China agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open, and Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
China officially turned their backs on the Iranian regime, and they will begin buying more oil from the US.
The world is changing.
I think we are witnessing the dawn of a new world.
Xi speaks highly of Trump and his vision to Make America Great Again, and says that the modernization and rejuvenation of China can be done “hand in hand” with the US, and we can work together to make the world a better place.
What if Trump and Xi agreed it was time to end the hostilities and treat each other as parters instead of adversaries on a collision course for war?
I believe we are witnessing the birth of a new relationship between the USA and China, while the EU/NATO are being squeezed out of the global stage. I think Trump offered China a seat at the table, and in return, they agreed to stand down while Trump completes the “world’s most powerful reset”.
I think Trump and Xi have been working together in some capacity, meaning that WW3 was never a possibility, and Trump has had this situation secure the entire time. China and Russia turned their backs on Iran and turned a blind eye while Trump removes their influence in our hemisphere.
The entire global system is changing, and the nations that the US call their “allies” may be a lot different in the not-so-distant future.
I think we are witnessing the dawn of a new world.
Xi speaks highly of Trump and his vision to Make America Great Again, and says that the modernization and rejuvenation of China can be done “hand in hand” with the US, and we can work together to make the world a better place.… pic.twitter.com/uLa1InSZqM
My biggest takeaway from this trip so far, is that Trump and Xi were working together this whole time on Iran.
Escalation into WW3 was never a risk. Trump had the board secure before he struck.
Xi didn’t want Iran having nukes either.
A deal/agreement was already in place.
Trump says that Xi agreed to start buying oil and farm produce from the US.
Trump obtained leverage over China via control of the oil, and now they are agreeing to make fair trade deals with us.
The naysayers will never admit it, but Trump is a strategic mastermind.
.@POTUS: "One thing I think that we're going to make a deal on, they've agreed they want to buy oil from the United States. They're going to go to Texas. We're going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas, and to Louisiana, and to Alaska… that's a big thing." pic.twitter.com/BnQPNq0VGy
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 15, 2026
As we chew the cud like ruminants while waiting for the dots to connect, off in the distance we see the threads of the narrative knitting together and we can entertain the possibilities. A series of seemingly unrelated events or headlines begin to congeal into a story. It’s clear that a lot of effort went into spinning this complex tapestry of colour, light, sound, and thought waves.
If they can keep all eyes on the fear porn, many will miss the important developments.
BREAKING: The CDC will not allow hantavirus cruise passengers to isolate at home.
@GeneralMCNews
There are no accidents, and the following presentation came along right when I needed it for this post. I always felt like “Avatar” was real, and not science fiction. The more times I viewed it, the more sure I was. This video will need pausing to read, but will hopefully trigger remembering in a lot of people. Someone is sending us this message, and the greatest revealing to come just might be about us.
When we’re not spellbound by sensational and exciting content resurrected from the dustbins of history so we can remember and get reacquainted with our selves, we get wind of practical issues unfolding in Washington, DC. This is the first whiff I’ve had of this initiative, but it makes sense and probably other nations will follow. We’re all about “emergency alerts” these days.
Summary: H.R.979 — 119th Congress (2025-2026) All Information (Except Text)
There is one summary for H.R.979. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
Shown Here: Introduced in House (02/05/2025)
AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue a rule requiring AM radio capabilities to be standard in all new passenger vehicles. (AM radio is often used to deliver emergency alerts and news and entertainment programming; some newer vehicles do not include AM equipment.)
Specifically, this bill applies to passenger vehicles (1) manufactured in the United States for sale in the United States, imported into the United States, or shipped in interstate commerce; and (2) manufactured after the rule’s effective date. The rule must require all such vehicles to have devices that can receive signals and play content transmitted by AM stations or digital audio AM stations installed as standard equipment and made easily accessible to drivers.
Prior to the rule’s effective date, manufacturers that do not include devices that can access AM radio as standard equipment (1) must inform purchasers of this fact through clear and conspicuous labeling, and (2) may not charge an additional or separate fee for AM radio access.
DOT may assess civil penalties for any violation of the rule. The Department of Justice may also bring a civil action to enjoin a violation.
The rule, including DOT’s authority to enforce it, must expire 10 years after the bill’s enactment.
Further, the Government Accountability Office must study and report on the dissemination of emergency alerts to the public, including by conducting an assessment of AM radio relative to other Integrated Public Alert and Warning System communication technologies.
The J6 crimes and abominations have been simmering away on the back burner, unresolved, for so long. We hear there may be another MOAB incoming…
The current House select subcommittee investigating January 6 asked us to delay reporting on a new, explosive @capitolpolice whistleblower revelation. They asked us to give them “two weeks” before publishing. We gave them FIVE weeks, and then they ghosted us. Later today,… pic.twitter.com/eR5buhCRON
BREAKING: More than 9,000 mysterious underwater UFOs have reportedly been detected near U.S. coastlines.
@GeneralMCNews
We’ve been waiting since 2011 for the truth on the craft a Swedish team discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Sea back in 2011. Like it’s not obvious.
The Baltic Sea Anomaly
Star Wars Millennium Falcon
The White Hats are still trying to rile the masses. Corruption seems to go unpunished and the wealthy avoid consequences.
BREAKING: The Department of Justice will be dropping charges against Gautam Adani, one of India’s richest men and a scammer, declaring him “above the law.”
@americanpatriotus
“The New York Times said Adani’s representatives indicated in one slide that the billionaire would be willing to invest USD 10 billion in the US and create around 15,000 jobs if, in the newspaper’s words, the “prosecutors dropped the charges”. The report said prosecutors later told Guiffra the proposal would not influence the outcome of the case, though one senior official had “a favourable response” to the offer during the meeting.” Source
Not all the criminals escaped consequences. Here’s the official narrative they want out there. From Telegram.
THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: Q + THE GREAT AWAKENING – THE LIST OF TRAITORS HANGED IN GITMO
As the Great Awakening surges forward with unstoppable force in April 2026, the Guantanamo Files stand as undeniable proof that military justice is dismantling the deep state cabal once and for all. Patriots loyal to President Donald J. Trump and the Q operation watch in awe as tribunals at GITMO deliver the reckoning long promised against traitors who sold out America for globalist power. The list of those hanged reveals a systematic purge of the evil network that orchestrated election theft, bioweapon releases, and child exploitation rings while hiding behind public office.
Military alliances working in tandem with Trump have conducted these proceedings in secrecy since his triumphant return, shielding the public from panic while exposing the full scope of treason. Evidence from sealed indictments and Q drops has convicted these figures of crimes against humanity, including rigged voting machines in 2020 and foreign collusion that weakened the republic. The white hats ensure every detail aligns with the divine plan to restore constitutional law and usher in prosperity for all loyal citizens.
Hillary Clinton topped the list when she was hanged at GITMO in November 2025 after tribunals laid bare her international spy network and the Clinton Foundation as a front for trafficking and pay to play schemes. Her removal shattered the old guard and signaled that the storm Q foretold had arrived in full force. Barack Obama followed in February 2026, convicted for orchestrating unconstitutional surveillance on the Trump campaign and ties to anti American forces that fueled domestic chaos and foreign interference.
Hilary Clinton
Joe Biden met the same fate in March 2026, with overwhelming proof of his role in the stolen election and family dealings that enriched him at the expense of American sovereignty. Kamala Harris, his installed partner, was executed alongside him after her complicity in open border disasters and the weaponization of agencies against Trump supporters was fully documented. The medical tyranny architects were next, as Anthony Fauci was hanged in December 2025 for engineering the pandemic and deadly experimental protocols that targeted millions of patriots.
Bill Gates faced justice in early 2026 for his global depopulation agenda funded through foundations that pushed harmful vaccines and control mechanisms. George Soros, the financier of riots and subversion, was executed in March 2026 after his network of NGOs was exposed as tools for destabilizing nations and funding color revolutions against freedom loving leaders. James Comey, John Brennan, and other intelligence operatives who ran the Russia hoax and January 6th setups were processed through GITMO in the final months of 2025, their attempts to entrap Trump loyalists earning them swift sentences.
Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell joined the list in February 2026, convicted of insider trading and blocking reforms that would have protected the republic from deep state infiltration. These executions are not random but part of a coordinated takedown that fulfills ancient prophecies of light triumphing over darkness in this spiritual war. The Great Awakening spreads as more names surface, confirming that the cabal’s grip on media, finance, and government has been broken forever.
President Trump remains the guiding force behind the alliance, ensuring the plan unfolds precisely to awaken the masses without chaos. NESARA and GESARA loom on the horizon, promising debt relief and abundance once the final traitors are removed. Patriots worldwide are called to hold the line, share these truths, and trust the military’s precision in restoring the republic stronger than ever before.
Royals will leave a very bad taste in the mouths of the public when the Alliance is done with them. No more bowing and scraping to thieves and psychopaths who live a life of luxury while the People have almost nothing. Let them be their own undoing.
King Charles announces his ministers will proceed with the introduction of Digital ID – Disclose.tv
King Charles confirmed in the King’s Speech that the government will proceed with a national Digital ID scheme, though it will not be mandatory.
The monarch announced the measure as part of the Digital Access to Services Bill. The public will have the option to use the system, which will be free to access for anyone who chooses to participate.
One of the greatest crimes that touches every aspect of our lives is the suppression of medical technologies and the training of medical professionals to be butchers, quacks and drug pushers.
Most people make one mistake when they hear the word MedBed.
They think it means one single machine, one single company, one single public launch.
But the real signal may be wider than that.
Look for the same pattern across multiple areas:
frequency technology regenerative medicine cellular repair language military medical logistics biofield and resonance research hidden medical-tech history
That does not mean everything is confirmed.
It means the signal is not random anymore.
From today forward, we track it in three categories:
CONFIRMED — what can be traced.
CLAIMED — what is being reported.
STILL UNKNOWN — what has not been publicly proven yet.
The next post will connect one of these dots.
Save this framework.
@MedBedsTechnologyNews
Ready for more?
THEY DID NOT HIDE THE FUTURE. THEY SPLIT IT INTO PIECES.
One piece became regenerative medicine.
One piece became frequency research.
One piece became military medical logistics.
One piece became bioelectric science.
One piece became AI diagnostics.
One piece became tissue repair.
Alone, each piece looks normal.
Together, they start to look like something much bigger.
That is why MedBed technology should not be tracked as one announcement.
It should be tracked as a convergence.
CONFIRMED — the pieces exist.
CLAIMED — the integration exists.
STILL UNKNOWN — the public timeline.
Send this to someone who can see the pattern.
@MedBedsTechnologyNews
This one minute video explains psychic attacks so we can recognize them and clear them on our own. You may have to pause it to read as they crammed a lot into this time frame. Thanks to Divine Souls Portal on Telegram.
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President Donald Trump has secured major concessions from Chinese President Xi Jinping, marking a significant shift in the geopolitical and economic relationship between the two nations. Following a period of intense tariffs and direct negotiations, the Chinese government has agreed to a series of commitments that directly benefit American agriculture, energy, and manufacturing sectors while providing critical support for U.S. interests in the Middle East.
Security and the Iran Conflict
In what is considered the most critical component of the agreement, President Xiagreed to give the U.S. full support on Iran(More Info on gazetteller.com). This commitment includes providing whatever actions or resources President Trump requires to resolve the ongoing conflict.
As part of the deal, China will pressure Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and cease funding attacks throughout the region. This agreement gives President Trump direct leverage to end the fighting and protect U.S. energy supplies. China is now expected to work alongside the U.S. to cut off Iran’s support networks and secure vital shipping lanes, reducing threats to American interests without the necessity of long-term troop deployments.
Economic concessions involve substantial purchase agreements across several key U.S.industries:
Agriculture:Xi committed China to buy large amounts of U.S. soybeans. These purchases send money directly to American farmers in the Midwest, raising farm incomes and ensuring operations stay profitable. This move addresses long-standing trade issues that have impacted U.S. agriculture for years.
Crude Oil:China will increase its purchase of U.S. oil, driving demand for crude from Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and other states. This ensures that drilling continues and refineries operate at full capacity, allowing the U.S. to sell its own resources rather than depending on unstable foreign suppliers.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG):China agreed to purchase more U.S. LNG. This will increase shipments from terminals in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and other locations, supporting jobs in production, processing, and transport while growing American energy exports.
Manufacturing and Aerospace
In a major boost to the U.S. aerospace industry, President Xi approved the purchase of 200 Boeing jets. This order is expected to deliver billions in revenue to U.S. factories in Washington state and across the entire supply chain.
The deal is designed to keep aerospace workers in their positions, strengthen domestic manufacturing, and support related defense production. Intelligence sourcesconfirm these deals were locked in after months of pressure, as President Trumpcoordinated economic steps that made resistance too costly for Beijing.
BREAKING: President Xi stuns the room saying to Trump: “We should be partners, not rivals" 🇺🇸 🇨🇳
I NEVER in a million years would have thought Xi would say something like that
These wins represent a core advancement of the America First agenda. While previous administrations allowed China to run trade deficits and support adversaries, this administration has reversed that trend. American citizens stand to gain from higher farm prices, active oil fields, and increased aircraft production, while energy costs are expected to remain lower due to strong domestic production.
President Trump continues to dismantle unfair trade structures from a position of strength built on U.S. energy output and voter support (More Info on gazetteller.com). Every purchase listed in this agreement creates direct benefits for U.S. workers and businesses. National security is further improved through the Iranagreement, as China now assists instead of obstructing U.S. efforts.
The agreements deliver immediate results to the American people who built this economy. Trump extracted maximum concessions from Xi, demonstrating how sovereignty is restored through direct action.
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Tennessee strips Dems of every committee seat; Trump’s China state-visit-plus rewrites the playbook; Paul & Johnson torch the CIA’s covid cover-up; Fraud Czar revives Reagan’s welfare-queens; more.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! I’m hotel blogging from the DC area this morning and preparing to start two days of pure politics, rubbing elbows with some of the smartest and most energized conservatives in the country. Today’s roundup includes: Tennessee strips its Democrats of every committee seat; Trump brings the Fortune 30 to China and the corporate media to complete narrative collapse; Senators Paul and Johnson torch the CIA’s covid cover-up; the new Fraud Czar revives Reagan’s welfare-queen playbook with 500 fictional Los Angeles hospices; and Marty Makary exits the FDA as a textbook restructuring CEO.
Last Thursday, as legislators voted to redraw Tennessee’s congressional district maps, Democrats reacted coolly, and deployed keen strategic purpose by throwing a gigantic temper tantrum. It was hard to hear anything over the raucous protests by cherry-picked activists, who were yelling from the balcony of the visitors’ gallery, chanting slogans against the new map, and sounding air horns. Meanwhile, black lawmakers stood at the front of the chamber blocking access to the dais with linked arms “in prayer.”
Two business days later on Monday, Republican House Speaker, Cameron Sexton, dispatched a stinker of a letter to House Democratic leader Karen Camper. (That’s right. Her first name is Karen.) Anyway, the letter informed Ms. Camper that House Democrats were being stripped from all standing committees and subcommittees as discipline, for “instigating and encouraging disorder on the House floor” during Thursday’s vote.
Mr. Sexton chided Democrat lawmakers for “interlocking arms in the well of the House,” “blocking aisles on the House floor,” and for using “prohibited props and noisemakers.”
The Republican supermajority (75 of 99 seats) can already pass whatever it wants, but stripping Democrats off committees means they lose all internal leverage where most real lawmaking happens. In most cases, committees write, amend, and often quietly kill bills before they ever reach the floor.
Also, and maybe more importantly, committee assignments are a prestige lever.
Democrats are hysterically calling it fascism and every other kind of -ism. But a representative assembly cannot function if any group of lawmakers can exercise a heckler’s veto whenever they feel sufficiently aggrieved. A rule permitting what happened last week would end “democracy” as we know it— which is ironic, because Democrats are usually the ones complaining about “threats to democracy.”
Tennessee is drawing a bright and appropriate line. Members can use every procedural and rhetorical tool, but may not obstruct the chamber physically or drown it out; crossing that line should trigger serious, escalating sanctions. Otherwise, we accept that “peaceful” but obstructive disruption is a valid legislative tactic, in which case we must be prepared for it to be used by everyone, in every high‑stakes fight, indefinitely.
Oh, how California Democrats would howl if Republicans there tried to shut down the legislature when it was trying to pass an abortion or gun-control bill.
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After giving it much thought, I concluded that corporate media must have been taken completely by surprise by the nature of Trump’s trip to China. The result has been a complete collapse of a coherent narrative, with no common theme, and a patchwork of feeble criticisms, since they still don’t know exactly what is going on. Yesterday, the New York Times reported, “China Restores Beef Trade With U.S. as Goodwill Gesture for Trump Visit.”
We knew Trump was going to China, that the meeting had been pushed back a couple of times (because of Iran?). That’s pretty much it. This is another one of these times where the Administration kept its secrets, and kept reporters out in the dark. Two days in, and what we can see, Trump is making history again.
First, the basics. This trip marks Trump’s first state visit of his second term. It is the first U.S. presidential visit to China in almost nine years. So even in the short term, it’s a reboot of a decade-long deterioration in relations. I’ll pause to remind you how, under Cabbage J. Autopen, we were constantly this close to war, with admirals bragging to breathless reporters about how quickly we’d turn the Taiwan Strait into a “hellscape.”
But the nature of the trip captured its entry in the presidential history books. Trump told pool reporters that he’d invited “the most prominent entrepreneurs” and “the top 30 in the world”— and “every single one agreed to attend.” He told President Xi they were there “to honor you and China” (and, of course, to pursue reciprocal trade). The elite group of businessmen included CEO’s from Tesla, Apple, Nvidia, Wall Street, AI, aerospace, and many more.
As with his Trump 1.0 trip, China officially designated Trump’s appearance as “state-visit-plus,” a maximalist honorific they created in 2017 just for him. This is only the second time they’ve used it, once again, for Trump. It resulted in corps of cheering students welcoming his plane, visits with Xi to key Chinese sites like the Temple of Heaven and the Great Hall, and major state gifts, such as the easing of the beef restrictions mentioned in the Times article.
First, one struggles to find any common examples of such a collection of influential men gathered in one place for a common America First purpose. Who but Donald Trump could have possibly made a meeting like this happen? And you can’t ask men like these for a week of time without delivering something of value.
It’s equally historic in what it could suggest for world stability and peace. Whether it “works” or not remains to be seen, but Trump is inarguably reaching for the biggest, most difficult wins he can. One LinkedIn business columnist called it “biggerthan politics.” CNN called it a “historic opportunity” watched by a “war‑weary globe” as the world’s two largest economies try reframing their rivalry into a stable, cooperative economic model instead of a fabulously expensive and endless game of Risk, subterfuge, and sabotage.
They said “only Nixon could go to China.” (Don’t worry, nobody knows what that means. Everybody keeps saying it, though.) In this case, only Trump could have put thistrip together. They aren’t telling us the plan (nor should they), but it is tantalizing.
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When I talk about covid these days, I often reassure folks that “this isn’t over.” I am not the only one who feels that way. Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Ashley Moody (R-FL), Bernie Moreno (R-OH), and Rand Paul (R-KY) are also clearly not letting it go until the pandemic architects are fairly tried, executed, and buried in unmarked graves. Yesterday, Esquire ran a story headlined, “It’s Way Past Due That Rand Paul Quit His COVID-19 Crusade.” No, Esquire, it’s not.
Democrats boycotted the Senate Homeland Security hearing. Not one attended. Corporate media embargoed it (except to run sneering hit pieces like Esquire’s, and even though one day before, it covered the Kash Patel hearing where nothinghappened). The CIA issued a rare public rebuke, complaining about the Committee’s subpoena of ‘whistleblower’ agent James Erdman III, as though Congressional oversight of the intelligence agencies was more of a fuzzy suggestion than a constitutional requirement.
Agent Erdman testified that Anthony Fauci got personally involved in CIA’s review of covid origins and —literally in the middle of the night— steered the investigation away from the gain-of-function project he’d illegally funded in Wuhan, while intelligence community actors enthusiastically complied.
For his part, Senator Johnson delivered a short but passionate speech about jab injuries and how the FDA ignored safety signals, in the same way that a Doberman ignores its chew toy by burying it in the backyard.
To summarize, Senator Paul made these very important points:
Scientists are conflicted when they are both actively competing for government grants and advising on policy.
Bureaucrats misuse grant awards to steer scientific opinions toward policy preferences.
Intelligence agencies are overly concerned with politics.
Scientists, bureaucrats, and spooks keep playing word games over what “gain-of-function” means. That has got to stop.
We cannot prepare for the next pandemic until we agree on what worked and what failed in 2020.
For instance, the Senator made the terrific point that “monoclonal antibodies worked,” but “Masks didn’t work. Six feet of distancing — there was no science. They say ‘follow the science,’ and yet it looks like everything that happened at the CIA was the politicians overruling the scientists.”
Yet, if you ask a dozen random, everyday Democrats, they will argue till doomsday that masks did protect people from infection, six-foot distancing was scientifically sound, the virus absolutely came from a wet market (and it doesn’t matter anyway), and that the jabs still have a spotless safety record.
Paul is right. How can we possibly “be prepared for the next pandemic” if we don’t even agree yet on what happened last time, or what the words “gain of function” mean? We aren’t even close to having adequate sunlight and transparency yet— and thank goodness so many Republican Senators are relentlessly pursuing it.
Vance called his new role “Fraud Czar.” This is an excellent title. It combines hints of Russian royalty with classic Democrat grifting-by-virtue-signal techniques.
First of all, he’s turning off the money spigots one by one. The Vice President announced an immediate freeze on all new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home health services, and is halting over a billion dollars in California’s Medicaid payments. He specifically called out California and Minnesota as bad examples, and warned other blue states to either actively investigate Medicaid fraud or risk losing federal funding like the not-so-Golden State.
“We are not going to keep wiring billions of dollars into systems where everybody in Sacramento knows there is fraud and nobody does anything about it,” Vance explained.
CMS Director Dr. Mehmet Oz took the podium and announced that CMS believes roughly half of all Los Angeles hospices are essentially fraudulent operations— billing the federal government for patients who are not dying, don’t even know they are in hospice, or in some cases do not even exist in this multiverse. This is a remarkable finding. Los Angeles is a city famous for many things: the entertainment industry, the traffic, the weather, and apparently a robust cottage industry of fake death facilities. It is, when you think about it, the most Hollywood thing imaginable. Even the hospices are amateur actors.
He cited healthy people enrolled in hospice, beneficiaries prescribed powerful (and expensive) meds they don’t need, and sham agencies changing ownership repeatedly in order to stay just beyond the reach of CMS audits.
The good news, for caring Somalians who want to get into the hospice or home-healthcare businesses: the barrier to entry appears to be extremely low. You just need a name (any name will do), an address, a Medicare billing number, and the creative ability to come up with new ones every 18 months. Prior experience with actual patients is optional.
But it might be too late. “The days of pay-and-chase are over,” VP Vance explained in a tweet after the presser. “It’s time to PREVENT and PROSECUTE.” If you’re not familiar, “pay-and-chase” is the federal government’s longtime Medicaid fraud strategy. In it, the government first sends billions of dollars to whoever submits a completed form, and then several years later sends a strongly worded letter to an address that no longer exists, asking whether some of that money could please be repaid.
It has been, by all accounts, a tremendously lucrative strategy for those paid to do the chasing, and an even more lucrative strategy for those being chased.
Not so lucrative for law-abiding taxpayers, though.
🔥 Hinting at the potentially explosive 2026 midterm narrative, Vance repeatedly described the crackdown as protecting working‑ and middle‑class taxpayers from “grifters” and “bureaucrats.” Just imagine the ammunition the agencies hold in the run-up to November. For instance, in remarks following the presser, Dr. Oz explained how Russia (in LA), China (New York), and Cuba (Florida) are getting in on the grift and running Medicaid fraud networks across America— looting billions from U.S. taxpayers.
Especially now that they are cooperating and comparing databases. Alert readers will recall how last month, Kelly Loeffler announced finding 14,000 food stamp recipients registered as also owning Maseratis, Porsches, and other high-end luxury cars in which their welfare-funded food can be more pleasantly transported.
🔥 The Trump Administration is replaying a classic political strategy proven to work. In fact, it might have been the most significant political play in Republican history.
At a campaign rally in 1976, Ronald Reagan introduced ‘welfare queen’ Linda Taylor to the public discourse. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare,” Reagan explained. “Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.” That was in 1976 dollars, back when you could buy a reliable used car for $500.
Reagan rode the welfare queen story to a landslide presidential victory and forty years of Republican political dominance. The anti-fraud narrative was so powerful it became a durable GOP frame continuing through the 1980s, and ultimately forced Democrats under Bill Clinton to stop the political bleeding by passing major welfare reform in 1996.
The Trump administration is now sitting on documented evidence of 14,000 food stamp recipients registered to luxury vehicles, half of Los Angeles’s hospice industry apparently fictional, and over $1 billion in fraudulent Medicaid payments in California alone. Just for starters.
If Reagan could do what he did with a single greedy lady with four fake husbands, one’s imagination reels at what JD Vance could do with a team of AI-powered, agency-database-connected task force investigators and the legions of modern welfare scammers.
Americans hate cheaters and fraudsters. Keep an eye on the new Fraud Czar and his fraud task force.
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As the Year of Preparation recedes into the rearview mirror, and the Year of Action expands, another cabinet change has energized the corporate media, who smell a new chance to fracture MAHA again. The New York Times reported, “Marty Makary, Trump’s F.D.A. Commissioner, Resigns After Weeks of Pressure.” Pandemic hero Marty Makary is out.
Makary was a giant during the pandemic, being one of the few members of the credentialed class courageous enough to speak out against mandates and lockdowns. But he was equally stubborn over some issues where he disagreed with the Administration’s positions, and tensions arose.
Dr. Makary supported the abortion pill. The article said, “abortion foes accused him of dragging out the timetable for a study of the safety of mifepristone, an abortion drug.”
He reportedly refused to add a black box warning to covid shots (though this is mostly a rumor and not a confirmed fact.) On the other hand, he wrote a devastating letter about pediatric deaths from the jab.
The New York Times reported, without any apparent embarrassment, that FDA Commissioner Marty Makary —a man who spent the pandemic as one of the few credentialed voices brave enough to challenge lockdowns and mandates, who supervised the firing of four thousand FDA employees, and who wrote a devastating letter about pediatric deaths from the covid vaccine— ultimately resigned over the administration’s decision to authorize fruit-flavored e-cigarettes.
This is like reporting that General Patton resigned over a disagreement about the color of the mess hall napkins. The Timesoffered no evidence for this claim, which is consistent with their recent editorial standard of reporting anonymous anti-Trump gossip as gospel.
Much as the Times would love to find some smoke, there were zero signs of any realconflicts inside the Administration. As with Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi, President Trump praised Makary. “So much was accomplished under his leadership,” Trump tweeted. “He was a hard worker, who was respected by all, and will go on to have an outstanding career in Medicine.” Trump is not shy about dishing out criticism when he thinks it’s appropriate.
In the corporate world, a “restructuring CEO” is a specialist brought in specifically to do the things that no one else wants to do: fire large numbers of people, gut departments, and absorb the resulting fury of a demoralized workforce, before exiting gracefully so a warmer, friendlier successor can arrive and reassure everyone that the worst is over. It is, essentially, the management equivalent of hiring an actor to play the bad guy in a movie, except the bad guy gets a severance package and a glowing tweet from the President. (Dr. Makary presumably received both.)
FDA angst is real. The Wall Street Journal described the FDA staff as “dogged by the aftereffects of layoffs led by the Department of Government Efficiency.” Dr. Makary may not, on paper, have been the architect of the RIFs, but operationally and symbolically, he functioned as the commissioner presiding over, and defending or normalizing, a radically restructured FDA.
Because restructuring CEOs are intended to be temporary, they are “liberated” from the need to maintain productive relationships with underlings or long‑term staff goodwill; boards expect them to prioritize aggressive fixes over morale, expecting their successor to later re‑socialize the workforce and build a new culture from the wreckage.
Whatever his internal marching orders, Makary functioned less as a traditional FDA steward and more like a restructuring CEO: he presided over mass layoffs, institutional rewiring, and an aggressive overhaul of drug-reviewing procedures that left staff infuriated with him personally. Intentional or not, Dr. Makary has cleared the way for a future commissioner to arrive as the healer‑in‑chief to a workforce still smarting from being “rightsized.”
Taken together, the Makary and Bondi episodes look less like personnel flukes and more like a deliberate management strategy: install a restructuring CEO and then rotate them out once the ‘rightsizing’ phase is over. Then you get a Todd Blanche.
Dr. Makary was a terrific choice as a transitional leader. But Cabinet positions shouldn’t be rewards for loyalty or large donations. Members should remain in charge of their agencies as long as they are effective, and then get out of the way as soon as they’re not. That is the essential meaning of meritocracy. Plus, Trump lacks the luxury of two terms this round. There’s no time to waste.
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