Michael Shellenberger: USAID and the CIA Funded Trump's First Impeachment

The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.
Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.
The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were "key hidden actors behind a plan" by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats' impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.
In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP's dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP's "annual work plan" and approves new hires of "key personnel." NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.
However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast "after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster's journalists involved in the project."
On December 16, Drop Site's Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. "NDR, Germany's public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding -- b/c no report was ever produced to kill," said Grim. "That was absurd -- and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it."
The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP's original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, "Drew's just nervous about being linked with law enforcement," referring to Sullivan. "If people who are going to give you information think you're just a cop, maybe it's a problem."
OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had "probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government... and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out."
As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as "cut-outs," to interfere in US politics this way.
OCCRP claims they're an "independent" "news" organization, and says that any claims to the contrary are "defamatory." Same lying and bullying tactics they used to get the German report censored.

But OCCRP's agreement with USAID says that USAID has the power to approve or veto OCCRP's hiring decsions.

On the website Patrucic links to, a screenshot from OCCRP's own agreement with USAID states, "Requests for approval of new Key Personnel shall include (a) written justification; and (b) CV curriculum vitae in English... Key personnel positions, candidates and changes to such personnel will require concurrence from the AOR [Agreement Officer's Representative] and approval from the AO [Agreement Officer]."
OCCRP claims on its website that USAID's oversight of OCCRP is not what it appears to be. "This represents a serious misunderstanding of a common procurement procedure. This person or persons, referred to as the grant's 'key personnel,' ensures that the money we get is spent appropriately and that the work gets done. This is not an editorial role, but a logistical one."
But there is nothing in the agreement that suggests USAID's approval of OCCRP's work plan and senior staff are unimportant to the editorial content produced by OCCRP.
Indeed, USAID's Shannon McGuire emphasizes, in the NDR documentary, that USAID controlled OCCRP through what is known as a "substantial involvement clause."
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Sullivan confirmed this. " Under cooperative agreements, which we don't like to take," he said, "they have a say on who the people are, but they can veto somebody."
Patrucic told Public, "I am the editor-in-chief of OCCRP and was appointed during a USAID grant, but my CV was never sent to USAID and no approval was sought or received. OCCRP is governed only by its board of directors and no one else."
But a second USAID official, Mike Henning, confirmed to the NDR filmmakers that USAID approval is not just for "logistical" or "administrative" functions.
"A cooperative agreement has more strings attached," said Henning, "than a grant... Some of the strings that are attached in a cooperative agreement are approval of key personnel, approval of an annual work plan, approval of sub grants of a certain amount above a certain amount."
USAID, he added, would have to approve "the editor in chief or who's the CEO, who's the, you know, managing editor."

...
Samantha Power, then head of USAID, said in November 2021 that OCCRP was a "major partner" of the US government. Under its Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through Investigative Reporting (STAIR) program, USAID allocated $20 million to OCCRP from September 2022 to September 2027 to support investigative journalism in Europe and Eurasia. One of the reporters on the Giuliani story was based in Ukraine. Although OCCRP claims to assign grants retrospectively, it appears that a USAID STAIR grant may have funded the story.
Steve Engleberg, managing editor of the investigative journalism nonprofit, ProPublica, said that OCCRP's relationship with the U.S. government undermines OCCRP's claim to independence.

Shellenberger's "Public" substack is very much worth the $5 per month.

🚨BREAKING: Michael Shellenberger tells Jesse Watters that USAID and the CIA are linked to Donald Trump's impeachment.
pic.twitter.com/AjeTfCLjsf
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 6, 2025

Mike Benz reports on USAID being the central organizer and main motor of the censorship propaganda effort against the American people, paying often-foreign governments and NGOs to label American speech as "disinformation," so that other USAID-funded groups could then ban conservatives from ever getting any advertising money.

Among other things.

He points out that, in 2019, Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article complaining that government censorship had gone too far. He was rebuffed by USAID-sponsored entities who organized and funded a fake astroturf campaign to drain FaceBook of advertising revenue. FaceBook's stock capitalization dropped by $60 billion over a few days, and that was enough to get Zuckerberg to comply.

He notes that Elon Musk, as "a triple-digit billionaire," is better able to resist this "whole of society" economic coercion (organized and funded by the US government) than double-digit billionaires like Zuckerberg.

And what about the rest of us? What about people barely getting by due to USAID's crushing advertising boycotts against us?

Mike Benz exposes USAID for 11 straight minutes. pic.twitter.com/ja95d0qp0c
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) February 5, 2025

NEW: USAID whistleblower says he was forced to go to DEI camp and perform a “privilege walk” where they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

Your tax dollars at work.

“We have what's called a privilege walk as part of the orientation where you are given an identity,”… pic.twitter.com/oCize0cvwW
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 6, 2025

All kinds of people we’ve never heard of, and whom we never elected, have had this access for decades. You will need a new argument, because right now all it looks like is that you and others are terrified we’ll see your names as USAID fund recipients. https://t.co/LScuK44rCh
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) February 6, 2025

Hilarious 😂 😂👇 pic.twitter.com/AWccTqwNvK
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 6, 2025

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1 Uh oh.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 06, 2025 02:11 PM (aD39U)

2 The hits just keep coming.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:11 PM (2UnvF)

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at February 06, 2025 02:12 PM (iXQIy)

4 wut?!?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025 02:12 PM (44PAK)

5 The depths of corruption they've uncovered is already amazing.

It's only going to get worse.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 06, 2025 02:12 PM (kAFFE)

6 How much did Vindman get?

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:13 PM (sZkrh)

7 Treason.

No other word for it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 02:14 PM (W5ArC)

8 Just lost another 50 pounds.

Posted by: Olivia Julianna at February 06, 2025 02:14 PM (2UnvF)

9 Six ways to Sunday, Trump. Six ways!

Posted by: Cucky Schemer at February 06, 2025 02:14 PM (cwY4Z)

10 > they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

That sounds like a lot of fun, actually.

Posted by: Barack "Gaylord" Obama at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (W5ArC)

11 USAID? Cut off their Descovy.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (v0R5T)

12 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (2UnvF)

13 > 6 How much did Vindman get?
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:13 PM (sZkrh)

A vanload of assorted Little Debbies and a gasoline truck full of flavored corn syrup.

Posted by: Barack at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (W5ArC)

14 Fire the whole lot of them. Then pull the security clearances.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (w3u3d)

15 Learn to ~~Code~~ Identify and Successfully Emigrate to Countries Which Do Not Extradite to the United States

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (Vqx30)

16 That certainly looks like a lot of words.

Posted by: J. Peterman at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (9XPe8)

17 RE: that last video...

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CARRIER PIGEONS IN MADAGASCAR???

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (7fElN)

18 Another “conspiracy theory” proven true.

The CIA must be abolished.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (nEfO3)

19 So, yeah. Yeah, America. This pretty much is The State. All that crap you learned in cartoons about Branches and Bills and Laws hasn't been in operation for decades now.

And as States go.... it's pretty darn Deep, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (+iIV1)

20 Up three lbs, just ate a dozen donuts - Olivia Julianna keeping the world informed on her way to a heart attack

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (EUtBO)

21 19 And as States go.... it's pretty darn Deep, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (+iIV1)

=====

"And it's fabulous!"
-Bill Kristol

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

22 We should have known that it was the money they were all getting that' was the glue that held the whole Op together

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (sZkrh)

23 A vanload of assorted Little Debbies and a gasoline truck full of flavored corn syrup.

Posted by: Barack at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (W5ArC)

His brother turned for..... much less.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (+iIV1)

24 Not just Trump hate

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (sZkrh)

25 You don't say?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (LkLld)

26 >>>"Regime change at home."

One way helicopter flights from home.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (xJL+M)

27 Boobs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (xcxpd)

28 In 2017 Trump had no idea how deep the swamp was. Not only did he learn, he spent the last 4 years planning.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (2UnvF)

29 >>> 21 19 And as States go.... it's pretty darn Deep, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (+iIV1)

=====

"And it's fabulous!"
-Bill Kristol
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

I LOL'ed at his imbecile employer trying to defend Billy Boy making zillions off feralgov.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (Vqx30)

30 Very attractive woman doing the Tik Tok thing. I’m surprised that Tik Tok has any parody things about leftists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (IK7eV)

31 Is that last short vid for real? Something about the "Doritos and carrier pigeons" bit says "satire" to me. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (J2vNu)

32 29
I LOL'ed at his imbecile employer trying to defend Billy Boy making zillions off feralgov.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (Vqx30)

======

"I'm going to disprove that Kristol is paid by USAID by not debunking anything and just calling it routine. Take that, peons."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

33 12 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (2UnvF)

Pam Bondi getting busy?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (xcxpd)

34 10 > they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

That sounds like a lot of fun, actually.
Posted by: Barack "Gaylord" Obama

I guess scandi women and Obama would both like to be raped by Muslim migrants.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 06, 2025 02:19 PM (JCZqz)

35 OCCRP's razor

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

36 Treason.

No other word for it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

well, technically 'sedition.' But I guess we're not doing the whole accurate stuff anymore.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 02:19 PM (mlg/3)

37 Pam Biondi is going to be the busiest AG in history

I read that as "bustiest"

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:20 PM (sZkrh)

38 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (J2vNu)

Yes; It’s satire.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:20 PM (IK7eV)

39
You say you want a Color Revolution here
Well, you know
We all wanna end your world

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:20 PM (1ngKI)

40 The truly scary thing about that last video is that I wouldn't be surprised if it was real not parody. There was satire about the Rings of Power being cancelled , which also was hard to tell the difference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 02:20 PM (EUtBO)

41 Pam Biondi is going to be the busiest AG in history

I read that as "bustiest"

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:20 PM (sZkrh)

Yeah, no.

Posted by: Bill Barr at February 06, 2025 02:21 PM (xJL+M)

42 I have some sherbet in the fridge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 02:21 PM (QP3yt)

43 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (2UnvF)

Did you say bustiest?

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:21 PM (8AR3F)

44 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (2UnvF)

Pam Bondi getting busy?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
.......

and jiggly.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (v0R5T)

45
I can never keep leftist hierarchy straight, but I think it runs like this:

Community Organizer
Thought Leader
Influencer
Activist

Posted by: Auspex at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (j4U/Z)

46 Flaming Skull? Anybody? Yes? No?

Posted by: Ghost Rider at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (y7KuV)

47 >>> 43 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (2UnvF)

Did you say bustiest?
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:21 PM (8AR3F)

He may have thought it very loudly.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (Vqx30)

48 Oh, the passenger pigeon thing is a parody? Whew.

Things are so crazy now that I could see it being real.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

49 A whole lot of shit might just come undone.

*crosses fingers*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (Q4IgG)

50 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 02:15 PM (2UnvF)

Pam Bondi getting busy?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
.......

and jiggly.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (v0R5T)

With her milfy goodness.

Posted by: Bill Barr at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (xJL+M)

51 Icebox. That word has been redundant since before WWII and yet it persists.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (QP3yt)

52 The Tik Tok woman looks rather like the blonde woman who did excellent parody videos of Kamala Harris’ speaking style..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:22 PM (IK7eV)

53 Boobs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 06, 2025 02:17 PM

This is worthless without pics.

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (a3Q+t)

54 Blonde chick is funny as hell. Her message is spot on about how ridiculous our tax money is being spent.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (g8Ew8)

55 >>>31 Is that last short vid for real? Something about the "Doritos and carrier pigeons" bit says "satire" to me. . . .

yeah it's a goof.

Posted by: ace at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (KRtlO)

56 The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.

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

Say his traitorous name!

ERIC CIARAMELLA

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (1ngKI)

57 It's a bit silly but I am tempted to look up a particular former employer to see if *they* were getting USAID cash (or even some of their execs).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (Vqx30)

58 Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi
Democrat Attorney General Janet Reno

That is all

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (EUtBO)

59 My eyes are up here, you know.

Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (a3Q+t)

60 Nancy Pelosi has emerged from her crypt!

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (v0TzN)

61 I’m surprised that Tik Tok has any parody things about leftists.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (IK7eV)

TikTok has lots of right-wing content.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (nEfO3)

62 Oh, we got trouble, trouble, trouble, right here in River City. Right here!

Posted by: USAID at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (C53IZ)

63 You know who else was balls deep in the USAID and other government agency funding scam?

The Bidens.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (LkLld)

64 Stupid sticky sock.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (xJL+M)

65 Pigeons aren't fools. If you think they're not going to hold discount-brand snacks against you, you don't understand birdworld and never will.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (44PAK)

66 Venmo me.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (v0R5T)

67 So we are getting closer to the Trump judges themselves being on the take, right?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

68 >>> 61 I’m surprised that Tik Tok has any parody things about leftists.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (IK7eV)

TikTok has lots of right-wing content.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (nEfO3)

Oh, and here I thought the congresscritters wanted it banned because CHYna.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:25 PM (Vqx30)

69 So The Man Behind The Curtain is Springfield,Mass. nobody Richie Neal? It is to laugh.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 06, 2025 02:25 PM (7leMO)

70 57 It's a bit silly but I am tempted to look up a particular former employer to see if *they* were getting USAID cash (or even some of their execs).
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:23 PM (Vqx30)

My guess--I might be wrong--is that search terms are recorded, tipping off the DOGE team.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:25 PM (v0TzN)

71 >> Democrat Attorney General Janet Reno

We should applaud Bill Clinton for appointing the first transgender to a Cabinet position.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (nEfO3)

72 I look at the photo of Nancy on the phone and all I can think is, "I hope the person who put the phone in her hand and placed it near Nancy's ear was wearing gloves."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (tT6L1)

73 What is Venmo?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

74 USAID whistleblower says he was forced to go to DEI camp and perform a “privilege walk” where they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

Why a Scandinavian woman in particular? I would've thought DEI camp would want him to pretend to be a crippled deaf black lesbian.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

75 I'll just note none of these people shrieking now had a problem with leaking Joe Six-pack's private information. Just for asking a question!!!

Posted by: InZona at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (iai6j)

76 Nancy Pelosi has emerged from her crypt!

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (v0TzN)

If she doesn't see her reflection in a mirror, we get ten more years of winning.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (xJL+M)

77 My eyes are up here, you know.
Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025

***
That's okay, Pam. I can look at your eyes anytime.

Which reminds me, have you and Karoline ever considered making an oil wrestling video . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (J2vNu)

78 What is Venmo?

The big-bank approved version of PayPal.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

79 Learn to Code Identify and Successfully Emigrate to Countries Which Do Not Extradite to the United States
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

The funny thing about that is, see, those countries like people immigrate with lots of cash in hand.

And - oops! - the cash just dried up!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (hB7mE)

80 73 What is Venmo?
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

money transfer app like paypal

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (v0TzN)

81 So a color revolution on the US. But what color?

*looks at the dementia ridden, adult diapered caudillo they installed*

I'd say Brown

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (Dv3i1)

82 Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (nEfO3)

That’s good to know. I only look at it when someone posts cute or funny animal videos from it, because the whole idea of “dares” that Are injuring stupid kids , as well as that’s it owned by the CCP just puts me off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (IK7eV)

83 So we are getting closer to the Trump judges themselves being on the take, right?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

I'm reminded of how many of them have spouses or offspring who work for NGOs that are almost certainly recipients of lots of USAID mulla.

Posted by: LASue at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (lCppi)

84 59 My eyes are up here, you know.
Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (a3Q+t)

GAHHH! WHO SAID THAT?!?!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (+iIV1)

85 Richard Neal has been in Congress for 36 years. Anybody outside his district knows that,? A nobody

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 02:27 PM (EUtBO)

86 >>> 75 I'll just note none of these people shrieking now had a problem with leaking Joe Six-pack's private information. Just for asking a question!!!
Posted by: InZona at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (iai6j)

If I won the lottery I'd hire a PI to investigate the scrunt who told the teewee news what she did. You *know* she's done more since then.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (Vqx30)

87 Does anyone know what carrier-pigeon chick's name is?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

88 59 My eyes are up here, you know.
Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (a3Q+t)

I'll bet she doesn't care.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (v0TzN)

89
Why a Scandinavian woman in particular? I would've thought DEI camp would want him to pretend to be a crippled deaf black lesbian.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

because that's the whitest of white although they did make a mistake by not making it a Male Scandi...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (VE6XX)

90 Somehow Trump gets an impeachment for “going after a political opponent” though Biden wasn’t a candidate at the time but Biden gets a pass even though he went after Trump after Trump announced his candidacy.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (DZ03a)

91 Just keep in mind that as satisfying and thrilling it is to have all this coming out--with more to come--the vast majority of our fellow citizens will never know the full extent of Democrati and media corruption.
And others won't care or think it was justified to stop Orange Fuhrer

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (sZkrh)

92 My eyes are up here, you know.
Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (a3Q+t)
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I've made my choice.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (tT6L1)

93 Ah I just learned USAID is in charge of stopping the spread of AIDS around the world and Bird Flu.

Hilarious.

Truly hilarious.

So now you know why eggs are expensive. Because Trump is cutting USAID.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (8AR3F)

94 When PDT said he knew who was conspiring against him, I believe he did.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (mB6WH)

95 Pam Biondi is going to be the busiest AG in history

I read that as "bustiest"
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:20 PM (sZkrh)
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I've heard it both ways...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (7fElN)

96 Somehow Trump gets an impeachment for “going after a political opponent” though Biden wasn’t a candidate at the time but Biden gets a pass even though he went after Trump after Trump announced his candidacy.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (DZ03a)

We investigated Biden for two years but just couldn’t come up with any articles of impeachment!

Posted by: Mike Johnson at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (nEfO3)

97 >>> 91 Just keep in mind that as satisfying and thrilling it is to have all this coming out--with more to come--the vast majority of our fellow citizens will never know the full extent of Democrati and media corruption.
And others won't care or think it was justified to stop Orange Fuhrer
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (sZkrh)

I think it depends on how much destruction Donny Two Scoops can cause in the first two years of this term.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (Vqx30)

98 re last video...

What is that on her lip?

Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (9Q8fk)

99 He said / she said / USaid

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (v0TzN)

100 88 59 My eyes are up here, you know.
Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (a3Q+t)

I'll bet she doesn't care.
Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:28 PM (v0TzN)

She's probably the sort of woman who recognizes that chastising a dude for looking at her boobs is like yelling at a mouse for sniffing the cheese on the trap...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (+iIV1)

101 I knew the USAID vid was a parody instantly. She's attractive and has a drawl.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (j8aAi)

102 Durbin says "release the Epstein files".

Someone's playing chicken.

Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

103 And what about the rest of us? What about people barely getting by due to USAID's crushing advertising boycotts against us?

--
I feel like you should be able to sue for lost income

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (U1FmN)

104 Why a Scandinavian woman in particular? I would've thought DEI camp would want him to pretend to be a crippled deaf black lesbian.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

No he was there to learn how priveleged white people are.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (8AR3F)

105
What does Nancy even mean by saying Trump gave Elon access to your "sensitive personal information"? People at higher levels in bureaucracies have "access to" PII. So?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (T3es0)

106

Here's a thought, every single thing that we see in the media or congress and seemingly strangely coordinated that is anti-trump or anti-constitution has come from this shitty department.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (et1vG)

107 Why a Scandinavian woman in particular?
____

I would have chosen Agnetha Faltskõg, but I wouldn't be able to pull it off. I'd still sing "SOS" though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (Dv3i1)

108 >>> 93 Ah I just learned USAID is in charge of stopping the spread of AIDS around the world and Bird Flu.

Hilarious.

Truly hilarious.

So now you know why eggs are expensive. Because Trump is cutting USAID.
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (8AR3F)

Ah yes, commie retard logic: "Eggs are expensive because OrangeManBad stopped the slaughter of millions of chickens because one or two tested positive for bird sniffles!!!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (Vqx30)

109 98 re last video...

What is that on her lip?
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 02:30 PM (9Q8fk)

Spittle.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (v0TzN)

110 that chick at the end of this post has stronger acting chops than all of the Oscar nominees of the past ten years

Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (dCxaZ)

111 91 Just keep in mind that as satisfying and thrilling it is to have all this coming out--with more to come--the vast majority of our fellow citizens will never know the full extent of Democrati and media corruption.
And others won't care or think it was justified to stop Orange Fuhrer
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (sZkrh)

=======

I don't think this is as much about education or voter outreach as it is about destroying the financial structure of the left, heavily (heavily) subsidized by the federal government.

What is the 2026 midterm like if the easy money that Democrats use to fund their entire efforts (2024 saw Democrat PACs raise $1.2 billion alone vs. $.9 Billion for the GOP), their ability to craft narratives through paid control of news organizations heavily falters, AND there's the education of the public part of things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

112 What is Venmo?

The big-bank approved version of PayPal.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (2ocoG)

Venmo is GenZ Paypal. It’s been owned by Paypal for several years now.

CashApp is black GenZ Paypal.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (nEfO3)

113 What is Venmo?
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

20 bucks same as in town.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (8AR3F)

114 102 Durbin says "release the Epstein files".

Someone's playing chicken.
Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

It could be that Durbin is really just a moron who isn't told anything about anything.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (+iIV1)

115
Vince Langman
@LangmanVince

Hilarious 😂 😂👇

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

Maybe she can set up a GiveSendGo.

Because I gots to know the outcome of the carrier pigeons & Doritos experiment in Madagascar ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:33 PM (wPD6K)

116 "A cooperative agreement has more strings attached," said Henning, "than a grant... Some of the strings that are attached in a cooperative agreement are approval of key personnel, approval of an annual work plan, approval of sub grants of a certain amount above a certain amount."

This is true to some extent. A grant has much less oversight than a program of record, which has copious reporting requirements. If I understand this correctly, USAID is arguing that they sent the money out with no accountability as to the final product. This may not be the flex they think it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 02:33 PM (xCA6C)

117 That woman in the video is a total fraud. My own work for a USAID-supported outfit - carried out at a far more frugal $50 million - proved that carrier pigeons in Madagascar don't like Doritos, or generic equivalents, at all.

Posted by: Paco at February 06, 2025 02:33 PM (mADJX)

118 Priveleged????

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (8AR3F)

119 92 My eyes are up here, you know.
Posted by: Pam B. at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (a3Q+t)
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I've made my choice.
Posted by: Homer Simpson at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (tT6L1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (bss/y)

120 I'm not the first to say this, but I wish Rush was around to see this

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (sZkrh)

121 >>> 114 102 Durbin says "release the Epstein files".

Someone's playing chicken.
Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

It could be that Durbin is really just a moron who isn't told anything about anything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (+iIV1)

I thought he was the one (or his office at least) who had been emailing the over-aged Bernie bro who shot up the R baseball team?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (Vqx30)

122 Just keep in mind that as satisfying and thrilling it is to have all this coming out--with more to come--the vast majority of our fellow citizens will never know the full extent of Democrati and media corruption.
And others won't care or think it was justified to stop Orange Fuhrer
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:29 PM (sZkrh)

I disagree. I think more and more people are wising up to the shit that the government has been doing. It's why Trump won.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (g8Ew8)

123 I posted this on The Morning Report-

Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee
This is what corruption looks like

Look at the dates

And the amounts

And especially the names recipients

Shouldn’t the recipients return these funds, given the corrupt manner in which they were distributed?

https://tinyurl.com/vzjjcmjb

Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (NpAcC)

124 73 What is Venmo?
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

You send them money.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (QAkQ3)

125 >> Priveleged??

Like White American Cheese.

Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (9Q8fk)

126 >>> called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

And that's how it works. We have the CIA through USAid, the State Department and a fake news organization doing their "overthrow the government" thing right here in the US. And I am willing to bet my next paycheck that this is far from the only time this has happened at home.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (uCjyK)

127
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (J2vNu)

Yes; It’s satire.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I don't get it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (xG4kz)

128 I'm not the first to say this, but I wish Rush was around to see this
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (sZkrh)

Breitbart and Mike Flynn, too.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (nEfO3)

129 114 102 Durbin says "release the Epstein files".

Someone's playing chicken.
Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

It could be that Durbin is really just a moron who isn't told anything about anything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (+iIV1)

There are people who really believe that Trump was in deep with Epstein.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (bss/y)

130 We're not even two weeks in and the revelations of just how much our own government was working against us is beyond anything any of us imagined.

Even our wildest imagination couldn't conceive of the literal billions being spent--EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!--to fight the American people.

All these charities are getting billions, every year, while FEMA is kicking Americans who lost everything out into the winter cold.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (S+kp7)

131 I thought he was the one (or his office at least) who had been emailing the over-aged Bernie bro who shot up the R baseball team?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (Vqx30)

Heh.

"Dammit, Dick, stop playing footsie with the patsy! You dumb bastard...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (+iIV1)

132 102 Durbin says "release the Epstein files".

Someone's playing chicken.
Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

It could be that Durbin is really just a moron who isn't told anything about anything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (+iIV1)
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Sounds like the Dem's need a diversion from being steamrolled the last three weeks.

Talking points have been established and distributed to all congressional Dems and the media.

Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

133 It's like a grand bigly pantsing of DC! Asses exposed everywhere palooza! LOVING THIS!

Now we can see why, other than President Trump not being the standard Grade A politician attorney Ivy League cookie cutter candidate, exactly why they fear him. It is glorious!!!

Nanny Pelousy looks like she's sucking on a lemon on that posed phone call. Wrinkled old crone. Probably goes home and hammers her fag husband to get some anger out of her system. Whee!

That blonde lady is Southern and ah love her! That's similar to how I talk at times. Altho not living in the heart of Dixie for half a century (golly I am old!). Her summation of carrier pigeons is not really different from some of the other money laundering projects.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 06, 2025 02:36 PM (gi+MR)

134 The meme going around is that this money is being looted to fund other bullshit in the budget
tinyurl.com/3ny5v2rk
... from Brian Riedl who now wants to be known as "Jessica". Sigh.
Which isn't to say "she" is wrong.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 06, 2025 02:36 PM (gKWVE)

135 So how much were the pedos at The Lincoln Project getting from USAID?

Bet it was in the millions

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:36 PM (sZkrh)

136
Why a Scandinavian woman in particular? I would've thought DEI camp would want him to pretend to be a crippled deaf black lesbian.
Posted by: Ian S.

==============

I'm sure that identity was included. The idea is to have those people "losing" the race so you can appreciate their struggles.

How a middle-aged American male is supposed to figure out the societal impact of living as a Scandinavian woman is beyond me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 06, 2025 02:36 PM (T3es0)

137 It's just amazing to me that the Dems think "sure, it's a highly illegal waste of your taxpayer dollars, and threatens the very foundations of our Republic, but you're being mean by talking about it." is their best option.

Well, maybe it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

138
USAID whistleblower says he was forced to go to DEI camp and perform a “privilege walk” where they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

Walk a mile in her shoes.

https://t.ly/K9qHv

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (63Dwl)

139 137 It's just amazing to me that the Dems think "sure, it's a highly illegal waste of your taxpayer dollars, and threatens the very foundations of our Republic, but you're being mean by talking about it." is their best option.

Well, maybe it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

======

"The bureaucracy is the only real government."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

140 Shouldn’t the recipients return these funds, given the corrupt manner in which they were distributed?

https://tinyurl.com/vzjjcmjb
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (NpAcC)

Looks like either they are Pretending to be a religious group... or clear problem with Separation of Church and State....

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (QAkQ3)

141 120 I'm not the first to say this, but I wish Rush was around to see this
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:34 PM (sZkrh)

——-

You can drop all of Rush’s work into an AI to train it.

I dare say you could connect it to some voice replicator, feed it daily news and get a reasonable facsimile.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 02:38 PM (DZ03a)

142 Over 100, so here are some random links to things I found interesting (1/2).

Seventeen State Attorneys General Unite to Challenge Biden's Preemptive Pardon, Vow to Prosecute Serial Liar Anthony Fauci
https://shorturl.at/G9np6
Gateway Pundit

Federal Government to Restrict DOGE Access to Treasury Department Systems: Filing
https://shorturl.at/KZaJZ
The Epoch Times

Canadian Government Also Subsidizing Politico
https://shorturl.at/NoJ5J
ZeroHedge

'America has DOGE fever': States from NJ to TX draft similar initiatives as federal leaders celebrate
https://shorturl.at/QCYWW
Fox News
Presumably the young 'uns doing to work to feralgov will be busy, but can they provide instruction and/or code to the state agencies which are interested?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:38 PM (Vqx30)

143
The Left: Trump is corrupt!

Trump: That's not corrupt. Now THIS is corrupt.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:38 PM (8AR3F)

144 We know why the Vindmans were trying to get into the USAID OFFICE and why Mrs Vindman was upset about no pardon.

Posted by: Germanicus at February 06, 2025 02:38 PM (Pt9LW)

145 We're not even two weeks in and the revelations of just how much our own government was working against us is beyond anything any of us imagined.

Even our wildest imagination couldn't conceive of the literal billions being spent--EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!--to fight the American people.

All these charities are getting billions, every year, while FEMA is kicking Americans who lost everything out into the winter cold.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (S+kp7)

Some of us knew this a long time ago.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:38 PM (nEfO3)

146 (2/2)

https://x.com/Cernovich
/status
/1887240589802152210
This shit is crazy man. USAID gives grants to far left-wing "non-profits." Non-profits pay their employees six-figure salaries. Mostly in the 300-500K a year range.
I'd estimate that over half of the DC economy is an outright looting of all of us, via USAID grants.
2:43 PM - Feb 5, 2025
I grew up "Inside the Beltway" and I think his estimate is *way* too low.

XX-XY Athletics
https://shorturl.at/J1EDz
"Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:39 PM (Vqx30)

147 It's just amazing to me that the Dems think "sure, it's a highly illegal waste of your taxpayer dollars, and threatens the very foundations of our Republic, but you're being mean by talking about it." is their best option.

Well, maybe it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

I like their counterargument that not a single penny was "misspent".

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:39 PM (8AR3F)

148 Pigeons aren't fools. If you think they're not going to hold discount-brand snacks against you, you don't understand birdworld and never will.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025 02:24 PM (44PAK)

Birds aren't real.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

149 It's just amazing to me that the Dems think "sure, it's a highly illegal waste of your taxpayer dollars, and threatens the very foundations of our Republic, but you're being mean by talking about it." is their best option.

Well, maybe it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (xCA6C)
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They can't defend the indefensible so they are stuck with pounding the table and beating their chests.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (7fElN)

150 Some of us knew this a long time ago.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:38 PM (nEfO3)

Yep. Including that big dummy Trump.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (8AR3F)

151 Carrier Pigeons? What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Madagascar Lemurs at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (PiwSw)

152 147 I like their counterargument that not a single penny was "misspent".
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:39 PM (8AR3F)

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*points to grants given to literal terrorist organizations*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (GBKbO)

153 You can drop all of Rush’s work into an AI to train it.

I dare say you could connect it to some voice replicator, feed it daily news and get a reasonable facsimile.

Possibly, but it would lack Rush's humor. Which would make everyone wonder why a liberal voice impersonator was doing Rush's job.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (lUFok)

154 uniparty delenda est.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (gxokI)

155 Looks like either they are Pretending to be a religious group... or clear problem with Separation of Church and State....
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (QAkQ3)

Thank GWB’s faith-based charities bs.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:40 PM (nEfO3)

156 I assume a lot of the ridiculous grants - transgender opera etc - are actually funding CIA black ops and wet works too.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (vHIwP)

157 >>> 132

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Sounds like the Dem's need a diversion from being steamrolled the last three weeks.

Talking points have been established and distributed to all congressional Dems and the media.
Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 02:36 PM (G0vdT)

"It's a five-alarm fire!"

"Elon was not elected!"

"REEEEE!!!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (Vqx30)

158 Vindman's wife publicly bitching about no one in her family getting a pardon was a HUGE tell.

I bet she can be persuaded to talk

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (sZkrh)

159 As has been noted, this is The Path that they have intricately crafted over the last 50 years:
The right colleges
The no-show board jobs on charities
The propaganda jobs at fake news entities
The over-sea posting in any number of government agencies
Then up the ladder through government work or political office

A full, closed, invite-only ecosystem to nurture and grow their chosen.

All paid for by you.
Billions to trillions every year.
All paid for by you.
They get guaranteed jobs.
All paid for by you.
They get the "American Dream"
All paid for by you.
They get the gold-plated retirement.
All paid for by you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (S+kp7)

160 Is there a way to speed up videos from X?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 06, 2025 02:42 PM (1bNHn)

161 Wolf, when Fen gets it quicker, maybe more rest?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (4780s)

162 18 Another “conspiracy theory” proven true.

The CIA must be abolished.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:16 PM (nEfO3)

Not sure that that's possible. They are one of the most important players in the deep state.

And by that I mean -- yes, it could theoretically be possible to get rid of the agency called "CIA". But that power behind the scenes will just shift to the NSA or somewhere else.

There are trillions of dollars at stake, they're not going down without a fight.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (uCjyK)

163 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.

The function of government under Trump and Musk will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the wealthiest people in this country even richer.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (NpAcC)

164 156, I heard a caller to Mark Levin's radio show say the same thing last night

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (sZkrh)

165 I would love to see some politicians just straight up snap. A real, honest to goodness "You Can't Handle The Truth" tirade, where they blurt out all kinds of shit in front of a live camera.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (+iIV1)

166 And y'all are missing a big correlation. What was happening _at the same time_ as the impeachment? The release of the virus that the CIA (and USAID) were involved in helping China create, and its initial spread.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (Lay0B)

167 Trump gave Bibi a photo of the two of them?

Come on, that is Obama league. Might as well have given him a double cheeseburger with mayo, lettuce and onion...

Now I'm hungry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (bss/y)

168 163 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.

The function of government under Trump and Musk will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the wealthiest people in this country even richer.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (NpAcC)

=======

I wonder if he's ever said anything about The Soros Clan funding elections in America?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

169 Seventeen State Attorneys General Unite to Challenge Biden's Preemptive Pardon, Vow to Prosecute Serial Liar Anthony Fauci
https://shorturl.at/G9np6
Gateway Pundit

apparently Trump can tell the DOJ to wave Sovereign Immunity... which means the States could then sue Fauci directly without the US having to defend him.

DO IT...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (QAkQ3)

170 Tomorrow: USAID funded the Kennedy assassination.

2 weeks from now: USAID funded the Lincoln assassination.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (B9Prs)

171 163 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.

The function of government under Trump and Musk will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the wealthiest people in this country even richer.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (NpAcC)

How many houses do you have, you commie nomenklatura wanna be?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (bss/y)

172 Pretty much the same team as in Wuhan.

>>Russia on Thursday said that the investment fund Rosemont Seneca led by Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, is involved in financing the Pentagon's military biological programme in Ukraine.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the George Soros Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also provide financial support to the Pentagon programme, the Russian Defense Ministry added, RT reported.

>>"At the same time, the fund has a close relationship with the main contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is the main supplier of equipment for Pentagon biolabs around the world," he added.

https://tinyurl.com/35kd9wdd

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (LkLld)

173 A full, closed, invite-only ecosystem to nurture and grow their chosen.

All paid for by you.
Billions to trillions every year.
All paid for by you.
They get guaranteed jobs.
All paid for by you.
They get the "American Dream"
All paid for by you.
They get the gold-plated retirement.
All paid for by you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (S+kp7)

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At least they don't make millions trading on insider information in the markets -- or millions selling out as treasonous spies for foreign countries.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (RA08Q)

174 I find the "We didn't elect Elon" argument to be particularly ridiculous, especially after resident Joe and his merry band of puppeteers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

175 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.
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So what do you call every congressman magically becoming multimillionaires overnight, there Johnny Threehouse?

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (8AR3F)

176 The function of the government under Biden was to make ordinary people like Bernie Sanders rich enough to buy yet another home.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (D7oie)

177 >>> 156 I assume a lot of the ridiculous grants - transgender opera etc - are actually funding CIA black ops and wet works too.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (vHIwP)

Sure looks that way, doesn't it?

Now do credit card fraud, "ransomware", robocalls.....

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (Vqx30)

178 USAID is huge. This needs criminal prosecutions. Find the players. Find the principals. If they turn states evidence and it implicates a sitting congressman or senator, PROSECUTE.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (WXgbp)

179 God, damn, Bernie Sanders is fucking stupid.

How are there people who hear this guy open his slovenly old pinko gob and think "Wowwwiee, this guy knows what's up!" Fuck's aches, these people must look up to tapeworms and spirochetes as inspirations.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (+iIV1)

180 Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (NpAcC)

I hope people make some tart responses to wealthy Bernie Sanders who, I think , may have had one short term job before he went into politics
And is hardly an “ordinary” person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (IK7eV)

181 we - the non-elite - have been slaves

we have been and still are enslaved!

it's sinking in for me at least

wow

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

182
"Elon wasnt elected!" screamed the people who just put up a candidate without a primary.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (8AR3F)

183 174 I find the "We didn't elect Elon" argument to be particularly ridiculous, especially after resident Joe and his merry band of puppeteers.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

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It's ridiculous because they're saying that Elon, an unelected bureaucrat, shouldn't have access to systems run by unelected bureaucrats.

That Trump choosing his own unelected bureaucrats over career unelected bureaucrats is the end of democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

184 I bet Miss Carrier Pigeon would look great in a French maid outfit.

If I had a bigger house, I would hire her to clean it, with the requirement that she wear a French maid outfit while on duty.

Yeah, I think my wife would agree to that...

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

185 So what do you call every congressman magically becoming multimillionaires overnight, there Johnny Threehouse?
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (8AR3F)
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I think the correct appellation is Bernie "Four Houses" Sanders.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (tT6L1)

186 Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (Pv3Rg)

Why weren't you listening to me 13 years ago, dear heart?

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (8AR3F)

187 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.

Now do Valerie Jerret you f'n commie.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (WXgbp)

188 178 USAID is huge. This needs criminal prosecutions. Find the players. Find the principals. If they turn states evidence and it implicates a sitting congressman or senator, PROSECUTE.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 02:45 PM (WXgbp)

=======

It's huge.

And it's the smallest piece we're going to find out about.

The rest are bigger. Much, much bigger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

189 Scandinavian women?

I'M HERE FOR YOU!

Posted by: Greta T. at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (a3Q+t)

190 5 Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.

---

Oligarchy is when rich people do things. The more richer people do morer things, the more oligarchyer it is.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (B9Prs)

191 "All these charities are getting billions, every year"

All these (nominally. skin suit) RELIGIOUS charities getting billions every year.

Where, oh where, are the usual leftist bleaters about "separation of church and state"?

Posted by: barbarausa at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (enw9G)

192 174 I find the "We didn't elect Elon" argument to be particularly ridiculous, especially after resident Joe and his merry band of puppeteers.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

I am trying to think of a good analogy...

'Hey honey, I know you wanted to have the house painted!'

'I did not say this guy, Michelangelo? I bet he is going to be really expensive!'

'But he volunteered!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (bss/y)

193 >>> 169

==
apparently Trump can tell the DOJ to wave Sovereign Immunity... which means the States could then sue Fauci directly without the US having to defend him.

DO IT...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (QAkQ3)

It's Christmas in February!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (Vqx30)

194 Elon wasn't elected! He was appointed so tough titty.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (mB6WH)

195 I'm going to have to find the rest of that Tucker interview with Mike Benz. Some of these things we're learning are mind-blowing. Benz really puts out a convincing case for how things have gotten totally out of hand in D.C.

We all knew it was this bad, but all of this corruption is going to shock a lot of people who have been living in Dem LaLaLand ever since O baffled 'em with his bullshit in 2008.

And the news media can't help them now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (6ydKt)

196 Why weren't you listening to me 13 years ago, dear heart?

I'll tell you what, Ive been pretty black pilled

but this is a lot even for me! it's ... worse than even I thought!

holy sheep

ALSO ...I thought the fedgov would collapse remember? but they'd rigged it. we were holding them up!!!

unwinding this will be a miracle

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

197 Is there a way to speed up videos from X?
Posted by: Eeyore

Start the video, pause it, look for the 'gear' icon on the lower right, 'Playback speed'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (mlg/3)

198 There are trillions of dollars at stake, they're not going down without a fight.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (uCjyK)

oh they're going to fight alright

too bad the zeitgeist is against them. Their stars are currently under unfavorable aspect

Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (dCxaZ)

199 Trump literally campaigned with Elon Musk. It was abundantly clear. You vote for Trump, he's bringing Elon along. And they were explicit about exactly what Elon would be doing... which is exactly what he is doing, right now.

I have nothing but disgusted derision for all these imbeciles. You lost. You don't get to keep ruining our country anymore with your insane bullshit. Fuck You. Sit Down. Shut Up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (+iIV1)

200 That's a lot of rope.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (gMlGi)

201 Oligarchy is when rich people do things. The more richer people do morer things, the more oligarchyer it is.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (B9Prs)

*psst* Communism, whenever it has been practiced, has been an oligarchy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (bss/y)

202 All paid for by you.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:41 PM (S+kp7)

Just damn. Maybe time to start ventilating federales both retired and active.

Bastards.

Posted by: Joe Sixpack at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (y7KuV)

203 Looks like either they are Pretending to be a religious group... or clear problem with Separation of Church and State....
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 02:37 PM (QAkQ3)
******
I'm leaning towards pretending to be a religious group. Either way a deeper dive needs to be done to see how the money is being distributed.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (NpAcC)

204 You know why this will resonate beyond just Republicans?

Because the largest client base of the left, the poor, every year getting scraps from the feds, are--above all--greedy and jealous.

And showing them just how many millions and billions they were showering on rich, college-degree, white people--while they're getting a few hundred a month--is going to piss them off as much as us.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (S+kp7)

205 It's ridiculous because they're saying that Elon, an unelected bureaucrat, shouldn't have access to systems run by unelected bureaucrats.

That Trump choosing his own unelected bureaucrats over career unelected bureaucrats is the end of democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

Elon Musk is an Evil Capitalist, unelected bureaucrats are Career Civil Servants, making them the good guys. Duh.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (B9Prs)

206 Tomorrow: USAID funded the Kennedy assassination.

2 weeks from now: USAID funded the Lincoln assassination.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (B9Prs)

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Would you believe ... USAID funded the Trump assassination attempts?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (RA08Q)

207 That Trump choosing his own unelected bureaucrats over career unelected bureaucrats is the end of democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)
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someone, I don't remember who, made the salient point claiming the Trump Administration is engaging in a coup means they believe unelected bureaucrats are the legitimate government.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (tT6L1)

208 Where, oh where, are the usual leftist bleaters about "separation of church and state"?
Posted by: barbarausa at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (enw9G)

technically they are not "separate" when they are being funded directly by the government, they are merely "subcontractors".

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (D7oie)

209 205 Elon Musk is an Evil Capitalist, unelected bureaucrats are Career Civil Servants, making them the good guys. Duh.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (B9Prs)

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Who never misspend a single dollar of government money.

Ever.

Not once. There's nothing to find and to even think about looking is a civil service law violation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

210 The Democrats -- successfully--put up a senile patient for president and attempted to repeat that trick - unsuccessfully--with a semi-retarded whore.

Obviously the country was being run by a unelected shadowy group of unnamed insiders.

But the Democrats don't like Trump transparency in appointing Musk

Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (sZkrh)

211 and there is no provision in the Constitution for "separation between subcontractors and state"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (D7oie)

212 A third political party is going to be born out of all of this. Unfortunately, by default it will be moderate in its policies as they will brand themselves as the alternative to the current political parties, and try to attract from both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (dIske)

213 I have nothing but disgusted derision for all these imbeciles. You lost. You don't get to keep ruining our country anymore with your insane bullshit. Fuck You. Sit Down on this barbed Dildo of Justice. Shut the Fuck Up.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (+iIV1)

Suggested edits.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (bss/y)

214 >>> 189 Scandinavian women?

I'M HERE FOR YOU!
Posted by: Greta T. at February 06, 2025 02:47 PM (a3Q+t)

What?!

*sobs*

Posted by: David Hogg at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (Vqx30)

215
"But he wasn't elected!" screamed the villainous shadow bureaucracy.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (8AR3F)

216 207 someone, I don't remember who, made the salient point claiming the Trump Administration is engaging in a coup means they believe unelected bureaucrats are the legitimate government.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 02:49 PM (tT6L1)

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I saw it in response to a Bill Kristol tweet.

But yes.

That's the base assumption.

The 4th branch of government, the administrative state, which is not described in the Constitution of the United States, is the only genuine government of the United States.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

217 Your future, according to DU:

"WHEN this is over, I don't want to hear a single Democrat...

... say that we need to look forward, not backward.

I want to prosecute every single M-Fer no matter their office, wealth, or age.

Examples must be made.

Forgiving the transgressors did not work:

After the Civil War.
After Watergate.
After the second Iraq war.

And too many other instances.

What do I want?

"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. [gives a mockingly cheerful finger waggle] Can you and your associates arrange this for me....?"
-- Vir Cotto"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (a3Q+t)

218 Pigeons aren't fools. If you think they're not going to hold discount-brand snacks against you, you don't understand birdworld and never will.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 06, 2025

***
Crows, now, they have really discriminating palates. You can't fool them with California wine. It's got to be French, and from the right vineyard, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (J2vNu)

219 ALSO ...I thought the fedgov would collapse remember? but they'd rigged it. we were holding them up!!!

unwinding this will be a miracle
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

*whinnying*

IT'S MIRACLE!

(Sorry, I can't help it.)

Posted by: History of the World, pt 1 at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (bss/y)

220 >>too bad the zeitgeist is against them. Their stars are currently under unfavorable aspect

"Let them eat expensive eggs" is not a message you want to go to war with.

Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (9Q8fk)

221 Congress is the largest collection of oligarchs in the western hemisphere.

Bernie and his oligarch friends can fuck off and die.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (S+kp7)

222 oh they're going to fight alright

too bad the zeitgeist is against them. Their stars are currently under unfavorable aspect
Posted by: kallisto

Their stars are currently in the house of pain.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 02:51 PM (WXgbp)

223 210 The Democrats -- successfully--put up a senile patient for president and attempted to repeat that trick - unsuccessfully--with a semi-retarded whore.

Obviously the country was being run by a unelected shadowy group of unnamed insiders.

But the Democrats don't like Trump transparency in appointing Musk
Posted by: JoeF. at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (sZkrh)

======

The federal government as run by a Politboro, competing fiefdoms looking for dominance and cash.

That Politboro is now being choked off of cash and exposed.

At some point, those fiefdoms should turn on each other.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

224
OCCRP?

Really?

It's like they aren't even TRYING to hide their commie cocksuckering

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 06, 2025 02:52 PM (y9nCu)

225 Pretty much the same team as in Wuhan.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 02:44 PM (LkLld)

Yep. They were running biolabs in Georgia, too. (The country.. although probably the state, too.)

This is part of why the deep state invented the Russiagate hoax. It’s why tens of billions have gone “missing” in Ukraine.

Tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 02:52 PM (nEfO3)

226 "Oligarchy" is just "Fascism" with more polyester.

It's just a word. They don't know what it means, or what it's supposed to mean, or what they even mean by it.

"Someone has power that isn't me, wahhh wahhh wahhh". Shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:52 PM (+iIV1)

227 'Time is but a doorway. Death is but a window. I'll be back.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:52 PM (bss/y)

228 212 A third political party is going to be born out of all of this. Unfortunately, by default it will be moderate in its policies as they will brand themselves as the alternative to the current political parties, and try to attract from both sides of the aisle.
Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 02:50 PM (dIske)

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I don't think so.

I think the Democrat Party is going to be for sale. Or, to put it in less...gauche ways, it's going to be open to a hostile takeover by an outsider.

They might finally get a real populist. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

229 It's ridiculous because they're saying that Elon, an unelected bureaucrat, shouldn't have access to systems run by unelected bureaucrats.

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

The Screaming Meemies Screeching Commies ALWAYS tell you who and what they fear.

Elon is not only over the target ... he's under it and about to shove something splodey up their asses.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (RA08Q)

230 >>>>Trump gave Bibi a photo of the two of them?
Come on, that is Obama league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (bss/y)
*****
Bibi was too quick to congratulate FJB. Trump will treat Israel fairly, but probably keep Bibi at arms length.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (I90KB)

231 They need to appoint a special investigator to investigate Elon Musk. Make USAID pay for it like last time.

Posted by: Bob Mueller, Former FBI Director at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (y7KuV)

232 oh they're going to fight alright

too bad the zeitgeist is against them. Their stars are currently under unfavorable aspect
Posted by: kallisto

This is so big it might be the only exit they can see is through actual insurrection. Trump MUST maintain the legal high ground in this.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (D7oie)

233 oh they're going to fight alright

too bad the zeitgeist is against them. Their stars are currently under unfavorable aspect
Posted by: kallisto

Rookie mistake to try to prosecute Trump while Venus is in retrograde.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (B9Prs)

234 Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

It wasn't enough to imprison us physically, to make us work and pay for our own demise, they needed to own our minds as well. And our children's minds. It wasn't enough. It was never going to be enough. Think about that, then shudder.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (8AR3F)

235 Someone brought up Greg Sterling of GA the other day and how quiet he has been since the election.

Wonder how many USAID funds he is tied to?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (S+kp7)

236 229 Elon is not only over the target ... he's under it and about to shove something splodey up their asses.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (RA08Q)

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Cutting off federal funding of the Left is an apocalyptic event for the left across the entire Western World.

At least a decade ago, they gave up trying to convince people to join them and decided to use ill-gotten gains to fear-monger themselves into power, when they didn't just buy it outright.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

237 Bernie used to yell about millionaires and billionaires. Now it's just billionaires. Wonder why?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 02:55 PM (EUtBO)

238 >>It was never going to be enough. Think about that, then shudder.
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (8AR3F)

They never lost their Love for Fascism/Mussolini.

Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 02:55 PM (9Q8fk)

239 Yep. They were running biolabs in Georgia, too. (The country.. although probably the state, too.)

This is part of why the deep state invented the Russiagate hoax. It’s why tens of billions have gone “missing” in Ukraine.

Tip of the iceberg.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

That's why when Zelenski says, "what $157 billion dollars? I only saw $110 billion", he's not lying.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 02:55 PM (WXgbp)

240 At least a decade ago, they gave up trying to convince people to join them and decided to use ill-gotten gains to fear-monger themselves into power, when they didn't just buy it outright.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

I'd say probably the genesis of it was ... well, maybe not even Clinton with CGI. Considering how things fell out... you could go way back. And start to speculate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (bss/y)

241 Bibi was too quick to congratulate FJB. Trump will treat Israel fairly, but probably keep Bibi at arms length.
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Meh, Bibi has to play nice with the US. Trump knows this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (Wg6v7)

242 "technically they are not "separate" when they are being funded directly by the government, they are merely "subcontractors""

I was thinking about the groups who very publicly and loudly wet their pants when a group from a religious school pays the same fee as anyone else to rent a public space on a first come/first served basis for an event (used to happen in my old county--Loudoun, of notorious repute, a lot, but we had the head of a national atheist activist group who lived there, and played in his backyard when he wasn't lobbying downtown).

I guess in a week I'll see somewhere that those groups were subcontractors too, lol.

Kind of like on the larger screen, we fund both sides in wars.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (enw9G)

243 It wasn't enough to imprison us physically, to make us work and pay for our own demise, they needed to own our minds as well. And our children's minds. It wasn't enough. It was never going to be enough. Think about that, then shudder.

this reminds me to again recommend you guys watch Heretic

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

244 I wonder is USAID funded any of the commercials produced by the Ad Council -- most of their work is straight up propaganda in support of "the message."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (LPS7w)

245 Perhaps Michael Shellenberger (sp?) should be added to some peoples” lists. For God’s protection He’s obviously uncovered a lot of “problematic” info on the criminal cartel that is the US government.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (IK7eV)

246 I think the Democrat Party is going to be for sale. Or, to put it in less...gauche ways, it's going to be open to a hostile takeover by an outsider.

They might finally get a real populist. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

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Is Ralph Nader still alive?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (RA08Q)

247 Trump showed up and pointed everyone to the bars on the cage. He's tossing around green digits on the Commie Matrix like a Chinese mathematician. He just refused to go gently into that goodnight. And he's not done yet. It's wild.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (8AR3F)

248 240 I'd say probably the genesis of it was ... well, maybe not even Clinton with CGI. Considering how things fell out... you could go way back. And start to speculate.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (bss/y)

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The genesis is probably post-WWII, but the real movement was probably the fall of the Berlin Wall.

However, Obama definitely put whatever was already in place and overdrove it. That's about the time the party just gave up on white men as a constituency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

249 The function of government under Trump and Musk will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the wealthiest people in this country even richer.

1. Audit government spending
2. ????
3. Profit!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

250 this reminds me to again recommend you guys watch Heretic
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

What is it?

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (8AR3F)

251 I wonder if he's ever said anything about The Soros Clan funding elections in America?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
******
Of course not. Just like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse always accusing the Republicans of DARK MONEY. It's worked in the past, but people are catching on to the ruse.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (NpAcC)

252 Was the guy who had to pretend to be a Scandinavian women raped by Algerians?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (6K6Eu)

253 197 Is there a way to speed up videos from X?
Posted by: Eeyore

Start the video, pause it, look for the 'gear' icon on the lower right, 'Playback speed'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 02:48 PM (mlg/3)
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I never see them on X videos. They are present on Youtube ones, but not X.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (1bNHn)

254 Possibly off topic...

Note to Google:

Forcing a separate screen that I have to click through in order to ask me if I want to "Simplify My Sign-In" by using a Passkey is not, as a point of fact, simplifying my sign-in.

How about you Simplyify My Sign-In by allowing me to stop you from asking me if I want to Simplify My Sign-In?

Is it too much to ask that you just STFU about Passkeys?

When did marketing become a test between the company and the consumer over just how much annoying bullshit people will tolerate before they just give up and take it?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (6ydKt)

255 249 The function of government under Trump and Musk will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the wealthiest people in this country even richer.

1. Audit government spending
2. ????
3. Profit!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 02:57 PM (Dv3i1)

======

"Steal SS checks from grannies!"
-Elon Musk, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

256 Hi, friends! I survived the morning. Every time I think we have hit the bottom of the crazy USAID spent money on, we have a whole new level revealed.

Posted by: Piper at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (pZEOD)

257 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Carly Fiorina at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (a3Q+t)

258 it's a recent film with Hugh Grant

not sure it is horror but maybe?

I need to watch it again

smart little film

many layers

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (Pv3Rg)

259 OK, I see that you have to actually be on X.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 06, 2025 02:59 PM (1bNHn)

260
*flips through pages on clipboard*

Power?.. Power?.. Power?.. Not on the "pardoned" list.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 02:59 PM (dxSpM)

261 The thing to remember is we are more eyes on now than any generation in history. How about amnesty in the 80s? How about the EPA? How about all the shit with Vietnam? A LOT of this stuff never had any oversight.

But I would say you could probably follow the budget/spending line and see when this started.

I am also wondering: how much of this is actually on the books. I keep wondering why they seem to keep records of this ridiculous shit. What about what they do not keep records of?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 02:59 PM (bss/y)

262 Start the trials for treason. Don't use any Leftist judges or blue venues. Use FISA for warrants to go after every one of these traitors. Use the tools they used to go after them.

They made the rules, they now have to live by the rules.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 06, 2025 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

263 >>Yep. They were running biolabs in Georgia, too. (The country.. although probably the state, too.)

>>This is part of why the deep state invented the Russiagate hoax. It’s why tens of billions have gone “missing” in Ukraine.

And Kazakhstan until Vlad pulled the plug on that one by sending in the troops to shut down the color revolution we were helping run there.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 02:59 PM (LkLld)

264 When did marketing become a test between the company and the consumer over just how much annoying bullshit people will tolerate before they just give up and take it?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM

* smiles *

Posted by: Micro$oft at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (a3Q+t)

265 Sorry Pelosi, and with apologies to Art Mullen, now that this USAID can of worms has been opened, Trump isn't stopping until the Dems eat it all.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (MMp6W)

266 That's why when Zelenski says, "what $157 billion dollars? I only saw $110 billion", he's not lying.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 02:55 PM (WXgbp)

I think more to the points he's saying "hey don't look at me, I'm innocent". Or do you think he just woke up a month ago and noticed the bag was some 50 or so billion light.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (8AR3F)

267 Democrats lost the information battle going into the election and President Trump is trying to ensure Democrats lose the information war.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (tT6L1)

268 259 OK, I see that you have to actually be on X.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 06, 2025 02:59 PM (1bNHn)

Fuck. I hate this, but I am thinking of starting an X account just to show support.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (bss/y)

269 They might finally get a real populist. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

they can't. They're running the mother of all ops. All they can do is op some more.

Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (dCxaZ)

270 264 When did marketing become a test between the company and the consumer over just how much annoying bullshit people will tolerate before they just give up and take it?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM

* smiles *
Posted by: Micro$oft at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (a3Q+t)

When they started calling them 'consumers' instead of 'customers.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:01 PM (bss/y)

271
EM SHENANIGANS FOADDY-SEBUN1!!!11!

Posted by: Al Greens' eye bags at February 06, 2025 03:01 PM (EFZgU)

272 'A Man chooses. A slave obeys.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:01 PM (bss/y)

273 Posted by: Carly Fiorina at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (a3Q+t)

I will never hear that without thinking of two things:

1. "that face"
2. The comedian who said the first time he heard her name he thought it was Schwarzenegger trying to say his home state

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (8AR3F)

274 I never see them on X videos. They are present on Youtube ones, but not X.
Posted by: Eeyore

Despite my better judgement, post a tinyURL link to the vid. Some may have the feature disabled but if you're using a Chrome based browser ... which browser are you using, also?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (mlg/3)

275 Kind of like on the larger screen, we fund both sides in wars.
Posted by: barbarausa at February 06, 2025 02:56 PM (enw9G)

The Churn is pushed by agitation, and it keeps everyone choosing sides and fighting with each other, instead of identifying problems and solving them.
Funding both sides ensures that the churn stays current and no one can catch a breath
They really were just causing problems to piss everyone off.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (D7oie)

276 they can't. They're running the mother of all ops. All they can do is op some more.
Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (dCxaZ)

Bingo

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (8AR3F)

277 I think more to the points he's saying "hey don't look at me, I'm innocent". Or do you think he just woke up a month ago and noticed the bag was some 50 or so billion light.
Posted by: ...

I think he knew the bag was light but was told to
play along. But NOW that Musk and his weaponized autists are sniffing around, he's not going to be the only one holding the bag.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (WXgbp)

278 Mean Joe Green >>>> Al Green

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (6K6Eu)

279 269 They might finally get a real populist. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

they can't. They're running the mother of all ops. All they can do is op some more.
Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 03:00 PM (dCxaZ)

=====

This is assuming the op comes to an end.

Which seems possible. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

280 Anyone else think that both Obama wins were frame-jobs by the Uni-party with neither McCain nor Romney seriously contesting the election since policies would remain the same regardless of the victor?
Trump winning the primary in 16 is really the first 'outsider' victory since Regan, and before that Hoover.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (F/35S)

281 they won't give up easily; Pelosi....

Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (g47mK)

282 We're not even two weeks in and the revelations of just how much our own government was working against us is beyond anything any of us imagined.

Even our wildest imagination couldn't conceive of the literal billions being spent--EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!--to fight the American people.

All these charities are getting billions, every year, while FEMA is kicking Americans who lost everything out into the winter cold.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 02:35 PM (S+kp7)

Yup. I won't be satisfied until I see people being frog marched off to prison.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 06, 2025 03:03 PM (iKI3U)

283
Bill Kristol is hopping mad at Elon. He's shaking his little cuck fists of rage.

Elon is siccing his online minions to intimidate Bill into silence. But Bill will keep telling the truth!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:03 PM (w6EFb)

284 When did marketing become a test between the company and the consumer over just how much annoying bullshit people will tolerate before they just give up and take it?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (6ydKt)

When big websites proved they could force people to sign up and log in to see any content at all

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:04 PM (8AR3F)

285 The USA is an oligarchy and has been pretty much from the beginning. The only choice normal Americans have is to pick the oligarchs mostly align with their views.

Luckily for us that includes one of the most well known persons on the planet and the richest person on the planet.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 03:04 PM (Vh9CX)

286 Working with pigeons huh? That’s what youngsters are calling it?

Posted by: Eromero at February 06, 2025 03:05 PM (jgmnb)

287 When big websites proved they could force people to sign up and log in to see any content at all
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:04 PM (8AR3F)

I wonder how many people actually pay for an online subscription to say PJmedia?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:05 PM (bss/y)

288
DataRepublican's money-flow tracking site has been under attack. She said they made it as DDoS proof as they could (most of the processing is client side), but they are vulnerable to fake abuse reporting.

So, a lot of antivirus and firewall engines get false reports that the site is some kind of spam/malware/phishing and block it. She's fighting that now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:05 PM (w6EFb)

289 BREAKING: Rep. Al Green Files Articles of Impeachment Against the #BadOrangeMan for "Assholish Acts of Aggression!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 03:05 PM (RA08Q)

290 Speaking of USAID and Kazakhstan, the fallout is already starting.

https://tinyurl.com/mwvv8t9s

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:06 PM (LkLld)

291 It could be that Durbin is really just a moron who isn't told anything about anything.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 06, 2025 02:32 PM (+iIV1)

There are people who really believe that Trump was in deep with Epstein.
==
To be fair there are people here who believed TRUST WRAY.

Posted by: Q dropped misinformation at February 06, 2025 03:06 PM (RqHGp)

292 273 Posted by: Carly Fiorina at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (a3Q+t)

2. The comedian who said the first time he heard her name he thought it was Schwarzenegger trying to say his home state
Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:02 PM (8AR3F)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:07 PM (v0TzN)

293 I don't believe the US Gov. and CIA organized this campaign against Trump. That is crazy talk.

The gov. is too incompetent -- look at Iraq and Afghanistan!

If the CIA did this, it would have all backfired and resulted in a humiliating defeat for them, right?

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 03:07 PM (Ol8zv)

294 So, did the passenger pigeons ride on the backs of the carrier pigeons?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

295 >> We're not even two weeks in and the revelations of just how much our own government was working against us is beyond anything any of us imagined.

Indeed. A bunch of cockroaches sucking the taxpayer teat like ticks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (w6EFb)

296 So, did the passenger pigeons ride on the backs of the carrier pigeons?
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)
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Whoa.

Mind.

Blown.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (6K6Eu)

297 We sure seem to have gone from "government by, for and of the people" to "government by, for and of OUR people" haven't we?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (S+kp7)

298 I think the Democrat Party is going to be for sale. Or, to put it in less...gauche ways, it's going to be open to a hostile takeover by an outsider.

They might finally get a real populist. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Indeed.

Posted by: Damien Thorn at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (4DY5T)

299 The most remote parts of our national forests badly need painting.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (MMp6W)

300 252 Was the guy who had to pretend to be a Scandinavian women raped by Algerians?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 02:58 PM (6K6Eu)

———

That would’ve been a great take: raped by diversity and now bitter about leftism.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (Vh9CX)

301 OT- I didn’t realize how thoroughly racist Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is. “ The Other McCain” says that she may be the worst Democrat in Congress:

https://tinyurl.com/423wry35

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 03:09 PM (IK7eV)

302 This is part of why the deep state invented the Russiagate hoax. It’s why tens of billions have gone “missing” in Ukraine.

I will make a proposition, and perhaps people can weigh in on it.

Every Military Failure since Vietnam was set up to clear out the books of fraud and theft in DoD, USAID and similar agencies. "We got overrun and the files got lost, and so did the extra cash and the equipment we weren't supposed to have and don't mention it because we will get in trouble"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 03:09 PM (D7oie)

303 A bunch of cockroaches sucking the taxpayer teat like ticks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (w6EFb)
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That metaphor is so mixed it would do Jack Aubrey proud.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:09 PM (6K6Eu)

304 >> Anyone else think that both Obama wins were frame-jobs by the Uni-party with neither McCain nor Romney seriously contesting the election since policies would remain the same regardless of the victor?

Yes. We haven’t had an honest election in this country in decades. The GOP was mostly in on it, so long as they could wet their beaks.

Trump has thrown all of that into chaos. And even then it took a decade, three elections—one of which was stolen—the Russia hoax, a virus hoax, multiple impeachments, J6, a war in Ukraine, multiple assassination attempts, and the world’s richest autist to get here.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 03:09 PM (nEfO3)

305 The most remote parts of our national forests badly need painting.
Posted by: Oglebay

They could produce fine works like this morning's art.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

306 I now feel that Pinky and the Brain was a lot deeper than any of us realized.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 03:10 PM (Ol8zv)

307 Elon is siccing his online minions to intimidate Bill into silence. But Bill will keep telling the truth!
===
And the truth is, the only thing that puts the starch in my micropenis these days is watching the wife get railed by the illegals that crew the ship!!! 🛳

Posted by: Captn Bill at February 06, 2025 03:10 PM (RqHGp)

308 To be fair there are people here who believed TRUST WRAY.

Posted by: Q dropped misinformation at February 06, 2025 03:06 PM (RqHGp)

Really? I don’t recall any.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 03:11 PM (IK7eV)

309 There are a lot of people getting ready to yell suey and I ain’t talking about calling pigs .

Posted by: Ron at February 06, 2025 03:11 PM (KDtr3)

310 >> That metaphor is so mixed it would do Jack Aubrey proud.

I know. This calls not for just colorful metaphors, but a Kamala mess of mixed metaphor.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:11 PM (w6EFb)

311 I was talking to a young neighbor, and said this whole USAID thing is like Marvel's Winter Soldier when Cap and Black Widow discover that SHIELD has really been HYDRA for decades.

And today I remembered that when John Kerry was making his name for a leap to politics, testifying about chopped ears and such, that the group he was part of was called the Winter Soldier Project.

Obama was just the next level of manufactured plug in to keep the ball rolling faster.

Posted by: barbarausa at February 06, 2025 03:11 PM (enw9G)

312 Everyone has USAIDS! AIDS, AIDS, AIDS!

Posted by: Lease at February 06, 2025 03:11 PM (EES2L)

313
Giuseppe Verdi >>>> Mean Joe Green >>>> Al Green

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (dxSpM)

314 304 >> Anyone else think that both Obama wins were frame-jobs by the Uni-party with neither McCain nor Romney seriously contesting the election since policies would remain the same regardless of the victor?
---

Since Joseph Kennedy bought his son's election.
Since LBJ bought the election in 1948.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (QP3yt)

315 There are a lot of people getting ready to yell suey and I ain’t talking about calling pigs.
Posted by: Ron

Chop suey? Yum.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)

316 It is 5:00 AM and I am half awake.

My jokes may not be funny once I wake up.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (Ol8zv)

317 Since Joseph Kennedy bought his son's election.
Since LBJ bought the election in 1948.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (QP3yt)

There was a lot of squirrely shit during the late 1800's too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:13 PM (bss/y)

318 I would suggest that it was 9/11 that kicked all this into high-gear.

Massive intelligence failure.
Massive anger by the people.
Massive funding thrown at them to "fix" it.

And they sure as hell did their best to fix it--by making sure we never could again get close to finding out the truth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 03:13 PM (S+kp7)

319
Have flights out of the country started yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:13 PM (dxSpM)

320 307 Elon is siccing his online minions to intimidate Bill into silence. But Bill will keep telling the truth!
---

Bill?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (QP3yt)

321 319
Have flights out of the country started yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:13 PM (dxSpM)

Well, they were waiting for that next check from USAID so...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (bss/y)

322 Giuseppe Verdi >>>> Mean Joe Green >>>> Al Green
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (dxSpM)
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (6K6Eu)

323 Let's never forget who FJB's self-described best friend in the Senate was

Maverick John McCain

It's always been about greed.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (F/35S)

324 It is 5:00 AM and I am half awake.

My jokes may not be funny once I wake up.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning!
......

Then have a couple beers.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (v0R5T)

325 320 307 Elon is siccing his online minions to intimidate Bill into silence. But Bill will keep telling the truth!
---

Bill?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (QP3yt)

Kristol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (bss/y)

326 Didn't John Brennan say that Trump would die in prison?

I seem to recall he said it very early, like in 2017.

Posted by: Bombadil at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (MX0bI)

327 Commie Bastards gonna bastard.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (wtvvX)

328 >>Every Military Failure since Vietnam was set up to clear out the books of fraud and theft in DoD, USAID and similar agencies. "We got overrun and the files got lost, and so did the extra cash and the equipment we weren't supposed to have and don't mention it because we will get in trouble"

I think Ukraine is more complicated than just money laundering although that was certainly part of it. The same neocons who pushed endless war and expansion in the Middle East have been pushing a EurAsian strategy for some time. Ukraine has always been a big part of it but it was also a big part of Putin's plans too.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (LkLld)

329 And they sure as hell did their best to fix it--by making sure we never could again get close to finding out the truth.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I think Pappy Bush uncorked the deep state. Reagan tried to keep it focused on the Soviets, but Bushy really DGAF.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (mlg/3)

330 The ARNP I support is convinced bird flu is going to be an epidemic soon.

Shut downs on the horizon!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (Jcd9M)

331 There was a lot of squirrely shit during the late 1800's too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025

***
The Hayes-Tilden presidential election was famously thought to be rigged in some fashion.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (J2vNu)

332 We haven’t had an honest election in this country in decades. The GOP was mostly in on it, so long as they could wet their beaks.
==
There is only one party. Mad jim said it best this morning. They should have treated Trump like they did W. Called him names, demonstrated etc, but did not go after him personally with lawmakers or assassination. They probably would never gotten this version of Trump. No systemic change. So why didn't they?

W was uniparty. Trump is not. Everyone knows the graft that has been ongoing for decades. It's the culture. It is normed. Nobody did anything for two reasons. One they benefit. And two they were afraid of the system.

Posted by: Captn Bill at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (RqHGp)

333 The Hayes-Tilden presidential election was famously thought to be rigged in some fashion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (J2vNu)
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And the state that was in the middle of the controversy? Florida.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (6K6Eu)

334 @scottressler

"Dear @elonmusk,

We purchased the Pennsylvania voter rolls & are using AI technology to detect fraudulent voter registrations.

We found active voters registered in both PA & other states.

Perhaps we can create the Department of Voter Efficiency (DOVE).

Let’s chat. "

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (vHIwP)

335 290 Speaking of USAID and Kazakhstan, the fallout is already starting.

https://tinyurl.com/mwvv8t9s
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:06 PM (LkLld)
_______________________

The CRS (Catholic Relief Services) just pulled their people out of Gaza. However, it's not a moral decision. It was purely a financial one since USAID was funding them.

Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (dIske)

336 Steak 'n Shake
@SteaknShake

Now cooking fries in 100% Beef Tallow in ALL Florida locations.

Our tallow has no preservatives, chemicals or additives….Anything less would be Sus

Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (NpAcC)

337 There was a lot of squirrely shit during the late 1800's too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The Devil you say!
-- Zombie Mark Hanna

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (77rzZ)

338 294 So, did the passenger pigeons ride on the backs of the carrier pigeons?

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

Yes. While sitting on stool pigeons.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (wtvvX)

339 317 Since Joseph Kennedy bought his son's election.
Since LBJ bought the election in 1948.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (QP3yt)

There was a lot of squirrely shit during the late 1800's too.
----------------------------------------
Yes, but the parties were fairly differentiated until they came together to rig the election of 1876. The only thing that had uinified them for even a short time before that was screwing Andy Jackson. And he came back angry and hit them twice as hard....hmmm...sensing a theme here.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (F/35S)

340 334 @scottressler

"Dear @elonmusk,

We purchased the Pennsylvania voter rolls & are using AI technology to detect fraudulent voter registrations.

We found active voters registered in both PA & other states.

Perhaps we can create the Department of Voter Efficiency (DOVE).

Let’s chat. "
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 03:16 PM (vHIwP)

========

I'm tellin y'alls...Democrats are facing an extinction level event right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

341 Just 10% of what they were spending on themselves would have made millions of American's lives 10 times better.

Think about that--you're out there trying to decide between paying rent and paying for food.
While billions of your tax dollars are going to just a few hundred thousand people.

You get up at 5am to go to work.
They have cocktails every day at 5pm.
You work.
They play.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (S+kp7)

342 "@scottpressler "

X doesn't let me copy the username so of course I typoed

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM (vHIwP)

343 So, did the passenger pigeons ride on the backs of the carrier pigeons?
Posted by: Bulg

Well, it wasn't us.

Posted by: Big Penguin at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM (v0R5T)

344
There was a lot of squirrely shit during the late 1800's too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---

That was random.
Today is a culmination of progressive, building block, intent.
It is a corporate system. Ninety percent of the time the only way Democrats win is by cheating.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM (QP3yt)

345 336 Steak 'n Shake
@SteaknShake

Now cooking fries in 100% Beef Tallow in ALL Florida locations.

Our tallow has no preservatives, chemicals or additives….Anything less would be Sus
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (NpAcC)

Are your shakes still smaller than a thimble?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM (bss/y)

346 The most remote parts of our national forests badly need painting.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 06, 2025 03:08 PM (MMp6W)

Heh. Yeah, I laughed.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM (g8Ew8)

347 320 307 Elon is siccing his online minions to intimidate Bill into silence. But Bill will keep telling the truth!
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Bill?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 03:14 PM (QP3yt)

Kristol?

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM (v0TzN)

348 The democrats are like the guy in prison with all the smokes, drugs and ramen noodles and thinks he's rich and everybody likes him. Once you get outta prison, none of that shit is worth 2 cents and the Ramen Noodle Guy is SOL.

Posted by: The Truth at February 06, 2025 03:19 PM (y7KuV)

349 Me question: why do you have to purchase voter rolls?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:19 PM (bss/y)

350 I think Ukraine is more complicated than just money laundering although that was certainly part of it. The same neocons who pushed endless war and expansion in the Middle East have been pushing a EurAsian strategy for some time. Ukraine has always been a big part of it but it was also a big part of Putin's plans too.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (LkLld)

Russia is not onboard the Trans National power grab... Putin needed to be taken out, and Ukraine was an attempt to do so. Multiple US Gov like Lindsey even said that Regime change is Russia was the goal.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 03:19 PM (QAkQ3)

351 313
Giuseppe Verdi >>>> Mean Joe Green >>>> Al Green
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:12 PM (dxSpM)

It's not easy being.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:19 PM (v0TzN)

352 >> I'm tellin y'alls...Democrats are facing an extinction level event right now.

Yep. Dare I say it......Has.....Is it possible......... that......

Steiner has come? And Steiner has taken the form of Elon and his weaponized autist DOGE Boys.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)

353 Russia is not onboard the Trans National power grab... Putin needed to be taken out, and Ukraine was an attempt to do so. Multiple US Gov like Lindsey even said that Regime change is Russia was the goal.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 03:19 PM (QAkQ3)

Russia is still the one who invaded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (bss/y)

354 CIA was running a color revolution.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (KWujZ)

355 352 Yep. Dare I say it......Has.....Is it possible......... that......

Steiner has come? And Steiner has taken the form of Elon and his weaponized autist DOGE Boys.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)

=======

I feel whiplash because my black pill was essentially my entire personality from 2023 to late 2024.

And here I am pumping up the death of the modern Democrat Party in 2025.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

356 WTF is Thune? They are delaying Patel's vote another week.

A bunch of MFs.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (PMtkd)

357 I think Ukraine is more complicated than just money laundering although that was certainly part of it. The same neocons who pushed endless war and expansion in the Middle East have been pushing a EurAsian strategy for some time. Ukraine has always been a big part of it but it was also a big part of Putin's plans too.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (LkLld)

I agree. I think the *primary* motivator of everything the Deep State does is money and/or power.

I don't think they're particularly political or ideological people, they'll say or do whatever they think is expedient to get them more money or power.

And it's not like a monolith -- there are thousands upon thousands of piglets sucking at this teat, all trying to enrich themselves.

But they can't out the others because, well, obviously everyone has blackmail on everyone else.

It's a fucking mess.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (uCjyK)

358 Yep. Dare I say it......Has.....Is it possible......... that......

Steiner has come? And Steiner has taken the form of Elon and his weaponized autist DOGE Boys.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (w6EFb)
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I'm feeling more like it's a Chicxulub meteorite sort of thing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (6K6Eu)

359 Steak 'n Shake
@SteaknShake

Now cooking fries in 100% Beef Tallow in ALL Florida locations.

Our tallow has no preservatives, chemicals or additives….Anything less would be Sus
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 03:17 PM (NpAcC)

Are your shakes still smaller than a thimble?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:18 PM

Chicken nuggets, fries and an iced tea cost me $17 - no thanks.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (9XPe8)

360 they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

Is there hands-on training??

.....I just earned another week of sensitivity training with that question, didn't I?

Posted by: mikeski at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (99UyO)

361
When does the Seppuku start?

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 03:22 PM (+oR7L)

362 Me question: why do you have to purchase voter rolls?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
.......

Well, Kings Hawaiian aren't free either.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

363 I feel whiplash because my black pill was essentially my entire personality from 2023 to late 2024.

And here I am pumping up the death of the modern Democrat Party in 2025.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

Why, MP4 might release his cover of 'What a Wonderful World!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:22 PM (bss/y)

364 356 WTF is Thune? They are delaying Patel's vote another week.

A bunch of MFs.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (PMtkd)

=======

Some Senate rule procedure, kicked off by Democrats on the committee.

It'll be the last real procedural barrier, presuming winning votes.

And it should be recalled, Garland wasn't appointed AG until late March of 2021.

This is just kind of how the Senate works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

365 Treeeeeeeasssssonnnnnnn!

Posted by: S Gorpa at February 06, 2025 03:22 PM (/U5Yz)

366 “Perhaps we can create the Department of Voter Efficiency (DOVE).”

Scott Pressler is a clever guy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 03:22 PM (IK7eV)

367 Chicken nuggets, fries and an iced tea cost me $17 - no thanks.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 03:21 PM (9XPe

You bought chicken nuggets at Steak and Shake?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (bss/y)

368 > well, technically 'sedition.' But I guess we're not doing the whole accurate stuff anymore.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 02:19 PM (mlg/3)

I'm sticking with treason. These people are foreign invaders, and giving them aid and comfort is treason by definition.

Posted by: Barack at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (W5ArC)

369 I'm tellin y'alls...Democrats are facing an extinction level event right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Commies never disappear. They mutate. Not sure if I want to see the next iteration.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

370 A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked Trumps deadline of tonight to take the buyout offer. Says he wants to see how the legality of this works out.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (rpZHs)

371 368 > well, technically 'sedition.' But I guess we're not doing the whole accurate stuff anymore.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 02:19 PM (mlg/3)

I'm sticking with treason. These people are foreign invaders, and giving them aid and comfort is treason by definition.
Posted by: Barack at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (W5ArC)

=======

Barack Obama has been hard red pilled. Amazing to see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

372 Russia is still the one who invaded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (bss/y)

Yes and no.

We don't need to replay the entire events from 2010 or so until present, but suffice to say there was a LOT of unofficial war going on before official war started.

Basically the US funded a coup against the "Putin puppet" president, and one thing led to another. Lots of ethnic strife ... and eventually ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Ukraine sent in troops, so did Russia and here we are.

But 100% of this was orchestrated by the US and the EU.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (uCjyK)

373 @BernieSanders

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is the most important appointee of the Trump administration.

That’s Oligarchy.

The function of government under Trump and Musk will not be to serve ordinary people, but to make the wealthiest people in this country even richer.
=
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Says the guy who took donations from the poorest to do nothing but make himself richer. That's hippocracy.

Posted by: Sit this one out Bernie at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (RqHGp)

374 >> I'm feeling more like it's a Chicxulub meteorite sort of thing.

As the Bad Cat predicted back in Nov (and I thought he was being a bit over-optimistic) that the Swamp was going to be blown away.

They were not bringing a knife to a gun fight, they were bringing a dinosaur to an asteroid strike.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

375 Russia is still the one who invaded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:20 PM (bss/y)

Yep, about a week before the Ukrainians were ready to go. I actually remember the dodgy mobilization that seemed to have a lot of NATO assets tagging along.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (D7oie)

376
And here I am pumping up the death of the modern Democrat Party in 2025.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

___________

It might end up being the death of the modern Republican Party as well.

In the 90s there was a judicial investigation in Italy that led to the extinction of several parties, in particular the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. We may see the same thing here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (dxSpM)

377 Chicken nuggets, fries and an iced tea cost me $17 - no thanks.
Posted by: Josephistan

Oh, yeah? Try Five Guys; $30 for a hamburger combo. One, One combo.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (mlg/3)

378 🚨BREAKING: Michael Shellenberger tells Jesse Watters that USAID and the CIA are linked to Donald Trump's impeachment.
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CIA was running a color revolution.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I want public Nuremburg trials and public execuutions. They can have it nice and civilized, or they can play the insurrection shit again and get pubkic executions with no trials. I want these motherfuckers out. No mercy, no go backs, no pardons.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (MsrgL)

379 WTF is Thune? They are delaying Patel's vote another week.

A bunch of MFs.
Posted by: Seems Legit
......

Chuck Schumer sez Kash wrote something mean in his book.
Fun Fact: Kash is short for Kashyap.

Posted by: wth at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (v0R5T)

380 Says the guy who took donations from the poorest to do nothing but make himself richer. That's hippocracy.
Posted by: Sit this one out Bernie at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (RqHGp)

Oh, that is well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (bss/y)

381 That's hippocracy.
Posted by: Sit this one out Bernie

Rule by horses would be preferable.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

382 I miss Steak'n'Shake. We don't have them here.

They're not a modern "gourmet burger experience" or whatever, but sometimes I'm just in the mood for a classic greasy spoon burger and a big pile of oily fries with enough salt to defrost the North Slope Haul Road.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (W5ArC)

383 368 > well, technically 'sedition.' But I guess we're not doing the whole accurate stuff anymore.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 02:19 PM (mlg/3)

I'm sticking with treason. These people are foreign invaders, and giving them aid and comfort is treason by definition.
Posted by: Barack at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (W5ArC)

You can't treason somebody out of something they didn't treason themselves into.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (v0TzN)

384 369 I'm tellin y'alls...Democrats are facing an extinction level event right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Commies never disappear. They mutate. Not sure if I want to see the next iteration.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (mlg/3)

=======

Their crazies have been buoyed by endless cash for a long time.

Without that cash, to compete again, they'll have to pick up issues that are less crazy than, "Let's pay federal funds to cut off the dicks of illegal immigrants" (an actual position Kamala Harris held and espoused publicly in 2019).

The money was what drove the insanity. Cutting off the money supply will definitely have a moderating effect...over time.

The Party as it's populated now, though, will just get crazier in the short term.

I think the current Democrat Party is in a Doom Loop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

385 I want public Nuremburg trials and public execuutions. They can have it nice and civilized, or they can play the insurrection shit again and get pubkic executions with no trials. I want these motherfuckers out. No mercy, no go backs, no pardons.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (MsrgL)

I imagine we will see none of that. I would be shocked if anyone went to jail. Worst that will happen is people taking early retirement.

But we'll see.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 03:26 PM (uCjyK)

386 Rule by horses would be preferable.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)
-----------
You know it, yahoo.

Posted by: Houyhnhnms at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (6K6Eu)

387 > Says the guy who took donations from the poorest to do nothing but make himself richer. That's hippocracy.
Posted by: Sit this one out Bernie at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (RqHGp)

I love the way Bernie used to babble about "millionaires and billionaires", while now it's just "billionaires".

I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that Bernie himself is now a multi-millionaire. Nosiree!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (W5ArC)

388 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.

++++

I can't wait. I am so ready for some heads. Please let it be a governor charged with the crimes of the illegals he is shielding in a sanctuary city. We need some visible examples for others.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (jPdyB)

389 Without that cash, to compete again, they'll have to pick up issues that are less crazy than, "Let's pay federal funds to cut off the dicks of illegal immigrants" (an actual position Kamala Harris held and espoused publicly in 2019).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

How about something less crazy than: WE WANT YOU TO MUTILATE YOUR OWN CHILDREN! MAKE THEM MISERABLE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR SHORT LIVES!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (bss/y)

390 370 A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked Trumps deadline of tonight to take the buyout offer. Says he wants to see how the legality of this works out.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (rpZHs)
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Legality? It happens every day of the year in the private sector. There's not mystery to it. Just do it.

Posted by: WisRich at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (G0vdT)

391 376 It might end up being the death of the modern Republican Party as well.

In the 90s there was a judicial investigation in Italy that led to the extinction of several parties, in particular the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. We may see the same thing here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (dxSpM)

=======

Well, the GOP circa 2013 seems to already be mostly dead. Replaced in no small part because the GOPe decided on a path of "winning by losing", shoving out as many of its loyalists from the House in 2018 in order to weaken Trump which...just made the House harder to the right. Not, like, Milton Friedman hard, but harder to the point where one gadfly could knock off the sitting Speaker of the House.

And the future of the party is already pretty set in a MAGA-like direction.

Reformation wasn't easy or quick, but it's pretty obviously happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

392 @340

>>I'm tellin y'alls...Democrats are facing an extinction level event right now.

Who knew when you black pill gamers and nerds to your side you can get this much accomplished.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (XV/Pl)

393 Can't see Ratcliffe cleaning up the CIA much. He seems, well, somewhat lazy. I may be wrong but, that is my impression.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)

394 I was saying a lot in 2017 that you were watching the death of both parties, almost completely orchestrated by a single man. The bastards staved it off but they may not be able to stop it now.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (8AR3F)

395 Horde.

237 Bernie used to yell about millionaires and billionaires. Now it's just billionaires. Wonder why?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 02:55 PM (EUtBO)

387 I love the way Bernie used to babble about "millionaires and billionaires", while now it's just "billionaires".

I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that Bernie himself is now a multi-millionaire. Nosiree!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 03:27 PM (W5ArC)

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (v0TzN)

396 Now do 2020 election theft funding

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (jPdyB)

397 they made him pretend to be a Scandinavian woman.

Is there hands-on training??

.....I just earned another week of sensitivity training with that question, didn't I?
Posted by: mikeski

We have an online test you must take for reinstatement.

Posted by: AoS HR Dept. at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

398 Sanders is millionaire of the People.

Posted by: ... at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (8AR3F)

399 393 Can't see Ratcliffe cleaning up the CIA much. He seems, well, somewhat lazy. I may be wrong but, that is my impression.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)

Slow and steady.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (v0TzN)

400 Trump deserves to be on Rushmore.

Posted by: Not even three weeks in at February 06, 2025 03:28 PM (RqHGp)

401 > 388 Pam Bondi is going to be the Busiest AG in history.

If I were a Dem pol I'd be shutting the fuck up, lawyering the fuck up, and waiting for the subpoenas, not screeching on television.

They're not that smart. I can't believe we almost let these turnips steal our country.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 03:29 PM (W5ArC)

402 390 370 A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked Trumps deadline of tonight to take the buyout offer. Says he wants to see how the legality of this works out.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 06, 2025 03:23 PM (rpZHs)
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Legality? It happens every day of the year in the private sector. There's not mystery to it. Just do it.
Posted by: WisRich

Yes. Tell this judge to go have knowledge with himself.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 03:29 PM (/U5Yz)

403 384. Personally I’m not seeing a doom loop. Every time Trump does something positive the voters wanted, the Dems run to a judge and presto, an injunction occurs to stop it. The law fare continues

Posted by: Jen the original at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (rpZHs)

404 Everything that is coming to light, long suspected, about the Federal government leads to one conclusion: the Federal government has become the equivalent of enemy state the exists to enrich its insiders and grind its serfs into silent submission and to replace the newly defined untouchable portions. Just as this Marxist insurgency was on the cusp of achieving Obama's goal of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America" by winning the 2024 election President Trump derailed it all. It is imperative that the crucial EOs become law and that these corrupt Marxist aligned parts of the executive branch get fundamentally transformed or eliminated. Doing these will make it much more difficult for the Left to gather and weaponize the scattered pieces when they inevitably have political success no matter how transitory.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (Q8Bj8)

405 The money was what drove the insanity. Cutting off the money supply will definitely have a moderating effect...over time.

The Party as it's populated now, though, will just get crazier in the short term.

I think the current Democrat Party is in a Doom Loop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

Usually the end of cheap money ends the business cycle and leads to a recession, but I have no idea of what happens when the spending ends and people get to keep their own money for a change.

The country of Georgia dealt with this in the 90's and for a while did better, and Argentina is working through a similar situation.

Who knows, no one thought on this I think

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (D7oie)

406 401 I can't believe we almost let these turnips steal our country.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 03:29 PM (W5ArC)

heh

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (v0TzN)

407 @400

>>Trump deserves to be on Rushmore.

If Trump gets accomplished what he wants to get accomplished, he'll get his own mountain.

A beautiful mountain, the best mountain, everyone says so mountain.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (XV/Pl)

408 >>
But 100% of this was orchestrated by the US and the EU.

*Proffers Cookies*

Posted by: Victoria Nuland at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (9Q8fk)

409 Yes. Tell this judge to go have knowledge with himself.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 06, 2025 03:29 PM (/U5Yz)
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How many divisions has he?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (6K6Eu)

410 USAID has been shuttered a week.

No grannies have starved or been thrown to the wolves.

But Politico can't make payroll.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (azCAX)

411 403 384. Personally I’m not seeing a doom loop. Every time Trump does something positive the voters wanted, the Dems run to a judge and presto, an injunction occurs to stop it. The law fare continues
Posted by: Jen the original at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (rpZHs)

========

I was obviously talking about the legal process around EOs and not the political situation of a political party seeing its funding dry up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

412 noodsoros

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (v0TzN)

413 It might end up being the death of the modern Republican Party as well.

In the 90s there was a judicial investigation in Italy that led to the extinction of several parties, in particular the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. We may see the same thing here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 03:24 PM (dxSpM)

Not with the deep-state fed judges we have now.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (g8Ew8)

414 370 A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked Trumps deadline of tonight to take the buyout offer. Says he wants to see how the legality of this works out.
Posted by: Jen

------------
Not sure it is legal.
Are people who gain power through real elections allowed to have any power?

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (Ol8zv)

415 >> Trump deserves to be on Rushmore.

They're gonna need a bigger mountain.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (w6EFb)

416 nood = FCC Investigating George Soros-Owned Radio Stations for Providing Leaked Information About Where ICE Is Operating

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:32 PM (v0TzN)

417 I can't believe we almost let these turnips steal our country.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

We've beeten them back -- for now.

Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:32 PM (77rzZ)

418 415 >> Trump deserves to be on Rushmore.

They're gonna need a bigger mountain.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (w6EFb)

407 @400

>>Trump deserves to be on Rushmore.

If Trump gets accomplished what he wants to get accomplished, he'll get his own mountain.

A beautiful mountain, the best mountain, everyone says so mountain.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 06, 2025 03:30 PM (XV/Pl)

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (v0TzN)

419 Fudging CIA. That was suppose to be an FBI op!!!

/sarc

*Looks over shoulder*

Posted by: Drider at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (K/taT)

420 350 I think Ukraine is more complicated than just money laundering although that was certainly part of it

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (LkLld)
_________________________________________

I have a bit of a theory on that. It is THE money laundering center for a vast network of entities world wide. From the US perspective, it's a way to influence leader decisions across the globe by allowing them participation. But, it also, ties into US politicians. It doesn't get publicized, but there are massive amount of commercial properties in the Mid-west US that were purchased by Ukrainian oligarchs. They're a place they put their black market funds so they can't be touched. These commercial offices just sit there. Towns in the midwest go bankrupt condemning and removing them. They do the same in NYC by purchasing Luxury residences and leaving them vacant. It's estimated that over 80% of own luxury apts in NYC are unoccupied. The conflict in Ukraine is an invitation for black market weapon sales. And a vast majority of US aid was weapons, yet, Zelenskyy keeps begging for more. Well, because they have been sold, and the funds have to be cleaned.

Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (dIske)

421 417 I can't believe we almost let these turnips steal our country.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

We've beeten them back -- for now.
Posted by: Bulg at February 06, 2025 03:32 PM (77rzZ)

Squashing them like bugs.

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (v0TzN)

422 DC corruption > Challenger Deep.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (azCAX)

423 >>Usually the end of cheap money ends the business cycle and leads to a recession, but I have no idea of what happens when the spending ends and people get to keep their own money for a change.

For the last few months I have been thinking the best move Trump can make is a Tax Holiday.

Let everyone keep (up to) the first Million they made last year.

No need to play around with the Fed. Just let people have their Taxes back while you rework the system to their benefit.

Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (9Q8fk)

424 Cut off USAID and you deprive them of funding.

Close the border and you deprive them of drugs, child sex slaves and foot troops to sew chaos.

You do not need to cut off the head if you render them 'armless.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (bss/y)

425 The impeachment was a coup attempt.

The stolen 2020 election was a successful coup attempt.

The attempted assassinations were coup attempts.

The Covid lockdowns were a coup attempt.

Any reason to believe they'll simply stop trying?

Doesn't seem likely.

This is, lierally, war.

Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 03:34 PM (pMi6S)

426 I would argue that Milton Friedman was sort of a squish.

granted, I think Kublai Khan was a tax and spend liberal, too.

Did anyone realize that Trump was sworn in on Ayn Rand's 120th birthday?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 03:35 PM (D7oie)

427 416 nood = FCC Investigating George Soros-Owned Radio Stations for Providing Leaked Information About Where ICE Is Operating
Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:32 PM (v0TzN)

Posted by: m at February 06, 2025 03:36 PM (v0TzN)

428 These are the people who told me to abort my baby if I wanted to continue working at State. My performance didn't matter, my tenure didn't matter. This was after I had previously been sexually assaulted by a senior officer, and was told by HR to "just avoid him and maybe don't curl your hair."

To see this audit and investigation is such a satisfying thing. Maybe, please Lord, we can get people into positions who desire to serve the interests of the United States of America and her citizens.

Posted by: Moki at February 06, 2025 03:37 PM (wLjpr)

429 You do not need to cut off the head if you render them 'armless.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

How dare you!!!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at February 06, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

430 "We should have known that it was the money they were all getting that' was the glue that held the whole Op together"
Follow the benjamins ...

Posted by: Nemo at February 06, 2025 03:38 PM (S6ArX)

431 Let everyone keep (up to) the first Million they made last year.
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The sound that the market makes crashing, while everyone cashes out their 401k, market gains, would make Krakatoa sound like a wet fart.

Not to say I don't like the idea....but

Posted by: Not even three weeks in at February 06, 2025 03:48 PM (RqHGp)

432 I LOL'ed at his imbecile employer trying to defend Billy Boy making zillions off feralgov.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (Vqx30)

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"I'm going to disprove that Kristol is paid by USAID by not debunking anything and just calling it routine. Take that, peons."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 06, 2025 02:18 PM (GBKbO)

"It doesn't count that I took stolen taxpayer money
to betray conservatives because I was going to betray conservatives anyway"

-- Bill Kristol, probably.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 04:03 PM (n7h9X)

433 These are the people who told me to abort my baby if I wanted to continue working at State. My performance didn't matter, my tenure didn't matter. This was after I had previously been sexually assaulted by a senior officer, and was told by HR to "just avoid him and maybe don't curl your hair."

To see this audit and investigation is such a satisfying thing. Maybe, please Lord, we can get people into positions who desire to serve the interests of the United States of America and her citizens.
Posted by: Moki at February 06, 2025 03:37 PM (wLjpr)

contact someone on Trump's team, he might be able to do something with those stories.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 04:05 PM (n7h9X)

434 A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked Trumps deadline of tonight to take the buyout offer. Says he wants to see how the legality of this works out.
Posted by: Jen

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Not sure it is legal.
Are people who gain power through real elections allowed to have any power?
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 03:31 PM (Ol8zv)

What nonsense. If the buyout is legal it still can be cancelled. If the buyout is illegal than it should be stopped entirely.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 04:10 PM (n7h9X)

435 The conflict in Ukraine is an invitation for black market weapon sales. And a vast majority of US aid was weapons, yet, Zelenskyy keeps begging for more. Well, because they have been sold, and the funds have to be cleaned.
Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 03:33 PM (dIske)

The Russians do chip in by blowing this material up. There were even claims they bough a Western Tank from Ukraine on the Black Market from Ukraine.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 04:13 PM (n7h9X)

436 The impeachment was a coup attempt.

The stolen 2020 election was a successful coup attempt.

The attempted assassinations were coup attempts.

The Covid lockdowns were a coup attempt.

Any reason to believe they'll simply stop trying?

Doesn't seem likely.

This is, lierally, war.
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 03:34 PM (pMi6S)

But their power is almost entirely our power. The GOP could have looked into USAID for decades and slowed the crap going on in funding the press. So far it seems entirely a liberal slush fund. Haven't seen a grant to make faster indy cars for the Indy 500 or anything

Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 04:16 PM (n7h9X)

437 I think Ukraine is more complicated than just money laundering although that was certainly part of it

Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 03:15 PM (LkLld)
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I have a bit of a theory on that. It is THE money laundering center for a vast network of entities world wide.

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Ukraine was also in the habit of tapping the pipelines and stealing gas and selling it before the way. Recently they cut off the gas going into the Balkans and stole it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 04:19 PM (n7h9X)

438 >>>Any reason to believe they'll simply stop trying? [coups]

Doesn't seem likely.

This is, lierally, war.
Posted by: zombie
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A coup is a finality. They attempted coups, the attempted to kill the king. figuratively Trump has a special forces team, battle ax in one hand and sword in the other. Decimation is an understatement. Dissolution is what you are witnessing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 04:42 PM (QP3yt)

439
non aesthetic things

@PicturesFoIder
Dolph Lundgren reveals he’s cancer-free following 9-year battle after doctors gave him only 2 years

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 06, 2025 04:55 PM (TGPs7)

440 The corruption of the Dhimmies is incredible. Trump is incredible. I believe they will try and kill him. I also believe a civil war is in the offering because of the desperation of the anarchists and racists. A storm is coming. Prepare.

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