From signing a cascade of executive orders with the stroke of his black Sharpie pen, to holding off-the-cuff meetings with the press in the Oval Office, Trump's return to the White House has nearly erased his predecessor's signature achievements in a matter of days and made it feel to many like he never left.

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That worked so well for them in 2024, they should keep doing it.

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…when the ball drops the 2020s decade will be over half way done. We will be closer to 2030 than 2020. Also, for bonus depression points we will shortly be closer to 2050 and than 2000!!!

Seems like this decade has snuck up with us between Covid nightmare, insurrections, Iowa and FSU struggles on offense, and the war in Ukraine….honestly a lot of people have 2020 and 2021 all jumbled into one year. I know I do.

President-elect Donald J. Trump offered fresh criticism early Sunday of the officials in charge of fighting the Los Angeles wildfires, calling them “incompetent” and asking why the blazes were not yet extinguished.

“The fires are still raging in L.A.,” Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. “The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out.”

Mr. Trump’s comments indicated that the fires, and officials’ response to them, will likely occupy a prominent place on his domestic political agenda when he takes office on Jan. 20. He has renewed a longstanding feud with California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who in turn has accused Mr. Trump of politicizing the fires.

Mr. Newsom told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he had invited Mr. Trump to visit “in the spirit of an open hand, not a closed fist,” but had yet to receive a response. The governor said he was taking seriously threats by the president-elect to withhold disaster assistance. If he were to do so, Mr. Newsom said, Mr. Trump would be in effect “threatening our first responders.”

California politicians have faced criticism since the fires broke out on Tuesday, including questions over how local and state authorities had prepared for them and how they have grown so quickly into huge blazes.

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles had to contend with questions about whether there was adequate warning about the likelihood of devastating fires, and why there was a shortage of water and firefighters during the initial response. At a news conference on Thursday, she avoided a question about her absence from the city when the fires began — she was in Ghana on a previously scheduled official visit — and said that any evaluation of mistakes or failures by “any body, department, individual” would come later.

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, has also fended off criticism from Mr. Trump, who blamed him for the failure to contain the fires and claimed he had blocked an infusion of water to Southern California over concerns about how it would affect a threatened fish species.

Mr. Newsom’s press office responded by saying in a statement that the “water restoration declaration” that Mr. Trump had accused him of not signing did not exist. “The governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” the statement said.

Mr. Newsom and Kathryn Barger, the chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, have invited Mr. Trump to tour fire damage in the city. He has not responded publicly to those invitations.

At least 16 people had died as a result of the fires as of Sunday morning, and at least 12,000 structures had been destroyed, officials said. Mr. Trump alluded to that devastation in his post on Sunday.

“Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost,” he wrote. “There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

His post did not mention any officials by name.

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Some members of Iowa’s Republican congressional delegation are downplaying President Donald Trump’s pardons of nearly 1,600 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol — including 10 Iowans.

Some aren't talking about them at all.

Instead, they're diverting attention to former President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardons he issued to family members and political allies as he left the White House.

As he exited office, Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, for tax and gun crimes, and he issued pre-emptive pardons for his siblings and their spouses, Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol.

A spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst dismissed the need to discuss Trump's pardons at all.


“If the media was so concerned about covering pardons, why aren’t the pardons Joe Biden granted to his family and COVID Czar Fauci and the dozens of commutations of depraved murderers front-page news?” the spokesperson said in a statement.

n the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, Ernst was much more outspoken about the violence that occurred and the need to hold those criminally responsible.

“But there can be no doubt that the violent mob who lawlessly breached the Capitol in hopes of intimidating elected officials and disrupting our constitutional duties are criminals,” she wrote in an op-ed that ran in the Des Moines Register. “Blood was shed and lives were lost because of their heinous actions. They should all be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will fight to make sure that happens.”

Back then, Ernst, who was in the Senate chamber and had to help two young pages evacuate during the riots, called the experience “horrifying.”

“It was horrifying. And I need to stress that to everybody that thinks, 'Oh, well that was OK, they just were a little exuberant,'” she told reporters Jan. 11, 2021. “No. This was anarchy.”

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who was third in line to the presidency as Senate Pro Tempore at the time of the Jan. 6 riot, was whisked out of the Senate chamber by U.S. Secret Service and moved to a secure location as the Capitol was breached.


He, too, declined to criticize Trump’s pardons.

“I think, following on the precedent of Biden, which I disagreed with, it'd be hard for me to criticize Trump,” he told reporters Tuesday.

A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, who represents Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, decried violence but did not criticize Trump’s pardons.

“America’s Golden Age has begun, but of course, this is what the media is focused on — and glosses over Joe Biden’s 11th hour preemptive pardons to his family, members of Congress and staff on the Jan. 6 committee, and other allies,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “As the congresswoman has said many times, no form of violence is ever acceptable, nor should our justice system be weaponized for politics. These pardons are solely at the discretion of President Trump.”


The spokesperson also pushed back on a question about whether the decision to pardon those found guilty of violence against police undermined Republicans’ “back the blue” mentality.

“It’s ridiculous to assert that Rep. Hinson doesn’t back the blue — she has always, and will always, support our brave law enforcement officers and will work with President Trump to deliver the resources they need to keep our communities safe,” the spokesperson said.

U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, defended Trump’s decision.

“The president said what he was going to do, and the American people voted him and Republicans into power, seeing right through Democrat-led political persecution,” she said in a statement. “Just as Democrats defended Biden's recent pardons of his son and political figures — which reek of corruption — President Trump has the constitutional right to pardon whomever he chooses.


“The media and Democrats can obsess over this all they want. It didn't work in November, and it won't work now. I remain focused on supporting President Trump's agenda to deliver for Iowa and the country.”

Iowa’s U.S. Reps. Randy Feenstra and Zach Nunn, both Republicans, did not respond to requests for comment from the Register.

Although many Republican members of Congress are aligned with Iowa’s delegation, a few of expressed concern about Trump’s pardons.

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If Cumala and Touchdown Timmy would have won. It would have been about every celebrity they could have paid to be there.

Remember when this was a family night?

…and the only person capable enough to capture them all is some hot 25 year old 110 blonde girl with a gun.

That’s the premise of the new show coming up after the game. Awesome.