But Starbuck carries a gun because of the numerous death threats he receives. “If the whole world hated me I’d be okay with that, as long as I was doing the right thing,” he says. “At least I have a way to defend myself.” Though critics warn he is dismantling social advances that promote equality and protect vulnerable minorities, Starbuck is convinced he is doing the right thing, and millions of Americans apparently agree.

The 35-year-old Californian of Cuban descent, with a televangelist’s silver tongue and an American politician’s polished good looks, has single-handedly turned back the tidal wave of woke policies that swept the US in recent years, opening the door for Trump’s latest moves.

Starbuck – no relation to the coffee giant – has brought some of America’s biggest corporations to their knees, forcing them to abandon their woke policies. He has bludgeoned corporate Goliaths simply by posting short videos on social media highlighting companies’ woke agendas, spearheading customer boycotts that have wiped billions of dollars off their share values.

More than 20 major companies including Boeing, Toyota, Ford, Harley-Davidson, Coors beer and Jack Daniels whiskey have all abandoned progressive social policies that they once claimed were vital to a profitable and healthy environment for staff, customers and stockholders, within weeks of Starbuck launching his campaigns.

Manufacturers are shuttering plants, cutting jobs by the tens of thousands, and upping sticks to cheaper or more dynamic countries such as China and the US.

“We’ve had five years with no growth,” said Veronika Grimm, a professor at Nuremberg University of Technology and one of the “five sages” on the government’s economic advisory panel. “While the EU has grown by 4 per cent and the US by 12 per cent in this period, the German economy has just been treading water. And the outlook for the future is dark.”

“The Trump tornado has changed the world in just a few weeks …yesterday we were heretics, today we’re mainstream,” Mr Orbán told about 2,000 supporters, most of whom waved Spanish flags. Viktor Orbán said 'the Trump tornado has changed the world in just a few weeks'

Ms Le Pen said Mr Trump’s election triumph meant Europe stood on the brink of “real change”. “We’re facing a truly global tipping point. Hurricane Trump is sweeping across the United States,” she said. “For its part, the European Union seems to be in a state of shock.”

The truth is that Elon Musk and his DOGE team are beginning to scratch the surface of the greatest heist of all time, and the Democrats are starting to get very nervous. If they are allowed to complete what they have started, the American people will finally learn what has really been going on in Washington and nothing will ever be the same after this.

The Washington Post is attempting to put the activities of Musk and his team in a negative light, because the Post stands to lose quite a bit of revenue as their government contracts get canceled. But millions upon millions of ordinary Americans are thrilled about what Musk and his team are doing, because we are finally learning what has really been going on behind the scenes.

I have written quite a bit about FEMA’s failures in North Carolina and elsewhere. Hopefully the Trump administration can get that agency back on the right track, because there are lots of people out there that still need help. On the other hand, USAID appears to be hopelessly corrupt and needs to be shut down permanently. This is an agency that was run by a woman that saw her net worth soar by 23.3 million dollars while she was making a salary of just $180,000 a year…

Officials at the Treasury openly admit that about a billion dollars in fraudulent payments are going through their system every week. That is a bombshell. So who is receiving those payments? If the truth about that comes out, it will be one of the biggest news stories of the decade. Our government has literally been hemorrhaging money, and at this moment we don’t know who has been stealing it.

But the fact that the Democrats are working so hard to cover this up is extremely suspicious.

You may wonder why USAID was selected first, and that is a story in itself. Trump decided to pause Foreign Aid for 90 days -- reasonable enough. A couple days later the White House said this USAID leadership was trying to circumvent this Executive Order. That alerted the DOGE team and Elon confirmed this on X. He said all DOGE did was "check to see which Federal Agency was violating Trump's orders the most and that turned out to be USAID, so that became our focus."

The Times of Israel noted: "Three hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, attack were released by Hamas on Saturday, with the men looking gaunt and unsteady on their feet as they were released by the terror group, 16 months after they were kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri and the Nova music festival. Eli Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, all appeared extremely thin and frail, and while they were able to walk, seemed to be unsteady on their feet. Sharabi and Levy were coming home to a tragic new reality — Sharabi’s wife and two teenage daughters were murdered on October 7, and Levy’s wife was also killed that day.

Israel slammed CNN for attempting to compare the Israeli civilians to Palestinian terrorists in a headline that read: “Three Israeli hostages appear in poor health. Many Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel have also seemed emaciated upon release.”

Israel’s Government Press Office (GPO) provided a screenshot of the CNN article, together with a statement: The GPO condemns any attempt by the media to establish a comparison and/or symmetry between the hostages, who were abducted from their homes in a brutal terrorist attack and held in starvation for a long period, and convicted terrorists that were serving their sentences in Israeli prisons. A narrative comparing hostages and prisoners runs contrary to every ethical standard of journalism.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also issued a statement: “We have again seen the monsters of Hamas. These are the same monsters who slaughtered our citizens and abused our hostages. I say to them again: They will pay the price.” Netanyahu, responding from the US, where he has been visiting since last Sunday, also cited President Donald Trump’s support for freeing all of the hostages and destroying Hamas.

With Russian occupation controlling less than 20% of Ukraine’s mineral resources, including roughly half of its rare earth deposits, Zelenskyy told Reuters that Moscow could potentially strike deals with North Korea and Iran. “We need to stop Putin and protect what we have — a very rich Dnipro region, central Ukraine,” Zelenskyy told the outlet.

So, in the runup to the February 23rd vote, the manipulated masses went out ‘against the right’, but, as a Bild report tells us: “What only a few people know: The organizers of these demos are often (co-)financed by taxpayers’ money. This was first reported by the news portal ‘Nius’. In some cases, even politicians and their networkers are behind the demo associations!”

“American weapons programs need to be completely redone. The current strategy is to build a small number of weapons at a high price to fight yesterday’s war. Unless there are immediate and dramatic changes made, America will lose the next war very badly,” Musk wrote on X. The billionaire has long been a vocal critic of inefficiencies within the US defense sector, arguing that excessive bureaucracy and outdated military strategies undermine national security.

Speaking at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York in February, Musk emphasized the transformative impact of drones and artificial intelligence (AI) on warfare, citing the Ukraine conflict as a prime example.

“The current war in Ukraine is very much a drone war already,” Musk noted. “If there’s a major power war, it’s very much going to be a drone war.” He called for increased investment in drone production and a significant acceleration in manufacturing, warning against the pitfalls of preparing for past conflicts instead of future ones. “Countries pretty much are geared up to fight the last war, not the next war,” Musk cautioned.

Earlier this year, The Guardian highlighted how Russian and Ukrainian troops now engage each other from miles away using swarms of First Person View (FPV) drones. These small but lethal devices, equipped with explosives, have fundamentally changed the nature of combat. “It’s like the job of a sniper,” Ukrainian soldier Dima told the British outlet while showing a video on his phone. The footage depicted an FPV drone “patiently” tracking a Russian soldier before striking with lethal precision.

Advancements in drone technology have resulted in no safe places in conflict zones. The accessibility and effectiveness of these devices have democratized air power. They enable any military unit, even those without traditional air force support, to execute precision strikes. Samuel Bendett, a drone expert at the Center for Naval Analyses, pointed out that FPVs transitioned from novelty in 2022 to primary offensive tool by 2023, effectively dominating the tactical landscape today.

Drones are the ideal weapon for guerrilla forces because of their speed, ability to operate at night, range of up to 12 miles, and extremely low operating costs. As a result, nothing on the battlefield is entirely safe. Drones compel armored vehicles to move quickly and reduce the time that troops can remain in one location. Additionally, they’ve rendered many conventional military tactics obsolete.

“Mothership drones” shooting drones against other drones. One of the newest battlefield strategies involves the use of “mothership drones.” These are large unmanned aerial vehicles designed to carry and deploy smaller kamikaze drones during flight. This approach extends the operational range of FPV drones, allowing them to be released behind enemy lines without depleting their limited battery life before reaching their targets.

Ukraine has developed FPV drones capable of firing double-barreled shotguns, enabling them to engage Russian drones in aerial combat. Despite challenges with recoil, engineers have improved the drones’ stability, allowing them to fire multiple shots without losing control. A recent video demonstrated one of these drones shooting down three Russian drones before targeting an enemy soldier on the ground.