Trump to End Funding for Hamas Front Group UNRWA, Pull US from UN Human Rights Council

President Trump is set to slash U.S. funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) over its reported ties to Hamas and pull the U.S. out of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The executive order is expected to be signed Tuesday when Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Key Details:
Trump previously halted UNRWA funding in 2018, citing concerns over its alleged support for Hamas, but Biden restored it.
The HRC has long been criticized for its anti-Israel bias, with Trump previously withdrawing the U.S. in 2018.
The move follows revelations that UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack against Israel.
Diving Deeper:
President Donald Trump is taking decisive action to sever U.S. support for two controversial UN entities, cutting funding for UNRWA and withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. The expected executive order, set to be signed Tuesday, coincides with Trump's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The decision comes in response to revelations that multiple UNRWA employees were involved in the brutal October 7 Hamas terror attack against Israel. Reports from both Israeli intelligence and international media indicated that several UNRWA staffers played direct roles in the planning and execution of the assault. Following Israeli pressure, UNRWA dismissed 10 of the 12 employees involved, while the other two were confirmed dead.
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The UN Human Rights Council has also drawn criticism for its disproportionate scrutiny of Israel. During Trump's first term, the U.S. exited the council in protest of its anti-Israel stance.
While the Biden administration acknowledged the HRC's flaws, it argued that maintaining a presence would allow the U.S. to advocate for reforms. Then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken justified the decision to rejoin, stating, "The UN Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won't fix it."

My only worry about the latter move is this -- and I don't even know the answer to this question. Does the US have some kind of veto on the Human Rights Council that we lose if we exit the corrupt group?

If we don't, then f*** 'em.

More dirt on USAID:

🚨RUBIO: USAID rife with “rank insubordination” — “we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control."

"They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S. government agency...they're completely unresponsive. They… pic.twitter.com/LQOKRDUlBk
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 4, 2025

When USAID staff heard that Musk's team was coming, says a contractor receiving money from the CIA Marxist slush-fund, they took down their Pride flags (which Trump's EO ordered them to do, but which they were resisting) and hid their "incriminating books."

This is what a USAID "contractor" says, trying to show the organization to be good.

ABC actually aired a USAID employee's description of the scramble as DOGE rolled up to the office, and their hurried removal of woke iconography a la the documents burning scene in Downfall:

"@DOGE was in the building. We started -- we took down our pride flags, we took down- I… pic.twitter.com/gSsx3H6Mgc
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 4, 2025

This data analyst found the network of shell companies that fund Bill Kristol's "Defending Democracy Together" partisan psyop group. What USAID does is give grants to some clean (or clean-er) organizations, who then grant money to less clean organizations, who then grant money to dirty organizations, who ultimately grant money to leftwing/Marxist groups who were always the intended recipient of the money, but the CIA wanted to maintain plausible deniability.

This is all a money laundering operation to allow the CIA to pay money to US agents to run political operations against the population of the US.

Here's what the convoluted funding scheme for Kristol's "Defending Democracy Together" looks like, starting with the original grant. I believe each of the numbers is the numerical designation for some "nonprofit" NGO.

And they all act together to pay off Bill Kristol to run CIA ops against the duly elected president of the United States:

48 vCPUs are throttled curating the USAID grant network for every single EIN, will take a while (~12 hours). Which is fine, it gives @watilo time to prettify it in the morning.

Blame the federal government for creating such computational complexity.

But here's a teaser - this… pic.twitter.com/a8v2ERxxXC
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 4, 2025

That's how USAID funded the Wuhan lab -- they sent money to a "clean" recipient, the University of California, who then laundered the money to a less-clean recipient, Fauci's buddy's "EcoHealth Alliance," who then sent the money where it was always intended to go, the Chinese bioweapon lab in Wuhan.

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
I met with a range of people in New York this week, from right-wing anons to establishment-left reporters. The sense is that the Left will concede on DEI--smart liberals consider it a failure--but they are panicking about the idea of defunding the NGOs. That will be the fight.

Razib Khan
@razibkhan
the NGOs employ a lot of people who have worked there for decades. it's multi-generational employment that goes back to the NGOs long-ago seeded by the ford foundation. DEI employment was a new racket
also, NGOs are how the cultural left actualizes soft power

Cernovich
@Cernovich
It's a sinecure and soft landing. Democrats go into staffing jobs at the White House. Then they go back to their cozy, no-show-no-work mafia style "jobs." This is why Democrats are always ready to go on day 1. Their bench is ready to go in. Nobody had real businesses to unwind.

Mike Benz reveals that USAID pays more to George Soros' Tides Center -- which fomented Black Lives Matter and pays to get leftwing, pro-crime prosecutors elected -- than George Soros himself pays.

We've been blaming George Soros for paying for pro-crime prosecutors. The joke's on us! We've been paying for those prosecutors all along, through USAID!

pic.twitter.com/8G2qzg4G05
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025

He also says that USAID funded "disinformation" organizations to eliminate "populist" news sites from the media, because populists reduce trust in the leftwing media organizations they're propping up.

How can this not be criminal!?!?

Benz says that Alexandria Donkey-Chompers' rise from obscurity to sitting congresspyrsyn was funded by, get this, USAID, which pumps money into "justice and democracy" groups which then fund socialist groups in the US like the "Justice Democrats" (who then picked AOC out of 10,000 contestants to run for Congress).

Case in point: AOC, promoting USAID all over X today, actually came from a USAID program in college to jumpstart her miracle political career. https://t.co/imxyVTt3H3 pic.twitter.com/EnzReCYHM8
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 3, 2025

🚨Mike Benz EXPOSES AOC as a "USAID creation" pushing to keep their corrupt cash flowing:

"She's a USAID creation. They teach you the ways open political doors for you. AOC uses her perch in Congress to keep the USAID money flowing. She's in the club." pic.twitter.com/hRvAvsIDey
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 4, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 My only worry about the latter move is this -- and I don't even know the answer to this question. Does the US have some kind of veto on the Human Rights Council that we lose if we exit the corrupt group?

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My question:

Does it matter?

What does the UN do when countries violate its dictates?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

2 Top ten

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (UaEio)

3 🚨RUBIO: USAID rife with �rank insubordination� � �we had no choice but to take dramatic steps to bring this thing under control."

"They have basically evolved into an agency that believes that they're not even a U.S. government agency...they're completely unresponsive. They� pic.twitter.com/LQOKRDUlBk

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 4, 2025

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A bureaucracy responding to the will of the voters as represented by their choice for president through the Electoral College is the end of democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

4 Man i def did not have Little Marco turns into "Gandalf The Motherfucker SoS" on my 2025 bingo card

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (HYKHz)

5 maybe first but i noodled

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (CWTWj)

6 I have no sympathy or money for people who prefer to stay refugees since 1946.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2025 03:33 PM (D45I8)

7 Every day is Christmas morning.

Every day is Christmas morning, and Steak and BJ Day

Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 03:33 PM (D0HYP)

8 >>What does the UN do when countries violate its dictates?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:31 PM

Send in the blue helmets to rape women and children?

Posted by: huerfano at February 04, 2025 03:33 PM (n2swS)

9 I would feel better if we pulled out of the UN completely.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:33 PM (/U5Yz)

10 8 >>What does the UN do when countries violate its dictates?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:31 PM

Send in the blue helmets to rape women and children?
Posted by: huerfano at February 04, 2025 03:33 PM (n2swS)

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No, I said "when a country violates their dictates", not "for fun and profit."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

11 "We took down our pride flag..."

LOL

Posted by: front toward enemy at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (UaEio)

12 The daily Trump caused Erections are starting to lose their fun.

Posted by: Boner at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (+oR7L)

13 Every day is Christmas morning.

Oh well, guess I gotta go drag out the decorations I just put away

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (WHicP)

14 REEEEeeeEEEE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (nrpZ6)

15 Hasn't this been known for decades? I seem to remember Follow the Networks.

The Left literally lives on the taxes of the people they are trying to enslave.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (aD39U)

16 Barky will be heartbroken

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (fwDg9)

17 "Advocate for reforms."

Sure.

Just like in high school student council.

Posted by: PJ at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (RRCAT)

18 Burn it down.

Scatter the ashes.

Salt the Earth were it stood.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (9mfKN)

19 Make the UN building on Turtle Bay it's own country. They have to show their passports to enter and leave.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (D45I8)

20 Pull out of the UN.

Kick them out of our country.

Convert the UN HQ to an indoor shooting range for 2A-loving Americans.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 03:35 PM (rEVe+)

21 Admit it, Trump is exceeding our wildest expectations. He is a nuclear shockwave.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 04, 2025 03:36 PM (pohLc)

22 Willowed, it looks like Kristol got $4,351,200 from USaid according to data republican, if I read the graph right.
Now to read post

Posted by: From about That Time at February 04, 2025 03:36 PM (4780s)

23 This is just one pull of the string. Can't wait until DOGE starts to unravel the EPA. The environmental social justice warriors are dug in like ticks at the EPA. Should be fun!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 04, 2025 03:36 PM (wrXPz)

24 Does the US have some kind of veto on the Human Rights Council that we lose if we exit the corrupt group?

The UN Veto is only for UN Security Council resolutions.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 03:36 PM (D0HYP)

25 >>> This is all a money laundering operation to allow the CIA to pay money to US agents to run political operations against the population of the US.

I'm so glad to hear you say that.

I've been hesitant to put it so starkly, because it sounds like an alex jones rant, but I have become fairly convinced in the last few years that the intelligence community is the biggest danger in the deep state and that they are pulling the strings to just about everything behind the scenes. With our money, of course.

I've been reading everything I can about Allen Dulles and the early days of the CIA. (Mostly because they'll admit to stuff from that time and the JFK assassination mania + church committee hearings shook loose a LOT of info from that era).

I think I'm firmly a conspiracy theorist now.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:36 PM (uCjyK)

26 I wonder how loser scrunt Nikki Haley is feeling today?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (/U5Yz)

27 This entire post by ace is filled with excellent items!

In addition to all the other articles that have been a roll call of one excellent news item after another…that I still have to go back and read.

It’s only 2 weeks since Inauguration Day and already so much meaningful change is taking place

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (WHicP)

28 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (6K6Eu)

29 This is all good and Trump is doing exactly what we voted him in to do, but.......

Everything he is doing can be undone by EO with a democrat president.

We have to figure out a way to stop doing this crap to ourselves every 4 years. Governing by executive orders is not sustainable.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (Rcnd3)

30 I used to believe Donkey Chompers was a stupid true believer. Now I know she's just a stupid tool who wants money.

It's so disappointing. I'm not even angry at her, just sad.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (GD2xa)

31 This data analyst found the network of shell companies that fund Bill Kristol's "Defending Democracy Together" partisan psyop group
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I thought they banned DDT

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (7Hjh9)

32 They will try to murder Trump again. Of this, I am sure.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (aD39U)

33 UNWRA is deeply corrupt and has been revealed over and over to be Hamas allies, even members of it ACTING AS TERRORISTS. We should have pulled out of that long ago.

Honestly the US should kick the UN out of the USA and pull out of it. Let them survive on EU money and support LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (2VST1)

34 All UN leads to anti-Semitism.

You can't have 1 of G ds chosen people and the other of His chosen people where A is successful society and B is not.

Posted by: Rhennigantx at February 04, 2025 03:38 PM (ZgqHX)

35 Make the UN building on Turtle Bay its own country.
Posted by: Anna Puma

It's already an international condominium, not considered US soil.

But I say we invade and reclaim it. Kick the globalist weenies out.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 03:38 PM (77rzZ)

36 Darn it. Read the content.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 04, 2025 03:38 PM (JfxgE)

37 That's the weird thing about commies. The truest believers are the fakest ones.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 03:38 PM (7Hjh9)

38 Yep.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 04, 2025 03:38 PM (6K6Eu)

39 The nice thing is now we know more about this web than the recipients do. They can't even defend it. So if we feel like suspending them while they reform they could never get it back quickly.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:38 PM (n7h9X)

40 Man i def did not have Little Marco turns into "Gandalf The Motherfucker SoS" on my 2025 bingo card
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (HYKHz)

Be careful of his forked tongue.

He's using language that suggests he's there to repair these organizations, not tear them down.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (IUr7k)

41 the NGOs employ a lot of people who have worked there for decades
......

Needs moar Two Bobs.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

42 21 Admit it, Trump is exceeding our wildest expectations. He is a nuclear shockwave.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

He needs some 2A EO's signed. Can't wait on the SCROTUS who seems to be kicking the magazine can down the road.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (/U5Yz)

43 By the way I think that all of Trump's nominees will be affirmed, all of them. The only one that probably would not have been is Cruz.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (2VST1)

44 We have met the enemy; and they is us...."-Pogo (God, I'm old)

Posted by: pahound at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (cgX8k)

45 Rubio could have been describing a demon - possessed person

DOGE - Department of Government Exorcism

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (nrpZ6)

46 While the Biden administration acknowledged the HRC's flaws, it argued that maintaining a presence would allow the U.S. to advocate for reforms. Then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken justified the decision to rejoin, stating,"The UN Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won't fix it."

Okay, please list all the changes to UNRWA that you implemented during the Biden administration. I'll wait.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (xCA6C)

47 4 Man i def did not have Little Marco turns into "Gandalf The Motherfucker SoS" on my 2025 bingo card
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (HYKHz)

I had "Little Marco grows up to be a Sith Lord."

If I get Linda McMahon whacks Randi Weingarten with a folding chair I get a BINGO.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (ccxKv)

48 43 By the way I think that all of Trump's nominees will be affirmed, all of them. The only one that probably would not have been is Cruz.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (2VST1)

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Gaetz?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

49 I think I'm firmly a conspiracy theorist now.

you're crazy not to be one these days

Posted by: brak at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (jGJov)

50 How many gifts do you get for Hanukkah?

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (vQCgN)

51 >>> Every day is Christmas morning.

Oh well, guess I gotta go drag out the decorations I just put away
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (WHicP)

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IKR? (As my kids say)

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (JfxgE)

52 Has asshat Mike Johnson said anything about this?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (Vh9CX)

53 Rubio is excellent with the script. When things lead away from the scrip he gets weaker. That's how Trump smushed him in the debates. Rubio will get better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (DvLTT)

54 How many UNWRA employees directly participated in the 10/7 attack. How many UNWRA employees acted as prison guards of the kidnapped Israelis? I'm over the moon we've ended our support of those evil fucks.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (Odg76)

55 35 Make the UN building on Turtle Bay its own country.
Posted by: Anna Puma

It's already an international condominium, not considered US soil.

But I say we invade and reclaim it. Kick the globalist weenies out.
Posted by: Bulg at February

Turn off the water, electricity, and sewage systems.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)

56 I used to believe Donkey Chompers was a stupid true believer. Now I know she's just a stupid tool who wants money.

It's so disappointing. I'm not even angry at her, just sad.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (GD2xa)

She was always just the front man. When she won the primary the Dems quickly bought off her handlers. Now she's just a 'fundraiser' which probably comes from USAID for her to launder.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (n7h9X)

57 And they all act together to pay off Bill Kristol to run CIA ops against the duly elected president of the United States:

I think by now we’ve all figured out that Legacy Media is pretty much an op. Oh sure, there’s a couple 2 or 3 rubes they hire as ringers, who believe they’re really truly journalizing. Trump was so right when he called them the Enemy of the People.

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (WHicP)

58 UN building as Section 8 housing

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (D45I8)

59 This really is Trump's third term. After he was elected the second time he took a four year vacation to plan and let the pieces fall into place for his third term. Biden was just a placeholder.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (vFG9F)

60 Trump needs to attack the foundations.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (rJ48h)

61 Then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken justified the decision to rejoin, stating, "The UN Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won't fix it."
.......

Let the Euroweenies "fix" it.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

62 We have to figure out a way to stop doing this crap to ourselves every 4 years. Governing by executive orders is not sustainable.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (Rcnd3)

I don't know how to unravel what is most likely almost 100 years of corruption and shenanigans.

It's a real problem. Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)

63
1. Withdraw from the UN and kick them all out
2. Demolish the UN Building and build a Big Beautiful Trump Memorial Hotel
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (QhVNb)

64 I always figured Antifa was a taxpayer-funded organization.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (i82PB)

65 Turn off the water, electricity, and reverse thesewage systems.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)
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Edited for cruelty.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (6K6Eu)

66 30 I used to believe Donkey Chompers was a stupid true believer. Now I know she's just a stupid tool who wants money.

It's so disappointing. I'm not even angry at her, just sad.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (GD2xa)

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If you can't believe in cold hard cash, what can you believe in?

Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (ccxKv)

67 I used to believe Donkey Chompers was a stupid true believer. Now I know she's just a stupid tool who wants money.

There is no inherent contradiction between being a true believer and being a stupid tool who wants money. In fact, they kind of go together.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (xCA6C)

68 I wonder how loser scrunt Nikki Haley is feeling today?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (/U5Yz)

Go to her OnlyFans page, toss her a fiver and ask her yourself. You might need an extra five for her to diddle her bean though.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (IUr7k)

69 Rubio is excellent with the script. When things lead away from the scrip he gets weaker. That's how Trump smushed him in the debates. Rubio will get better.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (DvLTT)

Just wait til he gets let loose on Cuba.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (MGB5H)

70 56 I used to believe Donkey Chompers was a stupid true believer. Now I know she's just a stupid tool who wants money.

It's so disappointing. I'm not even angry at her, just sad.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (GD2xa)

She was always just the front man. When she won the primary the Dems quickly bought off her handlers. Now she's just a 'fundraiser' which probably comes from USAID for her to launder.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (n7h9X)

Yeah. And she's hardly alone. For example, look at the other 434 Congresscritters. I would imagine somewhere around 430 of them were similarly "advanced" in their careers by dark money that likely started it's life as taxpayer money.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (uCjyK)

71 UN Headquarters should be the site of the Donald J Trump Presidential Library and Museum. Is there enough room for Trump Force One to be on display?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (szWen)

72 Pull out of the UN.

Kick them out of our country.

Convert the UN HQ to an indoor shooting range for 2A-loving Americans.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
_______

My mom was a Bircher. I recall getting dragged along to meetings about getting the US out of the UN, and fluoride in the water. Turns out they were right about a lot of shit.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (Dm8we)

73 Trump's saying he's going to abolish the Department of Education. I'm excited to see how he does it!

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (Odg76)

74 Just wait til he gets let loose on Cuba.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM

I remember when Al Jolsen ran amok at the Winter Carnival.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (aD39U)

75 It all needs the cleansing flame of high-intensity light.

Preferably nuclear-powered.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (wtvvX)

76 The fact that a lunk head like AOC could be groomed for higher office shows these agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yet she's in Congress, showing that a large movement of stupid people is a powerful force

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (U/Wlk)

77
Go to her OnlyFans page, toss her a fiver and ask her yourself. You might need an extra five for her to diddle her bean though.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (IUr7k)

If her hubby is out of town she'll pay you.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (MGB5H)

78 "Human Rights" council has been monstrous for years. We should have left long ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (wyMQY)

79 76 The fact that a lunk head like AOC could be groomed for higher office shows these agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yet she's in Congress, showing that a large movement of stupid people is a powerful force
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (U/Wlk)

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Smart, independent people make terrible figureheads.

They get ideas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

80 This is all a money laundering operation to allow the CIA to pay money to US agents to run political operations against the population of the US.

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How much is the line item for Cabin Boy Cruises?

AHOY!

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (QhVNb)

81 What does the UN do when countries violate its dictates?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

Make speeches in the General Assembly, send sternly worded letters and money to the violators.

The usual.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (hB7mE)

82 UNWRA is deeply corrupt and has been revealed over and over to be Hamas allies, even members of it ACTING AS TERRORISTS. We should have pulled out of that long ago.

Honestly the US should kick the UN out of the USA and pull out of it. Let them survive on EU money and support LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (2VST1)

no, no. We need to make a "world city" for them to meet in, untainted by any particular country, especially the evil US. I think Devil's Island is suitable.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (n7h9X)

83 My mom was a Bircher. I recall getting dragged along to meetings about getting the US out of the UN, and fluoride in the water. Turns out they were right about a lot of shit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Yep. Buckley was the GOPe tool who kicked them to the curb.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

84 64 I always figured Antifa was a taxpayer-funded organization.
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (i82PB)

I have zero doubt that taxpayer money is used to fund the rent a mobs / street brawlers that the deep state turns on and off at their whim.

Remember how antifa went from constant arson and mayhem to disappearing 100% off the scene overnight when Trump "lost" the 2016 election?

Weird, right?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (uCjyK)

85 Trump's saying he's going to abolish the Department of Education. I'm excited to see how he does it!
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (Odg76)

In his first term he asked every sec to provide him a plan to close down their department and if it couldn't be to explain why and how to pare it down. Only DeVoss of Ed provided a plan.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (MGB5H)

86 I always said those Pride Flags were no different than the Nazi swastika flags. Government agencies putting them up all over the place to show the plebs who really was in control.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (Vh9CX)

87 >>> Pull out of the UN.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

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Um, phrasing?

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (JfxgE)

88 I've said for a while that all the crazy shit leftists do is being paid for by the US taxpayer and here it is in black and white

Posted by: Muhammed Muhammed Muhammed at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (t0Rmr)

89 It's true, Ike was a soviet agent.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (aD39U)

90 Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?

you take the corrupt officials, burn out their eyes with a hot poker, and then castrate them and keep them around as an example to the others

Posted by: Byzantines at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (jGJov)

91 At this point, we're more conspiracy experimentalists.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (+iIV1)

92 Yep. Buckley was the GOPe tool who kicked them to the curb.
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

Buckley also had close ties to the CIA, and I imagine was a big proponent of USAID (although I don't know that for sure).

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (uCjyK)

93 Trump gets a statue 1000 feet high made from the bones of our enemies.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (pohLc)

94 Space Daddy: I love America. I loved every bit of jingoistic propaganda. I believed it all hook, line, and sinker.

Now, let's make it real.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (w6EFb)

95 My mom was a Bircher. I recall getting dragged along to meetings about getting the US out of the UN, and fluoride in the water. Turns out they were right about a lot of shit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (Dm8we)

When I was 4 or 5, I remember my dad hosting a couple of John Birch meetings in our living room. Lots of Korean war vets there.

Destroying them was probably the first big move by the deep state to erase actual opposition and install controlled opposition, led by WF Buckley. (talked a big game, never did shit)

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (wyMQY)

96 Willowed, it looks like Kristol got $4,351,200 from USaid according to data republican, if I read the graph right.
......

and he can't even afford to buy button-up shirts that fit?

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

97 Rubio is excellent with the script. When things lead away from the scrip he gets weaker. That's how Trump smushed him in the debates. Rubio will get better.

***********************

I suddenly understood why Trump picked him as SoS when I watched him do a press conference in El Salvador speaking in fluent Spanish

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (HYKHz)

98 90 Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?

you take the corrupt officials, burn out their eyes with a hot poker, and then castrate them and keep them around as an example to the others
Posted by: Byzantines at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (jGJov)

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Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

99 And we just started Week 3 of his Presidency today!!! Not even a month on yet.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (P2hmc)

100 The fact that a lunk head like AOC could be groomed for higher office shows these agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yet she's in Congress, showing that a large movement of stupid people is a powerful force
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (U/Wlk)

She got less than 20000 votes in the Primary to unseat the third most powerful Democrat in the House.

We should send some pretend Dems undercover to run in inner city primaries and unseat similarly lazy politicals.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (n7h9X)

101 That's the weird thing about commies. The truest believers are the fakest ones.

"Comrades!" Squealer cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.

Posted by: George O. at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (D0HYP)

102 So, that USAID stuff.

Where does it put us on the list of State-sponsors of state-sponsored-terrorism?

5th? 3rd? 1st?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (hB7mE)

103 97 I suddenly understood why Trump picked him as SoS when I watched him do a press conference in El Salvador speaking in fluent Spanish
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (HYKHz)

======

I remember him having to learn Spanish in 2016. I guess he kept at it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

104 It feels like Trump is picking up a gigantic flat rock.

Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (iziT8)

105 Ok, now I have to wonder about all those foreign donations that rolled into Democrat presidential candidates. Not a stretch to suggest that the bundlers in this country were the last stop for bulk USAID donations to foreign countries, repackaged through clean non-profits, and eventually ending up back in the US as $10 here $20 there....etc.

Posted by: Orson at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (dIske)

106 Enraging.

WTF was Bush? Did we hear Romney talking about USAID (maybe he did and I didn't hear it). What about McCain?
Only upright CIA guys were bitching about USAID. Joni Ernst was mad about it. And Mike Benz.

What an utter shame for all conservatives that never scratched enough of the service or didn't care to.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (PMtkd)

107 I used to believe Donkey Chompers was a stupid true believer. Now I know she's just a stupid tool who wants money.

This is true of any leftist that rises above street thug. At some level they believe what they say but really its just a way to get money and power.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (t0Rmr)

108 76 The fact that a lunk head like AOC could be groomed for higher office shows these agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yet she's in Congress, showing that a large movement of stupid people is a powerful force
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (U/Wlk)

She's exactly what they want. An idiot who loves to be in front of cameras and will do what she's told.

Like the rest of our politicians.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (uCjyK)

109
Wonder if the dem/left were anticipating that their USAID gravy train was about to be knocked over?
This is giving them major whim-whams.

Posted by: YIKES! at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (OgWfa)

110 An interesting note about another Bill Kristol-related organization: the State Democracy Defenders Fund is helping a group of 7 FBI agents who worked on the J6 persecutions press their lawsuit against the government to prevent their names being made public.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (7fVdQ)

111 Willowed, it looks like Kristol got $4,351,200 from USaid according to data republican, if I read the graph right.
......

and he can't even afford to buy button-up shirts that fit?
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

Do they even make them that large?

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (MGB5H)

112 Elon Xeeted:

I love America.

I loved every bit of jingoistic propaganda.

I believed it hook, line and sinker.

Now, let’s make it all real.

http://tiny.cc/3kv8001

The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (Odg76)

113 We need to keep the UN here so we can keep an eye them, spy even.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (vQCgN)

114 DEI employment was a new racket

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Make RICO Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (QhVNb)

115 Go to her OnlyFans page, toss her a fiver and ask her yourself. You might need an extra five for her to diddle her bean though.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (IUr7k)

If her hubby is out of town she'll pay you.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (MGB5H)

"Out of town," as in, hiding in the closet with a sock in his mouth, wearing a pair of her soiled panties.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (IUr7k)

116 > The sense is that the Left will concede on DEI--smart liberals consider it a failure--but they are panicking about the idea of defunding the NGOs. That will be the fight.
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This is why it is critical that the analysis of the money flow, from point to point, and to who's pockets it eventually goes into gets going mainstream. It has started, but there is a lot more that will be uncovered.

I said this before... what's being uncovered with the NGO's and grants that funnel monies into various coffers IS the deep state in action. It's their finance system. And everyone who's collecting a check on the side is a part of the problem. And you just know it's likely everyone in Congress...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (Q4IgG)

117 I don't know how to unravel what is most likely almost 100 years of corruption and shenanigans.

It's a real problem. Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (uCjyK)
==
As I think TJM mentioned the other day - its harder to build than to tear down. I think everything was built up to beat the Soviets, and when they did, it was like, we can keep doing this for fun and profit. Obama put it on steroids.

After all of this happens to cut all the spending and create empty shells, bills need to be advanced to eliminate the shells. That will make it even more difficult to replicate.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (GZYu7)

118 My mom was a Bircher. I recall getting dragged along to meetings about getting the US out of the UN, and fluoride in the water. Turns out they were right about a lot of shit.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (Dm8we)

Yep! Your mom was based. Fluoride is poison and the Feds have known for decades. It lowers IQs, which makes ideal for the deep state commies to use against a naive population.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (rEVe+)

119 Trump to End Funding for Hamas Front Group UNRWA, Pull US from UN Human Rights Council
—Ace
Every day is Christmas morning.

Please, Mr. President, we're tired of winning! Priprism is a real, and serious, health condition you're inflicting upon many of your male supporters. Maybe we could have a rest day? Or, keep doing the great work, but don't make any press announcements for a day?

Now, if only we could get the Left to shut the hell up for a day. Nothing more satisfying than the lamentations of the "womyn".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (ycI94)

120 Serious question, if we got rid of 90% of the 1.5 trillion spent on this bullshit then we could in fact get rid of the income tax?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (PMtkd)

121 >>>What does the UN do when countries violate its dictates?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
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They stomp their feet, they take to the podium, make resolutions and speeches condemning and threatening the violator.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (DvLTT)

122 Destroying them was probably the first big move by the deep state to erase actual opposition and install controlled opposition, led by WF Buckley. (talked a big game, never did shit)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (wyMQY)

yeah never got the Buckley love. Sneering at flyover country for decades while the only big accomplishment was demonizing conservatives.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (n7h9X)

123 104 It feels like Trump is picking up a gigantic flat rock.
Posted by: eleven
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Good Lord.. I read that as Trump showing the world his gigantic fat cock..

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (+ldAm)

124 This might be too much to hope for, but we need to make the Davey Crocket "Not yours to give" speech the guiding principle of all such spending.

No foreign aid should be given unless there is a direct benefit to US interests. No domestic aid should be given unless it meets the above principle in benefiting the overwhelming majority of citizens.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (TrcX/)

125 Willowed, it looks like Kristol got $4,351,200 from USaid according to data republican, if I read the graph right.
......

and he can't even afford to buy button-up shirts that fit?
Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

Do they even make them that large?

More importantly, do they make them for men?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (xCA6C)

126 The deep state reminds me of my ongoing war with the blackberry vines here. Thoroughly entwined, barbed and multi-rooted. Trump has his work cut out for him.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (3Po7H)

127 Ok, now I have to wonder about all those foreign donations that rolled into Democrat presidential candidates. Not a stretch to suggest that the bundlers in this country were the last stop for bulk USAID donations to foreign countries, repackaged through clean non-profits, and eventually ending up back in the US as $10 here $20 there....etc.

Bingo. And there are so many iterations of this, some kind of legal - consider teachers for example. The left runs on getting them money and a share is taken by their union which then gives it to the Dem pol that gave them money. Its a dirty, dirty system...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (t0Rmr)

128 We be justs finds out that these be cuts the Felon Trump is making will ends the Brattleboro FART Tube Progrem and the Skunks as Pets Website.

This bothers us and we be calls on Presdent Obama too dew something abouts this !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (yG1cI)

129 Yep. Buckley was the GOPe tool who kicked them to the curb.
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 03:45 PM (77rzZ)

Buckley was... wait for it.....

CIA

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (IUr7k)

130 Gaetz?

Thanks yeah

Gaetz. I'd have liked him in the role, but apparently congress hates him too much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (2VST1)

131 121 They stomp their feet, they take to the podium, make resolutions and speeches condemning and threatening the violator.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (DvLTT)

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And that's against countries that don't have $26 trillion in GDP and a one million strong military.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

132 Trump is kicking the deep state in the nuts here. Hornets nest analogy fits. Actually he's kicking the hornets in the nuts.

Posted by: Howie Feltersnatch at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (wj68n)

133
We unknowingly financed our own destruction.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (+oR7L)

134 As I think TJM mentioned the other day - its harder to build than to tear down. I think everything was built up to beat the Soviets, and when they did, it was like, we can keep doing this for fun and profit. Obama put it on steroids.

After all of this happens to cut all the spending and create empty shells, bills need to be advanced to eliminate the shells. That will make it even more difficult to replicate.
Posted by: Black JEM at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (GZYu7)

Also, the people and organizations involved can be.. dealt with. Harder to rebuild when someone jails/executes your senior leadership.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (rEVe+)

135 132 Trump is kicking the deep state in the nuts here. Hornets nest analogy fits. Actually he's kicking the hornets in the nuts.
Posted by: Howie Feltersnatch at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (wj68n)

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All they had to do was not call Trump a Russian stooge and fund the border wall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

136 71 UN Headquarters should be the site of the Donald J Trump Presidential Library and Museum. Is there enough room for Trump Force One to be on display?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (szWen)

It’ll be yuge, and gold-plated; the biggest plane you’ve ever seen.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (i82PB)

137 WTF was Bush? Did we hear Romney talking about USAID (maybe he did and I didn't hear it). What about McCain?
Only upright CIA guys were bitching about USAID. Joni Ernst was mad about it. And Mike Benz.

What an utter shame for all conservatives that never scratched enough of the service or didn't care to.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (PMtkd)

Uhh... Well, McCain, like Romney (and Rubio for that matter) served on the committee that ... oversees? Listens to? Works with? the CIA.

Obviously they are all fully aware of this.

And W's dad was the head of the CIA.

I mean, cmon. They all know. They all benefit from and support it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

138 It is lasting longer than 4 hours. Should I call a doctor?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (lKWwN)

139 >>>Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, "Dear God! What is that thing," will echo in your perfect ears.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO

======

The dread pirate Robert's would fit nicely in Trump's cabinet.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (JfxgE)

140 90 Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?

you take the corrupt officials, burn out their eyes with a hot poker, and then castrate them and keep them around as an example to the others
Posted by: Byzantines at February 04, 2025 03:46 PM (jGJov)

There was an example of ancient Assyria, where one of the kings was out on campaign when one of his brothers started plotting a palace coup, and got all of the officials in their capitol on his side. King get wind of it, marched back, and had his army go through the entire city and slaughter every official at any level they could find. Archeologists confirmed this story when they found a 2 year gap in Assyria's royal records during this kings reign, no one could be found to even write up the tax rolls or write any official records, he really had killled all of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (wyMQY)

141 Trump is turning over old rocks, and all the bugs are scrambling..........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (yG1cI)

142 Trump to End Funding for Hamas Front Group UNRWA, Pull US from UN Human Rights Council

The insanity of giving money to the Palis while they murdered, tortured and kidnapped Americans is mind blowing.

Literally the least thing a patriotic leader would have done is tell them all money is turned off until they return the hostages WITH those that took them.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

143 This USAID thing is incredible. It like you sent an invoice in and they simply paid. I guess the only magic part was discovering the invoicing portal. I

Posted by: Piper at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (pZEOD)

144 105 Ok, now I have to wonder about all those foreign donations that rolled into Democrat presidential candidates. Not a stretch to suggest that the bundlers in this country were the last stop for bulk USAID donations to foreign countries, repackaged through clean non-profits, and eventually ending up back in the US as $10 here $20 there....etc.
Posted by: Orson at February 04, 2025 03:47 PM (dIske)

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Hey, Kamala legit raised $100 million in 12 hours!!!!!

LOL.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (Vh9CX)

145 It feels like Trump is picking up a gigantic flat rock.
Posted by: eleven
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Good Lord.. I read that as Trump showing the world his gigantic fat cock..
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at February 04,

You gotta wait for the Super Bowl half time show for that.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (szWen)

146 Trump just now said he told Linda McMahon that he hopes she is ready to put herself out of a job. LOL

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (rj6Yv)

147 Buckley was... wait for it.....

CIA
Posted by: BurtTC

Doesn't surprise me at all.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

148 Please, Mr. President, we're tired of winning! Priprism is a real, and serious, health condition you're inflicting upon many of your male supporters. Maybe we could have a rest day? Or, keep doing the great work, but don't make any press announcements for a day?

======

RFKj going to make "chronic priapism" tops on his list now.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:52 PM (MGB5H)

149 Turn off the water, electricity, and reverse thesewage systems.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:40 PM (/U5Yz)
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Edited for cruelty.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar
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Nah. Recirculate raw sewage through the potable water pipes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 03:52 PM (/lPRQ)

150 We need to keep the UN here so we can keep an eye them, spy even.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (vQCgN)

Nothing important happens at the UN. If threre is a big event pending, everyone flies in the real diplomats for the purpose.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:52 PM (n7h9X)

151 132 Trump is kicking the deep state in the nuts here. Hornets nest analogy fits. Actually he's kicking the hornets in the nuts.

Posted by: Howie Feltersnatch at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM

Honey Badger don't care.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 03:52 PM (+oR7L)

152
Looks like the bail money for antifa dried up.

Posted by: YIKES! at February 04, 2025 03:52 PM (OgWfa)

153 Is this true?

This post claims Obama's ill-reputed mother was a "Consultant on International Development" for USAID from 1979-1980.

http://tiny.cc/hkv8001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (Odg76)

154 Trump................... RAMMING SPEED !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (A2iSa)

155 DataRepublican is pulling on the International Republican Institute thread now. John McCain used to run that. It was his little USAID slush fund to mess around in foreign countries.

All is being revealed. It is fucking glorious.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (w6EFb)

156 DREAD PIRATE TRUMP

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (nrpZ6)

157 Damn. I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (DobEs)

158 And W's dad was the head of the CIA.

I mean, cmon. They all know. They all benefit from and support it.

Bush senior was big on the new world order and one world government dream. USAID is their method of getting there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (2VST1)

159 Whoa. President Trump just did a takedown of the teachers' unions.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (rj6Yv)

160 And W's dad was the head of the CIA.

I mean, cmon. They all know. They all benefit from and support it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

on X someone was asking why we couldn't have a list of which congressmen were enriched by USAID. I answered "here's a hint, there's 435 of them in the House and 100 in the Senate."

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (wyMQY)

161 Hey, Kamala legit raised $100 million in 12 hours!!!!!
LOL.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

That was such transparent nonsense. Ugh.

Posted by: weft cut-Batman at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mlg/3)

162 The dread pirate Robert's would fit nicely in Trump's cabinet.
Posted by: Turn 2 at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (JfxgE)
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He's living like a king in Patagonia, I doubt we could drag him away.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (6K6Eu)

163 Someone needs to tell Rubio, et al that EVERY agency (and it's employees) acts like it's not a govt agency/govt employee. They've been doing their leftist work for decades with absolutely no oversight or push back. Most of us that work know that we could be let go at any time. Govt employees NEVER thought they'd be fired. Or have to answer about their actions. I hope once these agencies are disbanded and/or brought to heel, Trump makes it so they can never get that unchecked power back again.

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (69Ac1)

164 Literally the least thing a patriotic leader would have done is tell them all money is turned off until they return the hostages WITH those that took them.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (t0Rmr)

The Iranians also grabbed the Russian embassy in that 1979-80 crisis. In about 2 days the Russians told them to get out or there'd be hell to pay and they released all the prisoners and cleaned up the embassy.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (n7h9X)

165 If you ever watch an HGTV show like Property Brothers - we are in the demo phase of renovation

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (nrpZ6)

166 We unknowingly financed our own destruction.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 03:50 PM (+oR7L)

Some of us knew. But 10-15 years ago if you were right-wing and told people how the intelligence agencies and NGOs are run by America-hating communists people on the right called you a conspiracy theorist. “You’re against the Patriot Act? How can you be against our straight-shooting CIA and FBI agents? You must be a terrorist-lover!”

Same thing with the Iraq War. Some foklks reeeally thought the Bushes and Cheneys were on our side.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (rEVe+)

167 I wonder if there is anyone in the country more suited for the battle Trump has waged since 2015. I genuinely do.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (7Hjh9)

168 While the Biden administration acknowledged the HRC's flaws, it argued that maintaining a presence would allow the U.S. to advocate for reforms. Then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken justified the decision to rejoin, stating,"The UN Human Rights Council is flawed and needs reform, but walking away won't fix it."

Okay, please list all the changes to UNRWA that you implemented during the Biden administration. I'll wait.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 03:39 PM (xCA6C)

--------------

I'd be happy to see a list of changes that they just ADVOCATED for, let alone implemented.

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (NMT5x)

169 Kamala Harris should be the US Ambassador to Gaza and reside in the US Embassy in Gaza City........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (A2iSa)

170 All they had to do was not call Trump a Russian stooge and fund the border wall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

And they couldn't bring themselves to do it. Trump would be gone and some Dem would be President today, with their entire corrupt apparatus intact, if they just could have waited Trump out.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (P2hmc)

171 Well back to working on the Bf 109K-4, the Fw 190D-13, plus work on the two F-14s, and a B-26 Marauder.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (D45I8)

172 It appears team DOGE is interested in auditing the IRS now. Boy howdy that's going reveal more graft and corruption.
*popcorn*

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (/U5Yz)

173 Moar!

Been agitating for the US out of the UN since the 80s

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

174 What the actual fuck. This is a treasonous nest of subversives who need to be stood up against a wall and shot.

Every last one of them.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (7ydyJ)

175 I'll just say it again.

We should have known about this before Musk rolled in with his DOGE autists. All the liberals seemed to know about the slush fund and how to get paid.

Shows how worthless and lazy Republicans have been over the last few years. Should have been a top campaign issue.

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (4pwAx)

176 All of those numbers in the chart are the organizations' Tax ID numbers or EIN numbers.

Posted by: Crabgrass Farmer at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (CTUih)

177 Bring Out You Dead...

Bring Out You Dead.....

Bring Out You Dead...........

I am not Bloody Dead Yet !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (A2iSa)

178 Is this true?

This post claims Obama's ill-reputed mother was a "Consultant on International Development" for USAID from 1979-1980.

http://tiny.cc/hkv8001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:53 PM (Odg76)

Probably true. She fits the profile of who the CIA would recruit. Hung out with communists. Had a kid with a rich African. Married a guy in Indonesia.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (uCjyK)

179 Wiki says Ann Dunham worked for USAID:

To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. Dunham was also employed by the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and she consulted with the Asian Development Bank in Gujranwala, Pakistan

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (t0Rmr)

180 I want my taxes back. Trump needs to declare a 4 year tax holiday as reparations for all they stole from us.

Wait. How about abolish the IRS instead?

Posted by: Derak at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (U1fmc)

181 76 The fact that a lunk head like AOC could be groomed for higher office shows these agencies are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yet she's in Congress, showing that a large movement of stupid people is a powerful force
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 03:44 PM (U/Wlk)

At least she has a little bit going for her in the looks dep't. David Hogg is the kind of guy who gives scraping the bottom of the barrel a bad name.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (wyMQY)

182 on X someone was asking why we couldn't have a list of which congressmen were enriched by USAID. I answered "here's a hint, there's 435 of them in the House and 100 in the Senate."
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (wyMQY)

I freakin' guarantee Tom Massie wasn't getting a dime from them. Or Rand Paul.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (IUr7k)

183 121 >>>What does the UN do when countries violate its dictates?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
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They stomp their feet, they take to the podium, make resolutions and speeches condemning and threatening the violator.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 03:49 PM (DvLTT)

What amuses me is that WE are the biggest violators of UN Rules for the last 40 years.

Invading UN member states without a Security Council resolution, or clear self defense, is against the UN Treaty that WAS ratified by the Senate, giving it the power of US Law.

Yet, Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? All the African Countries we have troops in? (that the media ignores)...

Hell, we are directly attacking Russia with US made Missiles, using US Personnel and US Satellites for mid course guidance... yet UN... pretty dang silent.

UN is like the League of Nations... worthless.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (QAkQ3)

184 93 Trump gets a statue 1000 feet high made from the bones of our enemies.

spitting flame and shouting "REMEMER ME"?

Posted by: bender "bending" rodriguez at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (oY6Yp)

185 >> I hope once these agencies are disbanded and/or brought to heel, Trump makes it so they can never get that unchecked power back again.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It’s on us to physically remove the communists and never let them back in. It’s up to us to teach the future generations.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (rEVe+)

186 Damn. Christmas morning indeed. You might wanna consider Rubio for a rifleman in your Marine Corps too, ace. That guy sounds born again hard...

Posted by: bearski at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (Bhsk7)

187 I know the Bushs' are garbage. Romney is a garbage person. McCain was a dumpster full of garbage.

Of course, they are on the take.

It's incredible to me that they didn't care at all that billions- most of the 1.5 trillion was going to lefty bullshit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (PMtkd)

188 Well back to working on the Bf 109K-4, the Fw 190D-13, plus work on the two F-14s, and a B-26 Marauder.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM

Anna, I need a wheel (main landing gear) for a really nice C-47 and some decals. Any idea on where to get some extra parts?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (4p0Xq)

189 161 Hey, Kamala legit raised $100 million in 12 hours!!!!!
LOL.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

That was such transparent nonsense. Ugh.
Posted by: weft cut-Batman at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (mlg/3)

That is a LOT of $20 transactions.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (9mfKN)

190 There has never been a government in the history of governments that wasn’t corrupt.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (7fVdQ)

191 Wonder if Congress will have the balls to ensure no NGO ever get taxpayer money again.

They can write it into a bill.

Will they? Doubt it.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (7ydyJ)

192 The digits in @datarepublican's chart re: Cap'n Bill are Employee Identification Numbers, AKA EINs, AKA Federal Tax ID numbers.

You get one from the IRS every time you start a company.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (BRvvM)

193 And W's dad was the head of the CIA.

I mean, cmon. They all know. They all benefit from and support it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

I just wish they'd gotten a little competent spying on our enemies done in during those 60 years

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (n7h9X)

194 It appears team DOGE is interested in auditing the IRS now. Boy howdy that's going reveal more graft and corruption.
*popcorn*
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (/U5Yz)

Wait til they find out how many IRS agents are deliquent on their taxes

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (MGB5H)

195 Posted by: bonhomme

Looks like it.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (vQCgN)

196
The Ford Foundation. That's another fraud/scam front.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (+oR7L)

197 We should have known about this before Musk rolled in with his DOGE autists. All the liberals seemed to know about the slush fund and how to get paid.

Shows how worthless and lazy Republicans have been over the last few years. Should have been a top campaign issue.

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (4pwAx)

I think it's really important that we don't focus on the partisan nature of this.

This is not about "liberals" and a "slush fund." This is about, essentially, a shadow government running our country.

Trust me, the R's are just as guilty as the D's. I think if we really looked in to it, our congresscritters would all be in jail.

Which is why it will never be really looked in to.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (uCjyK)

198 I'd be happy to see a list of changes that they just ADVOCATED for, let alone implemented.
Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (NMT5x)

They successfully instituted Taco Tuesday!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (wyMQY)

199 Note the CIA cutout that Ann Dunham worked for under USAID, DAI Global, later got caught with a spy in Cuba...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (t0Rmr)

200 Someone needs to tell Rubio, et al that EVERY agency (and it's employees) acts like it's not a govt agency/govt employee. They've been doing their leftist work for decades with absolutely no oversight or push back. Most of us that work know that we could be let go at any time. Govt employees NEVER thought they'd be fired. Or have to answer about their actions. I hope once these agencies are disbanded and/or brought to heel, Trump makes it so they can never get that unchecked power back again.
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at February 04, 2025 03:54 PM (69Ac1)

That's why I say keep an eye on Little Marco. I strongly suspect he's there to soften the landing for plenty of these folks.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (IUr7k)

201 Utah man says his friend told him he could dodge bullets after smoking weed (he could not)
A man was arrested for manslaughter after allegedly smoking marijuana with a friend and shooting him after the friend said he could 'dodge a bullet,' according to arrest documents.
. . . .
Ashton Jonathan Mann, 23, was arrested just after 4 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 2, on one count of second-degree felony manslaughter and one third-degree felony charge related to firearms.

-
Dude, you've got to smoke crack if you want to dodge bullets.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)

202 > I freakin' guarantee Tom Massie wasn't getting a dime from them. Or Rand Paul.

Hahahahahahahahaha.

*breaths*

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Yeah ok.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (7ydyJ)

203 Make Chuck Schumer keel over in a frothing fit, abolish the IRS.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (D45I8)

204 The Ford Foundation. That's another fraud/scam front.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (+oR7L)

Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation are / were at the center of a lot of this.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (uCjyK)

205 After the last few days I'm sure Limbaugh would be calling Trump, Donaldus Maximus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (U/Wlk)

206 197 Trust me, the R's are just as guilty as the D's. I think if we really looked in to it, our congresscritters would all be in jail.

Which is why it will never be really looked in to.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (uCjyK)

=======

With Trump gleefully going on like this, things should only get more interesting after Bondi is sworn in as AG.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

207 172 It appears team DOGE is interested in auditing the IRS now. Boy howdy that's going reveal more graft and corruption.
*popcorn*
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (/U5Yz)

Should probably be auditing the pentagon sooner rather than later.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (9mfKN)

208 It is lasting longer than 4 hours. Should I call a doctor?
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life
.......

Maybe a hot nurse?

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

209 That is a LOT of $20 transactions.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

We saved on bolume, bolume, walume... Rots and rots.

Posted by: The PRC ( inc ) at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (mlg/3)

210 Wait til they find out how many IRS agents are deliquent on their taxes
Posted by: BruceWayne

-----------------

"My nipples are at attention, General Musk, sir!"

Posted by: bearski at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (Bhsk7)

211 The reason no one has tackled this before is that they are all on the payroll. But deeper than that, it is a gordian knot.

And Trump/Musk slice like a fucking hammer.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (TrcX/)

212 Bush senior was big on the new world order and one world government dream. USAID is their method of getting there.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
__________

Not that I wont end up the same way, but wasn't there a mini controversy about him playing a little grab-ass when he was in a wheelchair towards the end?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (Dm8we)

213 175 I'll just say it again.

We should have known about this before Musk rolled in with his DOGE autists. All the liberals seemed to know about the slush fund and how to get paid.

Shows how worthless and lazy Republicans have been over the last few years. Should have been a top campaign issue.

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 03:55 PM (4pwAx

———

DOGE is basically a citizen audit of the government. I suspect this is why Trump fired all the IGs.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (Vh9CX)

214 Been agitating for the US out of the UN since the 80s
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

There was that one deputy UN Ambassador under Jeanne Kirkpatrick who said that if the UN wanted to leave the US, we'd be there on the dock waving to them as they sailed off. I think it was in response the Soviets complaining about the UN being here.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (77rzZ)

215 If you ever watch an HGTV show like Property Brothers - we are in the demo phase of renovation

But feels less gay than those dudes. I know they aren't, apparently but... feels gay bro.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 03:59 PM (2VST1)

216 Read DataRepublican's explanations of the obfuscating EINs vs UEI numbers. She's having to do address geolocation to tie the numbers to particular orgs.

It's an intentionally obfuscated mess.

150 GB of data.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (w6EFb)

217 It is lasting longer than 4 hours. Should I call a doctor?
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life
.......

Maybe a hot nurse?

If you want to sing karoke while said hot nurse attends to you I have just the Japanese came show for you...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (t0Rmr)

218 I freakin' guarantee Tom Massie wasn't getting a dime from them. Or Rand Paul.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (IUr7k)

Rand Paul, along with Newt Gingrich, lobbied California voters in favor of Proposition 47, the Soros-backed law that legalized shoplifting in CA. So I don’t think Paul is clean.

Massie probably is. Seems like the only decent person in Congress.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (rEVe+)

219 Can DOGE audit the Fed?

Posted by: mr tmz at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (rJ48h)

220 Trust me, the R's are just as guilty as the D's. I think if we really looked in to it, our congresscritters would all be in jail.

Which is why it will never be really looked in to.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

==

Everything I'm seeing so far is far left causes being funded.

I'm sure there's money transferring hands to fake Republicans, but it really looks 99 to 1 this was a Democrat slush fund.

Similar to ACORN.

Republicans never seem to be smart enough to get the government to fund conservative politics.

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (4pwAx)

221 With the Deep State, you either get carrot or stick

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (nrpZ6)

222 To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she created microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. Dunham was also employed by the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and she consulted with the Asian Development Bank in Gujranwala, Pakistan
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 03:56 PM (t0Rmr)

The microaid programs where hella successful and most all were paid back on schedule. They were like 25 dollars per person, one to a customer.

Now the Ford Foundation was probably there to kill it since I haven't heard about them for decades.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (n7h9X)

223 Hopefully these people are terminated with prejudice and can never work for the federal government or any entity doing business with it again.

That goes double for anyone accepting severance. We should make sure no civil service rules apply to these people and they are banned from government forever.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (7ydyJ)

224 Flashback to 2023:

Cash-strapped UN can't afford its heating bill
The U.N.'s Geneva headquarters scrimps on recruitment, electricity, and pizza.

Next logical step for the UN is cannibalism.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (/U5Yz)

225 You guys do realize that the people that are being fired and, let's face it, humiliated...are some of the most unhinged, narcissistic in unbalanced folks in the country.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the term "going postal" is going to be used quite a bit over the next four years.

Posted by: Orson at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (dIske)

226 I mean, cmon. They all know. They all benefit from and support it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:51 PM (uCjyK)

I just wish they'd gotten a little competent spying on our enemies done in during those 60 years
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (n7h

Oh Grasshopper, when you move to the highest level of consciousness you will see that all of our "enemies" have in fact always been our partners, and we have been theirs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (wyMQY)

227 Ya know who else has been trying to shut down money to the fakestinians? Smotrich, the finance minister of Israel. He is also working to restore Judea and Samaria to Israel.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (mB6WH)

228 Its like Christmas morning.... if Heather Thomas of 1986 appeared naked in my bedroom carrying a VCR with all the Super Bowls till 2000. The Red Oak my bed frame was made of could be considered a softwood by comparison.

Posted by: Fisht at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (BHEHK)

229
Surround The UN with the same wall that we're building along the Rio Grande. Have ICE and the Border Patrol put the single crossing point at the intersection of 1st and 42nd.

Have fun trying to get into the Queens-Midtown tunnel during rush hour, jackwagons.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (y9nCu)

230 71 UN Headquarters should be the site of the Donald J Trump Presidential Library and Museum. Is there enough room for Trump Force One to be on display?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 03:43 PM (szWen)

And the garbage truck!!!!

Posted by: Moki at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (wLjpr)

231 Trump is signing a directive imposing harsh penalties on Iran because of its nuclear weapons program.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (rj6Yv)

232 Everything I'm seeing so far is far left causes being funded.

I'm sure there's money transferring hands to fake Republicans, but it really looks 99 to 1 this was a Democrat slush fund.

Similar to ACORN.

Republicans never seem to be smart enough to get the government to fund conservative politics.
Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (4pwAx)

Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)

233 US AID has been a soup of villainy since the 60’s, it seems… they were involved with the CIA in lots of ops, globally.

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (PCK5/)

234 The thing is, the left has been in power so long, with such incompetent and corrupt people, that they've become incredibly sloppy and obvious... and they are now standing in the kitchen with their pants down holding the watermelon when the lights come on.

Not that I wont end up the same way, but wasn't there a mini controversy about him playing a little grab-ass when he was in a wheelchair towards the end?

Yeah but... that happens with very old people, they kind of lose their filter as their brain rots. I doubt he was a letch his whole life like, say, the Kennedys.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (2VST1)

235 Rush did use Donaldus Maximus. This time, Trump 2.0 is ....

Donaldus Augustus.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (w6EFb)

236 The microaid programs where hella successful and most all were paid back on schedule. They were like 25 dollars per person, one to a customer.

Now the Ford Foundation was probably there to kill it since I haven't heard about them for decades.

I thought some Turkish entrepreneur got a noble prize for doing this within the last 10 years or so.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (t0Rmr)

237 >>Rand Paul, along with Newt Gingrich, lobbied California voters in favor of Proposition 47, the Soros-backed law that legalized shoplifting in CA. So I don’t think Paul is clean.

Got a reliable cute for that, glowie?

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (7ydyJ)

238 225 You guys do realize that the people that are being fired and, let's face it, humiliated...are some of the most unhinged, narcissistic in unbalanced folks in the country.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think the term "going postal" is going to be used quite a bit over the next four years.

Posted by: Orson at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (dIske)

MAKE ASYLUMS GREAT AGAIN

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (wtvvX)

239 http://tiny.cc/3kv8001

The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Ethnic slur he used!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

240
Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID
Posted by: BruceWayne

==

So just like I said, fake Republicans.

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (4pwAx)

241 Trump makes my day, pretty much every day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (fYK4G)

242 "Utah man says his friend told him he could dodge bullets after smoking weed (he could not)
A man was arrested for manslaughter after allegedly smoking marijuana with a friend and shooting him after the friend said he could 'dodge a bullet,' according to arrest documents."

hahahaha

Remember that guy that thought a book could protect him from a bullet and had his gf shoot him?

I guarantee that was the only book he ever held in his life.

Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (iziT8)

243
Dude, you've got to smoke crack if you want to dodge bullets.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 03:58 PM (L/fGl)

------

The red pill! The RED. PILL!

Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (ccxKv)

244 Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)

Point of order: Miss Lindsey is definitely NOT “conservative politics.”

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (9mfKN)

245 BTW, now would be a good time to give thanks to God for answering our prayers last November.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (nrpZ6)

246 And every time that cash passes through another organization on it's way to its ultimate destination, some of it always sticks to the pass through organization

Posted by: Stacy0311 at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (wh7vU)

247 I'm sure there's money transferring hands to fake Republicans, but it really looks 99 to 1 this was a Democrat slush fund.

Basically, its a way of transferring money from US taxpayers to leftist activist organizations and politicians. I am certain that the Usual Suspects on the right are all recipients. Just as I am certain that USAID is far from the only such organization.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (2VST1)

248 Huh.

Men CAN have multiple orgasms.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (ky8PV)

249 Wasn't Miss Lindsey on the board of something called Institute for Republican Government? What was his stipend for that.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (U/Wlk)

250 Pot makes you dumb but not that dumb.

That was all homegrown.

Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (iziT8)

251 Trump just said that if he is assassinated by Iran, he has left a note to "obliterate' Iran.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (rj6Yv)

252 As for the complaints that "congress funded these programs" and the President can not just cancel them -- The constitution is pretty clear in giving ultimate responsibility to the President for foreign dealings, and USAID's charter was strictly foreign, so ipso facto it seems there is nothing the President can't do to end that viper's nest.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (TrcX/)

253 240
Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID
Posted by: BruceWayne

==

So just like I said, fake Republicans.
Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (4pwAx)

======

Joe Mannix made a good point.

Conservatives are RINOs. People like Lindsey Graham are the real Republicans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

254 It's not even really a question Trump will be shot again.

Probably by someone from the CIA inside the Oval Office. Won't even try and hide it. Dems will say "see, you shouldn't mess with the deep state"

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (4pwAx)

255 Its like Christmas morning.... if Heather Thomas of 1986 appeared naked in my bedroom carrying a VCR with all the Super Bowls till 2000.

you have a way with words, sir

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (2VST1)

256 Everything I'm seeing so far is far left causes being funded.

I'm sure there's money transferring hands to fake Republicans, but it really looks 99 to 1 this was a Democrat slush fund.

Similar to ACORN.

Republicans never seem to be smart enough to get the government to fund conservative politics.
Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (4pwAx)

A) This is but one agency, and obviously an R president is going to focus on the corruption on the D side publicly.

B) This is not and has never been about "right" and "left". This is about money and power. I guarantee you most if not all of the people getting funding for transgender belly dancers in India or whatever don't give a fuck about transgendered people or belly dancing and have probably never been to India.

It's just a way to move money around. They probably chuckle to themselves as they come up with ridiculous sounding grants because they're bored.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (uCjyK)

257 Well back to working on the Bf 109K-4, the Fw 190D-13

Are these Eduard kits?

Posted by: far cry at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (pYFEP)

258 "Total obliteration".

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (rj6Yv)

259 I guess I'm a little slow sometimes. I just didn't really grasp the level of waste in our government. It's truly shocking.

Posted by: Max Power at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (q177U)

260
The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Ethnic slur he used!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

He's African American. It's part of his culture.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (ccxKv)

261 It appears team DOGE is interested in auditing the IRS now. Boy howdy that's going reveal more graft and corruption.
*popcorn*

No doubt the entire problem is due to rogue elements in the Cincinnati office.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (xCA6C)

262 Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)

Point of order: Miss Lindsey is definitely NOT “conservative politics.”
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (9mfKN)

Well ya, just point out both sides of the "aisle" were enriching themselves greatly threw USAID kick backs and laundering.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (MGB5H)

263 Can DOGE audit the Fed?
Posted by: mr tmz

Congress will throw a shit-fit because of the legislation behind the Fed. Hopefully after barnstorming through the non-legislated agency/bureaus, they'll feel less inclined to actually stop it. No, I'm not advocating for retreat, just an understanding why Congress has no biz stopping the audit of things like USAID.

Posted by: The PRC ( inc ) at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (mlg/3)

264 "Every day is Christmas morning."

really feels like that, doesn't it?

I could get used to this; kinda like a New New Normal ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (KaBJL)

265 The Himan Rights Council??Nooo how will we transport our weapons in Red Cross vans?
- Harass Holes

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (jQ+5q)

266 I recall an interview with Tucker Carlson about a year ago talking about how all his friends and acquaintances were so against a Trump presidency. The epiphany for Tucker was when he realized (he really said this)..."My friends were all concerned about going to jail for what they have been doing and how they have been fleecing the country."

Posted by: Orson at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (dIske)

267 You might need an extra five for her to diddle her bean though. Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 03:42 PM (IUr7k)

I have not heard that slang before. It means to have vaginal sex with her? Touching her clitoris?. I learn all kinds of interesting things on ASHQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (MQJVv)

268 I just wish they'd gotten a little competent spying on our enemies done in during those 60 years
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (n7h9X)

I've read several books on Soviet spycraft, and it always amazed me how much better they were at it than the U.S. (and Britain). Seemed like they were always a step or two ahead of us, and not just because we had Soviet spies inside our "intelligence" agencies.

It has since become clear, it's more accurate to say the CIA wasn't bad at it, it's that their foreign spying was more or less just a cover for their domestic shenanigans.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (HWGxx)

269 Let's not "both sides to it" this thing.

It's being done. And yes, it skews radically left. But it's still being done.

Burn it all to the ground and salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (ky8PV)

270 239 http://tiny.cc/3kv8001

The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Ethnic slur he used!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

By Jingo, you're right!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (wyMQY)

271 263 Congress will throw a shit-fit because of the legislation behind the Fed. Hopefully after barnstorming through the non-legislated agency/bureaus, they'll feel less inclined to actually stop it. No, I'm not advocating for retreat, just an understanding why Congress has no biz stopping the audit of things like USAID.
Posted by: The PRC ( inc ) at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (mlg/3)

=======

"The president shall not know what's going on in executive agencies without Congress' say so," is rich coming from a legislative body that's been filling legislation with "The secretary in the executive branch shall make up whatever to fill in all the gaps we intentionally left in here" for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

272 BTW, now would be a good time to give thanks to God for answering our prayers last November.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM

Amen, great reminder!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (4p0Xq)

273 I have not heard that slang before. It means to have vaginal sex with her? Touching her clitoris?. I learn all kinds of interesting things on ASHQ.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (MQJVv)

Rubbin the fun button

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (MGB5H)

274 In my youthful days back in the 1980’s I remember I was just pretty optimistic all the time… this feels very similar.

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

275 15 Hasn't this been known for decades? I seem to remember Follow the Networks.

The Left literally lives on the taxes of the people they are trying to enslave.
___

Just like Billy Mack a detective down in Texas who knows exactly what the facts is.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (uCsh3)

276
Well ya, just point out both sides of the "aisle" were enriching themselves greatly threw USAID kick backs and laundering.
Posted by: BruceWayne
==

Who's squealing about the most about USAID getting shut down?

Sorry, I just don't see it as a "both sides" type scandal. Unless both sides means the usual known traitors getting their beak wet.

Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (4pwAx)

277 Let's not "both sides to it" this thing.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Yep, I loath fence jockeys.

Posted by: The PRC ( inc ) at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (mlg/3)

278 Miss Lindsay's net worth is supposedly only $1-2M. Which is reasonable on a Rep/Senator salary.

So if he was getting an extra $1M on top of this and still only has that much wealth I guess gay hookers cost more then I thought...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (t0Rmr)

279 259 I guess I'm a little slow sometimes. I just didn't really grasp the level of waste in our government. It's truly shocking.
Posted by: Max Power at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (q177U)

———-

Does this fall under waste, fraud, or abuse?

Again Mike Johnson is being pretty quiet about it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Vh9CX)

280 Flashback to 2023:

Cash-strapped UN can't afford its heating bill
The U.N.'s Geneva headquarters scrimps on recruitment, electricity, and pizza.
.....

and hookers. Don't forget the underage hookers.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

281 Weren't there all kinds of Obama Jesus photos and artwork going around when he was elected?

Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (ky8PV)

282 Lot of low hanging fruit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (L1HY4)

283 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

Maybe a better investment would have been if her parents used that $25,000 to pay to learn a skilled trade and start a business.

http://tiny.cc/klv8001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Odg76)

284 The “ clitoris” is mythical ir at least elusive, yes?? Like the “ green flash” at sunset…

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (PCK5/)

285 The microaid programs where hella successful and most all were paid back on schedule. They were like 25 dollars per person, one to a customer.

Now the Ford Foundation was probably there to kill it since I haven't heard about them for decades.

I thought some Turkish entrepreneur got a noble prize for doing this within the last 10 years or so.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (t0Rmr)

The one I saw was in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh area and mostly helped buy little tools and looms for women (mostly) to produce items they could sell locally to help out their lives. Some made little group outfits where they could work in a room and chat...pretty much what they would have done in their villages back in the day.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (n7h9X)

286 283 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

Maybe a better investment would have been if her parents used that $25,000 to pay to learn a skilled trade and start a business.

http://tiny.cc/klv8001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Odg76)

======

Should have used that money to get into workers' paradise North Korea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

287 270 239 http://tiny.cc/3kv8001

The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Ethnic slur he used!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

By Jingo, you're right!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (wyMQY)

He's got spurs,
that jingo-jango-jingo...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (wtvvX)

288 The reason this resonates is, the people out in the real world, that voted for Trump, have been suffering and struggling to survive the last 4 years.

And we're all finding out that our tax dollars--instead of going to help--are deceptively funneled to keep the left fat and happy in no-work, no-show jobs.

That's offensive and grotesque.

It's the kind of stuff that has crowds cheering each bounce of the head down the steps after the ax swing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (qV1YP)

289 It's just a way to move money around. They probably chuckle to themselves as they come up with ridiculous sounding grants because they're bored.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (uCjyK)

I'm also sure that one of the prime reasons for grants to ridiculous people and organizations is that they know they shouldn't be getting it, and so they're a lot less likely to squawk when 50% gets skimmed off the top.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (wyMQY)

290 Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.

It seems most people use the Emperor of Mankind for memes and such of Trump.

Which, if you actually know the lore isn't as great as you might think...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (t0Rmr)

291 Trump is Christmas morning 1983 ish and Mom and Dad worked extra hard and gave us the pinnacle of Christmas gifts. Atari 2600! With Asteroids!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (4p0Xq)

292 Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen, how is your son doing? I thought of him when we were talking about legumes on the last thread. Hope his job situation is good.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (77rzZ)

293 236 The microaid programs where hella successful and most all were paid back on schedule. They were like 25 dollars per person, one to a customer.

Now the Ford Foundation was probably there to kill it since I haven't heard about them for decades.

I thought some Turkish entrepreneur got a noble prize for doing this within the last 10 years or so.
Posted by: 18-1
------------

I never believed that shit. You don't need an international agency or a foreign foundation to lend someone $25 bucks.

If a community can not manage to create a single philanthropically minded entrepreneur to help out locals trying to get a leg up, then it is lost and there are no hope.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (TrcX/)

294 Does this fall under waste, fraud, or abuse?

Again Mike Johnson is being pretty quiet about it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
......

He's just pissed he got in too late.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

295 I know that it would be hard to convince any prog of this, but this is what the founders designed the Presidency for.

This is why the President is vested with all executive power.

If Trump accomplishes everything he wants, then the people can review whether he succeeded or failed and how they like the new changes.

And whether or not they want to continue down that path.

"Publius" put it so that the President "has no excuse" for not accomplishing what he promised from his administration.

The Gramscians want an institution to march through. So of course they are going to want a stable--or calcified--institution.

But that's not how the Presidency was conceived.

And that's what serves the special interest group of Marxists, but not the American people.

Posted by: Axeman at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (krQz2)

296 Admit it, Trump is exceeding our wildest expectations. He is a nuclear shockwave.
Posted by: Xipe Totec
----------
Didn't see this level of aggressiveness. Certainly not with this velocity. Winning.

Posted by: scampydog at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (2bFN5)

297
Oh Grasshopper, when you move to the highest level of consciousness you will see that all of our "enemies" have in fact always been our partners, and we have been theirs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (wyMQY)

I don't even know how this is debatable at this point.

The CIA & NHI partnered with the CCP to create a bio weapon which either accidentally or purposely was released and killed a lot of people and shut down the world economy for a year. And no one is even commenting on the fact that it seems odd that the CIA & NHI were helping our supposed biggest adversary create a biological weapon that on paper neither country would ever create.

Do we really need to say anything more on the subject?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (uCjyK)

298 288 The reason this resonates is, the people out in the real world, that voted for Trump, have been suffering and struggling to survive the last 4 years.

And we're all finding out that our tax dollars--instead of going to help--are deceptively funneled to keep the left fat and happy in no-work, no-show jobs.

That's offensive and grotesque.

It's the kind of stuff that has crowds cheering each bounce of the head down the steps after the ax swing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (qV1YP)

=======

Distilled down to narrative:

"The government is corrupt, and we have the receipts!"
vs.
"Trump is corrupt and we must destroy him!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

299 Remember that guy that thought a book could protect him from a bullet and had his gf shoot him?

I guarantee that was the only book he ever held in his life.

Oh look. ..it's your lucky day, it only got through the Ps.

Next time.....there won't be a next time.

Posted by: Phil Leotardo at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (lKWwN)

300 270 239 http://tiny.cc/3kv8001

The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.
Posted by: bonhomme

Ethnic slur he used!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

By Jingo, you're right!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:05 PM (wyMQY)

He's got spurs,
that jingo-jango-jingo...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (wtvvX

---

So many people are very niggardly with their appreciation.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (ky8PV)

301 > Touching her clitoris?

Poke. Poke. Are you turned on yet?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (Odg76)

302 Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (MGB5H)

O.K. There's some sophomoric slang. I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (MQJVv)

303 Republicans never seem to be smart enough to get the government to fund conservative politics.
Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:00 PM (4pwAx)

Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:01 PM (MGB5H)

Which tells us which side he is really on, now doesn't it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (QAkQ3)

304 19 Make the UN building on Turtle Bay it's own country. They have to show their passports to enter and leave.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nuke it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (W2Pud)

305 Running around like the cockroaches they are, the Dims.

What will Emperor Trump do next? I love him! And JD! And everyone who is laughing at this downfall splat of the wokeism. I can picture them now hiding their rainbow flags and deleting stuff. I even know THE CLOUD and nothing is ever deleted. And I am of the stoopits.

From memory, without looking it up, John F*ucking Kerry was helping support TIDE with his wife's $$ from ketchup. I am positive of this. Their way of spreading wealth to certain groups of chaos. I spit in their general direction!

I am loving this! For decades all this has been going on. I am not brilliant but I even knew there was money laundering via You Craine to the pockets of the children of Pelousy, Romney, and Kerry. However, I had no idea how widespread the evil was until DOGE.

Merry Christmas 10mo early!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (gi+MR)

306 286 283 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

Maybe a better investment would have been if her parents used that $25,000 to pay to learn a skilled trade and start a business.

http://tiny.cc/klv8001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Odg76)

======

Should have used that money to get into workers' paradise North Korea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

PYONGYANG BEST CITY!!! VERY LOW RENTS!!!

Posted by: Little Rocket Man at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (wtvvX)

307 Speaking of presidential libraries . . .

"Questionably Qualified"[black] Obama Center Subcontractor Files a $40 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged Racial Discrimination

-
Black on black crime.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:10 PM (L/fGl)

308 Who's squealing about the most about USAID getting shut down?

Sorry, I just don't see it as a "both sides" type scandal. Unless both sides means the usual known traitors getting their beak wet.
Posted by: Leupold at February 04, 2025 04:06 PM (4pwAx)

Like most of these things, a GoPer getting too deep in these things risks getting exposed by the MsM. Dems don't so they will always be dirtier,, even if the Republicans were just as morally challenged.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:10 PM (n7h9X)

309 I prayed that Trump would be ruthless and brutal, along with his lieutenants… I am very happy right now.

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:10 PM (PCK5/)

310 Hey! UN! How does my ass taste now? Like hummus and Cilantro? Eat up bitches! YumYum!

Winning!

Posted by: President Donald Trump, Shot Caller at February 04, 2025 04:10 PM (y7KuV)

311 Again Mike Johnson is being pretty quiet about it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Vh9CX)

I think this is a good time for our people to just kick back and watch all the dems make fools of themselves, whining about how unfair it is to make government workers actually show up for work.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (wyMQY)

312 Someone smarter than me is going to have to explain how any of this does not easily fall under the scope of racketeering.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (CwhoI)

313 Hey! UN! How does my ass taste now? Like hummus and Cilantro? Eat up bitches! YumYum!

Winning!
Posted by: President Donald Trump, Shot Caller at February 04, 2025 04:10 PM (y7KuV)

Humus and soap seems like an odd flavor combo.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (MGB5H)

314 Remember that guy that thought a book could protect him from a bullet and had his gf shoot him?

I guarantee that was the only book he ever held in his life.
Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (iziT

Mamet has a way with dialog...

Jimmy: I'm not a religious man.

Bobby Blane: There's nothing wrong with prayer. We knew this firefighter, this trooper, who always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to mock him, but that bible stopped a bullet.

Jimmy: No shit.

Bobby Blane: Hand of God, that bible stopped a bullet, would of ruined that fucker's heart. And had he had another bible in front of his face, that man would be alive today.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (y9nCu)

315 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.
---
They're reverted to the Reagan strategy, it seems.

Every night there was a sob story about somebody "victimized" by a change Reagan made.

Sometimes, it even blamed Reagan for the fallout of a reduction that started under Carter.

Because that was the media back then too.

Posted by: Axeman at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (krQz2)

316 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

The average salary in Guatemala is around $5k/year so if her parents were able to thrown down 5X that they were RICH by local standards

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (t0Rmr)

317 We are quickly learning that "Our Democracy" was really just "Their Bureaucracy."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (qV1YP)

318 Holy hell. My local State Senator Michelle Hinchey (daughter of congressman Maurice Hinchey) has introduced a bill called the Trans Transparency Act so NY hospitals who cooperate with Trump's crackdown have to give the trannies notice. This state is going to implode in on itself and I hope I can avoid the shrapnel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (U/Wlk)

319 Weren't there all kinds of Obama Jesus photos and artwork going around when he was elected?

Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

My head would be one of those exploding. Likening any human being to Jesus, whether it's Obama, or Trump, or Dick Van Patten, is blasphemy, pure and simple.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

320 Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.

Wonder if there are Trump votive candles like the Obama ones?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (2VST1)

321 296 Admit it, Trump is exceeding our wildest expectations. He is a nuclear shockwave.
Posted by: Xipe Totec
----------
Didn't see this level of aggressiveness. Certainly not with this velocity. Winning.

Posted by: scampydog at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (2bFN5)

Trump is simply targeting the same people who targeted him.

The difference is, Trump has better aim.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (wtvvX)

322
So much winning.

Posted by: Are you tired of all the winning? at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (DobEs)

323 I think Trump is holding off the coup de grace.
The Epstein list, JFK, RFK, and MLK files. He's waiting for the opportune time where it will have the most impact to absolutely crush the scumbags once and for all.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (/U5Yz)

324 Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID

And how is that different from "Left-Wing"?

Posted by: GMan at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (GfWuY)

325 I wish someone with a bullhorn in the fringes of the LA and other riotin' illegal supporters would simply start shouting: "You are all going on one way tickets to El Salvador prisons!"

I simply want to see what happens. Say it in both Spanish and English. See if there is running for the border.

It is a pity I am not in LA right now. I would do it then speed off laughing.

I also badly want the US Marines to arrive to LA to help deport and clear the highways in one swoop.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 04, 2025 04:13 PM (gi+MR)

326 286 283 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

Maybe a better investment would have been if her parents used that $25,000 to pay to learn a skilled trade and start a business.

http://tiny.cc/klv8001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM

If they could afford that massive amount. They could have afforded a good immigration attorney and gotten in the proper and legal way. Sorry toots. The Give O Fck Meter is at zero for you.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:13 PM (4p0Xq)

327 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

Maybe a better investment would have been if her parents used that $25,000 to pay to learn a skilled trade and start a business.

http://tiny.cc/klv8001
Posted by: bonhomme

25 large in Guatemala? They were running with 1%'ers. Why waste it on college?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2025 04:13 PM (VVexz)

328 245 BTW, now would be a good time to give thanks to God for answering our prayers last November.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (nrpZ6

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Yes.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:13 PM (PMtkd)

329 I never believed that shit. You don't need an international agency or a foreign foundation to lend someone $25 bucks.

If a community can not manage to create a single philanthropically minded entrepreneur to help out locals trying to get a leg up, then it is lost and there are no hope.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (TrcX/)

The Ford Foundation wasn't involved at the time I saw it, it was a small pilot program.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

330 There are gonna be a lot of unemployed with a bad attitude and time on their hands. Pray up …

Posted by: kactus at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (twS2i)

331 Weren't there all kinds of Obama Jesus photos and artwork going around when he was elected?

Posted by: WitchDoktor

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The Personal Jesus video mocking this phenomena:

https://tinyurl.com/y84mbazc

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (Dm8we)

332 Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.

I don't think you want that.

Posted by: Revelation at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (/U5Yz)

333 Wonder if there are Trump votive candles like the Obama ones?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:12 PM (2VST1)

I'm sure if there are Trump votive candles, that they'll be classy. The best! No other candles like them!

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (rj6Yv)

334 I'm also sure that one of the prime reasons for grants to ridiculous people and organizations is that they know they shouldn't be getting it, and so they're a lot less likely to squawk when 50% gets skimmed off the top.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (wyMQY)

I would be surprised if anything other than a token amount of the money actually was spent on what they say it was spent on.

How would we ever know?

I think it's mostly used to influence people. Whether that's through propaganda, or just plain ol' simple bribery, or giving relatives of people no show jobs, or keeping the deep staters employed during their time off from govt work...

Remember the Clinton Foundation? Something like 4% of their money went to what any of us would call "charity" and even that was mostly grants to other family foundations.

I imagine it's the same situation here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (uCjyK)

335 "Miss Lindsey was getting a mil a year from USAID"

I don't know how that allowed but if it is it should be banned and if it's not I want to see Lindsey in jail and bankrupted.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (vFG9F)

336 25k to a coyote… call me sceptical…

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (PCK5/)

337 I think Trump went into term 1 with a certain amount of naivete. That has been stripped away and he has been educated, in the most brutal way possible, how bad things have gotten in DC.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (CwhoI)

338 Think of the years of withheld lechery the poor man suffered through, A little grab ass senility can surely be excused. He did it for Barbara, and the kids.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (4780s)

339 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

The average salary in Guatemala is around $5k/year so if her parents were able to thrown down 5X that they were RICH by local standards
Posted by: 18-1
.......

Definitely well off enough for them all to be spherical.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (v0R5T)

340 So if he was getting an extra $1M on top of this and still only has that much wealth I guess gay hookers cost more then I thought...

Gay?! I wish! If I were gay they'd be no problem! No, what I have is a romantic abnormality, one so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all cost. You see..."

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (jGJov)

341 Well, we knew AO-C didn't get into office because of her brains. She thinks that Musk is stupid?!! She was the right ethic group and could remember lines from her script.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (MQJVv)

342 Mike Johnson is a cyborg. Something is off with him.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (4p0Xq)

343 There are gonna be a lot of unemployed with a bad attitude and time on their hands. Pray up …

Posted by: kactus at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (twS2i)

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Old & Busted: "Going Postal."
New Hotness: "Going Feral."

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (QhVNb)

344 "CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported."

I don't believe it. Why not do it legally if you can afford that?

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (vFG9F)

345 Yes, Trump is knocking over the money lenders or in this case the money thieves.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (PMtkd)

346 And Jasmine pulls ahead in the stupidest congress critter race!

Acyn@Acyn
Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned. When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. And that is the life that we have always lived. So the only people that are that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (L/fGl)

347 Of course it's criminal. Our govt. Is basically a Rico enterprise. This is basically what the first 3 seasons of Fargo were on about. The Mafia isn't gone. It got absorbed into the government. They run the country like a bust out operation. Your silent partner forces you to take out loans you can't pay back, burns down your business, steals the insurance money and disappears leaving you charged with fraud.

Posted by: They have stolen billions over the years at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (+L8tT)

348 Show of hands.

Who thinks they will eventually get to the op that undermined our elections? Or was that scrubbed along with names of people in Congress?

And where the hell is “good guy” Ratcliffe on this?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (t64lJ)

349 Well, we knew AO-C didn't get into office because of her brains. She thinks that Musk is stupid?!! She was the right ethic group and could remember lines from her script.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM

Well that and two other things.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (4p0Xq)

350 25k to a coyote… call me sceptical…
Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (PCK5/)

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Well, we thought we were getting a bargain.

Posted by: USAID at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (tT6L1)

351 Is seems Mike Johnson has been brought under control… perhaps a hard reboot..

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (PCK5/)

352 I don’t agree with what they did in the French revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (u73oe)

353 Just got here.

Does the US have some kind of veto on the Human Rights Council that we lose if we exit the corrupt group?

Does it matter?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (hoCmQ)

354 Does the US government fund anything that isn't an anti-American Commie boondoggle that targets the American people?

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (aRLgQ)

355 279 259 I guess I'm a little slow sometimes. I just didn't really grasp the level of waste in our government. It's truly shocking.
Posted by: Max Power at February 04, 2025 04:04 PM (q177U)

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Does this fall under waste, fraud, or abuse?

Again Mike Johnson is being pretty quiet about it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Vh9CX)

He doesn't need to be loud...he'd get in the way of the apolitical messaging from Elon's folks...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (exHjb)

356
344 "CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported."

I don't believe it. Why not do it legally if you can afford that?
Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (vFG9F)

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It's bullshit. Everything is bullshit. Plus, I don't give a shit what they paid.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (PMtkd)

357 312 Someone smarter than me is going to have to explain how any of this does not easily fall under the scope of racketeering.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 04, 2025 04:11 PM (CwhoI)

In a normal world, racketeering, bribery, theft, extortion, and treason would all be on the table for anyone involved.

But we don't live in that world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (uCjyK)

358 Trump knew what he was going to go after. Doge was the excuse.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (7Hjh9)

359 Is seems Mike Johnson has been brought under control… perhaps a hard reboot..
Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (PCK5/)

The steamed-up lenses on his hornrims is a tell.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (rj6Yv)

360 This is where we get the term "jingo".

We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true
The Russians shall not have Constantinople!
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It specifically mentions ships and men and implies battle.

I don't think it's a very good message to spend.

Aggressive? Okay. That doesn't imply just war. One can be an aggressive negotiator, without it implying militaristic adventurism.

Especially as Trump might want to hold pride in the President who didn't get us into any wars.

Posted by: Axeman at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (krQz2)

361 Does this fall under waste, fraud, or abuse?

Again Mike Johnson is being pretty quiet about it.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (Vh9CX)

He doesn't need to be loud...he'd get in the way of the apolitical messaging from Elon's folks...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:17 PM (exHjb)

He needs this shit in the news, he has a big budget battle ongoing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (QAkQ3)

362
*She was the right ethic group and could remember lines from her script.*

And boobs.

Posted by: Don't forget the boobs. at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (DobEs)

363 Now I would believe the family owed $25,000 to get their daughter into the US and she was expected to pay it back in flesh.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (vFG9F)

364 The US always has a veto anywhere, any time, in the UN. It's called "The Checkbook."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (tT6L1)

365 342 Mike Johnson is a cyborg. Something is off with him.
Posted by: Minnfidel a

It's the thick glasses. They hide his lizard eyes. Him and DeWine.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (/U5Yz)

366 I wonder if I can apply to the USAID for funds to buy and refurbish a fully operational F-14 Tomcat.

Always wanted one of those.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (BRvvM)

367 It seems most people use the Emperor of Mankind for memes and such of Trump.

Which, if you actually know the lore isn't as great as you might think...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:08 PM (t0Rmr)

Originally done as an insult by some Italian festival parade, but taken up and made our own.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (n7h9X)

368 >>>CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.

I read her parents borrowed it, probably with the expectation that the remittances would help them pay it back. I'm sure that whoever in Guatemala had $25,000 to use for non-collateral loans is going to be totes cool with them missing payments.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (CwhoI)

369 We all know the whole UN is Corrupt to the Core and the Human Rights Council is a Joke they have yet to End All Wars and all they want from us is to Open Our Borders and Turn In our Guns since Traitor and Democrat John Kerry signed the Small Arms Control Treaty for Traitor/Democrat. Obama

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (wGqjj)

370 We all knew this was going on, having it in the in the open is very satisfying. We don't need no guesses, now we.have.receipts! literally

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (g47mK)

371 @Acyn
Crockett: I am tired of the white tears
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I have had enough of hearing from entitled government employees about how "tired" they are. Fcuk off. You don't like the job, gtfo.

Posted by: They have stolen billions over the years at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (+L8tT)

372 336 25k to a coyote… call me sceptical…
Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (PCK5/)

+ + +

I agree but I can’t figure out what the angle is. Family’s illegal scheme collapses doesn’t seem like an argument against enforcing immigration laws.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (7fVdQ)

373
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (DobEs)

374 Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.
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I think my head would explode.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 04:19 PM (7Hjh9)

375 I think Trump went into term 1 with a certain amount of naivete. That has been stripped away and he has been educated, in the most brutal way possible, how bad things have gotten in DC.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 04, 2025 04:14 PM (CwhoI)

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Four LONG years of simmering, cold anger.

"You come at the King, you best not miss ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (QhVNb)

376 Still think the people who tried to kill the president were loners?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (t64lJ)

377 342 Mike Johnson is a cyborg. Something is off with him.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:15 PM (4p0Xq)

Before being too hard on Johnson, remember that there isn't a single other Republican Congressman who wanted that worthless job. That's why he was re-elected, they asked "who wants to run against him for speaker?" and everyone coughed and looked at the ground.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (wyMQY)

378 Well that and two other things.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (4p0Xq)

People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (MQJVv)

379 Crockett: I am tired of the white tears
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Well you could always kys.

As in my ass. Of course.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (7Hjh9)

380 People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (MQJVv)

Sure

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (MGB5H)

381 Johnson’s job not so worthless now, eh??

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PCK5/)

382 I wonder if I can apply to the USAID for funds to buy and refurbish a fully operational F-14 Tomcat.

Always wanted one of those.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025

If the mullahs in Iran go kaput, they'll probably want to sell theirs and upgrade

Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (szWen)

383 "We have to figure out a way to stop doing this crap to ourselves every 4 years. Governing by executive orders is not sustainable.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 04, 2025 03:37 PM (Rcnd3)"

Hrmmm sure but they are undoing 80+ years of work in some cases, and it's what feeds the engines of lefty fuckery.

Imagine summer 2020 with no BLM funding or "misinfo" industry, or brick deliveries
Imagine 2019 with no bioweapon, or 2021-present with no one running cover for toxic jabs

People who are kicked to the curb out of their cushy moonbat jobs aren't spearheading anything and their closed offices aren't funding anything. This is a war; it'll probably end in shooting but shooting or not, wars ultimately run on money.

My money is on an assasination or poorly conceived lash-out from the left. It's coming.

Posted by: heya at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (nYOyr)

384 Maybe lefties if you hadn't tried to imprison Trump and his family...and murder him twice...he wouldn't be so animated.

But you reaped the whirlwind so enjoy...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (t0Rmr)

385 I wonder if I can apply to the USAID for funds to buy and refurbish a fully operational F-14 Tomcat.

Always wanted one of those.
Posted by: Sharkman

*makes "call me" motion*
-- Matthew Lesko

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

386 And where the hell is “good guy” Ratcliffe on this?
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (t64lJ)

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Yeah! He’s been the director for three weeks. Why hasn’t he fixed the CIA already!?!?!!!!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (u73oe)

387 "I read her parents borrowed it, probably with the expectation that the remittances would help them pay it back. I'm sure that whoever in Guatemala had $25,000 to use for non-collateral loans is going to be totes cool with them missing payments.
Posted by: Citizen Cake"

There you go. She was expected to make big money in America as a working girl.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (vFG9F)

388
Didn't see this level of aggressiveness. Certainly not with this velocity. Winning.

Posted by: scampydog at February 04, 2025 04:09 PM (2bFN5)

You come at the king, you best not miss.

Posted by: Zombie Omar Little at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (y9nCu)

389 International Justice Resource Center, Consequences of the U.S. Departure from the Human Rights Council, July 10, 2018 (IJRC civil society, human rights defenders, international human rights, UN Human Rights Council, Universal system)

In part, "Civil society and other stakeholders warned of consequences to human rights defenders and victims of rights abuses when the United States formally announced last month its decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. [HRW: Blame; HRW: Oppose; OHCHR Press Release: Dialogue] The decision – effective June 19, 2018, over a year before the end of the State’s term, which would have expired on December 31, 2019 – marks the first time a State has voluntarily left the Human Rights Council before serving its full term. It is the second time, though, a State has failed to complete its full term on the Human Rights Council; Libya was removed from the Council in 2011. [UN General Assembly Press Release] See U.S. Department of State, Remarks on the UN Human Rights Council."

Then lots of primary reasons for the U.S. "departure."

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What's changed? It cannot be trusted.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, so DO IT.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (NFX2v)

390 Originally done as an insult by some Italian festival parade, but taken up and made our own.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:18 PM (n7h9X)

I don't think it was an insult, that rolling statue was magnificent!!! I would have loved to see that in his inauguration parade.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (wyMQY)

391 I admit, I didn't have the imagination to understand the depth of our government's corruption.

I knew money was wasted but EVERYONE was getting a piece EXCEPT for hard-working Americans.

I am enraged.

WTF are we paying taxes?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PMtkd)

392 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.
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Where's the sob part

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (7Hjh9)

393 Pull out of the UN.

Kick them out of our country.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 03:35 PM (rEVe+)

It is waaaaaayyy past time to kick these a-holes out.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (k9OZB)

394 Imagine 2019 with no bioweapon, or 2021-present with no one running cover for toxic jabs

I vaguely recall one of the reasons the Dems had such a weak roster in 2020 was that no one thought they could win with Trump presiding over the best economy in modern history

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (t0Rmr)

395 378 Well that and two other things.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (4p0Xq)

People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (MQJVv)

Oh I doubt that.. I imagine she gets elected because her constituency just reflex votes…

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (PCK5/)

396 Before being too hard on Johnson,

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So are we not doing "Phrasing!" anymore?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (szWen)

397 Old & Busted: "Going Postal."
New Hotness: "Going Feral."
Posted by: ShainS

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He hasn't gotten to the post office yet

Posted by: kactus at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (twS2i)

398 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000
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It wasn't American dollars. In real money it was about 3000.

Posted by: They have stolen billions over the years at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (+L8tT)

399 391 WTF are we paying taxes?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PMtkd)

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To create generational wealth for people who went to Yale.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

400 *There you go. She was expected to make big money in America as a working girl.*

OnlyFans.

Posted by: It is known at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (DobEs)

401 I knew money was wasted but EVERYONE was getting a piece EXCEPT for hard-working Americans.

agree agree agree

I am utterly in shock

I always thought "oh if we didn't have to pay so much in entitlements we could be living on the moon" or whatever

but screw that; we could afford the entitlemnts just fine! but not supporting and enriching this massive web of pinkos!!!

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (Pv3Rg)

402 399 391 WTF are we paying taxes?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PMtkd)

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To create generational wealth for people who went to Yale.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

This - 1000%

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (exHjb)

403 There you go. She was expected to make big money in America as a working girl.

Ummm...21 and with that face? Sorry honey. But if you use this tentacle accessory I know one guy that will pay top dollar...

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald's favorite pimp at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (t0Rmr)

404 Yeah! He’s been the director for three weeks. Why hasn’t he fixed the CIA already!?!?!!!!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (u73oe)

He's probably secured in locked closet in an Upper Volta apartment.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

405 Read DataRepublican's explanations of the obfuscating EINs vs UEI numbers. She's having to do address geolocation to tie the numbers to particular orgs.

It's an intentionally obfuscated mess.

150 GB of data.
---
Consider that this is one person.
Now understand that the US government can rent processing from AWS that can process what takes her hours in seconds. Maybe minutes.
You are not anonymous.
The only safety you have is insignificance.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (qV1YP)

406 WTF are we paying taxes?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PMtkd)

To punish those who produce and to buy votes.

Posted by: The democrat party at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (y7KuV)

407 Steak and BJ Day
Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 03:33 PM (D0HYP)

And the Dems are all jag-bags...

I'll hang up and listen to your answer.

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2025 04:23 PM (53oGX)

408 The daily Trump caused Erections are starting to lose their fun.

Posted by: Boner at February 04, 2025 03:34 PM (+oR7L)

Never, I'm ready to pork the nearest planet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (VwHCD)

409 Well that and two other things.

Her giant front teeth?

Posted by: GMan at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (GfWuY)

410 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (G0vdT)

411 376 Still think the people who tried to kill the president were loners?
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (t64lJ)

I had wanted to see Trump go through the SS and see what really happened there, but I guess he has been a little bit busy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (wyMQY)

412 I'll miss Trick or Treat for UNICEF.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (/U5Yz)

413 >>> *There you go. She was expected to make big money in America as a working girl.*

those rub and tug places only charge you like 50 bucks a session though, sometimes only $40 if you're a regular, she was going to have to work a lot

Posted by: Ted Cruz at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (jGJov)

414 The UN should be in Europe anyway. Maybe move it to Ukraine.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (vFG9F)

415 >>"CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported."

I don't believe it. Why not do it legally if you can afford that?
Posted by: fd a

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Imagine paying 5x median wages to send your daughter overseas to become either a hotel maid or a whore.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (TrcX/)

416 415 Imagine paying 5x median wages to send your daughter overseas to become either a hotel maid or a whore.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (TrcX/)

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In a racist nation like America, no less.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

417 Never, I'm ready to pork the nearest planet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (VwHCD)

I hear a ficus is good for that.
-Big Harv Weinstein.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (MGB5H)

418 410 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (G0vdT)

So, we know which 61% to save...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (exHjb)

419 The media can post all the sob stories and Selena Gomez snotting and wailing and I am hardened to anything at this point. Seriously.

I don't care if they end up in prison in El Salvador. I seriously don't care about their rights after some come and murder and rape our women. Clog hospitals and screw up public education even more in OUR country.The catch and release is also total bullshit. I want many of them shackled in El Salvador in their white boxer shorts with shaved heads.

The only question I have is who is going to Gitmo and who will go to El Salvador and which is worse? That I will be interested in...

I want them gone as I would bedbugs and other vermin. I don't care if they paid a smuggler $25k. I do care about the innocent children who have been bought and sold into human trafficking slavery aka Epstein Island. The missing thousands of children who came here unescorted. Family my fat arse. It was human child smuggling with no mother's in sight.

The brilliant idea to give illegals upwards of $1500/month in NYC; then give the people of W NC and E TN $750 one time loan after the hurricane is a tell.

There! I am done and going bananas and making banana bread for my man.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (gi+MR)

420 People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
==
Wait, do you believe she was chaste before marriage? Really?
What are the odds?

Posted by: I mean it's not likely is it? at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (+L8tT)

421 "ABC actually aired a USAID employee's description of the scramble as DOGE rolled up to the office, and their hurried removal of woke iconography a la the documents burning scene in Downfall."

Listen to the way she talks, like what happened was so unfair and awful.

Um, if you are hiding documents and taking down flags....? Does it ever occur to you that your need to hide who and what you are, and what you are doing with our money, is perhaps the problem?

In no clown world, you'd welcome them in, open the books, and they'd immediately see everything is on the up and up, that you are a nonpartisan organization funding things that make sense.

Posted by: El Mariachi at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (nLFEI)

422 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (G0vdT)

Well now we know how much of the Bureau needs to be cut before starting to rebuild.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (wyMQY)

423 released oct 7th hostages saying they were held captive in UN facilities. End the UN. Kick it out. Having it in NYC may make it easier for the CIA to spy on them, but tough. It makes it easier for them to infiltrate. time to end.

Posted by: gov't is here to help at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (PfnFb)

424 I knew money was wasted but EVERYONE was getting a piece EXCEPT for hard-working Americans.

As the budget exploded the roads still weren't being maintained, the medical system started implementing long wait times, and the costs of basic staples like food just kept going up and up

Yes waste was a part of it but this was primarily the result of the left looting the treasury

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)

425 Just heard that Trump will investigate the Califzuela Train to Nowhere and the disappearance of billions of dollars.

What is the sound of a thousand Left Coast Scammers crapping?

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Be still my throbbing schadenboner!

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (QhVNb)

426 378 Well that and two other things.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:16 PM (4p0Xq)

People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (MQJVv)

If she were less attractive it likely would have been more difficult for her to unseat the incumbent Democrat. The Halo effect is real.

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:26 PM (aRLgQ)

427 Trump needs to attack the foundations.
Posted by: mr tmz at February 04, 2025 03:41 PM (rJ48h)

Indeed. Peon's Rules for foundations: All foundations can exist for only 50 years beyond the death of their founder. They should plan on disbursing their entire endowment before the 50 years expire, because after that date their remaining endowment is subject to a 100% wealth tax. No foundation board members or executives should receive any salary. You do it out of the kindness of your heart, not a desire for great wealth. Foundations would be allowed to keep a small crew of office staff to do office stuff, at normal office staff pay.

All foundations have to stick close to the original goals as set out by their founder. If the original goal becomes completely met, say like the eradication of polio, the foundation is closed, and its remaining endowment disbursed to other foundations dedicated to the eradication of other childhood diseases.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 04:26 PM (8zz6B)

428 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

And I suspect anyone that wanted a promotion was angling to be on the J6 detail...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:26 PM (t0Rmr)

429 Republicans never seem to be smart enough to get the government to fund conservative politics.
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Because the GOPe thinks they are the smartest people around by forcing all campaign funds to be funneled to "preferred vendors."
AKA friends and families.
Small ball, penny-ante bullshit, but they are so damned proud and protective of it.

That and dipping their beaks in the M-I-C kickbacks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:26 PM (qV1YP)

430 Guys you will never believe it but the left is now talking about responding with violence

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:26 PM (KQk9m)

431 If the mullahs in Iran go kaput, they'll probably want to sell theirs and upgrade

Posted by: Josephistan

Now I need to go rewatch Top Gun: Maverick

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (BRvvM)

432 WTF are we paying taxes?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PMtkd)

Been asking that for 2 decades.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (L1HY4)

433 Guys you will never believe it but the left is now talking about responding with violence

So who is going to be attempted assassin #3?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (t0Rmr)

434 The only question I have is who is going to Gitmo and who will go to El Salvador and which is worse? That I will be interested in..

I'd love to see Bob Menendez stripped down to his undies and sent to one of Bukele's prisons to stand in line with all the gang bangers there. Better than that, do Vindmann!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (wyMQY)

435 Love the vindication from the primary... much better than an apology.

Posted by: VAR1ABLE at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (5asE/)

436 "My mom was a Bircher." Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

In my 20's I was sorta Bircher adjacent. The Christian group I was in put out some Bircher books for sale ... I bought a few, never read most of them. I had a thick book on Nixon .. wonder if I still have it in some box.

I'm actually not sure if they were Bircher books, but seemed like it.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (Cus5s)

437 I'm sure if there are Trump votive candles, that they'll be classy. The best! No other candles like them

LOL

I cannot stand the quasi-religious overtones some people are bringing up with Trump like pictures of him with Jesus at his side or whatever. Just, no. But that was funny

By the way its a bit obscure and went under the radar, but apparently Trump signed an executive order to set up a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is something a bunch of other countries have. Its basically an investment fun by the government for US citizens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (2VST1)

438 376 Still think the people who tried to kill the president were loners?
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 04:20 PM (t64lJ)

Yes, I absolutely believe that the 21 kid with no motive, no social media presence, who was in a blackrock commercial was just a lone wolf.

Same with the homeless guy from Hawaii who was trying to recruit terrorists from the middle east to fight russians in Ukraine and was featured on CNN before he found the funds to fly to florida, buy an unregistered gun on the street, and stake out a golf course.

Well, now that I spell it out...

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (uCjyK)

439 Tracking down grannies was tough work
The FBI

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (KQk9m)

440 I'd love to see Bob Menendez stripped down to his undies and sent to one of Bukele's prisons to stand in line with all the gang bangers there. Better than that, do Vindmann!

TBH there are about 50 senators that deserve that more than Menendez.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

441 5,000 agents detailed to go after gramma and grampa for being on the lawn on J6?

That tells me the FBI has more agents than they need, if they could spare that much manpower.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (tT6L1)

442 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
=
Note: FOCUSED. See the rest of them were also involved in less focused ways. They basically shut down everything else to put grannies in jail. Except they stick went after abortion protestors, traditional Catholics, and PTA meetings.

Trust Wray. MY FAT ASS!!!!

Posted by: Q sucks at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (+L8tT)

443 CBS posted a sob story about a 21 year old Guatemalan illegal. Her parents raised $25,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the US. Now she's being deported.
--------

Where's the sob part
Posted by: ...
......

I must have missed it while laughing.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

444 Well that and two other things.

Her giant front teeth?
Posted by: GMan at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM

Look at the bones!

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (aD39U)

445 OLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

Sounds like a lot of people who need 3 am no-knock raids on their houses by a bunch of paramilitary goons.

Sorry about your dog, Mr. Ham and Egger.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (BRvvM)

446 410 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
Posted by: WisRich

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If he can't fire them, he should turn a DC building into a "rubber room" (That is term NYC used for buildings that held un-fireable teachers that were also too dangerous to kids to put in classroom. They had to sit and stare 8 hours a day. No internet, no phones, no nothing, just chairs.)

I am OK with them not raiding old people's houses at 6AM with flashbangs and battering rams.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (TrcX/)

447 From Zerohedge (BREAKING):
"Update (1615ET): DOGE is at it again - kicking down the doors of FBI headquarters to obtain the names of roughly 5,000 agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases. This comes after the agency withheld specifics on those involved, such as their names."

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:29 PM (exHjb)

448 432 WTF are we paying taxes?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (PMtkd)

Been asking that for 2 decades.
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For the Empire of Ghettos. This USAID thingy is a roadmap to the empire. There will be other maps.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:29 PM (Wg6v7)

449 Same with the homeless guy from Hawaii who was trying to recruit terrorists from the middle east to fight russians in Ukraine and was featured on CNN before he found the funds to fly to florida, buy an unregistered gun on the street, and stake out a golf course.

The most amusing part of this story is the OTHER people in Ukraine recruiting jihadis and mercs for Ukraine claim he was lying and he was doing something else in Ukraine.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)

450 BTW, now would be a good time to give thanks to God for answering our prayers last November.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 04:03 PM (nrpZ6)

Believe me, I do that just about every day. And "thank you" feels so inadequate in expressing just how grateful I am.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 04, 2025 04:30 PM (k9OZB)

451 By the way its a bit obscure and went under the radar, but apparently Trump signed an executive order to set up a Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is something a bunch of other countries have. Its basically an investment fun by the government for US citizens.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM

For natural resources, yes? Not tax money, as it were.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 04:30 PM (aD39U)

452 384 Maybe lefties if you hadn't tried to imprison Trump and his family...and murder him twice...he wouldn't be so animated.

But you reaped the whirlwind so enjoy...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:21 PM (t0Rmr)

Just think. If they hadn't cheated to remove him it would have been 4 years of Trump with milquetoast Mike Pence trying to "moderate" his impulses, without Elon Musk looking at everything. And they'd likely have some dumb super-liberal in office right now after he handily beat Mike Pence in the election.

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:30 PM (aRLgQ)

453 Every year, every election, every politician screams about waste, fraud and abuse … and do nothing or just scrape the surface and pussyfoot around.
Now that someone is addressing the issues, you can really hear them scream.

Posted by: kactus at February 04, 2025 04:31 PM (twS2i)

454 Yes, I absolutely believe that the 21 kid with no motive, no social media presence, who was in a blackrock commercial was just a lone wolf.

Same with the homeless guy from Hawaii who was trying to recruit terrorists from the middle east to fight russians in Ukraine and was featured on CNN before he found the funds to fly to florida, buy an unregistered gun on the street, and stake out a golf course.

Sort of like the vegas shooter. Just crazy lone nuts doing totally random things. Best we just forget about it all.

Posted by: Flowers By Irene at February 04, 2025 04:31 PM (jGJov)

455 Dear Trump,

My penis can only get so erect.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 04:31 PM (elaR+)

456 Feels strange to have so little to complain about, regarding the political winds that are blowing…

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

457 "HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors. 39% of the entire bureau."

And another thousand on MAGA parents at school board meetings, for daring to contest officials covering up rapes by trannies ... and another few thousand against other Christian MAGA types.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2025 04:31 PM (Cus5s)

458 The way the FBI works is they get incentives to go after the right targets. Incentives can be cash or promotion, etc.

You do not advance unless you bag the right kind of "criminal."

This is why they are so corrupt at creating crime where none exist, and whey they are so adamant about their procedures that disadvantage targets.

There is also great drive to generate expense accounts. The first thing these creeps do is set up a "field office" so they can milk the credit cards and live off expense accounts. That only happens when going after the right kind of target.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:32 PM (TrcX/)

459 the mullahs in Iran go kaput, they'll probably want to sell theirs and upgrade

Posted by: Josephistan

Now I need to go rewatch Top Gun: Maverick
Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 04:27 PM (BRvvM

I seriously want to see someone refurbish an F-14 for the air show circuit. I'm getting bored seeing F-15s, 16s and 18s all of the time.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 04:32 PM (szWen)

460 That tells me the FBI has more agents than they need, if they could spare that much manpower.
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Yep. Maybe we return them to chasing down bank robbers and such.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:32 PM (Wg6v7)

461 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

===

!@#$%

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2025 04:32 PM (g47mK)

462 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

-
Well, 1/6 was worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:32 PM (L/fGl)

463 Would love to watch heads explode if Trump Jesus imagery started becoming more evident.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 04:07 PM (ky8PV)

I have a feeling that the President might voice some disapproval.

I do remember Obama said nothing. Because he probably agreed.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (k9OZB)

464 Just heard that Trump will investigate the Califzuela Train to Nowhere and the disappearance of billions of dollars.

What is the sound of a thousand Left Coast Scammers crapping?

*shoulder shimmy*

Posted by: Gavin at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (v0R5T)

465 Who knew pipe hitting nerd bringing pliers and blow torches was an actual thing.

G-d Bless and Protect Musk's Bully Boys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (XV/Pl)

466 The most amusing part of this story is the OTHER people in Ukraine recruiting jihadis and mercs for Ukraine claim he was lying and he was doing something else in Ukraine.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:29 PM (t0Rmr)

Yeah, I would imagine he was working for the CIA reporting back on the happenings in Ukraine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (uCjyK)

467 Just heard that Trump will investigate the Califzuela Train to Nowhere and the disappearance of billions of dollars.

=====

Didnt SF have a billion dollar toilet?

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (MGB5H)

468 the swamp is THE SWAMP

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)

469 I call on President Trump and the EPA to do something about protecting Guacamole Trees and to invest in the Corana Beer Company located in Corona, California.

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (A2iSa)

470 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
Posted by: WisRich

——————-

Sean Hannity hardest hit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (u73oe)

471 I can't imagine any time that I've reconsidered my opinion on something based on Selena Gomez's tears.

Except that one time. But that's under a NDA.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (ld07g)

472
Breaking: FBI says there were 5000 agents assigned to investigate J6.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (+oR7L)

473 Dear Trump,

My penis can only get so erect.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale

So you're tired of winning? Another promise kept.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (L/fGl)

474 This needs to come down immediately and be melted into 5.56

https://tinyurl.com/ywe2ytax

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (/U5Yz)

475 Didnt SF have a billion dollar toilet?
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:33 PM (MGB5H)

Sf IS a billion dollar toilet!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (wyMQY)

476 Elon is now listing himself in his X bio as "White House Tech Support".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

477 I LOVE THIS!!!

This is true transparency!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (Hkcdp)

478 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

Even if you believe that it was some kind of attempt to topple the government that's outrageously extensive.

For natural resources, yes? Not tax money, as it were.

I believe so yeah, not using tax dollars. Its a bit obscure to me, not being a financial expert, but it reads like potentially a good thing but easily abused by bad people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (2VST1)

479 USAID pays more to George Soros' Tides Center -- which fomented Black Lives Matter and pays to get leftwing, pro-crime prosecutors elected -- than George Soros himself pays.

Holy shit. Soros himself might be a distraction from the "intelligence community", who are the ones really doing this stuff?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (2ocoG)

480 "Update (1615ET): DOGE is at it again - kicking down the doors of FBI headquarters to obtain the names of roughly 5,000 agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases. This comes after the agency withheld specifics on those involved, such as their names."
Posted by: Nova Local

Christopher Wray was last seen wearing a fake mustache in a Buenos Aires parrilla.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

481 Elon Musk says USAID caught his attention by being the federal organization that was violating more of Trump's EOs than other organizations.

That's a good heuristic.

http://tiny.cc/4ov8001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:35 PM (Odg76)

482 People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
==
Wait, do you believe she was chaste before marriage? Really?
What are the odds?
Posted by: I mean it's not likely is it? at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (+L8tT)

her handler up to the primary was her boyfriend. He got bought off with a different NGO.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:36 PM (n7h9X)

483 13,000 FBI agents.

And the window of opportunity to turn state's evidence just closed.

LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:36 PM (qV1YP)

484 Could we live without our Stasi??

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (PCK5/)

485 453 Every year, every election, every politician screams about waste, fraud and abuse … and do nothing or just scrape the surface and pussyfoot around.
Now that someone is addressing the issues, you can really hear them scream.
Posted by: kactus at February 04, 2025 04:31 PM (twS2i)

Because none of them ever had any intention of cutting off the spigot. First off, they'd probably get killed if they made too much noise about it.

Second off, they'd get primaried out of office as soon as possible.

And third off, they would get nowhere anyways, so it's easier to just take the bribe. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And they don't want to be the naive simpleton who didn't realize the entire purpose of getting in to govt is to rob the treasury.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (uCjyK)

486 > Didnt SF have a billion dollar toilet?

According to the poop maps, the whole city's a toilet.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (Odg76)

487 DOGE rolled up and - gulp! - took all of their flair!
What’s a Chatzkis waiter to do with no flair!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (Hkcdp)

488 474 This needs to come down immediately and be melted into 5.56

https://tinyurl.com/ywe2ytax
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (/U5Yz)

There were some bullshit statues put up in El Salvador by the previous revolutionary government, Bukele had a great time tearing them down and melting them, and then showing off how the bronze was all recast into manhole covers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (wyMQY)

489 So you're tired of winning? Another promise kept.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex

Not tired of winning, but I'm going to need medical attention at this rate.
If I die, the mortician will never get the smile off my face.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (elaR+)

490 Not tired of winning, but I'm going to need medical attention at this rate.
If I die, the mortician will never get the smile off my face.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (elaR+)

Or close the casket.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (MGB5H)

491 X
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department is now working to recall all USAID staff on foreign assignments worldwide.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (G0vdT)

492 Trump/Vance/Musk > Kirk/McKoy/Spock

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (XV/Pl)

493 472
Breaking: FBI says there were 5000 agents assigned to investigate J6.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (+oR7L)

Half of them were in the crowd that day.

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (aRLgQ)

494 According to the poop maps, the whole city's a toilet.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:37 PM (Odg76)
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And SF in aggregate is probably worth at least a trillion.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (tT6L1)

495 So what is Nanzi doing these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (Wg6v7)

496 5,000 agents assigned to J6.

Zero arrests for planting pipe bombs

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (qV1YP)

497 Uhm, what hole am I supposed to work on?

https://instapundit.com/700463/

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (KQk9m)

498 Posted by: I mean it's not likely is it? at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (+L8tT)

No; I don't believe that. I was asking if she slept around with the proper people to enhance her political career.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (MQJVv)

499 "President Trump is set to slash..."

I was so hoping for a more vivid conlcusion to that sentence -- something like "...the throats of every terrorist in U.S. custody."

Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (pMi6S)

500 491 X
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department is now working to recall all USAID staff on foreign assignments worldwide.
Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (G0vdT)

Ouch, this is starting to.. hurt, if you know what I mean..

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (PCK5/)

501 493 472
Breaking: FBI says there were 5000 agents assigned to investigate J6.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 04:34 PM (+oR7L)

Half of them were in the crowd that day.
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (aRLgQ)

CORRECTION: 5000 employees (out of 38K) - still 13% of the entire bureau...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (exHjb)

502 410 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (G0vdT)

So, we know which 61% to save...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (exHjb)

if 40 percent of the bureau can only find 1600 people in 4 years fire everyone, innocent or not.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (n7h9X)

503 Elon Musk says USAID caught his attention by being the federal organization that was violating more of Trump's EOs than other organizations.

That's a good heuristic.

Very smart. That's why Musk is smarter than AOC.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (2ocoG)

504 Soros himself might be a distraction from the "intelligence community", who are the ones really doing this stuff?
==
Soros is a pimp, he never coulda outfought Bob Dole, it has been the deep state/uniparty all along.

Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (+L8tT)

505
I read something somewhere. Elon's nerd DOGE boys came up with something to catch resistance types, to flag them somehow in some obfuscated way they wouldn't understand.

That must be yielding lots of fruit on who to look at.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (w6EFb)

506 Another point is that this is a kind of cult tactic.

You get a new agent and have them advance their career by doing something morally, ethically, and legally wrong. Have them go after innocent people for walking on a lawn. Make them treat that person as a greater threat than the Rosenbergs.

It realigns their world view. Now they have to defend "self" and justify their own actions by taking a stand that Trump and Conservatives are evil and a threat. It is very hard for them to admit they did a bad thing out of self interest and persecuted innocent people. Those agents are now corrupt and part of the globalist machine forever.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (TrcX/)

507 Imagine 5000 FBI agents investigating Federal corruption... It's easy if you try~

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 04, 2025 04:40 PM (mlg/3)

508 Women's March announces "weekly minute of silence" on Wednesdays at 12:53, "the moment January 6th rioters first crossed the barricades"

-
Dammit! Now I need to buy one of those vuvuzelas!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (L/fGl)

509 Bircher? I just met her.

Posted by: Rimshot at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (DobEs)

510 I was asking if she slept around with the proper people to enhance her political career.
=
Well, she married her campaign manager so...

Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (+L8tT)

511 506 Another point is that this is a kind of cult tactic.

You get a new agent and have them advance their career by doing something morally, ethically, and legally wrong. Have them go after innocent people for walking on a lawn. Make them treat that person as a greater threat than the Rosenbergs.

It realigns their world view. Now they have to defend "self" and justify their own actions by taking a stand that Trump and Conservatives are evil and a threat. It is very hard for them to admit they did a bad thing out of self interest and persecuted innocent people. Those agents are now corrupt and part of the globalist machine forever.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (TrcX/)

Is this like the “ wet test ??

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (PCK5/)

512 You just know Musk had the systems in place to keep an eye on things when the initial orders from President Trump went out.

Every single one of the bureaucracies is way behind the curve and they won't catch up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (tT6L1)

513
Is Elon Spock or Scotty?

Spock, I first thought, but no, he's both. Elon is Spock and Scotty put together.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (w6EFb)

514 Soros himself might be a distraction from the "intelligence community", who are the ones really doing this stuff?
==
Soros is a pimp, he never coulda outfought Bob Dole, it has been the deep state/uniparty all along.
Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (+L8tT)

Yeah. In the 1950's, Nelson Rockefeller was the billionaire the CIA used as a "legit" front for a lot of their work overseas (and likely domestically as well, but they don't admit it.)

Apparently Rockefeller found the cloak and dagger stuff fun and Allen Dulles stroked his ego as he used his foundation and legitimacy to knock off governments around the world.

Wouldn't surprise me if it's the same deal today. Soros is just a stooge, basically.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (uCjyK)

515 BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department is now working to recall all USAID staff on foreign assignments worldwide.
Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (G0vdT)

Ouch, this is starting to.. hurt, if you know what I mean..
Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (PCK5/)

It's like Karla being ordered to return to Moscow.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (rj6Yv)

516 Women’s march shutting up for 1 minute a week?

Would they consider an hour of silence, or maybe a day? 😉

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (Hkcdp)

517
5000 agents and they can't the "person" who planted the pipe bombs?

C'mon.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (+oR7L)

518 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
In an alternate timeline, the Senate just confirmed this to be Kamala's Defense Secretary:

https://tinyurl.com/5atf7jrh

Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (NpAcC)

519 Here's a fun fact.

Obama's mother worked for USAID.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (LkLld)

520 > Uhm, what hole am I supposed to work on?

When they have a "front hole" installed, to whom do they go for maintenance? Are there tranny specific gynos? I've heard they have all kinds of issues with things closing up, dryness, and even their colon opening up into the same cavern!

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (Odg76)

521
Spock, I first thought, but no, he's both. Elon is Spock and Scotty put together.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 04:42 PM (w6EFb)

------
He's Q.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (ccxKv)

522 In his recent comments ater signing executive orders President Trump vowed to reporters that there will be an investigation into the California High Speed Rail project due to his suspicion of corruption based on the costs and time delays involved.

No wonder Gavin has rounded up a $50 million "Fight Trump" legal fund from the legislature.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

523 btw..."FBI agents filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try and block the release of their names or identifying information after Trump administration officials demanded information on who worked on January 6-related cases."

lol

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (g47mK)

524
The left's going to spazz out over Elon using the word, "jingoistic" in an approving manner.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 03:48 PM (Odg76)

__________

We don't want to fight,
But by jingo if we do,
We've got the men, we have the ships,
And we have The Donald too!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (dxSpM)

525 519 Here's a fun fact.

Obama's mother worked for USAID.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (LkLld)

I believe it… she was, pliable..

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (PCK5/)

526 That tells me the FBI has more agents than they need, if they could spare that much manpower.
-------------
Yep. Maybe we return them to chasing down bank robbers and such.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:32 PM (Wg6v7)

How many thousands are out entrapping losers in the field and spending a lot of time in bars on the company dime?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (n7h9X)

527 I'm imagining 5000 unemployed ex-FBI agents.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

528 522 No wonder Gavin has rounded up a $50 million "Fight Trump" legal fund from the legislature.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (6ydKt)

======

They pulled back on that.

The optics of that fund in the face of the wildfires was too much for even California.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

529 520 That's just long term wound care

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (KQk9m)

530 520 > Uhm, what hole am I supposed to work on?

When they have a "front hole" installed, to whom do they go for maintenance? Are there tranny specific gynos? I've heard they have all kinds of issues with things closing up, dryness, and even their colon opening up into the same cavern!
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (Odg76

Yeah, basically Mengele stuff, I hear..

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:45 PM (PCK5/)

531 BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department is now working to recall all USAID staff on foreign assignments worldwide.

My Pussy Hurts... Bring me some Avocados and Corona Beer !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at February 04, 2025 04:45 PM (A2iSa)

532 I can't wait to find out how much money USAID was paying politicians, via these front group cutouts. You just know the list is long and the dollars were outstanding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 04, 2025 04:45 PM (Mocvc)

533 You get a new agent and have them advance their career by doing something morally, ethically, and legally wrong. Have them go after innocent people for walking on a lawn. Make them treat that person as a greater threat than the Rosenbergs.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:39 PM (TrcX/)

It's like the long-standing rumors about certain NYPD precincts in the '70s. When a new cop joined the precinct, veteran cops would stage a drug bust and they'd find a huge wad of cash. They'd take some for themselves and offer some to the new cop. If he hesitated, he couldn't be trusted and he was blocked out and his life made hell.

If he took the money, they knew he was trustworthy. Plus, they now had blackmail material to hold over his head. And as you say, people are constantly trying to internally justify their own actions.

Not sure how true it is, but I've been told some version of this story by several different people who were around back then. They claim it no longer happens, but who knows

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:45 PM (uCjyK)

534 Well, 1/6 was worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York

1/6 was Pearl Harbor x (9/11)^23

Unrelated: I'm listening to Primus' "Brown Album" and will shortly be listening to "Sailing the Seas of Cheese."

Heh.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (BRvvM)

535 > Obama's mother worked for USAID.

Is that confirmed? I saw the claim in this post:
http://tiny.cc/hkv8001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (Odg76)

536 A few episodes show Spock and Scott working together on technical problems as really a good team.

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (KQk9m)

537 5000 agents and they can't find the "person" who planted the pipe bombs?

Bob. It was Bob from the DC office.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (2VST1)

538 You realize that now we CAN actually Follow The Money… good times..

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (PCK5/)

539 Oh look, Victoria Nuland was tied at the hip to USAID.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (mB6WH)

540
Is this like the “ wet test ??
Posted by: tubal

Exactly, but that involves legal exposure. I am talking about internal change in the person that makes them defend what they did.

Also, like going on protest for abortion or palestine. Or having an abortion.

These things become the person's identity and once built up (easier when young,) it is hard to change.

Another example I bring up a lot is the ritual in Moby Dick where Ahab has the crew commit to hunting the white whale. The ritual serves a very specific purpose and later the men no longer consider that what they are doing is stupid and wrong.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 04, 2025 04:46 PM (TrcX/)

541 Well, she married her campaign manager so...
Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (+L8tT)

her second manager...she was sleeping with the first one too.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (n7h9X)

542 5,000 agents, for 4 years.

To arrest some 2,500 people.

Two agents per person arrested; after 4 years of work.

And now: Zero convictions.

5,000 doing nothing of value for 4 years.

Fire them all, mark "ineligible to be re-hired."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (qV1YP)

543 I've been saying this for a while. Soros has been working with the CIA for years to help run color revolutions around the world. That's where much of his wealth came from.

For all intents he's a part of the CIA.

Ever wonder why he's never prosecuted or even looked at?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (LkLld)

544 531 BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department is now working to recall all USAID staff on foreign assignments worldwide.

All these "foreign assignments/paid vacation abroad" the whining an digging in will be severe.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (+oR7L)

545 "Is Elon Spock or Scotty?"

Neither. I don't know a Star Trek analog. Maybe go to Ayn Rand for that.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

546 So what is Nanzi doing these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (Wg6v7)

In a perfect world? Decomposing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (VwHCD)

547 Giving aide and comfort to those who wish to destroy you is not a good thing. But Sun Tsu says if you got 10% for the big guy, it's okay.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

548 If, somehow, all of UNRWA end up not alive anymore, that's kind of a veto power too.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (Y6IkP)

549 301.

Gotta hit it like Apollo Creed on the speed bag.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (F2T8D)

550 In a perfect world? Decomposing.

most likely that is in fact happening despite her being nominally "alive"

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

551 Women's March announces "weekly minute of silence" on Wednesdays at 12:53, "the moment January 6th rioters first crossed the barricades"

-
Dammit! Now I need to buy one of those vuvuzelas!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (L/fGl)
******
Won't that be when most of them are coming back from lunch?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (NpAcC)

552 Start shorting brillcream futures.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (KWujZ)

553 When they have a "front hole" installed, to whom do they go for maintenance? Are there tranny specific gynos? I've heard they have all kinds of issues with things closing up, dryness, and even their colon opening up into the same cavern!
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:43 PM (Odg76

Yeah, basically Mengele stuff, I hear..
==
It's a non healing wound. They have to keep it plugged so that it doesn't heal, granulated in. They tried transplanting tilapia skin to the wound to solve that problem. It is a crime against humanity to do this to kids.

Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (+L8tT)

554 Unrelated: I'm listening to Primus' "Brown Album" and will shortly be listening to "Sailing the Seas of Cheese."

Heh.
Posted by: Sharkman

Primus sucks

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (elaR+)

555 Am I dreaming all this shit?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (DZ03a)

556 546 So what is Nanzi doing these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (Wg6v7)

In a perfect world? Decomposing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (VwHCD)

In a way she is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:48 PM (ynpvh)

557 Obama's mama worked for cab fare.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 04:49 PM (F2T8D)

558 >>Rand Paul, along with Newt Gingrich, lobbied California voters in favor of Proposition 47, the Soros-backed law that legalized shoplifting in CA. So I don’t think Paul is clean.

Got a reliable cute for that, glowie?
Posted by: Truthbomb at February 04, 2025 04:02 PM (7ydyJ)

Yep! Here’s Newt Gingrich’s LA Times op-ed in favor of Prop 47: https://archive.is/T4Ntu

Here’s Rand Paul’s OC Register op-ed in favor of Prop 47: https://archive.is/WWI3n

Here’s Dianne Feinstein’s op-ed in the LA Daily News AGAINST Prop 47: https://archive.is/sCJnB

Yes, you read that right: a liberal Democrat Senator was against it, whereas two so-called conservative Republicans were for George Soros’ pro-shoplifting law.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 04:49 PM (nEfO3)

559 Primus is....weird. Talented musicians though, check them out covering RUSH

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:49 PM (KQk9m)

560 557 Obama's mama worked for cab fare.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 04:49 PM (F2T8D)

$20 same as in...nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:49 PM (ynpvh)

561 You just know Musk had the systems in place to keep an eye on things when the initial orders from President Trump went out.

Every single one of the bureaucracies is way behind the curve and they won't catch up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

I haven't stopped grinning for the last two weeks. Official DC and the MSM have no idea how deep all this is going to go. They must all be starting to get an inkling about it, though*.

*That adrenaline dump that happens when you are embarrassed in front of the ENTIRE world*

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (BRvvM)

562 Primus is....weird. Talented musicians though, check them out covering RUSH
Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:49 PM (KQk9m)

I could listen to Les Claypool for hours.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (MGB5H)

563 528
They pulled back on that.

The optics of that fund in the face of the wildfires was too much for even California.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

-- ---

Yeah, that's what everybody thought was happening.
But the Dems just passed it yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/4s5jn2x4
(The Mercury News)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

564 Well, she married her campaign manager so...
Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:41 PM (+L8tT)

her second manager...she was sleeping with the first one too.
==
So she has quite the busy little kitty then. Shocking.

Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (+L8tT)

565 >>Is that confirmed?

By Mike Benz. He was pretty definitive about it and he's been spot on about everything having anything to do with this for some time.

Might help explain why he and W are so chummy.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (LkLld)

566 Gimmick bands just seem kinda sad.

Posted by: eleven at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (iziT8)

567 563 Yeah, that's what everybody thought was happening.
But the Dems just passed it yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/4s5jn2x4
(The Mercury News)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

=======

Oh, good for them.

It's what California wants. Let 'em have it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

568 Is Elon Spock or Scotty?

-
He's a photon torpedo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:51 PM (L/fGl)

569 "Gimmick bands just seem kinda sad.
Posted by: eleven "

It's a living. How much pussy did you get?

Posted by: KISS at February 04, 2025 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

570 By Mike Benz. He was pretty definitive about it and he's been spot on about everything having anything to do with this for some time.

Might help explain why he and W are so chummy.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (LkLld)

Yeah, Mike Benz has been on the USAID warpath for quite a while. I trust him on this topic.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:51 PM (uCjyK)

571 563 528
They pulled back on that.

The optics of that fund in the face of the wildfires was too much for even California.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

-- ---

Yeah, that's what everybody thought was happening.
But the Dems just passed it yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/4s5jn2x4
(The Mercury News)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 04, 2025 04:50 PM (6ydKt)

South Carolina Lincoln-proofed Ft. Sumter too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:51 PM (ynpvh)

572 Trump goes pretty well with Five Finger Death Punch, tbh.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 04:52 PM (F2T8D)

573 Rand Paul, along with Newt Gingrich, lobbied California voters in favor of Proposition 47

It reads like they didn't understand what the law did. What they wrote I have no real problem with, in fact I agree that we need to find criminal solutions other than "throw them in jail" but in practice it basically decriminalized shoplifting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

574 545 "Is Elon Spock or Scotty?"

Neither. I don't know a Star Trek analog. Maybe go to Ayn Rand for that.
Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

Look to Heinlein, Musk is the Man who sold the Moon. If he manages to prolong his life, he may turn into Lazarus Long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (wyMQY)

575 The FBI FB page was almost completely filled with all the J6ers they had nabbed and celebrating their convictions.

Whoever was in charge of posting those needs to be fired.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (NpAcC)

576 While I laud the comedic efforts of my fellow Morons.

Turn off the water, electricity, and sewage systems.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Simply reversing the Maj.'s order of operations would provide the most cruelty for the least effort.

Posted by: DaveA at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (FhXTo)

577 Is Elon Spock or Scotty?

He is Borg.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (VwHCD)

578 Here's Benz on Stanley Ann Dunham.

https://tinyurl.com/2n3ra94c

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (LkLld)

579 KISS was a normal rock/hard rock band their stage appearance was a gimmick

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (KQk9m)

580 HOLY SHIIIT. The FBI just revealed that 5,000 out of their 13,000 agents were focused on January 6th protestors.

39% of the entire bureau.
Posted by: WisRich

——————-

Sean Hannity hardest hit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
=========

Well, it was an "Insurrection".

/Seriously
The Junta would have set up death camps if they stole the 2024 election too. Stalinists. All 5,000 need to be terminated ASAP and the senior staff prosecuted.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (/lPRQ)

581 579 KISS was a normal rock/hard rock band their stage appearance was a gimmick
Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (KQk9m)

======

Who couldn't remember more than one lyric at a time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

582 So what is Nanzi doing these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM (Wg6v7)

In a perfect world? Decomposing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Reminds me of the opening scene in The Lion in Winter:
Alys (Jane Merrow, mmmmmm...): "How is Eleonore?" (i.e., Eleonore of Aquitaine, Henry II's wife)
Henry II (Peter O'Toole): "Decaying, I suppose."

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

583 You don't hate the NIH enough. Apparently they were trying to trans animals.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh6ancp

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (aRLgQ)

584 BTW, the Primus sucks comment is an old inside joke among Primus fans.

Primus used to sell bumper stickers that said "Primus Sucks".

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (elaR+)

585 Primus is....weird. Talented musicians though

Yeah I don't like them but they are very talented and skilled musicians. Its like a lot of death metal: well they are good at what they do, were it not for that singer...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (2VST1)

586 >> He is Borg.

And that makes wonder, who is Seven of Nine on Trump's pirate ship?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (w6EFb)

587 297
The people that signed off on Covid, from top to janitor, need to be tried.

Posted by: Ciampino - Maybe 10 years at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (KjLnc)

588 According to KCRA, the governor supported an amendment to the bill to specify that the funds couldn’t be used to defend immigrants with criminal histories.

Um, wouldn't that be all of them? I mean, you enter illegally, you're a criminal, so a criminal history, but I guess it depends on the definition of criminal history...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

589 People voted for her because she had big boobs, or are you saying she slept around?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

No idea if she slept around. But bewbs. Yes. They didn't hurt her, lets just say that. Not that she or her bewbs would sway me. She's a dim lunatic. But her looks didn't hurt her.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (4p0Xq)

590 I have seen the "green flash."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (ZmEVT)

591 "Look to Heinlein, Musk is the Man who sold the Moon. If he manages to prolong his life, he may turn into Lazarus Long.
Posted by: Tom Servo"

Yeah, that's more like it. I don't know if there is a place for a Musk type in the pseudo-Utopian Star Trek future .

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (vFG9F)

592 Um, wouldn't that be all of them? I mean, you enter illegally, you're a criminal, so a criminal history, but I guess it depends on the definition of criminal history...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

gotta assume it says tried and convicted

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (MGB5H)

593 So what is Nanzi doing these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM

Busting her hips. Watching Paul get pegged while she eats spendy ice cream.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (4p0Xq)

594 583 You don't hate the NIH enough. Apparently they were trying to trans animals.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh6ancp

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (aRLgQ)

I guess, just like trans-surgery doctors, these researchers know the true sexual identity of their subjects...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

595 It reads like they didn't understand what the law did. What they wrote I have no real problem with, in fact I agree that we need to find criminal solutions other than "throw them in jail" but in practice it basically decriminalized shoplifting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

It was openly backed by Soros. That was the first clue something was up.

Dianne Feinstein understood what the law did, but what we’re just going with “Newt and Rand are big dummies who didn’t realize decriminalizing shoplifting would be bad”?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 04:56 PM (nEfO3)

596 Originally done as an insult by some Italian festival parade, but taken up and made our own.
Posted by: Oldcat

To be fair, it was a really well done float.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 04, 2025 04:56 PM (hB7mE)

597 "Is Elon Spock or Scotty?"

Neither. I don't know a Star Trek analog. Maybe go to Ayn Rand for that.
Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:47 PM (vFG9F)

Ragnar Danneskjold was the one who liked distant travel.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:56 PM (n7h9X)

598 >> He is Borg.

And that makes wonder, who is Seven of Nine on Trump's pirate ship?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (w6EFb)

the hottest chick with the biggest tits.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:56 PM (VwHCD)

599 592 Um, wouldn't that be all of them? I mean, you enter illegally, you're a criminal, so a criminal history, but I guess it depends on the definition of criminal history...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

gotta assume it says tried and convicted

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (MGB5H)

So a pretty short list, if the crimes were state crimes. Quite a few Kali prosecutors won't prosecute certain groups, almost like those groups are protected...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

600 What’s Nancy Pelosi up to?

Seem to recall reading that last month she —- I mean, her husband— made a killing in some stock trades related to AI (or something Congress was doing).

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (Hkcdp)

601 593 So what is Nanzi doing these days?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 04:38 PM

Busting her hips. Watching Paul get pegged while she eats spendy ice cream.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 04:55 PM (4p0Xq)

So Nanzi busts a move?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (ynpvh)

602 Another first!

Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

603 Primus is....weird. Talented musicians though
Yeah I don't like them but they are very talented and skilled musicians. Its like a lot of death metal: well they are good at what they do, were it not for that singer...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Primus fans might like OU:

https://youtu.be/hURqTXGG9cY
https://youtu.be/Y25jmEVCwOQ

Posted by: mikeski at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (DgGvY)

604 Dianne Feinstein understood what the law did, but what we’re just going with “Newt and Rand are big dummies who didn’t realize decriminalizing shoplifting would be bad”?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 04, 2025 04:56 PM (nEfO3)

Could just be they figured if CA wanted to commit suicide why should they stand in the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (n7h9X)

605 Since Star Trek has been brought up, here's a question.

When Kirk left the Enterprise, he handed off command to Spock.

If Spock then had to also leave the Enterprise, he would hand off command to Scotty.

If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

606 Yes, Sulu had the comm at times.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

607 > Yeah I don't like them but they are very talented and skilled musicians. Its like a lot of death metal: well they are good at what they do, were it not for that singer...

I've discovered I like metal, as long as it's instrumental. As soon as they add that screaming crap I'm out. For me this is true across many musical genres.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 04:58 PM (Odg76)

608 605 Yes Sulu was shown left in command in at least one episode

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:58 PM (KQk9m)

609
I tremble for our nation when I think that the Left may be gearing up for... a sex strike.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2025 04:58 PM (dxSpM)

610 605 Since Star Trek has been brought up, here's a question.

When Kirk left the Enterprise, he handed off command to Spock.

If Spock then had to also leave the Enterprise, he would hand off command to Scotty.

If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

McCoy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

611 "Is Elon Spock or Scotty?"
--------
Elon is Spock. Vance is Scotty--I could see Vance enjoying Romulan Ale.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (azSra)

612 "Pam Bondi advances to final Senate [confirmation] vote"

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)

613 It was openly backed by Soros. That was the first clue something was up.

Yeah that should have been warning enough to get Rand Paul to back away. Newt is really uneven so he'd sign on to bad stuff even knowing it was bad. Based on past experience and behavior, it makes a lot more sense that Paul was deceived than that he's a secret crypto Soros puppet.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)

614 I recall for sure he takes command in Arena(Scott was not in that episode for whatever reason, Kirk and Spock left the ship)

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (KQk9m)

615 605 Since Star Trek has been brought up, here's a question.

When Kirk left the Enterprise, he handed off command to Spock.

If Spock then had to also leave the Enterprise, he would hand off command to Scotty.

If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

Chekov maybe?

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (aRLgQ)

616
Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

=============

Fun fact: Sarah Palin's ethics reforms of the Alaska state legislature.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (I87yH)

617 What’s Nancy Pelosi up to?

Seem to recall reading that last month she —- I mean, her husband— made a killing in some stock trades related to AI (or something Congress was doing).
Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (Hkcdp)

Oh, her husband had excellent timing with his purchase and sale of nvidia stock (they make the video cards most LLM's AND bit coin mining operations use.)

He was lucky enough to dump nvidia right before China publicly announced that they had a much cheaper LLM that ran on older shittier chips and could be trained for 5-10% of the cost of American LLMs.

Nvidia stock crashed.

Then it came out that the Chinese were almost definitely lying.

But either way, Paul Pelosi the Oracle, did very well here.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (uCjyK)

618 609
I tremble for our nation when I think that the Left may be gearing up for... a sex strike.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2025 04:58 PM (dxSpM)

They'll be no one Left for sex...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

619
@FoxNews
·
24m
FCC launches probe into Soros-backed radio station that revealed live locations of undercover ICE agents

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (LkLld)

620 It reads like they didn't understand what the law did. What they wrote I have no real problem with, in fact I agree that we need to find criminal solutions other than "throw them in jail" but in practice it basically decriminalized shoplifting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

Shooting them in the head reduces recidivism to zero.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (8zz6B)

621 616
Once a government (or any organization) is corrupt, how do you un-corrupt it? Are there actual successful examples of that working anywhere in the world?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

=============

Fun fact: Sarah Palin's ethics reforms of the Alaska state legislature.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (I87yH)

Sometimes reformation is impossible, but purification is not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (ynpvh)

622
Elon is half Data, half Lore.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (+oR7L)

623 Primus is....weird. Talented musicians though

Yeah I don't like them but they are very talented and skilled musicians. Its like a lot of death metal: well they are good at what they do, were it not for that singer...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (2VST1)

It took me a loooong time to get used to those singers. I probably got used to it by being fixated on the guitar. Now it doesn't even phase me. You gotta know your shit to play that stuff.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (VwHCD)

624 Heh.

I solved my own math.

1/6 was Pearl Harbor x (9/11)^23, which turns out to equal:

0.00989796

2,403 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor, so . . .

0.00989796 x 2,403 = 23.78

Which is WAY horribler than 1/6 really was.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (BRvvM)

625 Also in one episode (Devil in the Dark iirc) another Commander in charge of security was on board though I don't think they ever had one again

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (KQk9m)

626 Trump can't do this! He can't just change our foreign policy!

Posted by: Lt Col Bearclaw Vindman at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (2r10B)

627 Over 600!

Posted by: Keep it going at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (DobEs)

628 Yeah I don't like them but they are very talented and skilled musicians. Its like a lot of death metal: well they are good at what they do, were it not for that singer...

I've made my peace with the "Cookie Monster voice" because it's the price of entry for hearing decent metal made today (and seeing it live). Almost all of it's European, weirdly.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (2ocoG)

629 Never, I'm ready to pork the nearest planet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (VwHCD)

I hear a ficus is good for that.
-Big Harv Weinstein.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 04:24 PM (MGB5H)

We're at Amazon rain forest level now...

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (NMT5x)

630 Aoc was in some kind of star search competition for politics organized by Cenk whats his name. She won, because attractive young female communist tits have always appealed to a paid focus group. So they financed her run. Rest is history.

Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (+L8tT)

631 > If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?

Yep, Sulu. Uhura would be after Sulu.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (Odg76)

632 If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?

The rank structure in Star Trek really didn't make sense and I doubt it was ever really formalized. For a military organization they really did not write it well in any of the shows I saw.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (2VST1)

633 You don't hate the NIH enough. Apparently they were trying to trans animals.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh6ancp
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:54 PM (aRLgQ)

Once I saw Fauci I knew what was in the NIH. One look at him and the fact that nobody turned him in and I knew they were all perverts and monsters.

How many places you know the room where puppies have their vocal cords cut so they can't howl loud is "Jim in room 245"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (n7h9X)

634
When Kirk left the Enterprise, he handed off command to Spock.

If Spock then had to also leave the Enterprise, he would hand off command to Scotty.

If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025

***
When the top officers, and Chekov, were sent to battle the Earps at the OK Corral, Scotty was with them. So Sulu was probably the senior bridge officer, though we didn't see it. Same deal in the "Spock's Brain" episode.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 05:02 PM (J2vNu)

635 I've made my peace with the "Cookie Monster voice" because it's the price of entry for hearing decent metal made today (and seeing it live). Almost all of it's European, weirdly.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (2ocoG)

Norwegian Death Metal is the best Death Metal

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 05:02 PM (MGB5H)

636 McCoy?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

LOL. I don't think you'd want him in charge.

Kirk; "Bones, what happened to that planet that was opposing us?"
McCoy: "They're dead, Jim."

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)

637 McCoy is not a line officer so no, he is in charge of the medical department

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 05:02 PM (KQk9m)

638 624 Heh.

I solved my own math.

1/6 was Pearl Harbor x (9/11)^23, which turns out to equal:

0.00989796

2,403 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor, so . . .

0.00989796 x 2,403 = 23.78

Which is WAY horribler than 1/6 really was.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (BRvvM)

Only two people died on 9/11, and none were with the police or Congress, so the math is suspect.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:02 PM (ynpvh)

639 If I had to screw a planet, I hear Venus is hot. I'd stay away from Uranus though.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

640 There! I am done and going bananas and making banana bread for my man.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (gi+MR)

With chocolate chips? That's the only way.

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (NMT5x)

641 >600 comments.

Is it my imagination or has usage/engagement increased over the past several weeks?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (siVAI)

642 I think we need a new thread.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

643
More seriously, I really think that Republican officeholders will be assassinated in the near future.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (dxSpM)

644 Ace forgot to hit post before his afternoon walk again, didn’t he?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (u73oe)

645 Fun fact: Sarah Palin's ethics reforms of the Alaska state legislature.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (I87yH)

Sometimes reformation is impossible, but purification is not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (ynpvh)

Sarah Palin was lawfared out of office.

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (rj6Yv)

646 24m
FCC launches probe into Soros-backed radio station that revealed live locations of undercover ICE agents
Posted by: JackStraw

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 05:04 PM (elaR+)

647 636 McCoy?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

LOL. I don't think you'd want him in charge.

Kirk; "Bones, what happened to that planet that was opposing us?"
McCoy: "They're dead, Jim."

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 05:02 PM (77rzZ)

McCoy: "What do I look like, a Starfleet Captain!?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:04 PM (ynpvh)

648 Am I dreaming all this shit?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Must've been a dream, I don't believe where I've been...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 04, 2025 05:05 PM (OUMaO)

649 639 If I had to screw a planet, I hear Venus is hot. I'd stay away from Uranus though.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

There are also rings around Uranus, and possible Klingons.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:05 PM (ynpvh)

650 If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?
*
Yep, Sulu. Uhura would be after Sulu.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025

***
Though it's not considered "canon" now, we saw her take command in one of the Animated Series episodes.

You'll note that McCoy, though a Lt. Commander, was never tapped to sit in the big chair. Which makes sense. He was a staff officer, not a line officer. Spock turns himself over to McCoy in the "Menagerie" episode, because (as he says) McCoy is the "senior officer present." But McCoy could never take the bridge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 05:05 PM (J2vNu)

651 I think we need a new thread.
Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

Poor Ace. "Too much news!"

Posted by: mrp at February 04, 2025 05:05 PM (rj6Yv)

652 610 605 Since Star Trek has been brought up, here's a question.

When Kirk left the Enterprise, he handed off command to Spock.

If Spock then had to also leave the Enterprise, he would hand off command to Scotty.

If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

McCoy?
---------------------------------

McCoy is unlikely - Doctors and chaplains and JAG officers and such are never in the chain of command, they're adjunct.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 04, 2025 05:05 PM (F/35S)

653 Trump going after Soros now? I will dance a fuckin jig like Bruce Willis when that sonofabitch if deported.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (TLf/c)

654 197 Trust me, the R's are just as guilty as the D's. I think if we really looked in to it, our congresscritters would all be in jail.

Which is why it will never be really looked in to.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 03:57 PM (uCjyK)
==
I'm not sure its to everyone - just the leadership of each party. They control the agenda, they control what gets brought forward.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (GZYu7)

655 Fun fact: Sarah Palin's ethics reforms of the Alaska state legislature.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (I87yH)

Sometimes reformation is impossible, but purification is not.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:00 PM (ynpvh)

Sarah Palin was lawfared out of office.
Posted by: mrp

Using her own "reforms", IIRC. The problem isn't systems, it's bad faith. And the Left is made of bad faith.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (OUMaO)

656 Star Trek...

WTF was Mr Leslie?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (siVAI)

657 Trump going after Soros now? I will dance a fuckin jig like Bruce Willis when that sonofabitch if deported.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (TLf/c)

He has to be denaturalized first.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (MGB5H)

658
If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to?

Soros

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (63Dwl)

659 653 Trump going after Soros now? I will dance a fuckin jig like Bruce Willis when that sonofabitch if deported.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (TLf/c)

He may be deported to Hell first.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (ynpvh)

660 Primus is....weird. Talented musicians though

Yeah I don't like them but they are very talented and skilled musicians. Its like a lot of death metal: well they are good at what they do, were it not for that singer...
--------
Were it not also for that bass player. Yes, I'm absolutely serious. There is no such thing as a "lead bass player", that is a pure fabrication made by somebody who really, really, really wanted to play guitar BUT for some reason didn't.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (azSra)

661
You know, I think SoS Marco just might eclipse Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (I87yH)

662
If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)
*
Chekov maybe?
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025

***
Chekov was way too junior. I don't think we ever saw him as Officer of the Deck.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (J2vNu)

663 If Scotty than ALSO had to leave the Enterprise, whom did he hand off command to? Sulu?
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

Chekov maybe?
Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 04:59 PM (aRLgQ)

I have seen Sulu in the command chair, so he probably outranks Chekov who was installed for the youth viewer. It would be interesting to watch the TOS to see who is ever in that chair.

I'd think they'd have a ton of them since there'd be three watches a day and if something went off at 3AM ship equivalent in port there could be someone pretty junior on the bridge.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:08 PM (n7h9X)

664 Well now we know how much of the Bureau needs to be cut before starting to rebuild.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (wyMQY)

Correction: we now know how much to cut before we start cutting. Think of it as a pre-cut. Low hanging ham 'n eggs, if you will.

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 05:08 PM (NMT5x)

665
Ooh. 666?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:08 PM (I87yH)

666 NOW

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (I87yH)

667 I've made my peace with the "Cookie Monster voice" because it's the price of entry for hearing decent metal made today (and seeing it live). Almost all of it's European, weirdly.
Posted by: Ian S.

Female cookie monsters are awesome.

https://youtu.be/sIL-vgHNOu0
https://youtu.be/SQNtGoM3FVU

Posted by: mikeski at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (DgGvY)

668 Ackshually, I think I'm going to listen to Rammstein's "Mutter" album next.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (BRvvM)

669 657 Trump going after Soros now? I will dance a fuckin jig like Bruce Willis when that sonofabitch if deported.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (TLf/c)

He has to be denaturalized first.
-----------------------------
Shouldn't be hard to do, assuming he lied on his application - there's still a line akin to 'ever been a nazi?' on there IIRC.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (F/35S)

670 I have seen Sulu in the command chair, so he probably outranks Chekov who was installed for the youth viewer. It would be interesting to watch the TOS to see who is ever in that chair.

I'd think they'd have a ton of them since there'd be three watches a day and if something went off at 3AM ship equivalent in port there could be someone pretty junior on the bridge.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:08 PM (n7h9X)
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Sulu did go on to become a starship captain himself, so it would make sense to allow him time in the "big chair" to give him experience.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (7fElN)

671 Chekov = ensign.

Sulu = Lt.

Last time Sulu took command: "set phasers to STUNNING"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (siVAI)

672 > Trust me, the R's are just as guilty as the D's. I think if we really looked in to it, our congresscritters would all be in jail.

Which is why it will never be really looked in to.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
---------
It's being looked into. Maybe not with the level of detail you are looking for right now, but the data is out there for people to leverage. And it will be leveraged.

That's big. It's not hidden anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (Q4IgG)

673 You know, I think SoS Marco just might eclipse Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (I87yH)

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He's a gonna need bigger cankles AND Mao-Mao gowns ...

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (BA6FK)

674 I'm not sure its to everyone - just the leadership of each party. They control the agenda, they control what gets brought forward.
Posted by: Black JEM at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (GZYu7)

You could maybe win House race and not be part of the corruption.

Maybe.

And if you kept your head down and didn't do or say anything, maybe they'd ignore you or even let you stay for a term or two.

But anything beyond that, you need the backing of the party. Which you don't get if you're not willing to "play ball".

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (uCjyK)

675 Star Trek...

WTF was Mr Leslie?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (siVAI)

Think he was a first season dude before they normalized the bridge crew and sometimes used them for the plot. Like the guy who hated Spock because they saw that Romulans looked like him.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (n7h9X)

676 > WTF was Mr Leslie?

Background filler. Sometimes they put him at the helm, at navigation, or at the transporter.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (Odg76)

677 I have seen Sulu in the command chair, so he probably outranks Chekov who was installed for the youth viewer. It would be interesting to watch the TOS to see who is ever in that chair.
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Sulu ends up with his own command in the Star Trek movies, so I would be inclined to believe he was next.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (azSra)

678 McCoy is unlikely - Doctors and chaplains and JAG officers and such are never in the chain of command, they're adjunct.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 04, 2025 05:05 PM (F/35S)

Crusher on TNG was. But I don't think that was until the 7th season. There is an episode where Troi decides she wants to do the training to be a command officer, and part of that was talking to Crusher about her doing it. But they do have it as being specific training to be certified to do it.

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (aRLgQ)

679 In a similar situation, we never really saw who took the big chair at U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters if Mr. Waverly was out. He had to sleep sometime; somebody had to answer calls from agents in the field. In some early episodes they suggested his secretary as more than just that, as a case officer to whom the agent on a particular affair would report if he needed some special information. But as the show progressed, they pretty much settled for Waverly always answering the communicator calls.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (J2vNu)

680 Also, you mofos made me try to look up the chain of command on the NCC-1701 Enterprise. Effing geeks.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (OUMaO)

681 658

I find your terms acceptable.

I will not cry when he goes to his reward. He'll face a stern judge.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (ODdTz)

682 Were it not also for that bass player. Yes, I'm absolutely serious. There is no such thing as a "lead bass player", that is a pure fabrication made by somebody who really, really, really wanted to play guitar BUT for some reason didn't.
Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:07 PM (azSra)

Well ya know guitars are just too fucken small for me.
I look like I'm playing a ukulele.

Posted by: Peter Steele at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (xcIvR)

683 > He has to be denaturalized first.

Why? Obama droned a US Citizen.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (Odg76)

684 Chekhov was only added because the Soviets bitched about Russians being apparently excluded from the united Earth.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

685 Shit getting bad when the Trek breaks out.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (ODdTz)

686 It's being looked into. Maybe not with the level of detail you are looking for right now, but the data is out there for people to leverage. And it will be leveraged.

That's big. It's not hidden anymore.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (Q4IgG)

So Trump's going to get the FBI to start arresting members of congress for corruption?

I doubt it. Even if Trump wanted to do it, I don't think the FBI or intelligence agencies would do it. And as Chuck Schumer said, the intelligence agencies have 6 ways to sunday to screw you.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 04, 2025 05:12 PM (uCjyK)

687 There is no such thing as a "lead bass player", that is a pure fabrication made by somebody who really, really, really wanted to play guitar BUT for some reason didn't.
Posted by: Crusader

After the Yardbirds lost their good guitarists, they shuffled their lineup for a while, then renamed themselves Renaissance.

Electric bass playing lead, acoustic guitar playing rhythm, acoustic piano, drums, and Annie Haslam's 5-octave vocals. And usually a whole orchestra.

Posted by: mikeski at February 04, 2025 05:12 PM (DgGvY)

688 666 NOW
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (I87yH)

I was going to say, missed it by \m/ \m/ that much. But you made it! Scary!

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 05:12 PM (NMT5x)

689 Press: shouting...shouting...shouting!
PDT: what do you know about anything?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2025 05:12 PM (W/lyH)

690
Anyways...

I don't want to type long, thoughtful posts right now because of the willowing risk, so I'll just throw out that I bet Hillary, knowing full well that she had the goods on everyone and could have left a Hillary-shaped mark on the Dept of State as deep and painful as the one Rubio is going to leave, is JEALOUS.

She could have fvcked Obama (who stole her rightful office in 200

and made the name of all names if she hadn't gone over to the Dark Side, where creativity, guts and imagination die.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:12 PM (I87yH)

691 Ace is probably having a DM war with @billkristol, with Cap'n Bill threatening to sue him for slander and ace saying: "I'm taking you down like Little Green Footballs took down Dan Rather, you fuck!"

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 05:13 PM (BRvvM)

692 684 Chekhov was only added because the Soviets bitched about Russians being apparently excluded from the united Earth.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

Old Bush the Younger joke where he was asked by the ambassador from Saudi Arabia why there were no Arabs on Star Trek.
Bush replies, "Because it takes place in the future!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

693 685 Shit getting bad when the Trek breaks out.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (ODdTz)

Worf was a terrible security officer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

694 675 Star Trek...

WTF was Mr Leslie?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:06 PM (siVAI)

Think he was a first season dude before they normalized the bridge crew and sometimes used them for the plot. Like the guy who hated Spock because they saw that Romulans looked like him.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:10 PM (n7h9X)

Named for the Shat's daughter, I believe. He was in all three seasons.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 05:13 PM (LxER7)

695 And Primus does sort of suck. I just don't get it I guess.
Buckhead (part of Bernies Bucket of Brains)(another of

Posted by: Reforger at February 04, 2025 05:13 PM (xcIvR)

696 "Worf was a terrible security officer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

And Data was a time bomb.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (vFG9F)

697 Worf was a terrible security officer.
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Yep, a risky choice for sure--like putting a Muslim in the State Department.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (azSra)

698 Dem's having another "anti-Elon" rally. "Yawn"

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (G0vdT)

699 "I'm taking you down like Little Green Footballs took down Dan Rather, you fuck!"

The Charles war era were a fun time.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (+oR7L)

700 Help us, Ace! The nerds have taken over!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (u73oe)

701 696 "Worf was a terrible security officer.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

And Data was a time bomb.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (vFG9F)

Wesley was annoying

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (ynpvh)

702 I listen to Primus, and also Cake, for the hilariously nonsense lyrics as well as for the excellent quality of their musicianship.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (BRvvM)

703 > Worf was a terrible security officer.

Better than Lt Yar.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (Odg76)

704 Told you we need a new thread.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (vFG9F)

705 698 Dem's having another "anti-Elon" rally. "Yawn"

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 05:14 PM (G0vdT)

They don't like people born in Africa, apparently.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (ynpvh)

706 There is no such thing as a "lead bass player", that is a pure fabrication made by somebody who really, really, really wanted to play guitar BUT for some reason didn't.
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What band needed more than one bass? Not a music type, but I can't think why you'd need more than one.

Posted by: Trumpfather at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (+L8tT)

707
I was going to say, missed it by \m/ \m/ that much. But you made it! Scary!
Posted by: haffhowershower

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This thread is FLYING! Page views for ace! Page views for ace! Trump is making everything great again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (I87yH)

708
Star Fleet was a damned matriarchy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (w6EFb)

709 Also in one episode (Devil in the Dark iirc) another Commander in charge of security was on board though I don't think they ever had one again
Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 05:01 PM (KQk9m)

Sulu was in charge of security in the alt-universe crew. So there might have been one in the other shifts.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (n7h9X)

710 Never, I'm ready to pork the nearest planet.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

If only the 50 Foot Woman was still be around.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (WXNFJ)

711 703 > Worf was a terrible security officer.

Better than Lt Yar.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (Odg76)

Maybe. At least Yar was better looking.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

712 So what is Nanzi doing these days?
Posted by: Pudinhead
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about 3 mph in that wheelchair.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2025 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

713 "I'm taking you down like Little Green Footballs took down Dan Rather, you fuck!"

The Charles war era were a fun time.
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Then suddenly he became a shill for the left again.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:16 PM (azSra)

714 We've tried warning Ace about putting his computer desk under his shelves.

Time to send in the dogs to sniff the rubble?

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (NMT5x)

715 If only the 50 Foot Woman was still be around.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (WXNFJ)

Finally saw that not long ago. Aside from the hokey effects, it had a pretty decent film noir feel. I actually liked it in parts.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (LxER7)

716 693.

Terrible, half-assed commie Space UN show never appealed to me.

I respect it for its good parts:
Kirk boning Space Strange
Defiance against Authority to get shit done

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (ODdTz)

717 Worf was a terrible security officer.

Better than Lt Yar.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (Odg76)

--

Yar had better underboob.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (siVAI)

718 666 NOW
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM

The Comment of the Beast.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (aD39U)

719 718 666 NOW
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM

The Comment of the Beast.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (aD39U)

Would that make comment #333 is half-wit brother?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:18 PM (ynpvh)

720 711 703 > Worf was a terrible security officer.

Better than Lt Yar.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (Odg76)

Maybe. At least Yar was better looking.
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I think that Lt. Worf is quite fetching - Barry Soetoro

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 04, 2025 05:18 PM (F/35S)

721 Last time Sulu took command: "set phasers to STUNNING"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:09 PM (siVAI)

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"Load hardon-for pedos!

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 05:18 PM (lDFBN)

722 Dem's having another "anti-Elon" rally. "Yawn"
Posted by: WisRich

Over on Facebook someone posted a video of Kamala doing the exact same "nazi salute" that Elon did and the lefties are going nuts claiming it's different.
Too funny.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 05:18 PM (elaR+)

723 I like to think that Trump called Nancy.

Hey, remember that meeting when you said wait til you see what we’re going to do to you? Ok, I just wanted to see if you remembered. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (u73oe)

724 Ace has been called by DOGE to be one of their Disinformation Experts. He's well qualified you know, it says it in the heading

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (U/Wlk)

725 684 Chekhov was only added because the Soviets bitched about Russians being apparently excluded from the united Earth.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

Old Bush the Younger joke where he was asked by the ambassador from Saudi Arabia why there were no Arabs on Star Trek.
Bush replies, "Because it takes place in the future!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

David Gerrold in one of his inside Trek books said that they made him super-Russian-patriot to kid them about the pressure they got.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (n7h9X)

726 Worst Star Trek TOS episode nominees is the new topic until we get a nude:

"The Trouble with Tribbles"

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (azSra)

727
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

Donald and Elon at Washington DC

Shaka, when USAid fell

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (+oR7L)

728 Sulu didn't mind cashing those royalty checks for Green Berets.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (ODdTz)

729 I had "Star Trek Discovery" on.

Man, that was an unattractive crew. It was like they just decided 'Screw it!' And wanted to lump in even more messages.

Posted by: Stateless...30% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 04, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)

730 Then suddenly he became a shill for the left again.

he got paid off by USAID!

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2025 05:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

731 There is no such thing as a "lead bass player", that is a pure fabrication

Lemmy?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:20 PM (2VST1)

732 Any show/film series that makes Tank Abrams president of the universe deserves any slag thrown it's way

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 05:20 PM (MGB5H)

733 Then suddenly he became a shill for the left again.
Posted by: Crusader

But the left didn't want him back

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (elaR+)

734 Terrible, half-assed commie Space UN show never appealed to me.

I respect it for its good parts:
Kirk boning Space Strange
Defiance against Authority to get shit done
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (ODdTz)

he'd destroy any civilization, Prime Directive or no, if he couldn't get laid there.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (n7h9X)

735 Go listen to "big bottom"

That's how you lead bass

Posted by: brak at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (+j5h3)

736 Patrick Webb
@RealPatrickWebb
·
38m
BREAKING: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to end war.
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Zelensky sees the writing on the wall. Time to cut a deal and make a beeline to Switzerland.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (G0vdT)

737 729 I had "Star Trek Discovery" on.

Man, that was an unattractive crew. It was like they just decided 'Screw it!' And wanted to lump in even more messages.

Posted by: Stateless...30% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 04, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)

Wait until you see the President of Earth episode...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (ynpvh)

738 Worst Star Trek TOS episode nominees is the new topic until we get a nude:

"The Trouble with Tribbles"
Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (azSra)

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No, that was pure camp and didn't take itself too seriously.

What was that one where they were in a western town to have a gunfight and all the buildings were half built? That one sucked.

Cloud Minders was stupid too.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (siVAI)

739 Real Heinlein has never been tried.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (ODdTz)

740 726 Worst Star Trek TOS episode nominees is the new topic until we get a nude:

"The Trouble with Tribbles"
Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (azSra)

"Shore Leave" - yes, even with Kirk's hot chick, it was the worst.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (LxER7)

741 There is no such thing as a "lead bass player", that is a pure fabrication

Lemmy?
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I've read interviews with him--he wasn't as raw or dumb as he sometimes pretended. He was the opposite of a "lead bass player". He was adamant that Motorhead didn't play "heavy metal"--he said it was straight-up rock-n-roll.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:22 PM (azSra)

742 Has anyone checked on the status of Ace's shelves?

Posted by: ballistic at February 04, 2025 05:22 PM (qr8rv)

743 734

The real Prime Directive is Tap Dat Ass

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:22 PM (ODdTz)

744 Zelensky sees the writing on the wall. Time to cut a deal and make a beeline to Switzerland.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM

He's got to have an offshore account somewhere with some of the "unaccounted for" 100 million that is missing.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (+oR7L)

745 734 Terrible, half-assed commie Space UN show never appealed to me.

I respect it for its good parts:
Kirk boning Space Strange
Defiance against Authority to get shit done
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:17 PM (ODdTz)

he'd destroy any civilization, Prime Directive or no, if he couldn't get laid there.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:21 PM (n7h9X)

There was that one episode where Kirk had previously had some dangerous flu and they send a pretty girl so she could get infected and spread it to the population...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (ynpvh)

746 729 I had "Star Trek Discovery" on.

Man, that was an unattractive crew. It was like they just decided 'Screw it!' And wanted to lump in even more messages.
Posted by: Stateless...30% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 04, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)

Because they did. Kurtzman even talked about Trek being a platform for them to push messages or agendas. I forget the exact phrasing, but Nerdrotic pointed it out a lot when shitting on Kurtzman Trek.

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (aRLgQ)

747 What's the one where Spock was back in time and got jiggly with Mariette Hartley? That's a top five crapfest.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (siVAI)

748 This thread is FLYING! Page views for ace! Page views for ace! Trump is making everything great again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 04, 2025 05:15 PM (I87yH)

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Ace will be able to buy a new Vespa!

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (Av2jG)

749 743 734

The real Prime Directive is Tap Dat Ass

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:22 PM (ODdTz)

Oh my!

Posted by: Sulu at February 04, 2025 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

750 He's got to have an offshore account somewhere with some of the "unaccounted for" 100 million that is missing.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (+oR7L)
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Um, that's actually Billion.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 05:24 PM (G0vdT)

751 He's got to have an offshore account somewhere with some of the "unaccounted for" 100 million that is missing.
Posted by: Frank Barone

That was BILLION. With a B.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2025 05:24 PM (W2Pud)

752 How I picture Ace

https://tinyurl.com/24jj4ftp

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 05:24 PM (aD39U)

753 Worst Star Trek TOS episode nominees is the new topic until we get a nude

"And the Children Shall Lead" I think. Evil children

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (2VST1)

754 The Devil in the Dark had McCoy's first damn it
Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not a bricklayer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (U/Wlk)

755 There is a YouTube channel called "Jazzified" that does full rock albums, but if they were done in the 40s and 50s. Here is Black Sabbath's "Paranoid":

https://tinyurl.com/BS-Paranoid-Jazz-Hands

I love this kind of crossover stuff.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (BRvvM)

756 Benz says that Alexandria Donkey-Chompers' rise from obscurity to sitting congresspyrsyn was funded by, get this, USAID, which pumps money into "justice and democracy" groups which then fund socialist groups in the US like the "Justice Democrats" (who then picked AOC out of 10,000 contestants to run for Congress).

Cenk is a CIA OP???

Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (i0F8b)

757
Kamala Harris pledges to Peruvian Trans activists that one of her first acts as President after she wins in 2028 will be to RESTORE the $32,000 in funding for their Trans comic book that @DOGE eliminated.

Kiss off, you stupid cow.

Run for President of Peruvia -- they'll love your bafflegab.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (xG4kz)

758 "I just found a billion dollars that someone...forgot...."

Posted by: Guns-n-Zelensky at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (azSra)

759 I liked the Grumps episode.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (aD39U)

760 This is the mission for one of the government-dependent organizations that temporarily lost funding for a few minutes under the Trump Administration;s brief suspension:

"Her group relies on federal funding for a program that allows 6- to 18-year-old children to visit, call and write letters to their parents and siblings in prison."

How much can this cost? I mean, certainly the administrators deserve mid-six figures, but...

Posted by: Oglebay at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (ogTiX)

761 Worst Star Trek TOS episode nominees is the new topic until we get a nude:

"The Trouble with Tribbles"
Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:19 PM (azSra)

That's a pretty good one I think, even kills most of the Tribbles if you like blood. (well no visible blood).

The one with the hippies and the one withe kids are bad.

I even kinda like one with the two color faced dudes, though I never picked up on the subtle theme in it. The insults were kinda funny "That's just what a guy with black on the left side would say, scum!"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

762 I'm having fun listening these millionaire Dem Senators rail against billionaires.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (G0vdT)

763 Oh, and when the crew were all telepathically controlled by ancient Romans.

Come to think of it, it's probably easier to list the good episodes.

Guardian of Forever.
Balance of Terror

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (siVAI)

764 The one with Jack the Ripper was pretty dumb. Maybe as dumb as the one with Abe Lincoln.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (vFG9F)

765 Meesa not know about Star Trek

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (1FWWQ)

766 He was the opposite of a "lead bass player". He was adamant that Motorhead didn't play "heavy metal"--he said it was straight-up rock-n-roll.

The thing is, he plays lead with the bass, not rhythm. A lot of songs he IS the lead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (2VST1)

767 He's got to have an offshore account somewhere with some of the "unaccounted for" 100 million that is missing.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM (+oR7L)
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Um, that's actually Billion.
Posted by: WisRich

Actually, it's probably only a couple hundred million. That money passed through so many hands before it got to him that I'll bet our congress critters skimmed off more than he ever thought of.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (VVexz)

768 Bonk bonk, on the head.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (aD39U)

769 "Her group relies on federal funding for a program that allows 6- to 18-year-old children to visit, call and write letters to their parents and siblings in prison."

How much can this cost? I mean, certainly the administrators deserve mid-six figures, but...
Posted by: Oglebay at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (ogTiX)

58 billion dollars.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

770 Maybe Ace got tired of all the winning and fainted.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (LxER7)

771 Ace will be able to buy a new Vespa!
Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 05:23 PM

New Crocs AND fully assembled shelves. Living the high life man.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (4p0Xq)

772 Worst Star Trek TOS episode nominees is the new topic until we get a nude

"And the Children Shall Lead" I think. Evil children
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Bonk bonk!

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (azSra)

773 754 The Devil in the Dark had McCoy's first damn it
Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not a bricklayer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (U/Wlk)

The Horta.

Posted by: Sulu at February 04, 2025 05:27 PM (ynpvh)

774 It's a little weird to have a rally whose only message is "Fuck this one guy in particular".

I mean, every rally has a purpose, but there's usually some point that's supposed to be made in general. "Unrestricted Immigration is great", "Cops need to just shut up and get strangled", "Pay for my gross surgery to salvage what's left of the hole where they cut my snausage off". You know, whatever the soup of the day is.

To have a whole protest to simply say "We hate this one specific guy" is just....... sad? Weird? I don't know. Pick an adjective.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 04, 2025 05:27 PM (+iIV1)

775 This thread is so old. Mitch McConnel was in his first term when it started.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 05:27 PM (4p0Xq)

776 I like the Space Hippies episode. Flower power sucks.

Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (vFG9F)

777
WHY YOU
NO CALL
SPOCK?

Posted by: The Horta at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (aD39U)

778 763 Oh, and when the crew were all telepathically controlled by ancient Romans.

Come to think of it, it's probably easier to list the good episodes.

Guardian of Forever.
Balance of Terror

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (siVAI)

Greek gods? Gotta watch you ass with those homos.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

779 i]I even kinda like one with the two color faced dudes, though I never picked up on the subtle theme in it. The insults were kinda funny "That's just what a guy with black on the left side would say, scum!"

Yeah, it was a bit too on the nose and silly. I get it, you're trying to make a point but way hamfisted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (2VST1)

780 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to end war.

I'm sure the families of the dead/displaced Ukrainians are saddened by his sudden lack of resolve.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (ExV1e)

781 The thing is, he plays lead with the bass, not rhythm. A lot of songs he IS the lead.
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I'm a huge Motorhead fan, and there's not a single example of what you're suggesting that I can think of. Fast Eddie Clark would beg to disagree as well (were he still among the living).

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (azSra)

782 Im starting to feel like the shelves have come down like the walls of jerhico.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (MGB5H)

783 I even kinda like one with the two color faced dudes, though I never picked up on the subtle theme in it. The insults were kinda funny "That's just what a guy with black on the left side would say, scum!"
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

And weren't they the last two people of their species?

But then you know that shit Section 31 TV movie had to have one as a character. Because current day television has no respect for canon.

Posted by: buzzion at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (aRLgQ)

784 Kamala Harris pledges to Peruvian Trans activists that one of her first acts as President after she wins in 2028 will be to RESTORE the $32,000 in funding for their Trans comic book that @DOGE eliminated.

Kiss off, you stupid cow.

Run for President of Peruvia -- they'll love your bafflegab.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2025 05:25 PM (xG4kz)

Come on Kamala, just go to a comic shop and buy a random mag for 5 bucks. All of them have a trans plot now.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (n7h9X)

785
What's the one where Spock was back in time and got jiggly with Mariette Hartley? That's a top five crapfest.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

She would not even bake some Nestle's Toll House cookies for that pointy-eared freak.

For those not in the know, she was in ads for Nestle's Toll House cookies and that episode ran in the Bay Area at that same time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (xG4kz)

786 Nood. Ace lives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

787 Generalissimo Baby Gap ready to end the war?

Golly.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (SjXb3)

788 779 i]I even kinda like one with the two color faced dudes, though I never picked up on the subtle theme in it. The insults were kinda funny "That's just what a guy with black on the left side would say, scum!"

Yeah, it was a bit too on the nose and silly. I get it, you're trying to make a point but way hamfisted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (2VST1)

I'm sure there were some literally ham-fisted aliens...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (ynpvh)

789 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to end war.

Translation. We don't want Elon to audit anything.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (4p0Xq)

790 776 I like the Space Hippies episode. Flower power sucks.
Posted by: fd at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (vFG9F)

Herbert!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (QAkQ3)

791
As the budget exploded the roads still weren't being maintained, the medical system started implementing long wait times, and the costs of basic staples like food just kept going up and up

Yes waste was a part of it but this was primarily the result of the left looting the treasury
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 04:25 PM (t0Rmr)

Here in Fresno, the city/county ignored the roads, just like every other city in Clownifornia.

Until Jan 20.

Since the Inauguration, they've been doing so much road work that it's tough to drive anywhere in town the last couple of weeks.

Can't imagine why...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2025 05:29 PM (y9nCu)

792 778 763 Oh, and when the crew were all telepathically controlled by ancient Romans.

Come to think of it, it's probably easier to list the good episodes.

Guardian of Forever.
Balance of Terror

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 05:26 PM (siVAI)

Greek gods? Gotta watch you ass with those homos.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

That was "Plato's Stepchildren". Barbara Billingsley. Yow.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 05:30 PM (LxER7)

793 "And the Children Shall Lead"

iirc, The Skipper led the kids.

Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2025 05:30 PM (i0F8b)

794 Zelenskyy knows he’s toast.
He “lost” $100 billion and Elon’s techies are going to be ALL OVER his azz auditing where all the cash and weapons went.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2025 05:30 PM (Hkcdp)

795 I'm a huge Motorhead fan, and there's not a single example of what you're suggesting that I can think of

Lemmy disagrees:

https://youtube.com/shorts/OijK3Fl9h-s?si=zhYc9zvv9ooxg4VT

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:31 PM (2VST1)

796 NNNUUUUDDDEEE

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 04, 2025 05:32 PM (F/35S)

797 i]I even kinda like one with the two color faced dudes, though I never picked up on the subtle theme in it. The insults were kinda funny "That's just what a guy with black on the left side would say, scum!"

Yeah, it was a bit too on the nose and silly. I get it, you're trying to make a point but way hamfisted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (2VST1)

I think i read that the cop guy had an invisible ship so they didn't have to come up with a new ship model . Money was tight. In the tribble episode the writer was praised for coming up with the idea of combining the bar and the tribble store for preserving budget.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:32 PM (n7h9X)

798 To actually see what I have long understood to be true: that the entire Federal Government was a grift for the Left and a weapon for the Left is breathtaking. I shudder to think where we would be in 4 years if Biden was installed for a second term. The Marxist Left, or Obama if you prefer that spelling, were so close to pulling off their insurgency which would have obliterated the USA as we know it. We are not out of the frying pan yet but progress is being made.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at February 04, 2025 05:34 PM (Q8Bj8)

799 Greek gods? Gotta watch you ass with those homos.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 04, 2025 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

That was "Plato's Stepchildren". Barbara Billingsley. Yow.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 05:30 PM (LxER7)

The costume designer was famed for finding ways to make a dress that looked like it was about to come to bits, but never did.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2025 05:34 PM (n7h9X)

800 > 4 Man i def did not have Little Marco turns into "Gandalf The Motherfucker SoS" on my 2025 bingo card
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 04, 2025 03:32 PM (HYKHz)

Either Trump has talked him into giving up the soyburgers for red meat, or his balls finally dropped.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 04, 2025 05:39 PM (W5ArC)

801 Not sure how true it is, but I've been told some version of this story by several different people who were around back then. They claim it no longer happens, but who knows
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Go back and look up the Knapp Commission.

Posted by: Cap'n Billy at February 04, 2025 05:52 PM (ctrM5)

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