Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Tweets#
  • Important. Developing a backbone.#
    • ROOKE: Johnson’s Bold Move To Oust GOP Deep Stater Is A Win For Trump Agenda https://t.co/z2QgXSE59E via @dailycaller [Link]#
  • Democrats could advocate no sensible policy positions.#
    • An honest, substantive, forward-looking response. — Trump Treasury Sec Nominee Fires Back At Dem Sen Who Tries Gotcha Question On ‘Clean Energy’ Race With China https://t.co/SpI6vuxH2e via @dailycaller [Link]#
  • Biden leaves office with a sad record.#
    • More honesty in historian V.D. Hanson’s review than in @JoeBiden ’s speech itself. — Joe Biden’s Bizarro World of Foreign Policy “Achievements” https://t.co/3TBBS50Dmh [Link]#
    • ED MORRISSEY: Biden’s Valediction: Sheer Projection. “Joe Biden will leave office just as he entered it — twenty pounds of bull**** in a ten-pound bag.” https://t.co/SjBp3AknUF [Link]#
  • Journalism should not miss the meat of stories.#
    • One gets tired of @AP reporting about things rather than reporting the content of what happened. — Trump‘s outsider Cabinet picks are rapidly gaining support for confirmation https://t.co/gizkl2Yfpl [Link]#
  • Needed.#
    • When govevernment agencies take a wrong turn it takes muscle to change it back. Ask the State Department, FBI, and CIA. — A Unified Team for HHS Reform https://t.co/Oiep05NGgJ via @wattsupwiththat [Link]#
Retweets#
  • Clean out the Augean Stables.#
    • RT @mirandadevine: Bravo @JohnRatcliffe He did stand up against the “Dirty 51” in October 2020 and tell the truth about Hunter Biden’s lapt… [Link]#
    • RT @JerryDunleavy: Mary McCord testified for the Dems re: Pam Bondi, saying DOJ/FBI officials are essential for “preventing weaponization o… [Link]#
    • RT @TheLastRefuge2: Mary McCord says Pam Bondi must recuse herself from any investigative outcome related to the first impeachment effort.… [Link]#
    • RT @HansMahncke: McCord lied about @GenFlynn in her FBI interview. Flynn didn‘t mention sanctions, let alone discuss them proactively.... ... The… [Link]#
    • RT @mirandadevine: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just told his Senate confirmation hearing that he did try to enter public service previ… [Link]#
    • RT @mirandadevine: Looks like a bunch of Democrat senators have given up and walked out of Scott Bessent’s confirmation hearing. He’s so th… [Link]#
  • Nothing new. Sad, but nothing new.#
    • RT @paulsperry_: NEW: In his final report on Hunter, Special Counsel David Weiss noted President Biden lied in his pardon by claiming "sele… [Link]#
  • They’ll be back.#
    • RT @SgtTim911: Biden just sent 11 Yemini al Qaeda terrorists from Gitmo to Oman a few months after Oman set 28 former Gitmo al Qaeda terror… [Link]#
  • Out with a whimper.#
    • RT @paulsperry_: In a primetime farewell address, Biden had the unmitigated gall to lecture US taxpayers about "playing by the rules" and "… [Link]#
    • RT @VDHanson: Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag this week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved Ame… [Link]#
    • RT @KatiePavlich: Biden is saying goodbye to the country from the Oval by lamenting a lack of so called “fact checking,” which was leftist… [Link]#
    • RT @greg_price11: Biden: "I want to warn the country [about] concentrated power in the hands of a few ultra wealthy people."... ... Last week, he… [Link]#
  • There was no trust.#
    • RT @_johnnymaga: BREAKING: Trump announces he won’t be hiring anyone who worked for the Kochs, John Bolton, Nikki Haley, Pence, the Cheneys… [Link]#
  • Perhaps even Newsom knows it.#
    • RT @elonmusk: Gavin Newsom is a scumbag [Link]#
  • Real evidence.#
    • RT @GOPoversight: 🔥🔥🔥... ... Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) called the social security line during the hearing today.... ... He was still on hol… [Link]#
  • Journalism fail.#
    • RT @JonathanTurley: Things appear to be going from bad to worse for CNN in its defamation trial. This has been a brutal week as CNN figure… [Link]#
  • When you are hired to do a job you refuse to do.#
    • RT @instapundit: Relocate her office to the Aleutians and ban remote work. [Link]#
  • Unhinged government.#
    • RT @PeterSweden7: Unbelievable.... ... Germany will be FIRING police officers that are member of the right-wing AfD party, despite being the seco… [Link]#

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