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Thank you to all who make such insightful comments! There have been reports that KASH PATEL spends lots of time partying....not that he could accomplish much...SENATE REPUBLICANS had information about his incompetence & genuflected instead of accepting their responsibility..... MTG: Jewish Space Laser Queen, known for POSTING DIC PICS & other colossal stupidity, thinks FAMILIES who can't feed their kids are focused on the name of THE GULF OF MEXICO! Has she ever done anything worthwhile? GEORGIA: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO SEND HER TO REPRESENT YOU! REP. BRENDAN BOYLE: THANK YOU! Just go GROCERY SHOPPING! PRICES ARE OUTRAGEOUS! Lots of PRODUCE comes from MEXICO where DAFFY DON has imposed TARIFFS!

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Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING as GOP BLOWS UP his Bill

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 60. 1/30/25 Ron Filipkowski Jan 31 ∙ … Trump blamed DEI at the FAA for the fatal airline/helicopter crash last night in DC. He called a press conference where sycophantic Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy began it by praising him: "I would just note, the president's leadership has been remarkable during this crisis." Then Pete Hegseth: “I want to echo that, Mr. President, about your leadership from the moment this happened.” Obviously, they all got the memo on the first requirement of the job. … Trump then baselessly speculated that the crash must’ve been caused by a woman or a minority: “They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA. Brilliant people have to be in those positions when you have many planes coming in to one target.” When asked why he would say that DEI caused the crash: “Because I have common sense. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level. You’re dealing with very high level computer work. Complex computers.” … Question from reporter - What evidence have you seen that diversity hiring could have caused this crash? “It just could have been. You have to go by brain power, you have to go by psychological quality .. For an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, smartest, sharpest, we want somebody that’s psychologically superior - and that’s what we’re going to have.” … Trump also made a grossly irresponsible post on Truth Social right after the incident happened: “Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that looks like it could have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!” … Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), who just filed the bill to amend the Constitution so Trump can serve a 3rd term: “Was it human error, equipment failure, or did DEI play some kind of role in this?” … Pete Buttigieg responded: “Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.” … NAACP President Derrick Johnson to NBC: “The NAACP is disgusted by this display of unpresidential, divisive behavior. We’re proud to see thousands of first responders in the region unify to support the enormous recovery efforts taking place on the Potomac. The President has made his decision to put politics over people abundantly clear as he uses the highest office in the land to sow hatred rooted in falsehoods, instead of providing us with the leadership we need and deserve.” … AOC: “I represent LaGuardia Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety Committee last week. Air traffic controllers - already understaffed - got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a one-week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI - it’s him. And Elon too.” … Sen. Tom Cotton used this tragic incident to justify confirming Trump’s nominees immediately. To Fox: “We need officials at the heads of these departments. It’s important we move forward promptly for accountability and so we have officials leading this vital work.” … White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X doublespeak where she claimed that rescinding the memo that directed a funding freeze for grants and programs did not mean that the freeze would end: “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The President's EO's on federal funding remains in full force and effect, and will be rigorously implemented.” … Meanwhile, lawyers for the Trump Admin were in court arguing to a judge that a lawsuit filed by multiple states should be dismissed since the memo was rescinded. But lawyers for the states showed the judge Leavitt’s post and said that she was saying one thing on social media while their lawyers were saying the opposite in court. Politico reported that the judge granted the motion and ordered funds to be released until further litigation “based on comments by the president’s Press Secretary.” … Newly-elected Rep. Dave Min (D-CA) on Trump’s Press Secretary: “Karoline Leavitt is a fake Christian, like so many in the Golden Calf administration.” He said she lied repeatedly about the funding freeze “while wearing a giant cross to let everyone know how pious and moral she is, even as she is so comfortable stating a bald-face lie to hundreds of millions of people. As a person of faith, I find it appalling that this admin uses religion to advance an agenda while lying through their teeth about what they are doing.” … WaPo’s Jeff Stein: “Amid immense pressure from congressional Republicans over the funding freeze, Budget Director Russ Vought held an emergency meeting Tuesday at the WH with baffled and exasperated staff. Vought said they needed to clarify that the memo only applied to funds affected by Trump's EO. ‘Anybody who could read English’ could see it didn't, one official told me. … The report also says that Stephen Miller was the one who asked OMB to write the guidance memo on the freeze, but he did not review the final memo that went out which caused the chaos to ensue. … Stein: “The generous interpretation is they wanted a TEMPORARY shut down of all spending to give them time to figure out what was in violation of executive order guidance. I think it's true the intent was not to shut down all grants permanently, but to buy them time to stop what they didn't want going out. But the memo says what it says.” … Trump, who had no idea any of this was happening while he was playing golf, then later absurdly claimed that they had to put a freeze on all government payouts because Elon Musk found abuses: “We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. And you know what's happened to them? They've used them as a method of making bombs.” Condom Bombs in Gaza. Got it. … Trump’s Senior Legal Advisor Alina Habba on Fox: “$50 million towards condoms in Gaza for Hamas? It’s absurd. That’s what we’ve stopped.” … Except the whole thing was a lie. No condoms were sent to Gaza. No money was sent to Gaza to buy condoms. A USAID Report stated that no condoms have ever been sent by the US to any country in the Middle East. Some contraceptives were sent to Africa during both the Trump and Biden Administrations. That is it. … Sen. Mike Lee told Fox that he wants Congress to authorize privateering to American citizens who want to stop migrants and drugs from being brought in by cartels: “To destroy the cartels, Congress should consider hiring a few pirates. They will be authorized to engage in acts of piracy on the high seas, with the understanding that any loot they are able to bring back that is not contraband can be liquidated and sold.” … Lee said that Congress is authorized under the Constitution to enlist privateers, and even though it hasn’t happened in over 200 years, now is the time. Then he posted his call to arms on X: “Imagine you’ve just been granted a Letter of Marque by Congress making you a pirate. What do you wear?” … Deportation Czar Tom Homan said he isn’t happy with the pace of deportations so far. The NY Post reports that Homan is demanding at least 1,800 arrests per day from ICE — setting a quota of at least 75 arrests each day for each of the agency’s 25 offices. When asked about the report, Homan said “we need more deportations” but denied setting a quota.   (ADDED: NY POST IS A MURDOCH TABLOID - MOSTLY NONSENSE, BUT SOMETIMES FACTS!) … Kristi Noem’s much-hyped operation in NYC, where she was decked out in a bulletproof ICE vest for the cameras with freshly filled lips and her best hair extensions out in front, netted a grand total of 20 arrests: 12 arrests of people with a past criminal history, 8 arrests of people with no criminal history at all. … Trump announced that they will be sending migrants to Gitmo: I’m signing an Executive Order to instruct DOD and DHS to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. We're going to send them out to Guantanamo Bay. This will double our capacity immediately. That's a tough place to get out of.” … SecDef Pete Hegseth: “We don’t want criminal illegals on our soil - they need to go home. Using Gitmo will facilitate that. It’s the perfect location.” … Immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick said Guantanamo has never been used for this purpose: “No one arrested in the US has EVER been sent to Guantanamo. It's a first in American history and raises a ton of serious legal questions.” … Noem told Fox that she has rescinded an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela that was granted by Biden just before leaving the White House. Florida has the largest population of TPS migrants in the country, and 60% of them are from Venezuela. … Trump-loving Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents a huge Venezuelan immigrant community in Miami, to the Miami Herald: “Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro jails, beats, rapes, and kills anyone who speaks against him,” which is why she “supported TPS for Venezuelans fleeing political persecution.” But she also supported Trump. … But WaPo noted that one of Trump’s final acts in office in 2021 was to extend TPS for Venezuelans in 2021, and he said then that sending them back would be “catastrophic” given the situation in their country. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the time that deporting Venezuelans would be a “death sentence” for them. … Telemundo reports that a 3-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were arrested by ICE while speaking Spanish shopping at a department store in Milwaukee. They were US citizens from Puerto Rico. It wasn’t until they were in detention that the mother was allowed to produce identification and birth certificates to prove their citizenship. ICE apologized and made them pay for their own cab ride home. … Several groups associated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) have sued the Trump Admin over a new DHS order that allows ICE agents to enter churches to arrest suspected migrants. The DHS order ended a Biden-era policy that forbid ICE from entering so-called "protected" areas such as churches, hospitals, and schools. … The lawsuit, brought by five Quaker groups, alleges that the order violates their First Amendment right to freedom of religion: "The very threat of government officials wearing ICE-emblazoned jackets outside of our religious service will have a significant impact on our communities and ability to practice our faith. Government enforcement actions that stops people from entering our meeting house, or scares them from doing so, affects us personally, viscerally, emotionally, and theologically." … Tom Homan told CNN that he wants to start using the military: “I want them very involved, what happened in the last 4 years is the biggest national security vulnerability.” He also said he’s going to need a lot more money: “The more money we have, the more successful we're going to be. More money for beds, more money for operations." … Emily Hernandez, who was pardoned by Trump for her role in the J6 insurrection, was just sentenced to 17 years in prison for causing a fatal crash while drunk driving. … Sen. Chuck Grassley says he hasn’t been able to get any response from the White House to his letter asking why Trump illegally fired 18 Inspectors General while failing to provide written reasons to Congress 30 days before taking action: “The thing at the White House was just a big event, there wasn’t an opportunity.” Trump played golf two days in a row after Grassley sent his letter. But Trump is too busy to give him an answer about why he broke the law. … Mike Pence put out a video for GOP Senators showing a montage of clips of Trump trashing RFK Jr. last year during the campaign. Pence captioned it: “President Trump was right the first time. Senators, Vote No on RFK,Jr.” Trump said in one of the clips: “I’d rather take Biden over RFK Jr, because our country would last another year longer. But with Junior it would collapse almost immediately.” … RFK Jr had a difficult time in his two Senate confirmation hearings, with many of his past statements about medicine and science coming back to haunt him. He repeatedly denied saying the things he said in the past on video and in articles. Sen. Raphael Warnock: “You have compared the CDC's work to Nazi death camps. You've compared it to sexual abusers in the Catholic church.” RFK JR: “I never said that.” Warnock: “I have a transcript!” … Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO): “Did you say that Lyme disease is highly likely a materially engineered bioweapon? RFK JR: I probably did say that. BENNET: I want all of our colleagues to hear, Mr. Kennedy. I want them to hear it. You said yes. Did you say that exposure to pesticides causes children to become transgender? RFK Jr: No, I never said that. BENNETT: Okay. I have the record that I'll give to the chairman.” … He said it. On video. We have it. … Bennet: Did you say that Covid 19 was a genetically engineered bioweapon that targets Black and White people, but spared Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people? RFK JR: “I just quoted a published study.” … RFK Jr’s cousin Jack Schlossberg: “But why did you say that? So you could convince people you’re this guru shaman figure and get them into your cult. GUILTY!” … Sen. Bernie Sanders had a viral moment when he confronted RFK Jr about toddler onesies being sold on his organization’s website for $26 with an anti-vaccine message inscribed on them: “You started a group called the Children’s Health Defense. On their website, they are selling what's called onesies. These are little clothing things for babies. One of them is titled ‘Unvaxed, Unafraid.” … RFK Jr responded that he wasn’t in charge of choosing the merch for the group he founded. Sanders exploded: “Are you supportive of this? Are you supportive of these onesies!?!” … He was then asked whether his kids were vaccinated: “All of my kids are vaccinated.” … Sen. Tommy Tuberville said in the hearing that he didn’t understand why meds were prescribed to kids anyway when all they need is a good whipping from time to time: “We have an attention deficit problem in this country. Attention deficit - when you or I were growing up, our parents didn’t use a drug, they used a belt and whipped our butt.” … Sen Elizabeth Warren to MSNBC on RFK Jr keeping a financial interest in a pending lawsuit against a vaccine company: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccine manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job." … Sen Chris Murphy: “You could literally walk down the street, and the first hundred people you'd find would be less dangerous at the head of HHS than RFK Jr. For RFK Jr. to say he's not anti-vaccine, he's just pro-science - it's kind of like a pyromaniac saying, well, I'm not an arsonist. I just set fires to buildings every day. He will get people killed. He said chemicals in water are causing kids to turn transgender.” … Sen. John Fetterman told Fox he wasn’t impressed: “I don't think it went well for him. I'm not really sure how much support is going to emerge after that.” … RFK Jr’s former running-mate Nicole Shanahan issued a video threat vowing to get revenge on any Senator who votes against him: “While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won’t. If you vote against him, I will personally fund challengers to primary you in your next election.” … Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin and divorced him 3 years later. She received $1 billion in the divorce settlement. Which is why RFK Jr chose her as his running mate at a time his campaign was in debt. Now she will use more of that money to threaten Senators. I have tried to do the daily bulletins on Wednesdays when I also have my live podcast but it has been too difficult. So from now on, starting with this one, I have combined Wed/Thur into one bulletin like I do with Sat/Sun. That is why this is longer than normal. So all 7 days of the week will still be covered, but in 5 bulletins (M, T, Th, F, Sun). Meidas+ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. … Charlie Kirk also issued threats on OAN: “The message has been very clear: If you vote against Trump’s nominees, you will get a well-funded and well-organized primary.” … Tuberville finally said that quiet part out loud - they need RFK Jr confirmed because Republicans need his supporters in the next election: “RFK was a MAJOR piece to the puzzle that helped President Trump win all 7 battleground states and the national popular vote. No Cabinet nominee could damage the political future of Democrats more than RFK and the MAHA movement.” … Trump was selling picture books for $99 from his QVC White House last tonight. He posted on Truth Social: “The golden age has arrived. My newest book is HOT! Have you gotten your copy yet?” He then posted a link to where people could buy them. … Mark Zuckerberg, who suggested two weeks ago on Joe Rogan’s podcast that he wants Trump to impose US tariffs on the EU to protect his company from EU fines, agreed to hand over $25 million to Trump to settle the lawsuit he brought against Meta. The terms supposedly state that Zuck must pay the money to a “fund” for Trump’s “presidential library.” … Karoline Leavitt said that right-wing “independent media” will get WH Correspondent press credentials to attend briefings: “In keeping with this revolutionary media approach that President Trump deployed during the campaign, the WH will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media. Millions of Americans, especially young people, have turned from traditional TV outlets and newspapers to consume their news from podcasts, blogs, social media, and other independent outlets.” … “We’re also opening up this briefing room to new media voices who produce news-related content and whose outlet is not already represented by one of the seats in this room. We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House.” … Alex Jones announced that he was invited to apply and is considering it: “I have been invited to come to the White House next week. Should I go to DC?” … MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is frustrated with the legacy WH Press Corps: “Trump takes more questions, publicly, than any president in history, but he answers fewer questions than any president in history, because, a lie is not an answer. To be a member of the WH Press Corps now is to become practiced at taking Trump dictation of lies. Which he does with a casual confidence, knowing that the Press Corps will never scream at him, the way they could scream at Biden whenever they felt like it.” … NYT reports that senior Trump DOJ officials recently held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams of New York. The officials spoke to Adams’ lawyer Alex Spiro, who is also happens to be the personal lawyer for Elon Musk. How convenient. … Adams was indicted in September for bribery, fraud and soliciting illegal foreign campaign contributions. He went to Mar-a-Lago to have a private meeting with Trump, and also attended his inauguration. But Adams claims that he never discussed his case or a pardon with Trump at either event. … After being sentenced to 11 years for his lengthy fraud scheme, former Sen. Bob Menendez went outside court to make his case for a pardon: “President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.” … In the first special election since Trump took office, Democrat Mike Zimmer pulled off a huge upset and won an IA State Senate seat in a district that Trump just won by 21 points. … Rep. Andy Ogles was asked about the reason he filed his bill to let Trump run for a 3rd term: “There’s certain circumstances in history that are unique.” He was then asked what the reaction has been from people: “Overwhelmingly, it’s been supportive. So we’ll see what happens next.” … Rep. Chip Roy explained to Fox why he decided not to show up for the House GOP retreat in Palm Beach: “I asked the Speaker - what are we going to do there? Are we going to sit down and make a determination that we're going to actually reduce deficits? Or is it going to be more of the same stuff that I've been hearing for months? We're not going to cut spending to make sure deficits go down. And that's actually what's happening. I needed to be home with my family. We had a frozen well pump. They put forward solutions that are not going to reduce the deficit, and that’s a nonstarter for me.” … Ogles trashed Mike Johnson to OAN after retreat, echoing Roy that the Speaker is not serious about spending cuts: “I think it could’ve been much more productive than it was. We could have come out of it with a clearer picture of what we want to achieve. I think we’re being set up for failure.” … Elon Musk is up to more shady stuff by offering all 2 million employees of the federal government a buyout where they don’t have to show up for work for the next 8 months, will be paid during those 8 months, but only if they permanently resign their positions. Musk claims this is being done to cut staff and save the government money, but I believe they intend to fill every one of those career civil service positions with their loyalists. They can’t fire them without cause since they are civil servants - so they are bribing them to quit. … WaPo reports that this Musk scheme to gut the federal workforce blindsided Trump advisers who were completely unaware the memo was sent out to all federal employees, and were surprised that key agency officials at the Budget and Personnel offices were not consulted. They are also concerned that Musk is trying to take over both OPM and GSA. … Sen Tim Kaine went on the Senate floor to warn government employees not to take the buyout offer. "The President has no authority to make that offer. There's no budget line item to pay people who are not showing up for work. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you." … GovExec reports that Musk has a plan for that problem: “They thought of this and the workaround is there’s not buyout money being offered (VSIP in gov-speak, which is capped at $25k). Federal employees will simply remain on the payroll while not working (ie - on admin leave) until they resign.” … ABC reported that Max Alonzo with the National Federation of Federal Employees (representing 110,000 workers), told his people: “Absolutely do not resign. There's nothing that says they have to pay you till Sept 30. This is nothing that has been done before. This is about trying to cut the federal workforce down, breaking down these pillars of democracy. They’re really just trying to dismantle this government in any form they can.” … WIRED reports that Musk installed two of his young disciples in key positions in the White House Office of Personnel Management. One is a 21 year old who worked for Peter Thiel who was given the job as Senior Advisor to the OPM Director. The other Senior Advisor is 18 years old and graduated high school in 2024. His listed prior work experience is a camp counselor and bicycle mechanic. … Punchbowl reports that new Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), who owns the Greenbrier Valley Resort in WV, has been commuting every day to DC by private plane from the resort. He has missed quite a few votes already. … The Orlando Sentinel reports that reading and math scores in Florida have fallen to lowest their lowest level in more than 20 years. But FL schools are now are free from rainbow flags and woke books, so there’s that. … Pete Hegseth explained why he has launched on investigation of General Milley, where they are looking to demote him and hand down other punishments because he called his counterpart in China after J6 to assure him there would be a peaceful transfer of power: “If you actively undermine the chain of command — as Gen. Milley did under the previous Trump Admin — we are going to review those actions. Accountability is BACK.” … CNN reports that the portrait of Trump’s former Secretary of Defense and Army Secretary Mark Esper has now been removed from Pentagon’s Army Secretary hallway. So Trump had the portraits of his own former SecDef and Joint Chiefs of Staff (Milley) both removed from the building. … Vogue ran a piece with their take on Melania’s strange black-and-white official WH photo: “The choice to wear a tuxedo made her look more like a freelance magician than a public servant. It’s unsurprising that a woman who lived in a gold-encrusted penthouse, whose fame is so intertwined with a reality television empire, would refuse to abandon theatrics - even when faced with 248 years of tradition.” … Elon Musk said he is going to sue Tim Walz for saying on MSNBC that he did a Nazi salute: “Walz is creepy.” … Donald Trump’s DOJ just dropped all pending federal campaign finance fraud charges against former Republican Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. … Former NFL player and football coach Tony Dungy is reportedly considering a run for the US Senate being vacated in Michigan by Gary Peters. He has been a big Trump supporter. … Trump’s FBI Director nominee Kash Patel had his confirmation hearing today. He claimed that he didn’t know who white nationalist talk show host Stew Peters was. He was then confronted by videos showing he had been a guest on Peters’ show 8 times. … Former AG Eric Holder chimed in during the hearing about Patel constantly exaggerating his resume: “Patel’s claim that he was a significant player in the Benghazi operation is simply not true. I was there. He was not. I see a pattern here.” … Russian State Media Monitor Julia Davis pulled a new clip from their most popular show, where the Russian host said Trump would not have won the election if Russia had ended war in Ukraine while Biden was president: “Would he be able to use the rhetoric he used about the war while campaigning? He owes us. For the rest of his life he owes us. I think it’s time he realized this.” … Fox checked in with White House officials today to see whether Trump has spoken to Putin yet since he promised to end the war 24 hours after taking office. Still no call. … Trump’s DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard had her confirmation hearing today before the Senate Intel Committee. She refused to answer if Edward Snowden was a traitor. Mark Kelly brought out all the times she repeated Russian, Syrian, and Iranian propaganda. … Republican Senator Todd Young was visibly upset with many of Gabbard’s answers. A no from Young will likely sink Gabbard. Susan Collins didn’t sound very positive about Gabbard either. … Reuters reported that USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong, who was with the department for 22 years, was escorted out of her office by security agents after she refused to comply with her illegal firing by the Trump. Fong sent an email to colleagues that she was protesting in this manner because the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.” … Ron Desantis continued his feud with rival Republican Wilton Simpson, who is likely running for governor in 2026, by announcing that he is starting a ‘Florida Freedom Fund’ PAC to raise money to support “a strong conservative gubernatorial candidate” in 2026. Casey Desantis? … Trump is claiming that the Biden Admin supposedly “abandoned” Space-X astronauts in space, so he ordered Musk to “go get them.” But this was another fabrication. The Biden Admin made a plan to recover the astronauts with Musk months ago back in August. Trump: “The two brave astronauts have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on the Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!” … SpaceX Crew-9’s capsule is currently docked with the space station, where the two astronauts have become official members of the International Space Station staff as they await their return home, performing space walks and other functions. So this mission to get them has been planned for a long time and there is no urgency. Trump is just stepping in now to claim credit and play the hero. … Megyn Kelly is stressed out after the announcement that Netflix is doing a reboot of ‘Little House on the Prairie’: “Netflix, if you wokeify Little House on the Prairie I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.” I think she is probably worried about Black actors playing some of the main characters, since the messaging of the original show was pretty woke.