Sunday, January 19, 2025

Village People explain change of heart, why they’re performing at Trump inauguration January 18, 2025 | Sierra Marlee | Print Article

Village People explain change of heart, why they’re performing at Trump inauguration

January 18, 2025 | Sierra Marlee | Print Article

If there are two things to know about President-elect Donald Trump, it’s this: He wants to make America great again, and he loves ‘Y.M.C.A.’ by The Village People.

The song has been one of the musical mainstays of Trump’s campaign, and he even made up a little dance to go with it that has worked its way onto football fields and even into the octagon.

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Now, The Village People will be performing at one of Trump’s inauguration events despite having sent the incoming president a cease-and-desist letter in 2023 and supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.

In a Facebook post, the band addressed the decision to perform at the “MAGA Victory” rally at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington despite knowing it wouldn’t sit well with some (or many) of their fans.

“We are announcing today that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invitation from President-Elect Trump’s campaign to participate in inaugural activities, including at least one event with President-Elect Trump. We know this won’t make some of you happy to hear however we believe that music is to be performed without regard to politics,” the post read. “Our song Y.M.C.A. is a global anthem that hopefully helps bring the country together after a tumultuous and divided campaign where our preferred candidate lost.”

“Therefore, we believe it’s now time to bring the country together with music which is why VILLAGE PEOPLE will be performing at various events as part of the 2025 Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.”

X users were happy to hear of a band putting politics aside to make people happy:

Biden State Department DEI ‘accomplishments list’ a real money pit January 18, 2025 | Sierra Marlee | Print Article

Biden State Department DEI ‘accomplishments list’ a real money pit

January 18, 2025 | Sierra Marlee | Print Article

Robby Starbuck received a “copy of the State Department’s new DEI Accomplishments list” and whew boy, it’s worse than anyone thought.

Critics of DEI have long asked what the results of the controversial policies are, as it is difficult to point to any single accomplishment brought about by discrimination. Starbuck finally has an answer to that burning question, and it looks an awful lot like a spectacular waste of money.

Look:

A small glimpse into the “accomplishments” should come with a blood pressure warning.

• They commemorated “Black Conciousness Month through LGBTQ+ culture”
• They created “best practices” to promote “preferred” pronoun usage

• They Launched an “all ages” DEI Library in Cambodia
• Made DEI part of ALL civil service performance evaluations “so that advancing DEIA became the responsibility of all civil and foreign service employees”
• Lots of training on “allyship”
• You paid for the career development of women in Gambia
• Inclusive language training in Panama, especially with regards to LGBTQ+ Panamanians
• DEI workshops in Belgrade • A DEI Hall of Fame in New Delhi
• Changed the name of the foreign services “oral assessment” to the “officer assessment” because the term oral assessment may have excluded non-verbal people
• Created a DEI Award
• State admits to focusing recruitment efforts for paid internships on “minority-serving institutions” and “women’s colleges” (This would seem to violate civil rights laws and discriminate toward White men) • Created new racial equity frameworks for how the State Department works overseas
• Created and distributed trainings on how to interact with non-binary identifying people and on “colorism”

• Gave US citizens the option to put X on their passport instead of male or female
• They launched DEI Mentorship programs
• Created new guidances for transgender people so that they can use whatever bathroom or facilities they want and so other employees would be forced to call them by their made up gender

If this doesn’t prove that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is necessary, what does?

SOcial media users on X weighed in on the seemingly wasteful spending:

Trump reportedly to launch sweeping deportations day after inauguration January 18, 2025 | Jason Hopkins | Print Article

Trump reportedly to launch sweeping deportations day after inauguration

January 18, 2025 | Jason Hopkins | Print Article

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to launch his promised large-scale deportation operation the day after he is sworn into office, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The incoming Trump administration will immediately begin mass deportation efforts in major sanctuary cities across the United States, with Chicago predicted to be first on the docket, according to The Wall Street Journal. The raid in Chicago is anticipated to begin Tuesday morning and last the entire week, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deploy 100 to 200 agents to execute the operation.

Incoming border czar Tom Homan — who led ICE during the first Trump administration — previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the White House will focus on the “worst first,” prioritizing illegal migrants who have criminal histories and orders of removal. However, Homan also made clear that any illegal migrant in the U.S is fair game.

“Like the first Trump administration, we’re going to prioritize public safety threats, national security threats and fugitives,” Homan stated to the DCNF, adding that gang members and other criminals would be their main focus. “Those that had due process at great taxpayer expense, were given orders of deportation, never left and became a fugitive – them too, they’re a priority.”

“The ones who pose the biggest threat to the country – they come first. The worst first,” Homan went on. “But let’s be clear, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table.”

The Chicago City Council recently slapped down an attempt by two moderate aldermen to scale back the sanctuary city laws currently in place.

Aldermen Raymond Lopez and Silvana Tabares, both Democrats, proposed amending Chicago’s Welcoming City ordinance to allow for ICE cooperation when an illegal migrant has been arrested of certain criminal activities, arguing that such a policy would be a net benefit for the city’s immigrant community as it would allow deportation officers to better focus on criminals instead of making enforcement actions in the city at large. However, their proposal was quickly shot down by the council on Wednesday.

Other sanctuary cities in the U.S. have also expressed steep opposition to Trump’s enforcement agenda. Los Angeles passed its sanctuary law shortly after Trump emerged victorious in the presidential election, San Diego County doubled down on its existing law and Boston reaffirmed its sanctuary status in December.

Homan has said that city officials refusing to cooperate with ICE will not deter their agenda, and he added that those who knowingly harbor illegal migrants from law enforcement will be recommended for prosecution.

Along with large-scale deportation operations, Trump has also vowed to end birthright citizenship for those born on U.S. soil by illegal migrant parents, resume construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, bring back the Remain in Mexico program and implement other hawkish policies.

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