Three civilian aircraft violated restricted airspace over Palm Beach, Florida, near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, prompting North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to scramble F-16 fighter jets, according to Newsmax host Todd Starnes.
The incidents occurred at 11:05 a.m., 12:10 p.m., and 12:50 p.m., based on Starnes’ reporting.
JUST IN: 🚨🚨 Multiple aircraft violated airspace over Palm Beach, Florida. Three civilian aircraft were escorted out of the area by F-16 fighter jets.
The incidents occurred at 11:05 a.m., 12:10 p.m. and 12:50 p.m.
During 2 of the intercepts the fighter jets had to deploy…
During two of the interceptions, the fighter jets deployed flares as part of their protocol to warn and direct the civilian aircraft. All three planes were escorted safely out of the restricted airspace.
Somali-born, far-Left, anti-Semitic “Squad” (and potentially “brother-marrying”) member Ilhan Omar, recently insulted Trump supporters and Americans in general after a Republican Congressman called for her deportation to her native homeland.
Omar entered the United States in 1995 during the Somali Civil War and gained legal residence after five years when she was 17 years old. However, she is accused of marrying her brother to help him obtain a green card, which is a federal crime and tantamount to immigration fraud and grounds for deportation.
She was also recorded calling the Somalian head of state “Our president” to a cheering crowd during his Minnesota visit, which the Leftist media has called a mistranslation.
Subsequently, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN-6), called the “appalling Somalia-first comments” a slap in the face of Minnesotans who voted for her and called for her resignation. Republican freshman Congressman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) also recently circulated a petition calling for the arrest and deportation of Rep. Omar.
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Brandon Gill calls for Ilhan Omar’s deportation back to Somalia.
He demands the revocation of her citizenship and her removal from the U.S.
Rep. Omar recently appeared on Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan, where she was asked to respond to people calling for her resignation and deportation when she uttered the diabolical speech.
“You and I have discussed people attacking you in the past, but you have this new freshman Congressional Representative, this lawmaker Brandon Gill, Republican, who tweeted out that video of you and wrote America would be a better place if Ilhan Omar were deported back to Somalia,” Hasan stated. “I mean, I thought I’d seen everything, and I’ve seen a lot of attacks on you.”
“But now you have a Republican colleague, dare I say, in the House saying to deport an American citizen, an American lawmaker, and an elected representative. How do you deal with that?” He asked.
However, Rep. Omar flew off the wheel, kicking off her speech on the wrong foot by insulting people who questioned her allegiance and conduct and Americans in general. Most people would expect an elected lawmaker to take the high road instead of resorting to insults and name-calling when called out.
“These people are just idiots,” Omar responded. “I really am at the point where it has become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any of these people because the level of stupidity that they are displaying every single day is frankly embarrassing.”
Remove this disgrace. Ilhan Omar openly mocks Americans, calling them ‘stupid.’
Nonetheless, these attacks were seemingly directed toward Trump supporters, which some Americans of a different political persuasion could stomach. However, no freedom-loving American was seemingly spared in her embarrassing tirade, when she took a direct jab at all Americans exercising their Freedom of Speech.
Ilhan Omar called Americans dumb idiots and is crying that Americans are allowed to speak pic.twitter.com/hds5iiPAfC
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, whom Omar was accused of supporting, has been accused of stifling freedom of speech and cracking down on the media and massive corruption, including on the aid the country receives. Omar was one of the most vocal voices when Trump shut down the USAID and froze foreign aid.
“Not just in Congress but as Americans, and the fact that these people are allowed to say just the most ridiculous things tells you that the dumbing of the United States has arrived because how else do we get a Trump presidency again?”
Seemingly, Omar is against freedom of speech which got her elected in the first place. It is also infuriating that a foreign-born lawmaker from a country that does not allow free speech is allowed to attack our values.
It is so generous for Omar to call us “idiots” and talk about the “dumbing down of America” instead of calling for improved literacy in her native country, which has one of the worst in the world.
A former President Joe Biden’s senior advisor has faulted the 82-year-old for fumbling the presidential debate, abandoning the race, and melting the party’s dream, costing Democrats the presidential election.
Mike Donilon recently discussed the elections at Harvard University, where he blamed the former president for melting the party’s dream after his well-deserved fumbles. “Now, lots of people have terrible debates. Lots of people have terrible debates. Usually, the party doesn’t lose its mind, but that’s what happened here. It melted down,” Donilon said.
Top Biden adviser Mike Donilon on the post-debate fallout last year:
“lots of people have terrible debates…usually, the party doesn’t lose its mind and that’s what happened here. It melted down.”
Numerous left-leaning media outlets, including the notorious CNN and BBC, agree with Donilon that Biden fumbled the presidential debate, which was the last straw for his second-term presidential ambitions.
“If Joe Biden loses November’s election, history will record that it took just 10 minutes to destroy a presidency. It was clear a political disaster was about to unfold as soon as the 81-year-old commander in chief stiffly shuffled on stage in Atlanta,” CNN’s senior reporter Stephen Collinson wrote.
Ironically, Democrats would rather blame demented Biden than take responsibility for spurring the dead horse longer than it was necessary. If they held open and democratic primaries, a better candidate would have emerged and challenged Trump equally. Kamala Harris would also not have been rigged in, driving the party’s last nail in the coffin.
Nonetheless, deluded Donilon blames the Democratic Party for abandoning mentally incapacitated Biden because of his age. While age was not necessarily a disqualifying factor, Biden seems to have been suffering from more than old age. But he somehow, the Democrat found an excuse to blame Trump for his party’s failures.
“They will say they’re worried about Biden’s age, but they’ll also say something else,” Donilon continued. “They were really worried about Trump. They were worried about the fact he said he wouldn’t accept the results of the election.
“They were worried that he said, ‘I had nothing to do with Jan. 6.’ The sense from him was that he was not on the side of people.
“I said this to Biden the morning after the debate: Sometimes you can lose the campaign about the campaign. And that’s what happened to us.”
Nobody believed that Biden would beat Trump – CNN reported that three-quarters of American voters believed Democrats could retake the White House if they fronted anybody other than Biden. “Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket,” the network reported, citing an SSRS poll [pdf].
However, nobody likely expected that person to be Kamala Harris, an even worse candidate than demented Joe.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to steamroll Democrats with a barrage of executive orders, more than CNN’s audience, according to VP JD Vance, that the media cannot keep up with. Recently, Democratic political strategist James Carville admitted that the Left was overwhelmed while Trump’s America First agenda sailed through.
“We’re getting overwhelmed,” Carville told the “Politics War Room” podcast co-host Al Hunt.
“Things that we thought that would kill a political career, would be poisonous for whatever reason, this guy keeps chugging along.”
Nonetheless, Democrats continue to hold on to the outdated past instead of aligning their political ideology with most American voters, who strongly asserted that they want secure borders, reduced government waste, and above all common sense.
Riley Gaines, a conservative political activist and swimmer who opposes the participation of men in women’s sports, was stunned after a trans activist agreed to merging Olympics and Para-Olympics.
Gaines and the transgender activist Blossom Brown appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” where they discussed gender and identity in sports.
Brown, the “The Trans Parency” podcaster had previously suggested a gender-neutral Olympics during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, allowing men to directly compete against women.
Gaines called the idea “absurd from top to bottom” and asked the trans activist if he also supported merging Olympics for the able-bodied athletes with the Paralympics for individuals with various physical disabilities.
Riley Gaines gets trans activist to say he believes we should let Olympic athletes compete in the Paralympics pic.twitter.com/9OTsh9Aghz
“Should we combine Paralympics with the regular Olympics, [and] have them all compete with each other,” Morgan reframed her question.
Surprisingly, he agreed without giving it any thought.
“I mean, why not?” Brown said.
“You are completely insane,” Morgan responded.
“Congratulations, you excluded all women from winning medals. Well done.”
Brown also questioned Trump’s “preoccupation” with transgender issues instead of focusing on other pressing matters such as the economy.
“Because he’s up against complete lunatics like you who think it would be right to have a gender-neutral Olympics,” Morgan replied.
According to Morgan, gender-neutral Olympics was so far the “most insane” idea in history to originate from trans activists. Gaines later highlighted the hypocrisy of trans rights in sports activists who advocate for equity only when it affects transgender individuals.
“When they say ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’, they actually mean ridding disabled people of all opportunities and chances for success….that is how committed they are to their demented logic.”
When they say 'diversity, equity, and inclusion', they actually mean ridding disabled people of all opportunities and chances for success
Trump signed an executive order banning men in women’s sports, including international athletes by directing the Department of Homeland Security to deny visas to “men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as women athletes.”
As of October 2024, trans athletes competing in women’s sports had won 900 medals, displacing 600 biological females. However, there is hardly any record of transgender athletes winning any medals in men’s sports, suggesting that men who transitioned into women still maintain a competitive advantage in sports over biological women.
Cece Telfer, the NCAA title holder of women’s 400m hurdles who Gaines describes as a “Man who has a hobby of trampling on women” defended his medal after the Department of Education suggested stripping trans winners. According to Telfer, “You can’t take back history” and “that’s not how the direction of progressiveness works.”
CeCe Telfer — the first man to cheat his way to a women’s NCAA title in 2019 — explains he can’t be stripped of his title because “that's not how the direction of progressiveness works.”
Women beg to differ. You came for our sports & our spaces and we are fighting back hard. pic.twitter.com/wcDGqwqZl8
Meanwhile, Maine Governor Janet Mills has threatened to defy Trump’s orders and allow biological males to continue competing against women in sports.
“They are still saying they want men to play in women’s sports and I cannot believe that they are doing that,” Trump said on Thursday at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C.
He threatened to cut federal funding until the defiant states complied with his executive order on fairness in sports. However, Gov. Mills remains defiant saying, “The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the president’s threats.”
One of the most outspoken Democrats beating the war drum over DOGE’s action to cut wasteful spending and corruption is whimpering after the Department of Justice responded to his outrageous remarks. Trump and Musk have already won civil cases against Leftists who smeared them by spreading falsehoods, however, none has been held criminally responsible for various inflammatory remarks. But this may soon change.
Rep. Robert Garcia just called on his fellow Democrats to confront Elon Musk with “actual weapons” for the sake of “democracy”:
"What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight." pic.twitter.com/FMBTP9aHoo
Previously, Democrats have alluded to the fact that America was “at war” and urged their supporters to “fight in the streets.” While seemingly inciting violence, those statements could be interpreted metaphorically as a call for political action.
However, one Democratic lawmaker seems to have crossed the line after suggesting bringing “actual weapons” to an “actual fight.”
“He’s also harming the American public in an enormous way, and I think what’s really important, and what the American public wants, is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country, and it’s important to push back on the chairperson of this committee,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said.
If a Republican made such statements, the far Left and their media buddies would be up in arms calling for blood. In January 2021, Trump was accused of inciting protesters just for asking them to remain peaceful and respect law enforcement. Democrats hold themselves to a different standard, but I digress.
Meanwhile, Rep. Garcia’s statements have not gone unnoticed after interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin wrote him a letter of inquiry requesting clarification for the contentious statements he made on the far-left network CNN.
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced. pic.twitter.com/Tgp70GmTv7
“This sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk – an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a “d**k” – and government staff who work for him. Their concerns have led to this inquiry.
“We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation with my letter of inquiry after request.”
The letter seems to have rattled Rep. Garcia who denied making threatening statements and denounced violence.
“Obviously, we all use metaphors and figures of speech. I think what’s really important is that we’re very clear, we have always been, violence, of course, is never the answer.”
Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., sent a letter to Rep. Robert Garcia's office as part of a new initiative to prosecute threats against public officials at all levels. Martin asked for clarification on Garcia's comments on CNN last week, when he said: "What the… pic.twitter.com/JjwgkgiWGL
Garcia also accused the Department of Justice of trying to silence him for criticizing Musk, asserting his right to “forcefully oppose” Trump.
“So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter,” Garcia said. “Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.”
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced. pic.twitter.com/Tgp70GmTv7
Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett also defended Garcia, claiming they were legally fighting for democracy.
“Please explain how a guy gets his feelings hurt by a member of Congress talking about the very legal fight that we are engaged in for the rule of law,” Crockett said.
Nonetheless, Democrats have a history of making seemingly inciteful statements. In 2020, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened two conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh over the June Medical Services v. Russo abortion case that challenged Roe v. Wade.
“You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!” Sen. Schumer said.
Schumer made the statements when he had political cover and faced no scrutiny. Like Garcia, the federal prosecutor also sent him a letter of inquiry after Trump was sworn in. However, his aide responded claiming that the statements referred to a political campaign and were not directed at the SCOTUS justices.
While Democrats claim the statements are metaphorical, a nutjob could take them literally and take action, potentially leading to loss of lives. Trump attributed his assassination attempts to inflammatory remarks by Democrats who compared him to Hitler and designated him a threat to democracy.
“The suspected gunman believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it. Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.”
Georgia perennial candidate and Democratic organizer Stacey Abrams has found herself at the center of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) into how much her “community investment group” received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Abrams’s liberal organization, Power Forward Communities, was slated to receive at least $2 billion in community grants from the Biden-Harris administration.
However, those payments won’t be happening, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.
“I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars, and I’ve wasted no time in keeping my word,” Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon.
“When we learned about the Biden administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this.”
“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” the EPA administrator continued.
“It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”
Power Forward Communities was founded in October 2023 following Abrams’s failed bid for office against Gov. Brian Kemp.
Abrams is credited with helping Democrats flip Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats during the December 2020 elections.
In January, the Georgia Ethics Commission imposed a record-breaking $300,000 fine on a voter registration group founded by Abrams for breaches of state campaign finance regulations during the 2018 elections.
In 2022, Stacy Abrams said her climate fight was about putting money "back into the pockets of Americans."
This week, we found out Abrams attempted to extort $2 billion from American taxpayers.
During the same month, a legal entity founded by Abrams intended to oppose efforts to limit voter fraud in the 2020 elections lost a three-year court battle, resulting in a loss and an order to pay the state back $231,000 in legal costs.
Abrams’s latest pet project told the Biden EPA that it intended to dole out $2 billion to help install heat pumps, water heaters, solar panels, home battery systems, EV chargers, and weatherization upgrades.
It was the only press statement the group ever released, while Power Forward Communities reported receiving just $100 in revenue in 2023.
“For an organization that has no experience in this, that was literally just established, and had $100 in the bank to receive a $2 billion grant—it doesn’t just fly in the face of common sense, it’s out-and-out fraud,” Daniel Turner, the executive director of energy advocacy group Power the Future, alleged in an interview with the Free Beacon.
“President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to stop the fraud and abuse by leaders who irresponsibly shoveled boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity, instead of serving the American people,” Zeldin said.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is insulting the intelligence of Americans after Trump’s approval ratings upticked during his second term. Rep. Crockett was responding to The View’s “conservative” co-panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin about 53% of Americans supporting Trump and 45% believing that Democrats should be more moderate. She attributed Trump’s rising popularity to Americans lacking education.
“We’ve gotta do better at education. People don’t understand!”
Q: The American people overwhelmingly support what President Trump is doing. What's your take away?
REP. CROCKETT: "We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand!" 😂 pic.twitter.com/g10DyZTr68
The Texas Democrat warned that Americans will only understand the impact of Trump’s policies when rural hospitals start shutting down and people lose Social Security.
“You will understand when your Medicaid, your Medicare goes away,” she continued.
“You will understand as planes continue to fall out of the sky.”
Democrats and their legacy media buddies have already attempted to blame Trump and Musk’s DOGE for the Toronto plane crash attributed to the aircraft losing its wing.
“The FAA was still responsible for inspecting the aviation equipment, and Trump just let go of FAA safety specialists,” Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tweeted.
Unsurprisingly, the “not real smart” Congresswoman has a reputation for picking fights that she cannot win. She previously claimed that Tom Homan “does not know what he’s doing,” eliciting a response that earned her the title.
Tom Homan fires back at Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s claim that he doesn’t know what he’s doing:
“I forgot more about this issue than she’ll ever know."
“I don’t know who this lady is,” Homan said. “Apparently she’s not real smart.”
Crockett also recently called DOGE “idiots” after employees manning the country’s nuclear stockpiles were allegedly fired and immediately rehired. She also accused Elon Musk of receiving nearly 1 billion dollars in contracts, of which she was likely referring to the $400 million worth of contracts Musk signed under Biden.
“This is nothing more than a money grab. He’s not out there trying to save money for the American people, he’s lining his pockets.”
Musk also provides exclusive services to NASA that no other company can. Thus, denying him contracts solely based on his political views is completely irrational. Even Biden appreciated the critical role Musk’s companies play, thus awarding him the contracts. I dare Crockett to suggest any DEI-centric company that can supply the international space station with reusable rockets.
Crockett also went live on air to attack “mediocre white boys” who were complaining about being discriminated against due to the DEI hiring practices that prioritize race, gender, and sexual orientation instead of merit.
“So, the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder.”
The Texas Democrat believes “There has been no oppression for the white man in this country.” Seemingly, Crockett is the one who needs to study more, especially on a previous ruling that found affirmative action was discriminatory.
The congresswoman also misspelled her name on t-shirts she made about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who she hulled a juvenile insult at by describing her as a “bleach blonde bad built butch body.”
Evidently, the type of education that Crockett advocates for is the dogmatic kind that produces indoctrinated individuals who cannot think for themselves. Meanwhile, Americans from all educational backgrounds have considered Trump’s policies and approved them based on the success of his first term.
Whoopi Goldberg appeared to be channeling twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” sentiment by admitting she can’t even talk to people who support President Donald Trump.
Does Whoopi realize she is now referring to the majority of America?
Goldberg still refuses to mention Trump by name, opting instead for terms like “the man in the White House” or “you know who.”
On Monday, she took it even further by expressing her disdain for the American people who voted for him. The meltdown erupted when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin acknowledged that Trump’s efforts had been paying off during his first month in office.
“One of the things he is excellent at, and the media takes the bait often, is he writes himself into every story,” Griffin said. “He didn’t just do the Super Bowl interview, he attended the Super Bowl … he is working in a 21st-century media environment that is outpacing traditional media but also the opposition.
“I think Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor, if I go on ‘Meet the Press,’ it’s going to stop him.”
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Seemingly ignorant of how to properly address former presidents, Alyssa Farah Griffin huffs about people calling Trump "Mr. President" when he was out of office. She frets: "Dems are kind of playing on a 1990s playbook of, like, if I go speak on the Senate floor if I go on Meet… pic.twitter.com/YosnUKkcje
Co-host Ana Navarro also admitted that the “resistance” against Trump had not materialized in the ways she believed it should, reflecting how Democrats have struggled with “reaching people” to organize.
“We all need to come together and show them that we’re mad as hell.”
Farah Griffin says they need to talk to Trump voters if they want to persuade people. Whoopi says she doesn't like talking to Trump supporters and writes them off: "It's hard to talk to people who support people who think you don't matter in the country…When you support THAT… pic.twitter.com/GIp3Lg0f0A
Griffin suggested that Democrats would need to “go into uncomfortable spaces” and include Trump voters in their efforts to bring more people in.
Goldberg didn’t like this. “I think this is beyond Democrats and Republicans,” Goldberg said.
“It’s hard to talk to people who support people who think you don’t matter in the country … When you support THAT person … when we find the stuff that we agree on, that’s what we do.
“When we find the stuff that is disagreeable to the majority, now, I didn’t find anything of interest for me in Project 2025,” she said. “I didn’t feel like this is geared to us as a nation, I felt it was geared to very specific folks, and that bothered the poo out of me.”
“I understand what you’re saying, and we do have to talk to each other,” she finally conceded.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered that the federal government cannot account for approximately $4.7 trillion of taxpayers’ money paid for unknown reasons.
DOGE found that the tracking codes used to associate payments with budget line items were left blank, making it impossible to trace the payments.
“The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process),” DOGE explained on X.
“In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible.”
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
DOGE noted that the TAS field, which allows account identification had since been made mandatory, increasing visibility into the payments.
Less than a month into Trump’s presidency, DOGE has exposed how trillions of taxpayers’ money was wasted on unnecessary projects overseas. They include $10 million for voluntary male medical circumcision in Mozambique, $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre, $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub,” $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” and $14M for “social cohesion” in Mali.
US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled: – $10M for "Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision" – $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills" – $2.3M for "strengthening…
A DOGE subcommittee hearing chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) also uncovered approximately $2.7 trillion in erroneous or improper payments, including for projects whose authorization had expired. Over $700 billion was also lost due to inaccurate record keeping.
$2.7 TRILLION of YOUR money.
Down the drain.
💸💸💸
Tomorrow, the @DOGECommittee will EXPOSE the waste, fraud, and abuse of improper payments doled out by the federal government.
Similarly, over $2.7 trillion went to Medicare and Medicaid payments overseas to people who should not have received the money. Musk also discovered over 25 million people between the ages of 100 and 369 years, almost certainly deceased, still receiving Social Security payments.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk X’ed.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ltb06VX98Z
Responding to Real America’s Voice White House correspondent Brian Glenn about the wasteful spending, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said “that is certainly fraud.”
“There is also a lot of contracts they’ve identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks been only $500,000 went out the door, so where’s the rest of that cash?” Leavitt noted.
Musk had warned that radical action was required because “America is going BANKRUPT from EXTREME levels of government spending.” The U.S. national debt interest payments had doubled in four years to reach a staggering $1.17 trillion under Biden, while the budget deficit also topped $1.8 trillion in 2024. Government debt also increased by $2.3 trillion to reach $35.7 trillion between 2023 and 2024.
Subsequently, Musk’s DOGE is looking for public input to uncover more wasteful spending and fraud and has set up over two dozen affiliates to oversee the process.
“DOGE is looking for help from the general public! Please DM insight for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, along with any helpful insights or awesome ideas, to the relevant DOGE affiliates (found on the Affiliates tab). For example, @DOGE_USDA, @DOGE_SSA, etc.”
Meanwhile, Musk is optimistic that he could cut the deficit by $1 trillion by 2026 by reducing wasteful spending by $4 billion per day.
“I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend,” he X’ed.
I am cautiously optimistic that we will reach the $4B/day FY2026 reduction this weekend https://t.co/XQBK3rqkwo
A Cardus Educational Survey (CES) has discovered that homeschooled children outperformed their non-homeschooled peers on various psychosocial issues. Between 2019 and 2021, school enrolment declined by 2.1 million while homeschooling increased by 30%.
The trend was largely influenced by the pandemic when homeschooling was mandatory. However, many parents continued to teach their children at home even after physical classes resumed.
The CES report that studied adults between adults 24 to 39 years old analyzed economic, mental health, civic, spiritual, and family formation among homeschooled and non-homeschooled individuals.
It categorized the subjects into short-term homeschoolers (1-2 years of homeschooling), medium-term homeschoolers (3-7 years), and long-term homeschoolers (over 8 years). The individuals attended traditional public schools, Catholic schools, Protestant schools, nonreligious independent schools, or were homeschooled.
One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
11% of parents now homeschool, according to new Census data. That's about TRIPLE the rate prior to the pandemic.
The report found that long-term homeschoolers had the highest levels of optimism, gratitude, and life satisfaction. They were also the least likely to “feel helpless dealing with life’s problems” or report depression and anxiety symptoms.
Similarly, short-term and long-term homeschoolers were more likely to volunteer and give to charity in the last 12 months compared to medium-term homeschoolers or those who were never homeschooled.
Homeschooled individuals also reported higher rates of belief in God and participation in religious activities compared to non-homeschoolers. The rate of religiosity was proportional to the number of years spent homeschooling.
“The prevalence of religious belief and practice increased with the number of years spent in the homeschool sector,” the study stated.
This is hardly surprising considering that the education system is highly anti-religious while allowing other negative ideologies to thrive within the learning environment.
Long-term homeschoolers were also more likely to be married, have more children on average, and had the lowest divorce rates. The study did not attribute this finding to any ideology but the school system has been pushing anti-family ideologies such as feminism and LGBTQ+, which greatly undermine family formation.
Given the diverse nature of the study subjects, it is likely that these results are more nuanced than reported. If the study isolated individuals who attended public schools, where woke culture thrives, vs homeschooled individuals, the results would likely be groundbreaking. Many religious and private schools still instill conservative values and are free of the woke culture that plagues public schools, thus potentially neutralizing its effect.
Another concerning finding of the CES survey was that homeschooled individuals were less likely to be full-time employed compared to those who physically attended school. Given their tendency to have more children on average, getting married, and being less likely to be divorced, it was likely that some were stay-at-home parents taking care of their families.
Likely, their decision to take care of their children instead of pursuing a career resulted in better mental health outcomes for themselves and their children. No amount of financial success can substitute for good mental health and a nice family when the “achievers” live in a perpetual state of mental anguish, anxiety, helplessness, and silent desperation.
As the study indicated, long-term homeschooled individuals had better mental health, were happier, more grateful, and were the least likely to feel helpless, and contributed more towards charity.
While the short-term financial gains might be appealing, they are costly in the long due to depopulation which is an existential threat. The mental health crisis also requires more funds to address, resulting in the loss of otherwise productive members of society through depression and suicide. Likely, that is why nearly 60% of all “gun crimes” in the US are suicides instead of accidental shootings or homicides.
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The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
