ends. All the while, a bear driving another truck is seen trying to run the blond-haired hero off the road. Finally, the magical truck, presumably made in America, vaults over an active volcano that’s spewing lava. Folks, you can’t make this shit up.

Now, a couple of observations.

First, the truck-driving hero of the day appears to be a romance novel cover reject designed to lure lonely women. Second, the dragon was, well, really cool and memorable. And who knew that EVs have plug-in light sabers and that bears can actually drive? And last, I have no clue who spent the money on the commercial—Ford, Chevy, GMC, Toyota? What a waste of money!

Why not have a spokesperson just stand up next to a shiny new truck and count off all the reasons his truck is superior to all the others?

NATO: Eyes Wide Open 

It should not have taken this long but I am glad to read that 80% of NATO members have agreed to increase military spending by 30% or more to provide a much higher “force posture.” This spending increase would never have occurred under a Harris-Walz administration where everyone is holding hands, singing, and urging member states to pay for gender reassignment and place tampons in men’s bathrooms. The reason to have a military is to protect the member states and maintain a staggeringly lethal stance so potential adversaries will think twice before engaging in acts of war.

No one but Donald Trump could have made this spending increase happen, suggesting that the United States might end or lower its NATO commitment unless member states step up and fund the organization in full. In a speech that Vice President JD Vance recently gave in Germany, he provided a wake-up call to Europe, telling them to get their military house in order because they cannot rely on America to come to their rescue either financially or with war material as we did in the Second World War.

Europe has the ability to defend itself, and now it must find the political will to do so. Vance made it clear that the United States will no long tolerate NATO member states underpaying their commitments and getting a free ride from America.

The U.S. Institute of What? 

Odds are you never heard of this governmental agency that declares itself not a government agency. It’s the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) that was originally created in 1984 by Congress as a nonpartisan, independent body. The organization owns its DC headquarters and employs a couple hundred people. Now here is where it gets interesting. The organization is funded by Congress and proclaims that it is not part of the Executive Branch or subject to its authority. In other words, it is funded by taxpayer dollars but they claim they are immune from oversight.

On February 19, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order mandating that the agency reduce its activities to its statutory minimum immediately. The employees failed to do as they were told. That’s when President Trump, acting as the Chief Executive of the United States, fired 11 of the 15 board members.

This saga will play out in federal court over the next few months, but it will be interesting to see what unfolds, especially with Republican leaders in both the Senate and the House firmly in tune with the President’s agenda. I suspect they will learn that rogue bureaucrats in any agency will not be tolerated under the Trump Administration. I see it as similar to McDonald’s philosophy—there are NO rogue hamburger makers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Rock Island, Illinois; or Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. You get with the program and do what you’re told or you are out on your ass. Period.

By the way, the Heritage Foundation spoke up about USIP last year for being nontransparent in its programs and operations and supporting progressive Democratic causes and projects.

Where Else but California?

Was it a negligent barista who caused a cup of hot tea to fall on a customer’s lap, scalding his thigh and groin? We might never know, but what we do know is that Starbucks has to cough up

$50 million after losing a California court case. My guess is that they will appeal, but I am confident that the lunatic asylum that calls itself California will end up fleecing the corporate giant for no other reason than they can.

This reminds me of the lawsuit against McDonald’s because their hot coffee was too hot. They ended up paying $2.86 million because a senior citizen accidentally spilled coffee on her lap.

Bits ’n’ Pieces

Kudos to Vice President JD Vance for suggesting that Election Day be declared a national holiday, complete with voter ID required for everyone and paper ballots for all. My guess is that this is the Democrats’ worst nightmare.

One of my New Year’s wishes came true! Liberal trash Rosie O’Donnell left America for Ireland. Now she’s their problem.

Ask me why I’m happy. I’ll tell you why. For the first time in four years, America has operational control of its borders.

Dear Fox News: You are part of the problem. Will you dimwits STOP posting daily pictures of AOC across your media platforms? We all know she is an intellectual moron, but you keep splashing her likeness for everyone to see, thus increasing her popularity. PLEASE STOP! 

Hunter Biden has recently been stripped of his Secret Service protection detail. While vacationing in South Africa (don’t all broke people vacation there?) it was reported that he had 18 agents on his security detail, all paid by American taxpayers. As dear dear Hunter is no longer making a killing selling his trashy works of art, perhaps he can beg Daddy for a loan to pay for hired guns. Oh, and sister Ashley’s 13 government bodyguards are also being re- assigned. My guess is these actions have saved American taxpayers well over $1 million per year.

Extreme Transparency Is NOT Unconstitutional

On a daily basis, DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—finds tremendous amounts of fraud and abuse in federal government agencies. We are talking entitlement fraud on a massive scale. Elon Musk characterized their analysis at the Treasury payment center as “getting into the pipes.”

I for one am glad that his team has uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars that have been going out the door for no reason other than “Well, we always did it that way.” Meanwhile, the Democrats are screaming that Musk is stealing funds for his billionaire buddies. No, he is uncovering incompetence on a truly unprecedented scale. And the transparency is what has Democrats crying and screaming foul.

How do you stop the fraud? You shine a bright light on it for all to see.

In a recent interview, Elon Musk shared that he felt his team was uncovering waste and fraud in these terms: 80% showed incompetence, and 20% showed malice. Honestly, I don’t know which is worse. His team is uncovering hundreds of millions of dollars of payments to illegals from Social Security, HUD, SBA, and other agencies. My fear is that this is just the tip of the iceberg as the further his team digs, the more rot they find. The amount of money tossed down the federal toilet is truly unprecedented.

A Trip Down Memory Lane: They Used to Be Called Service Stations 

We were all excited as Mom and Dad packed us into the car for a special vacation. I remember all of us being happy in the back of the station wagon for a trip to Bear Mountain in upstate New York. We stopped at a Mobil gas station (in the 1960s they were called service stations because they actually provided service). The gas station attendant, in a neatly pressed Mobil uniform complete with matching cap, would come out, talk to my dad through the open window, and proceed to fill up the tank, check the oil and tire pressure, and wipe the front and back windows. No tip was given or expected, and a full tank was less than $5.

What Liberals Will NEVER Tell You

The days of hiring people based on their skin color or sexual orientation for who they like to bed down with are reaching their end. I agree with many that a meritocracy—hiring folks based on their abilities—makes a whole lot more sense than hiring someone because of where their parents grew up or the fact that despite their six-foot-three-inch frame they look good in heels, lipstick, and a cocktail dress.

I’d feel a whole lot safer getting a vasectomy from a board-certified urologist who graduated near the top of the class based on their abilities than a DEI hire whose skills were mediocre on their best days. Whether progressive liberals will ever confide that they want the person with the best skills and experience to operate on their children is doubtful, yet I don’t believe for a minute that they will allow a DEI hire to cut into their son or daughter to provide a lifesaving surgery.

My hope is that all Americans will wake up to the poisonous nonsense that the left has been spewing for years and aggressively vote them out of every office they currently hold.

Did Fred Trump Teach His Son Persistence? You Bet!

On what planet do folks think that Fred Trump taught his son Donald to climb as high as he has? Donald Trump stands toe to toe with Vladimir Putin and other despots on a weekly basis. He is not intimidated by any world leader and has learned how to give as well as get.

Did Dad teach Donald how to do that?

Perhaps some portion of that skillset was picked up watching Dad deal with New York City construction unions, the teamsters, and endless city council members looking to line their own pockets. My guess is that young Donald had a ringside seat watching a master negotiator at work. Fred Trump gave Donald a seven-figure head start, not eight figures.

Did Fred Trump teach son Donald how to have a smash TV hit with 20 million viewers or how to become a billionaire? How about how to have his own clothing line at Macy’s? How about writing almost a dozen books? Did Dad teach him how to build and operate grand hotels, casinos, and golf courses? And my biggest doubt—did Fred Trump teach Donald how to become President of the United States? My guess is no.

As a parent, I hope my kids reach to the sky, but I doubt they learned flying from me. What I hope I did instill in my kids, as Fred Trump instilled in his son, is how to persist, how to set goals, and how to not give up when challenges inevitably block their path.

All success is learned.

We are not endowed with the knowledge of how to win an election, how to earn a billion dollars, or how to score the leading role in a Hollywood blockbuster. President Trump set his eyes on specific goals and worked tirelessly to achieve them, bringing in expertise he did not have and leveraging everything he could to claw his way to the top. He persisted despite multiple lawsuits and assassination attempts.

Bringing this discussion full circle, I did not become successful by growing up on New York’s lower east side, going to a dilapidated high school with 5,000 kids, or attending a backwater state school in the middle of nowhere, achieving average grades. I didn’t become successful living in a crappy ground-floor studio in Flushing Queens and commuting one hour every day to a dead- end job with little chance of advancement.

I became successful using the same openly secret formula as President Trump. I read. I set goals. I persisted. I never stopped learning. I didn’t let obstacles block my path, and I never ever gave up on my dreams. What sets successful people apart from everyone else is their ability to see what does not exist, to fix that idea in their mind, and to work tirelessly toward that goal without giving up.

I’m Not Impressed

On a recent trip to Walmart I asked three different associates for help finding some items. I was surprised that not only the first person I asked but also the second and third people didn’t speak English. I would have thought that Walmart actually hired people who can speak our native language but I was proved wrong over and over again. What’s interesting is that 10% of my county identifies as Hispanic and Spanish speaking. Said differently, 90% of the county population is English speaking. I guess Walmart didn’t get the memo.

Restoring Fiscal Sanity

Teaching transgender and queer urban farmers about “food justice” is not my idea of a fiscally responsible America. That bureaucrats in the Biden Administration misspent so many billions of dollars of taxpayers’ wealth is mind-boggling.

 Perhaps squash or rutabagas are racist? If you can honestly explain to me why the federal government squandered $8.5 million on a consulting contract described below I will buy you dinner at Morton’s Steakhouse. Here is the official description of the project:

Funds will be applied to the “fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business services; rethink, realign and reskill the workforce; and enhance program delivery through a number of transformational initiatives.”

If these funds were allocated to corporate America, I think they could have paid for this out of their own budget. If, on the other hand, it was to support innovation among DEI programs in Botswana, then hand me a sledgehammer to break the absurd contract.

The Divided States of America

Imagine, if you will, American states as kids in summer camp, competing in a variety of sports, activities, and the infamous “color war.” My guess is that the cool kids—Montana, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Florida, Idaho, and Texas—would kick the asses of California, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington (both of them), and Oregon.

My imaginary color war and tug-o-war, red versus blue, would be a Herculean task with bruised egos, bloody hands, and lots of crying—mostly from Illinois, Oregon, and New York. Oregon would prance around in pink and yell foul. Illinois Governor Pritzker would fall flat on his face in a mud puddle, his fat behind sticking up for all to see. New York Governor Kathy Hochul would be crying in a corner ’cause folks aren’t listening to her.

This is a telling image of what’s become of our disjointed union of states. I fear if there were an actual Constitutional Convention, many states would not bother showing up, just to boycott the whole process.

Some of us may be brown, Asian, Latin, or black. Some are born a boy or a girl.

But we are all Americans, and we should start acting like it.

Political Asshat of the Month

Welcome back to asshat of the month. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) went on Meet the Press and proclaimed that President Trump’s actions are an attempt to “destroy the rule of law.” He went on and actually decried that what Trump is doing is absolutely insidious. But here is the craziest part of his outrageous, poisonous, sanctimonious attacks on the President: “He is every single day acting unconstitutionally, he is trying to destroy the rule of law . And for what? To essentially hand our government to the billionaire class so they can steal from us. There is a level of corruption in the White House that is absolutely unprecedented.”

The fact that Elon Musk is taking time away from running his companies to help the President root out waste and fraud across all departments of the federal government is a godsend. Years of Democratic control of the gears of bureaucracy have created a spend-and-waste mentality that must be ripped out by its roots. Trillions of dollars of Americans’ precious taxpayer dollars have been flushed down the toilet with no accountability.

The fact that the Trump Administration is forcing accountability across the entire Executive Branch of government is both refreshing, crucial, and welcomed. Idiotic senators such as Chris Murphy ought to stand up and thank the President for bringing back responsibility, common sense, and accountability to government.

Instead, Murphy rails against cutting wasteful programs that achieve nothing and don’t help Americans.

Ye Old Curmudgeon’s Corner

Shortly after George Washington and I sailed the Delaware during that snowy day in 1776, I commented to him that more needed to be done to showcase the best of America, its people, and principles of freedom. Fast forward to today. We see mass media outlets doing their best to tear down America and its elected leadership. I get the whole independent media 4th estate argument, but to spearhead and spread disinformation is akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.

Their objective is to create untrue narratives, sway opinion in a dishonest fashion, and simply spread lies. This is not a hallmark of independent journalism. It is characteristic of yellow journalism at its worst. The fact that Trump’s Press Secretary has demoted many a media outlets serves as a shot across the bow that dishonest reporting will not be tolerated and that there are consequences.

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Welcome to Equal Opportunity Times #98. There’s been some discussion about what I should do when I reach my 100th edition of the Equal Opportunity Times. I haven’t reached any decision yet and am open to any thoughts you, my dear readers, might have. Here are some of the suggestions put forth so far:

• Compile them into a sequel to the Erasing America book
• Just ignore it and keep on writing
• Take a cruise to Indiana
• Get a haircut and shave off your beard
• Take a writing class
• Stop writing – you made your point

So if you have any suggestions, I am happy to entertain them. Simply email me at EOCritic@ProtonMail.com and tell me what’s on your mind.

California’s $20 Fast Food Increase Law an Utter Failure

California Assembly Bill 1228 was a clusterf**k from the get-go. The law mandated a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers and the creation of the Fast-Food Council.

Surprisingly, Woke University of California at Berkeley released a study confirming what non- Democrats suspected. Well, those with a brain stem told the politicians that this would result in increased menu prices AND thousands of lost jobs. Guess what? A Berkeley Research Group study released on February 18, 2025, just confirmed it. After passage of the law, between June 2023 and June 2024, 10,700 fast food jobs were lost, and menu prices soared 14.5%.

According to the California Globe, the study debunked the idea that the new law created jobs. Automation increased dramatically as restaurant owners utilized mechanization and AI to replace costly employees. A Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that 89% of affected fast food establishments cut employee hours in the first three to four months of the new $20 minimum wage. It’s reported that over 1,000 California fast food restaurants closed after the law took effect.

What’s incredible is that the left-wing politicians in California refuse to see or understand the law of unintended consequences. They refuse to understand that business owners vote with their wallets and choose instead to move their operations to a more business-friendly state such as Nevada, Texas, or Florida.

Politicians never have to meet Friday payrolls, pour over P&L statements, or spend time requesting loans from bank loan officers to keep their operations afloat. They know of none of this and yet voted to increase expenses for business owners while not offering them anything in return. Were the fast-food employees directed to be 20% more efficient, effective, or knowledgeable? No, of course not. They simply got more money for doing the same thing they did before.

Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh

So why would I do it? I hadn’t done it in probably fifteen years, but there I was, curious about what I was missing. I typed in the website address carefully—Onion.com—and what was staring me in the face? It was an article detailing how our new Secretary of Defense had sent 3,000 US troops not to the Southern border but on a beer run! I just stopped and laughed like jolly ol’ Saint Nick. So if you want a giggle now and then, check out this website and remember that not a word is true, probably…

President Trump’s Speech to a Joint Session of Congress 

Wow! As political theater goes, I’ve never seen better. Trump was at the top of his game in his speech to a joint session of Congress, even as Democrats sat stone-faced, lifting paddles with messages that MUSK STEALS, nary a word whispered among them. Some were dressed in pink to draw attention to the fact that they hate everything the President stands for, including reducing illegal immigration, lowering inflation, unleashing America’s energy, and rooting out federal fraud, abuse, and theft.

Even during moments when family survivors of murdering illegals were recognized or a spotlight was shone on a young boy with brain cancer, the Democrats sat there, not a one supporting the President. When a child was presented with his own Secret Service badge, there was not a show of support anywhere on the Democratic left. It’s as if the Democrats have lost all their humanity in a show of solidarity—a message that they despise everything Republicans stand for. Even the talk of balancing the budget—no visible reaction whatsoever because all their wasteful spending on special interests and NGOs would grind to a halt.

While the political theater was top-notch, I was deeply embarrassed as an American at the lack of humanity of all the Democrats seated in the chamber. My guess is that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer instructed them to never show support or they would lose their committee assignments

If Only This Were True!

Banning butter knives? If liberal progressives had their way, this staple of the family dinner table would go the way of the telephone booth and the typewriter. It seems they are all up in arms over the unsharpened accoutrement that butters our bread at dinnertime.

Apparently, a few Squad members learned of an attack at a holiday festival in São Tomé, a small African island nation that sits atop the equator. The nation has a population about half that of Wyoming. In the 1900s, it was best known as an exporter of cocoa and dubbed the Chocolate Nation. Apparently, it has fallen on hard times as global trade took a sharp turn and left the nation in the weeds.

That doesn’t sit too well with the ruling clan who took to attacking relatives with butter knives at a recent religious gathering. Word is that four men were severely buttered-’n’-battered and the island is considering a ban on all butter knives. How the Squad learned of this fiasco is beyond me. Must have been written up in the New York Post!

Yes, that was a little fun fiction…

Biden’s Department of the Interior Found Itself in a Pickle

First, let me say that I am truly impressed by President Trump’s choice for Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, former Governor of North Dakota. He will spearhead the administration’s goal of unleashing America’s energy and natural resources. He will be unlike Biden’s Secretary of the Interior who greenlit the development and construction of 5+ acres of Las Vegas land for thirty brand new pickleball courts that the local community opposed.

What We Worry About

As we all know, the super-rich are not like us mortals. Those with billions to spare have different worries than you and I, although there are a few commonalities sprinkled about. Most on the minds of the billionaire class is anything that will dent their wallets such as high inflation, higher taxes, war, recession, and stock market crashes. Truth be told, some of those are on my nightmare list as well. But more normal folks—you know, those without eight-figure net worths—get pissed off about other stuff such as Denny’s egg surcharges, Starbucks changing their coffee cup design at Christmas, the Ford F-150 massive recall, the closing of Big Lots stores, and most of all, our local malls going out of business.

And speaking about worry…

The Biden gang oversaw four years of American destruction, including massive hits to our economy. Organized theft skyrocketed because of lax laws and police department downsizing. The National Retail Federation estimated inventory loss among retailers at approximately $112 billion for 2023. As a result of increasing crime and inflation, common retail names are downsizing left and right since they can no longer remain profitable. Here is a sampling of the downsizing I have read about:

• Foot Locker will downsize by 400 stores
• Family Dollar Store will close over 650 locations
• Party City closed forever
• Big Lots closed 400 stores
• CVS closed over 575 underperforming stores
• Walgreens closed 500 underperforming stores
• American Freight closed all 328 stores

What Will It Take for Small Businesses to Get Back on Their Feet?

America’s small businesses ain’t that small, not by a long shot. Official government figures indicate that there are over 34 million small businesses that employ some 60 million people. These are companies that employ less than 500 workers—a far cry from Apple’s 164,000 employee headcount. And how have these businesses been treated during the Biden years? In a word, horribly. The reasons are many, including a massive hike in prices (inflation), skyrocketing crime, and overregulation bordering on a death grip.

Yet there is a ray of sunshine peeking through the Hurricane Biden catastrophe. No, it’s not a business version of a competent FEMA. It happens to be optimism spurred by a new President, the promise of deregulation, lower inflation, and cheaper energy prices. If small businesses drive the US economy, low energy prices fuel small business expansion. Consider that 72% of US products are delivered by truck, and it doesn’t take a genius to do the math. Lower energy prices may translate to lower prices of goods on the store shelves. And so it’s not lost on you. The overregulation has been especially painful for small businesses since they are least able to afford armies of lawyers, accountants, and consultants like Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft can.

Proving a business is in compliance with scores of regulations can bankrupt a business quickly— a hell of an outcome that Democrats seem to not care about.

I Surprise Easily Now That I’m Officially Old 

There I was, minding my own business when I spied the following Fox News headline:

Agriculture Secretary Cancels $600K Grant

for Study on Menstrual Cycles in Transgender Men 

My first reaction—“huh?” My second—isn’t the Agriculture Department in charge of farming, crops, and soil? And eventually, I got around to the rest of this insane headline and thought to myself, thank God adults are once again in charge of the government.

It looks like the Biden Administration (who else) threw $600,000 to Southern University Agriculture and Mechanical College for this study. I guess they figured if a truly gifted Dr. Shwartzman at some downtown medical university can turn a man into a woman with scalpels, an artificial uterus, and drugs, why shouldn’t they have periods too?

An Alligator Ain’t a Fish

Would a reasonable person consider a poodle part of the T-Rex family? How about similarities between a salmon and a wasp? Then why on earth would a New Orleans Archbishop consider alligators to be part of the fish family? No, folks, I ain’t making this up!

A March 14, 2025, article published by Fox News told readers that an Archbishop in New Orleans told a questioning parishioner that alligator meat is okay to eat on Fridays during Lent because alligators are part of the fish family. Not so fast, Bishop. It’s true that meat is considered to be cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. And yes, birds are considered meat even though they have wings. But alligators are seafood? Even if this loophole dates back hundreds of years, I still think it creates an end-run around good ol’ fashioned common sense.

P.S. Enjoy your gator sandwich…

Would a Reasonable Person Consider This Hypocritical?

Per testimony from Ms. Elaine Kamarck, the director of President Bill Clinton’s reinventing initiative, an estimated 377,000 federal employees were eliminated between January 1993 and September 2000.   President Clinton announced the formation of the National Performance

Review, led by Vice President Al Gore. Its goal, according to President Clinton’s announcement, was “…to make the entire federal government both less expensive and more efficient, and to change the culture of our national bureaucracy away from complacency and entitlement toward initiative and empowerment.”

Yet in the first two months of Donald Trump’s Presidency, the firing of 30,000 federal workers has caused Democrats to go berserk. The takeaway is that it’s okay to fire government workers if you’re a Democrat, but it’s treasonous to do it if you are a Republican.

Teaching Others How to Shovel Shit

Yes, it’s true. The Biden Administration in its off-the-wall wisdom of wasting taxpayer funds sent $20 million overseas to teach farmers best practices for using manure and fertilizer to optimize crop growth. Vietnam, Brazil, Pakistan, and Columbia were most likely very grateful for the imported dollars to support farm/manure research because obviously, they have no money to research it themselves.

When Idiots Are Allowed to Roam Free

Yes, I broke my own rule. I scanned the dreaded New York Post and came across yet another reason why this media company should be padlocked, shuttered, and erased from history. So what led me to this conclusion? The headline screamed.

Plus-Sized Influencer Demands McLaren Sports Cars

Increase Seat Size to Accommodate Her Booty: ‘Should Be for Everyone’

Evidently, this 225-pound, 27-year-old, plus-sized Panamanian-born influencer is of the opinion that the world does indeed revolve around her and must submit to and adhere to her childish and off-the-wall demands. Perhaps this lady should go on a diet and get her oversized rump to the gym or shop for a Hummer that can accommodate her 56-inch caboose. And for what it’s worth, I don’t feel influenced, not one bit.

An Unfortunate Spectacle

By now we all know that Congressman Al Green (D-TX) was ejected from President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress in March. Green’s behavior was deplorable, disrespectful, and childlike. As I read about the incident in online media, I noted that when a member of Congress is censured, it is largely symbolic, akin to a slap on the wrist in front of the whole class—in other words, a public shaming and humiliation.

In the days that followed, the Congressman was indeed censured—big deal. Well, I have a proposal for Congress to consider, one that has its roots in professional hockey and basketball. I propose that when a member is censured, they lose the following privileges:

• Not permitted to attend sessions of Congress for 30 days
• Not permitted to submit new legislative bills for 30 days
• Not permitted to vote on legislation for 30 days

Oh, and one more thing, they should be fined $25,0000 for their errant behavior. If fines are good enough for the NHL, NBA, and NFL, they’re good enough for our elected politicians.

Biden Threw Money at Paraguay’s Border – NOT Our Own

It seems that landlocked Paraguay was on the receiving end of US taxpayers’ money in the amount of $2.1 million for improvements to its border security. Since Paraguay is surrounded by Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia, I’m certain those millions would have been better spent fortifying border walls in Texas, Arizona, or California.

A Mockery of Common Sense

Imagine, if you will, the Defense Department inking a contract with a Mexican-cartel-owned fabrication business located near Seattle. Imagine further that this imaginary company is in the business of making bullet-proof vests for law enforcement organizations. Now, let’s further assume that it appears there is an issue with quality control, and it seems that a whole bunch of vests destined for SWAT teams in major US cities are defective and will not protect the wearers against most gunfire. Farfetched? Anyone with a pound of common sense would immediately ask the following questions:

• How could a Mexican cartel own a business in the US?
• How on earth could this business get a contract for armoring the police?
• Was there any due diligence performed on the business before signing the contract?
• How is there no quality control?
• Which idiots should we put in prison for this fiasco?

We’ve all heard the line that truth is often stranger than fiction. With that in mind, fasten your seatbelts, place your tray in the upright position, and get ready for takeoff. This is where reality is dumber than riding in a convertible during a Nebraska hailstorm.

As reported by Newsweek reporter Ellie Cook, faulty armor plates were delivered to the Pentagon by a Russian-owned company in Portland, Oregon. The armor plating, used in combat vehicles by the U.S. Army and allied militaries were fabricated by Evraz North America. Newsweek reported that almost 13,000 armor plates either skipped important inspections or had inspections falsely labeled as inspected and approved. Local Portland media reported that the FBI visited the facility in mid- 2024.

My take: Do we ask North Korea to produce artillery shells for us? Do we ask China to manufacture our ICBMs? Do we ask Iran to produce our intercontinental bombers? Then why the hell do we have a Russian company on US soil manufacturing steel-plated armor for the U.S. Army? Whoever the idiot is at the Pentagon who greenlit this clusterfuck needs to be fired and jailed.

Bits ’n’ Pieces

In case nobody noticed, 30-year mortgage rates have been falling ever since Joe Biden left the White House, and obviously, mainstream media has said nothing about this.

Word has it that a Bernie Sanders fundraiser had a special performance by a trans singer. Why does nothing surprise me anymore? Next, I suppose ol’ Bernie will come out as a non-binary socialist politician.

Just a hunch, but I guess that President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia were praying mighty hard that Kamala Harris would win the presidency so they could continue walking all over America. I’m thinking that they might be displeased that they have to deal with Donald Trump again.

Hijacking all the oxygen in the room appears to be the new phrase when describing a blowhard who won’t shut up and loves to hear themselves talk. Just sayin’…

“The written word speaks.”

—Rodger Friedman

“Arrest him and deport him or, at the very least, tax him until his eyeballs bleed.”

—Charles Pierce, Esquire Magazine, regaling us on the evil Elon Musk

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You know all those DEI hires we’ve read about at the Secret Service? Well, Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden, and their families were all hired for diversity purposes and permitted to score lower on all sorts of metrics. Well, how admirable that was for these Democratic Presidents, and if they failed at their duties—oh well, at least quotas were met.

Was I the Last One to Get the Memo? 

For those who really know me, you know I have been a lifelong fan of two things—Superman and Star Trek. As far back as I can remember, I spent countless hours reading their adventures and watching every show and movie. But now, Superboy is bisexual in the comics, and a Star Trek captain is kissing another guy on a bridge. That’s not the Supes and Trek I grew up with. DC and Paramount have drunk the woke Kool-Aid and feel they must represent all colors of the gender and sexuality rainbow.

File This Under Who Gives a Damn 

In an interview on MSNBC, failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz admitted that losing the election was “pure hell.” He went on to confess that he, like everyone else, was fatigued. His time as Governor of Minnesota has been one disaster after another, beginning in the summer of 2020 with George Floyd and the ensuing riots that decimated over 1,500 properties and caused  over $500 million in property damage. He waited three days before calling out the National Guard while we watched Minnesota burn on TV. If you were to ask me who was the worst candidate on that ticket—Harris or Walz—I honestly could not answer that since as I think both of them are terrible government servants.

Geriatric Senate Buffoon Jerry Nadler Is Mad as a Hornet 

Nadler is irate that the American people had the sheer audacity to reelect Donald Trump. It wasn’t so long ago (November 2024) that Nadler actually fell asleep during a Congressional hearing on antisemitism and ultimately voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act. Along with many others, Nadler is another poster child for term limits in Congress.

Lego Madness

I was caught off guard reading a Fox News headline about a science museum claiming that Lego toys push a “heteronormative agenda.” Seems there was an LGBTQ tour going on called Seeing Things Queerly, and they called out how Lego purposely excludes other gender identities. They were focusing on how the plastic pieces connect with each other and how they might be termed male and female connectors. Well, I’m going to come right out and say it. These people are bat- shit nuts. I recommend they get a life and stop criticizing toys that have been around for over fifty years, Next, they will be calling out Teletubbies, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Ken and Barbie, and on and on. Even the Addams Family won’t be safe.

Off to the Races with a Brand New Democratic Call for Impeachment 

WOW! I thought it would take longer, but Democrat Texas Congressman Al Green has filed articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, alleging, among other things, “ethnic cleansing in Gaza.” What’s more, Green alleges that the President has (and you can’t make this up, folks) proposed dastardly deeds and done dastardly deeds. You might recall that this Houston, Texas, excuse for a lawmaker filed articles of impeachment against President Trump in his first term— not once, but three times.

Note 

I am impressed with the speed of change that our President has brought to the federal government. Obviously, the American electorate voted for change, not more of the Biden-Harris failed policies.

President Trump has hit the ground running and accomplished more in a month than Biden did in years. He has brought a new vitality to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that has been absent for years. He has likely participated in more press conferences than Biden did during his entire administration.

Meanwhile, the usual suspects—Democrats Waters, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Raskin, Jeffries, Pelosi, and others—are screaming in rage at the drastic changes Trump has announced. In particular are the video clips I watched of Waters, along with 30 House

Democrats, attempting to bully their way into the Department of Education without an appointment. They demanded to speak with the Secretary of Education, shouting,  “We pay your salaries!”

Sorry, Ms. Waters, the Department of Education falls under the authority of the Executive Branch of the government, and you have no right to barge in without an appointment. However, it was a real spectacle as the Congresswoman from California shouted at the lone security guard and demanded to see his ID while he stared straight ahead.

100 Coal Plants? Yes, Chairman! 

It seems that China doesn’t have much respect for AOC and her merry band of Progressive Green New Deal Democrats. In fact, I read that China is planning to build 100 new coal plants. I’m going out on a limb here, but I’m pretty sure China has its own version of the EPA. They won’t care about wacko ecologists who would rather save a tadpole than grow a strong economy.

And what about China’s commitments to help fight global warming and climate change? Well, let’s just say it’s not at the top of their to-do list right now. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) believes that reducing carbon emissions is fine for the other guys. An April 2024 article by Carbon Brief indicated that China is responsible for 95 percent of all new coal-fired power plants globally. Seems they didn’t get Joe Biden’s memos.

A Firm Grasp of the Obvious 

Leave it to Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren to tell everyone who will listen that DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) appears to be “a venue for corruption.” Forget for a moment that Elon Musk and his team have identified scores of government programs that do nothing to advance the interests of America but, in fact, spread DEI and LGBTQ programs around the world. Warren lectures Musk that she has a list of thirty tax-saving ideas for cutting waste. Her thoughts are to lower Defense Department spending, reduce spending for charter schools, break up large corporations, and look into some pet projects of this left-wing lunatic. Meanwhile, DOGE has identified for elimination scores of left-wing pet projects at USAID and the State Department (see below).

• Assisting Indonesian coffee companies become more gender friendly ($425,000)
• Building EV charging stations in Vietnam ($2.5 million)
• Creating Irish musicals promoting DEI ($70,000)
• Promoting job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia ($1.5 million)
• Promoting DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cypress ($8,000)
• Pressuring Lithuanian corporations to promote and adopt DEI values ($10,000)
• Fostering “a united and equal queer-feminist discourse” in Albania ($16,500)
• Supporting an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia ($80,000)
• Promoting being LGBTQ in the Caribbean ($3,315,446)
• Supporting an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru ($32,000)
• Boosting French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa ($1 million)

What President Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE have brought America is a revolution of common sense. I will debate Elizabeth Warren all day long on her ideas to slash government spending versus the waste that DOGE has identified in less than three weeks.

From Indoctrination to Ambition ─ What Hath Trump Unleashed?

Might America’s young be veering off the horrific Biden-Harris kumbaya path after four long years of gender-bending higher education that prepared them only for jobs in inclusive engagement offices and HR departments? Gone will be groups of students holding hands, each proclaiming their preferred pronouns and genders for the entire campus to hear and celebrate.

While some of them view Trump’s changes as extreme gender hostility, many others view them as a return to common sense—that there are only two genders, absent a surgeon’s scalpel and pharmaceuticals to stop or bypass the human body’s natural functions.

 President Trump’s Executive Order covers colleges and universities that have endowments of more than $1 billion and receive federal money for research. Stop all DEI everything immediately. Here are some of the universities this targets:

Johns Hopkins University Stanford University Harvard University Arizona State University Michigan State University

North Carolina State University Northeastern University

University of California San Francisco And scores more

Perhaps the trickle-down theory of economics will morph into the trickle-down theory of we don’t do that anymore as dozens of universities lose their federal funding if they don’t toss all DEI/CRT directives in the trash.

We Will not Go Quietly into the Night

While not a rampage, it’s still interesting (well, maybe) that META employees have staged a pushback to Chairman Zuckerberg’s plan to remove tampons from all men’s rooms at corporate facilities. As absurd as this is, most every major legacy media outlet saw fit to report it. The media termed it “quiet rebellions” after about five employees circulated a petition to “save the tampons.”

The Clown Called Harris

 If you sat through any of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign speeches or TV spots, you would have witnessed what the media called “word salad.” You would have immediately picked up on the broad generalities (Trump is bad, I’m good) and these standard liberal Democratic talking points:

• More trans rights and DEI
• Government-guaranteed sex change surgeries for prison inmates and all illegals
• Government-paid abortions for all
• Universal healthcare and universal income
• Tax the rich
• MAGA is bad

I don’t recall Harris focusing on a single unambiguous policy point—ever. She spoke in circles, careful never to be pinned down to specific policies. It was as if she was trying her hardest not to say anything credible. Meanwhile, across town, Donald Trump was hammering home specific policy issues such as close the border, deport illegals, lower inflation, address crime, drill baby drill, deregulate, the Panama Canal, fentanyl, and more.

Trump won by appealing to America’s minds, asking if they truly wanted four more years of Biden-Harris liberal identity policies. He pointed out that Harris had accomplished nothing as Vice President, that she had four years to fix the ills she spoke of yet fixed nothing at all. Trump campaigned as a meaningful specific. Harris campaigned as a wandering generality. By now, Kamala Harris has crawled back under the rock from whence she came.

Adam Schiff ─ The Congressman That California’s Idiots Elevated to the US Senate 

It is not often I include Congressional resolutions in these bi-monthly updates. But the scheming, lying, and colluding that Adam Schiff is guilty of is both sickening and overwhelming. I have included the resolution in its entirety because I doubt that most Americans are aware of the depth and breadth of his illegal schemes and deceptions.

118th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. RES. 437

Censuring and condemning Adam Schiff, Representative of California’s 30th Congressional District.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 23, 2023

Mrs. Luna submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics

RESOLUTION

Censuring and condemning Adam Schiff, Representative of California’s 30th Congressional District.

Whereas the allegation that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 Presidential election has been revealed as false by numerous in-depth investigations, including the recent report by Special Counsel John Durham, which documents how the conspiracy theory was invented, funded, and spread by President’s Trump’s political rivals;

Whereas Representative Adam Schiff, who served as ranking minority member and then Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives (HPSCI), occupied positions of extreme trust, affording him access to sensitive intelligence unavailable to most Members of Congress;

Whereas for years Representative Schiff abused this trust by citing evidence of collusion that—as is clear from reports by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and Special Counsel Durham—does not exist;

Whereas by repeatedly telling these falsehoods, Representative Schiff purposely deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people;

 Whereas Representative Schiff lent credibility to the Steele dossier—a collection of debunked collusion accusations funded by President Trump’s political rivals—by reading false Steele allegations into the Congressional Record at a HPSCI hearing on March 20, 2017;

Whereas, once again abusing his privileged access to classified information, Representative Schiff composed a false memo justifying the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application on Trump associate Carter Page, which Inspector General Horowitz later found was riddled with 17 major mistakes and omissions, provoking FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to state unequivocally that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “mislead the FISC”;

Whereas by publicly smearing Carter Page as a Russian collaborator and justifying spurious investigations of him, Representative Schiff contributed to the gross violation of a United States citizen’s civil liberties, thereby committing the very abuses HPSCI is tasked with identifying and thwarting;

Whereas, as HPSCI ranking minority member and Chairman, Representative Schiff  behaved dishonestly and dishonorably on many other occasions, including by falselydenying that his staff coordinated with a whistleblower to launch the first impeachment of President Trump;

Whereas, as part of his impeachment efforts, during an HPSCI hearing on September 26, 2019, Representative Schiff recited a false, concocted rendition of a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky;

Whereas Representative Schiff exploited his positions on HPSCI to encourage and excuse abusive intelligence investigations of Americans for political purposes; Whereas Representative Schiff used his position and access to sensitive information to instigate a fraudulently based investigation, which he then used to amass political gain and fundraising dollars; and

Whereas the American taxpayers paid $32 million to fund the investigation into collusion that was launched as a result of Rep. Schiff’s lies, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That—

• the House of Representatives censures and condemns Adam Schiff, Representative of California’s 30th Congressional District, for conduct that misleads the American people in a way that is not befitting an elected Member of the House of Representatives;
• Representative Adam Schiff will forthwith present himself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure;
• Representative Adam Schiff will be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker; and
• Representative Adam Schiff be, and is hereby, fined in the amount of $16,000,000.

The Bartender Calls Out the Billionaire

What can I say about one of the least intelligent politicians on Capitol Hill? Plenty, it seems. 

Long-time readers of The Equal Opportunity Times are familiar with my utter disdain and contempt for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Her loud mouth and progressive socialist banter have made her a social media darling with millions of idiots following her every word. Her latest tirade involves Elon Musk whom she terms an “unintelligent billionaire.” This résumé-light former bartender and Bernie Sanders supporter who calls Trump a fascist insists that people can change genders and sees Elon Musk as a danger to America. And truth be told, I got a kick out of her line (caught on video)—“This dude is not smart, and the danger in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has, I mean, this guy is one of the most morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we know of.”

Before we close out this discussion of high-minded Democrats and Mr. Musk, I found it amusing that MSN characterized Elon Musk’s review of federal government expenditures by his team as “he and his henchmen”—like it was a criminal gang involved in the heist of a jewelry store. You may want to pay attention to the adjectives used by left-wing corporate media. Could they have said Musk’s associates? Of course they could have. But they chose to use henchmen, reminiscent of Batman battling the Joker, Riddler, Penguin, and their henchmen!

An Idea Worth Sharing 

Several years ago I attended a celebration of life for a dear friend who was a professional musician. He passed away way too soon. The event was a musical tribute and featured his family and many of his close friends playing his favorite songs on the stage. His family brought his record collection to the event. Hundreds of his albums were arranged on tables in the back of the room with signs that said, “Take as many as you wish—he always wanted to share his music, and we think he would approve.”

I smiled as I combed through dozens of albums and finally selected one to take home with me. You see, he and I grew up together, and for many years we were inseparable. The album I chose was one we purchased together as kids in Greenwich Village. And in case you’re curious, it was the Beatles—the Magical Mystery Tour album, complete with the 24 -page color picture book in pristine condition. It sits in my home library, a constant reminder of my wonderful friend.

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