Category: Politics

  • Trump II: Electric Boogaloo

    Trump II: Electric Boogaloo

    Today is the day. The ship has passed the moment of instability and the ship is starting to right itself.

    At noon today, Donald John Trump will be sworn in for his second term as President.

    The events have been moved inside due to the weather forecast for Washington DC. At the moment it is 27℉ and partly cloudy. Trump will be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Capitol Rotunda.

    The schedule of events looks like this;

    • Musical Prelude by The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Combined Choirs
    • Prelude: “The President’s Own,” by the United States Marine Band
    • Call to order by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota
    • Invocation by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, and the Rev. Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse and The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
    • “Oh, America!” by opera singer Christopher D. Macchio
    • The vice presidential oath of office administered by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
    • “America the Beautiful,” by Carrie Underwood, the Armed Forced Chorus and the United States Naval Academy Glee Club
    • The presidential oath of office administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
    • “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” performed by the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club
    • Trump’s inaugural address
    • Benediction from Yeshiva University’s President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, Imam Husham Al-Husainy of the Karbalaa Islamic Center, Senior Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church Detroit and the Rev. Fr. Frank Mann of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
    • “The Star-Spangled Banner,” by Christopher Macchio

    Following the swearing in, there will be a signing ceremony in the President’s Room just off the Senate Chamber where members of Congress watch as the newly sworn in president signs nominations, memorandums or executive orders. The President will then proceed to a luncheon with the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.

    With the exception of a Pass And Review on the East Steps of the Capitol, the traditional Inaugural parade will be held inside at Capitol One Arena. The event is expected to feature remarks from Trump and marching bands. After the parade, there is an Oval Office ceremony.

    This evening, there are three Inaugural balls being held.

    Commander in Chief Inaugural Ball: Country music band Rascal Flatts and country singer Parker McCollum will perform at the ball geared toward military service members. Trump is scheduled to speak.

    Liberty Inaugural Ball: Rapper Nelly, country singer Jason Aldean and disco band The Village People are scheduled to perform at the ball geared toward Trump’s supporters. Trump is set to give remarks.

    Starlight Ball: Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw will perform and Trump will speak at the third inaugural ball, at which guests are expected to be big donors of the incoming president.

    We at MVAP will be commenting live during the ceremonies, so come back here at noon and join in.

  • On Point

    On Point

    A taste of what heading South

    South to southwest gales of 35 to 45 knots develop across most of
    Lake Superior this morning. These winds become northwest 40 to 45 knots tonight into Saturday
    morning. See the latest Open Lakes Forecast and Marine Weather
    Message for more details. You're look 9–14-foot waves out front. Can always tell when she's starting.

    When I come here, I sure hope I don’t sound like the Bronson

    Well, maybe just around the edges

    2020 is not over yet

    Get Kash on the teevee with ALL the evidence the supremies REFUSED because States have no Standing ain’t the right JOHN ROBERTS

    3 Days, 3 days people

    Sips coffee, was gonna ask dog what he thinks the back story is, he’s super busy

    snoring

    You see me, I am your flag

    I have been carried all over the battlefields since the creation of our country. I am your reminder of our Constitutional Rights in which we were meant to be Free. Always fight for me No matter who is against me.

    For my name is Old Glory

    I need my Patriots

  • the daily dose

    the daily dose

    Having a fresh coffee, hypocrites it fits them well, personally I prefer to call them scumbags

    such a difference

    This is kinda related Pete, had this pretty nurse ask me if I wanted a covid shot

    (Picture of a pretty nurse)

    Instead of saying, come near with that, I’ll stick it in your eye, and yes I see the security dude over there, I just said no thank you mam. Then she offered a flu shot, no thank you mam, I have sauna, her face changed, with the look of “ohh yea” yeah 🙂

    which was translated: hold on Houston,

    I got some action here, bouncing off a Russian satellite.

    That covid crap needs to be done away with, make it so Pete.

    you have noticed, my cussing has been lackin of late, that’s because I haven’t seen Steve, Steve has Torrentes Maybe this guy knows Steve 🙂

    Was asked about headaches…. yeah

    Miss Bondi, she’s attractive, she also don’t play well with scumbags, only SCUMBAGS would ask such questions that were asked of her. Miss Bondi, how about investigate sexual harassment slush fund funded by taxpayers.

    Don’t know if you ever read the fine print in the Marine Corps manual, it does state, part of any Marine MOS is to give the branches a hard time just for GP. There are times when it’s needed to be said

    Well done Coasties, well done

    Those with dogs, let me ask you something, your dog ever look at you with the look of

    ” You sombitcch, you know I got no teeth”

    Yeah well, it’ll last long that way

  • the ice is back

    the ice is back

    snuck in under that little bit of lake effect

    I watched videos of Pete’s hearing, seeing two Veterans having a conversation, deadly serious stuff on the line, humor found its rightful place, talking about things that so many in the hearing have not a clue about. No need to mention names for we know who they are: Some words came to mind to match what I seen at the hearing

    we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Tim, how about you warren, you lying dog.

    You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall — you need me on that wall.

    We use words like “honor,” “code,” “loyalty.” We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.

    I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a scumbag tim who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.

    While looking over my ice water mansion… 5 days

    just think people, in 5 days we’ll hear the inaugural choir

    Support yes

    frontline no

    something good out of the flames

    now excuse, I have an appointment down the road, they wanna know about my condition

    Not sure if knowing to many old songs is a good thing or not

  • One Week

    One Week

    No, I’m not talking about the #1 Billboard hit by Canadian pop group The Barenaked Ladies.

    That’s how long it is until Donald John Trump is inaugurated for his second term as President.

    The official swearing-in is scheduled to start at 1200 Monday 20 January. Prior to that, there are musical performances and other entertainment scheduled. We will be live streaming the swearing-in here at MVAP.

    Following the swearing-in there is a traditional signing ceremony where the newly sworn President will sign the nominations for his cabinet. Shortly thereafter, the President will attend a luncheon with select members of Congress.

    Then there will be a parade. It starts around 1430 at the Capitol and travels down Pennsylvania Ave ending at LaFayette Park adjacent to the White House. It will include a pass and review by select military units.

    Trump will attend three inaugural balls that evening, the “Commander in Chief Ball,” the “Liberty Inaugural Ball” and the “Starlight Ball,” and he is expected to speak at all three according to the transition team.

  • Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army

    Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army

    Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army


    The most powerful three-letter agency in government. More powerful than the CIA, NSA, FBI.

    Credit author Marty Robinson

    In fact, it’s so powerful it has its own seal and its own flag.

    And no, it’s not the FDA, the SEC, or the IRS.

    And it’s not part of Homeland Security or FEMA… Although its tentacles reach deep into every one of those agencies.

    The mainstream media rarely mentions it by name…

    So most Americans have no idea it even exists.

    But thanks to an obscure executive order and the secretive, if not treasonous, actions by former President Barack Obama…

    It’s become the hidden force behind the coup of a duly elected president and the ongoing “complete transformation of America.”

    And only by exposing it and bringing it out of the shadows, will it ever be stopped.


    You see, on December 15th, 2015, six months after Donald J. Trump declared his candidacy for president and began to rise in the polls…

    Former President Barack Obama signed what at the time, appeared to be an innocuous executive order.

    However, Obama’s intentions were much more complex and sinister.

    Because with that single executive order, Barack Obama launched an accelerated purge of thousands of American patriots from virtually every government agency — including our intelligence services and the military —while replacing them with party loyalists and political operatives loyal not to the country and the Constitution, but to him and his globalist and progressive-socialist agendas.

    It was a purge of patriots and a takeover of government that began early on in his first term…

    A purge that began by transforming an obscure federal agency hidden deep within the bowels of government, into what soon became a private, stay behind army.

    An army of political operatives committed to two things:

    The complete political, cultural and economic transformation of America as promised by Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.

    And the overthrow of a Donald J. Trump presidency should he be elected.

    The Department of The Deep State

    The Senior Executive Service, or “SES,” was created on September 19, 1979 during the Carter administration.
    It was originally formed to professionalize career civil service, while attracting the nation’s best and brightest in an effort to improve and modernize the management of the federal bureaucracy.

    A position within the “SES” is considered the equivalent to general officer or the flag officer ranks in the U.S. Armed Forces.

    For that reason, they are often referred to as our “civilian generals.”

    Their pay scale starts above the top level of civil service (GS-15), with base salaries ranging from a minimum of $127,914 to a maximum of $192,300.1

    Ostensibly, the SES was to be a corps of non-partisan, career managers who serve as the executive management of federal agencies…

    Their job being to implement policy, not create it.

    At least it was until then President Barack Obama changed that with a mere flick of his pen…

    Making SES members nearly impossible to fire, once hired.

    To say Obama’s transformation of the SES into an army of political operatives was effective would be a gross understatement.

    There are more than 2 million federal government employees. And at the top of that pyramid are approximately 8,000 SES (Senior Executive Service) employees who service as the professional managerial class linking our political leaders to the civil service rank and file.

    And Barack Obama as president, replaced more than 6,000 members of the 8,000-member SES during his two terms, assembling what became a stay-behind army of political operatives…2

    So how pervasive is the SES?

    Here’s a list of the number of SES employees that were embedded in the following government agencies at the end of Obama’s 2nd term in 2016:

    Department of Education – 86
    Department of Housing & Urban Development – 115
    Department of the Air Force – 182
    Department of Labor – 200
    Department of State – 204
    Department of Transportation – 231
    Department of Interior – 258
    Department of the Army – 261
    Department of the Navy – 326
    Department of Veterans Affairs – 357
    Department of Agriculture – 361
    Department of Commerce – 425
    Department of the Treasury – 458
    Department of Health & Human Services – 468
    Department of Defense – 478
    Department of Energy – 490
    Department of Homeland Security – 639
    Department of Justice – 821
    All Other Agencies (all non-Cabinet level agencies) – 1,796
    And it wasn’t just a purge of patriots from governmental agencies…

    Obama’s purge of the military was especially damaging to our national security, as he literally gutted the command structure of the U.S. military.

    Not to mention the demoralization of the ranks due to his policies of radical political correctness.

    In all, Obama’s patriot purge included 9 Senior Commanding Generals, 2 Nuclear Commanders, 197 high ranking Senior, General and Flag Officers, along with thousands of non-commissioned officers…

    With perhaps the most glaring example being the firings of U.S. Army General Carter Ham and Rear Admiral Chuck Gaouette…

    Red September…Obama’s Benghazi Stand Down Order

    General Carter Ham was relieved as head of U.S. Africa Command because he defied Obama’s “stand down” orders to not mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi.

    And Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved for disobeying orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to “assist and provide intelligence for military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.”

    And as damaging as Obama’s purge of the military was, it was his takeover and transformation of the Department of Justice, the F.B.I. and the Intelligence Agencies that raise the greatest threat to America today.

    Because instead of being tools for implementing the policies of the president and the United States government…

    They’ve become the defacto 4th Branch of Government and are now dictating and carrying out their own policies, while openly subverting and sabotaging those of a duly elected president.

    But, before we go any further, please understand this…

    Barack Obama was not the architect of these changes, merely the front-man in charge of carrying them out as the Deep State and Shadow Government’s placeholder president.

    And that’s the root of President Trump’s problems…

    Trump: America’s Last President

    You see, in the post 9/11 world, we’ve transferred far too much power to the office of the president.

    And that’s created a very big problem for the Deep State and our Shadow Government.

    Because the one thing they can no longer ever allow to happen…

    Is to have an outsider not under their control, become president.

    And Donald J. Trump is definitely an outsider who is not under their control.

    That’s why they launched their “insurance policy,” before President Trump was even sworn into office.

    You remember their “insurance policy,” don’t you?

    The one orchestrated by Obama’s secret stay behind sleeper cell…
    Located on the 7th floor of the Truman building in Washington D.C.

    The “insurance policy” that Peter Strzok (the FBI’s Chief of Counterespionage), referred to in the now infamous text he sent to FBI attorney Lisa Page.

    It was “Plan B,” just in case Trump was elected.

    It’s what the Steele Dossier, the Mueller Investigation, the entire Russia-gate hoax and their current impeachment witch-hunt is all about…

    Because as far as the Deep State and our Shadow Government are concerned…

    The office of The President of the United States of America as we know it, no longer exists.

    A real President…

    Like JFK, or Reagan?

    No longer acceptable.

    You saw what happened to both of them.

    No Dear Reader, they’re not looking for Presidents any more…

    Nor will they tolerate one.

    Especially one picked by you and not by them.

    Thanks for reading,

    Marty Robinson
    Contributing Editor For Whiskey & Gunpowder

  • Boebert Introduces Legislation To Abolish The ATF

    Boebert Introduces Legislation To Abolish The ATF

    Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a staunch firearms advocate, has introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

    From zerohedge.com

    The bill, introduced on Jan. 3 when Congress reconvened for its 119th term, remains in the early stages of the legislative process. No text is currently available.

    In February of 2023, Boebert said: “There’s been a lot of talk about defunding the ATF, even abolishing the agency altogether, and I’m still here waiting to hear a good reason why the ATF should remain an agency at all. Instead of providing regulations that keep our communities safe, this agency has made our communities more dangerous by wandering weapons to the cartels. Operation Fast and Furious exposed the recklessness of the ATF, how little regard they have for the rule of law, and Americans have had a hard time viewing these agencies and their rules as legitimate.”

    Boebert isn’t the first Republican to suggest doing away with the ATF. In November, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) called for the ATF to be abolished, citing numerous “mistakes” by the agency, including Operation Fast and Furious – and vowed to introduce similar legislation to Boebert.

    The ATF has been accused of regulatory overreach by several gun rights groups – including introducing a rule classifying pistols with braces as short-barreled rifles. In August, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the stabilizing brace rule was likely unconstitutional, Newsweekreports.

    Meanwhile, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) said in May of 2023, “Under the Biden administration, the ATF has been weaponized against gun owners and Americans who wish to acquire firearms in numerous ways in recent years.”

  • Welcome to Certification Celebration Conversation on January 6, 2025

    Welcome to Certification Celebration Conversation on January 6, 2025

  • 119th Congress Officially in Session

    119th Congress Officially in Session

    The 119th Congress officially opened today. The Republicans hold slim majorities in both Houses. It’s 218 to 215 in the House of Representatives with 1 vacancy and 52 to 47 with one vacancy in the Senate. That vacancy will be filled by current West Virginia Governor Jim Justice once his replacement is sworn in on 13 January.

    Senate leadership was decided back in November. John Thune of South Dakota is the Senate Majority leader. Chuck Shumer of New York is the minority leader.

    The House leadership however was decided today. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected as Speaker of the House over Hakeem Jeffries of NY. Johnson won on the second vote 218-215. Thomas Massie of Kentucky voted for Tom Emmer of Minnesota. Speaker Johnson was the choice of President Trump.

    Next up is the counting and certification of the Electoral College votes on Monday 6 January.

  • Joe Biden’s Radical ATF Director Resigns Before Trump Had the Chance to Fire Him

    Joe Biden’s Radical ATF Director Resigns Before Trump Had the Chance to Fire Him

    Joe Biden’s Radical ATF Director Resigns Before Trump Had the Chance to Fire Him

    Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP, File

    In a surprising move, outgoing President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach tendered his resignation on December 20 with an effective date of January 18, 2025, just days before Trump is inaugurated. This leaves the agency amidst growing scrutiny and political pressure. The resignation comes at a time when the ATF has been at the center of heated debates over gun control policies and the Biden administration’s efforts to suppress the Second Administration. Critics have pointed to the agency’s handling of specific initiatives and its controversial stance on gun regulations. In contrast, others argue the resignation could be part of a broader shakeup in response to challenges in enforcing the administration’s policies. His sudden departure before Trump takes office raises questions about the future direction of the ATF and its role in the ongoing national conversation about gun control. 

    “Pursuant to the Memorandum for Presidential Appointees on Guidance on Letters of Resignation dated December 18, 2024, I hereby tender my resignation as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF), effective as of January 18, 2025,” a statement read. “It was the honor of my professional career to serve at ATF in your Administration. As you said when nominating me to be ATF Director, ‘The mission of this agency isn’t controversial. It’s public safety.’ I have now seen the brave and talented people at ATF live out your words for years. And we have realized results.” 

    Critics cheered Dettelbach’s exit from the ATF, whose far-left stance on gun control was a Republican’s primary concern. While working as an attorney in Ohio, Dettelbach supported strict gun laws and firmly enforced existing firearm regulations. He had publicly advocated for measures, including the expansion of background checks and banning assault weapons. Republicans said his views threatened the Second Amendment and feared that Dettelbach would push aggressive gun control policies through the ATF. 

    The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arm’s (CCRKBA) chairman Alan Gottlieb said that Dettelbach’s departure is “one less person Trump will have to fire after he takes office, and it is one less gun prohibition lobbyist on the government payroll.” He urged Trump to hire an ATF director who would not politicize the ATF, which regulates firearms. 

    Dettelbach’s time as an attorney was applauded by Democrats as an effort to crack down on illegal gun trafficking and framed to combat crime. However, critics argued that his approach often targeted law-abiding gun owners rather than targeting criminal behavior. 

    Trump has promised to fire Dettelbach on day one of his second term.