I, for one, would just LOVE to buy a new gun using PayPal (I’d have to restart my account first, though).
Which this new bill from the Senate would allow, nay almost mandate.
And to Global MegaBank, Inc.: Fuck you, it’s a legal product. Like booze and cigarettes, no matter how much you find them “distasteful”.
Make it happen, kids.
I submit these two little snippets for your enjoyment contemplation:
First: the I.R.S.:
The Trump administration has executed one of the most significant workforce reductions in U.S. history, targeting over 200,000 probationary employees across multiple government agencies.
It was first reported that Trump’s administration plans to axe around 9,000 jobs at the IRS, primarily targeting employees still in their probationary period. However, as many as 15,000 IRS workers have been identified for possible termination as early as next week.
The targeted employees, many of whom were added during the Biden administration’s expansion of the IRS, reportedly hold non-essential roles unrelated to processing tax filings.
One can only hope that this will end with the department’s complete abolition. I’m not kidding, either.
Second, the CDC:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is poised to lose roughly one-tenth of its workforce due to a Trump policy axing probationary employees as part of a larger effort of the Trump administration to cut the size and scope of government.
This reality comes as the Trump administration orders federal agencies to cut off probationary employees. That includes roughly 1,300 staffers at the CDC alone. Those employees, according to the Associated Press, are expected to receive roughly four weeks of paid administrative leave.
Let’s hope that the reduced CDC staffing means that those quacks will be going after actual diseases like smallpox and malaria, instead of inventing “epidemics” like accidental gun deaths and suchlike. (I’m hopeful, but not optimistic that this will happen; if it doesn’t, shut them down too and leave it to the states to deal with.)
Like I said, this is a good start, going after the low-hanging fruit (“probationary”, “non-essential”, FFS), but let’s not stop there.
…and about fucking time, too. More goodness from POTUS:
I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHT BULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe. I look forward to signing these Orders.
Or, to be more formal about it:
President Donald Trump is waging war against former President Joe Biden’s green energy regulations on Americans’ household appliances.
Is there any way to make this stuff permanent? Oh wait, that would require Congressional assistance.
Nemmind.
Just a reminder of what he’s talking about:
Biden imposed climate standards for some appliances, including gas stoves, washing machines, and dishwashers during his only term as president.
In July of 2023, the Biden administration cracked down on water heaters by slapping them with greater efficiency standards.
The following month, Biden imposed a ban on incandescent light bulbs, limiting what kinds of lighting would be available for consumers.
In 2023, Biden proposed a rule targeting ceiling fans.
…and the list goes on and on, all about Big Gummint sticking its nose into our private lives, and screwing it all up.
I had a piece planned for yesterday, and ran into some thought issues which required redoing — hence its non-appearance yesterday — and it was replaced with Jan Sterling, which isn’t a bad compromise, all things considered.
It would have been, I think, an interesting piece. I was going to write about music, and lyrics, and playing around with them and not only interpreting them, but changing them into another format, writing music notation, changing orchestral pieces into something which could be played by a rock band, for instance, or a single pianist. It’s something I do often, in my head. New Wife sometimes says something to me and is annoyed when I make no sign that I’ve heard her. And when I tell her I’ve been concentrating on something and she asks what, I reply that I’d been writing out the bass guitar part for, I dunno, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini perhaps, or imagining how a single keyboardist could play an entire Beethoven symphony using just two or three keyboards (piano, and couple of advanced synthesizers like those made by Nord or Roland, for example).
Then (via Insty) I read Override, and all my thoughts on music disappeared. The report had such a profound effect on me that I’ve since read it perhaps eight times (and counting), and I’ve sent the link on to a dozen friends all over the world, saying in effect, “If you want to know what’s REALLY happening here in the U.S., this is it.”
What astonishes and amazes me is the amount of preparation and planning that went into this activity, and the fact that it remained a secret for who knows how long — a year, several years, whatever — without an inkling or a leak anywhere. The proof is that when those four kids with laptops hit the Treasury system, nobody saw it coming; and I don’t think anyone, even its architects, had any idea of the outcome.
What astonishes me even more is that all those hundreds of Executive Orders signed by Trump in the past couple of weeks were, while consequential, more of a deception, a maskirovka designed to keep the Left distracted while the real business was going on in the basements of federal buildings all over D.C.
It takes a lot to knock me over and flabbergast me, but consider me knocked over and flabbergasted. And I have only one thing to say:
For the first time in many years, I can truthfully say that it’s a wonderful time to be alive here in America.
Let’s just hope we can keep it going, and change this country back into something more like what our Founding Fathers intended.
Oh, and speaking about the Founders and original principles, as if all the above were not enough, here’s another EO from POTUS:
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday “to assess any ongoing infringements” of the right to keep and bear arms.
The order also makes clear President Trump wants an assessment of the following, among other things:
The positions taken by the United States in any and all ongoing and potential litigation that affects or could affect the ability of Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights; Agencies’ classifications of firearms and ammunition; and The processing of applications to make, manufacture, transfer, or export firearms.
And “assessment” is one thing; action is another. But wait! There’s MOAR!
Within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi is to “present a proposed plan of action to the President, through the Domestic Policy Advisor, to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.” Thereafter AG Bondi is to finalize and implement the plan.
30 days? I think I need one of these:
…and a series of these:
Or maybe all this political turmoil and castigation of the Left is best enjoyed stone-cold sober, while I dance up and down like Flounder when the parade was ruined.
Your thoughts in Comments.
Amidst all the excellent news items I’ve read (so far) this week — fedgov departments closed, useless people fired, lawbreakers under investigation etc. — I think this one gave me the greatest pleasure:
The U.S. Army recently announced it shattered previous recruiting records, with December 2024 being the most productive December in 15 years.
The branch reported it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers every day that month, Army officials announced Tuesday on social media.
In January 2025, the Army hit its best recruiting number in 15 YEARS.
Putting that into perspective:
During the last fiscal year (2024), the Army missed its recruiting goal by 15,000 active-duty soldiers. That makes 25% of its target. This shortfall forced the Army to cut its planned active-duty end strength from 476,000 to 466,000. Army officials project that active end strength could shrink by as much as 20,000 soldiers by September, down to 445,000.
It just shows you that under the right leadership, Americans want to serve their country.
…just like they used to be. From the Department of Common Sense (Title IX Division) comes this news:
Trump’s Dept of Education released a “dear colleague” letter to every school in the country, stating that the social experiment of “trans inclusive” facilities, sports, bathrooms, & scholarships is done. “Sex” under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is back to being interpreted as male & female, as it always was.
The Department relies on a recent federal court ruling vacating the rule & indicating that the rewrite violated civil rights, administrative, & constitutional law.
My favorite part:
Any school, recipient, college that doesn’t comply with the directive could lose federal funding.
Keep rolling back the Leftist lunacy, folks; we ain’t tired of it yet.
And when you’re done undoing, close the whole fucking department down.