Michael Steele chaired the Republican National Convention once upon a time. Now, he gets paid to lose his mind on MSNBC and categorically melt down whenever the topic of President Trump or Elon Musk is brought up. And he definitely earned his money this past weekend. On a segment of MSNBC’s Weekend edition Michael Steele must have made a ton of money, because he lost his mind multiple times during the same segment. If anyone was in doubt, TDS certainly effects RINOs just as much as democrats. Here’s the hilarious clip in question.  I must have watched this 20 times, and it gets better every time! Former RNC Chair Michael Steele suffering from severe TDS: “[Trump] has given absolute power to one man who brings his son into the Oval Office who says to him, ‘You’re not the President!'” “He got it from his daddy!” pic.twitter.com/Lav3N4x29L — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 16, 2025 Here’s the full screen viewer for backup: Former RNC Chair Michael Steele suffering from severe TDS: “[Trump] has given absolute power to one man who brings his son into the Oval Office who says to him, ‘You’re not the President!’” “He got it from his daddy!” pic.twitter.com/Lav3N4x29L — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 16, 2025 Steele seemed to lose control more than once during the segment. He primarily blamed democrats for having a lackluster approach to President Trump and Elon Musk. I don’t make a habit of watching MSNBC, so I didn’t know the former RNC chair had taken up with the media arm of the democratic party. But if I had any doubt about Michael Steele’s qualifications to have earned the title of RINO — they were quickly dispelled as I saw him melt down into a twitching heap at the mere thought of President Trump in the White House. And when one of his fellow MSNBC compatriots asked him a simple question, the result was explosive. Here’s what Fox News had to say about the on-air meltdown: MSNBC’s Michael Steele unloaded on Democrats during a rant on Saturday, demanding they start to show they care about people “losing their jobs” and President Donald Trump’s early actions as president. “I’d just like you to show that you give a damn!” Steele, a former RNC Chair turned MSNBC host, said. “That you get a little emotional about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately! That this individual sitting down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has given absolute power to one man, who brings his son into the Oval Office, whose son says to him, ‘you’re not the president! You shouldn’t be in that chair!’ Now, where did he get that from? He got it from his daddy! Because that’s what his daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the Oval Office.” Steele and his fellow MSNBC colleagues discussed a piece from The Nation, a progressive outlet, headlined “The Courts can’t stop the Trump-Musk coup,” which deemed the pair to be “barbarians at the gate,” and argued that they would defy orders from the courts. “They’re in your bedrooms!” Steele continued. “They’re in your living rooms! They’re in your businesses! They’ve got they got your data, dumb a–! They got all your stuff! Elon Musk has his tentacles in everything you’re doing! Not just off of X, but he’s in the Treasury Department! He’s in the Labor Department! He’s in Department of Homeland Security!” “And nobody seems to give a damn! So that’s all I want — somebody to show that they care enough to get off their fat a– and say something about it!” he said. As one X user shared, that is the sum total of why so many people have dumped the “old party losers. Michael Steele is a fraud and a RINO! He is exactly why a lot of people have dumped the old party losers! https://t.co/AUk0V7xULP — American Smasher (@smasher1241) February 16, 2025 Here’s another look at the unhinged meltdown, with a little more commentary from Australia’s Sky News: When his co-host chimed in, suggesting Republicans were equally to blame for President Trump’s sound defeat of Kamala Harris, Steele doubled down on his obvious hatred for the Republican Party, according to reporting from the Huffington Post: Steele then noted that Trump has given “absolute power” to billionaire Elon Musk — whose unofficial Department of Government Efficiency is slashing public spending and attempting to cull the positions of thousands of federal workers — before continuing to speak to Sanders-Townsend’s question. “So, I’d just like to see somebody wake the hell up and get excited about the fact that your country is under assault,” he said. “They’re not at the gate anymore, they’re in your bedrooms, they’re in your living rooms, they’re in your businesses, they got your data, dumbass, they got all your stuff.” Co-host Alicia Menendez suggested Republicans are equally to blame. “The hell with Republicans,” Steele replied. “They’re not going to do anything, they’re the problem.” Elsewhere on this weekend’s broadcast of Steele’s show, the co-host accused Trump and his MAGA allies of trying to destroy U.S. democracy and the Constitution via what he called the “fake agency” of DOGE. I have to admit, it still surprises me when RINOs show their true colors. Reason and logic wants to argue with what I’m seeing. How does the man who once chaired the RNC find his happy place among the progressive democrats of MSNBC? How does that man then — with a straight face — lambast the most fiscally conservative Republican in terms of policy in our lifetime? And I have come to the conclusion that it isn’t personal for these people; it is simply business. And the business I’m talking about is the kickbacks, corrupt payoffs, and the pay-without-working jobs they are in the “business” of creating for themselves. How does the former RNC chairman so unequivocally come out swinging against the most LIBERTY MINDED and FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE President we’ve had in more than 100 years? Easy — he lets the corruption that he himself is a part of do the decision making for him. It’s not personal; it’s just business. Unfortunately for Michael Steele, those very people he is lambasting are fully engaged in the business of ENDING his CORRUPT business within the federal bureaucracy. Moan and wail if he must, but the time for honoring himself will soon be at an end.  (This seemed like a moment truly worthy of a Gladiator reference.) And President and Elon Musk are just the ones to make it happen.

Jim Jones, head of the food division at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has submitted his resignation. “The division is tasked with ensuring that the country’s food supply is safe, overseeing inspections and recalls,” NBC News noted. According to reports, Jones cited “indiscriminate” layoffs in the food division as the reason for his departure. “I was looking forward to working to pursue the department’s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food,” he wrote in his resignation letter, according to Fox Business. BREAKING: FDA food chief Jim Jones resigns after President Trump cuts thousands of federal workers. pic.twitter.com/pqSBbuquF5 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 18, 2025 Per Fox Business: Jones said it would be “fruitless for me to continue in this role” because of the Trump administration’s “disdain for the very people” needed to make the changes it wants. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Jones’ resignation, saying some “bureaucrats” are resistant to the “mandate delivered by the American people” in an email to Bloomberg News. “President Trump is only interested in the best and most qualified people who are also willing to implement his America First Agenda on behalf of the American people,” she told the outlet. “It’s not for everyone, and that’s okay.” The staffers who lost their jobs over the weekend include employees with “highly technical expertise in nutrition, infant formula, food safety response,” Jones said in his letter, noting that 10 terminated staffers were responsible for reviewing potentially unsafe ingredients in food. Jones led a successful push to ban red dye No. 3, which had its authorization revoked by the FDA last month while former President Joe Biden was still in office. #BREAKING: FDA food division head Jim Jones resigns – NBC. His position is responsible for keeping American food safe. The resignation comes after RFK Jr. took over the HHS. pic.twitter.com/pQRfEuwlJg — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 18, 2025 BREAKING: Jim Jones, head of the FDA’s food division, has resigned pic.twitter.com/SVnZIsS1du — Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) February 18, 2025 NBC News reports: It’s unclear whether Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was sworn in Thursday, has an immediate replacement for Jones. Kennedy met with HHS staff Tuesday morning as part of a welcome ceremony, according to a second source. Jones stepped in to lead the FDA’s food division in 2023, after three decades at the Environmental Protection Agency. He most recently oversaw the Biden administration’s ban on the Red No. 3 dye in January, as well as the FDA’s investigation of contaminated applesauce linked to dozens of lead poisoning cases in children in late 2023 and the aftermath of the infant formula shortage. Congress hasn’t yet confirmed a new FDA chief. President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Marty Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, to lead the agency.

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“When this fuckin’ riff kicks in, I want to see everybody in this fuckin’ house jumpin’, ” shouts Dirty Honey singer Marc LaBelle right before the opening riff to “Won’t Take Me Alive” kicks in, therefore beginning the band’s first live album. The Los Angeles quartet’s third release, Mayhem & Revelry Live, is founded on riffs galore through the album’s 16 songs, culled from their 2021 self-titled debut and 2023’s Can’t Find The Brakes. This set shows just how well this band can pull off recreating the numbers in a live setting. Huge batches of classic rock riffs (riffs, of course being key to their sound) hit you in the gut like a sledgehammer. Songs like “Dirty Mind” and “Scars,” as well the song that put them on the map, “When I’m Gone,” instantly identify guitarist John Notto and his fat Gibson Les Paul sound, which brings to mind his influences, such as Aerosmith guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, as well as vintage Jimmy Page and Slash. One can just visualize the amount of wannabe guitarists in the audience playing air guitar with every crunchy lick. Just as important is Dirty Honey singer Marc LaBelle and his powerful, soaring vocals. Young and cocky, LaBelle has quite a range, and his high tenor never cracks during songs like “Scars” that tend to test his limits. The band’s pop sensibilities are evident with radio-friendly material like “California Dreamin’” and the funky “Tied Up” as well as “Satisfied,” which is anchored by the rhythm section of bassist Justin Smolian and drummer Jadon Bean. Ballads are, a lot of times, hit and miss, but Dirty Honey hits “the feels” with the lovely, road-lonely opus “Coming Home” that gives Notto and Smolian a chance to play acoustically. Dirty Honey follow that ballad with the audience sing-along chorus of “Another Last Time” that eventually brings the band into the full-throttle delta blues of “Rolling 7’s.” This is a band that is born and bred to be in a live setting and prove it with every number. Finishing the album with “You Make it All Right” was almost like the band thanking their fans for helping to make them such a success. Dirty Honey’s formula is nothing new and has been lacking from the mainstream for a number of years, as other styles of music have been getting the spotlight. But if you are like me and love some straight-ahead rock and roll with great songs and performance in a VERY listenable live recording, then this is definitely the record for you. As far as I am concerned, Mayhem & Revelry Live deserves to be in the same conversation as those older classic live recordings that have always occupied my record rack. It makes you wonder why it has taken so long for a band as talented as Dirty Honey to be the ones to bring the “classic” in classic rock and update it for a new generation of rockers. ~ Jordan West Purchase Mayhem & Revelry Live 

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