Why is there a bonfire in the White House?

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 13, 2024

Fox has learned that the House Ethics Committee was due to meet Friday about the Gaetz inquiry

Such meetings usually trigger the release of some sort of status reports on various inquiries or whether the committee agrees to widen its investigation. 

In June, the committee…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 14, 2024

Article II Clause 3 allows for Trump to adjourn both houses of Congress and recess his appointments. This is used to prevent long vacancies/stalemates. Given he has just 4 years, this constitutional provision would be effective in getting his agenda started ASAP.

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) November 14, 2024

Barack Obama: 32 recess appointments
Bill Clinton: 139 recess appointments
George W. Bush: 171 recess appointments

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) November 14, 2024

Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman:

"Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in… pic.twitter.com/mHpbvModRv

— Pirate Wires (@PirateWires) November 13, 2024

boognish_bear said:

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Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman:

"Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in… pic.twitter.com/mHpbvModRv

— Pirate Wires (@PirateWires) November 13, 2024

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Truly an idiotic thought. The guy represents everything wrong with capitalism. Look into how he made his money and the outcomes of the drugs he peddled. God I hope he doesn't get any authority to do anything to besides talk.

Vivek has said: DOGE will soon begin crowdsourcing examples of government waste, fraud, & and abuse. Americans voted for drastic government reform & they deserve to be part of fixing it

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) November 13, 2024

Realitybites said:

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FLBear, you forget that Americans don't form their opinions about government workers in a vacuum. We form our opinions about government workers by dealing with government workers.

When you say that 99% are pros who do their jobs very well, our day to day experience knows it is an incorrect statement.

Every dedicated public servant in the burearucracy is vastly outnumbered by a legion of squirrel killers.

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very few bureaucrats are technocrats at anything other than exploring the boundaries of bureaucratic power.

it's just how the organism works. bureaucrats very, very rarely think of themselves as servants of the public. Very, very few ask themselves when they have latitude for judgement...."what is fair?"...."How would I want to be treated here." The nature of the job is to look at the law and serve the law, as far as the law allows.

That's how you get bureaucratic reinterpretations inverting law inside-out. That's how you have the plain wording of immigration statute citing "public charge" as an exclusion for entry or presence in the USA being interpreted to mean that someone on welfare benefits, food stamp benefits, unemployment benefits, etc....is not a public charge. It's how you get Title IX, a law written to carve out funding for women to have guaranteed opportunities for the same life lessons that men receive from engaging competitive sports....being used to force women to compete against biological males, having the share showers with biological males, etc....

There is no culture fix there. It is what it is. The only practical way to control it is to prune it back severely from time to time.

Between 1950 and 2009:
- The number of students increased by 96%
- Teachers increased by 252%
- Administration (and other staff) increased by 702% pic.twitter.com/ESo6Ihxj1P

— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) November 13, 2024

The sheer magnitude of government waste is staggering to behold! https://t.co/RXxxXrAXoK

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 14, 2024

This is the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

She’s an absolute unit! pic.twitter.com/IREbJyGojl

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 14, 2024

BOMBSHELL REPORT: Police report filed as EVIDENCE emerges that Nevada Officials DELETED 26,902 ballots from their own reported mail in ballot totals..

DEVELOPING..

The deletion was done overnight between Thursday and Friday.

GOP candidate Sam Brown was, at the time LEADING his… pic.twitter.com/DVnM5R1oGB

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) November 12, 2024

Oh you don’t think we need a Department of Government Efficiency to cut the waste? Watch this and then tell me that with a straight face.pic.twitter.com/Y5KJ4PJoTR

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) November 13, 2024

Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has gone wild on DEI:
- 207 employees spread across 7 Offices of Minority Health
- 294 taxpayer-funded staffers dedicated to "diversity, equity & inclusion.”

The price tag for payroll alone exceeds $67 million, with a… https://t.co/qU9BJRZCnQ

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 13, 2024

In honor of Elon and Vivek being picked as the heads of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), here some of the dumbest uses of your tax dollars.

5. $20,000 to drag shows in Ecuador.

4. $30,000 to study the secret language of butchers in Paris.

3. $750,000 for the New… pic.twitter.com/I7HCjyjXbh

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 13, 2024

A list of GOP senators who need to be primaried ASAP. Put Cornyn at the top of the list! He's up for re-election in 2026.

There are so-called “Republicans” who voted to confirm Merrick Garland as Attorney General who say they won’t vote for Matt Gaetz.

Let that sink in. https://t.co/H3Fsr9SoYT

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 13, 2024

Wow. Jeremy Bash, 1 of the 51 intelligence officials who signed the letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, is now suggesting uniformed military and CIA should disobey direct orders from their Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump.

This traitor is panicking HARD. pic.twitter.com/hytDuXmjLE

— Patri0tsareinContr0l (@Patri0tContr0l) November 12, 2024

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/dan-crenshaw-deporations

Mass deportations won't include going door to door, Rep. Dan Crenshaw says

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said at an Axios event Wednesday that there won't be a mass deportation that includes going door to door.

The big picture: President-elect Trump has vowed to crack down on immigration and start mass deportations on day one of his presidency.

Tom Homan, who was recently named Trump's "Border Czar," said the new administration's planned deportation operation will target "the worst first" prioritizing what he called criminal threats and national-security threats.

Zoom in: In practice, the deportations will start with a list of people that Homeland Security Investigations already has on their radar, Crenshaw told Axios' Hans Nichols at the Future of Defense Summit in Washington, D.C.

There's already a long list of tens of thousands of migrants who are in the U.S. illegally, who have deportation orders, he said. That includes people convicted of crimes or people who entered the country illegally and were found not to have an asylum claim or parole status.

Crenshaw added that it could also mean that "every once in a while" there is a "roundup of a certain company" known to hire people who entered the country illegally.
The Trump transition team, the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to Axios' request to confirm the information.

What he's saying: "I think a lot of people ... they want it to mean this to scare folks politically and I think this was the case during the election was this sort of door-to-door type of mass deportation," Crenshaw said.

"We don't have the resources for that. I don't see that happening," he continued. "There's plenty of deportation to do prior to getting to that point, so I just don't think anyone should fear this idea."

Crenshaw is a Chamber of Commerce controlled globalist. He's as bad as Cornyn.

Sen. Cornyn tells @rachelvscott he “absolutely” wants to review the House Ethics Committee’s investigation of Matt Gaetz during the AG confirmation process. pic.twitter.com/FSTcUGzgox

— Ben Siegel (@bensiegel) November 14, 2024

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Why is there a bonfire in the White House?

WATCH: President-elect Trump & President Biden meet at the White House for historic sit down

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 13, 2024

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Starting up Fireside Chats again??

Breaking: Sources for Miami Herald/McClatchy confirm that the Ethics Report is "highly damaging" -- the report could be leaked today. @miamiherald pic.twitter.com/QQiOfTVepy

— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) November 14, 2024

Yeah maybe but there was a whole lot of actual smoke on this one.

I just went on @BBCNews and said America’s allies shouldn’t share their intelligence with us. Because of Trump & Gabbard, no way would I, as an ally, share intelligence with America. I couldn’t believe what I was saying. But here we are.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) November 14, 2024