Woke is Broke 12-23-24

MSNBC is on the chopping block.

Obama is the leader of the old left Marxist Democrats.

Federman is breaking ranks

Bill Mahr is breaking ranks

DEI is Dead

Critical Race Theory and Transgenderism will be removed from the curriculum.

Marxist Colleges and Public Schools are in trouble

Teachers Unions are in trouble

Public Employee Unions are in trouble

The Left is losing its grip. 

The Far-Left Democrat Party isn’t dead in the US. Democrat Kamala Harris got 74,441,439 votes (48.4%). Trump got 76,917,041 votes (50%) in the 2024 Election.

53 Republicans won Senate seats. 47 Democrats won Senate seats.

220 Republicans won House seats. 214 Democrats won House seats.

These margins are too close.

Republicans would need to vote in a solid block on every spending Bill to keep spending low to eradicate the $1 trillion in debt interest.

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+election+results+2024+live+map&oq=us+election+results+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgDEAAYgAQyBggAEEUYOTIMCAEQABhDGIAEGIoFMgwIAhAAGEMYgAQYigUyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyDwgFEAAYQxixAxiABBiKBTIGCAYQRRg8MgYIBxBFGDzSAQkxMzE0M2owajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The real danger is if Democrats aim to retake the House and Senate in 2026. That would risk the return the threat of excessive federal spending. The RNC needs to build a strong candidate bench for future US House and Senate Seats between now for the 2026 Midterm Elections.

Republicans need to increase their numbers in the House from 220 to 270 and decrease the number of Democrat House Reps from 214 to 180. The RNC will need to prepare an additional 50 new Republican Reps to win office in 2026. Republicans need to increase their numbers in the Senate from 53 to 60 and decrease the number of Democrat Senators from 47 to 40.

     Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

US Congress Reform 12-23-24

The House and Senate need to out-law Omnibus Bills and use “regular order” for all Bills passed by Committees. They also need to outlaw “Continuing Resolutions” to end the rush to “fund the government”. They should outlaw all bills that will cause “money-printing” inflation. 

Congress needs to shrink spending to achieve a “surplus” to use to fund unavoidable “military actions”. Vulnerable spending should include Foreign Cash and Military Aid and Grants to States for infrastructure. Current recipients for this aid should plan to fund these categories themselves.

Foreign countries and US States need to adjust their spending to handle these contingencies.

The ”bumbs rush” to fund the government with an Omnibus Bill or Continuing Resolution Bill needs to be abandoned for good. If the House and Senate cannot pass bills to cover expenses, it should be able to continue with the “current level” of spending until they agree on any increases. If Congress does not pass increases for Agencies, these Agencies should function with previously authorized spending. Unrelated Amendments should not be allowed to be voted on by the House and Senate.

The UN should be unfunded if their illegal International Criminal Courts continue to operate. The US will quit the UN Climate Accords in 2025. All US Agenda 21 enabling laws should be repealed. 

Federal Agencies will need to upgrade their processes and equipment to make the productivity and reliability gains they need to make. These improvements should reduce labor costs in these Agencies. Productivity improving technologies have been proven over the past 30 years and should be employed by Federal Agencies. The Data provided by the US Federal Agencies needs to be improved to ensure accuracy. The Department of Labor BLS Jobs Report could use AI to improve it’s jobs numbers accuracy. New Employees should be reported by their Employers in real-time upon employment and compared to all other Federal Citizen Records to ensure accuracy and ensure against identity theft.

The role of the House and Senate to “bring home the bacon” should be abandoned permanently. All States compete for business and should do so on an even footing. Citizens of all States should expect their governments to tighten their belts. This should move States and local governments to prioritize their spending to “necessities”, like roads, highways, bridges, water systems and sewer systems.

State Funding Reform will be necessary to adjust to tighter Federal Funding. States need to prioritize spending to include roads, bridges and water availability. Interstate Highway maintenance, improvements and construction should be funded by States Counties and Cities and eliminated from the Federal Transportation Budget.

States that initiate major import and export harbors should apply for Federal Loans and repay these loans with interest within 10 years.

City and County Funding Reform will be necessary to adjust to tighter State Funding. Cities and Counties need to prioritize spending to include roads, bridges, water and sewer systems. Unnecessary infrastructure like 12-foot wide multiuse paths, greenspace and parks should not receive any Federal or State Funding. If Counties and Cities want these paths, greenspace and parks, they should be required to let their voters decide these expenses on their ballots and pay 100% of the costs.

Cities are overcrowded and need to expand their populations to the Exurbs. Manufacturing needs to return to Rural Cities to allow these populations to migrate to Rural Counties. Most families use automobiles to commute to work and need to live close to work. Reducing gasoline prices will help Rural Populations the most, because their commutes are farther apart using rural roads.

Finding good schools is possible in the Exurbs where schools concentrate on reading, writing and math in grades 1-8 and occupational and life skills are taught in High Schools. Students should be required to perform reading, writing and math at grade level before they are advanced to the next grade or allowed to graduate from Grade School or High School.

The Technical Trade Schools already teach occupational courses. GED courses need to ensure that students who have “dropped out” of school are able to bring their reading, writing and math up to Grade Level.

Trump needs to have Congress produce a Bill that requires States to concentrate on reading, writing and math in grades 1-8 and occupational courses and life skills in High Schools.

Teachers should be required to hold BS Degrees in subjects they teach. Math Teachers should have a BS in Math.

Government funding for education and student loans should be restricted to occupational courses in high school and college. Non-occupational courses are hobbies that students are free to pursue, but not with tax dollars.

The tax code is a mess and needs to be reduced and simplified. IRS doesn’t know what tax breaks are valid.

Identity Theft is out of control. Titles to homes are not protected from Identity Theft by the State Agencies. Bank Accounts are vulnerable. Social Security Numbers are vulnerable.  AI can be used to eliminate Identity Theft and eliminate Voter Fraud in “real-time” by linking Post Office Records, Title Records, IRS Records, Birth Certificate Records and other data-bases.

The cost of political campaigns needs to be reduced. States need to restrict campaign contributions to “Voters Only”.  Candidates should be made to produce websites that include their entire resumes and positions on all issues before they are allowed to become candidates.

Campaign contributions should be restricted to “Voters Only” who would be allowed to contribute up to $1000 for candidates who appear on their ballots. This would end “TV Hit Job Ads”. It would end “Outside Money” and all candidates would be on an even footing. Businesses and Industry Groups would still have access to elected officials, but would not be able to make campaign contributions.

National Parks and Federal Land needs to become State Parks and State Land. The Interior Department can be eliminated. Mining and Logging needs to be allowed. States like Nevada and other Western States need to sell their land or lease it. Desert land occupied by the US Military should remain as Federal Land. Forrest Land should be sold to US Citizens and US Corporations who will end the annual forest fire festivals and annual mud slide festivals. Snow-Melt water should be deposited in new fresh water lakes to ensure sufficient water for crops and human use. Western States need to be able to increase their land use to expand their economies and attract populations and expand their State GDPs.

Foreign Governments and Foreign Corporations should not be allowed to own any US Land. Foreign Companies would be able to lease US Land and Buildings from US Companies headquartered in the US.

     Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Federal Government Shutdown Averted 12-22-24

A much reduced Continuing Resolution passed the House to fund the Federal Government through March 2025. 

What federal agencies are affected by shutdown?

There are nine federal departments affected by the Trump Shutdown: Homeland Security, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, HUD, Justice, Commerce, Transportation, and State. In addition, numerous critical smaller independent agencies, including EPA, the Small Business Administration, and NASA, are affected. Most of the employees in these Agencies continue to work except for National Parks and Museums. They are closed.

Employees in these Agencies are paid for the time lost in the shutdown after the shutdown is over. It’s a paid vacation that is paid retroactively.

Who is exempt from government shutdown?

Who are “exempt” employees? In the context of shutdown furloughs, the term “excepted” is used broadly to refer to employees whose work is funded through annual appropriations but who are not furloughed because they are performing tasks that, by law, are allowed to continue during a lapse in appropriations. Many of these employees are in the nine Federal Agencies affected, but continue to work and are paid.

Congress needs to end this practice and replace it with a Law that continues to fund all agency employees at current levels with no increases in cost and no openings for additions to costs. The current “shutdown rule” needs to end.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

 

DEFUND the UN 12-22-24

The Abraham Accords model should replace the UN. It encourages countries with similar cultures to band together and solve their own problems. The UN wants to become our global government and that should not be allowed to happen. Citizens of all countries need to be in charge of their own economies. They need to produce what they consume and increase their household incomes. Developing countries need a chance to develop. Developed countries need to create technology to support development and improve the standard of living in all countries.

I received the following post from the American Policy Center.

 

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I just returned from fulfilling a vital mission on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.

Last month I asked American Policy Center supporters to sign and return to me a petition addressed to Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas). 

That’s because these two Members of Congress took courageous action in the current 118th Congress by introducing the DEFUND Act.

DEFUND stands for Disengaging Entirely From the United Nations Debacle!

The Bill calls for:

* Termination of U.S. membership in the UN and all affiliated bodies, conventions, and agreements.

* Stops all funds to any UN body.

* Prohibits U.S. participation in UN peacekeeping operations.

* Throws the UN headquarters out of the U.S.

* And ends U.S. membership in the World Health Organization!

This is one of the most powerful anti-UN bills ever introduced in Congress.

The United Nations is the center of the globalist agenda to eliminate national sovereignty and control the world’s economy. For almost 40 years APC has been fighting this agenda, beginning with Agenda 21, then Agenda 2030, to the Green New Deal, and now the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset. Global dictatorship and tyranny are the goals.

If the United States would exit the United Nations, it would collapse almost instantly. Many other nations would leave it with us. And you would see the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization and the nearly 20,000 Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), that help to enforce the agenda, would also collapse as the money, political power, and fear they create would dry up.

But the sad thing is the DEFUND Act will never be passed in the 118th Congress under the control of the radical Leftist Democrats under the likes of Shumer and Pelosi.

That’s why I created the APC petition as an “Appeal to Reintroduce the DEFUND Act in 2025” – the upcoming 119th Congress. The petition asked Senator Lee and Rep. Roy to reintroduce their bill. I just delivered several thousand signed petitions to Rep. Roy’s office. They were gratefully accepted by his Staff Assistant, Cade Doerfler.

As I met with Mr. Doerfler, I related a story to him about APC’s long dedication to getting the U.S. out of the United Nations. I told him how APC had worked closely with former Congressman Ron Paul when he introduced a similar anti-UN bill back in 2000.

Back then, APC gathered over 350,000 signed petitions for Rep. Paul’s bill. Then we sponsored a national news conference calling for the U.S. to leave the United Nations. I shared some photos of the huge pile of boxes of those petitions that APC delivered to Congress.

And I promised Mr. Doerfler that APC would do this again if Rep. Roy and Senator Lee would reintroduce the DEFUND Act. And I told him to call on APC for any other help he needed to build support for the bill.

The fact is, due to the massive change that is taking place in our federal government right now, as President Trump prepares to take command, I believe we have never had a stronger opportunity to make Exiting the UN a reality.

We have the opportunity – but it will take major dedication and work to make it a reality. The future of human freedom depends on what you and I do now with this opportunity. It won’t happen on its own!

Will you help me keep that promise to Congressman Roy to build support for his DEFUND Act?

As you may remember, this past October I called for organizing an EXIT UN Day. Many activists liked that idea and are ready to help organize such protests throughout the year. APC needs to lead that effort.

APC also needs to create a steady flow of pressure to Congress to pass the DEFUND Act. We can’t just take action once and go home. We need to keep building support. That will take more petitions; perhaps a telephone call-in to Congress to keep their office phones ringing; and above all, leadership and training for local activists.

This is what APC is prepared to do. But I can’t do it without your financial support. Please help me prepare for this upcoming fight today with your gift to APC for at least $25, or more if you can.  Just click here to make your donation. (https://americanpolicy.org/donate/?mc_cid=8c9a9f95fd&mc_eid=UNIQID) Or if you want to send a check, the APC address is 53 Main Street, #3640, Warrenton, VA, 20188-3640.

If we stand firm now and take strong action, I fully believe we have our greatest opportunity to finally crush the tyrannical global agenda and restore our Founding Fathers’ dream of freedom.

Comments

The UN does more harm than good.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Trump Picks 12-21-24

Trump has nominated his picks for Cabinet Positions and large agencies include:

Senator Marco Rubio (FL) for Secretary of State

Tulsi Gabbard Director National Intelligence (DNI)

John Ratcliffe Director CIA

Gov. Kristi Noem (SD) for Secretary of Homeland Security,

Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense (DOD)

Pam Bondi (FL) for Attorney General (DOJ)

Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General (DOJ)

Rep. Robert F Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Gov. Doug Burgum (ND) for Secretary of the Interior

Lee Zeldin EPA Director

Doug Collins (GA) for Veteran’s Administration

Sean Duffy (MI) for Transportation Secretary

Howard Lutnick (NY) for Commerce Secretary

Dr Oz (PA) for Medicare Medicaid

Linda McMahon for Education Secretary

Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary

Lori Chavez DeRemer Labor Secretary

Dr Marty Makary FDA Commissioner

Scott Turner HUD Secretary

Brooke Rollins Agriculture Secretary

Dr Dave Weldon CDC

Dr Jay Bhattacharvia Director NIH

Jim O’Neill Deputy Secretary HHS

Kash Patel FBI Director

Peter Navarro Sr Council Trade & Mfg

Gail Slater Asst Attorney General

Jared Isaacman will lead NASA

Kelly Loeffler SBA

Paul Atkins SEC

Caleb Vitello ICE Director

Rodney Scott Customs and Border Protection

Christopher Landau Deputy Secretary of State.

Michael Anton Policy Planning Director State Departmenr

Michael Needham Counselor to State Department

Billy Long IRS Commissioner

Andrew Ferguson FTC Chair

Mark Meador FTC Commissioner

Jacob Helberg Top State Department Economic Policy Official

Tony Salisbury to be Deputy Homeland Security Advisor (White House Homeland Security Council).

Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General (DOJ) 

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Withdrawals: Chad Chronister DEA Administrator Nominee Withdraws

Matt Gaetz Attorney General Nominee Withdraws

Note: Tulsi Gabbard for DNI and John Ratcliffe for CIA reporting to Gabbard.

Trump’s Whitehouse Staff appointments that do not require Senate Confirmation include:

Suzie Wiles for Chief of Staff

Steven Miller for Asst Chief of Staff Homeland Security Advisor

Dean John Sauer for Solicitor General

Jay Clayton US Attorney for Southern District NY

Emil Bove for Principle Associate Deputy Attorney General

Sergio Gor for Presidential Personnel Office

Dan Scarvino for Deputy Chief of Staff

James Blair for Deputy Chief of Staff

Taylor Budowich for Deputy Chief of Staff

Willian McGinley for White House Counsel

Steven Witkoff  for Special Envoy for the Middle East

Elise Stefanic for UN Ambassador

Mike Huckabee for Ambassador to Israel

Tom Homan for Border Patrol Leader

Rep Mike Waltz (FL) for National Security Advisor

Matthew Whitiker for Ambassador to NATO

Russ Vougt for Director OMB

Margarie Taylor Green for House Chair for DOGE

Dr Janette Nesheiwat for Surgeon General

Vince Haley for Dom Policy Council Director

Kevin Hassett for Natl Economic Council

John Phelan for Navy Secretary

Jamieson Greer for US Trade Rep

Charles Kushner for Ambassador to France

Lt Gen Keith Kellog for Special Envoy Ukraine War

Sebastian Gorka for Counterterrorism Dir

Warren Stephens for Ambassador to UK

Massad Boulos for Senior Advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs

Adam Boehler for special envoy for hostage affairs

Jared Isaacman will lead NASA

Daniel Driscoll for Army Secretary

David Warrington for Chief Whitehouse Counsel

Monica Crawley for Asst Sec State for Communications and Protocol

Michael Faulkender for Deputy Secretary Treasury

David Sacks for AI and Crypto Czar

David Perdue for Ambassador to China

Frank Bisignano for Social Security Administration commissioner

Alina Habba for Counselor To The President

Kimberly Guilfoyle for Ambassador to Greece

Tom Barrack for Ambassador to Turkey

Ronald D Johnson for Ambassador to Mexico

Devin Nunez for Intelligence Advisory Board

Ric Grenel for Intelligence Advisory Board

Kari Lake for Voice of America

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Trumps Transition Team is joined by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in the DOGE Government Efficiency Team to streamline government agencies to support Trump’s Agenda and reduce costs by $2 trillion per year and update government to support current priorities.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/14/trumps-cabinet-here-are-his-picks-for-key-roles-rfk-jr-doug-burgum-matt-gaetz-and-more/

Republicans hold majorities in the House and Senate. John Thune was elected by Senate Republicans to be the Majority Leader.

Senate Confirmations for all positions will be scheduled.

The Department of Education is expected to be eliminated from the Cabinet and responsibility for education returned to the States under the 10^th Amendment.

Comments

All appointees are committed to Trump’s Agenda and have backgrounds that match the current needs of their appointments.

It is likely that Congress will change the priorities of the US Federal Reserve to get control of money printing to eliminate Inflation. The Inflation Target should be Zero and interest rates should be set by the market based on supply and demand.  

It is also likely that Congress will pass a law to require all Voters to hold US Citizenship for all elections and end Birther Baby, Lottery and Chain Migration Citizenship.

The Agency jobs expanded in 2009 are listed in the posting below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_positions_filled_by_presidential_appointment_with_Senate_confirmation

The Law in the Appointments Clause is mushy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointments_Clause

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Kari Lake to lead Voice of America 12-21-24

Kari Lake Halperin (born1969) is an American political figure and former television news anchor. Beginning her media career in the early 1990s, Lake was the anchor for the Phoenix television station KSAZ-TV from 1999 to 2021. She was the Republican Party's nominee in Arizona's 2022 gubernatorial and 2024 United States Senate elections.

 

Kari Lake was born in 1969, in Rock Island, Illinois, to Larry and Sheila Lake, who were natives of the Wisconsin communities of Richland and Appleton. Larry taught social studies and was a basketball and football coach at North Scott High School, while Sheila was a nurse. She is the youngest of nine children.

Lake grew up in Iowa. She graduated from North Scott Senior High School in Eldridge, Iowa, and then received a Bachelor of Arts in communications and journalism from the University of Iowa.

In May 1991, Lake began working as an intern at KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa, while attending the University of Iowa. She later became production assistant before joining WHBF-TV in Rock Island to be a daily reporter and weekend weathercaster in 1992. In August 1994, Lake was hired by KPNX in Phoenix, Arizona, to be the weekend weather anchor. She later became evening anchor at KPNX before relocating to work for WNYT in Albany, New York in the summer of 1998 when she replaced Chris Kapostasy.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Devin Nunes Intelligence Advisory Board 12-20-24

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his social media platform CEO Devin Nunes to lead an intelligence advisory panel and said his former intelligence chief Richard Grenell would run "special missions" in places such as U.S. adversaries Venezuela and North Korea. 

Devin Gerald Nunes (born 1973) is an American businessman and politician who is chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). Before resigning from the House of Representatives and joining TMTG, Nunes was first the U.S. representative for California's 21st congressional district from 2003 to 2013, and then California's 22nd congressional district from 2013 to 2022.

A member of the Republican Party, Nunes was the chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019. 

In March 2017, the U.S. House intelligence committee, which Nunes chaired at the time, launched an investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. In February 2018, Nunes publicly released a four-page memorandum alleging an FBI conspiracy against Trump.

Nunes subsequently began an investigation of the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly abusing their powers in an attempt to hurt Trump. In January 2021, Trump awarded Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Nunes was born on October 1, 1973, the older of two sons of Antonio L. "Anthony" Nunes Jr. and Toni Diane Nunes (née Enas). His grandfather founded Nunes & Sons, a prominent dairy operation in Tulare County. His family operated their farm in California until 2006, when they sold the property and purchased a dairy in Sibley, Iowa.

After receiving his Associate of Arts degree from the College of the Sequoias in 1993, Nunes graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a bachelor's degree in agricultural business in 1995, and a master's degree in agriculture in 1996. After finishing school, Nunes returned to farming.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Ric Grenell Intelligence Advisory Board 12-20-24

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated his former ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell, for the newly created envoy for special missions position and Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes as chairman of his Intelligence Advisory Board, the latest among a flurry of new appointments as Trump continues to fill out his cabinet. 

Grenell previously served as acting director of national intelligence during Trump's 2017-2021 term and was Trump's ambassador to Germany and a special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations.

Richard Allen Grenell (born 1966) is an American political operative, diplomat, and public relations consultant. He served as acting director of national intelligence (DNI) under President Donald Trump in 2020. A member of the Republican Party, Grenell served as the United States ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020 and as the special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations from 2019 to 2021.

Grenell was a U.S. State Department spokesperson to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration. Following his State Department tenure, he formed Capitol Media Partners, a political consultancy; he also was a Fox News contributor. Grenell was a foreign policy spokesperson for Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential campaign.

Grenell graduated with a bachelor's degree in government and public administration from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. He received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader