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The Senate has voted 52 to 48 to confirm President Donald Trump's pick of Tulsi Gabbard as the director of National Intelligence. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was the only Republican to vote alongside the Democrats to oppose Gabbard's confirmation.

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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found people who are 'probably dead' still receiving social security checks. "Reexamination of Social Security – we've got people in there that are 150-years-old. Now do you know anyone who's 150? I don't. They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. They're missing out. So, that's the case where I think they're probably dead, my guess, or they should be very famous – one of the two." Elon Musk

Defense Secretary Hegseth tells Ukraine: No NATO membership No return to pre-2014 borders No more relying on US for the majority of its military funding .

Chinese pickups produced locally in Africa from CKD or SKD kits.

The results are in: The Democratic Party’s Bidenomics strategy produced a disastrous score of just 160,000 extra jobs for Americans during each year of Biden’s presidency. However, Bidenomics also created jobs for 4.7 million migrants, including almost three million illegal aliens, according to federal data collected by the Center for Immigration Studies and reported on February 7. So Bidenomics created 7.3 million migrant jobs for every job gained by an American citizen, even as it also exploded the national debt by $8 trillion. Biidenomics also flatlined wages, spiked housing costs, and slowed workplace investment. The Bidenomics 7:1 policy — 4.7 million jobs for migrants, 645,000 for Americans — what was their goal, their end-game? https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/12/bidenomics-final-score-7-jobs-for-migrants-for-each-american-job/

Allison Transmission (ALSN) is down $16.00 today (-14%). https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ALSN/ ----------------------------------------------------- Wabash fell past their 1-year low to $12.96 https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WNC/

Core inflation in January rose 3 percent from a year earlier. Thus, Jay Powell will not lower interest rates further, in the near-term. The fed shouldn't have lowered rates the last time, given we all knew that inflation had not yet been tamed.

So in essence, what President Trump is trying to do now that has the Democrats in an uproar...............is exactly what Democrat President Obama was trying to do a decade ago. .

On Monday, President Trump suspended the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I am thrilled. This bizarre law allowed the government to impose US law on foreign soil. Imagine you're a US company doing business in South Korea and you give a company's leader a gift. It's a legal action in South Korea, but the US calls it a bribe and charges you with a crime. I say that overseas, US companies are subject to the laws of that country, and US law has no standing within that sovereign country. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unfairly hobbles American companies while foreign rivals not so encumbered swoop in. “The act sounds good on paper but in practicality, it’s a disaster. Suspending the act is going to mean a lot more business for America.” President Trump

Ford CEO Jim Farley is criticizing President Trump, claiming the 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada to be imposed in March have brought “a lot of cost and a lot of chaos” into the automotive sector. Trump has also imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods and Ford parts are produced there. Farley warned that the tariffs could have a “devastating impact” on US automakers, eliminating billions in profits and disrupting jobs. “President Trump has talked a lot about making our US auto industry stronger, bringing more production here, more innovation to the US, and if his administration can achieve that... it would be one of the most signature accomplishments,” says Farley. However, he says the President's current approach is unsettling and has created significant “policy uncertainty.” ---------------------------------------------------------- I say Ford has had problems for some time, long before President Trump took office. Ford dealers are still sitting with some 2023 product, and an ocean of 2024 product. Last year during the Biden administration, Ford built twice as many Broncos as it sold. The error falls squarely on Farley's shoulders.....not President Trumps. And then you have the numerous recalls at Ford, from Maverick hybrid fires to Bronco hardtops and shock absorbers. Ford indeed has challenges, but they've been happening for some years now. I like Jim Farley, as he's a true car guy. He owns a 1966 Ford GT and races it. But his company's problems began long before Trump's tariffs.

Two top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, Russell Hott and Peter Berg, have been removed from their positions, for failing to support increased arrests and deportations. Todd Lyons, who previously ran ICE's Boston office, will take over as acting head of ICE Enforcement and Removal operations. “ICE needs a culture of accountability that it has been starved of for the past four years. We have a President, DHS secretary, and American people who rightfully demand results, and our ICE leadership will ensure the agency delivers.” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin

"It seems hard to believe that judges want to try and stop us from looking for corruption, especially when we found hundreds of millions of dollars worth, much more than that, in just a short period of time.” President Trump ----------------------------------------------------------- "If there’s not a good feedback loop from the people to the government… if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?” “If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don’t live in a democracy; we live in a bureaucracy." "The feedback loop must be closed so that the public and elected officials, rather than bureaucrats, make decisions." Elon Musk

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order instructing Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to develop and implement a plan under which most agencies can hire just one new employee for every four employees who depart. "Upon expiration of the Day 1 hiring freeze and implementation of the hiring plan, agencies will be able to hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart from federal service." Government functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement will not be subject to the hiring ratio. Moreover, agencies are directed to plan “for large-scale reductions in force and determine which agency components (or agencies themselves) may be eliminated or combined because their functions aren’t required by law.”

Appointed by Clinton, Obama and Biden...... activist judges who are trying to take control of the government for the Deep State. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/11/alex-marlow-lawfare-judges-making-unprecedented-efforts-to-shut-down-trumps-agenda/

"We do find it sort of odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position. Which is what happened in USAID. We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice perhaps." Elon Musk

On Tuesday, Elon Musk answered reporter questions about his claims that the U.S. taxpayer was sending $50 million dollars worth of condoms to Gaza. "I'm not sure we should be sending $50 million in condoms anywhere. Frankly, I'm not sure that's something Americans would be really excited about. But you know, if it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza I'm like that's not as bad, but why are we doing that?" Elon Musk .

Adam Schiff would appreciate you posting that. I’ve noticed the people that Democrats call “experts” generally are not.

Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who will head President Trump's JFK files task force, has announced that she intends to prove there were two shooters. .