B-Man

Trump is good at explaining the "5 bullet points" email. I've been critical of what looked too harsh and unnecessarily scary, but Trump made it sound better to me in that clip (which is part of a press conference yesterday with Macron). As Trump put it: "A lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist." The email is at test that at least separates everyone into 2 groups, those who answered and those who did not answer. Among those who did not answer is some number of employees who are simply not there at all. "That's how badly" the government is run, Trump asserts. Some who don't answer could still exist, but at least the nonexistent workers would be concentrated among the nonanswerers. (An answer could come "from" a nonexistent worker could answer by fraud.) Posted by Ann Althouse

The Media Headlines on Dan Bongino's FBI Deputy Director Appointment Were Something Else NYT: Right-Wing Commentator Named F.B.I. Deputy Director BBC: Trump names podcaster Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director WaPo: Trump announces conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director NPR: What to know about Dan Bongino, the media personality tapped as FBI deputy director Politico: Trump names podcaster Dan Bongino to be second-in-command at FBI While Bongino is indeed all of those things and there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of them, the purpose behind the headlines was to - as they did with Kash Patel - diminish Bongino's qualifications to be the second in charge at the FBI. Though most people reading this know he has extensive Secret Service and law enforcement experience, not everyone out there is familiar with Bongino's background. Because oftentimes people only read social media headlines instead of the full piece (which the press counts on), the idea was to get them to question the wisdom of Bongino being appointed to such an important position with his "only" qualifications (as they tried to portray them) being that he was a popular conservative commentator and was fiercely loyal to Trump. https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/02/25/media-headlines-on-dan-bonginos-fbi-appointment-n2185988

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TOO SOON ? .

* For Joe, Data didn't really say that. .

Good work lefties. Nearly five years after the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots and the woke insanity from local Democrats, Portland, Ore. is now in an "urban doom loop." High-paying taxpayers are leaving the city, businesses continue to shut down and tax revenue is drying up. Portland also ranks second to last in 81 cities for outside investment in a survey by the Urban Land Institute. Meanwhile, Oregon's governor Gov Tina Kotek says her priority during the second Trump presidency is stockpiling abortion pills and protecting the transitioning of minors and allowing males to play in female sports.

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Trans athlete misses California girls’ basketball playoff game amid Trump admin probe, protesters – and team loses by 26 By Jackson Thompson A transgender basketball player was absent from a girls’ playoff game in California on Saturday night after a week of national media attention and controversy. The trans athlete had led San Francisco Waldorf’s girls’ basketball team to a 9-8 record and a playoff meeting against Cornerstone Christian School. But in the trans athlete’s absence, San Francisco lost to Cornerstone 56-30. https://nypost.com/2025/02/23/sports/trans-athlete-misses-california-girls-basketball-game-amid-trump-admin-probe-protests/

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Leadership. .

You could be arrested for whistleblowing when the democrats were in power.

THIS IS THE WAY.

Never happens. . . . . . . . right ?

Jim Acosta out. Joy Reid out. Lester Holt out.