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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Puppy Killer Got The Job
DOGEWontAmountToShit says
Puppy Killer Got The Job
More proof that most Americans don't fall for media propaganda anymore.
‘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.
New WH SPOX lays down the law!
President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Howard Lutnick as secretary of Commerce
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.
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.
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.
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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