Quick Takes from the Past 24-48 Hours

The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):

1. China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot as Factories Collapse Under Trump’s Tariffs

From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding back pay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs.

Outside a LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of unpaid workers shouted furiously at company managers over wages that have not been paid since January.

In central China’s Dao County, a similar scene unfolded outside a sporting goods store after the company abruptly shut down last week without paying employees.

In the northeast city of Tongliao, construction workers climbed onto rooftops and threatened to jump if their wages were not paid.

The wave of unrest follows a brutal plunge in China’s export orders, now at their lowest since the COVID lockdowns. Goldman Sachs estimates up to 16 million Chinese jobs could vanish as Trump’s tariffs bite deeper into the regime’s weak underbelly.

Trump said:

[T]he tariffs placed on China are having their intended effect.

Further:

They were making from us a trillion dollars a year. They were ripping us off like nobody’s ever ripped us off.

And:

They’re not doing that anymore.

One final question remains: Where will this worker revolt lead China?

An adviser to the Chinese government told the Journal:

Xi today has the same mentality as Mao. His bottom line is that no major crisis will be allowed to endanger his hold on power.

2. Scott Jennings Schools Ana Navarro on How Calling Trump a ‘Dictator’ Won Him the White House

She said Trump promised to be a dictator. Jennings quickly told her why continuing to push this fake narrative is not helping her democrat [Leftist] friends win elections or change voters’ minds.

They cannot learn because they cannot self-reflect and admit they are wrong. So, they double down on their ridiculous non-winning rhetoric.

It is not like democrats communists/globalists (Navarro lies that she’s a Republican) have any ideas to inspire Americans. Commenters say that is why they keep calling Trump names.

It is so common it feels weird if a democrat Leftist crime syndicate supporter does not call you names.

Commenters noticed this tired ‘Trump is a dictator’ talk is happening while the Left is promising to go after Republicans if they regain power.

3. Trump To World: Stop Buying Iranian Oil—Or Else

President Trump’s warning comes after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Wednesday Iran would “pay the consequence” for providing “lethal support” to the Ansar Allah terrorist organization, also known as the Houthis.

Trump posted to Truth Social:

Any Country or person who buys ANY AMOUNT of OIL or PETROCHEMICALS from Iran will be subject to, immediately, Secondary Sanctions.

They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form.

On Monday, an encounter—an emergency evasive maneuver—with the Houthis caused a $60 million U.S. F/A-18 fighter jet to slip off the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and fall into the Red Sea.

The United States has spent several weeks conducting airstrikes on the Houthis in response to the group’s more than 100 attacks on international cargo ships, tankers, and naval vessels following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.

Fox News reported:

Since March, over 800 Houthi targets have been hit, resulting in the elimination of hundreds of fighters and leaders, and Houthi ballistic missile launches and suicide drone attacks are down 69% and 55% respectively.

President Trump’s executive order stated NPR and PBS no longer served a meaningful purpose warranting taxpayer funding because there are so many private media choices in the digital era.

5. Elon and the DOGE Crew Reveal More of the Startling Things They Found

Fox’s Jesse Watters interviewed Elon Musk and his DOGE team on their achievements after the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term in office.

DOGE has saved We the People $160 billion so far.

One of the things they found is close to $5 trillion was paid out by the Treasury without a budget code. That meant no one could trace where the money was going, “It could have been for anything,” a DOGE member explained.

There was also a “$4 billion COVID fund in the Department of Education.” A DOGE member explained there were no receipts required to draw down money from that account. They said the money had been used to rent out “Caesar’s Palace for parties” among other things.

So DOGE implemented a requirement that before you draw down money, you have to upload a receipt. Surprisingly, this was not already normal practice. Elon Musk explained the drawing down of the money stopped when they asked for receipts. “They were basically partying on the taxpayer money,” Musk stated.

They also alleged they found some wild things when they looked into the Institute for Peace.

There was a humorous moment when Watters asked them which one of them was “Big Balls.” Elon joked, “That should be obvious!” “Big Balls” was working on “payment computer stuff.”

With most of the payment systems, you didn’t know where the money was going, he said. The money distribution had no checks and no accountability to the American taxpayer. He called it a “huge vector” for fraud, waste, and abuse.

Perhaps the most shameful thing is how the left has responded to Elon and his crew. They should thank them for what they have been doing for the country. Instead, they’ve demonized them. Elon and the team have faced threats, and Tesla vehicles and dealerships have been attacked. A team member spoke about how he’d dropped out of Harvard to join the team and lost friends, but he did it because he thought it was so important.

He believed that what they were doing was so much more important than what you could learn in a classroom.

Click HERE to view the full Part I of Watters interview.

6. FBI Demoted Woke Agents Who Took Pictures Kneeling with BLM Activists

FBI agents who knelt during the 2020 protests with Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington D.C. following George Floyd’s death have been reassigned to less coveted positions.

This action aligns perfectly with President Trump’s campaign promise to root out what he described as “woke” and politically motivated elements within federal law enforcement.

When these agents chose to kneel, they were not stretching their hamstrings—they were stretching the boundaries of their roles as neutral enforcers of the law.

FBI officials have remained tight-lipped about the specific reasoning behind the reassignments, stating only that “it is our standard practice to decline to comment on personnel matters.” But the message is crystal clear: political activism while on duty will no longer be tolerated.

In a constitutional republic like ours, accountability for government officials is not optional—it is essential.

Final thought, a question: Why were they not fired?