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2024 Nov 12, 6:02pm   5,265 views  241 comments

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Elon & Vivek appointed to the DOGE



Sec of State: Rubio (meh, but not awful).
UN Ambassador: Elise Stefanik

Ambassador to Israel: Huckabee

Sec of Defense: Pete Hegseth - author of the "War on Warriors" - rabid anti-woke, pro-hard training, high-standards, meritocracy only advocate

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206   Ceffer   2024 Dec 2, 12:43am  

They must get trading stamps every time they foist one of these Goebbels type Satanic Inversion Lies.

208   Patrick   2024 Dec 2, 11:03am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pardon-me-monday-december-2-2024


💉💉💉

I was sorely tested yesterday when news broke of President Trump’s nomination to head the Drug Enforcement Agency: Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister. During the pandemic, Sheriff Chronister arrested Tampa Pastor Dr. Ronald Howard-Browne, who defied Florida’s short lockdown order and held several religious services anyway.

Sheriff Chronister also enforced a local covid curfew, and ordered punitive policies aimed at coercing unvaccinated deputies under his command to get the shots.




On the other hand, he may not have enforced all laws as enthusiastically as the covid laws. In at least one local news story, reporters indirectly quoted Sheriff Chronister as promising to focus on “public safety” rather than federal immigration laws. He didn’t come right out and say he wouldn’t help deport illegals, apparently, which was smart because that kind of thing, promising not to enforce the law, can get you removed from office in Florida.

Though vowing to focus on public safety, Chronister did release 165 ‘low level, non-violent’ prisoners during covid.

As to his politics, Chronister apparently donated $15K to Obama’s campaign, but more recently endorsed Governor DeSantis during the Republican primary, so he’s likely now a Republican. Still, Chronister is not well-liked by local conservatives who call him a woke Democrat plant. This Twitter thread helpfully rounds up a long list of anti-Chronister information.

I get it; Sheriff Chronister only enforced the laws at the time. We celebrated as heroes those Sheriffs who (rightly, in my view) refused to enforce what they concluded were unconstitutional laws. There may be more to the story; this Twitter poster claims Sheriff Chronister went back to the church and publicly apologized.

Apology or no, Sheriff Chronister was no covid hero. But more than that, Chronister’s covid policies alone raise serious questions whether he is ideologically aligned with the incoming Trump Administration.

As the more controversial Trump nominees have occasionally cropped up, I’ve repeatedly encouraged GTMTTW (give the man time to work). Now, I’ve been forced to take my own advice, which is pretty bitter. If I were in the Senate, I would vote not to confirm Sheriff Chronister.

I’ve said my piece, and I won’t make a song about it — I will assume Trump has a good reason for selecting this person for DEA, or maybe Chronister really has changed. But we don’t have to like it. During his confirmation hearings, Sheriff Chronister should be required to answer for his own words and decisions.

And he should have to wear a mask the whole time.
209   Patrick   2024 Dec 3, 5:39pm  

Patrick says


I was sorely tested yesterday when news broke of President Trump’s nomination to head the Drug Enforcement Agency: Florida Sheriff Chad Chronister. During the pandemic, Sheriff Chronister arrested Tampa Pastor Dr. Ronald Howard-Browne, who defied Florida’s short lockdown order and held several religious services anyway.


https://nypost.com/2024/12/03/us-news/trump-dea-pick-chad-chronister-withdraws-over-covid-arrest-controversy/


Trump’s DEA pick – who locked up a pastor during COVID-19 pandemic – withdraws from consideration after conservative backlash

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Drug Enforcement Agency announced Tuesday that he will not take the job following conservative backlash to his nomination.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister – described by some conservatives as a “COVID tyrant” – bowed out just three days after being selected by Trump to lead the nation’s primary agency for combatting illegal drugs.

Chronister’s record as Hillsborough County sheriff – particularly at the height of the COVID-19 – came under scrutiny soon after his nomination.

On March 30, 2020, Chronister ordered the arrest of Ronald Howard-Browne, the pastor of The River at Tampa Bay Church, for allegedly flouting COVID-19 lockdown orders by holding services at his church.


Good, but not good enough. That fucker must be tried for his crime against that church.
211   WookieMan   2024 Dec 3, 6:51pm  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says





Jesus Christ. Do the Republicans want to end up like the Dems??? Their party is in shamble potentially for a decade (D's). There's no Barrack Obama in the bullpen. There was a mandate with the clean sweep. Shut the fuck up and allow these nominations.

I do respect Gaetz backing down, likely to get the Rubio senate seat. That's playing as a team. Republicans better wake up or they're fucked in 2026 at the congressional level.
212   AmericanKulak   2024 Dec 3, 7:57pm  

Patel has prosecuted far more cases than Kamala. He also got a shitload of convictions against spies and terrorists.

And an award... from the Obama admin for his successful high profile national security related prosecutions
213   Patrick   2024 Dec 4, 11:04am  

Patrick says

During the pandemic, Sheriff Chronister arrested Tampa Pastor Dr. Ronald Howard-Browne, who defied Florida’s short lockdown order and held several religious services anyway.

Sheriff Chronister also enforced a local covid curfew, and ordered punitive policies aimed at coercing unvaccinated deputies under his command to get the shots.


https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/strategic-withdrawal-wednesday-december


Conservatives are nowhere near ready to forgive public servants who, though they may only have been doing their duty and following the law, they still revealed much too much enthusiasm for pandemic authoritarianism. Like it or not, good or bad, the pandemic was, is, and forever will be a kind of litmus test. It’s partly an ideological test, but it’s mostly a test of character.

Chronister’s career evidenced all the hallmarks of a woke, lifelong Democrat who recently switched parties out of bare political calculus, so he could not pass an ideological test. In the final analysis, though, Sheriff Chronister failed the character test. It wasn’t just the pastor he arrested. Chronister exuberantly embraced all the obscene, anti-scientific, dictatorial tools supplied by the federal government and corporate media. He’s never apologized or even claimed to have changed his viewpoint. ...

This story is important, not because Trump’s transition team withdrew a bad candidate and smartly yielded to quiet conservative pressure. Rather, this story is a morality tale about accountability and justice over people’s decisions during covid, with a side dish about how transformative social media has become, since Chronister’s offensive covid record would have been concealed by corporate media just a few years ago.

There’s zero appetite to let things go, forgive and forget, or Move On. The absence of any official accountability for pandemic excesses has created an abhorrent vacuum of intense frustration that nature has filled with a vast, informal army of volunteer enforcers, both individuals and conservative groups. It’s a kind of unorganized covid reconciliation movement.

For example, the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association opposed Chronister’s nomination, saying it was “shocked and dismayed” by his selection because of his enforcement of covid mandates. Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and others tweeted their concerns about Chronister, calling him competely disqualified.


This is only a tiny drop of justice when we are owed gallons and gallons of it.

The plandemic crimes against humanity must not go unpunished.
214   RWSGFY   2024 Dec 4, 11:17am  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says






That woman is a special kind of stupid. Next she'll be comparing dicks to eggplants. 🤡
215   AmericanKulak   2024 Dec 4, 11:33pm  

Beware of Joni Ernst.

She had an affair with a soldier under her command and tried to cover it up (emails exist in divorce court records). So she's a shit leader.

But most of all, she's a Graham crony who will try to give us another F-35 Cronybolt Joint Lobbyist Gateguardian

Another pathway is Desantis with Hegseth as a senior advisor. Desantis gets to plump his record with some Federal Level Secretary experience.
219   Patrick   2024 Dec 11, 11:47am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/drone-salad-wednesday-december-11


Yesterday, the San Fransisco Chronicle ran a terrific story headlined, “Trump taps culture warrior and S.F. attorney Harmeet Dhillon to lead Office of Civil Rights.” Harmeet was one of the most energetic and effective covid lawyers during the pandemic. We crossed paths a few times, even though between Florida and California, we lived in completely different worlds. Beyond covid, Harmeet helped with Trump’s elections lawsuits, helped run California’s GOP, and much more.

On Monday, Trump announced Harmeet’s nomination in a social media post saying, “Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our cherished Civil Liberties, including taking on Big Tech for censoring our Free Speech, representing Christians who were prevented from praying together during COVID, and suing corporations who use woke policies to discriminate against their workers. Harmeet is one of the top Election lawyers in the Country, fighting to ensure that all, and ONLY, legal votes are counted.”

The Libs of BlueSky were appalled, variously calling Harmeet “anti-trans,” an “election denier,” anti-abortion, a “MAGA darling,” and “an existential threat to all civil rights, especially trans rights.” They really dislike that Harmeet represented influential detransitioner Chloe Cole or that Harmeet’s website links other detransitioner lawsuits against fraudster doctors.

Harmeet, an Indian-American, is involved in many high-profile cases, and you probably never even knew it. For instance, she represents Portland anti-antifa investigator reporter Andy Ngo.

Harmeet will replace Biden’s appointee, Kristen Clarke, who is the one responsible for prosecuting all the abortion center protestors under the so-called “FACE Act.” I note, without comment, that the FACE Act can also be used to prosecute people who vandalize pregnancy support centers. Harmeet might want to take a look at that.
220   Patrick   2024 Dec 11, 6:57pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/penn-and-telling-on-themselves


"Nearly 100 former national security officials 'alarmed' at prospect of Gabbard leading intel community"

this is not what it looks like.

no one expects this to affect her hearings.

it's not intended to head off tulsi.

it's a way for 100 guilty people (and by extension other people like them) who were always likely to be investigated for their possible past misdeeds to try to make a case it's political retaliation when people start asking questions about what they got up to and for whom.

see it now that the cups are clear?

this is going to be the go to playbook for the next 4 years:

any investigation into past actions and activities of the people who weaponized state agencies for political or institutional purposes will be cast as trump "using justice and intelligence to attack his political enemies."

it's just the next round of psyop from the people who do psyops for a living, an attempt to frame holding people accountable for their persecution of political enemies as “persecution of political enemies.”

it's inversion and projection.

miss this frame and voila, those who victimized you are the victims here.
222   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2024 Dec 16, 3:03pm  

Trump can fire anybody he wants, thanks to Sean Spicer | Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner

President-elect Donald Trump is arriving at the White House armed with a legal weapon that will let him fire any of President Joe Biden’s appointees.

Thanks in part to a court fight former Trump White House spokesman Sean Spicer lost over his firing by Biden from a three-year term to the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, the incoming president will have the legal backing to dump any of Biden’s over 4,000 appointments who try to stick around.

And the best part, Spicer told Secrets, “They’ll have no one to blame but Biden himself.”

The case dates to Sept. 8, 2021, when Biden began to fire Trump allies from the visitor boards at the academies of the Navy, the Air Force, and the Army.

Spicer and others, including Russ Vought (just picked by Trump to head the Office of Management and Budget) and former Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, were unceremoniously dumped despite several of them having time left on their three-year terms.

Spicer and Vought sued, saying that unlike White House staff or others appointed by a prior president, they couldn’t be fired because of their congressionally mandated terms.

They lost, however, when a judge essentially ruled that the president could fire any presidential appointee, whether they had terms or not. A further effort failed, too.

Spicer said that is exactly what he hoped the courts would do because he wanted to help a future Trump presidency fire Biden’s picks without having its hands tied.

“What no one ever understood was this was not about actually getting back on the board, because my term had been expired for months. It was forcing them to argue in the affirmative that they had the ultimate authority to fire anybody at any time, which they did. And the court accepted that. So the Biden administration is now on record in court, and the court agreed that the president had absolute authority to fire anyone he wants,” Spicer said in an interview.

https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1868634158794482111
223   Patrick   2024 Dec 28, 10:24am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revenge-of-the-nerds-saturday-december


Speaking with Erik Torenberg on the Moment of Zen podcast, billionaire investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen recently speculated how the incoming Trump Administration could be planning to rapidly drive a stake into the beating heart of corporate DEI and kill it for good.

The possibility arises because Trump appointed long-time California covid lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to head the DOJ’s civil rights division. "If you wanted to pick the most extreme possible attorney to put in charge of the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department to reverse DEI,” Marc noted on the podcast, “it would be this lawyer named Harmeet Dhillon.”

The instant I heard it, I realized Marc was one hundred percent right. For years, Harmeet has been suing over wokeness and jabs. She came up as a superlawyer in the authoritarian pressure cooker of California and its virtue-signaling corporate culture. Soon she will occupy one of the most influential legal jobs in the country. ..,

Marc correctly explained that “the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department is the federal government’s prosecutorial arm that basically enforces wokeness. They’re the ones who have made sure that, for the last decade, these companies have had all these crazy policies under the penalty of being investigated, subpoenaed, and ultimately prosecuted.”

The billionaire gave an example: “the Civil Rights division sued SpaceX for not hiring enough refugees—despite the fact that SpaceX is a military contractor and is not permitted to hire non-American citizens under a separate law.”

That kind of silliness should quickly stop. But as Marc correctly pointed out, given her background, Harmeet is likely to “do a 180” and “begin prosecuting companies for violations of civil rights laws in the form of reverse discrimination—discrimination against white people, Asians, Jews, and other unprotected classes.”

Woke DEI policies are legal low-hanging fruit for real civil rights prosecution. The policies are de facto discriminatory in just about every conceivable way: race, gender, religion, you name it.

Call it the Harmeet effect. Marc thinks many companies are already getting the message, just from the fact of Harmeet’s appointment. Thanks to anti-DEI activists like Robby Starbuck, woke corporate policies have been culturally suspect for most of 2024. Add the threat of a DOJ criminal investigation and things may start shifting rapidly back toward normal. ...

Maybe best of all —this is me, not Marc— it seems very likely Harmeet will also investigate and prosecute companies that most egregiously violated their employees’ religious liberties by denying jab exemption requests and making unjabbed employee’s lives miserable on purpose (Ascension Hospital Group and Morgan & Morgan, I’m looking at you).

I’ll be shocked if Harmeet didn’t go after the jab dictators.
224   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Jan 24, 9:41pm  

The Turtle voted against him.


225   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Jan 25, 9:34am  

Puppy Killer Got The Job


226   ElYorsh   2025 Jan 25, 10:23am  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Puppy Killer Got The Job

More proof that most Americans don't fall for media propaganda anymore.
227   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Jan 25, 12:10pm  

ElYorsh says

DOGEWontAmountToShit says


Puppy Killer Got The Job

More proof that most Americans don't fall for media propaganda anymore.


She admitted to it in her memoirs.
228   Patrick   2025 Jan 26, 3:44pm  

https://palexander.substack.com/p/excellent-move-potus-trump-he-moves


‘Trump’s incoming Secret Service Director Sean Curran is expected to clean house on his first day on the job, according to Real Clear Politics.

“On incoming Secret Service Director Sean Curran’s first day in the new role, 5-10 senior leadership officials, including former Director Ron Rowe, were warned that they would either be fired, moved, or pressed into retirement, according to three sources in the Secret Service community,” RCP reporter Susan Crabtree said on Thursday.

President Trump on Wednesday announced Sean Curran, one of the agents who surrounded him following the Butler assassination attempt, as the new Secret Service Director.
229   Misc   2025 Jan 26, 8:58pm  

I think it would be fitting that all those gonna be ex-secret service should have the option of being part of Biden or Kamala's security detail.
231   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Jan 28, 1:45pm  

New WH SPOX lays down the law!


232   Eric Holder   2025 Jan 28, 1:46pm  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

New WH SPOX lays down the law!





Yeah, time to slam that Overton window shut!
235   Patrick   2025 Feb 4, 5:33pm  

Patrick says

President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Howard Lutnick as secretary of Commerce


https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/should-movie-stars-be-arrested-for


They are taking the piss out of the barnyard animals. A sovereign wealth fund funded by front-running Covid Vaccine orders? They are just spewing utter nonsense.

And hang on, I thought Trump and RFK Jr are about to terminate Covid Vaccines. WTF?

Trump just signed executive order for sovereign wealth fund. Howard Lutnick says off to his right with the press “if we sell 2 billion Covid vaccines we should have equity warrants in those companies.” Watch

This is a total joke - but for the barnyard animals it is very real.


Eddy has a point here.
236   Patrick   2025 Feb 5, 9:52am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/doge-days-wednesday-february-5-2025


A new front just opened in the Great Deep State War. Yesterday, the AP ran another terrific story headlined, “Senate confirms Pam Bondi as US attorney general, putting Trump ally at Justice Department’s helm.” Yesterday evening, Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joined all Republicans to conclusively confirm Pam 54-46.

Florida’s former Attorney General is now the Attorney General of the United States and will run the Department of Justice. The AP said she “is expected to oversee a radical reshaping of the department.” Hopefully. Even better, the AP darkly hinted that “she also refused at her confirmation hearing last month to rule out potential investigations into Trump’s adversaries.”

Goodbye, Grandma Garland, and good riddance. I’d call it a very significant upgrade. The days of FBI agents raiding soccer moms and churches is well and truly over. The even more exciting part is who will be investigated first? And, must we wait to find out until after the FBI’s reset?

If the previous nominees’ confirmations serve as any guide, Pam Bondi is about to hit the ground running.
237   Patrick   2025 Feb 7, 1:28pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gremlins-friday-february-7-2025-c


And just like that, another can of whoopy opened against the Swamp yesterday. Last night, the Washington Post ran an anguished story headlined, “Senate confirms Russell Vought to lead White House budget office.” After desperate Democrats pulled a Jolt cola-fueled all-nighter on the Senate floor Wednesday, crying about Vought’s pending confirmation vote, the Republican majority confirmed him yesterday anyway. Several career employees at OMB promptly resigned in protest. Rage quitters never win.

Article I gives Congress the sole constitutional power to approve federal spending. But it’s the Executive branch that actually signs the checks. So the Office of Management and Budget is America’s financial gatekeeper. Among other duties, OMB controls how and when agencies actually get the funds that Congress allocates, on a program-by-program basis.

You can see the potential. Under a controversial and long-debated theory called “impoundment,” the President can delay or even withhold Congressionally approved funds if he deems them wasteful, unconstitutional, or unnecessary. Mr. Vought could be said to be the Champion of the impoundment power.

It’s not Vought’s first rodeo. Late in his first term, President Trump finally confirmed Vought as OMB’s Director. He served for about six months, until Joe Biden infested the White House under a greasy black cloud of election irregularity. But now, like the budgetary Terminator, Russell Vought is back, fueling whole new nightmares for the Swamp causing it to toss and turn on its currency-stuffed pillow.

It’s way bigger than spreadsheets or wonky policy powers. Politico (ahem) ran the story under the affrighted headline, “Vought wants to dismantle the ‘deep state.’ As he takes office, it’s already happening.”

This week, intrepid online investigators exposed Politico, a British-owned media company that has slurped up millions of U.S. tax dollars by selling overpriced “subscriptions” to government agencies — at around $15K per year, per user. (A shocked and dismayed Politico defensively claimed, without evidence, that its special government newspaper is totally worth it, trust them.) ...

It wasn’t just Politico. Many other far-left corporate media, including Bloomberg and the New York Times, have been gorging themselves at the public trough. But it’s much bigger than just these media contracts.

Vought, Politico reported, is the architect of a “detailed plan for fundamentally reshaping the foundations of American government.” Faster, please. The new Director is also “one of Washington’s most strategic conservative minds capable of more effectively executing a vision to tear down the government this time around.”

Well, which is it? Is he reshaping the foundations or tearing down the government? Journalism like that clearly doesn’t deserve $15,000 subscriptions. But set that aside.

Progressives hissed angrily at Vought’s confirmation, like woke Nosferatu seeing a crucifix. They were horrified that Vought cheekily co-opted their slur and calls himself a “Christian Nationalist.” They blame him for breathing life into their ubiquitous nemesis, the left’s boogeyman “Project 2025,” which keeps popping up in the brains of Democrat politicians like moles in a cerebral whacking game.

An astonished Politico reported that Vought actually believes that America is “one nation under God.” Imagine.

It gets worse for them, much worse. Vought isn’t just aiming at government waste. Politico reported that the new Director sees “progressivism as a genuine, contemptible force that must be disempowered.” Democrats “view him as an existential threat to American democracy.” Well, their idea of democracy, anyway, like replacing their candidate in the middle of the night without asking voters. But again I digress.

Politico resentfully reported that Vought is “known to be mercurial, surgical and a provocateur — and above all a true believer of the conservative cause.” This alarms progressives because it is hard to co-opt a true believer. They much prefer fake believers of the conservative cause.

You can see why Vought is now the only Cabinet-level Trump 1.0 appointee to return to post. Though the controversial Director has obviously been working behind the scenes, he is now back in a role with real power, and he’s no quitter. Bad odds never flummoxed the wonky cost-cutter.

“When he’s not able to accomplish the president’s goals at first, he doesn’t surrender. He doubles down,” Politico quoted a Trump 1.0 official, who also told the reporter, “in the last administration various individuals would get stymied by their own bureaucracies and kind of just surrender to it. And that was extremely frustrating. Russ is not that way.”

Like Trump, Vought enjoyed a four-year holiday in which to calculate his current strategy. We can soon expect OMB fireworks, as the Democrats’ deranged response shows.

A new fear has been unlocked. It’s progressive’s Gremlins, Part 12. Russell Vought is about to pour water all over the cute little bureaucrats infesting the OMB offices.
238   OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething   2025 Feb 12, 9:25am  

Tulsi has been confirmed as DNI.


240   AmericanKulak   2025 Feb 13, 9:31pm  

Rapid Response 47

@RapidResponse47
Here are the 16 confirmed members of President Trump’s cabinet (and their official X handles):

✅ STATE:
@SecRubio

✅ CIA:
@JohnRatcliffe

✅ DEFENSE:
@SecDef (Hegseth)

✅ HOMELAND SECURITY:
@Sec_Noem

✅ TREASURY:
@SecScottBessent

✅ TRANSPORTATION:
@SecDuffy

✅ EPA:
@epaleezeldin

✅ INTERIOR:
@SecretaryBurgum

✅ ENERGY:
@SecretaryWright

✅ AG:
@AGPamBondi

✅ HUD:
@SecretaryTurner

✅ VETERANS:
@SecVetAffairs

✅ OMB:
@russvought

✅ DNI:
@DNIGabbard

✅ HHS:
@SecKennedy

✅ AGRICULTURE:
@SecRollins

Here are the seven awaiting confirmation:

▶️ FBI: Kash Patel

▶️ COMMERCE: Howard Lutnick

▶️ UN: Elise Stefanik

▶️ EDUCATION: Linda McMahon

▶️ LABOR: Lori Chavez-DeRemer

▶️ SMALL BUSINESS: Kelly Loeffler

▶️ TRADE: Jamieson Greer

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1890240715713622240
241   AmericanKulak   2025 Feb 13, 9:32pm  

Loeffler? She better have really sucked some MAGA cock to make up for her bullshit.

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