As Donald Trump prepares to take his place as president of the United States for the second time, liberals are freaking out. And rightfully so, as their rejection of common sense on a policy level is about to come to an end.

Trump calls this a “mandate to bring common sense back to the country,” which he plans to kick off by making the border safe and secure and initiating mass deportations of illegal immigrants who squeezed through the border when it was open.

Trump even called New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and while the details of their conversation are unknown, Adams has reportedly already revoked illegal immigrants’ food cards.

“He’s just racking up W’s,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments. “He’s not even in office yet.”

But that’s not all. Almost immediately after Trump’s win, Hamas called for a ceasefire.

“Hamas just saw that he won and Hamas was like, ‘All right, OK, ceasefire, we give, oh s**t, we don’t want to deal with Donald Trump,’” Gonzales says, adding, “The same thing happened with the Ukraine-Russia war.”

“Just the day after his landslide victory, Putin congratulated Donald Trump,” she continues, “He said Donald Trump’s remarks on ending the war deserved attention. Because finally, we have a president who’s talking about ending the war rather than continuing it and just funneling our money until they don’t need it anymore.”

It’s not just Trump’s eagerness to solve the problems the Biden-Harris administration created that’s impressive but how quickly he’s making changes despite not being in office yet.

“He hasn’t been in office for almost four years, he hasn’t set foot back in the White House yet, and he’s already elevated the first woman to chief of staff, he’s making mass deportation a top priority, he’s warning against the weaponization of the DOJ, and he’s already begun the process of ending wars on multiple fronts,” Gonzales explains.

“I’m sure you guys can tell in my eyes, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” she continues, adding, “We’re not living in total darkness anymore. The demons have been put on notice.”

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Leftists this holiday season should feel free to stay away from family and friends who voted for President-elect Donald Trump in order to take care of their “mental health,” a Yale psychiatry resident told MSNBC host Joy Reid on Friday.

Reid asked Dr. Amanda Calhoun, “How do you interact with people who you know voted for this? If you are an LGBTQ person and know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights, or you’re a woman knowing this man was calling people the B-word. [Vice President-elect] JD Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris ‘the trash’ and said we’re going to take out ‘the trash.’ I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that.”

‘And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they’re your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so.’

Reid continued, “And if you then meet somebody, and you know they voted for the people who called you trash, or if you’re Puerto Rican … and you know someone voted that way, do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them? We got the holidays coming up.”

Calhoun replied that there is a “societal” expectation that “if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time. And I think the answer is absolutely not. So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you — like what you said, against your livelihood — and it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. You know, to say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not gonna be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.'”

Calhoun added that she doesn’t believe anyone should be forced “to be around people just because they’re your family. … And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people, whether they’re your family or not, I think you should very much be entitled to do so. And I think it may be essential for your mental health.”

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An estimated 2.2 million civilian federal workers serve at the pleasure of the president, despite only 4,000 being designated as political appointees. Donald Trump’s first priority as he prepares to retake office must be to establish that he can fire any of them. Whether they hold political appointments, Senate-confirmed positions, or civil service roles, all federal employees are subject to the president’s authority to terminate their employment. This includes workers in any department or so-called “independent” agency. If a congressional statute conflicts with his authority to fire someone, that statute is unconstitutional and must yield to the president’s plenary firing authority.

Ironically, Trump’s biggest failure in his first term was his reluctance to say his famous line, “You’re fired!” To succeed in a second term, he must remove anyone who does not share his campaign vision. His primary promises are to reduce inflation and eliminate the deep state. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is already challenging both promises, presenting Trump with an early test of his resolve.

‘If any power whatsoever is in its nature Executive, it is the power of appointing, overseeing, and controlling those who execute the laws.’

When a Politico reporter on Thursday asked Powell if he would comply if Trump asked for his resignation, Powell responded flatly, “No.” When pressed on whether he is legally required to resign, he tersely repeated, “No,” asserting his belief that no legal basis exists for firing him.

Legally, Powell has no foundation to stay in his post if the president fires him, which Trump must do. While the legislature dominates in setting public policy and the federal budget, the president decides who serves in executive positions. The Senate can confirm high officers and may refuse to confirm a new appointee after the president removes someone senators support. However, the Senate cannot force the president to keep any personnel he wishes to dismiss, even if it passes a law granting tenure to that individual, as in the case of Powell, whose term doesn’t expire until 2026.

The Supreme Court ruled in Ex Parte Hennen (1839) that the president’s power to appoint executive officials includes the power to remove them. This authority was upheld in Myers v. United States (1926) in a 70-page opinion by the chief justice, former President William Howard Taft. If a president can appoint anyone to head an agency within reason, Congress cannot restrict him to choosing or retaining any specific individual.

Some argue that the Federal Reserve must remain independent, but that is a political stance, not a legal one. Constitutionally, there are only three branches of government. Since the Fed is neither legislative nor judicial, its governors are subject to the president’s authority to remove them.

Congress can defund or abolish an office and refuse to confirm the president’s nominee, but it cannot impose a tenure law on the president. James Madison explained this separation of powers in a letter to Thomas Jefferson:

[Congressional tenure laws] overlook the important distinction between repealing or modifying the office and displacing the officer. The former is a legislative, the latter an Executive function; and even the former, if done with a view of re-establishing the office and letting in a new appointment, would be an indirect violation of the theory and policy of the Constitution.

For example, although Congress passed a law entitling the FBI director to a 10-year term, President Bill Clinton, at the recommendation of Attorney General Janet Reno, fired FBI Director William Sessions in 1993 during his sixth year in office.

No executive branch figure operates outside the president’s authority. If an individual is not subject to the president’s authority, that individual is, by definition, not part of the executive branch. Therefore, the president can fire any civil service worker within main agencies and terminate anyone serving in independent commissions, such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Election Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Merit Systems Protection Board. Based on his campaign promises, Trump has an obligation to exercise this authority.

Although the Supreme Court once deviated from the originalist view espoused by Chief Justice Taft — in cases like Morrison v. Olson (1988) involving the independent counsel — that era has ended. The current Supreme Court is likely to support Trump’s power to fire executive officials. Just four years ago, the justices ruled 5-4 that the president has full authority to remove the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With Amy Coney Barrett now on the court, Trump would likely have six votes in favor of a decision to fire someone like Powell.

The president may not be a king, but he is the CEO of the executive branch. As James Madison said in 1789, “If any power whatsoever is in its nature Executive, it is the power of appointing, overseeing, and controlling those who execute the laws.” It’s time to exercise that power to the fullest.

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The women of “The View” are very upset with former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California after the Democratic leader criticized President Joe Biden for the Democrats’ catastrophic election loss.

Pelosi said that Harris might have been more successful as a candidate had Biden dropped out sooner, a common criticism among some Democrats.

‘We will never know if the results had been different if there had been an open primary.’

Whoopi Goldberg voiced her agreement when Ana Navarro expressed her disdain for Pelosi’s comments.

“Why, Nancy, why? I find this so unproductive, so nasty, so unnecessary. She wants to make sure people know it wasn’t her. She has no blame in this,” said Navarro.

“I said Biden should have gotten out earlier. I said there shouldn’t have been a primary. Don’t blame me,” she said in Pelosi’s voice. “I think it’s really unseemly.”

Pelosi had said Harris might have been able to take her case to the public earlier if Biden had not waited so long to drop out of the campaign.

“Look, we will never know if the result would have been different had Biden stepped off earlier,” Navarro said. “We will never know if the results would have been different if he had stayed in. We will never know if the results had been different if there had been an open primary.”

Navarro went on to call on Biden to pardon his son Hunter Biden because President-elect Donald Trump had announced his intention to pardon some of the Jan. 6 rioters.

Trump won the electoral college contest and looks to be well on his way toward winning the popular vote as well. The U.S. Senate will go to Republicans and the House of Representatives may also be controlled in the next session, barring a miraculous turn-around in voting.

Democrats have been attacking each other and the voters in an attempt to explain how Trump could make historic gains in nearly every part of the country despite their vitriolic attacks. Some have blamed black and Hispanic voters, others blame Vice President Kamala Harris herself while many say racism and sexism are the culprits.

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The Democrats know why Kamala Harris lost the presidential election in such decisive fashion to Donald Trump. They just don’t want to tell their most reliable and passionate voting bloc — black women.

So the Democrats are playing a game of misdirection and deflection. They’re lying in public.

Americans believe in free speech and reject government-backed racial discrimination.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blamed President Joe Biden for not exiting the race soon enough. Strategist James Carville blamed Kamala Harris for failing to answer a simple question on “The View” about how she would be different from her predecessor and boss. MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed white and Latino women for being jealous of black women. Reid’s colleague Rachel Maddow pointed her finger at voter suppression. CNN contributors David Axelrod and Van Jones blamed racism and sexism.

Countless other Democrats politely argued that Harris was a bad candidate.

It’s all a lie designed to avoid telling black women that their political party of choice is a satanic cult built on racist bullying and child sacrifice.

Tuesday’s election was a long-overdue repudiation of the Democrats’ 60-year strategy of framing whiteness as inherently evil and abortion as inherently good.

Democrats abandoned biblical morality in the 1960s, the American working class in the 1990s, defense of constitutional freedoms in the 2000s, and new ideas after the passing of the Affordable Care Act.

The Democratic Party has been reduced to a brand. By aggressively smearing all non-Democrats as anti-black bigots, the party of donkeys offers its supporters racial reputation protection. That’s pretty much it. Beyond the “right” to murder a baby in the womb, reputation insurance is the Democrats’ lone sales pitch in the post-Obama era.

Name the idea that defined Kamala Harris’ campaign. I’ll wait. Take your time. There isn’t one. She ran on the exact same idea that President Biden and Hillary Clinton ran on in 2016 and 2020.

The idea is: “I’m not Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is a racist.”

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, rebranding it as X, and corralling the rigged algorithms that unfairly framed conservative and evangelical thought as racist disrupted the Democrat business model. Musk offered a superior form of reputation protection.

He turned X into a wholesale store for free speech. He allowed conservatives and evangelicals to defend themselves, an act that was punished under Jack Dorsey’s rulership of Twitter.

Now no one has to pretend that Derek Chauvin played a bigger role in George Floyd’s death than the massive amount of fentanyl Floyd swallowed. Or pretend Michael Brown was shot down with his hands up while helping an old lady cross the street. On X, the media and celebrities are openly ridiculed for suggesting police are randomly and indiscriminately killing black men over speeding tickets.

Truth-tellers are free to call bulls**t.

And that’s what happened to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party.

Thanks to Musk — and the COVID scamdemic — people abandoned their fear of being labeled racist, misogynistic, conspiracy theorists, homophobic, and transphobic. Disabused of fear, voters leaned into their convictions and values. Americans believe in free speech and reject government-backed racial discrimination.

DEI and its enforcer – censorship – were on the ballot. We voted them down.

During this election cycle, America’s ridiculous fixation on “making history” and “breaking glass ceilings” dissipated. Instead, we reckoned with the negative consequences and ramifications of Barack Obama’s history-making presidency. We thought eight years of Barack and Michelle would improve race relations. It had the reverse effect. Obama has revealed himself to be no different from Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Ben Crump. The former president amplified racial idolatry and weaponized it to usher in the LGBTQIA+ Alphabet Mafia agenda.

The Democrats need a new trick, not a new candidate.

White women voted for Trump because they have grown tired of co-signing the repugnant Democrat narrative that the sons they birth, nurture, and develop are mentally defective and inferior by skin color. They prioritize their own children above the right to use abortion as a contraceptive. They finally figured out that the argument that all white men are racist and evil and must be reprogrammed applies to their children. They’ve watched their kids befriend, date, marry, idolize, and socialize with black people and wondered what more they can do to disprove an outdated narrative. They stomached affirmative action standards that disadvantage their offspring. They’ve worked for black bosses. They voted for Barack Hussein Obama.

Their reward for embracing left-wing tolerance and inclusion is accepting that their lack of melanin makes them evil. It’s not much of a reward.

It’s amazing and dumbfounding that black elites and their worshippers can’t recognize what motivated white women and men. It’s the exact fuel that powered the civil rights movement. No one wants to be a second-class citizen in America based on skin color.

The black puppets of the Democratic Party sit on cable news shows and cheer on illegal immigrants marching across our border. While living in predominantly white neighborhoods, black elites celebrate the “browning” of America and the end of so-called white supremacy. They’re shocked that legal Latino citizens voted for Donald Trump. Democrats can’t believe their racial idolatry mass psychosis failed to produce the same election results as the COVID pandemic.

Why can’t they see it?

Because the Democratic Party is secular. Secularism and secular people are unwise. They’re book-smart. They lack discernment and common sense. Their overreliance on “science” renders them foolish and blind. On MSNBC last week Joy Reid commented on Kamala Harris’ ability to attract secular voters. It’s the one demographic in which Harris outperformed President Biden: non-believers, particularly non-believers in Jesus Christ. Her push for child sacrifice through abortion netted her gains with people hostile to Christianity.

Unbeknownst to the experts, the Democratic Party’s hostility to religious values has sparked a religious awakening. The attack on children — abortion, transgenderism, drag queens at schools — has made self-aware Americans rediscover the value in Christian culture.

Calling white people racist has lost its power of persuasion. Calling black conservatives sellouts, Uncle Toms, and coons has lost its power of persuasion.

Someone needs to break the news to black women, the puppets of the Democratic Party, the women who have convinced themselves that child-murder, anti-white racism, and LGBTQIA+ affirmation are the keys to saving America and justifiable actions within Christianity.

They’re not saving America. They’re the descendants of the same group of women who died in the jungle with Jim Jones in a similar, hostile-to-Christianity cult.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, received $15 million in taxpayer money to cover the cost of his private security detail after stepping away from his government position and returning to private citizenship, according to documents obtained by independent journalist Jordan Schachtel and Open the Books.

The funds covered the cost of his 24/7 chauffeur, U.S. Marshals security detail, and their law enforcement equipment from January 2023 to September 2024, as stated in a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, Open the Books reported.

‘I get so many threats.’

The document revealed that the contract was eligible for extension; it is unclear whether it has already been extended. The protection costs were distributed through HHS’ fund, according to the nonprofit organization.

The reported millions do not include costs associated with his personal security detail from April 2020 to December 2022, while he was still a government employee. Fauci retired in December 2022.

Fauci’s critics have slammed him for pushing draconian government restrictions in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. He was the highest-paid federal employee from 2019 to 2022, retiring with a record-breaking $480,654 annual salary. According to Open the Books, his pension is estimated at approximately $355,000 per year. Over his five and a half decades of government service, Fauci amassed a personal fortune of $11 million.

Last year, Fauci claimed that the costs to cover his security detail were necessary, citing alleged threats from the “extreme, radical right.”

“I get so many threats. Some of them are credible threats of violence against me and my family that I have to be walking around with federal marshals protecting me, which is completely crazy,” he told Newshub.

He concluded the interview by issuing a warning about the dangers of what he referred to as “disinformation.”

“I don’t want to make it seem so melodramatic, but it seems to erode the foundations of democracy because if you can’t believe the truth,” Fauci said. “If you look back historically on how governments have failed, and tyrannies ever have risen, it’s when people essentially take control over information, a lot of which is untrue. That’s a very scary situation.”

Open the Books reported that after his retirement, Fauci remained on the NIAID’s staff list, apparently in a no-show job to ensure he continued to receive his taxpayer-funded security detail.

Schachtel called the arrangement “unprecedented” and “clandestine.” He noted that he “could find no other cases of a former federal employee receiving this level of protection.”

The U.S. Marshals Service, a subagency of the Department of Justice, confirmed to the Daily Caller it “provided a protective detail for Dr. Anthony S. Fauci from January 2023 to August 2024,” one month short of Schachtel’s reporting.

HHS did not respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.

The reports about Fauci’s extensive security detail come after news that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was repeatedly denied Secret Service protection, and at least nine of President-elect Donald Trump’s requests for increased Secret Service protection were reportedly turned down.

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Democratic strategist James Carville revealed the exact moment that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election.

Speaking to Tim Miller on “The Bulwark Podcast” on Saturday, Carville said Kamala’s campaign was doomed after she froze up during an interview on “The View.”

‘That’s the money question. That’s the one you want. … And you freeze!’

“I think if this campaign is reducible to one moment, we are in a 65% wrong-track country,” Carville said. “The country wants something different. And she’s asked, as is so often the case, in a friendly audience, on ‘The View.'”

Carville noted that one question asked by “The View” host Sunny Hostin derailed the Harris campaign.

“But when we go back, and history unearths this, it’s going to be right there on ‘The View.’ And I think her name was Sunny Hostin … asked the question, and that’s the most devastating answer you could imagine,” Carville said.

Carville stated, “‘How would you be different than Biden?’ That’s the one question that you exist to answer, all right? That is it. That’s the money question. That’s the one you want. That’s the one that everybody wants to know the answer to. And you freeze! You literally freeze and say, ‘Well, I can’t think of anything.’”

As “Blaze News Tonight” previously reported, Harris responded to the question by saying: “There is not a thing that comes to mind. I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done.”

Carville claimed that the Democrats had a “united party” because Harris was endorsed by former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Carville added, “By the way, she had every advantage. We had a united party, from Dick Cheney to AOC, everybody was, whatever you want to do is fine.”

Carville said that Harris had more resources than President-elect Donald Trump but stressed that “since the dawn of time,” no amount of resources or technology has overcome the lack of a reason to vote for a political candidate.

“We had more people on the ground,” Carville continued. “We had more volunteers. We had more money, all right? We had more surrogates, but we didn’t have a reason.”

“You cannot not have a reason and beat it with technology, or beat it with volunteers, or do that,” Carville continued. “The overall message here, Tim: A reason, and she didn’t give us a reason.”

Carville also slammed President Joe Biden for staying in the race for so long.

“If we would have had this process, we’d have had gone through it, and we would have had this mega level of talent that exists, and all of these people would have been different. It would have been energetic. It would have created a sense of real excitement,” Carville stated. “Biden, he just blocked all that from happening.”

Carville blasted the Democrats for their messaging.

“If the country wants something different, you try to give the country something different,” he said. “We are just not going to give in to them. But maybe the odiousness of [President-elect] Trump combined with the Dobbs decision, we can overcome it. Well, we didn’t overcome it.”

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Spirit Airlines said that a plane attempting to land in Haiti was diverted to the Dominican Republican after it was hit by gunfire and one person was injured.

‘We have suspended our service at Port-au-Prince (PAP) and Cap-Haitien (CAP) pending further evaluation.’

The budget airline said Flight 951 had departed on Monday from Fort Lauderdale and was to land at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, but it instead landed in Santiago after being struck several times by gunfire.

One of the bullets grazed a flight attendant, who sustained minor injuries. The plane also sustained damage consistent with gunfire, according to the airline.

None of the passengers were injured, and the flight attendant was evaluated by medical personnel. Other flights into Haiti were grounded.

“The safety of our Guests and Team Members is our top priority, and we have suspended our service at Port-au-Prince (PAP) and Cap-Haitien (CAP) pending further evaluation,” read a statement from the airline.

Haiti has been rocked by a civil war after the government fell and violent criminal gangs battled for control of the island nation. Haitian refugees absorbed into the U.S. became an emotional talking point in the November election as President-elect Donald Trump criticized the lax immigration policies of the Biden administration.

Images and video of the damage to the plane can be viewed at the New York Post channel on YouTube.

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Democrat governors have come out since Donald Trump’s presidential victory to declare they will resist the incoming administration on issues they deem to be out of bounds.

Their declarations come as President-elect Trump has promised to carry out his massive deportation operation on day one of his administration. The deportation operation is in response to the border crisis that was created by the policies of the Biden-Harris administration.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey was one of the first to indicate she will do everything in her power to prevent Trump from deporting illegal immigrants from her state.

“Every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, our residents, and protect our states and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law as a basic principle,” she added.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker also weighed in.

“[To] women seeking reproductive health care. Immigrants searching to work hard for a better life. LGBTQ Americans looking for welcome and protection. And people with disabilities whose civil and human rights are under attack. Over the years ahead, we’ll do more than just protect against the possible reversion to an agenda that threatens to take us backward,” Pritzker said, according to NBC Chicago.

‘If you’re not going to help us, get the hell out of the way, because we’re going to do it.’

“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. You come for my people, you come through me,” he added.

California Governor Gavin Newsom convened a special session in the state legislature to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights” before Trump takes office next year.

“The special session will focus on bolstering California legal resources to protect civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families,” the statement said.

“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle. California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond. We are prepared, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive,” Newsom explained.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced she is going to work with Attorney General Letitia James to “protect the fundamental freedoms of New Yorkers in preparation for President-Elect Donald Trump’s second term” and “to address potential federal legal threats to reproductive freedom, gun safety laws, and other key issues.”

In response to the governors’ declarations, incoming border czar Tom Homan told Fox News on Monday, “I’ve seen some of these Democrat governors say they’re going to stand in the way [of deportations] and make it hard for us. A suggestion: If you’re not going to help us, get the hell out of the way, because we’re going to do it.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a far-left New York Democratic U.S. representative, asked her social media followers over the weekend why some of them chose to split their ticket, voting for both President-elect Donald Trump and down-ballot Democratic candidates.

In a landslide, Ocasio-Cortez won her re-election race for New York’s District 14 against Republican opponent Tina Forte last week. According to the Associated Press, Ocasio-Cortez clinched nearly 69% of the vote. Despite the Democratic candidate’s sweeping victory, District 14 also leaned toward Trump by one of the most significant margins in New York City.

‘Trump is authentic. Harris was grown in a lab. People can tell.’

“People who support both Trump & me OR voted Trump/Dem, tell us why,” Ocasio-Cortez asked her eight million Instagram followers.

The congresswoman shared some of the unexpected responses, and a few common themes emerged: Voters wanted a change candidate, appreciated Trump’s authenticity, and were unimpressed by Vice President Kamala Harris.

One respondent stated, “It’s real simple… trump and you care for the working class.”

Another respondent explained that they “wanted change,” so they voted for Trump and Democratic candidates for the remainder of the ballot “to put some brakes.”

Other followers explained that they lost trust in establishment candidates from both parties.

“I feel like Trump and you are both real,” one follower wrote.

“I feel that you both are outsiders compared to the rest of DC, and less ‘establishment,'” another individual responded.

A third person stated that “action & progress” are greater than “stagnation & excuses.”

“Both of you push boundaries and force growth,” the social media user added.

“You are focused on the real issues people care about,” another person wrote. “Similar to Trump populism in some ways.”

One respondent did not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris because Harris did not prioritize fixing the economy, adding that “when she talked [about] it she didn’t have a plan.”

Echoing this sentiment, another shared that Harris “wasn’t the choice of the people,” she “couldn’t interview,” and she had “no clear policies.”

Another contributor stated that Trump “speaks of war as something that is bad,” while the Democratic Party has become “the party that supports war.”

In response to Ocasio-Cortez’s poll, a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill told the New York Post, “If either party wants a sweep, they have to figure out how to harvest authenticity.”

“That’s who wins. Trump is authentic. Harris was grown in a lab. People can tell,” the source added, noting that the Democrats had a lot of messaging misses with voters.

“The Democratic Party wrote the symphony of Donald Trump — they even conducted it,” the source continued. “All he had to do was take a bow.”

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President-elect Donald Trump has big plans for education in America.

When asked about what the Republican has in mind, Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt
told Time, “The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin, giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail. He will deliver.”

If Trump delivers on his campaign promises and corresponding
Agenda47 plan for education, then the Education Department as it now exists is toast, and most of its present responsibilities are likely headed back to the states.

Extra to hollowing out the Education Department, Trump has also promised universal school choice; protections for prayer in public schools; a prioritization of reading, writing, and arithmetic and an ejection of leftist propaganda; a switch from tenure to merit pay for teachers; and a federal reinforcement of parental rights.

In a September 2023 video outlining his ten principles for improving schools, Trump
noted, “The United States spends more money on education than any other country in the world. And yet we get the worst outcomes. We are at the bottom of every list. In total, American society pours more than a trillion dollars a year into public education systems. But instead of being at the top of the list, we are literally right smack — guess what — at the bottom.”

According to the Education Data Initiative, K-12 public schools blow through around $857.2 billion annually, with the federal government covering at least 13.6% with taxpayer funds. Costs have grown rapidly over the years.

The nationwide public K-12 annual spending per pupil in the 2011-2012 school year was $10,648. This year, the per-pupil cost for a substandard education was $17,280.

Despite the U.S. ranking fourth among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development members for spending on elementary education, the quality of education leaves much to be desired.

Recent estimates from the National Literacy Institute
indicated that roughly 40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level. The National Center for Education Statistics revealed that when compared to 80 other nations’ education systems in 2022, the U.S. average math literacy score for 15-year-old students was lower than the average in 25 education systems. The NAEP also found that as of 2022, only 26% of eighth-grade public school students across the country were proficient in math.

A Pew Research Center survey
revealed earlier this year that 51% of American adults figure the public K-12 education system is headed in the wrong direction. A separate survey of public school teachers found that 82% of respondents figured the state of education has worsened over the past five years.

‘You can’t do worse.’

“Rather than indoctrinating young people with inappropriate racial, sexual, and political material, which is what we’re doing now, our schools must be totally refocused to prepare our children to succeed in the world of work, and in life and the world of keeping our country strong, so they can grow up to be happy, prosperous, and independent citizens,” said Trump.

The once and future president indicated that in order to optimize education and schools in America, it is necessary to:

“respect the rights of parents to control the education of their children”;
“empower parents and local school boards to hire and reward great principals and teachers, and also to fire the poor ones”;
“ensure our classrooms are focused not on political
indoctrination, but on teaching the knowledge and skills needed to
succeed”;

“teach students to love their country”;
“support bringing back prayer to our schools”;
institute “immediate expulsion for any student who harms a teacher or another student”;
“ensure students have access to project-based learning experiences inside the classroom”;
“strive to give all students access to internships and work experiences that can set them on a path to their first job”; and
“ensure that all schools provide excellent jobs and career counseling.”

Trump also indicated that his administration would effectively “close” the Education Department, which has been a Cabinet-level agency since 1980, and send “all education and education work and needs back to the states.”

“We want [the states] to run the education of our children, because they’ll do a much better job of it,” said Trump. “You can’t do worse. We spend more money per pupil, by three times, than any other nation. And yet we’re absolutely at the bottom. We’re one of the worst. So you can’t do worse. We’re going to end education coming out of Washington D.C. We’re going to close it up — all those buildings all over the place and yet people that in many cases hate our children. We’re going to send it all back to the states.”

‘I figure we’ll have like one person plus a secretary.’

Blaze News reached out to the Education Department but did not immediately receive a response.

Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, told Time, “It is entirely feasible to close down the Department of Education, but the functions of the Department of Education will need to continue.”

With the Republican trifecta in Washington, D.C., Trump will likely be able to significantly reduce or possibly even cut funds for racist DEI and critical race theory programming.

Virginia Rep. Ben Cline (R) recently told Fox Business that it would be possible to slash trillions of dollars in government spending as Elon Musk, the potentially oncoming Department of Government Efficiency head, has proposed.

When asked where deep cuts could be made, Cline
said, “Well, let’s just look at the Department of Education and how billions of dollars stay in Washington, funding bureaucrats whose simple goal is to interfere in the decisions about educational choice at local and state levels.”

In October, Trump
signaled at a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, what his ideal Education Department would look like after he’s done with it:

I figure we’ll have, like, one person plus a secretary. You’ll have a secretary to a secretary. We’ll have one person plus a secretary, and all the person has to do is, “Are you teaching English? Are you teaching arithmetic? What are you doing? Reading, writing, and arithmetic. And are you not teaching woke?”

“All they’re going to do is see that the basics are taken care of,” added Trump.

Trump’s proposal in some ways resembles the memorandum advanced in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan’s Education Secretary Terrel H. Bell, which advocated for turning the department into a foundation tasked primarily with administering block grants, collecting information, and conducting research.

Education Weekly
reported at the time that Bell’s unrealized proposal suggested that most of the department’s activities would ultimately be “transferred, terminated, or modified as new Administration policies are implemented.” For example, the functions for the department’s Office for Civil Rights could be moved to the Justice Department.

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Plant closures in Europe. Layoffs in America. Plunging sales everywhere.

The auto industry is in trouble — and we could all end up suffering the consequences.

EV woes have hit Ford as well. Later this month, the carmaker will suspend operations at its F-150 Lightning EV plant for the rest of year.

Let’s start with Volkswagen. The company stands proud as the biggest carmaker in Europe, and it has never closed a factory in its home country of Germany.

Until now.

Punch buggy blues

At the end of October, the company asked workers to take a 10% pay cut as part of an ongoing campaign to cut costs across the VW Group. Industry insiders fear that domestic plant closures — the first in the company’s 87-year history — could be next, with up to three German factories shutting down, costing more than 100,000 jobs.

“Management is absolutely serious about all this. This is not saber-rattling in the collective bargaining round,” warned Volkswagen works council head Daniela Cavallo in a speech to employees.

These cuts would reduce the number of domestic plants to seven and cut the workforce by a third.

The plants that do stay open would also endure cost-cutting measures, according to a separate report, with downsizing and wage freezes on the table.

VW aims to save about €10 billion (roughly $10.8 billion USD) by 2026.

Thomas Schaefer, the head of the Volkswagen brand, has previously noted that German factories are operating at between 25% and 50% above targeted costs. This is largely due to Europe’s high energy costs, which German carmakers say are four times higher than in China and the United States.

Compounding this problem are increased competition from Chinese brands and a lack of demand for electric cars.

Volkswagen hasn’t commented on the report, and it hasn’t announced plant closures or layoffs yet.

Previously, Volkswagen had considered buying Audi’s struggling EV plant in Brussels. Those plans changed, and with no other suitable buyers on the horizon, the plant may close its doors for good.

The outlook isn’t much sunnier stateside, either.

GM feels the heat

General Motors is laying off some 1,000 software workers globally, 600 of whom are employed at its tech center in Warren, Michigan.

In a memo to workers obtained by Automotive News, GM said the cuts were to enable it to “move faster, pivot when needed, and prioritize investing in what will have the greatest impact.”

This is certainly a pivot from the last several years, in which GM has been expanding its software team to help with its electrification and autonomous efforts. The company had predicted that those services could generate $25 billion in revenue by 2030.

While General Motors has claimed that these cuts target “software and service” employees, that’s not exactly true. The layoffs come from GM’s Ultium division, which is the sub-EV company GM created to differentiate it from its gasoline engine department.

I can confirm that Ultium has let go a number of thermal engineers without warning. Thermal engineers, as you might guess, are crucial to thermal management: keeping EV batteries, power electronic systems, and motors from overheating.

Is this a sign that GM is no longer all-in on electric and is drastically reducing R&D on future EVs?

Sure looks like it.

Ford’s loser Lightning

EV woes have hit Ford as well. Later this month, the carmaker will suspend operations at its F-150 Lightning EV plant for the rest of year.

The highly touted electric pickup loses the company $40,000 on each vehicle sold. Hardly sustainable, especially given that Ford’s Q3 net income is down 26%, and cost issues have caused it to drop its full-year adjusted earnings projection to around $10 billion.

Mercedes: Bust in class

The luxury car market isn’t what it used to be, either.

Mercedes Benz has cut production on its S-Class line in response to declining sales: down 13% in China, 19% in the U.S., and 27% in Europe. The high-end vehicles have been rolling off the company’s cutting-edge Factory 56 assembly line in Germany since 2020 — always in at least two shifts.

Now, for the first time since Mercedes opened what it touts as the most modern car factory in the world, one shift will suffice.

The plant also builds the electric EQS as well as Maybach and AMG models. Mercedes will refresh the S-Class next year, so demand could pick back up with a new model.

Ram tough

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has been heaping scorn on his previous U.S. management team and no wonder: Third-quarter sales in North America were a disaster, falling 20%, and down 17% for the year.

That’s bad news for iconic American brands Jeep, RAM, Dodge, and Chrysler — and it has investors heading for the exits.

But times are tough all over for the car conglomerate. Sales in Europe fell 17%, with even Maserati relegated to the slow lane with a stunning 60% drop.

Business isn’t much better in China, India, and Asia Pacific, where sales fell 30%.

Border run

And in a move that is sure to infuriate the UAW, Tavares plans to move production of Ram’s full-size 1500 pickup truck from the U.S. to its Saltillo, Mexico, plant, which already produces Ram heavy-duty pickups and vans.

While Mexico offers lower labor costs, no doubt the move is also to prevent the UAW from choking off production during any future strike. We think that’s the same reason Ford moved part of its heavy-duty truck production to Canada. It’s a game of chess, and both Ford and Stellantis are working to escape checkmate.

For more on the ongoing car industry crisis, check out my video below:

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The red sweep that secured the White House, the Senate, and the House last week was a mandate from the American people: Enough is enough.

While it was ultimately voters and the goodness of God that made this possible, there are a few individuals who deserve credit for the vital role they played in Trump’s epic victory.

One of these people is Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

“I don’t know what we would have done without you, Charlie. I mean you really turned the vote out,” Glenn Beck tells Kirk, who says his motivation came from “this spirit of paranoia” that they might “do another COVID” or “come up with another sneak attack.”

However, now he knows that “God is not done with this land.”

“I know it sounds generic, but the American people withstood the most intense propaganda political hurricane of American history,” he tells Glenn, pointing to the left “calling us Nazis and fascists and saying that Donald Trump was going to put people in camps.”

“The American people weighed their options, despite Kamala Harris outspending Trump three or four times to one, and made the right choice,” he says.

As far as Kirk’s personal role in the election, he says he had two goals: “to lose by less with younger voters” and “create the most sophisticated, low propensity, get-out-the-vote turnout machine in modern political history for the right.”

Kirk tells Glenn that when he would attend Trump rallies and talk to attendees, he realized there were “millions of people that were Trump supporters that were not Trump voters.” However, he knew that we would need a massive voter turnout, especially in the battleground states, if Trump were to return to the White House.

“So we hired well over 1,000 full-time people — it’s the greatest ground force that’s ever been done — we raised tens of millions of dollars (praise God) from our donors, and we pitched them on this, saying, ‘Hey, the road to the White House is going to be going through these states; we know that we’re going to need to first register a ton of voters, build relationships in communities, and then drive a machine over a 30-day period to get Donald Trump across the finish line,”’ Kirk explains.

“In Wisconsin, I can tell you that if it wasn’t for our effort, Donald Trump would have fallen short. We chased an excess of over 70,000 low propensity voters in Wisconsin. Donald Trump won by 28,000 votes,” he adds. “Basically what we did is we took this movement that Donald Trump created, that Donald Trump led, and we added machinery to the movement, and we were able to successfully turn Trump supporters into Trump voters.”

To hear more about Kirk’s efforts to beat Democrats at their own game, watch the clip above.

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Variety magazine defended celebrities and scolded the public in the wake of the devastating loss for Democrats, and many did not appreciate the advice.

Music writer Chris Willman angrily denounced some in the media who blamed celebrity endorsements for the loss and, worse still, those who proclaimed that celebrity endorsements were meaningless.

The idea that entertainers and artists’ involvement somehow leads to actual voter dissuasion is a fantasy — bull*** that is happily perpetrated by the “go woke, go broke” crowd, and picked up by columnists who think that picking on limousine liberals never goes out of style. (It really doesn’t.) It’s just disappointing to see this picked up by objective journalists and by some Democrats themselves, who imagine they have practical reasons to tell the entertainment world to shut up and sing.

Willman went on to opine that celebrities had nothing to do with the loss but also argued that they did have an effect on voters and should be listened to, which appears at least somewhat contradictory.

Many on social media lashed out against the reprimand.

“She only lost because we didn’t hear from MORE celebs,” joked commentator Sean Medlock. “This is what I have been saying.”

“Celebrities don’t stress about whether to buy groceries or put gas in their cars. They’re not worried about getting assaulted, robbed or murdered at the hands of criminal illegals because they have their own security & lives behind gates. They are completely out of touch of just how dire it is,” read one popular response.

“I’ll say it once again: we need to treat entertainers like the ancients did ‐ as the lowest rung on the social ladder & entirely useless at anything other than performing for our benefit,” responded writer Mike Coté.

“[Y]ou people are so ridiculously out of touch with reality that it’s actually funny,” replied author Raven O’Connor.

“I value the opinion of rich Diddy diddlers about as much as the local homeless man telling me about a lucrative crypto opportunity,” read another response.

The Harris-Walz campaign has faced fierce criticism for raising an astounding $1 billion dollars in campaign donations, spending it all in a devastating loss, and reportedly ending up in debt.

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