Worth repeating…
Peace With Russia: Simple, but not necessarily easy.
All Ukrainian strikes on Russia are retaliatory or defensive.
All Russian strikes on Ukraine are unprovoked and designed to terrorize civilian populations.
Russia, peacefully live and prosper within your borders. Stop harassing your neighbors.
We ALL then have peace and prosperity.
Peace With China: Simple, but not necessarily easy.
China, memorialize the “One China” policy of peaceful and mutually consenting reunification someday. Just leave Taiwan alone. Continue your mutually beneficial relationships. Be a good neighbor and “big brother.” Stop trying to expand your territorial water rights while infringing on neighbors like the Philippines or Vietnam.
We ALL then have peace and prosperity.
The Death Tax Lives: Back in 2017 federal tax code temporarily increased the Death Tax (otherwise knows as the estate/inheritance tax) from $5 million to just over $11 million. Indexed to inflation, that raised the threshold to $13 million.
IF Congress doesn’t act, the threshold will snap back to around $7 million in 2026.
We have fought for the elimination of the Death Tax over the years. The estate tax is devastating for so many small businesses, family businesses, family farms, and just plain old frugal savers… all to feed the beast in Washington, DC.
Yes, we need to immediately and permanently expand raising the threshold to protect family savings and investment.
Better yet, just KILL the Death Tax. It is grossly unfair… and the establishment government doesn’t need any more of OUR money!
The Department of Government Efficiency: A common sense approach towards a more limited and efficient government.
– Enact strict in-person office attendance to encourage resignations
– Use swift executive action and rely on Supreme Court rulings
– Slash regulations and other burdensome policies within the administrative state
– Severely reduce the federal workforce
– Target misused federal spending (money being spent on stuff it was NOT supposed to be spent on)
– Use Trump’s authority to edit civil service rules, lessen protections for workers from being fired
– And finally, RESTORE THE FOUNDERS’ VISION.
“Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress, but ‘rules and regulations’ promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year.“
“This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. There is no better birthday gift to our nation on its 250th anniversary than to deliver a federal government that would make our Founders proud.“
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This Week: Trump tax cuts set to expire, Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy lay out their vision for DOGE, and a migrant caravan tries to beat the clock!
Just When You Thought Illegal Immigration Couldn’t Get Worse, Biden Does This…
Not intent with starting a third world war before he leaves office, Joe Biden, or whoever is running Joe Biden, is making it even easier for illegal immigrants to get into and stay in the country.
It’s one last open border hurrah before Trump takes office.
The New York Post reports “The Biden administration is quietly rushing to implement new policies that will loosen restrictions on migrants who entered the US illegally.”
The article further notes that sources indicate the action is “a parting attempt to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns and mass deportations.”
“The outgoing administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office,” the report further reveals.
So not only is the border wide open for whoever wants to walk across, now even if they are detained, they just get to skip due process and disappear into the big apple.
To Restore Democracy Trump Will Have To Overcome Administrative State Tyranny
The second Trump administration was elected as the antidote to the administrative state — to make radical changes in personnel and policy.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s historic victory, permanent Washington’s hysteria is reaching new heights daily.
“Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election,” reads one headline. Justice Department officials are “terrified,” according to another, fearing they may be sidelined, fired, or unable to “resist” as they did during the president’s first term. Pentagon officials are reportedly preparing their response to orders to “deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of [purportedly] apolitical staffers,” another dispatch reveals.
Several of Trump’s less conventional nominees, who hold views anathema to the bureaucracies they are poised to helm and threaten to disrupt them dramatically, have only further fueled the federal freakout.
As unhinged as related stories from regime mouthpieces may seem on their face, one would be wrong to dismiss them as merely the Trump-deranged’s temper tantrum over a lost election. Rather, what these reports collectively illustrate is the hubris of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. They foreshadow perhaps the bloodiest coming political battle in Trump’s war to restore Americans’ control over our republic. This will require overcoming myriad entrenched forces. First and foremost among them is the administrative state wherein these bureaucrats reside — an arguably unconstitutional branch unto itself that has usurped and combined the powers of the legislative and judicial branches, defining tyranny.
The hubris among those in the administrative state is that they believe they know better than We the People, and that therefore they must substitute their policy preferences for our own by any means necessary. Who we voted for then doesn’t really matter because even when we give our elected representatives a mandate, the policy predilections of the “executive” agencies in-name-only must prevail.
This is the true threat to democracy, and the dangerous status quo that has prevailed for too long and exploded into public view during the first Trump administration.
Musk, Ramaswamy lay out plans for ‘mass’ federal layoffs, rule rollbacks under Trump
Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their brand-new government efficiency panel will identify “thousands” of regulations for President-elect Trump to eliminate, which they argue will justify “mass head-count reductions” across government.
The pair, who were named co-chairs of the panel last week, laid out their plans for the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
“The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings,” they wrote. “We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws.”
Maher: Democrats lost due to ‘anti-common sense agenda’
Comedian and television personality Bill Maher blamed the Democratic party’s “aggressively anti-common sense agenda” for losing The White House, both chambers of Congress and the Supreme Court.
“I will conclude by saying: the reason I’m so mad at the Democrats is because, as a voter, the issues that were important to me were democracy and the environment and now, there’s no one to champion or defend either of them because you, with your aggressively anti-common sense agenda and sh– exclusionary attitude, blew it,” Maher said on his show “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night.
“You lost everything: House, Senate, White House, Supreme Court and left us completely unprotected and ready to be violated,” he added.
Maher’s comments come as President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House, both the Senate and House are GOP-controlled, and the Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative supermajority. Democrats have been pointing fingers since their stinging losses following Election Day.
For some, the party’s woes revolve around ineffective messaging on kitchen-table economic issues, like inflation, wages and the accelerating trend of wealth inequality. For others, the trouble stems from the explosive debate over the Israel-Hamas war. For still others, the problems relate to culture war battles, including that over transgender rights.
Maher also hit Democrats by suggesting that they failed to relate to voters.
Billionaire Musk foe bankrolls second Trump resistance
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and a backer of progressive groups spearheading anti-Elon Musk campaigns, is behind a new initiative led by Democrats aiming to champion the second Trump resistance, records reveal.
The initiative, called Governors Safeguarding Democracy, was profiled in the New York Times last week as a newly-formed vehicle for Govs. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), Jared Polis (D-CO), and other governors to “protect the rule of law” in states and push back on the policies of President-elect Donald Trump. On its website, GSD calls itself a “nonpartisan alliance” of leaders, though it is unclear what Republican officials, if any, are involved with the group.
But, according to nonprofit donation software records, GSD is not technically a stand-alone organization.
Rather, the Trump resistance operation is under the umbrella of a Governors Action Alliance project sponsored by Global Impact, a Virginia-based charity. In September, Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, a private foundation steering the left-wing billionaire’s fortune, routed $500,000 to the Governors Action Alliance to support “coordinating and strengthening the work of governors to address specific threats to American democracy,” Democracy Fund’s grants database shows.
Conservative Activist to PA Dems: We’re Coming for You
Incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) finally conceded last night. It took two weeks longer than it should have, but Mr. Casey finally threw in the towel. Republican Dave McCormick is now officially Senator-elect McCormick. There were shenanigans where local Democrats openly defied election law, leading to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shutting down their scheme to count illegal ballots. It was all captured on video with Bucks County’s Democratic commissioners.
President-elect Donald J. Trump won this crucial county for the first time since Bush 41. Mr. McCormick didn’t win but did well enough to squeak past Casey, who only won here by a 49/48 margin. Activist Scott Presler did the Lord’s work for months, moving to the Keystone State before the 2024 cycle and engaging in voter registration drives that tipped the balance—the Democratic voter advantage in Pennsylvania has been chipped away by the hundreds of thousands.
What’s Hurting Retirees’ Confidence?
Fewer retirees feel confident about retiring than in past years.
In 2023, the Retirement Confidence Survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald Research recorded its biggest decline since the global financial crisis of 2008. In EBRI’s 2024 survey, retiree confidence still hadn’t fully recovered from that significant drop. But there was also some good news. Craig Copeland, director of wealth benefits research for EBRI, explains.
What’s behind the numbers?
In this year’s survey, 74% of retirees said they are very or somewhat confident they will have enough money to live comfortably throughout retirement. That’s not a significant increase from last year, and it hasn’t returned to where it was before inflation ratcheted up in 2022. Retirees are still concerned about inflation, the increasing cost of living and potential government changes in the U.S. retirement system. Expenses for travel, entertainment and leisure were significantly higher this year.
Is there a difference between men and women?
Nearly 80% of men are confident in having enough money vs 70% of women. Married women are most confident. Divorced women, particularly those with children, are least confident because they are more likely to have spent time out of the labor force. Women who have never married are in between.
Republican lawmakers accuse Pentagon IG of hiding Jan. 6 evidence
The Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk sent a letter to the Defense Department’s inspector general demanding a correction in the Pentagon’s Jan. 6 report.
Mr. Loudermilk, Georgia Republican, says his subcommittee learned that the delay of the National Guard going to the U.S. Capitol was because the Pentagon purposely delayed the troops from deploying there until the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, ended.
According to the subcommittee, the Pentagon’s inspector general hid the extent and cause of the delay to protect Defense Department leadership.
The Washington Times reached out to the IG, Robert Storch, for comment.
The subcommittee says it found numerous instances where the IG “failed to disclose evidence that contradicted [his] erroneous conclusion.”
The panel says that the IG’s report reflects an “alarming failure” to adequately evaluate the actions of senior officials, including Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, who failed to communicate deployment orders to Army Maj. Gen. William Walker, who commanded the District of Columbia National Guard on Jan. 6.
