Bernie Sanders backs DOGE, says 'Elon Musk is right'



Former Democrat turned independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont publicly endorsed the Department of Government Efficiency, a new agency in the upcoming administration aimed at reducing the bloated bureaucracy.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that tech mogul Elon Musk will be at the helm of the department alongside former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. While the department received a lot of expected praise from conservatives, Sanders also came out in support of DOGE.

'Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of "DOGE" for a very long time.'

"Elon Musk is right," Sanders said in a Sunday post on X. "The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions."

"Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud," Sanders continued. "That must change."

Trump announced on November 12, just one week after his landslide victory, that Musk and Ramaswamy would be leading the department.

"Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies - Essential to the 'Save America' Movement," Trump said in a statement on November 12.

"It will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project' of our time," Trump continued. "Republican politicians have dreamed about the objectives of 'DOGE' for a very long time. To drive this kind of drastic change, the Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before."

Trump also detailed that the department will exist only through July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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Glenn Beck Issues WARNING after Shocking Interview w/ Texas AG Paxton

Glenn Beck Issues WARNING after Shocking Interview w/ Texas AG Paxton

Unexpected warning: Glenn Beck's startling interview with Ken Paxton



Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is well aware of the challenges facing America, and after an unexpected exchange, he’s left Glenn Beck with some concerning insights to chew on.

“He didn’t give me calming advice,” Glenn tells Stu Burguiere, relaying that Paxton told him, “If you don’t have a rule of law, if you have a court system or a country that says you cannot protect your own people, then you don’t have a constitutional republic any more.”

“And we’re back to the Declaration of Independence and requiring people to stand up for it,” Glenn says.

“I walked away from that interview feeling as though that was a historic comment.”

That comment being that Texans are being told they’ll have to stand up for the Declaration of Independence.

“That shows we are way down the road, way down the road in unsafe territories,” Glenn says.

While both Glenn and Stu don’t believe that Paxton was forewarning of civil war, they are concerned by his comments.

“I don’t think Ken Paxton is calling for something like that,” Stu tells Glenn.

“He mentioned just standing up and fighting. Look, we all stand up, stand up every day to argue on behalf of the Declaration of Independence in the Constitution.”

However, Stu says, it’s “just a couple of people really standing in the way now of losing our republic.”

“The Constitution is hanging by a thread, and we’re in a scissors factory. And the guy rushing to save it is Edward Scissorhands,” Glenn says.

“We’re not really in a stable place.”

To learn more, watch the clip below.


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If This Is ‘Christian Nationalism,’ Sign Me Up!

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Reporter goes viral for attacking Christians who believe rights come from God — and the responses are glorious



Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla claimed on Thursday that Christians who believe rights are derived from God are "Christian nationalists."

Speaking on MSNBC, Przybyla claimed that former President Donald Trump is surrounding himself with an "extremist element" of Christians, whom she identified as "Christian nationalists."

That's when things got weird. According to Przybyla, there is one belief that all so-called Christian nationalists share.

"[T]he thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress. They don't come to the Supreme Court. They come from God."

The "problem" with believing that rights come from God, Przybyla claimed, is that "men" misapply "so-called natural law" to oppose progressive issues, like abortion, sex education in schools, IVF, and gay marriage.

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There is an obvious problem with Przybyla's argument: the Declaration of Independence. Philosophical debates about "rights" aside, the founding document is clear that rights are not derived from man like Przybyla claimed.

The Declaration of Independence declares:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Founding Fathers, then, were aware of the dangers of a government being empowered to control rights: if the government giveth, then government can taketh. But if fundamental rights are ultimately derived from God, no government can take them.

Przybyla comments went viral on Friday afternoon and triggered an avalanche of mockery:

  • "Our rights as human beings don’t come from the Constitution, the government, Congress, the president, or the Supreme Court. They are inherent. ... This belief that rights precede government—regardless of whether you believe in God—is fundamental to what it means to be an American," former Rep. Justin Amash said.
  • "Is someone’s ignorance and religious bigotry showing?" Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) asked in response.
  • "What the state gives the state can take away. What God gives the state takes at its moral peril. Sincerely, The prophets of old," Jordan Peterson responded.
  • "Human rights come from God. That’s why all human beings have innate value and no human entity has the authority to strip them of those rights.That belief doesn’t make millions of Christians around the world Christian nationalists," AND Campaign president Justin Giboney responded.
  • "We are all Christian Nationalists now," pastor Tom Ascol responded.
  • "I guess those truths just aren't as self-evident as they used to be," National Review writer Dan McLaughlin mocked.
  • "This is what secularists want you to believe. If your rights originate from government, then the government is ultimate and statism becomes the dominant belief.But God is ultimate and human rights come from God," pastor Grant Castleberry pointed out.
  • "Imagine believing your rights come 'from Congress,'" Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) mocked.
  • "This is a civics failure, a talent failure, an intelligence failure, a historical failure, an ethics failure...shall I keep going?" professor Andrew Walker pointed out.
  • "I can only suppose that this is what comes of liberal elites living in a bubble. They speak with supreme confidence only to reveal spectacular ignorance--of history, philosophy, the beliefs of the people they regard as their intellectual and moral inferiors and hold in contempt," professor Robert George responded.

Przybyla responded to the controversy by gaslighting, claiming she did not say what everyone heard her say. And yet, she somehow also managed to double down.

"While there are different wings of Christian Nationalism, they are bound by their belief that our rights come from God," she said on social media. "If you are Hindu, Jewish etc, this might help you understand the next part of my point, which is they are using this for a man-made policy agenda."

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Levin: THIS is how Democrats are getting around the Constitution



The best way to try to prevent tyranny is to divide the power.

That’s why judicial, legislative, and executive each have their own branches within the United States government.

And as Mark Levin says, “That’s why the delineation of the authority as best as they could under each one of those branches is spelled out in the most fabulous governing document in the history of man: the United States Constitution.”

“Everything I just told you was rejected by the Democrat Party,” Levin says.

“If you’re trying to put together an autocratic centralized regime, you’ve got to get around the Constitution. And today, you’ve got to get around the Constitution if you want to implement the Marxist agenda,” he adds.

According to Levin, Joe Biden himself repeats Marxist phrases.

“Joe Biden is a very stupid and sick man, but he knows how to repeat phrases. When he says, ‘Bottom up and middle out,’ what he’s trying to say is ‘I want you to follow bottom up and middle out, but we’re not really about bottom up and middle out,’” Levin explains.

Marx did not use the same phrasing, but he did talk about the same thing.

“Marx talked about bottom up and middle out without using those phrases. It was called the proletariat that was going to overthrow the management and executive class, as he would call it,” Levin adds.

When you look at the Democrat Party through the same lens as dictators and philosophers past, it all starts to make sense.

“They’re repulsive, they’re unconscionable,” Levin says. “The Democrat Party projects onto the Republican Party everything it’s done to this country. From racism to anti-Semitism to economic dislocation and on and on and on.”

Levin believes the only thing standing in the way of their all-out takeover is the Constitution.

“The Democrat Party hates the country. It’s trying to destroy our constitutional system,” he says. “It’s all about power.”


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