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Biden Directed USAID to Give $1.3 Billion in Taxpayer Monies to... Terrorist Organizations
In Trump's first term, he banned the government from giving money to terrorist groups.
The left has a different idea of "fighting terrorism." They want to give US taxpayer money directly to terrorist groups, so long as they mutually pretend these specific monies will be used for some non-terrorist purpose. Even though money is fungible, and paying a terrorist group any kind of money frees them up to not pay those expenses and put the money saved into terrorism. And even though terrorist groups take other people's money and use that money to buy the goodwill of the people they hide among. When I was over in Lebanon, my guides pointed out that the government of Lebanon sends aid to the poor, Hezballah controlled south. Hezballah takes that aid and, after skimming a lot off for terrorism, distributes it to the poor pretending that Hezballah is giving them money. Aid stations are branded as Hezballah charity organizations, flying Hezballah flags, and of course the money mainly goes to Hezballah supporters. Trump said, "No more of that." Biden immediately reversed Trump's ban and started sending billions to terrorists.
More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism. Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden's aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world -- largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the new Trump administration must take the trend more seriously. "We should not be putting money into any country or areas where a terrorist group remains in control," Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. Roggio said that "aid, like money, is fungible." "It winds up propping up these groups," the counterterrorism analyst told the DCNF. "It allows them to use ... whatever money they have to invest into their terrorist activities."
... The largest share of Biden-era dollars linked to terrorism went to Palestinian organizations, Congressional Research Service records show. The Biden administration gave $1,053,400,000 in taxpayer money to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which claims to help war-afflicted Palestinian civilians but is tied to terrorists fighting Israel, according to U.S. and Israeli intelligence. Biden reversed a Trump-era ban on UNRWA funding in 2021 but brought back the ban last year after Israel accused UNWRA workers of participating in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. Intelligence officials later revealed that more than 1,000 UNRWA employees, or around 10%, were linked to the groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to documents found on the bodies of dead terrorists and other evidence. A dozen took part in the Oct. 7 massacre, including a Hamas commander who was teaching in elementary school for UNRWA and led a siege against an Israeli kibbutz that killed almost 100 people. UNWRA's schools have long used curriculum for Palestinian children that glorifies terrorists and martyrdom, a March 2023 report from UN Watch found. ... Trump and Congress passed a law in 2018 blocking economic support funds for the PA due to its program. Trump later paused all remaining funding for the PA before Biden took office and resumed it. The Biden administration in part revived the economic support fund that Trump's law restricts. The State Department claimed in documents from 2021 that "most" of the money did not "directly benefit the PA" in violation of the law. However, officials sent $265 million straight to the PA for its "security forces and justice sector institutions" throughout Biden's presidency, according to the Congressional Research Service. Under Biden, the PA agreed to pay more than $97 million to reward the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 attacks, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas, including tens of millions of cash they could never account for. Throughout the Biden admin, they knew the money they were pouring into Gaza would benefit Hamas. They did it anyway.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: fd at February 06, 2025 05:15 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: bluebell at February 06, 2025 05:15 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 05:15 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 05:15 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:16 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:16 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (Vqx30)
I got called paranoid a lot, but that is not a good name for it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: LASue at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (to664)
I got called paranoid a lot, but that is not a good name for it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (D7oie)
"perceptive"
"accurate"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (Vyll1)
Posted by: bluebell at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (79pEw)
Posted by: LASue at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (to664)
JFK was, what, 19 or so suspicious deaths?
That is a year in Clinton terms.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (D7oie)
Why is Ace posting PRIVATE CITIZEN DATA??
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (oeozt)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:18 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (KWujZ)
Posted by: LASue at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (to664)
I'd say this is the greatest scandal in the entire history of the US. The entire government is implicated, and many more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (wyMQY)
I got called paranoid a lot, but that is not a good name for it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (D7oie)
"perceptive"
"accurate"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at Febru
Prescient
Posted by: LASue at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (to664)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (lsjrd)
I'm trying to go down one of the rabbit holes DataRepublican's stuff has unearthed. I'm losing track of all the acronyms.
Talk about "web of deceit".
Tell me, any of you familiar with how money laundering schemes work: What would be the purpose of a money cycle. Ie money flows like this: A pays B, which pays C, when then gives money back to A.
Lots of that going on with this web of NGOs and DFAs and whatever other acronyms there are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Stateless...31% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (jvJvP)
Of course it's still a question of where you draw the line. But I use to think it was right around Stelter. He may be dumb enough to believe what he says, as Joy and Whoopie are. But maybe Chuck Todd, for instance, isn't lying either, but really believes.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (Pv3Rg)
When Democrats say Trump is plundering "private citizens' data," they mean it's Data....that is supposed to be kept Private from the Citizens.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (oeozt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (KWujZ)
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30 TRILLION is a lot of money. A.LOT.
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (g47mK)
The actual stuff they don't want us to know is still buried deep.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (m/tpX)
I'll settle for congresscritters going to jail.
I'll get congresscritters resigning to spend more time with their families.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Whoopsi at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (ufFY8)
I got called paranoid a lot, but that is not a good name for it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (D7oie)
The end of the movie?
Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (exHjb)
https://tinyurl.com/2s4dact5
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (LkLld)
And none of this 2000-page bullshit. I page. No monies of any kind will be given, loaned, or laundered to any terrorist organization labeled so by...
Hmmm, not too sure how to make that permanent.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: t-bird at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (4Nep/)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (ufFY
Tell that to the 4-5 inches of global warming I got on my lawn here in HOUSTON in January.
You're right, he is a tool.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (k9OZB)
Anyway, this last week is like the human version of those videos, with the Deep State as the rats, Trump as the gy with the shovel, Musk as the terrier, and The Internet a the greyhounds.
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 05:21 PM (ufFY
Tell that to all my livestock whose water bowls and tanks I had to keep fresh during several days of ~20F overnight in ETex.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Beltway Elite at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (LWsa7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (wyMQY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (w6EFb)
That money cycle is there to make it impossible to track direct payments... you can't prove X dollars went from A to B to C when they shift money from A to B to C back to A and B, which then uses the money for salaries and bribes.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (mB6WH)
The actual stuff they don't want us to know is still buried deep.
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There may be 5 or 10 or 20 more variations of USAID--we don't know at this point. We may find that while taxpayers were working their asses off to pay their bills and their taxes, their "tax money" should have never been collected in the 1st place because 97% of it went to grifts and grifters. Think of the tormented lives many lived or are living all because their take-home pay was 25% less than it ever should have been to begin with.
Posted by: Internet Nerds at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (azSra)
Lots of that going on with this web of NGOs and DFAs and whatever other acronyms there are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (w6EFb)
If you can't take entailed money directly you have to launder it through someone else to keep your hands clean. That means eventually it has to come back to you.
A circle like that means also that everyone who had to answer questions is also complicit
that is my guess. My second is that a number of those intermediate entities don't actually exist, and only are there to pass money along.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (J5RCE)
Ace, have you seen the post at SDA by Kate on a skit from the Israeli version of SNL?
It's funny, unlike SNL.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (t2X3m)
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (pMi6S)
____________________
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Looks pretty clear cut to me.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (YqDXo)
The lefty scumbags running Joe Biden really hate America and its hard-working people.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (PMtkd)
Whoopi Goldberg: “There could be people from the other side who say, you know what, you’re right, this is craziness. We could have competent people thinking, you know, but listen, I’ve watched 60 years of history get wiped out. I know what they do. I know how this works. This is not new. But the newest thing is that I’ve never seen it both sides, not both sides. I’ve never seen the Republicans ever act in this fashion, ever, and to not give a damn about the country, to allow it to get torn apart this way is freaking me the hell out.”
So, Whoopi, the Republicans have never acted in this fashion. That leaves the Dems have been the ones always doing it?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (mB6WH)
a ton of that money went into upheaval, and demonstrations, and color revolution like parades prior to 10/7
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (hB7mE)
Wait until they go all in with their defenses and excuses and rationalizations. Because that is when Trump drops an anvil of more data on their heads.
Posted by: t-bird at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (4Nep/)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (NpAcC)
Tell that to the 4-5 inches of global warming I got on my lawn here in HOUSTON in January.
You're right, he is a tool.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (k9OZB)
LOL.
And I am in Michigan, where we just got 0.2" of ice yesterday, and it will be below freezing constantly for the next sux days.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (pMi6S)
Those are such happy dogs!
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (oeozt)
That bastard Trump is using the Government to plunder data the Government has!
Gotta be illegal!
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (MMp6W)
The lefty scumbags running Joe Biden really hate America and its hard-working people.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (PMtkd)
I love that some idiot captioned it "purports to show the tent is USAID" when the fcking thing is plastered with the logo.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: t-bird at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (D9hgC)
The actual stuff they don't want us to know is still buried deep.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (m/tpX)
The real dirt will be in the main CIA/Sec State offices This is just the checks disbursment part.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (n7h9X)
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You're leaving the important part out: the politicians START the first domino by passing the budget or continuing resolution to fund USAID, then the money leaves our hands, passes thru a couple of others and THEN 4th or 5th hand to touch it makes HUGE DONATIONS to the politicians in on the grift! Its almost like a perpetual motion machine--those who control it (the politicians) are the ones benefiting from it shortly thereafter, and perpetually from that point on.
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (azSra)
Posted by: We're all working for Mel Brooks at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (FhXTo)
A circle like that means also that everyone who had to answer questions is also complicit
that is my guess. My second is that a number of those intermediate entities don't actually exist, and only are there to pass money along.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:23 PM (D7oie)
there's another wrinkle as well - the person doing the transfers can probably skim off a few percent each transaction as a "transfer fee" or somesuch, and end up with a lot of it in their pockets after the 20th transfer or so.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (wyMQY)
Posted by: redridinghood at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (NpAcC)
My guess would be they all had Gov phones and multiple Gov Debit cards from NGOs.
No way they were no profiting from those scams.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (wyMQY)
Long list here:
https://tinyurl.com/yxa6ww6b
And you're right. Nothing comes close.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (W5ArC)
SaltyCracker had a great Alex Jones / RFK Jr Meme on his show last night.
F'ing hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (9Q8fk)
I see. There is a lot of this going on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (Vqx30)
"They could have *faked* the logo to slander USAID"
-- CNN Stooge
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM
Into your life it will creep.
Posted by: Buffalo Springfield at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (a3Q+t)
We unknowingly financed October 7th.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Samantha Power at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (paSBy)
Let's at least start at anyone below 10 million a year, doesn't pay squat.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (PMtkd)
I think this should be on a billboard up there.
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (tT6L1)
I got tired of saying things like "the U.S. of A. are the bad guys," because it would hurt people's feelings.
I always thought it went without saying I was talking about the government.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (lH8E4)
When does the Seppuku begin?
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (+oR7L)
When you can only skim a percent at a time for "processing", you need more loops.
Posted by: t-bird at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (D9hgC)
__________________
I have to agree. And this is only three weeks in, too. Trump & Co. took the lid off the trash can and the rats came scurrying out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (YqDXo)
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jNPmJF
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (P5BPp)
The actual stuff they don't want us to know is still buried deep.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 06, 2025 05:20 PM (m/tpX)
The real dirt will be in the main CIA/Sec State offices This is just the checks disbursment part.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (n7h9X)
Right, this is just funding, and no one has missed a mortgage payment yet.
People say the Eff.Bee.EYE etc are behaving like the Stasi, but I don't think many have really thought about just how bad those asshoes were, and without our current technology.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:27 PM (wyMQY)
Also an agency handling fee for each transfer I hear, some claim that only a small fraction gets to the final destination...where it probably is laundered, misdirected and stolen.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (Njr94)
Posted by: Ace at 05:15 PM
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Samantha Power. That's who is responsible.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (w00p1)
Posted by: Oglebay at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (MMp6W)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (+oR7L)
Don't feel too bad, so did Israel.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (lH8E4)
Killing Jews? Here's some money!
Lost your 100 year old family home in the NC floods? Fuck off and die already!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (S+kp7)
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It's called feeding the alligator.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (QP3yt)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (mB6WH)
Couple EIN's with digital transfers, it seems to be tracking that stuff through computer systems is much easier than wading through a warehouse full of paper.
USAID was sloppy and complacent. They've been living large and not worried someone who really knows computer systems would start poking around.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (tT6L1)
__________________
Nor should it go to them.
I'm tired of paying layabouts, whether foreign or domestic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: LASue
Well, no... this IS Watergate, the Pentagon Papers...
Posted by: MkY at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 06, 2025 05:24 PM (J5RCE)
I bet those 300 are only there to turn out the lights, take out the trash, clean the toilets, etc. so the government can maybe get its security deposit back from the landlord.
I don't see USAID being a going concern in the future, at least not under that name.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Darkness lifting at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (2NXcZ)
>@wikileaks
·
>29m
"Nine out of ten USAID dollars spent in 2022 went to contractors, mostly in the DC area. Less than one in ten went to front line groups."
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (hB7mE)
I'd bet on #1.
not just a joke. We paid for all of the weapons on both sides of the Afghanistan fight. We paid for all of the weapons on both sides of the Iraqi reconstruction. We've been paying for Hamas, even while we've been funding Israel. In Syria, the extremists funded by the CIA were fighting against the extremists funded by the State Dep't.
War is extremely profitable when you can sell weapons to both sides, and make all the poor chumps back in your home country pay to keep building them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (wyMQY)
I'm tired of paying layabouts, whether foreign or domestic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM
But, it should be on a billboard.
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (aD39U)
Incidentally, another LIE told by hillary clinton was the FAA Administrator was "fired" by PDT.
He resigned on 1/20. And gave notice of his resignation in December, (probably because he was given an ultimatum). But still...he was not "fired."
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (oeozt)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:22 PM (tT6L1)
I got tired of saying things like "the U.S. of A. are the bad guys," because it would hurt people's feelings.
I always thought it went without saying I was talking about the government.
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I think we're all struggling to conceive the implications of this USAID fiasco. There really *was/is* a "shadow government" hellbent on slowly but surely draining us all of everything they could, and *we* had plenty of people we were voting for on the INSIDE of this devious and evil scheme.
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (azSra)
Posted by: We're all working for Mel Brooks at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (FhXTo)
LOL
Posted by: PennaLady at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: t-bird at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (D9hgC)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Doodad Pro at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Adriane Wot Sez Oy Vey! Way too Much These Days . . . at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (tcomi)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (mB6WH)
Posted by: We're all working for Mel Brooks at February 06, 2025 05:26 PM (FhXTo)
Suddenly the Wise Latina becomes alert, shows interest.
Posted by: Doodad Pro at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 06, 2025 05:25 PM (hB7mE)
I’m going to guess #1. We fund a lot of insane stuff.
I would not at all be surprised to find out some of the 9/11 hijackers were being paid by US intelligence and “went rogue.” We know Saudi intelligence was paying them.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (l3YAf)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_qUdwfxBVQ
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
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threadwinner nominee
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (+B+bS)
I just wanted to type it.
(Yes, I'm stealing someone else's schtick)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (9Q8fk)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 05:30 PM (mlg/3)
Didn't some other Moron, maybe Romeo 13, mention that Trump could waive sovereign immunity for feralgov employees like Fauci?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (eeMDq)
Posted by: Ed Nauseam at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (TIizU)
He resigned on 1/20. And gave notice of his resignation in December, (probably because he was given an ultimatum). But still...he was not "fired."
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (oeozt)
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In the end, it doesn't matter. It's not like the FAA Administrator was in the control tower as an ATC.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (YqDXo)
https://tinyurl.com/w5htcdjm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (8z0Et)
Posted by: t-bird at February 06, 2025 05:29 PM (D9hgC)
a percent at a time? What are you smoking? The year I had my own personal grant in Grad school every purchase I made was doubled in price and the Uni took half for 'overhead'. (this was not the highest overheads I knew of..Stanford had 90 percent).
I can tell you that quarterly checks is hell on a grad student. You feel like a rich guy but then the last month you have like 50 bucks in your account and its 25 days till the next check.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Samantha Power at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (eUkxC)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (S+kp7)
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (azSra)
I'm not struggling with the implications, I'm just surprised it's all being revealed.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 06, 2025 05:35 PM (lH8E4)
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Next you will be telling me that we were going to send $50 million to Gaza for condoms.
Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:35 PM (eeMDq)
Posted by: publius
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I brought this up yesterday.
There is no reason for a charity or NGO to be passing money around like that. They should all either spend it or go to prison.
I would give them one layer, so you could have umbrella groups that hand out money to other groups that spend it. If Rockefeller wants to support something Gates is doing, they can give the money directly to that project without the middle man.
I heard that Musk suggest blockchain to address traceability, but I do not think that is a good solution or even an adequate one.
I think they do this so they can run up their numbers to justify salaries. They pass around those billions taking a 10% cut at each transaction like a rabid new Series-7 overseeing a dotty widow's pension. It is all churn.
It also launders, but it is enabled by the churn factor.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 05:35 PM (Ol8zv)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (dg+HA)
Whatever the equivalent is, that's what the left did from 2020-2024.
Posted by: Doof at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (RFPHU)
Paul Ryan is an insectoid cvnt
Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (3mOji)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (mB6WH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 06, 2025 05:19 PM (wyMQY)
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You are absolutely right. I’m having a hard time processing all this and sleeping too.Remember back in 2015 when Hillary said if he (PDJT) gets elected we’ll all hang. Now I know what she was talking about.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (I90KB)
https://tinyurl.com/w5htcdjm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 06, 2025 05:33 PM (8z0Et)
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I got one wrong, but only because I thought the amount was too low.
According to the Bee, I am qualified to be a government bureaucrat.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (l3YAf)
You know how the Pentagon finally admitted they had misplaced billions the day before?
My hypothesis is that every military failure since Vietnam was a way to zero out the books on the missing and stolen monies. Blood washed away the evidence of graft.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 05:32 PM (l3YAf)
Probably all of them. We know that the FBI Likes to have its tools in place. Then while they waited they did the air training stuff and did the op and missed all the signs.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (3mOji)
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Concur.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (gKWVE)
I think its basically impossible to covict anyone for treason any longer because the entire principles of honor, loyalty, and patriotism have been turned into negatives. But yeah, you can make a pretty strong case.
Paul "Budget Hawk" Ryan joined with the Democrats to kill Trump's budget, then couldn't find a penny to cut
Like his dad, who would talk down every raise and earmark, then pile up the budget with earmarks to his district and vote against the bill he knew would pass.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (2VST1)
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I wonder if Israel would be interested in extraditing anyone who was involved in funding Oct 7 who might otherwise be untouchable by US law.
Posted by: Methos at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (eUkxC)
This number is shocking for what they do...300 would be about right if it stays a going concern...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (exHjb)
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There were a lot of politicians on "our" side that were in on this, and plenty more that knew about portions of this but remained silent.
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (azSra)
Michael Bolton: To conceal the source of money by channeling it through an intermediary.
Samir: That doesn't really help us.
Peter: I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are.
Posted by: the dandy at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (L+5ng)
Because it is not laundering money.
It's stealing money and paying kickbacks to those responsible for keeping you from stealing money.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (9Q8fk)
Posted by: Samantha Power at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (paSBy)
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Good.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (S+kp7)
I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. Paul Ryan DID indeed save the Federal Government Billions of dollars a year, by playing games with the Military Retirement system... meaning Retirees in total made less.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (QAkQ3)
For every action, there is a reaction.
With USAID gone, another will come up with another name. They all must be found and killed in the cradle. The Deep State demands to be fed. We must starve it to death.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (+oR7L)
Samir: That doesn't really help us.
Peter: I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are.
Posted by: the dandy at February 06, 2025 05:37 PM (L+5ng)
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It's hard to believe we're living a combination of Idiocracy and Office Space.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (tT6L1)
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Fed death penalty has been reimplemented. Coincidence?
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (jPdyB)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM
WILL OVERTHROW DEMOCRACIES FOR FOOD
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (aD39U)
@Breaking911 5m
BREAKING: President Trump sanctions the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it ordered an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (9Q8fk)
>@wikileaks
·
>29m
"Nine out of ten USAID dollars spent in 2022 went to contractors, mostly in the DC area. Less than one in ten went to front line groups."
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 05:31 PM (LkLld)
How much of the entire dee cee region is entirely based on fraud?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Vqx30)
We need to identify who created the biggest and most outrageous programs and prosecute, if possible. Start with this Hamas garbage and the various illegal immigrant and refugees resettlement programs where hundreds of millions were directed to several NGOs as well as the UN and Soros organizations.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Hkcdp)
TRUMP them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Jb8+d)
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Worse than that:
Everything that doubled and tripled in price over the last 4 years?
That was due to the inflation caused by Biden borrowing money to keep the embezzlement going.
They took 25% of your paycheck and then made everything 100% more expensive.
Taking more of what you make and making what you're left with worth less.
That's why you are living paycheck to paycheck, barely getting by, wondering why that is compared to just 5 years ago.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (S+kp7)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (tT6L1)
OW! My printer!
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:40 PM (D7oie)
And since they're using the Treasury, ?SWIFT? etc. they get a pass on all that financial surveillance .gov does.
Posted by: DaveA at February 06, 2025 05:40 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:34 PM (S+kp7)
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Don't kid yourself, those POS House GOP reps are still scared to cut any spending at all and endangering PDJT's tax reform bill. Tonight, right now, they are arguing about pittance reductions in spending hoping Doge will bail them out.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 06, 2025 05:40 PM (kBP6r)
All of it.
Remember the House Banking Scandal?
The House Travel Office Scandal?
...
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:40 PM (9Q8fk)
I will never understand this. Literally funding money to groups who' sole objective is to kill Jews. And this has been happening for a while, Obama had pallets of cash for Iran.
Posted by: Leupold at February 06, 2025 05:40 PM (4pwAx)
Right, people keep crying "money laundering" lately when that is not what these organizations do, primarily. Giving tens of millions for a lesbian cowboy poetry slam in Sri Lanka isn't money laundering.
Money laundering is where you hide the source of your cash to make it seem as if you have earned it legally and paid taxes on it.
Say you earn $1,000,000 by selling Fentanyl. Now you have a million bucks, but you cannot buy a lot of stuff because the IRS will land all over you, for earning money without taxes or legal origin. You have to find some way to seem to have earned that money -- 'launder' it -- in order to use it for stuff like houses and cars. Its why strippers tend to live in a dump and drive a beater despite having significant income.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (D7oie)
There's a story about the USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by a defector about a motorcycle destroyed by accident when they had opened up the gas to clean equipment and were horsing around and the cycle got burned. The sergeant in charge wrote a report that partisans had done it.
Each time it went up the chain of reporting, it was sent back down to add some other lost or broken bit of equipment added to it.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (n7h9X)
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Trump has ordered a government-wide review of NGO contracts. That could help.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (paSBy)
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Fed death penalty has been reimplemented. Coincidence?
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 06, 2025 05:38 PM (jPdyB)
Heh.
Can we haz Marque and Reprisal, and/or declaring certain people Outlaws.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (Vqx30)
I wouldn't spend it on rubbers, but 50M for a Pali mass sterilization program I'd support.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (F/35S)
The Bad Cat: "The scope of what is coming out will blow the Overton Window in the US to a new valence".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM (dg+HA)
Hey, buddy, keep it in your pants.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (Jb8+d)
Can I interest you in a Laundromat?
Or, perhaps a Car Wash?
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (9Q8fk)
And getting Jolt and pizza for the DOGE tech nerds.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (F/35S)
They can't reproduce once they explode.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (Jb8+d)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 06, 2025 05:43 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (n7h9X)
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The book "Chickenhawk" recounted a similar story. They lost a Huey and every single piece of equipment they couldn't account for was magically on the helicopter. I think the author said the Huey was overloaded by a couple of tons or so when they got done.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:43 PM (tT6L1)
The Cat's Outta The Bag, as they say.
Democrats tried to "contain" this Democrat Scandal (that's what it is) but it's like putting their finger in a dyke.
This Scandal has Blown The Fuck Up and there's no containing it, no spinning it. NOBODY is taking USAID's side (except for the usual bots, spammers, and trolls who spend their entire day trying to do damage control for Democrats).
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:43 PM (oeozt)
We just have to cross breed a good looking goat with an X Ray Machine.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:43 PM (9Q8fk)
We need to identify who created the biggest and most outrageous programs and prosecute, if possible. Start with this Hamas garbage and the various illegal immigrant and refugees resettlement programs where hundreds of millions were directed to several NGOs as well as the UN and Soros organizations.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 06, 2025 05:39 PM (Hkcdp)
You don't need DOGE to do that, you start by looking at emails, meeting recordings/transcriptions. You need a different set of experts for that.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (sLgq/)
Posted by: Megthered at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (xUi/c)
Where does "The Cat's Out of the Bag" expression come from?
I have an idea, but what's your guess?
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (oeozt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_qUdwfxBVQ
Posted by: zombie
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Not really a fair comparison. I feel bad for the rats.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (Ol8zv)
A few benefits off the top of my head:
1. Each entity takes a cut for “administration “
2. Only A was granted the $$$ for a specified purpose. B and C are not bound by that grant, so it can be spent on other things. Same goes for A after the $$$ returns from C.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (F/35S)
Give em rubbers that makes their dicks fall off
Posted by: Father Time at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (NtVYv)
Watching Samantha Powers talk about "all the good she was doing" with the USAID money makes me want to puke. She is one slippery liar. She's like trying to nail jello to the wall.
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (3Ope8)
F. Joe & His Junta Funded 10/7 Terrorist Attack on Israel.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (sLgq/)
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From what I remember, that's not really wrong. Money is fungible. Joe released billion of dollars back to Iran which left them money to fund other things.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (tT6L1)
I believe it is a combination of tradition and successful propaganda. In the Northeast of the USA, it was Republicans who were the jerks to Jews, not the KKK. Closed clubs, refusal to give loans, etc, etc. That ended in the roughly 1970s or 1980s, but memories are pretty strong.
Meanwhile Democrats have been really good at lying about the nature of Republicans and their own nature. They scream Nazi all day long at Republicans and claim they are antisemite, despite having zero evidence and Jews are too ready to believe it, based on past experience.
I think they know that the Democrats are bad, but they also believe that the Republicans are far worse. Further, they are strongly entrenched in the Democrats, and it would be time consuming, difficult, and expensive to get that point with the GOP.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (ZVgZ4)
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I think it should be deleted too but it would be rich to use this year's budget to build the wall. Just sayin.
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (jPdyB)
btw, Who would've guessed Marco Rubio would turn out to be a great Hatchet Man/Consigliere?
I sure didn't.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (oeozt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (w6EFb)
Interesting PCHEM reference.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (n7h9X)
__________________
I'd never even heard of it before.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM
Hey, buddy, keep it in your pants.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM
$20. Same as outside the beltway.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Skip at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (jJYB9)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (9Q8fk)
And now, after another hasty rebadging, al Qaeda is in control of Syria?
Really makes you think.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (l3YAf)
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After those 1s & 0s get loose they can never be eliminated and the DOGE team are one hell of a bunch of wranglers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (QP3yt)
Where does "The Cat's Out of the Bag" expression come from?
I have an idea, but what's your guess?
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (oeozt)
It is a turn on the joke about put your wife and your dog in a closet for four hours and then see who is happy to see you when you open the door. Except a cat in a bag will never forgive you, will claw you raw, and won't ever go near a bag again.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (Jb8+d)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (3Ope
Zero
based
budgeting.
Justify every single fcking penny you ask for or you get nothing.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (9Q8fk)
Yeah, all I saw from the NPC Bots yesterday was how USAID funding was all about using "soft power" to "promote democracy."
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (oeozt)
On British naval ships, when a sailor was to be lashed for their crimes, the bosun would form a "cat" or "cat o nine tails" out of ropes and keep it in a special bag carried to the event. There was a last minute attempt to get the sailor out of the lashing if possible, and if not, then... the cat came out of the bag and the whipping started.
That's my understanding of it, based on zillions of sea novels.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: kallisto at February 06, 2025 05:36 PM
Generally, the genitalia of female insects are known as "terminalia".
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (2UnvF)
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Well, that and the fact that most of them are addicted to one or more substance (eventually) and that after making some money are likely to no-show for a week or two.
Not that I would know, of course!
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (azSra)
__________________
I'd never even heard of it before.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (YqDXo)
Maybe they just threw darts at a board. Chances are, whichever agency you land on is going to be knee-deep in corrupt sh*t.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (k9OZB)
Posted by: LASue at February 06, 2025 05:17 PM (to664)
Teapot Dome!
Posted by: Warren G. Harding haz a sad at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (YXuNc)
Everything that doubled and tripled in price over the last 4 years?
That was due to the inflation caused by Biden borrowing money to keep the embezzlement going.
They took 25% of your paycheck and then made everything 100% more expensive.
Taking more of what you make and making what you're left with worth less.
That's why you are living paycheck to paycheck, barely getting by, wondering why that is compared to just 5 years ago.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
A lot of people need to simply be drugged out out of their office and shot.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (WXgbp)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (+oR7L)
Tell her to list 5 of them. Odds are at least 2 are full of scum and villany.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
My dumb has been founded.
I didn't even know it was losted!
Posted by: mikeski at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (DgGvY)
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What about me?
Oh. You said in your lifetime.
Posted by: Teapot Dome Scandal at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (S+kp7)
BREAKING: U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:46 PM (9Q8fk)
How do you hide embezzlement... without money laundering?
Oh, and all this should be wire fraud as well, so the Secret Service should be involved.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 05:41 PM (F/35S)
They can't reproduce once they explode.
Well sure double tap to the head apiece even at a buck a round would only cost @11Mil. But some people get touchy about such things.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (F/35S)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (mB6WH)
Posted by: garrett
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Paying off Oct 7 villains is more than a small treason.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (QP3yt)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (+oR7L)
And what was she doing all those unauthorized searches on people for. It wasn't for " Good"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (bNf8H)
It's not bribery unless you can produce a cancelled check with the word "bribe" in the memo line.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (S+kp7)
Very old military tradition, Pursers on ships would write off lots of stuff every battle that was destroyed by cannonballs, then sell the excess ashore to enrich themselves.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (2VST1)
__________________
I'd never even heard of it before.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM
I had, and I believe that PDT directed him there first. While not the biggest part of our bloated budget. It was known that this was the grift machine that greased the gears. There's zero accountability in USAID. Although I should say, was no accountability! That's been taken care of. Good riddance.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (4p0Xq)
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Oh, it shares characteristics of both.
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 05:48 PM (azSra)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (EUtBO)
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Father Time at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (NtVYv)
Or, you know, exploding pagers.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (Jb8+d)
She was in college!
And. Those Student Loans were killing her ability to move into a nicer place.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (9Q8fk)
The NPC Spambots Misinformation Narrative on USAID:
1. It's only 0.7% of the budget.
1b. It's less than 1% of the budget.
2. The money promoted democracy.
3. The funds were used for "Soft Power" instead of spending billions on military sources to keep the world's dictators in check.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (oeozt)
__________________
I'd never even heard of it before.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (YqDXo)
Maybe they just threw darts at a board. Chances are, whichever agency you land on is going to be knee-deep in corrupt sh*t.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (k9OZB)
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I'm thinking there was more to the raid on Mar a Lago than we realized.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (tT6L1)
I'm only surprised that the United States centralized so much slush money into one area - USAid. It doesn't surprise me in the least that, get this, on a global level we - the United States - are also a bad guy. We pour gasoline on existing fires, and its not even for self advantage anymore. But rather blind ideology.
I'm also not surprised that many people will blame Obama. The damn agency was created in '61. You think it was squeaky clean until 2009 ? I don't.
Posted by: You Don't Say at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (xe8OP)
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Left/Liberal/Woke/ Progressive/ Democrat at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (XeU6L)
The left has a different idea: "fighting for terrorism." But only the good kind which includes killing Jews, Christians, and Islamic migration that is intended to, as Obama might say, fundamentally transform Western culture. Replacing it comes to mind too.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (Jb8+d)
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Kaboom Claymore Condoms!
"THIS SIDE TOWARD ENEMY" etched on the inside ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (4fajg)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (+oR7L)
There is more money spent in USAID that the CIA (and FBI ?) combined. Its one of the boxes with the most money disbursed, so they hit it early. Plus inside and expert info surely put a big red circle on it for early action.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (n7h9X)
Also, agreed with someone who speculated that DOGE team thought it was easier to identify where the money was spent by looking at who was writing the checks vs hunting down the recipients.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (+oR7L)
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She always has a look on her face like she ate Chipotle an hour ago and there's an out of order sign on the restroom.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: publius
Well, you set up the Alliance to Save Orphaned Puppies, PetLovers International, the National Committee for Dog Health, and Warm Fuzzies, Ltd, all controlled by you (or cronies). (insert many more intermediate companies)
Then the Alliance to Save Orphaned Puppies wangles a $10 million grant. You can't just pocket that, you need to show where the money went. So you give $2 million to PetLovers, $2 million to Dog Health, and $6 million to Warm Fuzzies.
They, in turn, give it back to you personally, whether quasi-legally ("hiring" you as a "consultant", "board member", or some such bullshit), or clandestinely (dropping off bags of Krugerrands in your mailbox late at night).
If you have enough stages in the cycle, a traditional auditor is going to find it very difficult to follow the money. Most won't even try. They'll just check to see that Alliance to Save Orphaned Puppies is spending its money in plausible ways.
That all changes with computers.
Posted by: Doodad Pro at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (W5ArC)
To me, Fast & Furious was bigger and more horrific, because it literally was the US government giving guns to cartels to shoot Americans with, in order to make gun control easier to sell.
Although four governors deliberately placing Wuhan Flu victims in nursing homes is close.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (2VST1)
Ask yourself who paid for the intifada.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (9Q8fk)
Posted by: Soothsayer
As some of us have said for years, fuck foreign aid. They can hate us for free.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (WXgbp)
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (Jb8+d)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM
I think it should be 100% but I'll take the victory.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (4p0Xq)
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM (5LoD7)
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What the hell does the ICC do, anyway, besides jerk off?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (YqDXo)
She was in college!
And. Those Student Loans were killing her ability to move into a nicer place.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM
Now do OnlyFans.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (dg+HA)
What was the US getting from (list several nations, the UN and many sub-agencies ) in exchange for sending that money to Hamas? Who, how many, what companies, NGOs were benefitting? (Back to the list.).
Quid pro quo. Who, what, why?! Wait until we find almost every continent was involved.
Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (NFX2v)
Elon said they looked for who was still sending out money after Trump's EO to stop. USAID topped the list so they said that looks like a good starting point.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (ExV1e)
BREAKING: Trump administration to keep just 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally. -- Reuters/CBS
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Yeah, janitors shouldn't lose their jobs over others' corruption.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (LkLld)
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WINNING-by-Proxy!
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (4fajg)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: A dude in MI at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (WXgbp)
________________
THIS.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (mB6WH)
Just what is it you'd say you DO around here?
Posted by: The Bobs at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (dg+HA)
Also, agreed with someone who speculated that DOGE team thought it was easier to identify where the money was spent by looking at who was writing the checks vs hunting down the recipients.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (Hkcdp)
Might have been Bad Cat who pointed out that by cutting the flow, you don't have to find the recipients, you just wait for them to find *you* when they start screaming about where "their" money has gone.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (Vqx30)
"Elected" leaders via obvious vote fraud
Unaccountable layers of bureaucracy
All the elite are all on government payrolls
Military leaders who never fought a battle but have a chest plastered with medals
A state-run media
A people made poorer and poorer every year as the government steals more and more from them
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (S+kp7)
My guess where the expression "cat's outta the bag" originates is: When weirdos put cats in a bag to drown them but the cat escapes, thus "out of the bag."
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (oeozt)
Posted by: Soothsayer
And by "soft power" we mean that 14-year-old over there.
Posted by: Your Betters at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (5LoD7)
There was always a reason why Skankles was OK with being SoS...USAID is administered by State. The fact that you just lose 6B and no one bats an eye or there's any serious investigation is a clue. PDTS knew about this.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (3Ope8)
Well the boob jobs and drugs tend to eat up a lot of the money as well. Strip clubs are a great place to launder money, its getting harder and harder to find them. You need a place with lots of cash flow but nobody is certain how much. Used to be juke boxes and laundromats but they use coin less and less these days (and juke boxes are just a novelty item).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Samantha Power
No one cares, Samantha. These ragtag savages can dig their on water wells, and grow their own crops. They know how, they just d9n't want to.
OR
They can go back to raiding the village next door and put Long Pig back on the menu. Fuck 'em.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Capabar?
Posted by: MkY at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (tT6L1)
If they had thought it through, they would have left Melania's underwear alone.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (Jb8+d)
*Looks at insanely complicated diagram*
*Points*
We'll start here: At Creepy Clown Face.
Posted by: Cal Meacham at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (9Q8fk)
BREAKING: Trump administration to keep just 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally. -- Reuters/CBS
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Yeah, janitors shouldn't lose their jobs over others' corruption.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:51 PM (5LoD7)
Gotta keep the IT guys too, to maintain all those records so we can search for misconduct in past decades.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (QAkQ3)
I'm also not surprised that many people will blame Obama. The damn agency was created in '61. You think it was squeaky clean until 2009 ? I don't.
Posted by: You Don't Say at February 06, 2025 05:49 PM (xe8OP)
Not sure your first assertion is right. USAID just lets payments go out world wide. But Fauci's puppy torture operation at NIH is probably not run through it. CIA/State/FBI really secret payments havent shown up htat I've seen. Medical payments / Social Security payments...not under USAID.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: anachronda at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
It moved.
Oh, who am I kidding? It pegged the needle.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (WXgbp)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM
Chinese take out.
Posted by: Not that I would know at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (dg+HA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (QP3yt)
Those Digital Jukeboxes make almost as much money as a Claw Machine. And those things print cash.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (9Q8fk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (EUtBO)
This is what happens when you cut off the federal dollars. It changes behavior. Remember, Trump's EO didn't ban dudes in girls sports, it said "if you do it, you get no federal funds."
Now do OnlyFans.
Related there was a hero that went around and told the IRS about instagram "models" who were making huge money but not paying taxes...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Frank Barone at February 06, 2025 05:45 PM (+oR7L)
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Oh come on, give her a break. She got the first round of the Romanian election nullified. That's gotta count for something. There's the grift/embezzlement/ideologue machine....and there's the country shaping machine. She's primarily of the latter with a toe dipped in the ideologue side.
Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 05:54 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (aD39U)
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You and me.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (5LoD7)
Yeah, but who put it there?
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (Jb8+d)
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"Better Call Saul!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (4fajg)
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Trump is a businessman. He looked at the books and said, "Where the fuck is all this money disappearing to?"
Posted by: davidt at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (i0F8b)
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I'm assuming this is only one of many. Probably every department has one or more slush funds.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (dg+HA)
Biden was a gangster, and we wear white hats now.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (u82oZ)
However, they identified USAID as a starting point, the Bad Cat, in what was one hell of prescient call, said Elon's DOGE boys would get in and quickly find the Achilles Heel, the key lever to pull, the key dangling thread to yank to split the whole thing wide open.
And that's just what they did.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM
I think it should be 100% but I'll take the victory.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 06, 2025 05:50 PM (4p0Xq)
Now repeat those numbers for every department and we might get somewhere
Posted by: A dude in MI at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (/6GbT)
Watching Samantha Powers talk about "all the good she was doing" with the USAID money makes me want to puke. She is one slippery liar. She's like trying to nail jello to the wall.
Posted by: Frank Barone
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I saw a UK paper yesterday -- I think it was the Guardian, but not sure -- that had a long article on all the good things Trump just canceled. Stuff like feeding orphans and eliminating drought,....
I thought, man that is strait out of the USAID propaganda memo, I wonder who is still around to send them that to publish?
It was a puzzler.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (Ol8zv)
Another good place to clean monies.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (9Q8fk)
@RyanMaue 2m
GFS 18z model update:
24"-36" of snow expected in the next 10-days across the Northeast including NYC and Boston.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (mlg/3)
Yeah, but who put it there?
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (Jb8+d)
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According to what's come out, the US Treasury paid everything sent to them, no questions asked. I think it's open to debate if they were ordered or if it was merely a "suggestion."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (tT6L1)
We'll start here: At Creepy Clown Face.
Posted by: Cal Meacham at February 06, 2025 05:53 PM (9Q8fk)
Probably not a coincidence that its under State Dept and we got the director set up first and easiest. Now he's acting director!
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (n7h9X)
For the Syndicate!
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (9Q8fk)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (mB6WH)
*Looks at insanely complicated diagram*
Elon's weaponized autists: "Done!"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (WXgbp)
The accounted for everything but the "offog". No one knew what it was. Eventually they forged a back-dated log entry that stated that it "had come apart under gravitational stress" during maneuvers.
Turned out to be a typo.... should've been "Off.(icial) Dog" (the ship's mascot).
The brass had...questions.
Posted by: Doodad Pro at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (W5ArC)
I think that's the term yeah, not sure how its spelled. Pursers were notoriously corrupt, kinda like quartermasters today even.
Those Digital Jukeboxes make almost as much money as a Claw Machine
They take cards though don't they? Not cash? Although a lot of places sell tickets which you use to run the machine, and that might involve cash.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (QP3yt)
There is no reason for a charity or NGO to be passing money around like that. They should all either spend it or go to prison.
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It's a law that allows it.
Charities can keep their charitable status if they give funds to other charities.
Think "United Way."*
And it needs changed yesterday.
*Do not ever, ever, ever give money to United Way. They believe only they have the right to vacuum up all charitable dollars and to decide who gets them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (S+kp7)
Samantha Power was just trying to make the world a better place.
*uck you Bitch, with that money you stole we could have made our country a better place.
Posted by: four seasons at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (pIfcn)
To me, Fast & Furious was bigger and more horrific, because it literally was the US government giving guns to cartels to shoot Americans with, in order to make gun control easier to sell.
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Now do the $30 Billion cash that Obama transferred to Iran
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had
And that is why there haven't been any budgets. Just continuing resolutions.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (WXgbp)
Posted by: Braenyard
Are you trying to say that punishment cruel and unusual clause should be rewritten to punishment can be cruel as long as it is usual? I think you're on to something.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (9Q8fk)
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You and me.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (5LoD7)
Yeah, but who put it there?
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 06, 2025 05:55 PM (Jb8+d)
Congress, who did have oversite but now says that US Aid just blew them off... did not reply to their questions.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (QAkQ3)
It was a puzzler.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (Ol8zv)
They aren't dead, just locked out. They all have the fluffy kittens and frisky puppy brochures with them all the time.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:58 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Saul Goodman at February 06, 2025 05:58 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Doodad Pro at February 06, 2025 05:58 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 05:58 PM (g47mK)
Yeah it was a major plot point of Breaking Bad. He was making too much money to possibly launder. Same thing happens to the cartels, drug guys like the cocaine lords. They had mountains of cash they couldn't spend, hidden away in houses and pits in the ground. Untold billions.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 05:58 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (QAkQ3)
That's when you send the Congress' Police force over to drag them to jail.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 05:59 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 06, 2025 05:59 PM (Rl3mi)
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 05:58 PM
Ah, Chicago.
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 05:59 PM (aD39U)
US Aid was funded by Congress, who had oversite, but even after not getting their questions answered, just kept the Ongoing Resolutions going to keep them funded.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:59 PM (QAkQ3)
And the British captain that captured their ship
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 06:00 PM (2VST1)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 06, 2025 06:00 PM (wy139)
BREAKING: Chicago Bears principal owner Virginia McCaskey has died at age 102, the team says.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 06:00 PM (5LoD7)
And now they're screaming like little children because they lost their jobs.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 06:00 PM (tT6L1)
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You and me.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 06, 2025 05:52 PM (5LoD7)
Yeah, but who put it there?
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That's the part people are missing--"Our" politicians and "our" people in Washington put this entire "Perpetual Motion Machine" in place. They assign funds to USAID, it leaves that account, passes through a couple of hands, and then somebody makes lots of donations BACK to the same hacks that set up the scam to begin with. The return-to-sender at the END of the cycle greases the wheels for the very next round!
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 06:01 PM (azSra)
Posted by: Bilwis
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Heh. Friend just attended a hearing for a woman who pulled up a Trump sign in his front yard. She got a $300 fine + community service.
After it was over, he whipped off his jacket, and was wearing a 'TRUMP WON!' t-shirt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 06:01 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Romeo13
If I am a senator or a rep, and I ask you questions and you blow me off, US marshals will be on your doorstep before the next sunrise.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (WXgbp)
Posted by: Milo Minderbinder at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (Ol8zv)
Biden to Obama, "$30 billion funneled to Iran? Pfftt. Watch what I am going to do in Afghanistan,."
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (Q8Bj8)
A Member of the bartending union in NYC sued his employer for giving out Credit Card tips in cash every shift. He wanted them on a paycheck so he got "credit" for them with social security.
Not only did his (and every other bartenders) income go down, but a large percentage of them lost their subsidized NYC health care, housing, food stamps, and childcare because their reported income increased so much.
It's amazing that asshole isn't dead yet.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (F/35S)
It's like all the fever dream conspiracies you heard from surprisingly intelligent people over the years that you couldn't completely dismiss as totally absurd except the may have held a single grain of truth in them that you weren't too sure of are turning out to be true.
Out -Naah! That's nuts!!!
In- Holy shit! These people are totaly out of control!
Posted by: pawn at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (QB+5g)
And now they're screaming like little children because they lost their phony baloney, zero-skill, taxpayer-funded jobs.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 06, 2025 06:00 PM (tT6L1)
Learn to
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: blake
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But, but...they are smart and sophisticated.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 06:03 PM (XeU6L)
That’s is so close to the truth.
Ayn Rand was right.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 06, 2025 06:03 PM (6t8M3)
Posted by: Corey Booker and Lindsey Graham at February 06, 2025 06:03 PM (9yUzE)
Country Summary: The U.S. Embassy in Sana’a suspended its operations in February 2015. The U.S. government is unable to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in Yemen.
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USAID: "Here, Yemen, have $5.9 Billion of our tax payer money."
Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 06:03 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Grump928(C) muses at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (Vqx30)
Which ones are left? Brazil is one, I think.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (W5ArC)
A lot of that is going on, I was reading. The web sites and social media pages of these corrupt cut-outs in this web of USAID money laundering are going dark.
They are bugging out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (w6EFb)
__________________
No, don't make the world a better place, Samantha! You have so much to live for!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (mB6WH)
And now they're screaming like little children because they lost their jobs.
Posted by: blake
The miners were going from one sort of work to another.
The bureaucrats are going from one sort of non-work to another. But the second type doesn't pay anything.
Posted by: mikeski at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: blake
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But, but...they are smart and sophisticated.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Can't be that smart if they didn't see it coming
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (WXgbp)
You're not going to amount to Jack Squat
-Zombie Matt Foley
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (jQ+5q)
Did Cuck Thoon just allow the Democrat minority to DELAY Kash Patel's vote??
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (oeozt)
Trump may have banned this practice in his first term, but how much do you want to bet that USAID funded the terrorists anyway in spite of his directives?
This time round? Not so much. The dismantling has been amazing to watch so far.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (O7YUW)
And now they're screaming like little children because they lost their jobs.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker
The perfect moment for the "Learn to coal" scolding has arrived.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (EUtBO)
If I am a senator or a rep, and I ask you questions and you blow me off, US marshals will be on your doorstep before the next sunrise.
Posted by: rickb223
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Tell that to Joe McCarthy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (XeU6L)
The accounted for everything but the "offog". No one knew what it was. Eventually they forged a back-dated log entry that stated that it "had come apart under gravitational stress" during maneuvers.
Turned out to be a typo.... should've been "Off.(icial) Dog" (the ship's mascot).
The brass had...questions.
Posted by: Doodad Pro at February 06, 2025 05:56 PM (W5ArC)
The entire Navy had grounded all their vessels to find out how a dog came apart! Captain was in big trouble.
Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
Another good story from him is "A Study in Still Life" about a guy from the frontier being stuck in the bureaucracy and maneuvering through the maze there while bitching about it how dumb it all was.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:06 PM (n7h9X)
Country Summary: The U.S. Embassy in Sana’a suspended its operations in February 2015. The U.S. government is unable to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in Yemen.
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USAID: "Here, Yemen, have $5.9 Billion of our tax payer money."
Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 06:03 PM (dIske)
Except it's more like, here's ~$120 million and the rest gets spewed around to dee cee and their friends.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 06:06 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 06, 2025 06:06 PM (C53IZ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_qUdwfxBVQ
Posted by: zombie at February 06, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)
Is that DOGE or is it ICE?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at February 06, 2025 06:06 PM (4XwPj)
Would be interesting to see how many relatives of Politicians are paid by the NGOs that are getting all this money.
Bet there is some Biden Bucks in there somewhere.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 06:02 PM (Vqx30)
Which ones are left? Brazil is one, I think.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 06:04 PM (W5ArC)
I did not know that.
No wonder they were so hot to take out Bolsonaro.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (Vqx30)
And I thought it was just the usual industries sending the usual army of lobbyists to obtain favorable legislation.
And now I realize it was an army of NGO and charities lining up the next 2 decades of funding.
The other guys already had their spot at the trough.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (S+kp7)
Posted by: washrivergal
Oh Please oh please oh please
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (36mDg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (EUtBO)
Another good story from him is "A Study in Still Life" about a guy from the frontier being stuck in the bureaucracy and maneuvering through the maze there while bitching about it how dumb it all was.
That's it!
He also wrote a novel called W.A.S.P. that's pretty much a manual for subverting a government.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (W5ArC)
@EpochTimes 49s
Police are investigating the theft of about 100,000 eggs from the back of a distribution trailer in central Pennsylvania on Saturday, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 06:08 PM (mlg/3)
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Again, just because it was *earmarked* for Yemen doesn't mean Yemen ever saw nearly that amount!
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 06:08 PM (azSra)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 06, 2025 06:08 PM (EUtBO)
By chance did you mean tits instead of jowls?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (Q8Bj8)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (QAkQ3)
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Way to do your job, Congressmen.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (YqDXo)
Police are investigating the theft of about 100,000 eggs from the back of a distribution trailer in central Pennsylvania on Saturday, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
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Justice for Eggs!
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (g47mK)
The Mob LOVES hijacking stuff like this. Never seen anyone so happy as a mook who just stole a semi filled with diapers or Tuna Fish.
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (9Q8fk)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 05:57 PM (QAkQ3)
If we assume that that is true -- it kind of tells you who really runs the show, doesnt it?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons
How about judge's daughter collecting million$ to run an anti-Trump campaign while Daddy Judge railroads Trump.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (br/h6)
And the British captain that captured their ship
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 06:00 PM (2VST1)
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"Lord love you, there's no better ballast than gold!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (6K6Eu)
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (azSra)
If you can hold your gag reflex back long enough and watch CNN or MSNBC they have ZERO about the USAID scandal, but wall to wall on how evil Elon is and how heartless Trump is, etc.
ITs the Dem playbook, one that the Clinton crime family perfected: don't defend yourself, go on the offense. Get the media to ignore the story and focus on your claims.
It worked great, in the legacy media. Everyone who gets their only news from Cable or Network TV is buying it. That's about 20% of the population.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (2VST1)
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And Brazil.
Plus a dash of the moral scolding from Demolition Man.
And unaccountable judges from Judge Dredd.
Over-militarized police from RoboCop
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (S+kp7)
That dog don't hunt.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (3Ope8)
You're not going to amount to Jack Squat
-Zombie Matt Foley
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 06, 2025 06:05 PM (jQ+5q)
Russia has occupied, or soon will occupy all of those resources. Now they might be talked into paying some of that into Ukraine's pot in the settlement because a prostrate Ukraine is a possible trouble spot for everybody. But Trump has already said the 4 regions Russia siezed they will keep.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: garrett at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (9Q8fk)
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Paulie Walnuts at February 06, 2025 06:11 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 06, 2025 06:11 PM (VwHCD)
YOU ARE NOT PARANOID ENOUGH
It isn't a joke t shirt anymore.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 06, 2025 06:11 PM (Rl3mi)
@EpochTimes 49s
Police are investigating the theft of about 100,000 eggs from the back of a distribution trailer in central Pennsylvania on Saturday, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 06, 2025 06:08 PM (mlg/3)
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Thankfully, I identify as a chicken and get eggs whenever I want them for free. Unfortunately, it also means I trapse around the driveway picking up stones with my beak.
Posted by: Orson at February 06, 2025 06:11 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 06, 2025 06:09 PM (Q8Bj
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Well that too. But at least we are spared from that sight.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 06, 2025 06:11 PM (C53IZ)
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 06:08 PM (azSra)
Or any of that amount!
The money goes from govt => NGO => Donor Advised Fund => fake charity => other fake charity => NGO
and other incredibly complex movements to hide where the money is going. And lots of skimming along the way, obviously. Everyone's gotta get a little taste.
Why would we trust what is on the memo line in that first transaction has anything to do with where the money ended up?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 06, 2025 06:12 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: washrivergal
Always on the attack, to try to put the opponent into a defensive posture.
It has always been her M.O.
Posted by: davidt at February 06, 2025 06:12 PM (i0F8b)
Bring the old bastard back and put him on trial publicly for treason. Make him regret not pardoning himself.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 06, 2025 06:12 PM (3wi/L)
http://tiny.cc/g149001
Posted by: bonhomme at February 06, 2025 06:12 PM (Odg76)
and other incredibly complex movements to hide where the money is going. And lots of skimming along the way, obviously. Everyone's gotta get a little taste.
Why would we trust what is on the memo line in that first transaction has anything to do with where the money ended up?
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BINGO!
Posted by: Crusader at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (azSra)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 06:10 PM (2VST1)
Those dudes lost 60 percent in 2020 and another large chunk in 2024. I doubt its 20 percent now, and of course that cadre is aging out every year.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (n7h9X)
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It's amazing that asshole isn't dead yet
I bussed tables forty years ago. Even back then we had a computer screen where we were supposed to enter our tips. That guy is a complete moron.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (D0HYP)
The DoJ Public Intergrity section has a contact email where anyone can give them tips on public officials doing criminal acts. LOL.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (Vh9CX)
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May be related to "pig in a poke."
Where it was a common fraud to sell someone a piglet in a bag.
But it was really a cat.
Thus, 'cat's out of the bag' is the deception is revealed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (S+kp7)
Posted by: J. Edgar Hoover at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 06, 2025 05:42 PM (w6EFb)
I thought valences went on windows, not the other way around.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 06:14 PM (D7oie)
Bring the old bastard back and put him on trial publicly for treason. Make him regret not pardoning himself.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Wouldn't matter. You can't pardon treason.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 06:14 PM (WXgbp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 06:14 PM (KWujZ)
Posted by: Cool Hand Luke at February 06, 2025 06:14 PM (D0HYP)
Bring the old bastard back and put him on trial publicly for treason. Make him regret not pardoning himself.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 06, 2025 06:12 PM (3wi/L)
Nah just chat it up for a while. It isn't like they can defend themselves with "You liars it was 2.7 billion"
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:15 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 06:14 PM (KWujZ)
I read Joni Ernst tried to get info from them and they ignored her too
Posted by: It's me donna at February 06, 2025 06:15 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 06:15 PM (G0Uu2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 06:14 PM (KWujZ)
And had him shot by his neighbor, no doubt.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:15 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 06, 2025 06:16 PM (WXgbp)
Always on the attack, to try to put the opponent into a defensive posture.
It has always been her M.O.
Posted by: davidt at February 06, 2025 06:12 PM (i0F8b)
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Does she think she's good at this? And, yes, it has always been her M.O., lame-brained as usual.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 06, 2025 06:16 PM (C53IZ)
I have an idea, but what's your guess?
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 05:44 PM (oeozt)
It is the flip side to "buying a pig in a poke"
when you get home and turn out your poke, you got sold a cat instead.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 06, 2025 06:16 PM (D7oie)
Hillary has never been able to keep her mouth shut when her interests are attacked. She always reflexively goes on the offensive. She's also signaling to any DC bots who still listen to her that they have to fight Trump.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 06, 2025 06:16 PM (Odg76)
Trump always counter-attacks as a defense.
Posted by: davidt at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 06:15 PM (G0Uu2)
Well if the evidence isn't there that's many felonies in addition. Destroying govt property, conspiracy...
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 06:15 PM (G0Uu2)
Here is the fun part, even if they super deleted everything, they are no match for the type of digital forensic discovery (I imagine) DOGE team can put together. Internet is forever.
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (g47mK)
Where it was a common fraud to sell someone a piglet in a bag.
But it was really a cat.
Thus, 'cat's out of the bag' is the deception is revealed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 06, 2025 06:13 PM (S+kp7)
You gotta wonder how dumb a guy has to be to buy a yowling, hissing bag and think he’s getting a piglet.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (oeozt)
Posted by: four seasons at February 06, 2025 06:18 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 06:18 PM (KWujZ)
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then they threatened her and her staff
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 06:18 PM (g47mK)
It helps to understand that one to know that that Little House on the Prairie bonnet the girls wo[re was a... poke bonnet. Its cute, but it still a pig.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 06, 2025 06:18 PM (2VST1)
Hillary has never been able to keep her mouth shut when her interests are attacked. She always reflexively goes on the offensive. She's also signaling to any DC bots who still listen to her that they have to fight Trump.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 06, 2025 06:16 PM (Odg76)
With the Biden crime family gone, and Obama on the back foot there's a struggle going on in the halls of the DNC. I don't think Hogg is one of hers, but her share of the graft is in danger.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:19 PM (n7h9X)
Bet there is some Biden Bucks in there somewhere.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 06, 2025 06:07 PM (QAkQ3)
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Does McConnell have any offspring?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 06:19 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 06, 2025 06:19 PM (KWujZ)
Monty Hall time?
I'll give 10 Quatloos to anyone who has a P-38 in their pocketbook!
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 06, 2025
A can opener, a pistol, or a fighter plane?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 06, 2025 06:19 PM (G0Uu2)
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then they threatened her and her staff
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 06:18 PM (g47mK)
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Yeah, but she is on the board of that Republican International Institute that gets millions for USAID.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 06, 2025 06:20 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 06, 2025 05:47 PM
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They're going to have learn how to hit the "send money" button a lot faster.
Posted by: WIsRich at February 06, 2025 06:20 PM (Qgr0I)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (l3YAf)
Growing up we used to takes cats to the vet in pillowcases and hold them in our lap. Cats slept the whole way, pretty much.
New tech is not always better.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:21 PM (n7h9X)
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It is an archaic maritime/nautical reference. The Cat o' nine tails was stored in a bag. When the cat came out of the bag, someone's day had taken a serious turn for the worse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 06:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Have one in my desk drawer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 06:22 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (l3YAf)
well it is a 'dumb city slicker' type of story.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:23 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: runner at February 06, 2025 06:17 PM (g47mK)
backup tapes. Offsite backup storage. If you don't have those well that's crime in itself.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 06, 2025 06:24 PM (n7h9X)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 06, 2025 06:24 PM (XeU6L)
I don't think Fast and Furious was necessarily the worst since it was limited to a few top people (dog eater, (dick) holder, ...) and had limited damage with few deaths (Brian Terry RIP)
But it was like a cipher that revealed all. If they were willing to do THAT, then my God, they will do anything.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 06, 2025 06:27 PM (Ol8zv)
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