Day: February 25, 2025

Get Your DOGE Stuff Now!

Elmo and his band of thugs has been hitting the government agencies with a sledge hammer and for those people that see this as something to support then there is a way to show your support….buy DOGE stuff!

President Donald Trump’s political operation is selling DOGE membership cards, part of an effort to capitalize on the popularity of the White House DOGE office and Elon Musk‘s role in it.

“Today, I’m announcing that YOU can become an OFFICIAL TRUMP DOGE MEMBER!” Trump’s political operation wrote in an email to supporters Sunday night.

For a minimum $47 donation, supporters can get their name on a black metal card that says “Trump DOGE member.” If that is too pricy, there are also Trump DOGE T-shirts. One shirt for $40 depicts Trump and Musk. Another for $28 shows Trump, Musk, and the Shiba Inu dog, which inspired the original doge meme.

The White House’s efficiency initiative is one of the most visible parts of Trump’s second term.

DOGE has been the subject of numerous lawsuits from federal workers, Democratic state attorneys general, and good government groups. Trump initially appointed Musk to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” though a top White House official recently declared in a legal filing that Musk is not the DOGE administrator. Musk is a senior White House advisor and remains closely linked to DOGE.

Over the weekend, Musk upended federal agencies by claiming that employees would be fired if they did not respond to an email asking, “What did you do last week?” A number of departments have since told federal workers to pause potential responses ahead of the midnight deadline.

Musk spent over $290 million on the 2024 election to elect Trump. Trump and his allies have featured Musk prominently. Trump’s emails to supporters often seize on the latest DOGE headline, including Democratic lawmakers’ calls for Trump to rein in the world’s richest man.

Read the original article on Business Insider

There is so much crap that Trump attaches his name to and so much crap that supporters will clamor to possess…

Me?

I rather flush my money down the toilet.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Future: Unitary Government

Whenever we talk about the political system in this country it inevitably turns to the debate over democracy or republic…..when seldom is the strict definition implied rather it is general terms to describe the system we have once in awhile someone will inject the whole federalism thing in the debate.

Accuracy in the description is for academic debates for the average person we vote ergo we are a democracy.

The problem is with the group in DC today they are working to what can be called a unitary government.

About here I can imagine there is a whole bunch of huh going on.

Let me help out.

Unitary government is a kind of government system in which a single power, which is known as the central government, controls the whole government. In fact, all powers and administrative divisions authorities lies at the central place. Today most of the government systems in the world are based on unitary system of government. It is slightly different from
federal model of government. In unitary government, central government has the power to increase or curtail the power of subnational units. It can create and abolished the same. UK, Afghanistan, Italy, China, Saudi Arabia, Spain, etc., are the important examples of unitary government. The unitary government system is based on the concept of consistency, unity,
and identity that’s why the centralization of power and authority system remains at the top priority. The decision-making power rests with the central government that are shared by the government with the lower level government when needed. There are not so many
options for change and new innovation as the people have a very limited voice in this government system. There are many merits and demerits of unitary government. It is useful in the term that rules and regulations in this government systems remain consist and equal throughout the country. Moreover, it is less expensive as compared to the federal
government because the number of powerful people remains very low. In a time of emergency, it makes timely decisions as compared to the federal government system. But at the same time, the concept of freedom of speech and expression always remains at a low priority that’s why most of the principles of unitary government are much similar to that of dictatorship system of government.

It appears if the US is moving in this direction under Elmo and Donny.

Donald Trump‘s broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the “unitary executive” theory that envisions vast executive authority for a president, setting up potential U.S. Supreme Court showdowns.
The conservative theory’s advocates argue that Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which delineates presidential powers, gives the president sole authority over the federal government’s executive branch. It envisions robust powers even when Congress has sought to impose certain limits, such as restricting a president’s ability to fire the heads of some independent agencies.
The Supreme Court is expected to be called upon to review at least one key legal dispute over the Republican president’s contentious actions implicating this doctrine, with numerous legal challenges already moving through lower courts.
Trump’s firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board, an independent executive branch agency created by Congress, may test the willingness of the nation’s top judicial body to embrace the robust view of the theory that Trump’s administration is expected to present. And the nine justices could be asked to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent that limits a president’s ability to dismiss certain agency heads.
Now the question arises will the American people condone this power grab and just shrug off the stepping on their rights or will they grow a pair and fight back?
I have my thought but what about you?
I Read, I Write, You KNow
“lego ergo scribo”

Germany Steps into The Past

Recently Germany held it selections and there is a trend in Europe for Far Right parties to gain support and Germany was no different.

Conservative and right-wing parties emerged on top. The mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its partner, the Christian Social Union (CSU), finished first with 28.6 percent of the vote, while the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged into second with 20.8 percent, according to provisional results announced by election authorities.

Germany voters made a change at the top on Sunday, delivering a victory to centrist conservatives in the parliamentary elections and giving the far right its best result since World War II. Friedrich Merz, who’s now in position to become the nation’s chancellor, declared victory minutes after the first projection based on exit polls was released, Politico Europe reports. “We must now quickly regain our ability to act so that we can do the right thing at home, so that we are once again present in Europe,” Merz said, “so that the world can see that Germany is being governed reliably again.” Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounced the support for Alternative for Germany, and President Trump celebrated the election results.

Exit polls—which have been historically accurate in Germany—had Merz’s Union bloc running at about 29% and Alternative for Germany around 20%, which is double the anti-immigrant party’s showing in 2021. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats polled about 16%, per the AP, and the Green Party 13.5%. Scholz conceded Sunday, telling supporters “this is a bitter election result.” And he decried the fact that “an extreme right-wing party like the AfD is getting such election results. That must never be something that we will accept. I will not accept it and never will.” On social media, Trump proclaimed it a “great day for Germany.”

Merz’s Christian Democrats will need to partner with at least one party to form a governing coalition. He could end up partnering with small parties, per the New York Times.
Merz had said he’d refuse to work with AfD, as had Scholz and other party leaders. Parts of the AfD’s organization are considered extremist by German intelligence agencies. The party’s second-place finish will shake the continent, at least, per Politico; Germany is the most powerful nation in Europe. Despite Merz’s position, Alice Weidel, the AfD’s candidate for chancellor whose supporters include Elon Musk, said she would consider forming a coalition with the winning party. “We will hound the others to make sensible policies for our country,” she said.

Merz has to build a coalition to govern and that may not be as easy as it sounds.

Reuters reports that Merz will face “complex and lengthy coalition negotiations” to form a government. His bloc took around 29% of the vote. AfD doubled its share of the vote, coming second with around 20.5%, but other parties generally refuse to work with AfD as part of a longstanding “firewall” against the far right, meaning Merz may have to govern as part of a three-party coalition. The center-left Social Democratic Party is considered the most likely coalition partner, CNBC reports.

Is the past bleeding into Germany’s future?

This sounds very familiar to anyone that has a grasp on history.

He is not a big fan of Trump and he is worried about the future of NATO….

Later this year, a NATO summit will be held — but he suggested Europe may need to devise a new defense structure to replace it.

“I am very curious to see how we are heading toward the NATO summit at the end of June,” he said. “Whether we will still be talking about NATO in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defense capability much more quickly.”

(politico.eu)