Democrats Want To Probe Musk And DOGE

By William Teach March 5, 2025 – 6:45 am

They’re still working on dying on the hill of protecting bloated, incompetent, wasteful government

Democrats seek to probe Musk conflicts and DOGE firings with resolutions of inquiry in the House

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are introducing a pair of resolutions demanding the Trump administration turn over documents and information about billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest and the firings of federal workers, The Associated Press has learned.

It’s the most aggressive move yet by Democrats trying to confront President Donald Trump’s actions. The top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, and Rep. Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Maryland are leading the effort as the party mounts a resistance against the Trump-Musk dismantling of government.

The resolutions of inquiry would launch investigations into Trump’s Republican administration and Musk through the Oversight panel. If the Republican-led committee fails to act, which is likely, the Democrats could push the resolutions to a House floor vote in a matter of weeks.

These are votes that the Republicans should allow, because, they will fail, and they will highlight Democrats as being the party of Big Government.

“President Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE team have been on a rampage to purge the government of non-partisan public servants and install political loyalists willing to turn a blind eye to corruption and grift,” said a fact-sheet accompanying the resolution from Mfume, the ranking Democrat on the panel’s subcommittee on Government Operations, probing the firing of federal workers.

They’re not so much installing loyalists (um, hey, Politics 101? Obama and Biden sure fired a lot of high end people and replaced them with loyalists) as just firing deadwood. Just wait till we get to the point where there are criminal investigations into defrauding the federal government.

The resolution seeking information about the firing of federal workers would require the administration to provide documents, meeting notes, phone, mail and text records, and other information regarding:

“Each Federal employee placed on administrative leave, removed due to a reduction in force action, terminated, transferred, or reassigned to another department on orders, advice, or recommendation of Elon Musk, any individual considered to be a member of a DOGE agency team, or any official or unofficial member of the United States DOGE Service.”

Say, wouldn’t that violate federal privacy laws for those terminated employees? These Democrat politicians are concerned about worker cut-backs and losing allies in the Perpetual, and unaccountable, Bureaucracy. But, their concerns are not over excessive government waste or patronage jobs, distributed like parade candy. Sending taxpayer money overseas for idiotic things while Americans are suffering. Or how a fraction of the money makes it for the stated purpose, instead, getting pocketed as it passes through the hands of all the NGOs and private groups.

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Your Fault: Warming Brings Heavy Snow To Greenland Or Something

By William Teach March 4, 2025 – 3:00 pm

I mean, really, seriously, these people are just full on cultists. They came up with a doomsday talking point years back to incorporate winter weather, cold snaps, etc, into their cult beliefs, and keep building on them

Warming Brings Heavy Snowfall to Greenland, Replenishing Some Lost Ice

A single storm in 2022 dumped enough snow on Greenland to replace 8 percent of ice lost that year. With warming, the Arctic is seeing stronger atmospheric rivers, which could deliver enough snow to slow the loss of ice, according to a new study.

Atmospheric rivers, which ferry water vapor from the tropics to the Arctic, are growing more frequent and intense as the Arctic warms, raising fears of more intense rainfall that will hasten the loss of ice. But as the new study shows, atmospheric rivers can also produce huge volumes of snow.

On the Norwegian island of Svalbard, the atmospheric river unleashed a torrent of rain that turned snow to slush. But in Greenland, it had the opposite effect.

When scientists from the University of Oulu in Finland traveled to Greenland to gauge the impact of the atmospheric river, they found it had left a thick layer of densely packed snow. The storm produced 16 billion tons of snow in total, they estimate, which may eventually harden into glacial ice.

See? You drove a fossil fueled vehicle to the steakhouse and like to drink cow milk with your cereal (have you have the strawberry banana Cheerios? My favorite), hence, it gets so warm that it snows enough to create massive amounts of ice.

Meanwhile, the intersection of the climate scam and government insanity

Fired NOAA Worker Decries DOGE Cuts After He Spent Millions Creating Cartoons About ‘Gender-Neutral’ Space Alien

A now-fired “public affairs specialist” who created a multimillion-dollar cartoon for his agency is now warning that the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE’s) budget cuts could weaken disaster preparedness.

Tom Di Liberto, the ousted employee, called his termination from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “ridiculous” in a Monday interview with CNN’s John Berman, adding that he expects DOGE’s reductions to hinder hurricane and disaster readiness. Di Liberto was the creator and star of “Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth,” an animated series produced by NOAA at a cost exceeding $3 million, according to federal spending records. (snip)

The five-part series, intended to educate children about Earth’s weather and climate, stars Di Liberto as himself alongside Teek, an apparently androgynous, cyclopean extraterrestrial from the planet “Queloz.” Teek is addressed using they/them, or “gender-neutral” pronouns in transcripts provided on NOAA’s website. The series’ most popular installment, “Episode 4: An Ocean of Data From Cool Technology,” has amassed over 150 views on YouTube as of Monday.

Got that? $3 million dollars for a cartoon that delves into the climate scam and Woke. The comments for all the videos are turned off. Episode 1 has 147 views. #2 has 105. #3 has 134. #5 has 85. #4 is up to 572, I’d assume because of the above Daily Caller piece. Seriously, all the people whining about NOAA employees being fired, was this employee necessary for NOAA operations? How many more are doing unnecessary things?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by carbon pollution driven rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the Left feeding the Ukraine death machine.

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Democrats Scuttle Senate Bill Blocking Gender Confused From Women’s Sports

By William Teach March 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

Well, of course they did. They have to patronize and kowtow to the tiny majority of Americans who are in on the trans scam

Bill to ban trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams fails to advance in Senate

Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday night in a divided Senate as Democrats stood united against an issue that Republicans leveraged in last year’s elections.

A test vote on the bill failed to gain the 60 votes needed to advance in the chamber as senators stuck to party lines in a 51-45 vote tally.

The bill sought to determine Title IX protections “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” The vote came as Republicans have homed in repeatedly on the social cause, casting it as an issue of ensuring athletic fairness for women and girls. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month giving federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.

Still, Republicans in Congress have set their sights on enshrining that policy into law by amending the 1972 Title IX law, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.

Remember this poll from January 2025?

(NY Post) A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women’s sports.

“Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female — do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports?” the survey asked.

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.

The Democrat Elites and their unhinged base do not care. They’ve decided that they want biological men in women’s sports, locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms, immediately on the back of having pushed #MeToo way too far. So, real women? They do not care about you. They do not care if you lose scholarships because of a man competing in your sport. They do not care if you get hurt. Back to first article

“What Republicans are doing today is inventing a problem to stir up a culture war and divide people against each other,” Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said in a floor speech.

Dividing, eh?

BTW, if Democrats are upset, maybe they should reconsider their belief that the federal government should run everything, in this case, education? That maybe funding should be state/local? Because now the federal government has the ability to dictate it.

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Bummer: Ireland May Receive A $26 Billion Euro Climate (scam) Bill

By William Teach March 4, 2025 – 7:15 am

Well, hey, the big wigs joined in the climate scam, so, no complaining when the money gets redistributed elsewhere instead of helping Irish citizens

Laggard Ireland may face 26 billion euro EU climate bill, watchdogs warn

Ireland may have to pay EU compliance costs of between 8 billion euros and 26 billion euros ($8.4 billion-$27.2 billion) if it does not swiftly implement its emissions-cutting plans by 2030, the country’s fiscal and climate watchdogs warned on Tuesday.

The estimate, equivalent to between 3% and 9% of Irish national income, far exceeds the most recent 2023 government estimate of 3.5 billion euros to 8.1 billion for falling short of the 2030 EU climate change targets.

The Irish fiscal and climate change advisory councils said the government could reduce the potential costs to between 3 billion and 12 billion euros if it follows through on plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions that have yet to be enacted.

“Allowing these costs to fall on the Irish state instead of meeting its agreed commitments to reduce emissions would be a colossal missed opportunity,” the two independent bodies said in a joint report.

As part of the EU’s legally binding target of a 55% cut in emissions by 2030, member states that fail to hit their goals are liable to effectively pay those that exceed their targets by purchasing their surplus emissions allowances.

Sucks when your cult beliefs suddenly hit you in the wallet, eh? It’s not like the government, ie, the taxpayers, are already having to shell out to 100% support all the 3rd world immigrants they’ve imported, who bring 3rd world culture to Ireland – rapes, sexual assault, harassing women, violence, pooping in the streets, and so much more – and try and force Ireland to change to their culture.

Maybe all the voters in Ireland should rethink who they are voting for. Otherwise, such it up, buttercups.

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Not WWIII Watch: Trump Pauses Aid To Ukraine

By William Teach March 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

The meltdown within the left-o-sphere and the Never Trumpers who love spending taxpayer money so Ukraine can send their people to die (and pocket quite a bit for Ukrainian politicians and bigwigs) is exquisite

Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine after Oval Office argument with Zelensky, White House official says

President Donald Trump is ordering military aid to Ukraine to be paused after his Friday Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a White House official told CNN Monday.

“The President has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution,” the White House official said.

Another official said the pause will apply to all military equipment not yet inside Ukraine.

The pause is a direct response to what Trump views as Zelensky’s bad behavior last week, the official said. They noted that a pause could be lifted if Zelensky demonstrates new commitment to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

The White House made the decision to pause military aid to Ukraine for now as officials seek an acknowledgement from Zelensky about the breakdown in relations following Friday’s blowup in the Oval Office.

What they should definitely include in this to audit where the money has gone so far. How much that has directly gone to Ukraine has gone to weapons and such and how much has been used for non-military purposes? We’ve heard that it has gone to pay for citizens to keep their businesses open (while Americans suffered from the COVID fallout). And to pay the politicians. How about those fighting? Has it gone to the soldiers? Why are we paying their politicians in the first place? Has it gone to their oligarchs? How about to the neo-Nazi’s like the Azov Brigade?

And how about to all the American companies making goods/shipping it over? Was the money a slush fund for Democrat donors/supporters?

According to several officials, Trump and his senior aides are seeking an acknowledgement from Zelensky – potentially in the form of a public apology – before moving ahead with the minerals deal, which had been close to agreement before Friday’s meeting, or a discussion on continuing foreign aid. The decision to halt the aid was made later on Monday, one person said, and is part of a pressure strategy on Ukraine.

Obviously, this means that Trump is on Putin’s side, or Putin has blackmail on Trump, or something something Orange Man Bad.

Meanwhile

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Uh Oh: Ukraine-Russia War Is Super Bad For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach March 3, 2025 – 3:00 pm

So, if Trump ends the war, does that mean his is the best thing for helping to stop ‘climate change’?

The climate bill for the invasion of Ukraine is up to 250 million tons of greenhouse gases

In addition to deaths, injuries and displaced people, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is leaving a negative environmental footprint that is contributing to worsening global warming. The three years of war have resulted in greenhouse gas emissions of 230 million tons of CO?eq (carbon dioxide equivalent, the unit used to measure these gases). This is an enormous amount, similar to what 120 million combustion-engine automobiles would emit on average in an entire year. To understand its dimension, it also helps to remember that a country like Spain, with almost 49 million inhabitants, emitted some 270 million tons in 2023. The calculation of the climate footprint of the Ukraine war has been prepared by several experts grouped together in the Initiative on GHG accounting of war, which has already published several reports of this type.

Lennard de Klerk, the study’s lead author, explains to EL PAÍS that the figure they offer considers “all the emissions that can be attributed to the war,” including those of both sides. “For example, the use of fuel by the Russian army as the aggressor and the Ukrainian army as the defender is taken into account,” he adds by email. To prepare their calculation, explains this carbon footprint expert, they started from a premise: to track the emissions that have resulted from the conflict and that would not have occurred if Russia had not invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

I’m not seeing where the study takes into account all the shipping of military goods to Ukraine from the U.S. and European nations, nor the production of those goods. So, it could be much higher! Yay, Trump working to end the war.

The Initiative on GHG accounting of war is supported by the European Climate Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on promoting policies to combat global warming. It also collaborated with the Ministry for Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine to analyze the three years of conflict. The report argues that “the Russian Federation should be held responsible for these emissions and the resulting climate-related damages.” It estimates the climate costs of emissions from the three years of war at $42 billion.

How about all those Western leaders who have worked to keep the war going? Who created conditions where Russia said “yup, let’s take it”?

The report also breaks down emissions caused by the destruction of energy infrastructure. This takes into account Russian attacks on oil depots and refineries, along with the destruction of power plants and sabotage of the electricity grid. It also includes the methane released into the atmosphere as a result of the sabotage in September 2022 of the Nord Stream gas pipeline network, which transported natural gas from Russia to Western Europe via the Baltic. The authorship of the explosions remains unclear, but several media reports this summer pointed to an operation carried out by Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

Say, what about this?

So, while European nations pay Russia for oil and gas, despite sanctions, they are also providing money to Ukraine to fight Russia? Huh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 3, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is champagne made from grapes that will disappear from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on Trump having possibly killed NATO, too.

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Serendipidy: NY Governor Hochul Tells Fired Federal Workers To Come Work For NY State

By William Teach March 3, 2025 – 10:30 am

First, I mentioned Mark Cuban offering to hire some fired federal workers. Then I did Hochul and NY State getting sued for their climate scam “polluters pay” law. And now, I swear this was not planned

Hochul seeks to recruit laid off federal workers with ad in Washington’s Union Station

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) office is running a digital ad in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station to recruit laid-off federal employees to work for New York State amid the Trump administration’s efforts to slim down the federal government.

The ad, which started running Monday at digital director displays in Union Station, features an image of the Statue of Liberty with the caption: “DOGE said you’re fired? We say you’re hired! New York wants you!”

“Elon Musk and his clueless cadre of career killers know nothing about how government works, who it serves, and the tireless federal employees who keep it running,” Hochul said in a statement. “Here in New York we don’t vilify public servants, we value them and their efforts. So when DOGE says ‘You’re fired,’ New York is ready to say ‘You’re hired’ – and we’re making sure talented, experienced federal workers know about the many opportunities available in our state workforce.”

The ad is the latest effort from Hochul to reach out to federal employees impacted by job cuts spurred by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Hochul appealed to government employees in a recruiting video last week.

“Whatever your skills, we value public service,” Hochul said in the video. “Come join our New York State family.”

What if they’re deadbeats? Incompetent? Overly-entitled? Slackers? Will Hochul and her people put in the time to interview and determine if these fired federal employees will actually be beneficial to NY state? Will they be workers who work hard or ones who login to their computers from home in the morning and then spending most of the day doing nothing? Or, will the be over-zealous and send people to go kill a pet squirrel and raccoon (long live Peanut!)?

Last week, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), whose state boasts a large federal and military workforce, backed DOGE’s efforts but touted his “Virginia has jobs initiative” as a potential safety net for laid-off workers.

I bet Youngkin will do a deep dive on every applicant.

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Bummer: New York, Gov. Hochul Sued Over Their Climate Scam By Businesses

By William Teach March 3, 2025 – 7:00 am

Kathy Hochul finally signed the NY climate scam law requiring “polluters to pay” while Hochul and others continue to use the “pollution” at the end of December 2024. Twenty two states have already sued in early February. And now

Businesses sue Hochul over ‘illegal and misguided’ $75B climate law, claiming it will cause a spike in costs to consumers

A coalition of business and trade groups is suing the Hochul administration over a law that will force oil, natural gas and coal companies to pay $75 million for spewing carbon emissions.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration claimed the law was necessary to combat the companies contributing to climate change for decades — but critics said the extra costs will be passed along to consumers through prices at the pump and heating bills.

“This law is not only illegal and misguided, but it will likely increase the cost of energy, placing an unnecessary burden on New Yorkers and consumers nationwide — especially during a time of already high prices,” Marty Durbin, president of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute and plaintiff in the case, told The Post.

The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court claims Hochul and the state legislature exceeded their authority by approving the New York Climate Change Superfund Act last year, and asked that it be tossed out as unconstitutional.

The plaintiffs also include the New York State Business Council, the American Petroleum Institute and the National Mining Association. (snip)

Federal law prohibits New York from imposing liability on fossil fuel energy producers for harms allegedly caused in the Empire State by greenhouse gases emitted outside the state, the lawsuit said.

Well, it will be interesting to see where this goes. Quite a few other lawsuits along similar lines have been killed off by the judicial system, including New Jersey’s shakedown suit, over the same thing: states do not have the authority to do this.

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